Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1911 — Cholera's Effects in 1831-1832. [ARTICLE]

Cholera's Effects in 1831-1832.

When the cholera slew nearly sixty thousand people in the insanitary United Kingdom In 1831-32 the rooks suffered with them. The estate Of the marquis of Sligo boasted one of the largest rookeries In the west of Ireland. On the first or second day of the epidemic’s appearance an observer noted that all the rooks on this estate had vanished. During the three weeks through which it raged there was no sign of them about their home, but the revenue police found Immense numbers of them dead on the shore ten miles sway. When the epidemic abated the rooks returned, but some were too weak to teach their nests, and five-sixths of. th.em had cons.