The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-05-17
ABOUT CHASE CITY
\ Statement Concerning the Small
POx There.
1t Is Claimed That There Is None al
Lunenburg.
.ETTeR WAS NOT SIGNED THIS TIME

Err WAS NO SIGNED THIS TIME
But The Globe Believes That Its Infor-
nation Has Been Only Sent and
Some One Is OFF About 1t.
The following letter from an unknown
writer at Chase City, was received this
morning by Captain T. B. Lyon, who,
according to request, turned it over to
TUE GLOBE for publication.
Just why the correspondent in ques-
ton did not sign his name is not known,
and just why he did not address his con-
munication to THE GLOBE instead of to
a private citizen of the town who was
in no way responsible for the original
publication, is likewise unexplained.
While, as rule, THE GLOBE declines
printing anonymous communications, in
the present instance, in order that Chase
City may have the benefit Of every doubt
and that the business of the town may
not be crippled by any reports which
might be magnifed into undue inpor-
tanc, we give the letter in its entirety
and for whatever it may be worth
CHASE CITY, Va, May 10 '93.
Capt. T. B. Lyon, Durham, n. c.:
My DEAR CAPTAIN We have just
seen an account in THE DURHAM GLOBE
.purporting to be a special from Chase
City in re ar to the small poX.
The ag Mt here says no such telegram
has been sent from here stating such
facts as are contained in the article in
THE GLOBE. We are inclined to think
that the article must have been sent
from some other town. At any rate l
write at the request of a large number
Of our citizens to ask that the editor will
correct the report as it is wholly with
out foundation.
There has not been any one here who
has escaped from the quarantine section
in Lunenburg county. There has been
no one in our town who has had the
least symptoms of the disease, nor from
wham there is any reason whatever TO
apprehend any danger Oh that ground.
There is not a case of small pOx within
fifteen miles of this place and our town
is just as free from small pox or any in
dications of the same as any town in the
state.
In addition to the above we will state
that there has been no small pox at
Lunenburgh Cours House as was stated
in the article referred to nor has any
white man in Lunenburg county been
affected with the disease.
Please see the editor of THE GLOBE
and request him to deny the report and
to give the denial as much publicity and
prominence in his columns as was given
to the article in position.
Our citizens will appreciate your at
~tentiOn to this matter as we'll as the cOur-
tesy of the editor of THE GLOBE.
write hurriedly in order to catch the
next mail. Hoping to see you soon,
am very truly yours,
THE GLOBE, while publishing the state.
ment of the unknown Chase City CORES
pendent, desires to say that it did 0
claim that the special came by wire, and
fails to see why the Chase City operator
should know anything about it The in
formation came through a correspondent,
deemed absolutely reliable, and with no
intention to injure the Virginia town.
AS for the staten ent to the effect that
there is no smallpox about Lunenburg
Court House, THE GLOBE gets it straight
from sources that cannot be questioned
that there have been a number of cases
in that ~neighborhood and that there have
been deaths from it.
Information that a man from The in
feCted district passed through Chase City,
creating alarm among the inhabitants,
was sent to THE GLOBE in good faith,
and so published. For the interest Of
Durham, as we'll as Of Chase City, TEE
GLOBE hopes that it was a false alarm
and the man from Lunenburg was a myth,
a shadow, a doubt, a phantom, a fake
and a dciusion.
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