Worse than Hog Cholera.
By Sabbath Recorder
It is said that the hog cholera has been quite prevalent along the Potomac, and that the carcasses of hundreds of the animals which have died from the scourge have been thrown into the river. The circumstance has created some alarm in Washington, whose water supply is obtained from the river. No doubt, vigorous police measures will be taken to abate the nuisance and free the city from the danger. That such measures would be entirely justified, even though it bring much inconvenience and expense to the farmers who thus dispose of their dead animals, no one will question. But Washington, like many another city in our fair land, is afflicted with a worse scourge than hog cholera, and hundreds, if not thousands of her citizens die annually from the use of drinks more deadly than putrid water can be, and yet her government not only fails to take any adequate measures to abate the evil, but even sanctions it by law, selling for money the right to some men to sell to other men the poison that ruins them in body and soul. But then some things are different from some other things.