Show THE TUB EPOCH OF SCOURGE never perhaps before in the history of the world have BO so many terrible calamities lami ties happened within a short period of time as during the last six eix weeks the tremendous conflagration in chicago which destroyed over worth of property handmade and made over persons homeless the michigan and wisconsin fires which burned farms villages and towns with their inba inhabitants bitante the destruction of the american whale fleet by icebergs the late extraordinary binary tide in boston and severe gale in the east causing a severe seveno loss the terrible earthquakes in chile and peru completely destroying the towns of pica and matilla the cholera in constantinople and other parts of europe which is rapidly spreading and has already touched this continent the famine in persia that has decimated the tho people and drives the famishing crowd every morning to the residence of the english embassy crying for food the flood in china chins whereby 1000 people were drowned in New chwang alone the breall pox in the west coast of africa whereby the people are dying at the rate of twenty per cent are they not terrible array urray of calamities within a short time yet the summary is incomplete lete this fall bab hab has baa really been the barvest harvest time of death the epoch of public scourge alta oal oat hl |