The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-19
The Cholera Panic I'm the
Southwest-The Disease as It Is I'm
Tennessee and Mississippi Cities and


Southwest-The Disease as It Is I'm
Tennessee and Mississippi Cities and
Towns-Ex Reports.
The entire Southwest seems to be under
going a visitation Of what is popularity sup
posed to be cholera. It is not confined to
The larger cities, but appears even in the
small villages and towns. In both Memphis
and Nashville it seems to be gradually in
creasing, according to last accounts. IT ap-
peared in Louisville on Friday, and three
deaths are reported on that day, one Of them
a conductor on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, who is supposed to have contracted
the disease in Nashville. A letter from Can
ton, Miss, says that the disease Is very Sc.
rious there and in the town of jackson, and
all!business is suspended in consequence.
The following extracts from the Nashville
Banner of the 18th and 14th will give some
idea of the state Of matters IN Middle Ten
neSSee: tr.,a.. ...-
/" A number of influential citizens Of Le-
banon write to US that up to the 18th instant
there had been no cholera in that town out
side of the cases Of two persons, and both of
these, it appears, contracted the disease IN
Nashville.
"Professor J. w. Hatcher, Of Fayetteville
Female Academy, closed that school hast
Tuesday morning before the expiration OF
the session. The cholera scare was the
cause. But small portion Of the pupils
were in attendance, and they were hardly In
frame of mind to study effectively.
"In Nashville very few vegetables can
now be foui1d in the market. If brought
they cannot be sold. -,t@
"Cool sulphur water is now at discount.
Everything having a tendency to affect the
stomach is now dispensed with.
"Some indiscreet people continue to par
take Of stale vegetables and to die. .'.
"Every one rides in the .street-cars now.
He don't like to exert himself more than
can be avoided.
t'South Nashville reioices over the abate-
ment Of the prevailing disease in that por-
ton of the city. The whole city will do
likewise in few days, at its final disappear
ance from its midst. 60
physicians complain of having done
more work with less pay within the past
week than in any week of the year."
The Memphis papers contain plenty of
cholera news from other localities. They
may not have "the prevailing" but they
have got something that we do not want.
Witness the following paragraph from the
appeal: .. ta...
"Night before last Chief Athy heard a
hack pass by his residence, on Brinkley ave-
nue., and the voice of woman crying as if
in great pain. And SO she was. She was q
.colOred woman returning from Raleigh, and
being suddenly attacked with cramp-cholic,
she was implering the hickman to stop so
that she might dieas easily as possible. The
cries of the unfortunate woman were touch
ing, and the hackman complied with. her
request. In less than three minutes she was
dead, and the vehicle slowly moved on with
its corpse" .-. a., =.
The Knoxville Herald has the following
from Greenvilie, Tenn:
"Let me assure you that the reports which
have gone abroad about the cholera ct this
place are much exaggerated
"Two of the deaths here probably result
ed from carelessnesS and neglect to procure
medical assistance in due time, the third
from fright. IF death had not resulted the
cases would have, been called cholera morbus.
Mr.. Piper had by imprudent exposure con-
tlacted a severe cold. which he did not think
serious enough to call physician till too
late. Mrs. Arrowwood did not.recelve pro-
per nursing, aud was also too late in calling
medical aid. Several persons have been SIM
ilarly attacked, but the malady yields readily
to treatment, and when proper care is eXer-
cised little danger is apprehended. The dis
ease is not contagious nor epidemic yet.
/" Timid persons, when attacked by diar-
rhea, fancy they have the cholera, when
nothing serious need be feared. Some have
used green vegetables imprudently, and, as
usual must suffer therefrom.
Is.Mischieyous boys around the depot,
when trains are passing. have taken delight
in telling inquisitiye and terror stricken pas
sensers that we are dying by hundreds here.
81 do not, indeed, think there is any
serious ground for apprehension, and doubt
whether we have anything here worse than
cholera nOrbus.N .---- +