Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-26

Human Uoprlvity,
Thst there are human beings exist
inqin our city. (by what means God
eaiy kn0Wsl Qho hfe but e grade
above the brute, there Is no doubt, and
q harina earnest Of this fact was pre-
seated yesterday IN the appearance
ubon Washington street Of a negro
boy with 3 long cigar box under bis
arm, who approached DR.. Brisbane and
said "Doctor / have got 8 child here
for you 10 bury"
wWhere il the child?" Doctor.
aHeFe Il 10 In this box" said the boy ;
at the same time taking the box from
under bis aFm.
~WhOss child is hY" asked the
doctor.
Martha Jackson's, who lives down
in Bear Wollow,' over Mr.. P. T.
O'Shea's Msyhower salOon," replied the
hoy.
After some explanatory converse.
ton the doctor ordered the boy to re-
turn the child to its mother and return
70 him with information as to who she
was and the name of its father. In a
short time he returned and said the
mother was sick in bed and that the
father was Ed. Voolfolk, a steamboat
deck hand. The doctor then in COM
pany with a G. H. reporter proceeded
to the Sunfower saloon on Levee street,
passed back through a narrow alley
way to rear Of the building, where were
c~ongregated about a dozen typical
steamboat rousters, some engaged
shooting dice, others louDging around
engaged in conversation. Passing up a
pair of stairs leading from the yard
they entered a narrow dark alley run.
ming half way forward through the
building and then turning directly
south through it, at the lower end Of
which on the left hand side
they entered room, the
stencil in which was almost
s~uffocating. Here, on a miserable ex-
clse for a bed. was found a negro wo-
man, and on the edge Of the bed was
the cigar box containing the child.
The doctor ordered the room ventilated
and the child removed. She stated
that Ed. Woolfolks was the father of
the child, that he had deserted her
some months since, and was living in
the backyard of Carrie Freeman's yard,
on Mulberry street, with another wife;
that he knew Of the birth and death Of
the child, and had not been neal her.
She said she had no money, and the
doctor gave an order for the interment
Of the child, after which he proceed
ed to Carrie Freeman's house, where
seven negro girls were lettering on the
sidewalk, all Of whom denied knowing
anything about Ed. Woolfolks. While
the doctor was questioning the women
Capt. Billet, of the police, came up,
and, about the same time, a negro man
came out of the alleyway. Capt. Billet
questioned him, and he said he wa Ed,
Woodfolks. DR.. Brisbane Immediately
accused him of being the father Of the
dead child, and he, in a
careless manner, said yes he
was, that he used to have heI
for the wife, but that she left him. HI
said he would pay the expense of thu
burial If the doctor would give him {
week, which was agreed to. The "Beal
Wollow," or upstairs where the sick
woman was, is the upstairs portion of
the twO-story frame building known
as the Mayiower saloon, which is
divided into four rooms in which live
eight women. Upon descending the
steps to the back yard where the group
of "rousters' were still congregated,
DR.. Brisbane asked them where they
lived, and one of them answered, 1--WE
live up there, we do" at the same time
pointing upstairs. This is but an
other picture of low life and depravity
in Vicksburg, and this is but one Of a
dozen such places not alone or the
levee, but in more pretentious local.
ties in the city.