Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-31

exodus OF white people, they are discharging
their trust with faithfulness that reminds
one OF the dark days of civil war, when the
slave protected the home, protected the wife
and little ones, while the master was biyouack-
ing far away on the field of battle. For the
first time in Memphis, they have been given
place on the police force, and their department
has challenged the admiration of all.
THE WORK IN THIS SAD HOUR
is divided between care for the sick and dead,
and care for the sufferers in health. The How
ard association began the campaign with $685.
200 in United States bonds in hand. the amount
OF the country's contributions in 1873, with
interest accrued, less donations since to
plague-strIcken cities over the South. Before
the hrst case was announced chis association
mad their stores of medicines disinfectants, and
stlmulants laid in, their nurses located and
registered, their district lines drawn, and their
men in readiness. to start with ambulance and
doctor at moments notice. The plague came,
and the yellow badge of Howard was at the
first bedside. It has been at the bedside of
every sick man, woman. or child of all the great
number since. Their nurses have been in every
stricken family, their physicians have been
ready for any calls. The association
takes the sick room in hand, and from its
treasury pays for doctor, nurse, drugs, and, if
need be, coffin. At the head of the association
are A. II. lIangstatf, a hardware merchant ex-
Mayor John johnson, Gen. W j. Smith and
Butler P. Anderson. Of the heroism of the
latter two gentlemen the whole world has read
during the past dark weeks of pestilence
They went into the charnel-honse city of Gre
NADIA, and there, amid the foul air of disease
worked few have worked before the
grip of death. 1t was
SAD SIGHT
which encountered few nights ago. The
rumble of a vehicle over the cobble-stones of
the deserted street surprised me. I stepped
out to it, and recognized Langstaff, of the
Towards, walking beside the dark ambulance,
for such it was.
who was it?" asked
Gen. Smith," was the reply.
looked within, where the moonlight fell on
the emaciated form stretched upon the mat
tress, and was proud to shake the clammy
hand of the hero of Grenada-the general
brought home from the field of battle to die
Gen. Smith is surveyor of the port here, an
appointee under Grants first administra-
tion-a man who had been abused, maligned,
and ostracized for his political tenets
through long long years. The temper of the
changed feelings is found in the words of Dr.
Saunders, a Bourbon of the Bourbons, who
hurrying to Gen. Smiths bedside, said: Cor
give, dear sir, for wronging you, for misjudg-
ing you In the past l know your true nature
now. and have come to give you my medical
services without price,.
Butler p Anderson, Gen. Smiths co-laborer,
remains in Grenada. and to-day two young
volunteers, Brogan and Coan, left to join him
there. They go as the 600 went to the charge
at Balaklava-''into the jaws of death, into the
mouth of hell"
THE TOWARDS
are at an expense of over $1,000 per diem, yet
the benevolence of the people of our land has
kept them from want. As the wires have told
you, new cases have appeared in the last three
days, and scarcity of nurses has crippled the
W. rk of the association. Twenty-Five new
nurses are expected from Mobile to morrow,
and with the help of these it is hoped to give
the sick all attention. The Towards have not
come out of the fever district unscathed SO far
John G. Forbes volunteered to take charge of
TIE branch depot of supplies in the heart of
the plague-ravaged section. He was buried
Friday. VIM. Finn took his place. He was
buried Saturday. John Morton succeeded him
and is lying i'll. Acting-President Langstaff
has now gone thither himself. History con-
tains no grander Illustrations OF God-1ike self
sacrifice than are found in this city every day
and every hour.