Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — DELPHI AND INDIANA POLIS. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI AND INDIANA POLIS.

The work of procuring the right of way and subsidies for this line is progressing encouragingly. On Tuesday the township of Adams, in Hamilton county, voted a two per cent, tnx by a majority of forty-five. There are yet four townships on the road to vote, and the friends of the “"line feel confident that no difficulty will be'encountered. [Delphi Tinies. —Talk about hard times! Why, bless your eyes, don’t you see more horses and buggies, and phaetons, and sulkies, and spring wagons, and hacks than ever before? Everybody is on wheels trying to throw dust on their neighbors by having the fastest horse, and lots of people are visiting remote expositions and fairs, all well dressed and with money enough to get home on. Hard times use! to look different from this. Hani timesis a thing of the past.—[Lafayette Journal. —A Memphis letter has tbe following in relation to the manner of death by yellow fever: “Many die easily, go calmly off to sleep, hardly having strength to raise the eyelids, but too many die a horrible death I’lie struggl i is terrible. They h ive to be held down to bed until the last gasp, und the scene after death is 100 horrible for de-

seription. Another peculiarity of is is when the patient is in a state of delirium and is prevented from getting out of bed. Often be makes a desperate effort to bite those holding h'm. I have a lively reeol lection of thus having to exert all my strength to hold a yellow fever patient in bed aud keep him from biting me in the face. When he recovered his reason he wept with linger at not,being able to get up, but at last said: “Hello! is that you? Let us lie down on the pillow and go to sleep.’’ I was glad to do so. Entire families have been swept away. When the fever once enters a dwelling it seems almost impossible for any member of the family to escape. The dirtiest people often escape, and the cleanliest are often stricken do«n.’’