, 1879-02-13

Ti.e world Is stols, and tho tlnctors tio not
scon, to bo hslping tue patient much. On
the other hand, 1t appears to bo getting
worse. Tho plaguo which broke ont at
Wetlankn, in tic lower wiley Of tho Volga,
near tho Uaspian Sen, in December last,
seems to DO steadily increasing and ad-
vaucing northwosteriy into Russia. It's
northern limit il hear zaritzin, Town Of
nearly 10000 inhabitants, md In direct rail-
way communication with Moscow, st. Peters,
burg, and nearly oil tho principal cities ot
Antino station, aud Con. afI11Korr, who
40 distinguished himself In Asia Minor dur
ing tho late war with Turkey, Is there with
a largo detachment of troops who l.nyo
formed n military Gordon to prevent fngttivcs
from tho infected district from crossing the
line. Whether these precautions will pro-
won't tho Bpread Of tho disease ia doubtful,
especially If tho soldiers themselves should
bo INFECTED. It travo!s by watos as we'll rs
by lind. The Vo1ga runs directly through
the plague district, mud tho Don, which
ompties into tho Sea OF Azof, sweeps closo by
tho district. Asia Minor il In couatant
communication with Russia by land and tho
Mediterranean ports by sea, aud, IL 1t
onco gains sufficient hoadwny, neither mill
tary cordons nor quarantiuos will ho Of much
anvil. Though the original orea Of infection
Is small, al Europe is alarmed, md not With
out cause, as dispatches 10 tho Crack Gov
ernment confirm the report that it has broken
ont at Kayalva, an islan.l Of the Eyean ssa,
and q diaoaso very cloaely resembling II has
broken out IN Thessaly. England, spain,
France, Italy, Egypt, md Maltn havo estab-
llshed quarantiuca not only against Kussla
but Egypt, aud Roumnnia, Sorvia, Austria,
and Germany aro stretching cordons along
their frontiers to shut ont this unwslcoma
stranger; while In st. Petersburg tho authori.
ties aro ,naktng preparations against Its com.
ing by rigid sanitary measures. They have
not only tho plaHlo 10 guard aga!ust but
numerous other optdemics. Smallpox aud a
vrulont typo Of tyrhus foves ars increasing
aIarmingy in Oontral ltussia. An epidemic II
raging In siborin, aud unknown diseases have
brokon out, sweeping OF people by thousands,
Wherever large bodies Of mon ara gathered,
fatal sickness breaks ont. Tha Rnssiar
troops In tho Dulkan Peninsula are suffering
foarfully with spotted typhus feyer. A lnrgt
dotaohn,ent Of troops which rocontly arsivot
al Tripoli from Oonstantinoplo was suddenly
takcn down with mysterious disease which
proves 10 fatal TINT tho Mediterranean port'
hayo lunraptined agalnst II. Meanwhile tht
cholera Is Mt work in Morocco aud nt otho'
! points in Norshorn Africa. The lhysician'
Of England say tlloro never was time wher
lung diseasoa wora 30 prevalent as now, ant
tho sa1ho 10 truo IN thu northern section o
our own country. It is Ill Utmost uniyarsa
complaint from Naw England to California
especially In tho casos Of people Of advanced
ago. that, instead Of sinking OIL cold, |
rapidly assumes the form Of pneumonia an,
proves fntal. There probably noyer has becI
q tiuso ID Chicago whom discaaes Of th
thsont md langs wcro so prevalent as now
To add to tho calamity Of tho situation, tn
germs Of tho yellow fever, which wer
supposed to haya boon killed by til
frast, l.nye agaiu made their nppearano
In tho South. Eyen the brute creation Or
not spared, for tho cattle In Russia, 0es
many, England, aud to certain extent th
Uuitea States. are suffering with plearo
pneumonia. Prof. LAW, Of Cornell Unlyes
sity, who las been directed to inyoatigat
tho CAUSES aud extent Of the disease IN He'
York Bsate, visited Long Island stahlo tn
other day md found 500 COWS suffering fros