The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-18

dents Of Greenville, Miss, had escaped
an attack.
A recent issue Of the New Orleans
hcayune contains three marriage no.
tees, one birth notice and 124 obitua-
ries.
Another Memphis family record:
j. w. Mcdonald died September IL
Mrs. Mcdonald was buried on the 27th
Susannah q. Mcdonald, the eldest
child, was buried September "a, VIM.
X. Mcdonald was buried September 25.
Fannie A. Mcdonald is we'll. The boy
born Monday, September 2s, 1878, is
doing we'll.
Telegram from Hickman, Ky:
Oct. DIR. Cook, Of Henderson. a
true, noble, Christian gentleman, is
numbered with the dead. His wife,
true woman, came in time TO see him
breathe his last, and follow his remains
TO the grave. Kentucky should erect
monument to his memory and provide
for his wife and two children. Geo. u.
Prather, Mayor, Thos. Buck and George
Roulback are dead. Death spares but
few. How long will this continue?
1t is mentioned by the Thibodeaux
Qa.) correspondent OF the New Orleans
Times, as an instance Of rare devotion
to duty, that operator Ford, at that
place, when fioored by the fever for a
term OF one week, had his bed made on
a table in his room. with his apparatus
by his side, and thus kept teegraphic
communication with the world open for
the whole time, though his case was by
no means slight one.
The editor Of the vicksburg Herald,
Col. Manlove, has been sorely tried.
His young bride and baby son were car
ried off with the fever; many OF his boy
hood friends followed, "like leaves
swept down by autumnal Winds and
his paper of the 23d contains an eloquent
and pathetic tribute TO the memory of
his brother, youth just entering on
manhood, and Of noble attributes.
Memphis telegram of the I'd: "The
death OF MIR. Lonsdale, ST., almost CON-
pletes the destruction of another well
known and prominent family of this city,
w. j. Is. Lonsdale, a son, being the only
survivor. j. q. Lonsdale, Jr., Treas
urer of the Citizens Relief Committed,
died upward of two weeks ago. He
was followed by the heart broken moth
er soon after, and to-day the aged
father. He had been identified with
Memphis for years. He was a leading
Mason, and the Oldest underwater in
the State. His death has caused feel
ing Of gloom throughout the CITY,
Says the Courser-Journal: "None
Of the afflicted towns Of the South has
more attention than Grenada. n
MIR. Fountain, who passed through Lou
isville yesterday, and who has been in
Grenada during the pestilence, says that
the fever was not brought there by rail-
road at all. There was strict quaran-
tine against New Orleans from the first. \
All the trouble is traced to the sewer,
the poison from which is supposed to
have united with that in the air from
The South. Canton and jackson, now
suffering from the epidemic, both es-
tablished quarantine before they were
stricken"
Work laid out BY the Yellow Fever
"Dr. +. Lloyd Howard,
Chief Physician Of the Marine Hospital
IT Baltimore, who has been appointed
by Surgeon-General Woodwork as
member of the commission TO investi-
gate the yellow fever epidemic in the
South, left for New Orleans to-day. DR..
Howard stated in conversation that
he commission would aim at directly
practical results, and did not intend fur Il
nishing a report which would simply be
Iull Of scientific theories The first duty 4
would be TO investigate the first case Of
yellow fever in New Orleans, ascertain
II originated there or was i'm
ported, and thence trace the spread Of
he disease, and whether it was due to
or the absence Of proper sani-
AIRY and quarantine regulations. They I
will also seek to find out why certain
owns have been free from the disease
Ind If infection can be communicated
)y baggage or clothing. All the infect
d points along the Mississippi will be
7isited, and the commission expects to
inish its labors in four or five weeks"
Memphis telegram Of the 4th: "A ,
ew citizens who have returned, in de-
lance of good advice to the contrary,
nave paid the penalty Of their temerity
md are now numbered with the dead.
Among these cases which have come
lnder the personal observation Of your ,
correspondent may be mentioned Mrs.
!. III. Kerr and her son, lad, who re-
urned from the country last Sunday {
md were taken sick before they had
'een here "a hours, both now under the
cd. A Mrs. Clark, residing at 46 Brad
ord Street, after burying one Of her
amily, left one Of the camps near the
ity and reached Memphis this morn ,
ng; one Of the two children remaining
; dying. The other has been taken
With fever, and the mother Is not much
'etter. Instances might be cited in |
definitely to sustain the premises, but ii