Morris tribune., 1883-07-07
THE TERRIBLE PLAGUE.

THE TERRIBLE PLAGUE.
It's Fearful Rdpages IN Egypt-7He
Dead Left Unburied to poison
the Atmosphere.
Carlo dispatch to the Chicago Tri-
bune The situation between here
and Port Said in one direction and
Alexandria in the other, is deplorable,
and can scarcely be exaggerated. The
extent of the cholera plague, owing to
the government precautions, is not
actually known, but the statements of
those who have escaped from the in
fected districts. and whose very
presence is Stunned by almost every
There are scarcely enough well natives
to bury the dead in some of the COM
paratively isolated villages along the
Mediterranean, and in the low Nile
Delta districts between Lake Menza-
believed to be a single foreigner in
the district, eXcepta few self saciflcing
physicians, English French and Greek,
who, besides risking their lives, stay
under very discouraging circum-
stances, as they can secure remedies
only with difficulty, and are met by
undetermined opposition by the ma
tive doctors, SO called, who are the
only ones who collect any fees. Their
presence is everywhere resented by To-
cal officials, since they alone are likely
to give any information of the extent
of the epidemic, while the
Government by the most strenuosus
efforts is trying to keep every fact out
of sight. Two foreign physicians have
already sacrificed their lives, DR..
Laird, a Scotchman, who had been
thoroughly acclimated, and DIR. Ernst,
German from Coblentz. Several
English soldiers have died at ,Dami-
eta, fact which English officials en-
deavored to hide.
A FRIGHTFUL SITUATION.
The natives blame the whole mat
| ter on the English for having failed
| in the presence of abundant warming
| to prevent the outbreak of the disease
in the first place. The spread of the
infection is however, due to the habits
of the people, the filthy condition Of
the villages and the ignorance of the
natives and the prejudices of the loca
practitioners. The atmosphere al
Mansoura, where Hamondyi, the IA
nous Arab physician died is said tC
be absolutely fetid. The dying have
been left alone in their houses, friend.
and relatives fleeing, and their bodies
have remained unburied for days
Dead bodies in some cases have de-
composed in the streets of villages de
serted by all except the dying and thu
| h 10 ,f 10 LOT TO
were helpless and starving. Anything
like graves has been unthought of fO
fortnight; and in the low delt.
ground, where water is found at ;
depth of two or three feet, the trenches
have been dug SO shallow and filled 81
full that the first wind blew away thu
covering of sand as the water washed
away the earth. Even where the de
composing bodies were not uncovered
and exposed they were so near tn
surface as to rot under hot sun ant
allow the grasses to filter to the sur
face and poison the air.
MANITowAC, Wis, July CA maj
named Vichweger was engaged il
drawing timber near here this fore
noon, when his team became fright
ened at a passing locomotive and at
tempted to run away, The man wa
thrown under the wheels of a heavil
loaded wagon. which passed over him
crushing him to death almost instant
ly.
The Daily News, Hot Sulphu
Springs, Coll, special says Four com
missioners and the county clerk o
Grand county, were all shot yestel
day morning by amob of masked men
Barney, Day. and Mills were instant
" killed and p. Wibber and d. J
Dean mortally wounded. Grand eoun
ty lies in the northwestern part of TIL
state, several miles from Il telegraph
station. The citizens of the count
have callad OIL the governor for stat
militia.
OTsEGo, Lake Michigan, July g.
Alexander Perry, fifty years old, at
tempted to enter the house of AmO
Bidwell, while the young wife of tn
latterl was alone. He had visited tn
house earlier in the day, but had lef
after making improper overtures t
her. Whe he was observed approach
ing the second time he was warned b
Mrs. Bidwell, and failing to regard j
she shot and killed him with a Win
chester rifle.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-The attol
: ney-general has given an opinion t
the secretary of the treasury that til
: expectation of bonded whisky to Be-
muda with view to- it's re-impori
} alton for the purpose of evading G
: delaying the payment of the tax.
not an importation within the meal
ing of the law.
A Kings Narrow Escape
: DRESDEN, July 5.-The King G
Saxony, who is making tour, wa
, Yesterday about to ascend in the elev;
tor of factory which he was inspec
ing at Milan, when the weight al
tached to the car fell, killing the go,
: ernor of the district who was accom-
, panying his majesty, and injuring TIL
manager of the factory. The kins
who had entered the elevator befor
the accident happened, was muc
overcome and abandoned the tour.
1t is told that young man VIII
, took his girl to the celebration a
Litchfeld, from this place, got left O
the way home. He got out of til
: buggy to pick up the lady's hat, whe
she, evidently not caring for his con
, pany any longer, drove to town with
out him, leaving the unhappy yout
to find his way to town, a distance Q
about eight es.--Atwater Press.
|
, Four hundred citizens of Nashville
Tenn, have been examined as juror
,, in the case ex-Treasurer Polk, default
, err, but only three have been accepted
tits thought that nearly two thousan
will have to be examined before
Jury is secured. The Chicago New
says: 'sThe troubles that nearly ever
man in Nashville has played poke
; - Il