Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-09-14
THE MILLS OF GOD,
Grinding, Grinding, Grindingi

Grinding, Gr1nufng1
We cop the following from a half-sheet
edition Of the Daily Memphis Avalanche
Of the 9th instant, that our readers may
understand the condition of affairs Of that
afflicted people:
We are being grounds
Between the upper and neither mill
stones" of heavens wrath we are being
ground to very powder. and tossed off into
the mill-race to be whirled away into the
waters Of oblivion.
Each day fate's motor is being increased
in power and the grinding is being in
creased in velocity, capacity and force. 1t
is . lie to say that 1.-THE mills of God grind
slowly" but the essence and body Of q ter
rible truth lives in the words t'but they
grind exceeding small" Not
with patience He stands waiting.
But with exactness grinds He ALL"
The breath Of disease blows the human
grain beneath the crushing stones and
grinding whirl these stones of heavens
will. A breath OF mercy, light as the
Southern summer breeze, throws an occa-
sional half-crushed grain off for food for q
later day, but upon the mass the great
stones work 0n-on, on, as the crushed
grains Of human life give out their feeble
moaning sound and are thrown out, some
pure wheat for a better life, much chaff to
feed the unquenched fires.
The wheat lies inanimate by. The hand
Of the o~mnipotent miller hurls it beneath
the stone. What is left hears the sound
OF the victims anguish, and sees those vic
Tins passing away from the storehouse Of
life forever and forever.
The hand Of tho miller is o~mnipotent
aud kA~a -z ~x~- -lk- l. -
food for the grinding or monuments of the
mercy, the God in whose reach we stand
alone can tell. Ignorant Of the next hours
fate ; warned by the never-ceasing moan
from beneath the stones we stand awe
stricken, waiting for the grasp or the pass
ing by of the Divine miller's hand.
YESTERDAYS RECORD
Shows the plague to have increased in
strength-always increased
Tit physicians have no time to make out
lists Of new cases, 80 the reporter has to
search for himself. DR.. Mitchell, Director
Of the Towards corps of physicians, had
his volunteers about him last night,
and their verbal reports show at
least one hundred and fifty new
cases not officially reported.
st is sweeping the suburbs for a mile
beyond the city's limits" said DR.. Mitchell.
ut has changed its features somewhat
and possibly is not as violent as a week
ago.. The negroes are easily treated. I'm
like white men. they sleep through the
fever period, and need no medicine beyond
purging and sweating. The danger is that
they get up too soon, or go to eating impru-
IDENTIFY"
The physicians present reported many
cases among negroes where they refused to
| have N ~l....u AL nxx n -
the city where the greatest restitution Of
medical attention has been felt.
The corps is ia working order now, and
will report to DR.. Mitchell each evening at
8 O'Clock.
TO BURY THE DEAD
And facilitate the hurrying away of hui
man bodies to the bosom Of the earth,
General Luke Wright and Charles G..
Fisher yesterday sent Q corps Of grave
diggers to the Potter's field. There the
thud Of spade, as it is thrust in:o the earth,
ID heard through the live long day, and the
pale light OF . new moon shows
the grave diggers at work, like
body snatchers, among the weird
shadows Of the night. As sappers prepar-
ing for an army's work on the morrow as
sappers burying the fallen dead after the
morrow's carnage, these men dig the
1OuS tIeacLcb which q more terrible MUIR
derer than war is filling mp. Policemen
have been put in charge Of the County I'M
dertaker, Jack Walsh, forcing him to do
his work faster and better. Two police
men in each ward are searching out corpses
and making the undertaken bear them
away. The extra expense is being borne
by the Citizens Relief Committee.
Al
Funerals are waiting for graves to be
opened. The coffin Is laid near by, the
hearse is hurried back for another load,
the few friends, with or without . clergy
man, stand and wait for the last resting
place TO be made. A contemplate parsi-
mony prevails in the management Of our
beautiful City of the Dead. The grave
diggers STRUCK" and properly, too, when
the Superintendent (Pbillips) refused to
increase their pay for work quadrupled.
Phillips came to General Wright and conn
planned that he could get no one to open
the graves.
"Pay what il just and I'll get you
hands" was the reply. Phillips consented
to pay 50 instead Of 81 80 per day. Gen.
Wright sent out men. When they reached
the cemetery Phillips refused to Increase
the pay as promised. saying Capt. Lenow
had told him that 81 IS was enough.
] Capt. Lenow can not have realized the