New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

PANIC STRICKEN s-INCIDENTs OF
THE EPIDEMIC.

or City Dead House, packed as Iui as ~ Vo'"" 49,
with sight-.eers. The report had oeeh circu'a'eu
tina. a stranger in a hotel, feenne himseh ooAN
with tho Asiatic malady, had committed suicide
cd that bis body was on view in the public NOR
tuary chamber In Italy the feeling of dread seems
~ Inc universal aud shows itself in the harshest
cruelty A man and woman oil Sah
Morico n village IN the mountains ABOVE
Ventimiglia where they had gone through Ten
DAYS quarantine, WERE on returning nome 'hole'
chased Inv pcasants around with spades and pitch
forks Tho woman, notwithstanding the quaran-
tue had cholera germs Ia her body. Onuer inc
she,,ar of night she succeeded in getting back TO
her house and died in few hours. Her nusoahu'
eh,ldrcn and the neIghbors living In immaculate
.ir,i,,, ,vere isolated AS might have been lopcrs
nud,r the jewish dispensation. They were de
ncnaout mon chance fall OF rain for water, az
tbry were not suffered TO go to the public fountain
aud they were chased from the bakers and pro-
vision stores. No sexton would bury the
dead woman, and the Mayor was Obliged
IN send for geudarnes 10 take her body to the Come
ferry aud inter IT. Az Aries lhcrc has been general
exodus except of tho public functionafics snu
,,tsefAbly lad gent inhabitants. The butchers
bakers aud other shopkeepers have He'd Out OF
popuiatiou of 20 900. there are not possibly moro
thnn a nth of that number ~ the auciont town,
which WAS ia tho time Of Constantine the capital
of the Gallo Roman provinces In spain terror mas
rot a. the excess OF honAy
naron Miohes the French Ambassador 10 Madrid,
the Baroness THEN children and the bta1iluh
Minister we're very near beng fired upon the oth'f
day at ZauranE watering place on Va"
Biscay coast They had gone nom run
70 call on the Queen mother who Is S'"y'hs
at the Chateau de Varroy After paying their
visit they all got on board French man-ot-war
which had quilted ST. Sebastian on short cruise
with clean bill of health The diplomatic party
went out into the bay for few hours When they
had had enough of the sea the ship drew near 10
creek and the ambassadors and their families de-
seconded into boat which was to land them but
thoquarautinc guards came up aud warned them on
The CAPTAIN of the ship sent word that he had That
morning received clean bill of health at ST. SOFAS
tian. and that he was authorized to land wherever
no chose A coast guard captain was fetched.
Tie refused to suffer a landing. Permission was
then asked for the ladies and children. lie called
put that if they attempted to come ashore nc womb
order them 10 be shot. On being told VINO Baron
MIchels was he replied that be held the French
ambassador in sovereign contempt aud mat ne
would obge him to obey the quarantine Inc up
shot was that the party had to go to ST. SEBASTIAN
Nv sea- Apologies have been made to the French
government, aud accepted. The excuse was that
the quarantine guards were led away by their
solicitudc for Queen Isabella, who is afraid OF chol-
ora and has not health to resist au attack. The
lazarettos on the Spanish frontier are 40 crowded,
so dirty and badly regulated, that they must be
fertile source OF zymOtic diseases.
was here during the visitation of 1886, and
lived near the Beaujon Hospital, which was crowd
ed with cholera patients The daughter OF the CON
clerge i'll the house III which lived was among
them. Irccollect as did nearly every body that
knew, making up my mind not to think about
the endemic beyond taking those preventive
measures which prudence dictated. Some great
doctors, to prevent cowsrdice taking the form OF
cruelty TO the sick, were induced to
say that it not contagious. but went
IN ar-cnrrents. We knew nothing then
about the microbe-a word, by the by, which has
not vet found its way into Littre's French or modl
cal dictionary. As the press was pretty nearly
gagged and newspaper enterprise feeble journal
ISIS did not visit cholera hospitals and tell what
they saw there.
Dr. Burg internally fortified with copper"
went through the hospitals of Marseilles and lou
Ion where however, he not allowed to treat
ANYBODY and came back safe and sound. The
example of the Empress had good effect. recol-
lect that what she in the hospitals
turned her mind TO serious thoughts aud made her
feel that crinOiine and worldly pleasures had alb
sorbed her too much The Due de Chartres ap
pearauce in the Toulon and Marseilles hospitals
las not affected people did that of the Empress
vt the Hotel Diem. BesujOn and Amlens hospitals
Feminine weakness aud beauty greatly enhance
the spendor of an act Of courage prompted by the
heart The Empress was really brave She was
frivolous; but abe had spurts of generous feeling
and some fine intuitions She performed
good actions simply because her heart moved her,
AUD not 70 attain selfish ends. She had excellent
Jualities but was utterly uneduoated aud was led
by astsrlnding success and the admiration which
her beauty commanded into frivolous folly. recol-
loct with pleasure giving her ~ ls0o tho fullest
credit for noble motives when she visited the
cholera hospitals The 10000 francs subscribed
by tho whole Orleans family was u poor
enm when we consider their great wealth.
Tho Due dc Charities is of placky disposition. but
he did not do more In going round the Pharo ana
~. Maudrier hospitals thaa tho members of the
Government who visited them, and NM. Camille
Pelletan and Clovis Hughes the Radical Deputies,
or different newspaper correspondents. III was very
Oreanist 70 ask receipt. for all the sums OF money
that were distributed through municipal agents
These receipts were dictated by COmte d'llausson-
VILE who vent with the Due de Charities who was
styled III them Monsogneur, His Royal Hlghncss"
The love for the poor which the fOreans suddenly
manifest would have been better employed in pro-
tecting the miners Of Auzin last spring against the
political tyranny of the Oreanist dukes, counts aud
enormously rich Bourgeois who form the board Of
management Both the Contc oe Paris ana tho
Auzin mines. Ii Is to he surmised that these Royal
personsges new appear in the Lord Bountiful char
sster not because they are phianthropists hut be-
cause they want to restore tho monarchy, to marry
their sons and daughters TO archdukes aud arch
Snchessss and D. enjoy splendid civil list pensions
In the Versailles Assembly and In tho Chamber
tie ()rleanisis have been steadily opposed to all
measured for the benefit of the working classes.
Tne late Count d. Jacksonville was one OF the few
really benevolent and benehcent men of the party
His heart acted like an akall on the ACID c9nseI-
yatism of his notifies. better man never lived
II was Lis son who wont with the Due de Chartre'
To MerseiIles and Touloa. had close view of the
A. had in a of Ihe