The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-10-26
An Afflicted People.

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An Afflicted PEOPLE.
Alady correspondent writes to IL Chi
calA Tribune from Savanhah, Ga..unders
dateuf Oct. II: ss'~-"--~ 1'@s'---' - Il
The air of the whole city is hushed and
awful. The fewpeople who are obliged
to 60 about do so mournfully, as if they
were making their last live trip. There
is no gayety, no smile, no laugh to be
heard. Of population of 80, 600, half of
whom were colored, only. < 900 whites re-
main OF necessity, and 1000 negroes.
Everybody has left that could get away.
All the women and children were."early
sent away. At the time when the people
fully realized the necsssisye,to fly, the
stampede was at the rite OIL ,5Q0 day,
more than cou3 lsfurnished car eaccoin-
modation. As There IS m uncomfortable
feeling treeping lhfough one while psss-
ing through the city, and meeting only a
few hurried, anxi6ns white men, the slow,
Indifferent colored folks, but not single
white woman 70 Ssoss your path, though
retail business is arrested entirely, with
'AAS SA~SPSAOA VI WV VI Gu1CC uIQS-SGOICS,
one dry goods place, and fewsNoceries.
The other. white folks remaining are
doctoIs (cotssd. th4v ever. be- suppres5ed y,
city Of6cials and cotton merchants. The
clergy have suffered death more than any
other body men they are bold and in
defatigabl III their dufyt0 the dying. In
proportion to the number Of deaths, the
druggists have lost more than any other
class Of business. The numter of victims
among me1 IL far greater than
among women. The SEXES suffer
alike under the age Of puberty. In
former epidemics the full -blooded
negro was exempt as q fule, then
the mixed black and white, then
white women, and. lastly, white men. But
the centennial year has finally put the
white and black races on level, and in
manner from which there is no ap-
peal, viz, yellow fever This had been
the hottest summer for forty years, be-
ginning with long season Of drenching
rain, and followed by weeks of lntensest
heat, with no kindly thunder storms in
terspersed to purify the atmosphere. A
few prominent businesses had prospered
better than for some years, but the gen
eral business had been so depressed here
that the laboring classes have had no en-
ployment whatever this summer, and many
have suffered from hunger and other con-
comitant wants. Consequently, the very
poorand the wealthy have suffered alike
from mortality the one from Iunderfeed.
ing and deprivation, the other from over
feeding and too high living generally
WhiaeSthe temperate in food; drink and
general habits are the last to succumb
to the disease, or fear of it, which
kills so many of both races and sexes.
About the only business done here now is
that Of the doctors who belong to the
Benevolent Association, who have q salary
Though this would be too undignitied tic
be applied to- the medical prOfession)
There are halt-a-dozen impromptu hospl
fifty ycllow-fever patients. The st
Joseph's, however, a Catholic Institution
has had q daily average of 115 sufferer.
from this fever. A fraction over one
in eight cases die. Those who have the
fever die within four days, or show de
| cided symptomsso of cOnyalescence,, or
may take the form of low typhoid, TIL
patient lingering perhaps three or fou
weeks, then dies, from exhaustion or re
lapse. They are obliged to be- buried a
once. Tie morality from Shis fever thu
far is not UNDER 40, while that from tn
regular will bring the death rate to full.
1000 persons Everybody is tired out
The fever is bald TO take most kindly, and
in preference, tOi those Who have beef
, away from the city Oa . vacAtion, and t
those who are strangers to the S0uth-tha
} is, those who are fresh and robust, ant
unused to this atmosphere; ana go every
thing is done tp Keep away outsiders, ant
to do everything for themselves. But tn
facts bear strongly against this, in tina
while the natives and Thea habituated t.
the causes die rapidly, and, AS natter o
course, the proportion of deaths and i'll
ness among strangers is actually yer.
small. The physicians and strangers ar
on par in this matter. Both parties ar
protected against its inroadss becaus
both are fearless, and realize the necessit,
. of taking care of themselves intelligent,
and patiently. = Moreover, reports los
sight of the Important fact that it is easie
to count strangers and physicians than tn
various people who are constantly recog
nized q part and parcel of town.
Savannah isreally beautiful old city
Indeed, it seems never to have bee
young! IT.. houses are large ,santiquated
and now stifl as death. It's streets ar
, wide, many being double, having doubl
!! row of old Gins up sad down theHcentel
! guarding Between item a precious plot O
green grass. 1t is prodigal as we'll in it
modest. Little Parks, 1syishly, scattere
throughout its whole extent: The late dey
! astation will be felt for a Score of years
1t has received from outsiders $87 900, bu
as its daily expenses In relief matters ar
already not under - ,000,w it, will easily p
seen thatseve1A I1illions nll1st be spet
before even a gllmmer of the end can Z
detected. 70 Macon, Ca, most of tn
, people have flown for refuge and man
will never dare to returns though man
took with them the seeds which gave thel
there grave from the disease. There n
, not q. dozen families who ard not
: mourning for one or more of its member
81 Only one hotel is running and that Il,
ceives everybody, whether i'll with yello7
3 fever, or dying from it, as we'll as native
and strangers. II And now, as white frost
! about to arrest this death dealing scourgs
/ smallpox has already commenced its ses
son of carnage among the blacks, Nhic
: will soon sweep off both races alike. 8
. has done the yellow fever before it.
Maxine ~, Money BY Farming y
A shrewd writer has given two rules
heretofore mentioned occasionally in thes
columns, by following which, any on
may acquire more or less wealth, namely
, I. Cut short your losses;'''' and 2, Il
your profits run on.''' There is. no kin
, of business where the adoption of thes
rules is more. needed than, in farming
but there are many c,iltivators who do nc
know when they are losing and when the
are gaining The great requisite fo
success, therefore, is to determine thi
vital point. We know the owner of
small farmland, doubtless, every reade
; may know Of an additionA one vwh
thought he was gradually adding to hi
property. But he kept no accounts wit
his farm. aid did notebook over his lfsea