The New York herald., 1879-03-05

the peasants entitled what the Plague Is and How
to Deal With IT," telegram from Toula states that
the director Of the Toula branch of the Red Cross
Society has set out for the plague district with four
tons of warm clothing and linen for the sufferers.
The RusalS fra'sia reports that the plague has
appeared in the village of Budassk, on the Kief
Railway, which the doctor of the district at first
pronounced to be diphtheria. malady very preva-
lent among children in Kieh. According to the
Orenburg LiSok panic prevails at orsk. in tho
government OF Orenburg III consequence OF the
great mortality. especially among children from
smallpox and another unknown disease. Caviars
quence Of the unanimous feeling against
its use. although at this season OF the
year ii should be largely consumed with carnival
pancakes. Considerable alarm has been oecasioned
at Saratof by the runors current that some barrels
or fish imported INTO the town from Astrakhan have
been found to contain the property OF wealthy
individuals at vetlianka. who had adopted this
mode OF concealment to save their things from
destruction. General Kotzebue. Governor Of
Poland. is making preparations to encounter
the plague should it advance toward the
Ystula province. The arrangements are under the
personal supervision of Baron Krudener well known
for his i'll success at Plevna. The Russki itcatid
nounces that General Gelfreich has been appointed
the head OF a commission TO disinfect all the bar
racks in St. Petersburg and to maintain watch over
the health of the troops cautioned in the district
THE PLAGUE IN THE CAUCASUS.
Tho Tifs Vestak pleads that something shall bo
done to check the epidemics now ravagng the Csu-
day has passed at the town of Shooshi containing
1900 people. in the province OF Elzavetopol with
out ntteen children dying or Scaratlna. "A fresh
cemetery has had to be acquired for the little
ones" The Nou9 Vreaayd publishes a telegram
from its Tsaritsin correspondent giving the follow
ing utterances from General Loris Melikof to the
members of the Russian press last winter twenty
of my men died daily from swollen glands. but the
doctors did not recognize the disease a plague.
We shall soon know now. I hope. what the
disease actually is that is ravaging the coun-
try" Officials Connected with the SANITARY Depart
ment say that epidemic disease has spread largely
with the recommencement OF rainy weather. Ar
rangements have been made. according to the Sara
fpfT sfn tha all f1. heaf and
second class carriages the Tsaritsin line, and
only third class wagons. should the plague advance
norhward. as the cushions in the former could not
easily be disinfected. The road from Astrakhan
to Tsaritsin will be open in ten days time; 5000
roubles have been allotted for it's construction. and
twill pass about twenty versts west OF Enotaevsk.
telegraph line is being erected alongside it.
PLAGUE NECESSARILY
The RuSshi Prauid states that Professor Eichwald.
the leading specialist OF epidemic disease in Russia.
is preparing to leave st. Petersburg to study the
plague the spot. In closing his class ut the uni.
versity last Thursday he said d:-"When the plague
does not exist study it from books; when il
breaks out il is the duty of specialists to forsaks
their books and to study it i'll it's living FORM"
AT Belopoiya in kharkoH, dphtheria is raging with
such fury that the authorities have received perms-
sion to make use OF an empty barracks rs a hos
pital. At Kief sanitary commission is engaged
searching every warehouse and in the town for
provisions goods liable to breed infection. Up
ward or twenty Thousand pools OF frozen fish have
been destroyed. All trade with Astrakhan has been
suspended. The KierLdnin athrms that the Jews at
kieff have held meeting. at which the elders dis
cussed novel mode OF dealing with the plague-vz.,
by collecting subscriptions to enable the poorer
bers OF the Israelite community TO marry. It is
belief among the Polish Jews that marriage is pre-
ventive OF epidemic disease. Religious observances.
customary among the Jews in time OF plague. have
been commenced throughout Russia. At Eiezayeto-
grad the Zemstvo has decided that every house in
which the plague appears shall be burnt to the
ground In three villages at Hannenburg tumor
typhus has broken out; at Vyazinsky smallpox is
rfe and there is only doctor to stem its progress
among 10000 people. The authorities at wilma have
refused to allow Astrahan goods to enter the town.
and have turned back two train loads OF merchandise
from Tsarisin.