The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-02
A Gradual Spread OF the
Fever in the South.
GRENADA DEPOPULATlNG.
Ninety-eight New Cases at
Vicksburg.
THE MORTALITY IN MEMPHIS
Noble Deeds Of Brave Men and
Heroic Women.


WYATT NJ BEDDING, THE rKLxoBArH OPERA
TOR AT GRKNADs, DEAD-Arso MRS. HUGHES,
WIFE or pR. W. Z. HuGHfs-rEN NEW
CASES YEsrnRDAY-A DESERTED cITY-IN-
STANCES OF TRUE AERoIsM.
(BY TsLKGRAPH TO THE HERALD
GRENADA, Miss, Sept. l. 1873.
ON this beautiful Sabbath morning, al haIf-past
cight O'Clock, the brave and noble Wyatt NJ. Rcd
dag brearhed his Lass. AT ton o'clock all that
unaiaed Of ay tho graveyard. Your correspond
csuld not help but feel sore at hsart ~ he saw
the nsarss bear away tho caskct which had contained
60 nobis a specimen has race, especially the
only other living soul. besides Bee. the driver
was q negro boy upon the drivers seat.
As Dr. Peoples aptiy remarked. we bury the
dead az ship merchandise, and yet in
times IKE these NO enc csu be spared to follow the
dead, those aiive have to he attending to
others. Wyass H. Rsddings was a native OF Marshall
county, Miss aud about twsnty-thres years old. He
ticket agent and Telegraph operator for the rail
road hero for the past four or i've years aud
snlcient, prompt and reliable empoy6 high In the
estimation Of his superior oflcsrs. temperate In
his habits and attentive to his duty. He was
favorits with all who knew him. His death
seon followed tho shaft winch laid him Low.
He taken sick in the afternoon Of Friday last; ne
died the morning Of Suuday; not three days sick
His partner and successor, young Hayburs s resting
rs we'll be expected. For TWO days
without operator. This morning sent
from Jackson, Miss, who viii remain until the
pany can furnish man who has haa the fever this
year As o change Of operators 10 Bot very dssir-
able thing. your correspondent hopes and prays
sucn q one may soon 10 found, as he
knows what t is to be in town nlied
with sick and dying MORALS without the means OF
getting any communication savc By letters. which 10
very ascertain to time The Western Union opera
tor this poss Mr. Tom MARSHALL, lies seriously ILL.,
He lost three children, but has hs good vile left and
ono child sick
Mrs. DR.. Hughes died this morning at four O'Clock
Rsr husband yesterday morning, already wired
you Dr. e. W. Hughes was the most promissns
physician Grenada and In fsc OF oil North Misss-
sippL His words his attendant ph ysacian
Dr.. W. p. Beatty, Of Mobile, Ala. :-"Pioass have
me buried like cntiemsn and pbysicun. DR..
Beatty that IL was done. laying him ont and
dressing his BODY with his own good cid hands, and
be- followed the corpse its last resting place. This
10 not often, thero Is 10 do II asd
time to spare. as already stated rhe CONN goes
unattended to the 1t II there received By TIE
gravcdigger has assistants, who deposit In its
last resting place.
A pEsERrxD cIrY.
This 10 beautiful morning. and as your correspond
emit locks out OF bis window he secs NOT sign OF
life No neatly dressed people are vending their wav
10 the houses of Worship. No bells announce tho
hour worshp but all around him Is tho stiffness OF
night only BY the click Of the message ~ u
speeds way 10 the outer world. Yesterday, NJ
three p. NJ. your correspondent wendsd his way to
the quarantine station to meet the train, 10 company
with ME- Coan, OF the Towards
TRUE HERoisM.
We met DR.. George W. Voolfolk, Of Paducah KY,
attended by negro nurse, to help us As ne mad
never q OF yellow lever wc told him 10 Leave
tho nurse, but for him TO return at once Hs said,
emo; no had come 20 DO OF what Iitue no could,
aud no going to stay" We brougnt him Into
Town, and he rs in charge OF the hospital, where
be observe better than In any other way the dis
ease and lis treatment from its dawn 10 rs
night. He comes with the full knowledge Of
his liability to attack, but he feels 10 to
be hrs duty, ana his wife said, "Go;
and II you never como back will mourn
for you a. my heroic husband, who served his God
by serving HIS CREATURES" Dr. Voolfolk will
shs best attention possible. He 10 democratic capdi-
date for Lisutcnant Governor OF Kentucky and has
NO opponent, SO he will DO elected Of course II he
lives. 0sd grant that he may.
ORPHANS
Dr. McCracksn, the good Samaritan rector Of All
u
Mr. Henry Ogden, of New York, Enclosing Some
noacy and asking how much moro needed and
how 10 send H. The Doctor asked leave 10 say that
10 has about six families. whom he will have to
support for weeks, and perhaps oil winter, as the
male members have all died and none bat heart.
broken women and half orphans and IN one or i've
insGances whole orphans lsh Money sent 70 him
here viii be used With sns greatest csrs and TO tho
best end possible, or It be sent to Mr.. HoOry
Ogden, OF Ogden CLARKE, real estate agents. Broad
way, New York.
BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
Some insaes person sent . despatch 70 Care, which
was copied by New orleans paper, stating that
child Of Mr. Tom MarshaI, the Western Union
spsratsr, had lain unbursed Two days THIS Is
Infamous fsisebood No child, nor any white person
has lain three hours without bariai NOR any black
person where known to she Howard All that mo-
mainly can do has doae. said malicious false
hsod-rathcr should say must have been some
one paIs,ed by lear and rot possessed Of ceuage
Snough to stop TO make Inquiries
cAsRa
There are -four amsns the whnes aud six
among tho blacks oae eolored died about Jour
s'cieck this morning. No change 10 psrosptble In the
Of tho scourss One ihing 10 apparently GER
lain, the disease viii stop Ios wsas o. material
70 keip ns expusion. No citizen Of Grenada should
vssture ua, sfter irost the psws or safety
u waited the wires their property 10 safe and
thcy arc az safe wherever tnsy are We donv want
them mere
TIE pEAras DAT.
wyatt n. HsddinG
Mrs. Dr. Hsghss
Rev. Mr. Hall, Bsptist-
Rev. Dr. McCsmpbsn, Presoyteriau.
Mr.. Thomas y. Marshall, the Western Uuioa
operator.
gun DBxAsR SPREADING In MENPHIs-EroHrY-
ONE DEATHS DUNNO THE LAST rwrrrr-roun
Houns-PnoxuxKxr clr1ztNs AMONG THE