The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-11
THE EPIDEMIC OF 1878.
A Grand Exhibit of Relief by the Ma
sons and Odd Fellows.

Extract from the Annual Report of j. L.
Power Grand Secretary, to the Grand Lodge
of Mississippi, at its recent session IN Jack
While on the subject of finance, | am
happy to be able to submit to Grand Lodge
a final report on the Relief Work, which
has occupied so much of my time since Au-
gust, 1878. The total receipts may thus be
stated
/ From Masonic sources S,357 Al
From Odd Fellows.................. 16, 100 Sc
Miscellaneous ........................ l., 75l n
Total. JzOS OF
When the Grand Lodge met last
January, l had disbursed as
per vouchers then submit
ted, the sum So, 7S6 81
From that date to June 30, 1879,
voucher No. /, to 100, as per
detailed statement in Epi-
demic Report, pages 2ll to
Zl3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1b,ZOZ 81
From July LIST, 1879, to January
% 1880, vouchers 40 to
los ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4,f09 10
Total. ..........................s77 1893 Is
The story of this relief work was told at
last Grand Communication, and has been
detailed in 4 volume of 216 pages, two
thousand copies of which have been dis
tributed to the generous contributors III
every State and Territory and to several
foreign countries.
From every quarter, I have received
gratifying, and often eXtravagant express
sions of satisfaction, of the exhibit which
has thus been made of the large sums of
money which poured in upon US in the
time Of pesti.ence and death. | trust that
| am truly grateful for the opportunity
afforded me of dispensing the benetactions
of the humane and generous everywhere. tn
our stricken and impoverished communl-
ties; and if in the discharge of the duties
and responsibilities which the emergency
seemed TO warrant me in assuming, | have
acquitted myself 50 as to merit the approval
of YOU brethren, who best know me, 1t
will be ample reward for the heavy labors
and anxious cares attending the disburse-
ment of so large sum, with unlimited dis
erection as to how and TO whom 1t should be
distributed. In reviewing my work,
would not recall 4 single disbursement,
and my only regret Is that / could not give
larger amounts in many instances. While
| rejoice that this work has been brought to
a close, it viii be matter of regret that L
cannot respond TO the occasional calls for
assistance that am sure viii be made upon
me.
IKE Committee to whom my books and
correspondence have been referred Will
make their report during the session, and
tlatter myself that they wi'l.find every dis
burssment sustained by a satisfactory
voucher.
The disbursements of the past summer
include $500 90 10 Memphis, S4O0 OO to
Concordia, 800 90 to General Hoods chill
dren. and 800 90 toward sending some
L. 4 lnFT IN ENGLAND
their father and mother having died of
yellow fever at Concordia. 1t has been my
privilege 10 send several children orphaned
by the plague, to their friends IN other
States. Two that sent to Ohio were received
and cared for in Chicago, and forwarded to
their present home at Lima, by our Grand
Representative, Past Grand Master DEWITT
g. Creiger; and two that sent to Charles
ton were tenderly cared for on ths Equte,
and at Atlanta, by friends to whom | had
telaeraphed. Mr.. Clarke, General Manage
of the Chicago, st. Louis, and New Orleans
Railroad. very kindly furnished free trans
portation for these ehiidrea-tSo Of them to
Grand Junction, and two to Chicago. Ehe
9Tamnhis and Charleston Railroad also
nd generous reduction. Indeed
All the Railroads. and the Express
Company, honorea the many de-
msnas which made upon them in prose
an ing the work of relief 1t has been said
tLst rsiIroad corporations shave no souls
Int after many calls made upon railroad
msna0ers during many years, in behalf Of
tho~a destitute Of means TO travel, can say
* 81 al. ore has been denied, and that, as
rrIss yailroad raea have much of the milk
| az human kindSess in their epgnposltlon
had ct apart. and invested p Ms
sifeinpi 8 ner cent bond, re aaElza oI #Rvg wv
toward the support Of the infant daughter