[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] a month over forty additional cases occurred, of which eleven proved fatal. There were many cases of milder cholera, or choleraic diarrhoea. The writer was at that time the physician and surgeon of the male and female departments of the prison. There were no eases among the one hundred female convicts. There were several cases in the village, some of which w en fatal. It will be observed that the cholera began at the prison in 1832 and in IS~>4, in both years on the 17th of July. Growth and Population of Sim; Sim. am> thi; Town ok Ossining.— Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War a grist-mill was built and put in operation, near to the present position of the Arcade File Works. About this time there was one or more stores at the upper dock, Mark Yale being the best remembered merchant of that day, and here it was that most of the business of the town was transacted. At this period Sparta was engaged in an active compe-tition with Sing Sing, and for a time it was nip and tuck, as the former place threatened to outstrip the latter in growth and prosperity. The scale was finally turned, and Sing Sing gained the ascendency, and attracted business and population, especially after the construction of Highland turnpike, or Albany Post Road.