The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-08-01
AMONG THE DYING.
What the French Ministers Saw on
their Voyage OF Inspection.


The radical deputy of Marseilles, NJ
Clovis Hugues, says a Herald cable of
July %, has been all through the hospital
and cholera haunted quarters there. A
graphic pen gives description of the
dead and dying whom he saw The hos.
pital is on the high promohtory betweeY
the entrance of the port and Corniche,
and is kept cool by the sea breezes even
at noon-tide. The restaurants and baths
in the neighborhood are deserted The
interior OF the pharo is in the gorgeous
style of the Monaco Casino. and is beau
tifully clean; but it is said the patients
are kept too dry. They are not allowed
hot water in abundance to drink, or pro-
longed hot baths to help arterial circula-
ton, which the Asiatic chOIery impedes.
The Voltaire's correspondent who went
there with the ministers, confirms this
impression. He says the sea breezes en-
ter freely all tbs rooms, but the patients
are unconscious of them.
AT THE BEDS.
In the first room there were ten lying
in their final attituded Their limbs
were parched and dry as sticks, all bblck
and icy. Nothing but the eyes showed
life. They were, however staring and
enlarged by the attenuation of the rigid
faces, but The Pickering flame of a dying
candle was in them. They expI ,essed
nothing but Indifference. eve were
profoundly sadened (says the wrf teri by
their aspect, and did not, from f ear of
disturbing them, breathe freely. We
walked on tiptoe. The minister took
off their hats. M. Clovis HughU es went
to bed where boy of twelve, in a
spasm of pain, had kicked off tt lie sheet
His eyes were fixed on the pinlp led, sun
lighted, blue sea, and he df1 not turn
them to look at the visitors. We APP
preached him and pressed his h and, but
he made no sign. In the females ward
we saw an old woman black AL if car
bombed, and beautiful young creature
with an amber skin and magnificent
physique, breathing her last breath.
When she died her bod was wheeled into
the disinfecting chamber. NJ 7Naldeck-
Rousseau, who showed remarkable cour-
age, helped the sisters of charity in their
Iugubrious task. This mortuary cham
Der is whitewasEed, and has vaporizing
machines which cast out clouds of pheny-
lied steam SO thick that we were each
soon invisible to the other"
IN THE SITBIJRBS
Many people are camping out in the
suburbs of Marseilles. The roads in the
country are thronged with vehicles, car
rying articles of furniture belonging to
the poor, who think they are safe outside.
On every side you may read ON the shop
doors, ''Shut on account of absence"
The travelling fruit hawkers have almost
all disappeared. An Italian navigation
company has reduced the wages of it's
employees 10 per cent. on account of the
cholera. Some amusement was caused
when it was learned that after leaving
France and arriving at Geneva, DIR. Koch
was not little indignant TO find that he
had to be disinfected like the other pas
sengers coming from France. He strong
~ objected to go through the unpleasant
process Of fumigation. ''It is all non
sense to disinfect me" observed the Illus
trious German physician to the official
on duty. Nonsense or not, replied the
latter, ''you shall be fumigated like the
rest" and the doctor was accordingly
conducted to the disinfecting room.
CuriousIy enough he had previously de
clined to give information on the cholera
epedemic to the Swiss representatives IL
France, on the plea that he held his com
mission from the German government