Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-17
Western and Southern States.


Frederick B. Ferrman young man, died
at Cincinnati OF conjestiye chills, and on the
next day his betrothed, Miss Lulu George, o
portrait painter of ability, shot herself fatally
having been driven insane by her lovers
death.
Professor Colgrove and G. H. Williams, the
latter manager OF Woodward Gardens in San
Francisco, made O balloon ascension the other
day. The wind was blowing gale and the
balloon flew along the tops OF buildings, tore
off telegraph wires collapsed and tell in Fol-
som street. Colgrove was instantly killed
and Williams fatally injured.
Some unknown white men at Whitewright,
Texas, recently surrounded the house of the
Wadsons, colored, consisting OF mother and
two children, a boy of eighteen and girl OF
nine years, called them to the door and shot
them down in cold blood, killing the mother
and son instantly and MORALLY wounding the
LITTLE girl.
| A late Memphis dispatch says the days
record shows marked increase in the spread
of the disease, both inside the city and beyond
! the corporation limits, on account of the warm
weather which prevailed during the week
past. The dispatch says further: " The yell
| low fever death list to date from the COM
mencement of the so-called epidemic on July
8, 1879, the day on which Francis Mulbranden
died. just ninety days ago, aggregates 405, be-
ing an average OF less than five daily. During
| all this time the city has been, under the man.
agement and control OF an institution created
during the past winter and located at Nash
vile, known as the State Board of Health
under the advice, influence and pay OF the
National Board of Health, fenced in like be-
seged city For more than seventy days
there has been total cessation of commerce
and travel, and every avenue by which the
population could earn livelihood has been
closed for nearly three months. A deathlike
stiffness has reigned. Not a sound to disturb
the monotony, except around the semi-mili
tary headquarters of the superintendent of
quarantine. On the outskirts only the dash
OF the cavalryman, the picket and the scout
troopers, in the pay OF the National Board OF
Health, breaks the painful silence. In taking
q retrospective view of the situation one is
torcibly reminded OF the epidemic of 1873 in
this city and other yellow fever epidemics in
various cities of the land OF five times the
magnitude of this one, where the fever was
not hindrance to local commerce and travel.
All this was before the National Board OF
Health was heard Of But how is it with
Memphis in 1879? Unless upon the spot, the
most vivid imagination could not picture to
itself the desolate, forlorn and wretched con-
dition OF a city once so attractive to the mer-
chant and tradesman. This peculiar state OF
affairs, following so soon after the birth of the
National Board of Health and the adoption OF
the system-new to civilized ages-of besieg-
ing and fencing in the unfortunate city, is, to
say the least, very significant"
kilograms from Wyoming Territory state
that General Merritt, after forced march in
which his troops covered ITO miles in about
ioTty-eight hours, reached the battlefield at
Milk river, in Colorado, and reinforced the
command OF Captain Payne, which for five
days had been CALAMITY holding Its own in the
Entertainments, though constantly under hot
fire from the Ute Indians. The casualties in
Paynes command has been twelve men killed
, and forty-three wounded. Captain Dodge
had already arrived with company of colored
, cavalry, but all of his horses had been shot by
{ the Indians, except two, and he was obliged
to remain passive behind the intrenchments
until General Merritt arrived. In his report
to General Sheridan, Merritt says words fail
to describe the scene in the vicinity of the
! wretched intrenchments. Over three hun.
dred dead animals were lying outside OF the
breastworks, the stencil from which was
something horrible. During the five DAYS
that Captain Payne's troops were besieged
they fortified themselves rs well as possible by
building stookade and digging a trench, in
which they ensconced themselves out of range
OF the calling fire that was being poured into
, them constantly by the Utes from the sur.
rounding heights. A courier from the White
river agency, to the relief of which Major
Thornburg's command was marching wheT
, attacked, reports that all Che white men thel
were killed, but the woman and children were
spared. The woman and children at the
agency were the vile of Agent Meeker anC
his daughter, Josephine, Mrs, Price and hel