, 1879-02-23
TIE PLAGUE.

1 IL Il l. LII - La
CoRRoBoRAT1oN OF ALL PREVIOUS SAD RE
rOETs.
New York, Feb ga letter from st. Peters
burg says of the plague in Russia: 1t has spread
In the southern provinces at rapid rate. Thou
sands upon thousands have died with it within
the last five days The victims when taken live
about two hours and turn
BLACK ALL OVER
as 4 negro. All the physicians ordered to the
care of the sick have died within twcnty-fou1
hours after their arrival Corpses are burned
and so are the houses in which the people die.
Whole towns have been LAID waste the past few
days. Government has PLACED 4 Gordon OF
soldiers around the infected provinces, SO that
people cannot get out and spread the disease.
ANY who attempt to break through the Gordon
are
SHOT DEAD on THE sPoT.
The people arc beginning to feel uneasy all
owe: the Empire. The Government, Of course,
does not allow the news to get out. All re-
ports are suppressed, but the worst Of all is
that nobody can get out Of the Empire. The
Austrian and German Governments have placed
double Gordon Of soldiers along all the
frontiers, preventing all persons from entering
their territory from Russia. All persons from
Russia by railroad are
STOPPED AT THE FRONTIER,
and detained twenty days iu quarantine, their
baggage and clothing disinfected, and, il they
prore all right after i lapse OF twenty days,
they are permitted to cross the border. During
the twenty days. quarantine the people arc
housed in large sheds and 5arns, withou: any
accommodations or comforts. OF course,
knowledge Of this fact keeps the people IRON
travelling. There is no possibility OF slipping
out anywhere. The Government is doing all in
its power to prevent the disease from spread
ing, but il it is not stayed soon, the victims
may
FAIL 1T THOUSANDS
daily. 1t is much worse than the yellow fever
was in the South last summer. It was brought
By Tartar soldier month ago, who on leaving
Turkish territory pulled of from dead Turk
OIL the battlefield q handsome silk shawl, which
lie tied around his body. On arriving iu his M
tive town he presented the shawl to his sweet
heart, i girl OF 10 years. She tied it around her
body, and danced about for joy, in loom in
which were some twenty-five people. In two
hours she died, and in FIVE hours after the intro
duction OF the shawl into the room tho whole
party Of twenty-five had died. All turned black.
In three days the whole town, containing 1,103
people, had died, with the exception Of forty
three persons, who had fled in time. From this
town the pest commenced spreading all over the
country.
ALARM.
BERLIN, Feb. 22.-ConsidcraDle alarm is felt
at the statements in East Prussian papers that
recruits from South Astraklan are being placed
on the Russo-German frontier.
THE f,ntY,;7. r,rTyQfcIA prrnnr
The Er1ish 1neaic,{ Jo1rna. prints the fol-
lowing: 1.-The letter with which VIC are favor
ed By DR.. Zdekancr, Court Physician to the
Gar, states that the plague is nearly extinct.
On the 11th inst. there remained only one case
at Selitrena. Although the epidemic was pure
u local, and did not 60 beyond the villages OF
Wctlianaia, Selitrena,s' and Miclaelowka, yet
the mortality was over 50 per cent. The Gov
ernment feels, therefore, called upon to enforce
the strictest quarantine and other sanitary
measures"