Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-25
IN SEARCH OF HONE
Illustrating the Virtue of BenevO-
lence.

lence.
| In Sundays UNION AND AMERICAN wa!
an article from the Knoxville Daily Pres
and Herald about poor stranger found
sick in the streets of that city. From the
| same paper Of June % we extract the fol-
| lowing editorial thereto;
Mr.. Joseph Seems, the unfortunate man
! whom we mentioned a few days since, in
| these columns, as being attacked near the
business house of COWan, McClung & Co.,
Iiwith parOxysms and hemorrhage of the
lungs, and whose wants were so kindly and
humanely cared and provided for by the
statesmen of that house, left on the Chat
tanoOga train, yesterday for Bowling Green,
Ky, where his parents now reside. Capt.
Jaques, the liberal and kind hearted Vice
President of the Z. T., Va. and Ga. Road,
voluntarily furnished free first class ticket
over his road to Chattanooga.
The statesmen of CoWan, McClung &
Co.'s establishment, who have had Mr..
Seems in charge ever since his prOstratiOn,
and furnished him medical attention and
careful nurses, also made up purse of up
wards of twenty dollars in money, and
joined in signing a letter addressed to the
SuperinteLdents of the railroads between
Chattanooga and Bowling Green, asking
from each the humanity of free pass for
the man over their roads. This letter to
the SupeTintentents was endorsed and re-
commended by Mr.. John S. Van Glider,
Mayor of the city.
We have not doubt but the sympathy
and assistance rendered this unfortunate
man here and elsewhere, was most merit
oriously rendered. There is something
very remarkable in his history, that our
brief space does not permit us TO elaborate
The character of his wounds, in connection
with his painful affection, show that his
sutIerings have been intense. From those
who were with him much in his severe at
tacks here, we learn that in the midst Of his
most acute sufferings he never murmured a
word, but whenever he could speak his Ian
guage showed that he had a grateful heart
and was not near so destitute of those finer
feelings of humanity as many of those who
are ''ClOthed in fine linen and fare sumptu-
ously every day."
Since writing the above, a correspondent
at Concord gives us this account of Mr..
Seems suferings in that place "The sick
man and among strangers an account of
whose sutferings at your place / noticed in
yesterdays Press and Herald, was at this |
place on Tuesday evening, and passed |
through a series of paroxysms of seven !
hours duration, similar to that mentioned |
in your paper. When first seen he was sit
ting on the depot platform apparently rest
ing; when next noticed he had tumbled |
over, was stretched and bleeding profQse-
y. Assistance was promptly render eO;he wac
moved into the depot out Ofthe sun, and DR..
W. D. Rodgers was called in, who, with |
many assistants labOred several hours try
ng to relieve the sufierings of the UnfOrtu-
nate man, but the most effectual remedies
Known in such cases gave only momentary
elief. One paroxysm succeeded another
Ill 70 o'clock at night, when he fell into
eep which relieved him. Robert r. Pate,
Who had attended closely all the time,
indy VOLUNTEERED, in company with Tom
ny Bowers, to watch over the stranger dur
ng the night and give him all the help ne
essary. In the morning he received some
and feeling better, he ex-
ressed desire to 60 on his way trying to
nd his people. a ticket to Knoxville and
money enough to send him. out on the
knoxville and Ohio Railroad to its terminus
Tas furnished, and he left on the up mai
ain"