Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — THE MARCH OF PESTILENCE. [ARTICLE]

THE MARCH OF PESTILENCE.

Yellow-fever in Philadelphia in 1793; 11,000 deaths. Awful destruction by yellow-fever at Philadelphia in ii 62. Pestilence of yellow-fever in Cuba in t 732; great mortality. Terrible outbreak of cholera in India in 1774. Millions died. Great plague of Egypt 1792; 800,00 ’• poi sons died n s : x months. In WBl, 5,60! EnglisUTtroops attacked on march in India; 3,000 died. In 1365 here were 68,800 death s in Loudon in thirty-three weeks. General yellow-fever in West Indie.in 1745. Thousands of deaths. In 1781 healthy mm dropped dead b\ dozens; millions die l in India. Awful plague in Syria, 1720; whol< c ties peopled only by the dead. Terrible ravages of yellow-fever in Philadelphia, 1699; 1,7( 0 deaths. In 1778 there were 170,000 deaths in Constantinople in eighteen weeks. Plague cumefrom EasttoMarsei'lea 1750; 60,000 deaths in seven weeks. “Great plague” lasted two years finally subdued by “great fire,” 1666. In 179 . an itch epidemic in Italy and Sicily; many suicides .rom su feriug. Yellow-fever in ,’amaiea in 17 <9. White population almost annih latod. I 17 16 small-pox carried off la g numbers of Ind aus in the Northw st. Fearful pestilence, like cholera, in Persia in 1773; 80,006 died at Bassora. Between 1756 and 1832 there have been twelve general cholera epidem cs. Is 1758 twelve-year epidemics beg n contemporaneous with Hindoo lestivals. “Great plague" of London, 1614 destroyed 68,596 lives.' Described by L efoe. The twelve-year epidemics o' 1756, 1768, 1.81, noted by many inedica' writers. New York desolated by yellow-fever, in 1792. Services in all the churches for abatement.