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Show HKSOrOTA HI A. The Rubonlc llir.tie Itairlne Aiuontx the Ai-iab (.rertl l-Hliiliiy. New York, 25. The Levant Herald ot tho Slid in.H., says a telegram tele-gram has just been received Jrom the sanitary commissioner sent to tho district ot Mesopotamia t-tricken with the bulhinic plague. A telegram tele-gram was sent on tho 23d of May from Bagdad, whither it had been sent by special courier from Kut El Maunnira, where the commit.-iouer then was 11 states that this learlul malady has spread beyond tlie cotin-Iry cotin-Iry ul Montelik Arabs, inllicting an imnic.'iuo district, and destroying a largo number of lives. In the localities locali-ties mentioned in tlio dispatch, tho numbers were 500, SOOand 1,000, ru-i-peetively. I'hoso who were struck down with llio disease generally au-cumhtHl au-cumhtHl on the sovenlii or third day after tho premonitory symptoms had set in. In s-nno dialriets the epidemic, epi-demic, was appearing, hut it was breaking in others not veiled by the commission. |