The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-20

MEMPHIS, TENK.. September 6.-The
midnight Of our long night Of gloom
seems not TO have been reached even
vet. The hands Of Christian charity
alone have made rift In the clouds,
and words Of cheer from the outside
world encourage US TO fight on. II isa
hard battle, though. when friends and
loved ones are falling on every side, and
being buried with painful haste in a hole
in the ground. The new cases CLEANED
BY the inquiry Of Medical Director
Mitchell are fully 500, and the deaths
are 100 and over. Typhoid form Is
showing itself, and the fever Is becom-
ing little more controllabie. The dis
ease among the negroes Is giving little
or no trouble, rs the scarcity of the
word sscolored'' in the death list shows,
despite their great lajority In popula-
ton. War; and hunger are their trou-
bles. The Citizens Relief Committee
is doing all it can for them. Three hun
dred and twenty-nine families we're fed,
or 3, $50 rations were distri buted yester-
day. The issues to date foot up ~, 900.
The negroes are perfectly orderly
and quiet, and their lead
ing men are among our
best workers. One Of their color has
charge Of a new cDlored infirmary, into
which the Linden Street School has been
turned. In the part Of the city known
as Fort Pickering the fever Is raging
with terrible fury, and reaching out, It
has seized on the beautiful suburbs with
terrible strength Miss Lizzie Temple
and Miss Emma Reeder, two young la
dies of inte iigcnce and refinement, who
came here from Cincinnati to nurse the
sick, were this morning placed on duty
by Mr.. Ed Worsham, OF the Masonic
Relief Board, and are nursing IN the
family Of DIR. Kembro, having three sick
persons under their charge.
The printers and telegraph operators
have private hospitals, under good and
experienced nurses. The typos have
suffered badly, and the three city papers
have not more than eight on their COM
bined forces. Arrangements have been
made TO bury the pauper dead more
speedily, and special policemen have
been detailed to search out the dead and
have them promptly Inferred. A large
force is employed in digging trenches 70
facilitate sculpture in the Potter's Field.
Died NJ His Post.
yIcKsBURG, Sept. 5.-This is the
darkest day we have had yet. Dr.
Whitehead is dead He was ketuck-
ian, and Kentucky may well be proud
Of her son, and mingle her tears with
ours; for she has none'left that are no.
+, bier than he. lie was the very type Of
q perfect man, strong Is q lion. gentle
as a woman, handsome as a god. Among
his professional brethrtn, he was the ac-
knowledged head, yet none we're more
modest than he. Nature had placed the
stamp OF nobility upon his brow, and he
who ran might read it. When the fever
broke out, he might well have gone a.
others did. His practice was confined
to class Of people who have the means
to 90 North every summer, and who
had gone this time; but he stood by his
people in the hour Of their need, and he
died in the cause Of humanity His
name will add luster TO the diadem OF
glory already made brilliant by the
names Of Booth, Barber. Bursley and
Doll. vicksburg will long remember
him, and Kentucky will be untrue 10 her
self il high on the roll Of her distln'
guished sons she fails to engraye the
name Of r. +. Whitehead
Scenes Of Oscillation.
NEW ORLEANS, September ga
prominent citizen just from the North
! says the desolafion between Crane
junction and McComb City Is heart
rending. At the first place he saw !
lady from Memphis in the weeds by thu
side Of the track, dying Of yellow fever
Three doctors we're within fifty yards
who refused to 60 near her. Deserted
stores, empty houses, abandoned fields
and public roads unmarked BY Wagon
track, extended for one hundred miles
Grenada, passed in the night, contained
, single light, which illuminated tn
. yellow face Of corpse lyingon the rail
, way platform. He says the most fearful
war could not have produced create
devastation.
Crnxcd BY Grief.
GRENADA, Mss, September 5.-Mrs
; Marshall, widow Of the Western Uniol
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