The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-25

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INrEREs TING LETTER FROM AN EpIscOPAIIEN
CLERGYMAN AT JACKSON, MTssTssIPPI--THE
RAvAGRs OF THE PE4GUE IN NE1GHBoRING
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| Just now your letter encouraged and
helped us more titan we can tell. We are
all bowed down under tile mighty hand of
| God, and crying to him to have mercy npbn
| us. The yellow fever is no stranger TO, us.
and is not usually dreaded; not SO much as
typhoid fever, malarial fever scarlet fever
| or smallpox, and E0t near so much as
| cholera. But this year the yellow fever has
assumed a new character. 1t is malignant
| as never before. Many, physicians pro
nounce it not the yellow fever but.a Virbfent
plague uhder the form of the yellow fever.
children have always before been, exempt,
but this year the fever visits them esq ecially.
Negroes have neve never been much subject
to it. This year they were peculiarly at
tackled. Usually but few die, most recover.
This year it is reyerseds and in sorce places
i,alI die who are attacked. Usually it avoids
ttlean places. This year no cleanliness and no
! diSihtectidN guards Ggdr9St it. Usuali3 1t
avoids. old Inhabitants ana acclimatedt Per-
sons. This year it attacks indiscriminat ely.
Usually it runs nine days. This year some
times not as many hours. and three days
seems its limit. Usually IL begins I'm
September. This year in July, and there is
the atmosphere that we know of to cause
this unusual deadliness. ".- 3.
There has been no unusual amount of Sick
ness at ali of any other kind. r's'.r aft ~
THE terrible thing about il next after its
malignancy IS the season Of the year IN which
it begins We do n6t look for frost before the
lastof October or the first"of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
h ! ps not before the middlei of November rand
three months is an awful time: The Lord once
offered David three Years of famine three
he If .
We have three months of pPstilence to- look
forward to. But as the fever is new, it will
pFOba by grow worse, spread wider, and even
grow more mali gnant. This isitsusual course
and j. IS with sink ing hearts that. we look for-
ward down the vista of trouble, pain and
death.
Poor Grenada two weeks ago was a
flehrishing little town Of 3 900 people. Now |
itlis almost, bl0tted out OF existence. II
was a pretty place. full of flowers, With
many pretty houses, nicely kept grounds,
many happy families and full oil generosity
- for when the fever became bad IN New
Orleans and the people there began to- sack
refuge, and were quarantined out OF MANY
places. the People,ot Grenada held meetir rs
and sent an Invitation to New Orleans tell
ing the panic-strieken people there to come 1
20 them They opened every house, lbeO-
vided against extortlodl, and objected thenr.
selves to crowding and all annoyance, not
for profit, but for humanity. The yellow |
fever had never visited Eren ada, and they |
were confident it.cOuld not gain "a, fOOtheld |
among them. But Que Sunday morning
they were struck as if by lightning. Before |
Monday morning many were dead. On the' |
next Sunday there were but fourteen. ,wellf
white. persons left, and now but. five Or six. |
Even the nurses and physicians sent from |
Memphis and New Orleans fell victims, and |
some OF them, though long accustomed to |
the disease, fled in terror. Many died /
through lack, of attention. In two houses
close togethers lived two families, one of sey- |
en- and one of nine persons. Some were taken
Sick, then others, and finally all Of both
families and when discovered the ne KIT day /
it was ;tQoalate to do more than close their |
eyes and bury them. One gentleman living
in Holly Springs heard that some of hfs |
"a her's family we're sick and hastenHd' to /
them. There were eleven in that famifyyt
Before 4 O'Clock the next day he bad laid out |
seven with his own hands, without help.
;; There were thrse brothers, bankers, vital
families named Lake, all good chturGhmnien.
whose three families are utterly exrinct7 not /
one lett alive. This is abt yellow feFer-iH ia
The plague Within an hour after. death ths.
!. The negroes suffer terribly. somgtthks'f
they are taken sick on the stref ndtdrffanfl7
lie down on the nearest porch aHdtlie. there ]
They viii not help each other. The brother |
f0tsakes his sister, and the wife her hus-
among them who are well 'suifers from /
hungeF.i They are laboTeTs aad mechanics, j
and depend. upon their daily, wages. But
all work is stopped; all stores closed, mi
trouble they always tnrhfto the Whites. ana I
never In VaiW The Howard rAssocfatiUa !
SUPPORTS. them. aDoEseS tkeLI1-I ands .bufiess
other. F,Ftz-
:. Among the few efrfh Gfehadzif 4 RAJ
VI @. MeGfa6keR, deacon; sinDhaTgeof th2ik
parish there. Honor his name, for, young al
be iss he has done and is doing noble and
glorious work there-the only clerpvInla,sI1g2
1 befieve. who has rh6lcoufzge TO STAY afSEh |.
do his duty !. and it Is 60 sEnal1 athings#beH i
every OnetreTeryo DnH-in. Grenada talsp1
With the disease has died, Even the. great
plague IN London was not so viFuleDf ~
ibis. 50f large proportion theh feeovefeIl N
5 In Vieksburg the disaase Is Eapld4y growIl
ngFE0rse. J0Hs 0Eeat trouble Is tkuf sasae AL
'ber psisicsaHs fIsq. obliged ba tie sxeerat5ond
D ne Peeps ana several more were taken
sick WITH the dlsease soon after nc apbe
EhisleaFea.thefn w1thoae fleef0Ee katseeh Ill i
eafe Tor the sick; many. therefore ,Rredr i,ierI
Ih05e from lack of medical attention.
: Tie scourge there has. two chafisscafeeffs 4.
" asizfn ee1n 1sffeef runs nbrfhe slTfrsssst, III
par allef with the xixex. 6Beux = III
.he way up the bluff there are three q Co..
streets between that and the river dow al ! FL
ill and fte or six mounting eli h1o a sST,ssss
be 0theTsidei cross. fkee&ss rim atas.i. HI
rom ne hlp9 to the EE.fs. ~ q AelaW. WassLsf
n9ton street the lever - mai nnanf airneast liz
q I6l - 1T GNahAdH sRIlfte ana f1fs:ss III
8ahfnetan etEeet I'M afAe the "a Tl9 Qnnl; IL l
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