The Hillsborough recorder., 1878-09-11
sIOKNEss EYENYMIlERE.

Of 6renaua
sicEEEss EyERYwnERE.
ParsOa Hall and vile, an aged couple.
eighty aud seventy -fye years u age respec.
lively. lay in one bed PROSTATE with the
lever. ID another room their only sou laid,
lprostrate and dying.
Mrs. Collins two children are down with
the fever. She is also nursing young
man from Memphis who was prostrated q
few days ago. s.........-.4 4..,....a.........
Nathan Heber Germany. d stewart, told
me he bad nursed his wife and two child
rem through the fever. and had not taken
his clothes oft for the past seventeen days.
Tom Marshall. the telegraph operator.
lives right opposite liebers and the latter
did not even know that MARSHALL had lost
his three children by the scourge. Marshall's s
wife lay on her bed sick, moaning pite
ously over the loss Of her children. III an
adjoining room lay her husband aud tho
ouiy remaining child, burning with the
lever.
no NAIL--No GRAyE.DfoeEEs.
The fever has got 20 bad here that the
postoffice has been closed for several days.
The Relief COMMITTEES ran il for some days,
hul now they have become sick and have
dishanded. There Is no mail delivered.
The negroes are 81 lazy that they will not
work. but hang around the cumm ssary
rooms. aud do not miss the opportunity 70
receive every ration they can, whether they
have had their share or not. Tie physi-
clans have bad actually 10 send to New Or
leans for grare-diggers.
soRRowFUL SCENES PORTRAYED.
The following ssd scenes are authentic !:
A Howard Association woman nurse was
standing on the platform last night. wait.
ing to telegraph to Memphis for money 10
take her hume to that city, where her lit
tie cLiId was reported dying with fever !;
but the telegraph Office Was locked up and
the oIerstuis Tying. Awoman enters Mr.
Coan's Office aud wants a .c,,lored woman
nurse to attend a sick and dying patient .
ar Coan answers we have not anahrr narse
left. A servant enters End says Redding.
the operator. is hungry and wants some
thing to eat. Tie Doctor answers. Dm.'t
give Lin mouihiul.' Mr C.sn's aifire
i III iLe Chamberlain llou,e. where ten
paticats are guartered. and their piic,us
appcals for bread and nonrishment ~ rIghi
10 the heart Il The nniniliat-d; but the
doctors. understanding the terrible coEse>
%. nces Of giving any u the patients food.
listen TO the appeals with closed ears.
NASHVILLE. Tenn; August Si.- Re.
port has Just reached here iIGm llirkman =,
Ky; TO the effect that yelIos fever. called
malignant malarial congsstive chills by DR..
Ferris aud otLsr rit izels Uf that l.lscr. has
made It's arIesrnpre. Eiwsrd Mabgel.
Mrs Whiting aud a son Of A. y. Young
have died within the past two days Their
deaths were remarkably sudden. Fifty
persons are now sick there. Trains from
IlirknIan were not allOsed 10 stop at Union
City on accauLi Uf il. ....... =
NEw ORLEANS. Ssrs. 4. The Howard
Association fepart az applications for re-
lief to-day. The Young MEMS Christian
Association report - new ca.es ~ ileir
list. The peal.ady re ief association isiued
over il.OUU rsiiois.
vIcKsB.nG. Miss. S.pt. 4.--i.nnis
Dulras. copper aud lerclcr. j. reported
down. Hight Rev Bi,hop W. II. Elier.
afiI most glorious aud noble service. fell
TO. jay.
(SigneJ. Wm lockwood.
g. pres't Howard Association.
MoBILE. Sept. 4.-Nytsi,hsiandinr he
casr II ,r,l,w fever reported b, Dr. Galne.
last Saturday. there has been NJ spread u
the di-easc. The city is chjo, Ing excellent
beaIia.
Sgw ORLEASs. Sept. 4.-Tbe wesiher
tO-day " nnfaynraLls. Two Lu. drcd and
Twelve new eaogs are reported and s.ssuii .
:NO ieaihs Z
GREENyiLLE, Mis-; sept. 1 Nine.
teen new Uases and nineteen iciihs 20. day.
NEw ORLEANS. Sept. 4 The deaths
to-day include iif;cvu children under six
years. ~
A dispatch TO the Howard Association
from Canton, Miss; says there were tselye
new cases aud four deaths within twenty
four hoprs. Several parties died 10 the
country who left the town.
GRENADA. Sept 4.-Since last night
reports there are twelve new cases. and
eight teaths-one negro and seven whites.
The deaths are as follows: DE-. Gillespie
and mother. Ms. Morrison, Ni.s Hughes.
Aleck Rofaliky. Ike Williams. ID. n. HAT
and one unknown. No sbaieurut Of ths
fever.
iIoLLY SPHISos. Miss; Sept 4. Over.
sixty cases and six deaths tj.dsy. Business
Is suspended. There Is great need of nur.
ses ahd physicians. Two physicisns are
.iek with tie fever. and many cases will
die to-day. Gloom, despair and death rule
The hour Tie sitaation is simply appall.
iug. The outside world are appealed 10
for help. The telegraph operatives are
going 70 leave