Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-29
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.]
WASHINGTON, july %. 1878.

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for the change of temperature wrought
during the night which has brought the
which was high up in the nine
ties yesterday, down almost to the 20
level, with promises of still further
reduction. Our experience has not been
unlike that of other cities as regards the
intense heat endured the past ten days.
The armament was as molten brass
above our heads, the earth like red hot
iron beneath our feet, pardon natural
exaggerations.) The sun stared at us
remorselessly all day long. burning up
and consuming in hot wrath the pitiable
apologies for clouds which a plying ma
ture sought to interpose between it and
US to mitigate the fierce rays that seemed
to penetrate the brain down to the very
seat of life. In the morning we wished
it were night; at night we longed for
the morning. But in proportion to our
population few towns will be found to
have suffered less. The number of IA
tai cases of caub de so leiI "a stroke of
SUM will not, | believe, exceed half-a-
dozen, certainly not 10 at most. I'm
doubtedly death has been FASTENED by
the furnace like heat to which the chron-
ic invalid, the old, and those suffering
from acute diseases. have been subject
ed but the lessons taught are uniform
with those Of preceding season. They
are to the effect that the tolerably vigo-
rous who give alcohol the go-by in all
its forms, are safe from sun-stroke if
they observe fair degree of caution in
excepting cool'' and avoid unnecessary
exposure to the solar rays, which are as
competent to kill as to make alive. Rut
all extreme vicissitude of climate and
all sudden alterations of temperature
are to be dreaded by the victims Of al
cohol. An instance occurring here a
few years ago, will be more impressive
than hackneyed generalities. A well
stable keeper in the prime of life, appar-
emily healthy but with blood, soft tbs.
sues and bone all changed and saturated
with the latent fires of alcohol, only
needed one more drink with the hot
dog-day sun to send him headlong to the
fate he had tempted by his long con
tinued debauch. He took it on a very
hot day and fell before the last droI
fairly reached the stomach, dead, prob
ably, before he struck the pavement
But have depressed. The number O
minor casualties from the heat hav,
been correspondingly few. The wild,
streets, large number of little parks
| Government reservations, usually tn,
apex of the acute angles formed by tn
junction of the avenues with the street
and containing from one-half to an acre
and the clearly condition of our streets
all tend to the preservation of the genera
health. Here let me say of our Boar,
of Health Gust legislated out of exist
ence by the adoption of new form 0
government that its members were thor
oughly competent, enforcing an exceE
tional degree of cleanliness and other
wise instituting such reforms tina
Washington under their reign was on
of the most healthy of American cities
Excluding the eolored population, n
city of its size could show such a lo'
rate of average mortality. Contrar
results among the colored people al
explained by extreme poverty. ignoranc
and total disregard of their hygieini
surroundings. We are not even subjee
to the terrible tornadoes that seem pr
culiar to no section but are commo
West. The report of yellow fever i
Brooklyn, leads US to scan reports frol
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Fortress Nor
roe with unwonted particularly. W
are in every day communication wit
all of them, and the memory of the av
full visitation of "yellow jack to th
two former in 1868, l believe, is vivic
ly remembered here.
Although Fitz John Porter has lnad
out the best case possible by aid Of b
Ex-Confederate sympathizers, no OF
here save those sympathizing with tt
"lost cause" seem to doubt that John WI
get his props knocked from under hi
at the re-opening of his case in Septen
Der, and that the suficiency of the proc
on which he was cashiered, will be mac
so manifest that all who run may rea
Back.pay as major General from l0f
to the present time would make ham
some nest-egg for Fitz.
The latest political intimations are
the effect that the President despairir
of much of a following IN the party tn
elected him or among the conciliate
will start in anew, striving to bring
his aid the Grand Army of the Republi
While Weber is doing his appointe
work in the subordination of witness
as reported, in New Orleans, Potter
burlesque troupe will give their fir
natives at Atlantic City this P. M. Pc
ter and Butterend men. UNDINE.
The suspension of the Boston Beltil