I reached Boston on the took conveyance to Cambridgeport and arrived at my house and found my family in bed but Mrs Woodruff arose and gladly welcomed me and her sister Sarah B. Foss who had accompanied me from Portland. In reading the papers after my return to my family I found statements that in the Hungarian army there were fifty two thousand Jews fighting against Austria and Russia; and that a disease had appeared in the Russian army called the lice itch. It appears like lice or maggots under the skin in the flesh and those afflicted soon become a mass of corruption and die in great misery and none are cured. A revelation in the Doctrine and Covenants says that among the judgements of the "Last days" the flies should bite the bodies of men and maggots should come in their flesh and their flesh fall from their bones and eyes from their sockets.