The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-30
---Old Series, VII. 81.
THE PLAGUE
In THE EASrERNVAR.

II ne NhAlely Oi lauFope concerning ire
| complications Of Tie Turco- Russian can-
/ paign is likely 10 he increased by the en-
| trance into the field of battle or tW0'nn-
expected hostile forces, iisimical to both
1 sides III the conflict, and threatening,
moreover. TO carry devastation into neu-
! lral territories. Cholera and plague, from
i their recruiting stations in India and
| Mesupotanlia, are on the march,. dnd un-
der the fostering conditonsof war, II is
| impossible 10 ioretell the limits of their
| INVASION. Last year cholera WAS Oh its
| route through Persia toward the Russian
possessions on the Caspian, and early in
the present spring grave appiehensions
were aroused as to the virnlence and rapid
diffusion of the epidemic Within few
weeks several local outbreaks have been
reported, nne at Akyab killing twenty
five pei cent 0fthe European population
in thirty hours, and new foci Of injection
will doubtless be multiplied. On lie other
hand, plague, which has been gradually
extending its ravages for spme years past,
had even before the commencement OF
actual hostilities, spread to the regions
north Of Bagdad with alarming speed.
Under these circumstances the war now
in progress not only threatens disasterto'
the combatants themselves. but menaces
all Europe with the visitation Of pests
iei,ccs which no precautions may be able
10 avert.
IL s,,
conflict between Russia and Tnrkeyhas
been - terrible that these pre:monitions
cannot fail TO be watched with extreme
concern un both sides. In the campaigns
Of 1925 and lS2t, which resulted in the
treaty OF AdrianopIe. tile victorious
Russian army was almost literally des-
troyed by the plague which hrokeoutilr
the army Of Marshal DiebitscIl som after
it entered the municipalities. In the
month Of October, lS2S, alone, 10000
Russian sick were received in the
Roumanian hospitals, without counting
the field hospitals; and in February, 1879,
one out ofevery four Russian soldiers who
were taken sick died During the len
months from May, ISIS, 10 February,
| 1929, there Were no less than 2l0, los men
borne on the Russian sick list, so that OH
Count Won Moltke's estimate the whole
Russian force, non-comhatants included,
at l61, 900 men, every man had, on an
average, been twice in the hospital, and
Count Won MolLke estimates that this
first campaign cost The Russians nearly
one-l.alf of their actual effective force.
During the second campaign of ls29 the
same high authority reckons the loss in
flicted By disea Sc on tile Russiars at sixty
thousand men. Tie Sultan and the foreign
ENJOYS at Constanlinople were kept in
complete ignorance Of the fearfu. state "
:he husiilc army; anda their own was
the same influence, the Turks actually
made hulniliaiing peace with DiebitscIt
when he mud less than twenty thousand
effective bayonets at the foot 81 the Bal
kans, and, had the truth been known,
might have been compelled 10 surrender
at discretion. Not more tlinn fifteen
thousand Russians combatanis returned
from the crossing Of the Balkans and re-
crossed the Prulh. These arc evil
memories under fnc shadow Of which
this new war begii,s.
Ny friends. said returned missionary.
.. an anniversary meeting. 'let as uyoid
sec,arian bitterness. Tic inhabitants If
lIindostan. where have been labcring for
many years. have rroserb that, Though
you bsthe dog : tail IN OIL aud hind it in
splints. vet YOU cannot get the crook out Of
it. Now. q Iuan,s seciarian bis Is simply
the crook III the ,ior' tail. which caunOt I'd
eradicated. and l held that every gns should
be allowed 10 wag his own pecuiianiy in
peace.
Says the New York Telegram: 4 vii.
lagc congregation in Vermont was disturb
"a tho other Sunday. 1uriug lie monenta-
~ Stiffness following the opening prayef.
by voice iroal the sdjoiAing dwelling e1-
/ claiming. MARY. where's the naiis: s,ru
,be answer came, Ia The cvlfre po'. you old
fool
DO ,ou ever read the newspapers? VI.
/ Have you any vrinioas % anytbIagl ~.
p.' you know your fptd h.nu from yonf
leitl Noi Do you eon iaer yourself =
species Of born idiot. fss. Tbva tpa
are it fpr 4 juryman. saear h,m.
] Mr.. Tonpkius.' said yourg lady VI
had been showing Oh her vii. YOU rpiel
me Of barometer that Is filled with euti,-
ing in the upper s,try.' Divine Ialis.'
meekly replied her adurer. 10 llabkpg
yoa Tor that compliment. let me remind
you that sou cceupy ny upper s'esy
lie viii not sisil herany mote. Tnee.t
was asleep in ciiau ~ the .,aflor. bat he
did rot notice il ani.l be sat de~r. Tls
cat saw tha.mistakc VI the same ii,ae hc ,ila
\ The tlnads in The eaLs rsw indra.e that