Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — DELPHI AND INDIANAPOLIS. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI AND INDIANAPOLIS.

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, tax by a majority of forty-five. There are yet four townships on the road to vote, and the friends of the line feet confident that no difficulty will be encountered. —[Delphi Times. —A Memphis letter has the 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. The struggle is terrible. They have to be held down to bed until the last gasp, and the scene after death is too horrible for description. Another peculiarity of is is when the patieut is in a state of delirium and is prevented from getting out of bed. Often he makes a desperate effort to bite those holding him. I have a lively recollection of thus having to exert all my strength to hold a yellow fever patient in bed and keep him from biting me in the face. When he recovered his reason he wept with anger 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 bnce 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 down.”