Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — The Cholera. [ARTICLE]

The Cholera.

If it is true that the oholera, wMch has caused suoh dreadful ravages in Egypt, is not the genuine Asiatic disease, there is, of course, every, reason tor believing that we will escape a visitation from the plague. The physicians who were first sent over by France and England pronounoed it Asiatlo cholera of the most malignant typo- The physicians cent from India into Egypt by the British Government say the disease Is nothing like the plague with wbleh they are familiar in India There is a doubt, then, as to the character of the pestilence. If it is an endemic disease, there is no ocoaslon lor alarm either in Europe or America; if it is an epidemic disease, ft is certain to take the grand tour around the inhabitable earth. Cheering Agricultural Prospects. In tbe midst of a somewhat, to say the least, doubtful financial and commercial outlook the prospect of a most bountiful harvest, and consequent plentiful breadstuff supply at moderate prices, is suoh as should insure popular content and tranquility. Indeed, the agricultural prospect is so hopeful as to constitute a silver lining to the somewhat darker than ordinary cloud that just now Obscures the horizon of trade and commerce.