The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-14

lHtgff>t. must bt pulI IHT as ulutff i~rH1rUfs.
JOB PRTSTTSG OF all kind neatly and expedi-
tiOusiy executed at lowest prices. Don't for.
get il.
a joint of meat in the market they would
not take * out Of the butchers hand, but
took it of the hooks themselves. On the
other hand, the butcher would not touch the
money, but have il put into a pot full Of
vinegar, which lie kept for that purpose.
The buyers always carried small money to
make up any odd sums that they might
take no change. They carried bottles for
scents and perfumes in their lands, aud all
the means that could be used were employ
ed. But then the poor could not co even
these things, aud they went at all hazards.
Iuuumerabls dismal stories were heard
every day on this very account.
Sometimes a man OF woman dropped
down dead in the very market, for many
people that had the plague upon them knew
nothing Of it until the inward gauEreue had
affected their vitals, and they died in a few
moments. This was the cause that many
died in that manner in the streets Suddenly
without any warning. Others, perhaps,
had time 20 90 70 the next hulk OF stall. or
10 any door or porch, aud just sit down and
die, as I have said before. These objects
were 50 frequent in the streets that when
the plague came 10 DO very raging on one
side there was scarce any passing by the
streets, but that several dead bodies would
be lying here and there upon the ground
on the other hand, it Is observable that,
though at first the people would stop as they
went along and call TO the ueighbors 10 come
ont .-r.
notice was taken OF them. Bus. If at any
time we found a corpse lying, go across the
way and not come near 1t or, if IN a mar
ro~ lane OF passage, 60 back again and seek
some other way to 60 on the business We
were upon, and in those cases the corpse
vas always left until the officers had notice
TO come and take 1t away: or till night
when the bearers attending the dead-cart
would take them up and carry them away.
N0r did those uudauuted creatures who
performed these offices fail 60 search their
pockets and sometimes TO strip off their
clothes if they were woll-dressal, as some
times they W ere, and carry of what they
could 1T is scarcely Credf-
bls what dreadful cases happened in par
ucular families every day. People i'm the
rage ct the distsmper OF in the torment oF
their rackiuEs, which was, indeed. iuLoler-
abs, running ont OF their own government,
raviug and distracted, oT.eniimes .aying
hands upon themselves throwing them
selves ont Of their windows shooting ihsra-
selves, &c. Mothers numbering their o-rn
children in their lunacy; some dying Of
grief, as a passion; some Of more fright and
surprise, without any infection at all. others
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uous, some into despair and Iuuacy others
into me lanCLOly maduess..--.... I'm some
the swelliugs were made SO hard that no in
strument could cut them, auI then they
burned them with caustic. So that many
died rsving mad with the torment. and some
IN the very operation. In these distrosses,
for want Of help 10 hold them down i'm their
beds or to look 10 them, some laid hands
upon themselves, rs above some broke ont
into the streets, perhaps naked. and would
run directly down to the river aud plunge
themselves into the water, wherever they
found Il. It often pierced my soul 90 hear
the groans and cries Of those who we're thus
tormenteI. This running o. distsupered
people about the streets was very dismal
and the magistrates did their utmost TO
prevent IL bat As if was always in the
night and generally sudden, when such at
tempts were made, the officers could not bs
1t hand 10 prevent 10; and even when they
got 2ut In the day, the officers appointed did
not care 10 meddle with them. because a
they were all Erievously infected to be sure.
when they came 10 that height, SO they vers
more than ordinarily infectious. aud l. was
one OF the most dangerous things that could
be to touch them. On the other hand. .bey-
ran on, not knowing what thsv
did, til they dropped down stark dead OF
Till they had exhausted their spirits so that
they would fall. aud then die in perhaps an
hour, and, which was most pitsous 10 hear.
they were sure 10 como 10 themselves en-
tlre!y in that half hour or hour. and then 10
make most grievous and piercing cries and
lamentations in the deep afiicfing sense OF.
the condition they were iu.........After \
while the fury Of the infection appeared to
be so increased that in short they shat ur
10 houses 1T all; it seemed enough that all
the remedies Of that kind hal been used till
they were fourd fruitIess, and that the
plague spread itself " ith an irresistible fury.
70 that it came at lass with such violence
.ha: the people sat still, looking ~ each
other, and seemed quite abandoned 10 de-
spair. Whole streets seemed 70 be dcsol-ted.
and not 20 be shut UP only, but 20 be empt:ed
Of their Inhabitants. Doors were left open,
windows stood shatteriEg in the wind in
empty houses for want of people 10 shut
them. IL a word, people began to give
themselves up to their fears AM to think
that all regulations and methods were ia
vain, and that tLere was 1IothinE 10 be hapeG
for but = universal des0lau on
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