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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-11
The ways of Yellow Fever.
EXTRACT FROM A REPORT BIZ ". sCHENcK
NJ. D. sUPERINTEN DENT FEMALE
HOSPITAL, ST. LOUIS.

1t has its periods of rest and OF activity
II travels three times as fast In tropical re-
gions as it does higher up. 1t may hlDer-
nate and resume its march the summer iol-
lowing: it may take one half OF city tnlS'
and finish it's work next Summer; 1t travels
ar the rate of about forty feet day. Dr.
Stone used to compare its course and moue
of travel to a tax collector from mouse 20
house along a street before It dIVergeo. 1t
is most active in its operations near the
surface of the earth, attacking larger pro-
portion of persons on the ground moor IL Ia
more active at night than In the DAY tune,
il may attack single block or district In
city. as for instance, in 1870. New orleans
suffered from yellow fever. 1t was comm
ed to a portion of the Second Dlstrlct,
twelve blocks by four. In 1917, IL was IN
the Fourth District. In 1873, 1t appears APP
peared in all the districts IN the CITY, anu
was epidemic, but disin fectants SO moulneu
the disease that it did not become general
endemic. whilst higher up the river,
ShreveDort and Memphis passed through
the terrors of fatal Epidemic IN 1874
New Orleans again escaped, while fasca-
goula and Pensacola suffered. walls may
stoD the progress of yellow fever, as, Tor 10
stance the inmates of the calaboOse IN ~"
Orleans generally escapes even psrIlou
of boards may intervene, as fsp'.fte. oe
DR.. Mott for Governors Island, IN 1871.
Dr. Parkes saws that in the West Indies IL
has repeatedly attacked barrack, wilie 10
other nlace ON the Island was affected. At
Lisbon Cadiz, and many other places II u Is
attacked only one side OF O street. In snS
West Indies it has repeatedly com lenSeu ~
in the same part of the barTack. N nas
been known 90 attack every hO. IN Fl she
neighborhood save ones to attack Al 1ns
sailors in the beTths on one SIDE q " 80
of-war before reaching over on enc opp0sase
aide.
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Il. Lonis Glohe-Democrat.l

Cor. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
Mr.. Heaberg carried a telegraph dispatch
TO a Mrs. Marshall, who had lost her hus-
band and three children by the dire disease
She was found lying on her bed, completely
exhausted both in physical and mental
strength. The sight OF this poor woman
lying ia her bed. moaning for husband and
children, all dead in weeks time. brought
tears To the eyes OF her three visitors. The
telegraph message came from absent friends,
and breathed words OF sympathy, love and
encouragement. She thanked the tele-
gTapher. and, in response to the question,
'sCan | do anything for you, Mrs. Mar
shallg' said: mo, but God bless you for
your kindness; only God can help me now"
Opposite Mrs. Marshall lay Tom Marshall,
the telegraph operator, who is a brother-in-
law OF Mrs Marshall. He was found lying
at the very point of death. Three OF his
little children had died within the last ten
days, and now he was almost gone. On
another bed lay his wife, not sick with the
fever, but broken-hearted and dying from
che loss Of her little 0nea,
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The antiseptic power of carOolic acid is
so great that, according to Prof Mason, of
England, the presence of one part of the
acid in a thousand parts of an organic
solution will check decom position, and pre-
vent the appearance of vibriO or fungus life
for more than forty days. The peculiar diff
ference between other disinfectants and this
is, that the former deal with the effects, the
latter with the causes. Moreover, carbolic
acid is volatile-it meets with and destroys
the germs or sporules which float in the at
nosphere, and vitiate it: this cannot be
said of several other disinfectants which act
only by contact, and are only deodorizers.
The fact that prevention is better than cure
will not. of course, be disputed; hence a
substance which, like this, prevents the de-
composition of organic matter, is perhaps,
of more value than one which checks the
conse Quences only.
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MEMPHIS sept. 5.--J. l.. Worth. National
received. Money g. sadly needed. Tbg
Towards expenses daily ARE now $4,000.
The citizens Relief Committee, ls 5000
seven hundred nurses are now under nav.
beside physicians aud cost OF medicines.
wines etc; also thirty men under pay Co dig
graves ana constantly employed. Cneed
supplies lu the way OF food for families lcft
pennies but money 90 pay nurses, physI-
clanN, uhHertaAers, aud hundreds 81 cX-
penses That come mp Ina times like this Two
hundred and eight lnterments to-day Tea
dollars per day offered for nurses. and .nn
res ponSc. 10 looks as though we were aII
doomed. Nou can use This a- Won saa III
Nuu can have no idea of our coBditiou frar,.
newspaper reports. 10 cannot be described.
W. w. TuACuER,
4. g.. FlsuER,
Citizens Relief Committee.
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Onions in Yellow Fever.
New YORK, Aug. 1873.
Hon. John McGill, Mayor of jackson:

NEW YORK, Aug. 1873.
Hon. John McGill, Mayor of jackson:
1 will suggest remedy for the yellow fe-
yer. You will find beyond a doubt ii the
people will use it, that not one will die OF
the disease. Some 100 years ago, when
yellow fever was in Baltimore as it Is now
with you, my great grandfather had an APP
prentice who had it and feared being buried
alive, went to the top of the attic of the
house and laid upon some two or three
bushels of onions. In four days he came
down well man. The result was curious
in few days onions were used by MASKING
them up and putting on sheets and rolling
the patient up in the onions. In few days
all were well. 1t certainly is easy to try.
Have some onions cut up on plates and
place in a sick room. We all understand
that onions are a great absorbant, and no
one should eat them when a disease so fatal
is about.
l suggest this to you. Try it and you
will find am right:
Truly, MISS H. F.
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Two Dollars a Year.
Neutrality-suspicious. from Col. VVn
French.
VIcKsRuRG. Sent. !. ISIS.

! NIcKsBURG. Sept. >. ISIS.
DEAR Bro. Power: Ii may be said that
this Is no time for explanations, but when
injustice has been done. there is no time
like she present To make amends. When
the mail and express were stopped between
here and Jackson, it was told US. bv what
we deemed reliable authority, that the oili-
cials OF Jackson had, by quarantine regula-
tiops, prevented the trains on the Vicksburr
and Meridian Railroad, from stopping TO
take on the mail and express matter At
Jackson, thereby cutting of our communi-
ton with our friends, and preventing the
much needed aid from reaching us, thar was
being forwarded to US by generous people
from all sections of our country. Now. my
Brother, had you been here aud witnessed
as we have, whole families yea the I'm
mates of entire blocks OF buildings, stricken
down In few hours; could you have wit
messed the dead. the dying, the sutfrrings
and the restitution, and no means TO helm
the SICK and feed the hungry, save
such as were being forwarded by
by mail, express, and freight; had you. like
the people OF Nicksbarg, looked upon this
desolation, and then, like them, be told that
by the acts of sister city, the only avenue
OF relief was closed 10 us, would YOU not
like us, have condemned the act as barba-
rous and heartless?
Ihe dispatches sent by the Howard Asso-
citation to Governor Stone, and Bro. Sauu
derS, and which were promptly answered by
those gentlemen, convinced me that the
statements made in regard TO the city OF
jackson were false; and If there was doubt
in the minds OF any one, the explanations
which have taken place since that time. has
eradicated it. And now, in expressing my
own feeling, believe / give utterance to
the sentiments of this people, when | say
that in this our hour of suffering and sorrow,
there l. no greater source OF consolation
than To know that our friends are true to Us.
that their hearts beat in sympathy for
Us, and that they have never by any act
forfeited the respect and esteem which We
always entertained for them; and | trust
that in the future, as in the past, nothing
Will ever occur to sever the ties of friend
ship that binds the people OF Wick sburg 10
your people.
The situation is no better, but worse: fe-
yer spreading rapidly; doctors, nurses and
indeed all who are well, are worn out
Many of our best citizens are dead and dy-
ing; they, like our devoted physicians, fall
battling in the cause of humanity. 1t looks
as if none VIII escape.
| hope you will escape the fever in your
city. My wife ana two children down, but
now out of danger.
Excuse mistakes. l have not had my
clothes off for ten days and nights and but
little sleep.
Yours fraternally, WIN FRENCH.
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Memnhis AvnInnche-I

lIVII IIIII3 y NIIdIIITIN-I
To bury the dead and facilitate the bur-
rying away OF human bodies 10 the bosom
OF the earth Gen, Luke Wright aud ChaB,
G.. Fisher yesterday sent "a CORPS OF grave
dlggers To the IOtters field There the
thud Of spade as 10 Is thrust into the earth
is heard through the live long day, and tUe
pale light of "A new moon shows the grave
diggers at work, like body snatchers.
among the weird shadows of the night. A&
sappers preparing for an army's work ON
the morrow; as sappcrs buryug the fallen
dead after the mOrrUw's carnage, these men
dig the long trenches which a more ter
rIblc murderer OHM war IS nIng ND.
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JUSTICE TO JACKSON.

In The Vrginan ofthe 10Th, we comment
ed on the alleged inhumanity of the people
of Jackson aud Meridian, Miss, in refusing
to allow trains for Vicksburg to pass
through their limits. Our article was
founded on an extract from the Vicksburg
Commercial, and we gave that paper as our
authority, believing 1t to be undoubted. II
has since turned out that Jackson was not
to blame, the report Of her people refusing
to allow trains to pass, being a false one.
We therefore publish with great pleasure
the following letter. We give it in our edi-
toriaI column so that all who read our
article may see the correction. We have
not received the late Vicksburg papers, but
have seen the dispatches our CORES pondent
refers TO in other exchanges and they fully
confirm his statement. We think IL very
likely that Meridian is also innocent OF the
inhumanity charged against IL,
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THE HYGEIA HOTEL,
OLD POINT COMFORT, Va.
August Both, ISIS.
Editor Of Norfold Vlrginlan /.

EDITOR OI NOriOlu NlrglnlaHt
In a leading editorial of your paper Of the
oath, you have unwittingly helped TO spread
a false and injurious repOrt-that the city
Of Jackson, Mississippi, was preventing
freight trains passing through that town, to
the stricken city of Vicksburg. II you will
refer 10 your files of the Vicksburg papers
you will find that in answer 70 the dispatch
of an excited Vicksburger to Governor
Stone and the Secretary of War, Governor
Stone and the Mayor Of Jackson telegraphed
that the report was untrue, that no through
freight had ever been interfered with. On
the contrary they were doing all that could
be done TO help them.
Jackson was almost depopuiated by the
fever in 1853, and people learnt a terrible
lesson which they have not forgotten.
There has been no panic, "nO frenzy Of
error" but all who could, have quietly
moved out into the country. The town au-
thorities have cleared the decks. and made
ready for the fearful visitor that they are
hourly expecting.
| hope that you will do all you can 10
correct the slanderous report. Should the
fever reach Jackson, the people will need all
the help and sympathy that can be extend
ed to them--and such reports as this, al
lowed to go unrefuted, will -hut them out
from the sym pathy of the whole country.
Very respectfully,
JNo. III. ODESEAL.
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Burial Of "a yellow Ecvcr VIcfrus
at Water Valley.

Cor. st. Louis Globe Democrat
Three days ago, kenny Lees, "a citizen OF
water Valley, died there of yellow fever.
and not soul in the place would helm
bury the corpse. John Becton, Master Me-
chanic OF the Jackson route. volunteered 90
do the work, calling ON the cil izcns to assist
without receiving "A response. Srritl,, IN
could get no assistance, Mr.. Becktou enter
ca me mouse where the dead body lay, aud
placing the body IN the colin, he carried the
ouluen on ms shoulders tu wagon which
nc nau I'D Attendance. Upon 10 hc convey
ca inc ucad bouN from there % the Cpme-
Terry where alone aud unaided, he buried re
in the grave
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LLow FEVER RELIEF SOCIETY.

STATE LINE, Miss. Sent. q. ISIS.
Bro. j. l.. PowER. In respous. to Inc
cries for help that have come 90 us from our
our yellow tever stricken cities, the peouIe
OF our little piucy woods town have 6rgtu-
ized "a elbow Fever Relief society, with the
following officers: Jesse Byrd. President.
!. .. Gresham aud j. r. Hood. Nicc-Pre.i-
dents; l.. 4. Pcdstcr, Treasurer; j. l.. Bon
ner Secretary; and iu behalf the society.
have the pleasure @; forwarding You M rx-
press to-day, iorty-fyc dollars, which
amount the society requests thtt you Ms.
burSc among the sufferers of your state IA
IN your wisdom viii DO the most good.
also enclose you SIS 90 for State Line
Lodge, No 3l6.
rratcrnally,
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KIND WORDS. Sir John w. Stedmau,
in forwarding the contribution OF New
Haven Commandery, TO the yellow fever
sufferers in Mississippi, says:
Personal service is impossible. nh that
could aid 5 on, the South would swarm with
Northern friends with strong arms ma
warm hearts. Your terrible suuerings are
now absorbing our thoughts aud converse
tiOn.n
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Special to toe Avalanche.

Special TO toe AYalauche.l
BROWNSVILLE, sept. 3.-The officers Of
the Howard Association aud city officers
have TO bury the dead with their own hands.
The city is well nigh deserted, and we are i'm
need of nurses, money and supplies. flour
friends can help Us, we will appreciate the
kiudnes now In our need. The fever takes
all--natiyes and visitors, white and black.
All bushes Is closed except drug stores
w, lvIE WEsrBHOOK.
Secretary Howard Association
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BALnwYN, sept. 1878.
DEAR Bro. PowEE: send 3 ou per exc
press, to-day, Bnldwyn's mite to hpin .fhe
Howards' In their work 81 charity. via
so -. collected from Ourciiizens by "a COM
mtttee OF young ladies appointed by Mayor
and Councilman Of town. We send Go sou
because we believe you tO be- better inform
ed relative 10 immediate necessities OF suf-
isrers, than any person here can be. Our
II ward Committee OF ladies is continued.
ana u necessity requires, will send another
donation. True our contributions are small,
but the ladies do the best they can. Send
our donation where &c will do most good.
AUS Is NOT Masonic contribution.
fraternity and truly yours,
4. III. SAvERV,
Mayor of BALDWIN.
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"A Good sugge.lIou.,,
RinleY BrnadaxeI

Ripley BrnadaNc.l
Hon. H. NJ Street has written 10 the
CLARION urging state aid for the sufferers iu
Grenada, Nicksburg, and other towns iu the
state. This isa good suggestion, aud should
be acted upon without delay. says Che kem-
per Herald. The Herald is right.
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Jennie Jackson, an actress, left in New
Orleans without friends or money. was smit-
ten by the yellow fever. Her brother, John
Jackson an opulent resident OF Melvin, Ill ,
was telegraphed to for aid. No reply came
till after another dispatch had been sent an
nodncing her death, when he inquired what
would be the cost OF her funeral. 4 reply
was sent 10 say $50, whereuion he wrote
to the Mayor asking whether this was fair
charge. and whether he ought to send on the
mo- y. HIS sister, whom he had refused
$40 she wished 10 borrow so as TO leave TIL.
ciIy a. the gu, break af tn. pestiienoe, was
buried in in panper's grave
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Yazoo Sentinel
One case Of yellow fever has occurred in
this county. Mr.. Greiuer lie had for two
months been ia Vicksburg, and about two
weeks since left that city, asceudcd ths
SuntlOwer as far as Silver Creek, where DE
left the boat aud attempted % reach this
city across the swamp. lie was Frustrated
on the way. and died one day last week, at
the residence OF Mr. Upshur, on Silver
Creek.
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Memphis COlOrcd People, Appeal
for IA

1t says We are not able 10 bury our
dead, or % nurse and feed the sick and desc
titute. The most of as have no employ
ment, as all business is suspended Sond rs
contributions OF money or provisions
speedily. The petition is signed by a..
Holmes, Chairman Preachers Aid Asss0ci-
alton.
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From WEST POINT.

WEST POIhTs sept. 5 ISIs.
EDIToRs CLARION: Please state through
the CLARION that there is no yellow fever
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. West
Point and all other towns in the prairie
belt, are perfectly healthy. We have no
fears OF yellow fever here.
FRKD. BEAL.
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Two THOUSAND DowN WITH FEvEr

Two THOUSAND DowN WITH FEvERl
The following is extracted from letter
written by w. @. Paxton, Esq Vicksburg,
Sd:
The greatest need rs for skilled nurses.
but with more than two thousand down
with iever-a moderate cstimatr-aud three
thousand destitute, you can imagine some
thing Of the horror. OF course there o. much
Of imposition and attempted extOuiou, but
all classes of our citizens are doing noble
duty, illustrating the grandcst types Of
Christian manhood aud WOmanhOOd"
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GKN. G. Y. FREEMAN has been reported as
dead from yellow fever. Reports say he
died in Baltimore where he had fed
for safety, but aIasi ere he left his plague
stricken home the deadly germs Of the dis.
ease had found Judgment Ia bis system
Calhoun Vidette.
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T. SoUTHwooD SMITH,
SHAFTRsRURY,
EDWIN CHADWICK.
THE CURE OF YELLOW FEVER.
A Layman's Theory and Success
fuI Treatment of the Disease..-
Eacfs Commenting IL to the
Stricken for a Trial.
GALvEsroN. August 81. Isl,

GALVESTON, August 81, 1873
EDITORS NEWS In your issue of the 30th
inst, noticed the following telegram lat
a N meeting of the board of health, DIR. Chop
pin stated that physicians ought to study by
experiment extraordinary treatment OfyeI-
low fever, as the usual treatment has failed
to give any satisfactory results" When
physician, so eminent and skilled in his
profession as DR.. Chopin is known to be,
thus speaks TO the public in reference to the
terrible scourge now ravagipg the cities of
the South, it cannot be regarded as obtru-
sive. even in layman making no preten~
| sions to scientific knowledge, to give to the
public the benefit of his experience
In 1867, the yellow fever broke out in
Liberty, Texas, where then lived. Feel
ing alarmed for the safety of my family, L
dispatched at once to my father in Calves
ton whom knew to have been an expert
eneed and successful nurse in all the cpl
denies occurring in Galveston since 1874,
to furnish me with his mode of treating the
disease. He did so. My wife was my first
| patient. l applied my fathers treatment
with me an eXperime nt-confidentlY, how
ever, because l had his assurance that it
would not fail. She recovered. In few
days our children, five. with the same dis
ease. were nursed through to convalescence.
| With the assistance of my convalesced pa
tients as nurses, | treated thirty-siX cases
| of these, three died. DR.. James p. Cooke, a
| physician of acknowledged skill, then. and
still living in Liberty, observing the effects
of the treatment, adopted it, and ola not
lose single patient of those he treated. L
do not now remember of single case
treated otherwise than according to my
fathers method-in every instance dying
with black vomit.
CHAs. L. CLEVELAND.
CLEvELANp's TREATMENT OF YELLOW
FEVER.
SYMPToMs.-Flushed face, eyes infiamed,
and sometimes bloodshot ;skin dry and fever
ish; headache, with pain in the back and
bones; chilly sensations, slight shivering,
and sometimes sick stomach.
TREATMENT-When all or any of the above
symptoms are felt in time of an epidemic
the patient should prepare himself for treat
ment. First, take common cistern water,
about milk warm. add fo-say half gall
lou-castile soap dissolved of the size of a
musket bullet, and with good instrument
inject into the bowels sufficient quantity
, TO produce an evacuation. Next, and sec
| ontlly. prepare q mustard bath in vessel
sufficiently large To admit both feel
aud legs halfway up to the knees put in al
| least quarter of pound OF good mustard
| Kentucky, the best-and about one pfrt Of
good ashes, and let the water be as hot a
| the patient can bear it. Into this put both
1 feet. aud cause 3 blanket to be wrapped
around the vesselsand around the legs and
| body Of the patients 50 that the steam passes
| from the vessel well mp the body. Aftel
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SCARCITY or PHYSICIANS

oAFANNAH, Gao sept. 0.
To j. J.. POWER Nine Of our physicians
absent-twO no Nicksburg and two nc Mem
phis Cannot send more az present.
JNO. T. WHEATON, Mayor.
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CAS- long as you need, call on us for
help" SO writes Grand Secretary, John D.
Caldwell, who sends from one hundred to
two hundred dollars by every express.
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PORT Gibson

PoRr GIBSON, sept, 81. IE1H.
To j. l.. POwER: Many thanka. dean
friend and brother, for youR prom tneea tn
relieving our wants. Please return ora
grateful acknowledgment ca nll WHO hrHs
contributed. A present, fe9 cnrra nnf
death9, Ten nurses from New orIcnna rnl
three from hatche1i with suppiio-.
JAS A. atrM
NnnaEM .Ms
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A telegram for the payment Of money
was received from New York yesterday, adj
dressed 10 -. l.. Power, Grand Secretary,
or his successor
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Mr.. q. w. l.. Crook, one Of the heroes al
the epidemic Of 1873, died yesterday of tha
fever.--Mem phis Appeal.
Mr.. Crook formerly lived IN Jackson.
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Mr.. C. r. Norvell. an atrache of the edi-
torial staff of the New Orleans Democrat.
died yesterday morning of Yellow-feveT.
He was about 81 years of age at the time Of
his decease. and had been connected with
the Democrat for fourteen mOnths.--N. @.
PicAYune 18th.
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The WORK OF DEATH AT GRENABk.
Yesterday we expressed five hundred doll
lars 10 WI. Ayres, Noble Grand OF Greua-
da Odd Fellows Lodge, having seen notice
that he was among the few living The fol-
lowing sad story comes 10 us to-day:
GRENADA, MISS, Sept. q.
To j. J.. Power, Jackson: Bro. Ayers
died yesterday. am in receipt Of the five
hundred dollars from you, ami placed same
ia Odd Fellows Relief hands
X. A. ARMsrEAD.