Sharp County record., 1878-10-31
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS.

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Up to September 26 only five resi-
dents of Greenville, Miss, had escaped
an attack.
"A recent issue of the New Orleans
Picavatpe contains three marriage no.
tices, one birth notice and 124 obitua-
ries.
Another Memphis family record:
j. w. Mcdonald died September II;
Mrs. Mcdonald was buried on the 9th;
Susannah G. Mcdonald, the eldest
child, was buried September "a; VIM.
R. Mcdonald was buried September %.
Fannie A. Mcdonald is well. The boy
born Monday, September 23, 1878, is
doing well.
Telegram from Hickman, KY:
Oct. 2.-Dr. Cook, of Henderson, q
true, noble, Christian gentleman, is
numbered with the dead. His wife, a
true woman, came in time to see him
breathe his last, and follow his remains
to the grave. Kentucky should erect a
monument to his memory and provide
for his wife and two children. Geo. B.
Prather, Mayor, ThOs. Buck and George
Roulback are dead. Death spares but
few. How long will this continueP
1t is mentioned by the Thibedeaux
Na.) correspondent of the New Orleans
Times, as an instance of rare devotion
to duty, that operator Ford, at that
place, when floored by the fever for a
term of one week, had his bed made on
table in his room, with his apparatus
by his side, and thus kept telegraphic
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, a youth just entering on
manhood, and of noble attributes.
Memphis telegram of the I'd: "The
death of Mr.. Lonsdale, Sr., almost COM
pletes the destruction of another we'll
known and prominent family OF this city,
w. j. B. Lonsdale, son, being the only
survivor. j. G. Lonsdale, Jr., Treas
urer of the Citizens Relief Committee,
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 leading
Mason, and the Oldest underwater in
the State. His death has caused a feel
ing of gloom throughout the city"
Saws the Courier-Journal: "None
of the afflicted towns OF the South has
attracted more attention than Grenada.
Mr.. 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
Commission: cdr E. Lloyd Howard,
Chief Physician of the Marine Hospital
of Baltimore, who has been appointed
bv Surgeon-General Woodwork as
member of the commission to investi-
cate the yellow fever epidemic in the
South, left for New Orleans to-day. DR..
Howard stated in conversation that
the commission would aim at directly
practical results, and did not intend fur
nishing a report which would simply be
full of scientific theories. The first duty
would be to investigate the first case OF
yellow fever in New Orleans, ascertain
whether it originated there or was i'm.
ported, and thence trace the spread OF
the disease, and whether it was due to
contagion or the absence OF proper sanl-
tary and quarantine regulations. They
will also seek to find out why certain
towns have been free from the disease
and if infection can be communicated
bv baggage or clothing. All the infect
ed points along the Mississippi will be
visited, and the commission expects to
finish its labors in four or five weeks"