Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
YELLOW FEVER NEWS.


YELLOW FEVER NEWS.
The convicts of the Michigan State
prison have raised subscription for the
yellow fever sufferers.
Letter from Camp 10. Williams,
Memphis: We have had a trying and
desperate fight with the fever at this
camp, but begin to feel we have con-
auered. You can form no idea of the
distress. Women in childbirth, sur
rounded by little ones, quartered in
tents, see one by one pass from their
sight on to the hospital, thence to the
grave. Soon the babe is born, yellow
as gold; the mother fingers few days,
and then she, the last of the household,
is put under the ground.
AT a meeting of the Oil Exchange
at Parker, Penn, the subject of raising
funds for the yellow fever sufferers was
introduced and canvassed for consid-
able length of time, the result being the
adoption of proposition to offer pint
of peanuts singly at auction. The first
one was sold for $15, the second for
S12, the third for $40, the fourth for
S15, the fifth for So, the lowest bid re-
ceived being 81. The total amount of
sales WAS SZOo.CO, WulCn was dt OhSO
forwarded to the Howard Association
at New Orleans. The bidding was rap
i'd and spirited, members taking as
much interest in the proceeding as if
they were fighting pool or creating
corner in petroleum.
Memphis appeal: Another of the
horrifying incidents which startle peo-
pie at home as well as abroad, and leave
one dazed with amazement that human
beings can be so cowardly, occurred on
one of the streets of the originally in
fected district A man and his wife and
one child, occupying nice home, saw
their little girl taken down with the fe-
yer, whereupon the wife, full of the he
roism of which her sex has made so
many displays during this epidemic, ad-
vised the husband to leave, which he
did without delay, and from house on
ly across the street saw the bodies of his
child and faithful wife carried by
strangers for interment in Elmwood
Cemetery. Donovan's case hardly
matches that.
Brownsville (Tenn.) States: The
people of Brownsville were stricken
with terrible panic last Sabbath when
it was officially announced by the Board
of Health and other physicians that yell
low fever was in our midst. Such
pell-mell rush for wagons, carts, drays,
buggies, carriages, rockaways, spring
wagons, and every imaginable style of
vehicle with which to escape to the
woods, was never before known in this
country. In less than an hours time
from five hundred to thousand people
had left town, many of them scarcely
knowing whittier they were going.
Barring the sensational fright some of
them exhibited, they acted sensibly.
There was no use in remaining to fur
nish food for another Grenada.
DIR. Woods, of the Glasgow (Ky.).
Times, has Just returned from the in
fected district, and he says: The track
of the great pestilence may be stated in
round numbers as being 500 miles in
length, on an airline, and 20 miles
across at its widest part, at Grenada,
Miss. 1t begins at New Orleans and,
travelling northward, it clings to the
eastward side of the Mississippi River,
its greatest divergence being at Grena-
da. Nowhere to the eastward of this
line is there any fever. Mobile IS free,
as is the case with Savannah, Charles
ton, Jacksonville and other places usu-
ally quite subject to yellow fever vista
tions. The great jaundiced monster
seems to delight in moving northward
along the rich malarial pastures OF the
| vast 1owlands that stretch out from the
turbid Father of Waters.
Memphis letter: Negroes will not
work, will not leave town; but lie about
and draw rations, and then get sick and
become burden intolerable. The fields
are white with cotton, but not foot
will they move. They give their sick
no care, and seem to think they must be
fed in idleness and nursed with greatest
care. Mr.. Langstaff, President OF the
Howards, was in despair. "I can get
no food for my nurses. Our men are
falling every day, and, if we do not
drive these lazy people out of town, not
one of us will be left" And he ex-
pressed the awful truth not overdrawn.
The food remains and the fever feeds.
The nurses in two more days cannot
attend one-half the sick. They must
die like sheep, and rot where they die,
if something is not done that we cannot
advise or see any way of accomplishing
now.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: Mr..
Mark gives an amusing account OF his
experience between Montgomery and
Selma. When near the Dallas line, the
Selma quarantine officer, who had
previously ascertained that he was re-
Gently from Mobile, stopped the train
and put Mr.. Mark and baggage out IN
the woods. He said he never felt so in
significant in his life as he did when he
saw that train moving off. The only
house in sight was notwithstanding
negro howell. Presently a trio of darkies
came across a cotton field, got up on
the rail fence and quietly inspected the
stranger. "What you doin' dar, bossP"
said one of the trio. :" l am Standing
STILL" was the reply. "What dey put
: Won off de train forP'' "Because came
from Mobile, and they say the yellow
fever is there-there isn't a case there,
though" The negroes cried in chorus,
,, "Go way from heah; we don't want no
yellow-fever mems heah."
Grenada telegram: The death rate
has decreased lately, probably owing to
the systematic course of treatment IN
aupurated and the experienced nurses
engaged with the sick. 1t is the unanl-
NOUS opinion of physicians OF large prac-
tice, that yellow fever is disease which
requires the most careful attention
: When that is wanting, death wins the
, victory. A few days ago young mar
delirious from fever attacked his nurse,
drove her from the room and locked the
door. He then indulged in the luxury
of ice and other forbidden articles, un.
til exhausted, he fell on the floor. He
died in. a few hours. Another case
q which occurred in the Chamberlain
House, was that of a man from Chica'
= 90, sick with fever, who frightened ms
= nurse off, and then, dressing himself
!, promenaded the portico until utterly
prostrated. He was captured and con
' veyed to his room, from whence he was
carried to the cemetery.