Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — The March of Pestilence. [ARTICLE]

The March of Pestilence.

In 1867 cholera very severe in Rome*. Naples, Sicily and Spain. In 1867 black jack at New Orleans; from Havana; 3,107 deaths. Blauk vomit at New Orleans in 1878; from Havana; 3,977 deaths. Memphis almost depopulated by yellow fever in 1878; 5,160 deaths. In 1877 measles broke out in Russian army on the Danube; 10,00) died. ‘ In 1867 plague and cholera appeared together in Borne; great mortality. . Savannah, Ga., suffered severely from a visitation of yellow fever in 1876. Cholera general in every quarter of Vienna; thousands of deaths in 1873. The outbreak of 1867 caused by excavating a plague cemetery of Nero’s time.