MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3143, 15 March 1879, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

THE PLAGUE. The plague has appeared in Bessarabia in Turkey. The Russian plague excites great alarm in Germany, Austria, and Hungary; nearly all patients died; six army surgeons, and nearly all who came in contact with the dead had died, although disinfectants were freely used. "T!ie modality in some places was equal to on« hundred per cent. The reports from central Eussia, couched in the mildest form, indicate conaiusively that the black plagae, the most terrible of scourges known to humantiy, is .more rapid by far than noted at the time of its last general occurrence two centuries ago. Great mortality is reported in Tver, a. province midway between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Tlio i»'^ '-0 has appeared in a village on tbe ivitfF Railway, which runs due north (hnn Odessa. It has appeared in two rilh^os of Tambor and in Restor, and in a -close vicinity to Moscow. The Greek Consul at Kavali, on the JEgean sea, confirms a report of the outbreak of the plague at 4jjat point. The reports received indicate ft feeling of consternation throughout Europe. ■ . ■ " . . The origin of the plague in Eussia is itihus given: A Cossack returning from the war to Wetlinka,,, brought bis lady a •kwl, which she wore for two days and 'ekeoed with all the plague symptoms 8' * died. The following four.days other an& Sen of her family died. The disease m?. mV r»pidij, the local authorities not BPSnt 4^>* itteation to it tillhalf the and the remainder we» fnAtto b^y the Tictims. The: winic ?n RnssL is »^Bt incredible. EVery 3J? and atatioa of life hare petitioned for the entire «*«tfc» of all intercourse. even postal communication^ betweeathe rest of Ru.sia end the Volga.; Letter. B ent from Astrachan and iT^itzm are not received by persons to. wh<?m gjr»J» addressed. Some people eretf refwe to take paper money, fearing the germ Of infection might be communicated through it It is impossible to describe the terror *hich has taken poßsewion of the people.