Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-08-14

In resuming the publication Of the HER.
AID AND TRIBUNE, which, like all other
business enterprises in Jonesboro', has
been suspended for the past few weeks on
account of the terrible visitation Of chol>
era which We have experienced, we have
q melancholy duty to perform in record
ing the names of the victims Of that fell
destroyer. Those who have been fortu-
nate in escaping with their lives from the
malignant scoulge that has brought death
and desolation into so many households
will in the future miss many familiar
faces from the streets Of Jonesboro'.
Many who from infancy 10 old age have
been identified with its history. Many
who when the hour of trouble came,
when dismay was depicted upon nearly
every countenance, when it seemed that,
to remain within the corporate limits Of
Jonesboro' was almost certain death,
stood nobly to their posts counclling and
encouraging the downhcarted, nursing the
afflicted and performing the last sad duty
to those WHO Lad already fallen. Many
who fully appreciated the danger they
were mourning but determining to face it
in the performance of a sacred duty they
owed to their fellow mar have succumbed
at length to tho fatal disease and 1.-THE
place that once knew them will know
them no more" They offered their lives
as a willing sacrifice to the wants of their
fellows, and an Advise Providence has
seen proper to accept of it, and while we
mourn IL cir loss we can but hope that
their selt-sacriicing devotion to duty in
the DARK hour of adversely has met with
its appropriate reward. In another coll
UNI we publish a list of those who have
died among which will be found the
name of Col. Geo. Il. Grisham, our late
contemporary, editor of the Union Fiag
When the disease first made its appear.
anco in Joncsboro', Col. Gresham OK.
pressed q determination to remain in
town aud administer to the wants of the
destitute and afflicted regardless of con,
sequences. This determination was cur.
ried out and the sad result was his death
in the discharge Of what lie considered
his duty. We can award no better trib.
ute to his memory than the subjoincd OK.
tract frcm the Memphis Appeal, whicl
says:
ut is a sad story that comes from
Joncsboro and tells Of the death of George
Il. Grisham, editor of the Flag. liz
was forty years of age, full of life, yigol
and hope, surrounded by a fami devoted
to him, as he to them, and, es his corduc.
demonstrated, to bis friends and neigh
bors, He has been stricken down BY
the hand of death. He devoted himself
since the plague came upon Joncsboro, tC
the watchful care of the sick. He visited
alike the homes of the poor and opulert
and wherever deeds of mercy were dc
manded by human anguish, Grisham wen.
BY day and night he was at tho bed
SIC Of the sick, discharGing io
them every mental task. When b,
himself was sick, he forgot bis owl
danger and sutferings, and died at las
from sheer devotion to the wcll-being o
his ~fellow.men. When of perhaps tive
thousand inhabitants, only forty were left
in the ancient capital of Tennessee, Girls
ham was of the number, and at last he
too, fell a victim to generous devotion t
the welfare of his people. A dispatcl
received yesterday by Captain Jaque
says: you will be gricved to learI
that Colonel Grisham, who has has beef
so earnest and efficient in relieving thu
distresses of the poor and helpless, dice
yesterday. llo had been sick and VIZ.
almost we'll, exposed himself for other
that he thought moro needy than himself
aud thus, poor fellow he lost his life."
We should not forget the name and deed
and virtues Of Grisham, and while ~rearin!
a worthy monument to his fame ant
heroism more honorable Than of soldier
on battlc-ields, we should not forget thu
wants of those who owed him homo AM
bread and watchful care"
We heartily endorse the above. Oye
his faults let us draw the mantle of char
ity and forgiveness, laying aside all pas
grievances, and remembering only hi
virtues and those deeds of kindness Q
which 50 many in th is place have bee
the recipients.
There are 'times that try mems snnls