The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-03
THE CAROLINAS IN 1895.

JQQSl4R ~ tH6 COHGSLnpOtdty 2it-
erature preserved in private letters.
Carolina was not at this time pleas !
ant place of reAidence. If che settlers
escaped the rigos of winter and the
warliks tribes which beset the core
nor, hero eolopists, they had to on
serve cesseless vigilencs over the |
Spaniards to the southwark, and en-
counter new and violent forms q
disease. The robust Englishmau
fresh from The mother county, wa
Just the material for the oaleplaree
which infested the low riyar-lapds
He knew neither by what preoaut-
ions to avoid their soizure nor how to
) esoape fatal issue 10 the event of
sickness. With our present knoWl-
edge of what those levers were. it is
sad to think of the remedies then iu
use. It was what might be called
the fowery age of medicine, when
syrups of roses and violets aud dec
Lotions of pimpernels we're nuoh re-
lied upon.
Here was the remedy OF the time:
take two roots OF erow-foot that
grows 10 the marsh ground, which
| have no little roots about them, to
the number of twenty or more, and g
little OF the earth that ia about them,
and doe not wash them, and adde a
little quantity of salt, and nike all
well together and lay it on LINEN
olothee, and bind 1t about your
thumbs between the first and heather
ioynt, and let it lie nine dsies unre-
moved, and il will expell the Fever"
After reading this how piteous is it
to turn to such a passage as the fol-
lowing, in letter written in 1886,
and thus addressed:
For Mrs. Ann Harleston,
or in her absence to
Nr. James Bownoll or Mr.. BoWsfeld,
in Dublin,
ireland.
This from Carolina.
my dear Husband died on
the 1st day Of November last of the
geut, which seized him after violent
manner 10: several months, with fits
of extreme shaking aud coliness
till he died within and without and as
extreme bnrning followed, the like
I never saw or heard of before; which
caused MIN frequently to pray that
God would deliver him, which he was
pleased to do about one hour after;
and my dear man stold me death is
now come, and he bit it yelcome,"
Through another letter By the same
lady We learn that three years alter
the above date period OF unusual
distress and gloom settled upon the
colony. The account is curious
enough to warrant it, literal present.
meut to the reader:
"DEAR SISTER, Il am sorry vt
should be ye messenger of SO sad
lidings as to desire w not to come to
me tell yu can heare better times va
here is now for ye whole country ia
, full OF trouble d sickness It's ye small
pox web has been mortal to all sorts
of ye inhabitauce & especially ye In
dams who tbs seid to have swept way
a whole ueighboring nation eli 10 5 or
6Woh run away & left there dead TN
buried lying upon ye ground for ye
walters to deour besida We want OF
shipin. This fall winter & ye sripg
hitherto is ye cause of another trouble
& has been folloW'd By an eart5
quake &burning OF ye towue Charles
tor or one third part OF it Wch they
say was OF equal valu VII vt remains
besides ye great los of cattle web
koW by VT has ben foun dead of mine
vt [ thinke is becaucs OF ye ha.d
winter vt has bin & being ouer stockt
what all these things put together
makes ye pace locke wn g terrable
aspect & non kows We will be ye end
of YIN l have lived going years
since ye death of my husband (wch
thinke in my heart was ye best 10 We
Worlt) as sbepe smongs wapluea hot
l am resolV'd now By good heIpe from
god TO feare non OF tbese things
hauing been by DUNE providence so
merackslasly presern'd through go
many troubles and dangers remem-
Der me in yr ret;rements who my
loue & seEuiee to all my couPens: &
lett senger OF better news to WI We
next writing for thing Ut are violent
seldom last long they will end on
way or another as its decreed aboue
Tyr sister in trouble
''AFFRA COMING.
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