The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-09-27

, e'ch Other IN search or prov isions, whic
oeSan to be very scarce. This necessit
$ OF going out of our houses to buy prov
sions'" continues Defoe, "was, in grca
measure, the ruin of she whole city, fo
tho people catchcd the 9istempcr on thes
occasions one Of another, and even the pro
VISIONS themselves were often tainted-a
least have great reason to believe So
ana therefore 1 cannot say with satisfaction
WAL Sis.aaasstAf ~ssssiAa ,zsaaA.assn.
brought provisions to town were never in
tccted L am certain the butchers OF
White Chapel, where the greatest part OF
flesh meat was killed, were dreadfully visi.
ted, and that at least to such degree that
few of their shops were kept open, and those
that remained in them killed their meat at
Mile End and that way, and brought it 10
market on horses. 1t is true people used
all possible precautions when any one
| bought joint of meat in the market they
would not take it out of the butchers hand.
| but took IL off the hooks themselves. On
the other hand the butcher would not
touch the money, but have itput into pot
iuIl OF vinegar, which he kept for that pur-
pose. The buyer always carried small mon-
ey to make up any odd sum that they might
take no change. They carried bottles for
scents and perfumes in their hands, and all
the means that could be used were culploycd.
But then the poor could not do even these
things, and they went at all hazards. In
Vulnerable dismal stories VIC heard every
day on this very account. Sometimes
man or woman dropped down dead in the
very market, for many people that had the
plague upon them knew nothing of it until
the inward gangrcne had affected their vi
tails, and they died in few moments. This
caused that many died in that manner iu
the streets suddenly, without any warning.
bas 6r ateH4-sF sts;- 5f Is rS ahy uso pottn,
just sit down and die, as have said before.
These objects were SO frequent in the streets,
that When the plague came to be very rag
Ing on one side, there was scarce any pass
,iag b bAtife streets but that several dead
bodies would be lying here and there upon
the ground on the other hand, it is observ.
able that, though at first the people would
stop as they went along and call the neigh
bors to come out on such an occasion, yet af.
terward n9 notice was taken Of them. But
if at any time we found corpse lying, go
across the way and not come Rsab Slt eyri agsia
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and seek some other way to 60 on the busi-
ness we were upon, and in those cases the
corpse was always left until the officers had
notice to come and take them away, or till
night, when the bearers attending the dead
cart would take them up and carry them
away. Nor did those undaunted creatures
who performed these Offices fail to search
r.. =7it--e.s and sometimes to strip off
sometimes they worc,a ..---- ----syssx.J os
they could get ~ y, It. is scarceIv
credible what dreadful cases happened in
partlclar fa,iiles every day; people in the
rage of the distemper or in the torment of
the irrackings, which was indeed intolerable,
running out of their own government, raw
ing and distracted, oftentimes laying vio-
lent hands upon themselves, throwing them.
! selves out of their windows, shooting them
selves, &c. Mothers numbering their own
children in their lunacy; some dying of
grief, as passion some of mere fright
and surprise, without any infection at all !;
others frightened into iGiotism and foolish
distractions some into despair and lunacy !;
others into melancholy madness. x
In some the swellings were made SO hard
that no instrument could cut them, and
then they burned them with caustic, so that
many died raving mad with tho torment,
and some in the very operation. In tssue
distresses, for want of help toshoId them
down in their beds oste look e. them, many
/ laid henas apoos shsmsslsz y
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