Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-08-01
NASHVILLE, July 8. 1888

D'Nf"JttissB sCb - w e Regret
10 learn AS we do from the most authen
tic sources, that the cholera has broken
ont al ohelhyville, Bedford county. and
h"s raged among the small population OF
that thriving town with most Destructive
ana ia'a' uolence-to an extent indeed
winch has scarcely parallel in any DOR.
lion OF our country. A correspondent.
VINO wrote us 10 haste on Monday. 1s:
INST. at O'Clock, A. NJ. says The cbo
lera is dreadful here: since last Friday
night-ltt!e more than two dsys-.there
nave oeen fifty five cases and forty five
deaths. The people have all left town,
except some who were compelled TO stay,
some new cases have just occurred"
Another correspondent on the same
Cay says-"there have been forty two
deaths oil persons whose names | have
seen, four or five or more, whose names
are not mentioned, all of cholera"
"A letter to gentleman of Nashville.
with copy of which we have been IA
sored. furnishes the following meIancholv
catalogue OF the ictims, which, no doubt.
WI oe deeply. though painfully interest
ing 10 all who are acquainted with apy
OF the population of the place. These
deaths: let II be remembered, occurred in
the little village of Shelbyville, almost all
between day light on Saturday morning
June 20. anG the same hour on aIondav
July l. a period of only forty eight hours
VIZ:
DR.. Whitney's wife, Mrs. Wade. Mrs
Anderson, Nath'l Coldwell, Mrs Mitch
Ell, DOCTOR Galther, Robert Waite. Mr.
MASON, Mrs. Geo Davidson, William.
black, Ceasey, black. A, III Marshall
Mrs. Miller, Peter Morgan, DIR. A. b
Morton, Peter Donelley, Sail, black, Jas.
Britain wife and son. three blacks be
longing to J. A Morris, Mrs Mardlaw.
black boy belonging TO Robert Cannon,
black slrl belonging TO DR. Lipscomb,
MISS " AIT, slave belonging to James
GaibFeatb, Anderson Vannoy, black how
belonging TO Danl Mckisick, William
Law, old MIR. Shanks, John Shanks and
ehiid. WINS Moore's little daughter, Mr..
hu'h's child, black woman belonging to
John Eakln, TheophiIus Anderson Danl
lurrenune, Peter Schilot,-4O.
The letter containing the above list.
adds ''
There are four or FIVE more I am told -.
but these knolo TO be dead. AT this time
there are not i've families to be found in
our town; every door is closed except at
times as necessity calls All have fed in
various directions and to various distances
10 the country. have not heard how
many have died of those who have left
town, but such tine | have never wit
messed. Ii IS heavy job to make a rough
boxes IN place Of coftins, to dig graves
ana bury the dead.
John Marshall was killed by Reeds
throwing rock which broke his skull.
Cholera IN Cuba.-Ihe mortality in the
West india Islands is truly appalling. A
letter dated Matanzas, June 18th saws.
1--WE are on volcano, So, GOO 900. would
not supply the loss Of slaves, valuinp them
even at 5000 each. Moreover. who shalI
calculate the number of orphans left DIES.
h'ute, or nearly so? Where is our guar
antee that the disease is not permanently
located IN the Island? How is confidence
utterly lost and ruined to be restored?
Long Parsnips Missouri said a
traveller on his return to the land of steady
'aolts' they have no parsnips; they fire.
iuenuy plant them, but they strike so
ieep, Mat the people who live on the op.
pos .s sue OF the globe lay hold of the
crop is lost " '""' VIC