The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-09-26
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.

DR.. Thos. 0. Summers, Jr., return
ed to Nashville from Memphis on
Monday evening last and was met by
good many friends at the Chatta-
nooga depot In an interview with
an american reporter he said
The fever at Memphis is leaving the
city and spreading out into the coun-
try. 1t now occupies a radius Of fif-
teen miles outside of the corporation.
The Howard physicians are to be sent
out to the adjoining towns and dis
tricts where they are most needed.
All the little towns along the railroads
are in q commotion. It is greatly to
be feared that the people of Memphis
will return too rapidly, and thus cause
q fresh outbreak Of the epidemic.
Gen. Wright is up and at work.
Gen. Smith is at work. DIR. Bar
thOlOmew is doing noble work. He
viii not return before frost. Things
are looking up and the worst is over"
HEROIsM OF THE EXPREssAIEN.
The Southern Express Company
have, during the eyellow-fever epidemic,
kept their offices operated at all points
in the infected districts. While do
ing no general business whatever at
these points, they have refused pay to
the amount Of $4,000 for services
performed in the interest of the suffer
ers. Their employees have stood to
their posts like true men, and when
those on duty fell others were on
hand to take charge Of the business
and carry it on without interruption.
THE ABATEMENT AT NEW ORLEANS.
A New Orleans special to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, Of the 22nd, says 4:
"The first indications of 4 decrease in
the epidemic were developed to-day +;
but coupled with it comes a statement
from the extreme rear Of the First and
Second districts, that large numbers of
negroes are being attacked. Deaths
from noon to p. M, IA; new cases,
100, The discovery has been made
that the City Sections have been re-
opening the vaults of yellow-fever
| corpses for the reception OF the more
recent dead, and that the purifying
remains have been exposed to the at
mosphere to spread disease and death.
| An eyewitness to this horrible spec
tacle describes the stencil as positively
frightful, and the effect upon the fu-
neral professions escorting to the grave
the latter eorpses is in the highest de-
gree nauseating."
HOLLY SPRINGS.
/ New Orleans special says: "a
prominent merchant Just from Holly
/ Springs describes the situation there
as absolutely appalling, the mortality
there being fully ninety per cent. He
says the community Is almost bercft
of its senses, and that the teIegraphic
accounts do not approximate a descrip-
ton Of the fearful situation"
MEMPHIS.
The ApaJanclt8 says: ''Reports from
the country bring the painful intelli-
gence that the fever Is spreading tC
an alarming extent among many OF
our citizens, who, at the first appear
ance OF the epidemic in this city,
fled with their families to the interior
where they sought shelter in such
dwellings dIu nuts StS COulu De Ioulu.
The disease followed them, and then
sufferings must be greater than were
those who remained in Memphis
where every care and attention was
given by the Howard Association il
I supplying medical aid, nurses anu
nourishment.
One of the rich men of Memphis
who is now absent, as a matter oI
course, left a white and colored wom
an in charge Of his private house
The white woman got sick, and wher
this rich man Of Memphis heard o.
this fact, he sent a letter to the col
ored woman, as follows: Send the
white woman to the hospital. Don
use any Of the sweet milk, don't ust
any Of the eggs or chickens, but hell
yourself outside. That last expires
sion, undoubtedly, means 90 to tn,
Howards or Relief Committee. Com
ment is unnecessary, That rich man
name has been filed away IN our pri
vite archives, and if we live tho ia,
may come when We can resurrert tn
= infamous scOundrel.