The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-09-27

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AN HISTORIC PARALLEL
'ffe'''ntsceaces OF the Great Pdgue d,
=. $3.50 Lonclon
In" present epidemic in some of the
Southern cities brings to mind iDsfoe's de-
scrlption of the epidemic plague ia London,
known as the great plague. In many fea-
lures lures: tho two disorders present points Of
resemblance. Both were imported and grew
oy reason of tho unusal warmth of the sea-
son acting upon the filth of the streets. In
each case the desolation and loss ofslife
were awful, and the most stringent quafans
tine regulations failed to operate as efoda
tive checks. Tho london plague was, howl
ever, far the most destructive, not less tboA
one hundred thousand persons having died
of it,
lae plague ragged IN London during dc
sprlnS, summer and autumn Of 1861 1t
ilrst appeared during tho previous ycar.in
the Parish Of St. Giles-in-thc! !Ficlis, End
was believed to have been brought over &om
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poorer sections of the city that year,lhat the
gravest apprehension was felt .ess L might
become general But the cool Weather. of
autumn and winter checked and was believed
to have killed it, Upon the return of warm
Weather it broke out again, ana the season.
like tho present one, proving unusually hot,
it spread with alarming rapidity. Thtant,,
m 'st precautions were taken to arrest its
progress. The city was quaranyined--
one was allowed to leave it having auca en-
tered. An effort was made to enforce clean
illness. People were INJURED in their houses.
Families athletes. by the disorder were kept
off the streets. In May *, o..o.
ed the city proper, and tmJ.,v @ tho
occurred in the best quarrel SS.,;a,.,.s ,o'r
King and his court fled to ~ D', A,
ing the city in charge of the o;.v from,
bermarle. The condition of tN no,na
this out is graphically described bySeEtaroa
wark and af ail tosgss4l6ssr~ city
tcular part called the city, or wI,bin hfo phf phn
walls, that was not yet much infected but
in the whole, the face>aoF things, I say, was
much altered Sorrow andesadness sat up
on every Lace, and though some parts were
not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply
concerned, and as we saw. it apparantly
eelna.g ON sa psyery }llsS % Soksd .spf hsa,seli
ksa,sss tlssosss dan.
ger. London might well be said
to be all in tears. The mourners did not
go about the streets indeed, for nobody put
on black, or made formal dfcss Of mourn.
ing, for their nearest friends. But the
voice of mourning was truly heard in the
streets; the shricks Of women and chill
drcn at the windows and doors of thoil
houses, when their nearest rttions were
perhaps dying or just dead, we're SO frequent
to be heard as we passed the street. that il
was enough to pierce the stoutest; heart ii
the world to hear them. Tears and lamcn
tations were seen almost atsegsry house,se sea
peciay in the first part q DE Sislitasisns
ter towards .he latter, end kaatst3pst,
& Isasa y 81 s. II s,eior, la,,
'Eshsif eysss that they did not so much con
Germ themselves for tho loss of their friends
expecting that themselves should be sum
imoned the next hour"
Soon the streets were deserted and bust
ness stopped whereby thousands were
thrown into idleness and destitution. Gras
sproutcd in the principal throughRrcs Ii
little while people came out again from
thoir houses, being driven to, mipglc will