The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-30
serving Them with MAGNIFICENT repasts for

""'' w '"Pi'c' icutPie. iHiS "1a o"h'
under the law
The time Of year when the law required
that this ceremony should be performed
the ides of September, indicates the peri
Cd when pestilencc began ii Rome just
the time when the malarial districts OF
this country, in hot, dry seasons, begin
to develop is evil results. The historl-
ans OF that time attributed this great
outbnrst of disease, az they did all other
plasues, to earthquakes and oruptlons OF
volcanoes, The appearance of a comet or
planetary disturbance. In reality it was
occasioned by the malaria that aroae from
! the Pontinc marches b7 which Rome was
surrounded. Blue pills and quinine
would have proved more beneficial in his
case than the Lcctistcrium.
A terrible malads, attacking men and
cattle, manifested itself in the year OF
Rome SIG, Of which Livy says: 'The pes
thence which had affected cattle only in
previous years, nor turned to diaease Of
man Those who were seized with it new
er survived beyond The seventh day; those
who did survive were for q long time af-
fectcd with quartan aguc. The disease
made its most fatal ravagcs among the
slaves, whose dead bodies lay unburied
along the highway, as it was impossible to
bury the free citizens; their corpses lay
unburcd, untouched by dogs Or vu?turcs,
and wasted away b. corruption. Cartivor-
Gus animals would not touch the bodies of
the dead.
Historians relate that an appalling pes
Hence in the year Of Rome G2S arose in
Africa from dead locusts. These animals
ware brought toward NuNdi. and Uticn
bv strong east wind in such multitudes
that they dcvourcd every green thing, not
apa ring even the bark Of trees. They
were driven by the south wind into the
Mediterranean, and being washed OH
shore in the hot season, they putrcfcd
and caused most deadly plague. 1t l.
recorded that S00,0 900 persons persisted in
Numdin alone, 100000 on the coast OF
Carthage and Utica, and $1,000 of the
| Roman troops
A. D. GS, in the reign Of Nero occurred
horrible pcstilence. 1acius, i'll speak
ing Of it, SAYS: "ln that year occurred a
most violent tempest in Campania, which
DESTROYED villages, forests, and grain; also
occurred destructive earthquake. The
ravnscs Of this plague swept 3O0,00o OF
the population of the city of Rome, which
at that time contained not to exceed
900 400 inhabitants: Houses were filed
with the dead and the streets with funer-
ala. Slaves, plebcians, all classes, were
suddenly taken off, and amid the lalncnta-
tions of their wives and children, who
while they assisted sick or monrncd over
the dead. were seized with the disease
and, pcrisAng, were burnt on the same
funeral pile
q. D. lG1 appeared in Rome genera
fatal pestilencc, which originated in ASH
a few wears before and was brought t.
Rome by a soldier 4. Marcelinus relate:
that "this horrid pcstilcncc originated
from the foul air Of small box which {
soldier opened in search Of plumber alie
the taking Of Sclencia. From this Little
box was generated a universal pcstlenc'
which spread from Persia to Gaul, ant
thence over the whole earth Famine
followed and myriads of caterpillars an'
other pestiferous Insetcs ovcrran th'
earth, dsvouring all vegetation" Thu
7estilencc referred to, no doubt, was tn
cholera.
Various historians tell us that in thu
year l345 destructive pestilence appear
ed in Asia. Says Nillaui, it was the mos
appalling distressing scouraSc the worI'
had ever known 1t spread over Egypt
Syra, Greece, Turkey. and the whole o
Europe where it continued its ravage 70
five years. The disease batfted all medlca
skill. il was called the "black death.
Among the symptoms were black tongue
raging fever, vomiting or splitting o
blood. 1t destroyed l;tc in half the tim
the bilious plague did. 1t is recordc
that half the human family persisted i
about eight years; in many cities min
died out of ten, and some places were ell
trey depopulatod. In London oo,oo
dead bodies were buried in one graveyard
in Norwich died about the same number
in Venice died 10O, O0oin Luhcc,9O 900; i
the East persisted 20 COG 900 in one year
In Spain the disease ragged three year
and carried off two-thirds of the people
About the year l500,in England appear
ed anew pestlence called the sweatn
plague The mortality from it was apa!'
ing. Sir Thomas Moore in letter
Erasmus, declares this disease more dan
perous than battle. In London it car
ried of upwards Of 80, 900 of the population
Saws Maitland's History Of London. 1t
current opinion that the disease WAS I'm
ported int Europe By the first adventurer
TO America with Columbus"
Buc.1ler'S A1nict Salve.