Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-01
The Grand Army Reunion.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cholera Situation.


FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cholera situation.
MARsEILLEs, July 3lst.-Of the total
number of deaths in France from the
cholera this year, probably the great ma
jority died inside of nine hours after they
were seized with Illness Some have not
died until after being sick day or more,
but the majority of the cases were settled
| one way or the other within eight or ten
hours. At the start there is diarrhea and
vomiting. This usually lasts but a short
time. Then follow cramps and icy chills,
and this stage has commonplace reached
by the time the patient has arrived at the
hospital. If circulation can then be re-
stored, and be kept up by the use of ten or
fifteen grains OF acetate of ammonia, the
same quantity of alcohol, and by violent
rubbing, there is some chance of recovery,
though the chance is slight. But if cireu-
lation cannot be kept up death is certain.
In the last stages some patients are deliri-
GUS, while others enter into comatose
condition; but the latter part of the disease
is generally frightful thing TO behold 1t
is simply hellish torture. The total deaths
in France to date are about,2 800.
MARsRILLEs, July 31st-The lower classes
dislike and oppose the physicians because
they have the notion that physicians have
been instructed to help the cholera ufong,
in order to get rid of the surplus popula-
ton. sa l
ROME, July 31st-Six thousand persons
are detained in the various laZarettos on the
frontier and along the coast.
LISBON, July 31st.-The port of Puelva,
| Spain, has been declared infected with
cholera. The ports between Cadiz and
| Ayamonte, both inclusive, are also suspect
ed of being infested.
PARIS, July 31st.-There were three chol-
era deaths at Marseilles and three at Tou-
| Ion last night.
PARIS, July 31st-At Marseilles this
evening there had been four deaths from
cholera since noon. Two deaths from the
| disease occurred at Toulon to-day. There
are no serious cases in the hospitals there,
| and the fears that the epidemic would
break out again are subsiding. One death
| occurred from cholera at Creux to-day, one
at Montford, and one at Susargeus.
MARsEILLEs, July 31st. - There is
| marked decrease in the number of cholera
cases throughout the district. The Munich
pal Council have resolved 20 erect tablet
| to commemorate the noble sacrifice of the
doctors and Sisters of Charity who were
victims of the epidemic. DR.. Potraso, who
died yesterday, will have street named
after him. There have been seven deaths
from cholerain the department Ardechas.
REPORT FROM AN AMERICAN CONSUL ON THE
as CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.
WASHINGTON. July 31st-The Secretary
of State has received from Consul Mason
long report on the cholera epidemic now
prevailing at Toulon and Marseilles The
Consul says in part: Both Marseilles and
TouIon suffered terribly in the cholera cpl
demic of 1865. During the 10 years which
have elapsed since then Marseilies has been
in several important respects almost re-
built Her pavements, her sewage system,
her water supply and method of clean
ing the streets, removing the night
soil, inspecting and regulating mar
kets, her quarantine regulations and
hospital facilities are all probably I'M
surpassed in excellence by those of any
European or American city. The old quar-
tiers of the city (ancient MarseilleS), which
was scourged so sharply by the plague in
former centuries has been pierced with
broad avenues streams of pure water flow
down the cutters, the narrower streets and
alleys, and the payements of the principal
| thoroughtares are washed and swept with
| frequency, which leaves nothing to be de-
| sired. AS there is no tide to maintain the
circulation of the sea water through the
| inclosed ports, the inevitable result is that
| the latter grow foul and pestilent The
| same conditions, unmiugated by equally
vigorous sanitary measures, prevail at lou
| Ion, and it is thought that it was the dredg-
| ing of a disused dock there, during the
III onths of April and May, which devel-
| oped the seeds of the present epidemic
In spite of this, number of deaths have
occurred in the cleanest and handsomest
| portions of Marseilles. The attack of
cholera has been this year far more vigOr-
| Gus and fatal than in the great epidemic
nineteen years ago, and all the present indi-
cations point TO a summer of gloom and suf-
| fering for the people of Toulon and Mar
settles All that energy and liberality
could perform, all that sanitary science
could suggest, has been done; but the pesti-
| lence is here, and defies restraint. The pres
ent situation may be summarized as fol-
| lows: The epidemic which now prevails
at Marseilles and Toulon is Asiatic cholera,
imported, beyond all reasonable doubt
from Saigon, China, from the French port
of Surthe to the port of Toulon. At first
the disease was of type medically CLASH
| fled as benign" but its malignity has
since increased by its further diffusion and
| development under the influence of the
| continued hot weather. In compliance
| with instructions from the Department this
| Consulate has ascertained from Off
| cial searches that no emigrants
have recently left either Toulon
or Marseilles by sea for the United
States. 1t should be added however, that
! few emigrantS for American ports ever en-
bark here, as the steamers leaving Mar
settles usually touch at one or more Me-
| diterranean stations before leaving their
final point of departure, and emigrants
| usually go by rail to this ultimate port of
departure, to embark for the United States.
1t is therefore suggested that all vessels
bringing emigrantS or baggage to the
United States from Bordeaux, Hayre, La
Rochelle, or any other French port not vet
declared infected, should be subjected, upon
their arrival, to the most careful sanitary
regulations. Clean bills of health have
been refused at this Consulate to all vessels
| clearing for ports in the United States since
the 18th of June, and none such will be
granted until Marseilles is officially declared
free from the contagion.
The Laxham- Gijon Collision.
MADRID, July 31st-Captain Newton. a
passenger on the steamer Laxham, which
was sunk after the collision with the
steamer Gijon, escaped with fifteen Span
iards and landed at Muros. He reports
that Immediately after the collision the
Captain of the Gijon shot himself. The
Spaniards, he said, behaved badly. There
is no news of the Captain of the Laxham.
Prisoners Killed by Soldiers.
CRY OF MEXICO, July 31st-Under the
law soldiers are permitted to kill persons
who resist arrest, or after being captured
attempt to escape. The revolutionary
forces in Guerrero were recently attacked.
and General Pinzon, with six soldiers who
were taken prisoners, were killed while at
tempting to escape. Two General officers
were also killed in Yucatan.
VIII Abdicate.
BERLIN, July 3lst-It is reported that
Grand Duke Louis of Hesse will abdicate
in favor of his son Ernest, under the ad-
vice of the Emperor of Germany. His
inorganic marriage with Nine. Koiarmine
and the subsequent divorce COMPROMISED
his position.
Captured by Brigands.
CoNsrANTINopLE, July 31st.-Seen, Brit
ish Vice-Consul at Rodesto, has been cap
tured by brigands who demand $1,000
ransom.
Suakim Attacked by the Rebels.
SUAKIM, July 31st.-The rebels attacked
Suakim last night in great force They
.