Virginia Free Press - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

The Cholera continued its ravages in Ireland. New cases on the 9th, 98, deaths 38. Cork, new Cases 76, deaths 14. In London the disease was nearly extinct.

September 27, 1832

27 Sep 1832

FOR THE VIRGINIA FREE PRESS.CHOLERA. Mr. Gallaher— After what has been written by the ablest medical men of this country and Europe, it may be deemed imparticent in me thus to obtrude myself upon the attention […]

June 7, 1832

7 Jun 1832

Cholera in Ireland

Liverpool, May 1. — In Ireland, and especially in the capital, the disease appears to be making considerable progress. On Friday 112 new cases were announced in Dublin, and the deaths from the commencement of the […]

September 27, 1832

27 Sep 1832

Cholera in Halltown

Since our last paper, two deaths have occurred from Cholera— one in town, and the other in the vicinity. As we have noted every case, we hope our good friends abroad, who seem so careful of […]

September 6, 1832

6 Sep 1832

Solely For Your Own Family, Cholera

The following Rules, in reference to the Cholera, are given by an eminent physician of Philadelphia, to his friend in this place. SOLELY FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY USE.In the event of the appearance of the New […]

August 16, 1832

16 Aug 1832

Treatment of Cholera

Treatment of Cholera.— Extract of a letter received from one of the first surgeons at New Castle, and the most successful in the treatment of Cholera. “When the patient is cold, and the pulse at the […]

July 11, 1833

11 Jul 1833

Progress of the Cholera

HAGERSTOWN, July 4The cholera is again on the increase along the line of the canal, in the neighborhood of Williamsport. On Tuesday, we learn that three deaths occurred below, six above, and one in the town, […]

July 4, 1833

4 Jul 1833

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal News

From the Baltimore American, June 14.The Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, occupies one entire page of the ample sheet of the National Intelligencer of yesterday. It […]

July 4, 1833

4 Jul 1833

Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light of Thursday.A few cases of cholera have occurred during the last week, along the line of the canal, above and below Williamsport. We have head of three confirmed cases, which resulted […]

October 11, 1832

11 Oct 1832

Halltown Cholera Death

No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]

September 13, 1832

13 Sep 1832

Cholera

Many attempts have been made to give some rational explanation of the cause of pestilential cholera. I will not pretend to say that I can. My object is simply to give a frank expression of my […]

October 11, 1860

11 Oct 1860

Mason – Horrible Murder

HORIRBLE MURDER. One of the most inhuman and shocking murders it has ever fallen to our lot to record, occurred near this place on Wednesday week last. A man by the name of Ezra Mason, a […]

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