The Newtown bee., 1880-02-25
The Yellow Fever Refugee--Pre-
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 A few days ago friend, who had been up the Hudson River on business ven- ture, told us of little incident which we think worth repeating. Last summer during the rage of the yellow fever in Memphis. a young drug clerk left the sunny South and came North. He found employment in store in one of the vil- | lages near the beautiful Hudson. The clerk told his employer many things about the horrible nature of yellow fever, but his employer HuW(ed) to deny the young man employment, so he consented to give him work. The clerk boarded with his employer, and slept in a room over the store. The young clerk had no fever about him, yet there were misgiv- ings and dread that he might break out with the plague. The clerk had q liking for prepared lobster, and at some time during his stay he opened box in his room and ate somes the remainder he laid in bureau drawer for future use, but the clerk never finished it., as he concluded to leave his employer and the village. Soon after ti,is the proprietor of the store had occasion to go into the room formerly occupied by tho yellow fever refugee, and found the air rather unwholesome, and to ventllate things he raised the window and left the door open. few days elapsed, and he made another visit to the room, and the stench was so much worse that he called the attention of others to the fact that something was wrong, and he could not account for H. except that short time before a young man from the yellow fever district had roomed there, and ever since he had been away the room was unwholesome. The conclusion arrived at was that it was the yellow fever. Chloride of lime was ordered, and every crevice loaded with it. The old gentle
 man, we Hayt to call his name, exclaimed when he heard of the horrible stench, 70 dear, o dear we shall have the yellow fever sure I" Chloride of lime was applied again and again, and the awful smell seemed to increase; the proprietor of the store was at his wits ends, cargo, more or less, had been used and still there was no relief. The noise of the affair began to spread, villagers eyed the store and seemingly dreaded to pass it. The weather was fearful hot, chloride of lime nearly exhausted, bushels of it thrown, as 1t were, into bottomless pit; 70 dear. 0, dear: what was to be done. The ri int1 in Jn1 l., sleeves and "in lis mind" bade farewell to every body went to that room follow stealthily by his clerks, who wanted to see the thinSout. The proprietor with the fingers of his left hand grasping his nose, proceeded to move every article of furni- turc; the first and nearest at hand was a bureau: it was too heavy to lift alone, 80 he removed the drawers, and just as he drew out the last ono he reeled back i'll horror, believing that he had found the long lost body of Stewart, Recovering himself, he looked again, and behold, it was the remains of the much decayed lobster The feelings of the much abused l proprietor can be better imagined than described; suffice it to say tha5 the lob- ster was decently and ceremoniously buried, and from that day to this yellow fever and prepared lobster are at a dis, 1 count, and the chloride of lime account and loss, while the yellow fever refugee the innocent cause of all the trouble, is "Away down South in Dixie."