The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-07
TIE YELLOW FEVER.
CONTlNUED RIFIGES or THE
SOUTHERN SCOURGE,

''o:'i VI ioiloihG DcofllS sickness ana
Sulorln orlng--Contrioutions of Charity.
tBy Telegraph 10 Tie Nog Yo,A: Hc,nd
GRENADA, Miss, Sept. 2--rhcro is
very little ofan encouraging nature
to report Tonight. There were five
deaths to-day-,two whites and three
negroes. Col. Wm. r. Cole, the
postmaster, died vt ono o'clock this
morning. Six now cases have been
reported since hs5 ovoning. Judge
Fairfield is very low. Tho diseaso
is worry complicated, and battles the
skill Of tho most experienced physi-
cians. Patients are often left by
tioir doctors in fair way Of rocov-
cry, and in less than six hours after
ward some change, wholly unac~
countablo, occurs to produce sudden
death. There is cAse in point to-
day Ono Of the Howard physicians
told your correspondent that early
this morning he left u young lady
Of excellent family whose symptoms
promised speedy convtloscance.
About ten o'clock he called again ana
found her i'll q low state, so low,
indeed, that ho expects to report her
death to night. IL is utterly impos-
sible to tell who will AMI who will
not recover.
daAvEYARD SCENES
To- day, in company with DR..
Henry Stone, Of Natchea, your cor
resp onlcnt visited the eastward
cemetery. On all sides wore nowly
made mounds and empty graves, the
latter being already ordered
Whites and blacks, rich and Door,
honored and unknown, all nre buried
with the same haste. Tho colorcl
sexton, with his two assistants, took
us over the ground and counted the
graves for us. There were fifty
seven. In the cemetery in the west
part of the town arc three times rs
many more. The utter Indifference
shown reminded me Of Horutio and
the digyors in tie graveyard scene
in Hamlet. And the inl florence is
not confined to the cllious hoart al
graveyard hanls. Friend meets
friend upon the street. AS they
pass You MY hoar The words, "Mr
or Mrs. - is deld." "Is that SO ;
md they tramp onward, though
possibly the doce lscl WIS near and
dear to them both.
SOLEMN CIURCu SERVICE
last night the Rev W. G. Ne :
Cracken hold the litlny service in
tho Office of the Howards, which is
in the Chamberlain House. 10 q
little group of perhaps thirty per-
sons he said on opening the s0vice :
''Last Sunday night this same lita-
ny service was road to about the
Same number as now present, yet
fully half who then held these books
in their hands are with us no more
Tho room was occupied by all class
cs Of blacks and whites of both
sexes. Rank and caste wcrc forgot
ten. In these hours Of distress and
danger the refined and tho uncdr-
catcd mcct upon q common level !;
master and servant arc unknown !;
"man' is the only term recognized.
ANOTHER NOBLE SPIRIT PASSING AWAY
Col. Butler p. Anderson cannot
1.-Two. A despatch has just been sent
to Memphis to forward q special
train for his body, which will soon
DO boreft Of that noble spirit which
has dwolt within it, This is hero .
ic ending to noble life. Such men
can mover die save in the body.
Flo passed through two previous
cpidcmics, and now at the last the
Grenada scourgo has laid him in tho
dust. Io was man of great enor-
gy and courage, and was known
throughout the entire South as tho
president of the Howard Association,
that hns senG its horoio missionaries
to all places where human lives wore
to be saved. Ho was q noble heart
cd man-a hero and q martyr
The Scourgs at Vicksburg.
VIcKsBURa, Sept. 2.-rhere is so
much confusion, hurry, trouble md
terror in this town tonight that it
is impossible to give the exact fig
nres rs to tho number Of now cases
of yellow fever. The doctors still
continue to go down before tho fever
liko ordinary mortals, doubling the
labors of those who are we'll until
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