The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-11


\ appeal, has lost wife, mother and son
| BY the scourge.
! The fever is very bad At Hopefeld,
Ark. which explodes the idea that It
would not 60 west OF the Mississippi
River.
The New Orleans Picavune believes
that doctors may differ rs 10 the nature
Of disease, and yet agree as to the
price Of visit.
-Mest Of our richest men have not
done their aims before men we trust
they have done them before Cod
Jackson Tenn Sun.
Nobody has had the yellow fever in
Cairo except the attaches Of the Buil6fin
Of that city. IL is suggested that the
pestilence was probably brought to that
Office BY the unfumigated New Orleans,
Memphis, and vicksburg newspapers.
The first copy Of the Grenada Sen
fisei issued since the appearance Of the
plague, Is mournful little death-sheet,
with column rules reversed, and con-
tai ms the names of 240 citizens planted
under the sod in that once happy and
prosperous village.
The record OF DR.. Coleman (some
days ago) is that 81 unacclimated physi-
clans have arrived in Memphis since the
plague began. OF these, Is have died,
Is are now sick or convalescent, and
only two out of the whole number have
escaped thus far.
A correspondent of the New Or
leans Picayune says four or five negroes
have died on the Mccarthy plantation,
near Port Gibson, and as no one would
bury the bodies the torch was applied to
the cabins in which they died, and the
bodies burned-the first instance Of Gre
nation in the State.
We understand that DR.. Maury has
it at Gill's Station. Dr. X. b. Maury
for many years has been one of the most
prominent physicians in Memphis.
Within our recollection there has not
been an epidemic in this city that DIR.
Maury has not skipped out at the very
beginning. Memphis Avalanche.
Callahan, widower who had
good character here, left his children ia
Memphis at the beginning of the epi-
demic, went to Louisville, married again
and sent back Ia John Donovan, ssto
take care Of his children" The chill
dren are all dead or dying, but Callahan
took good care his carcass did not APP
pear. Memphis Aralanche.
There is good deal Of grim, grave
humor INDUCED in by the Memphis edi-
tors in the midst OF all their gloom.
The editor Of the Araiancke delights TO
call himself the - old man and u tough
citizen" and whenever he receives
new remedy for the fever, one Of the
preventives that does not prevent.
speaks of 1t rs ssanother county heard
frOm.n
"A boy came into the New Orleans
Pic1yune Office TO insert . death notice
last night He said to the gentleman
having charge Of the advertising depart
ment: = Another one gone; that makes
eight" "What do you meaa?" asked
the gentleman. The boy answered: IL
mean that this is the eighth one of nv
family that has died--five brothers and I
three sisters. wonder who will come
nextp" /" How many are leftP'' "Only
me- he replied as he went out.
Your reporter heard Of the outrage
ously irhuman conduct Of a man named
John Grashot to-day. He had sickness I
in his family, asked the Towards for a
nurse, which was promptly furnished in 4
the person Of Mrs Mary Brown, most
excellent lady and good nurse. After
nursing his family faithfully, she was
stricken down with the fever herself.
No care was given the poor lady by
Grashct, and she died last night during
the storm. He had her remains inter-
red In his own yard, near the public
highway. The people in the vicinity \
are very indignant, and justly 80, as
they requested Grashot to have her re-
moved TO the hospital, where she could
have proper attention, which he refused
to do. The English language does not
furnish words strong enough to express
an opinion Of this fellow, ungrateful
monster as he IS. An order has been
issued for his arrest ntn,Dhis Cor.
LoutsriIie Couriev-Joxynat.
In this city, before the epidemic,
there were three young men Of the high
est standing in society who were ever
either in public affairs or in
social relations. The one never came
IN possession Of events but what the
other two shared. At noon they greet
Cd each other more affectionately than
ever brothers did, and at night ii was a
Wish you well, dear boy In bust
ness II was how TO assist one another
through in his particular sphere, and in
pleasure enjoyments all three were ever
near. In the epidemic all remained nc
heir post, fulfilling their arduous du-
ies-one as local editor, the second as
Associated Press agent, and the third in
public oflices--aDd assisting the dis
ressed by every means possible, until
stricken down by fever. They ali died,
md today they lie side BY side in the
beautiful Elmwood, brothers in death as