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Singular effect of Diphtheria.

--Noah Burnham, Jr., a young man nineteen or twenty years old, and Elizabeth Clifford, about sixteen, had the mysterious throat malady a few months sluice, which has resulted in a paralysis of their lower limbs — both being unable to walk, and not being able even to stand upon the floor.--Cape Ann Advertiser.

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