Sharp County record., 1878-10-17
YELLOW FEVER NEWS.

-lhe c0nVlCtS OF lue mlCulSdu ClalO-
prison have raised a subscription for the
yellow fever sufferers.
Letter from Camp 10. Williams,
Memphis: We have had trying and
desperate fight with the fever at this
camp, but begin to feel we have con-
ouered. 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 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 sin gly at auction. The first
one was sold for $15, the second for
Sl2, 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 S23S.S0, which was at once
forwarded to the Howard Association
at New Orleans. The bidding was rap
id and spirited, members taking as
much interest in the proceeding as if
they were fighting pool or creating a
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 te-
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
" across the street. saw the bodies OF his
child and f,ithful wife carried by
strangers for interment in Elmwood
Cemetery. ponovan'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 ether physicians that yell
low fever was In our midst. Such a
pell-mell rush for wagons, carts, drays,
buooies. carriiges, rockaways, spring
wagons, and stery imaginable style of
vehicle with which to escape to the
woods. was never before known in this
country. In hss than an hours time
from five hun&ed to a thousand people
had left town, many of them scarcely
knowing whther they were going.
Barring the sdsational fright some of
them exhibitd, they acted sensibly.
There was no hse in remaining to fur
nish food for bother Grenada.
DIR. Wood, of the Glasgow (Ky)
Times. has lust returned from the in
fected district, md he says: The track
of the great petilence may be stated in
rouad numbersas being 800 miles in
length, on an airline, and 10 miles
across at its Tidest part, at Grenada,
Miss. 1t begis at New Orleans and,
travelling nortward, it clings to the
eastward side / the Mississippi River,
its greatest diHrgence being at Grena-
da. Nowhereio TO the eastward of this
line is there an fever. Mobile is free,
as is the case 18th Savannah, Charles
ton, Jacksonvle and other places usu-
ally quite subict to yellow fever vista
tions. The eeat jaundiced monster
seems to deltht in moving northward
along the richnalarial pastures of the
vast low landshat stretch out from the
turbid Fatherf Waters.
Memphis etter: Negroes will not
work, will noleave town; but lie about
and draw rati hs, and then get sick and
become buren intolerable. The fields
are white VIII cotton, but not foot
will they mde. They give their sick
no care, and lem to think they must be
tad in idlenesa and nursed with greatest
care. Mr.. Lagstaff, President of the
Howards, vain despair. 81 can get
no food for by nurses. Our men are
falling everyday, and, if we do not
drive these lay people out of town, not
one of us wi be left" And he ex-
pressed the aful truth not overdrawn.
The food raains and the fever feeds.
The nurses two more days cannot
attend one-hf the sick. They must |
die like she,, and rot where they die,
if somethingI not done that we cannot
advise or seeny way of accomplishing
now.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: Mr..
Mark gives { amusing account OF his
experience tween Montgomery and /
Selma. VIII near the Dallas line, the
Selma quantine officer, who had
previously aertained that he was re-
Gently from obile, stopped the train