Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-28

| Thrice with horizontal motion stirred,
i Then rose end, and stood so all day long,
| Amid the cheers of an admiring throng.
| In every lawyers Office Eldon shed
+ From plaster three heavy drops of red.
| Each statue toe, of Pitt turn'd up the point
! Of it's proboscs--was that ont of joint
| Whilst Charles James Foxs grinnd from to ear,
| And PEEPS emitted frequent cries of s. Hear!
/ From the Boston Traveller
Yellow Fever in Boston In 179s---Intense Heat OF
| the Weather.
Boston, for the last half century, at least, has
been visited by no severe epidemic One reason for
THE is, the wise precaution which established a
thorough system of sewerage and another, the regu-
ations adopted for relieving it of filth and rubbish
always accommodating in great city. The yellow
lever, which has SO often ravaged New Orleans and
is now so awfuy fatal in Norfolk and Portsmouth,
has, as we learn from Dr. Clark, city physician,
visited Boston within the past sixty years four times,
viz in 1898, 1902, 1919 and 1895 and it is quite
remarkable fact that it has exhibited itself in and
| about the same locality every occasion, in the
neighboorhood of Fort Hill, being apparently evolved
! from miasmatic materials, which, from the expert
ence of the year of cholera 1s49 there is to
suppose still deposited in the impereoy drained
streets about the lower parts of the Hill
| The most visitation of yellow fever in Bos
ton was in 1898, but the mortality that then took
place not of magnitude sufficient to account for
| the general panic that ensued, and which, for
month or two, nearly destroyed business, and almost
depopulated the city One old resident then clerk
| says that at the time he lived Beacon Hil with
two other clerks, no business doing, and from
fear OF the epidemic they kept close TO the house
| Once each day they would cast lots to sec who
should 60 down town to get provisions and smoking
tobacco, and on the excursion hardly soul was met
| IN the street. But few countrymen entered the city,
and then enlarged stories spread the panic far and
wde one of them asserting that so infected the
air that piece of beef exposed for few moments
| turned purid.
| The first case of fever occurred on the 2lst of
June, in Forel street, neal the Market Place. Here
Mr.. Soddard, his wife and ughter, died of the dis
| order. After this. case reported until the
21st of July, when ii appeared on Codmans wharf,
| an appendage of the Market Place, several adults
dying. 1t then spread upon Fort Hill, and continued
to prevail with or less violence until the middle
| OF October, when it was completely checked by
northeast storm of three days continuance Of the
number that perished nothing certain is known. The
pamphlet IN question gives the names of three hun
dred adult deceased but adds that the children
not included, and the list is by no means complete.
SO violent was it in the early stages, that not one
of twenty who took the disease saved. Scarce
ly family escaped it. In one family five out of six
| perished One house 10 Purchase street. from the
mortality which occurred there, denOminated the
coffin, sexton visiting it found the last tenant
woman of some wealth and station in the community
dying alone, her relatives and friends having all
abandoned her. AS an evidence of the lack of bus
ness during the epidemic it is stated that one person
was seized upon Long wharf, and was in the last
stages of the disorder before he discovered and
taken to hospital During the rage of the fever the
weather intensely hot
Of Fort Hill, the place of the great mortality, the
account says that it is underlaid with clay upon a
thin soil, and is speedily surcharged with putrd re-
siduum, which the clay prevents from being carried
off. There were, also, vast amounts of filth in the
neighborhood, of the places where the mortality ragged
In one case it found necessary 10 pour several
hogshead of lime into cellar before the filth could
: he removed man, hired at great price, ventured
to remove it, but he after died In other parts
of the hill purifying hides found; amount
of spoiled fish were poured into one OF the docks.
which tended to increase the strength of the epidemic
/ The visitation in 1902 was not severe in Boston
That in 1919. though not much hundred
persisted, led TO panic almos: as great in 179S
the authorities to prevent communication with the
places where the epidemic raging, bearded up
some of the streets. In 1885 there were few cases
but it did not assume the form of an endemic In.
deed, its ravages here have been light, as compared
with the small l-pox, which, in 1920, carried off one
tenth of the population of the city, then probably
numbering 1000
Pathetic Scene---Joy followed.
The Milwaukee american says:-''A most touch
ing occurrence of few days since is still fresh in ou
memory:
The wife of one of our sailors the recent wrecl
was upon the deck with infant, only three week
old, in her arms to learn if her husband was aliv
or drowned. She was in state bordering On frenzy
r 'On being told that he dead, she gave on
long sob of agony, while the blue eyes of the bah
were turned smiling 10 her face and cried in accent
of most heart-thrilling despair, o. is he gone, am
alone, is he dead-drowned? Is my n,an gone, an
will he come back to me"
" In this state she returned to her dcaolate home
, No one venturcd TO offer words OF sympathy, for
q seemed utterly useless and a mockery. The ligt
5 and warmth of this poor woman's life had gone OF
forever. All through the long hours she sat weer
ing and rocking TO and fro, and pressing her child
S her heart, for il was ill., till midnight Then sh
- heard feeble step and knock the door. Sb
said who's there 9 1t is L. the familiar voice re
piled. She gave scream of joy and admitted he
: husband
; "Nothng could exceed the woman's frantic d.
y1 light She threw herself upon the floor and wep
10 and clung to her husbands neck and laughed till ii
~ ~ tears came again. Such happy reunion was
e. foretaste of heaven.
'Love like this can but be repaid with letin
of devotion.
g The sailor, it seems, had left the wreck and
the imminent peril of his lfe reached the Shore al
D had walked twenty miles ere be reached his home
III WRITING INK.--A chemist in Europe has be
experimenting with inks, with view 10 determi
ing the most beautiful and durable produc, to be
,e tanned. After experimenting with various substa
3 ces and among others with Prussian blue and indi
n dissolved in various ways he found the sulphate
C. indigo to fulfil all the required conditions and VIII
l.. added in the proper proportion to tannogaate IN
5r il yielded an ink which is agreeable to write wit
which flows freely from the zen, and not cl
eft it, which never mouids, becomes of intense pr
n black when it dries on the PAPER and does not ia
m or change color, however long kept He found Ii
is the smallest quantity of the suphate of indigo viii
n could be used for this purpose eight ounces
he every gallon of ink.
F. OLD PRovERB FALsIFIED. Benjamin Bird, bac