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Show Cholera's Deadly Work. i I Madrid, September 20. There were 811 ' new cases and 313 deaths from cholera in j ' Spain during the last twenty-four hours. ; i Rome, September 21. Reports from Pal-i Pal-i ermo regarding the progress of the cholera . show a distressing Btate of affairs prevailing i there. Thirty thousand persons have fled ' the city. All the shops are closed and the : streets almost deserted. There is a great i scarcity of food and water and the i epi-! epi-! demio is increasing with frightful rapidity. : The sanitary officials are attacked by the people every time they attempt to disinf ect S the houses where the disease exists, and ! meet with great difficulty in carrying on their work. |