Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-10-20

ToSscEH lag Story ffoaaa Savannah.
A private letter from Augusta, Ga, to
Providence gentleman contains touch
ing narrative of heroism in fever stricken
Savannah, which ought to have IL wide
publication as an impressive illustration
of the noblest attributes of human nature.
The writer is explaining that some bust
ness delay is caused by the grievious family
affiictlon Of an assistant, and goes on to
say:
The death of a young brother, in Sa-
vannah, Monday morning, has thrown his
whole family into the deepest grief-a
young fellow, not much more than a boy,
who martyred himself for the good of the
people suffering with the yellow fever, and
himself fell a victim. He was prescription
clerk in Lippman's drug store there, and
when the fever broke out the whole force
left but the bookkeeper and him. A little
later the bookkeeper left, and Charley ran
the whole thing himself, till Lippman Or
dered him, by letter, to close the store
Then, instead of coming home, as his
people begged him to do, he replied no. He
felt it Was his duty to stay, and he went
to work in Clay's dug STORE, putting up
to rest, no time for dinner. Clay took the
fever and Charley nursed him. but he died
Charley still ran the store. His cook took
the fever; he nursed her and she recovered.
Then a young friend, Symons; he nursed
him and got him up, running the store all
the time. day and night. He wrote his
mother:-''I have to get something to eat
the best way I can. My cook is down. [
have no time for myself, putting up pre-
scriptions all day. When night comes [
am 81 tired [ can hardly put one foot be-
fore the other. [ have not had my clothes
off in week, and | have Lot brushed my
hair in four days. This although Or
dinarily he was extremely neat and care
ful Of his person. 1t sounds like old armv
times. AT last, when Symons was up,
Charlie took sick. He wrote that he had
taken the fever, but was feeling pretty
strong, and was confident Of soon being
up and at work again. kilograms then
began to pass ten OF twenty a day, Charlie
improving; with good care he will come
through all right and everything looked
hopeful, when all at once Charlie is
Worse,'' and he began to sink, Symons
nursing him i'll his turn and keeping up a
constant correspondence with Augusta by
telegraph. Finally kilograms could be
passed with difficulty, the telegraph boys
I0luSiilS W Cdlly uitSStSGS III savannah.
1t was the worst quarter i'll the whole city,
The last two kilograms received from Sy
mons We're: Il will stick to him to the
last" 81 shall not sleep tonight And
the brave young man kept bis word; they
both died the same night. Symons had
never fully recovered and wore himself out
waiting on his friend. They were two
brave boys, were they not? Does it make
any difference which side OF which flag
such souls fought for twelve years ago?
Can't you reach ont and shake hands over
any distance? Charley was brave soul
| could not help mourning his death; we
ought not to regret that he stayed, and my
esteem for him is so great that my little
boy, now four years old, whose name be-
fore was only Arthur, is now Charles
Arthur; and didn't [ do right? His is a
name that ought never to die, and it will
live forever somewhere.-Providence Jour-
nal.