The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-26
7ELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From All Parts Of the
World.
THE EASTERN PLAGUE.
Slow and Steady Westward March
Of the Disease.
USING 1T AUTOMATICALLY.
Yakoob Khan in Trouble With
the Ghilzais.
A ZULU KINGS DEFIANCE.
USING IT AUTOMATICALLY.
Yakoob Khan in Trouble With
the Ghilzais.
A ZULU KINGS DEFIANCE.
Depressed Condition OF the Their
mOmeter and Of Trade.
lBY CABLE TO THE HERALD. !

(BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.
LONDON. Jan. 26, 1879.
The British Medical Journal publishes the follow
ing:-"Russian and German medical journals state
that the East of Europe in state of great alarm
the progress of what they alege be the plague
which is rapidly making its way upward toward the
North and East Of Russia from the Cas-
plan Sea along the course of the volga Accord
ing to article. dated January 16. published in the
Vienna Nedcnlsche Woceschrtf No. g. it has reached
Mill Novgorod. As far regards the origin Of the
disease. it is now ascertained that it was imported
by two regiments of Cossacks who had lately re-
turned from the in Turkey, and in spite of
strict orders to disinfect everything probably hid
a part of their booty which. without doubt, con-
tanned the germs Of the infection. When the dis
first showed itself it was rather neglected and
looked upon merely q variety Of typhus fever and
1t until the mortality began to alarm
ing proportions that the local authorities began
to feel it to be their duty to do some
thing toward arresting it's further progress.
Accordingly strict quarantine enforced but
the inhabitants of Astrachan, seized with panic had
begun to fly in different directions. scattering
their way germs Of the disease, which advanced to
the North the provinces of Samara
and Saratof and reached Zartzyn. This last
named place ought especially to have been
protected. being very important trading town
on the Volga, connected by rail with almost the
whole OF Russia. and through it with the rest of
Europe Having passed that place the plague
went spreading till it reached Nignii Novgorod,
which is only few hours distant from Moscow the
centre of Russia.
Is RUSSIA SURPRISING IT
1T is curious fact that some of the Russian pa
pers. among others the VratsotenJuyga vedomosti
(medical news), persistently deny the existence Of
the disease and simply treat it outbreak of
malignant typhus, while the ST. Ietersburyer
Wochenshrif and other papers openly speak of it
the plague. The number for December % january
81 of the VratschenJuygd TedomOs confirms kilograms
from the governors of the infected provinces (As-
trachan and Sarato to the Minister of the Interior
which report the present state of affairs most
hopeful. The mortality has decreased and
there very few patients. most
energetic quarantine is enforced. The in
fected towns and villages, which divided
to districts, which are not allowed to communicate
with each other NC. In places is stated that
only five to ten persons have died within week.
The symptoms described being headache, ac-
companied by fever and swelling Of the glands The
Vienna yssticinische Wochenschyyn. No. 3. draws u
most terrible picture of the present state
of things in Russia. Whatever the disease may
be-whether merely exanthematic typhoid fever
bris reerrens, really the plague. it is certain
sions if the government had not treated it at first
with objectionable neglect. 1t is almost too
late to attempt to stop it, especially the
Russian nation itself has very vague ideas re-
gardng sanitary arrangements, and the misery
caused by the last war and the famine have
undermined the forces Of the population rendering
1t unfit to resist the Infection Another very i'm
portant thing is want of experienced medical men
in Russia About third of the Russian doctors
died either during the war, or from typhoid fever
which followed it. and n large number Of
young students have been summoned from
hospitals and medical schools to take their
places. The Vienna Medicniscae Wochenchrif insists
the importance. in the interest of the whole Of
Europe. of providing Russia with doctors and help
ing her to keep down and restrain her powerful
enemy. Both DR.. Zolekauer and Professor Bot
kin have declared the disease to be really
the plague in its worst form. They have
drawn this conclusion from the extraordi-
nary mortality NINETY per cent. the rapid
spreading Of the disease and the very few OF
recovery. II any. which have under their
notice. The st. Petersburg Mcdieinsche wocaenscArf
Of December 30 january 11l. merely gives short
notice the disease. stating that although the gov
eminent persists in calling it epidemic. it
longer be doubted from the tenor Of its communities
ton to the official papers that II is the plague
AUSTRIA FRIGHTENED.
In the Lower House. ut Vienna. yesterday, Prince
Auersperg said. according to the governments adj
vices. there prevailed in six villages the volga
River and ON islands in the river epidemic
which generally considered to be the
plague. though not officially described as such
The Russian government by its precautions had
succeeded in combining the disease to certain
limits The reported outbreak OF the disease
at Zartzyn is unfoundcd. and the statement that it
t,i. Nnv rrol "a a..
correct 1t has not passed beyond the quarantine
Gordon which the Russian government. for greater
safety has established around Zartxyn. within the
Gordon the epidemic was becoming less yirulcnt
Prince Auersperg detailed the Austro Hungarian pre-
cautions and added that present extreme measures
do not seem justifabe.
THE AFGHAN CONQUEST.
A despatch from Jcilalabad. dated ON the sd inst
states that Yakoob Khan had seized Fort fzen, be.
longing to the Bababakakhel Ghilzais taking the
chiefs prisoners. in consequence of which the Ghl.
zais have begun hostilites against yakoob Khan.
The Kohistanis and Gebzais have also deserted
Yakoob Khan.
EASTERN INCUBUS
In the Lower House OF the Austrian Hechsrath yes
terday. during the debate the Berlin Treaty Minis
ter Unger, defending the constitutionality of the
conduct OF the Ministers. created u sensation by say
ing they lonued for the moment when they could be
relieved The Russian and Turkish governments
have agreed to the clause of the dchntve treaty OF
peace. STIMULATING that the Russians shall cvacuatc
Turkey within thiryhve days OF the signature of the
treaty Some details as to the wording of the docu
ment still under discussion.
rBE zuLus FIGHT
special despatch to the standard from Natal, un.
der date of January D, by way OF Madeira, sayss-
"Cetywayo the Zulu King, refuses all the British de-
mands. He has assembled 5000 men on the border
General Chelmsford aud stan will leave Cape
Town to-day for the front. The British
troops will advance during the present
week. All the necessary preparations are com.