The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-13
||17 DISPATCHES.
pppsing Outlook for 0'rs'
ais and Corn.
Franc, Refuses to Submit to
American Mediation
! Consul Mason's Report on
Cholera in France
e.neral Butler on His Great
1odppendeut High Horse.

,orny August 9.-Frank
WAsh ,A'Ilnn limited States consul at
d. MaIo'' ;pIos in dispatch to the State
Mai..t Ms,n,snt relative 10 cholera 10
del m1.ce and Toulon, says: It
.nne .unesr. that, Notwithstanding all
spp stoSress in medical science aud very
pIoss.ato ps.ot arrangements for collecting
peI,.y ,restinc stricken victims Of tue
n.ne anu more than twO-thirds of
ssoaset .suua attacked have died, even dur>
!n"I .ha tir,t fortnight of the epidemic
Ins " .ll sanitary conditions were
.,"sI @ favorable. The almost immedi
. .,O transmission of the disease from
Tou,on 10 Marseilles and the enOr-
l,"ns death rate of seventy per cent.
~ T me earliest stage of the epidemic,
~ .o.m to prove that sanitary science
s snd medical skill have made but
nt nrie substantial progress In dealing
With With Asiatic cholera. A second fea-
."re Of the present epidemic is the
WA u,or and deadliness of its attack as
n'omnsred n with the last great cholera
summer of 1865 The rapidity and
grnlpnce of this development are
strlouted, in some measure, to the
intense damp and sitting heat which
oreyailed during most of the days
since the 3Oth of June. There are
musicians of judgment and expert
snce who maintain that dessicatiOn
!. the only effective destroyer Of
,boleric microbe on q large scale and
That dry, hot weather, while 1t may
M unfavorable 10 those slrea0y
ttacked, is most effective in staying
ne sp..ad of tn, contagi0n. An
! other n"ticeat.le feature OF the
ore.eut visitation has been the stimuli:
sneous and sudden appearance OF
the mslady in ell parts of the city Of
Msrseilles. Fugi,Ives from here have
died at AK, GreD"ble and other
tcvns In southern France, hut the
endemic has lnus far not been kim
did there, nor have any persons
been attacked except such IA brought
the contagion from this city or Tou~
ion. In view of the enormous emf
gra ion which has occurred since the
outbreak. three weeks ago. Estimated
bv good authority at 100 600 persons
frIn Marseilles and 5OO,W from.
Tou,on. and the distribution OF this
vast contingent throughout France,
[rsIv. Switzerland and he N-'her-
x1ds. it 1, noteworthy and encour>
vioy that no authenticated case Of
hMs,a ha. occurr. ID amO' g this n, my
f fuy,tiyes In any point north o
Although u great number
/ Italian working people lett the
w stricken cities for northern It. IL
uriux the early dsys Of the epidemic,
,e disease has not appa emily t~en
arried with them, or if it has, It is
OF vet developed. N"tbing 1" all
,e DISPUTE concerning the origin
nd cure oi the disease has added any
ttectiv. ne.s tn the means hltherto
nOwn for treating ch"irraic patients
nd the proportion of deaths to cases
n.u,ar- to increase, rather al DIM
n,-h. A momentary CLEAN of hope
vss diffused by the announcement,
hat on ti-nts had been 'escued from
he COLLAPSED stage of the malady III
he hospital in Toulon by the inhala'
ION Of oxygen, bit this encourage
nent has been clnuded hy the discOv'
nv that the effect OF this powerful
was but temporary, and
,stien,s thus treated finally died In
he same ratio as those treated by
,ther methods.