Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-02-06
FOREIGN.
General alarm at the Progresss of the
Plague
RUSSIAN PLAGUE.


LONDON, February 3.-The origin of
the plague in Russia is thus given: A
Cossack, returning from the war to Wet
lianka brought his lady love a shawl,
which she wore two days, and sickened
with all the SYMPTOMS of the plague, and
died. The following four days other
members of her family died. The disease
spread rapidly, the local authorities not
paying any attention to 1t until half the
inhabitants died, and the remainder were
unable to bury the others.
Then when the epidemic had assumed
serious dimensions, energetic means were
taken for preventing its spreading, and
strict quarantines were established,
firstly, in towns and villages, shutting off
streets where the plague reigns from the
the rest of the place; and, secondly, by
surrounding villages with troops, so that
nobody is allowed TO pass in or out.
The panic in Russia is almost incredi-
BILE. Every class and station in life has
petitioned for entire cessation of all in
tereourse, even postal communication,
between the rest of Russia and the Volga.
Letters sent from Astrakhan and Zear-
itzin are not received by persons to whom
they are addressed. Some people even
refuse to take paper money, fearing that
the germ of infection might be commune
Gated through it. 1t is almost impossible
to describe the terror which has taken
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Sanitary Commission has proposed to
shut off the Volga line from all inter-
course with Western Russia, and permit
communication only under quarantine.
Russian railway cars are not admitted to
! the German territory. The export OF
| grain from Poland will suffer severely
! from this restiction.
The Roumanian Government are dis
cussiug the expediency of prohibiting the
transit of the Russian provisions sent to
| victua1 the Balkan army.
a Vienna correspondent says the Ger
man ambassador at st. Petersburg has
| advised his Government that the plague
| is spreading rapidly. It has passed the
| limits where, according TO official ac-
counts, the last cases were reported. He
urges Germany to take immediate and en-
ergetic measures to repel it.
A dispatch from Paris reports that spe-
cial precautions against the plague are
being taken at Marseilles and other south
ern points.
vienna, February 3.-The Presse says
Austria is about to issue an order forbid
| ding travellers from Russia to cross the
| frontier, unless provided with passes
from the sanitary authorities.
The Porte announces that Russian
ports will be quarantfned against at the
Turkish ports on the European coast of
the Black Sea.
proposed the same measure along the
| coast from Kustinje to Bourgas. Rouma-
mia has decreed similar course in the
delta of the Danube and on the coast of
the Dobrudscha, and has Issued regula-
| tions identical with those put in force by
Austria in regard to trafic and importa-
| tlon Of goods across the Russian frontier.
BERLIN, February.-The Imperial de-
cree has been published, establishing
strict Passport regulations between Rus
sta and Germany after February 10. EV-
cry traveller, before entering Germany,
must prove that he has not been at the
suspected or infected district within
twenty days. All clothes and baggage
must be disinfected.
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, February 3.-Albert Grant
has filed petition in bankruptcy. LA
bilities E6Sl 1888.
Notice of ten per cent. reduction in
wages from the 10Th of February has been
posted in Tyne shipbuilding yards. This
will effect 5000 workmen. OF l42 cotton
mills in the Bolton district, 90 are closed,
and % working on short time, In conse-
quence of the depression in trade.
A dispatch from Liverpool says the
transatlantic steamers can neither be
loaded nor discharged, on account of the
dock laborer's strike. The steamers an
nounced for New York, will, however,
sail punctually, Win Or WlCnouh cargo.
Efforts are being made to obtain labor
from other places. The masters have
warned the men that they. are driving
trade from Liverpool.
LONDON, February 4.-John B. Cough,
the well known lecturer, is Ill with bron-
chitis.
The London engineers have refused to
submit to reduction of their wages by
thelr employers, and will strike on FRI
day. .-. {.
a Rumor of an outbreak of plague at
odessa has caused great alarm In Palermo
and Black Sea ships are to be rigidly quar-
antinedA