CHOLERA- We are exceedingly painted to hear of Cholera in different parts of the country. A negro belonging to the late Mr. Julius Withers, whose death we announced last week, has since died.
Mr. Downing, mentioned in our last, as laboring under a severe case of cholera, we are pleased to learn has recovered.
Mrs. Talbot, sister-in-law of Mr. James McLoney, died last Tuesday morning. Two members of Mr. McLoney’s family are laboring under Cholera.
Mr. John S. Wallace, of Chariton county, died last Thursday morning; and since then, a negro woman belonging to him, also died. There was one or two other cases in his family, but they have recovered.
A child of Mr. Jesse Hall, of Saline county, died at last Saturday morning.
We learn that a number of cases, and several deaths have occurred in the neighborhood of Boonsborough.
Published in The St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri), August 27, 1851
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