Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-01
A POOR UNFORTUNATE.
Sick, Friendless and Homeless.

/ LIBERTY COUNTY, GA, June Is
| Editor Morning Ne1s: Having noticed a
! communication in your paper of last Fri
day signed "senex," feel constrained to
| reply Were the facts of the case known
/ the article would never have been writ
/ ten.
! The unfortunate female" referred to is
/ not native OF Liberty county, but was
! born In Mcintosh county. Her parents
one OF Liberty and the other OF Chatham
| lived in savannah both before and after
/ their marriage.
The family, unable to overcome the dis
/ astrOus effects of our civil war, dritted
/ from place 10 place till about two years
| ago the father, mother and daughter
moved to Liberty county, where a year
/ later the mother died and was buried by
the kindness OF the neighbors. Thus the
father and daughter, she a cripple from
childhood, were left alone in a little log
! nut not tit for any human being to live in.
4 serious fall, added TO domestic drudg-
cry beyond her strength, laid her on bed
OF helplessness and PAIN from which she
has not risen IN year. The people in the
vicinity and the resident physician did all
they could, but the sufferer having some
times i've commissions in one day, needed
constant nursing and care such as only
hospital can give her.
Liberty county has none. nor does she
need one, TOR this Is the OIL case where
one was wanted.
Some ladies Of the county, WHO were
anxious to relieve her agonies, or at least
render her more comfortable, were in
formed by savannah physicians that if
she were in Savannah or Chatham county
she would in time be taken into the Civ
Hospital. They then went around and
solicited subscriptions IRON the citizens
TO send her TO the city. The people con-
tributed literally, according to their
ability, and she was sent on a bed insensi-
ole with commissions to Savannah Her
physician accompanied and placed her in
charge OF DR.. Harris, of Savannah, who
mas kindly attended her and relieved her
suffering TO a great extent. For a month
her board, prescription bills and other ex-
penses have been paid by the people of
Liberty county, assisted by some generous
ladies OF savannah. Could they have
done more?
She has equal claim on Chatham county,
and more, for Chatham has the means and
the institutions while Liberty has not
Again, according to the laws. no one is a
pauper who has relatives of means: and
such she has, though they are not to be
found IN Liberty county. More Of this
hereafter.
Now. "Senex" says nothing can be
done but to return her to her native
county" Her requirements can no bet
ter be met in Mcintosh than in Liberty
county; and she has no home anywhere
TO return her TO. The old house she left,
being rest otyermin, has been torn down,
or partly So, by the owner.
Then why, in the interest of suffering
humanity, 1 xviii not the hospitals re-
celye heT2 We're they not designed for
lust such cases?
Could Miss Mary Telfair but speak she
would enlarge her noble charity to meet
such a case as this. There would be no
besitancy, no delay,ln taking her into the
Telfalr Home. Alas, that charity should
be limited to county lines. But If organ
lzed charity must be SO fettered, then let
individual charity come to the rescue.
ZONE WHO KNOWS"