Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — Stamping Ont the Plague. [ARTICLE]

Stamping Ont the Plague.

When the great Russian plague of 1771 had carried off three-fourths of the people of Moscow it was checked by the frost. Expecting that it would break out again in the spring, Catherine 11. commissioned Count Orloff to destroy all the Clothing and rags left by the scourge. The Count knew that even despotic power could not compel the people to obey this order properly, so he set up in the rag business. “ The highest price paid for cast-off clothing f “ Clothing bought and no questions asked,” were among the tempting official advertisements of the day. Thieves and scavengers were his industrious allies. Bonfires of clothing were made, and the houses and streets were cleared and disinfected. Next yeap was po plague in Moscow,