Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17

IN futures truly; Dut you know much OF
that business is going on, and, although hazar-
dous, is sometimes successful. If we can get
the road, it is argued, Greenvile will rise,
double its population in few years, and be
among the largest of the cities of the State
The question is to be put to vote in few
weeks, and there will be great efforts made on
both sides but, as capitalists are few and
the "Progressives" many, it is probable the
latter will carry it, and we shall start the
road"
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
THE CHOLERA.
CHATTANOOGA, July 9th, 1873.
Twenty-seven cofins in one day! Does
that startle you, reader? Yet this little city
is so scourged with that dread disease, Asiatic
cholera, that the undertakes sent out twenty
seven coffins last Thursday. Friday, there
were fifteen deaths; Saturday, twelve; Sum-
day, sixteen Monday, fifteen Tuesday, ten ;
and several new cases to-day, up to this wri-
ting.
This fearful death.rate has sent chill
through every heart. Business is pretty we'll
suspended. Fully half the population have
left the city, and most of the remaining half
would if they could. Among the lamented
dead is John c. Gallaspie, one ofthe wealthiest
and best-knowu citizens.
Men die in four, five and six hours after
being taken. This is the main reason why
the disease is so dreaded. People have a
horror of the King of Terrors at best, and
when he comes with such sudden tread he is
doubly terrible. There is no time to prepare
for death as regards the future state; no time
to arrange ones business, or hardly to bid
ones family adieu. Death from cholera is so
sudden and so terrible that men often forsake
their dearest friends who are taken with it, in
tent only on saving their own lives.
At the Read House here, last week, the
colored dish.washer was taken at four o'clock,
and died shortly after dark. That night about
half the servants left in fright. Often men
who have faced tempests of ball and bullets
upon hundred hard-fought fields, will run
like sheep when the Asiatic cholera appears.
Bad as the disease has been here, it was
even worse in Gallatin. There six per cent.
of the population died in month! Gallatin
is in Sumner county, thirty miles north of
Nashville, on the Louisville road. 1t is a
place of some three thousand inhabitants.
The surrounding country, for fifty miles, is
high, rolling, we'll drained and healthy. In
the town, nor near it, there are no stagnant
pools nor sluggish streams. l should judge it
to be fully as healthy place, in this respect,
as Yorkville.
But the cholera travelled from Nashville to
Gallatin on the wings of the morning. Half
the people fled, leaving less than fifteen hum
dred in town. Yet of these fifteen hundred,
one hundred and two have died And this
fearful death-rate in country town, always
regarded as healthy. Is it not strange? Who
will account for it?
Among the country people about Gallatin
there is a panic. They come to town not at
all. When the towns.people 60 to the country
for supplies, bacon for instance, the country
man hangs a piece on the gate.post and re-
tires while the purchaser takes it and leaves
the money. But despite all precaution, the
scourge has spread into the country between
Gallatin and Nashville, and taken off many,
although raging with much less violence than
in the centres Of population.
At Nashville the disease is slowly subsiding,
the daily death-rate varying from FIVE to
twelve. The scattered citizens are returning,
and every train goes in full. The danger is
that those who remained through it all, living
on hard ham and dry bread, will, with the
decline of the disease, 60 into vegetables with
such vim as to raise the death-rate again.
This is not the Nashville view, know; they
are all in high state of hope there but
stranger things have happened. The deaths
in Nashville, in June, were about FIVE per
cent of the population in the city. This is a
very unhealthy exhibit.
At Memphis the disease has about exhaust
ed itself. 1t was not half as bad there as in
Nashville. Indeed, it will take Asia itself to
show anything equal to the death-rate in
Nashville in June. With the population re-
duced to twelve thousand by flight, there were
near seven hundred deaths!
During the run of the plague, it has been
noted that cistern water is preventive. In
Gallatin, no family using cistern water exclu-
sivcly, has been attacked. In Edgefeld, just
across the river from Nashville, where cistern
water only is used, there has not been death,
except such as took it in Nashville. There is
something in this worth thinking about.
1t is also noticed that in the large German
population of this city, not one of that nation
ality has been stricken. Is it because they
drink lager beer? MEMO.
BALD HEADs.-Women are never bald,
that is, with round, white, shiny top, like
men, because they never wear close hats or
caps and men never lose hair below where the
hat touches the head, not if they have been
bald for fifty years. 1t is the close hat or cap
that does the mischief The heat and moist
ure thus retained upon the scalp weaken and
finally destroy the hair glands. The remedy
is sufficiently obvious. 1t is to wear per-
fectly ventilated hat, and wash the top of the
head frequently with cold water, rubbing it
hard with the flats of your hands. Every
ore of the hair dyes ia nOisonOus and should