The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-10

trater Diamond accounts for the exemp-
tion from fever by the fact that the boys
have been regularly dosed with quinine.
VIcKsBURG.
A Vicksburg special says DIR. Norris,
of Chattanooga, who went to work a few
days ago, reports having sixty new
cases, forty old ones on hand already
and more calls than he will attend to,
and has writtenover one hundred and
seventy-five prescriptions. He has found
whole families down with the fever,
without anything to eat or single soul
near to give assistance, some having
been in that condition for three days. If
the terrible increase of the past few days
should continue this place will discount
the horrors of Grenada, for there are
few here that are not on double duty,
and the excitement attendant on these
awful times is wearing them out daily
by scores.
GRENADA.
A Grenada special says In all Gre
NADIA there is not store open, not
market-house, not saloon. The How
ards with the exception of Rev. Mr..
McCracken and DIR. RinggoldD are the
only people who are at work.
interviewed Mrs. Emma Clay,
Cuban nurse of experience, and her
story is that never in her life did she
see so terrible and deadly scourge in
Havana or in any other part of Cuba,
Mexico or New Orleans. Mrs. Clay
states that this is more like plague
than any epidemic of yellow fever; that
the patients turn black and blue in
various parts of their bodies before
and just after death. The undertaken
tells me of the noble and praiseworthy
way in which the physicians work, es-
pecially DR.. Henry Stone, of Natchez,
and DIR. w. II. Beatty, of Mobile, both
of whom he knew to sit whole nights
and act as nurses for poor families when
they had been acting as physicians all
the day.
MEMPHIS.
a Memphis special says: The atmos-
phere is heavy with the stencil of dead
bodies. Several corpses were found, and
no one was able to tell where or how
they died. 1t is impossible to describe
the condition of affairs here. Four dead
men were found in the streets before
noon in different parts of this city,
There is some improvement in the
movements of the undertakers since the
Citizens Relief Burial Corps have taken
matters in hand.
Destitution and want are on the in
crease. White persons, who cannot
stand all day in the clamorous crowds
of negroes that throng the delivery
windows of the supply depots, are suffer-
ing for provisions. Hundreds who have
sick families cannot leave them long
enough to procure food, and it is next to
impossible to get any one to attend to
their wants.
Visitor Manford, of the Howards, en-
countered horrible scene upon entering
house on Commerce street, Sunday.
Upon bed lay the living and the dead
husband cold and stiff, wife in the
agony of dissolution. On the floor, toss
ing in delirium, where two children of
this pair, and beside them their cousins,
two little girls, themselves sick. To
complete the responsiveness of the scene,
and give it touch of disgusting horror,
drunken man and drunken woman,
parents of the little fever-baked girls,
were reeling and cursing and stumbling
over the dying and the dead.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 5.-Our city is one
vast charnel-house. The undertakers
report ninety-six interments for the
twenty-four hours ending at P. NJ. A
visit to the county undertaker's tonight
discovered the fact that at nightfall
there were about sixty more reported
dead, but still unburied. The question
of disposing of the dead is becoming
serious one.
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