Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-18
Correspondence Of the Memphis Enquirer
How the Dead are Buried.

| NEw ORLEANS, sept. 2..--Fhe yellow fegcr has
: been specially vru.cii and fatal. aal some VIII
| were though, to be long since aaclimaicd ha,e
| been attacked AMI some Of them have fallen vie.
! tins. We hope It has reached its climax. and
will now steadily decline though We know n,t
the end. Some f1nr hundred ,iicl list week. 49,.
Thi, sounds alarming. bat ii is small rs compared
| with 1903, when three hundred died in single
day.
Your readers will enquire what H. we do with
all these dead! where ,io we bury &. en-? There
III the city aad lis enyirons fourteen ecrnc,e.
ries. Some five 81 these are in the midst of the
y,-surtounded by closely built and den>ely
populated streets. Owing 10 the REGULARITY ot
our soil,--tLcsc bnrial places are peculiar We
cannot dig more than Two or three feet below the
surface without c.ils NJ to wIcr-sp thar IN ist #
the dead are buried nh y" ground. These ground,
at regularly laid ii ia squares, the walks raised
aud covered with ttt,I, The squares are built
np with vaults and monuruents--.lany of them
very splr,rhd AMI sc,y expensive. costing th3us-
ands Of dollars. Thee =. great variety Of mo-
''els and devices, man, II cnI OF rare and exqnis
1t" beauty. Aroeud 'hesc t"mbs are beautiful
csergrccns, intcrmiycl VITA fair and fragrant
flowers wnich grow with much luxurianec in
our rich soil and sunuy cline.
The cemeteries bei " Canal aud above Esplan,le
street cnl.cl the French hur,ns grounds arc re-
.ata,d AS the most interesting. exhibitions of
senl pturc, whore ;:rci record, its We pride in
inP"ri~hale III tri!r.
Around these cemeteries wills ten feet high
and eight or ten feet thiek. ihesc are pierced
with three or FOUR VS. If tam'is al ut twa and "A
halt icct square risn- in t,err one above the oth
and has the appearapee at the pigeon holes Tor
letters in the post flee, thea;,h much larger
scale Th"sc are prrtr, y closed with slabs aud
air tight cement. except al one end. This is open
Tor the insertion oi the c ha.
The burial service ut the grave is performed
thus: The procession IN tics from the hearoc to
The wall, where certain me al the vaults has
been previously seie.'t"!--.a No. 30, they are
nil numhcrcd.) Tho coffin is about two-thrds in
serted. and the scrNioG whatever may be its char
nrcr il then attended t.. this over. the coffin is
pushed in-,hcn the mason, with his brick and
mortar trowc- and hammers. icsinS his work.
The family and friends stand uncovered until the
mason ~ done. when the date and name are writ
ten III the smooth soft plaster spread over the
BRICK, and the company iePart and leave the sleep
10 hi, last aud lonely bed.
tnc gets used To scenes like THIS but at first it
seems 81 busincssihr and incchanical so like any
other labor, any other piece of masonry aud CON
tra>ts strongly with TIE burial ON the hill side,
where the turf is green and the old trees spread
their broad green hpn%hs and the little birds in
summer time sing iulcm>, and the lone winds in
winter time mugmur solemn Urges DER the dead.
Thu city authorities are discournging ntermcnts
ia the cemeteries IN the crowded portions Of the
rity. Some three miles from the city, about mid
way from the river To- thr Lake there is low
,ll-n # land known ~ the Mctaire Ridge. Here
,he tjty Authorities are laying out among the
tirc oaks a public pirk and here there is n
famous race caIr>e--and here most If our city S
dead are To sleep their last sheep, What strange
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