Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-14

but two or three are developed into yellow
fever. We have TO report the death of one
feel sad enough over it. There are not many
of us; one hundred viii cover the white peo-
pie In Brownsville. The change in the
weather may do good in the future, but has
not vet The plague has spread to the conn
try, and we have had to establish hospital
for the stricken people of our town who
have no homes. and the employees of the
railroad, who live on the line and have no
other refuge. We are ouarantined from the
lace OF the earth outside the corporate limits,
except when some stricken unfortunate calls
for help. We always respond if in our
power.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Sept. I.-New cases, 25S !;
deaths, 80. The weather cloudy a~d chilly
with stiff northwest wind ali df.y.
IN BRIEF.
Nevada and California has sent $1,000 to
the relief of Grenada.
The Citizens Committee of Philadelphia
have collected 500, 900 for the sufferers.
up to Wednesday Chicago had raised
S57, S3S for the yellow fever sufferers.
There were eight new cases of yellow
fever and two deaths at Hickman, KY, on
Wednesday.
The Wenham Ice Company, Of Boston,
is sending fifty car loads of ice to Memphis
which all the railroads carry free.
Several burglaries have been committed
of late in Memphis, and Lakes bank and
other business houses are considered in
peril
A. J. Wheeler, Past Grand Master of
Masons of Tennessee, and editor and pro-
prietor of the Masonic Jewel, died Saturday
of yellow fever.
"A panic occurred at Humboldt Satur-
day. Fever was reported and the people
went wild. Confusion and disorder prevail
ed. Guns were fired, tar burned, and it is
1900 people left town that day and
night.
C,a,,a,.el 90 ~, Il, Moot ,.,,,. ,4, a.. ~
phis are closed, which greatly inconven-
enceS physicians and nurses. There is talk |
2f using force to open them if the owners |
10 not make arrangements to accommodate |
the afflicted. The Towards have ], 200 nurses /
On duty, and are still calling for more.
There has been contributed, in New
York city, fol the relief of the yellow fever
Sl65,OO and the suggestion is made |
hat the amount be increased to half a mill |
ion-one hundred persons giving S., 900 each /
md 800 persons $500 each, the popular con-
Tibutions to continue meantime.
The Central Board of Education of Pitts
lurgh Tuesday passed a resolution directing
he Principals of all the schools forty in
number, to explain TO the children the great
ever, and request that ON Monday next
ZACH pupil contribute penny or more for
he sufferers. There are about 10000 pupils
low attending the schools.
The picnic given at Chicago by the en-
)loyes of the city and county, for the benefit
If the yellow fever sufferers, was a grand |
ucc6SS. thousands OF tickets were sold at
fifty cents each. Large contributions were
made of cigars, liquors, provisions, etc, and
IS there Were no expenses and the entire
ross receipts go to the South, it is estimated
he sum will not be less than $4,000, and
possibly much more.
The Memphis Appeal of Tuesday says
Rev. f. Q. Slater has gone to his reward as
faithful servant of Christ. He died yeSter-
lay. No man did more than he in behalf
If the sick. He carried consolation to the
afflicted, and bore the blessed assurance of
eSuS to the dying. Night and day he tray-
lied from one bedside to another, knowing !
10 relief so long as there remained one un-
Ittended who needed his ministration. A
aithful minister of the Methodist church,
lie went wherever called, knowing no divis-
OnS among Christians, as he said himself
many times, knowing nothing but Christ,
md him crucified.' The years of his minis
ry in Memphis were full of grace to him
md his people, though he passed with them
through the epidemic OF 1873, and so far
through this. Endearing himself to all
lasses, the presiding elder of the district,
fielding to a general desire, left him with
is as one who had done, and was still capa-
lie of more good. Genial and full of sun
hine; gentle, but strong in his religious
She was at all times an example
# the true Christian minister. No one ever
NEW him but to love him, and none can
lame him but to praise"