The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-27
Curious Incidents of me Plague.

A Young married man of New Orleans,
not many days ago, found himself at that
stage of connublal bliss when lie could
proudly say 10 his friends and creditors,
Il am father - As was natural he con-
cluded TO visit MS parents, who live in one
Of the coast parishes, to show them in the
person of their grandson that there was life
in the old land yet. Therefore he. accom-
panied by his happy wife aud heir, took
the old couple by surprise last Sunday
night a week. But the grandparents,
afraid of the fever, flew into a violent pas
sion when they learned of their sons ar
rival, driving the latter and his family from
the house. The young man was obliged to
spend several hours in a rain storm before
he could get a conveyance back TO New
Orleans.
When a cOttager on Customhouse stree,
New Orleans, went TO look for his strong
box the other day, that he might take from
it enough of money to bury his dead child,
he found that he had been robbed. The
police traced the strong box to n negress of
the neighboThOOd. and the victim had n
pen in his hand, preparing 20 sign an affi-
davit against her, when it was suddenly
announced in his hearing that his wife had
taken the fever. Dropping the pen he
rushed to his home, nurscd his wife until
she died and then died of the fever himself.
Thus the negress escaped the penitentiarY
. and holds the strong box.
One day the body Of an old Memphis
darlzey. known as Mack-Quitea character
in his way-was found in the back yard Of
his little shauty. Without delay lis friends
solicited the aid of a benevolent society
procured a coffin, nailed down the lid, and
started to bear Mack TO his last resting
place. When half way to the cemetery,
however, there was a vigorous kicking
against the coffin lid, uneaIthly hOwls came
from within, and in a momen, the wCOley
head Of the old fellow emerged from a
much shattered box. Mack was dead
drunk only.
y New Orleans letter says: ''The pure
hlOoded negro and she Chinese have thus
i far escaped. Tie natives Of France appear
to be exempt. The disease appears to be
most virIllent among the Siclians and Ital-
ians. and a large proportion Of its victims
are German and Irish. The English born
fall an easy prey. 1t seems to prefer the
rich blood Of Europeans"
The fever almost depopuIated Memphis
inside of four days. There never was such
an overwhelming stampede from any ciIy
before. Men actually fought with knives
for standing room on the cars, and many
/ who cOuld not get III climbed on top.
ImprudenCe during cCuyalescencc causes
the most deaths. Nursing then is of su.
preme Importance. The patients appetite
IS Tavenous, aud he Graves, as a general
/ thing, such food as he cap not have. IF he
can possibly obtain what he wishes be viii
ear il aud take bis chances, which, under
such circumstances, are not worth taking.
RelapseS are almost uniformly fatal.
The track of the great pestience, says
! DR.. Works, of the Glasgow (Ky.) Times,
I may be stated in round numbers as beng
five hundred miles in length, on an air line
and seventy miles across at its widest part,
a Grenada. Miss. 1t begins at New Orleaus
and, travelling north ward, it clngs to the
eastward side of the Mississippi river, irs
greatest divergence being at Grenada.
Nowhere to the eastward of this line is
there any fever. Mobile is free, as is also
Savannah, Charleston. Jacksonville and
other places usually subject to yellow fever
visitations. The great j jtundiccd monster
seems % delight in moving northward along
: the rich malarial pastures OF the vast low
lands that stretch out from the turbid
Father Of Waters.