Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-31
TALK ABOUT CHOLERA.
Incidents and Anesd Otes of the Epidemic
Related by the French Papers.

The Paris papers are full of lively talk
about the cholera. "We thought" saws
Figaro, THAT all the towards had died of
fright in 1870, but it doesn't look. like it,
and if fear helps the propagation of the
disease we may expect 1t to spread very
fast indeed if it ever reaches Paris" The
Temps suggests the immediate transpor-
tatiOn to the hospital of every person sus-
pected of being attacked by cholera.
Another newspaper is alarmed lest the
baggage of the fugitiYes from Marseilles
and TOulOn may contain the fatal germs
and propagate the disease throughout
Paris. "KOch is right, it is Asiatic chOl-
era, BrOnardet and PrOust to the contrary
Notwithstanding writes another iOurn-
alist; 'but the cholera is milder now than
it was at the time of Its first appearance,
just as the plague after repeated vista
tons lost its yirulenee and became COM
paratively harmless, and the Parisians
are not face to face with an impending
epidemic like the one in 1882, though
neither that one nor the epidemic of 1S49
destroyed as many people as the war of
1SIO-1n
But the French were never so thorough
ly scared in regard to cholera as they are
now. There have been two cases at Tou-
Ion where people died of fright, without a
trace OF cholera in their system. The
moral depression is so great at Marseilles
and TOulOn that the authorities have orr
| dered bands of music to play every day
| upon the public squares 20 revive the
dropping spirits of the inhabitants. An
| unwlse act, in view of this, perhaps, was
I the appearance in a Paris illustrated
newspaper of likeness Of the dead face
of Lieut.. Keuch, Of the French army, who
| fell victim TO the scOurge at ToulOn.
I Not that it will affect those with such
| iron nerves of the young French physician
who during the epidemic of 1882 passed
/ the night in bed with a corpse of a person
| who had died of cholera, to prove that the
| disease could not be prOpagated by con-
/ tact. The intrepid doctor escaped.
A very curious case was the sudden
/ appearance of the disease at Albano, near
/ Rome, on July 10, 1866. 1t was on the
| occasion of some religious ceremony thai
attracted great number Of visitors from
/ the Eternal City, who were gathered to-
gether in The grounds of the Papal Castle
| of 6audolto. 1t was after the ceremony
| and the crowd were walking through the
| grounds, admiring the beautiful fountains
and listening to the music of a military
| band. All 81 once some of them per.
! oeiVed IN the sky, coming from the. diree,
| zion of the African coast, a great black
| cloud, divided down the middle so as t
I resemble the TWO wings OF an enormous
| bat, A feeling of intense cold over
| powered the spectators. In less thar
an hour 104 persons had beer
stricken down by the fell disease. The
cloud seemed to be charged with cholers
as other clouds with electricity. Scien
/ tific men explained this curious phenom
enon by asserting that the clouds ha6
| formed over great stagnant pools in the
neighbOrhOOd of Tunis, that are filed witt
| the excrement of countless hosts of 10
Gusts and grasshOppers. The epidemic
was very violent one. The frightened
peasantrY in the vicinity blockaded the
gates of AlbanO. Cardinal Altieri came
| from Rome to the rescue of his tOwnsmeT
and to appease the Divine wrath carried
barefoot the holy sacraments TO the dying
He, too, sickened and died. The disease
did not spread beyond the gates Of Al
| BANJO.