The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday December 8, 1878 MEMPHIS REVIVISCENT. A Dubuquer’s Description of the City of the Memphis. From Solemnity, Funerals and Graves. It Has at Last Survived. To the Editor of Dubuque Herald. MEMPHIS, Nov. 30, 1878. Bronze John is dying slowly, but is by no means dead, as is the general opinion; there […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday November 1, 1878 THE SORROWING CITY. Interesting Statement of a Sufferer and an Eye Witness. The Fever Abating and Business Reviving. No one who has not been an eye-witness to the scenes in the south during the yellow fever can form a just conception of the suffering and deprivations of […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Tuesday October 15, 1878 THE DOOMED CITY. Heart-Rending Description of the Desolated City of Memphis. The Republicans Taking Advantage of the Situation for Political Purposes. MEMPHIS, Oct. 9, 1878, 2 a. m. Sir: —At this hour as misty darkness, broods over the scene, when only an occasional stir remains in the blue-black […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Saturday October 12, 1878 MEMPHIS. The Situation as Seen by John R. Flynn, of Dubuque. To the Editor of the Dubuque Herald. SIR: —The leading topic of conversation here, among all classes seemingly occupying a large share of public attention, is the inspiring invectives and imprecations doled out, gratuitously, in unlimited quantities […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday September 6, 1878 YELLOW FEVER. Meeting at the Court House in Behalf of the Southern Sufferers Plan of Operations—Appointment of an Executive Committee, etc. Pursuant to a call published yesterday, a number of benevolently-disposed citizens met at the court house at 4 o’clock p. m., to devise means of aiding the […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday September 8, 1878 THE AFFLICTED SOUTH. An Earnest Appeal for Help Dubuque Should Not be Behind Her Sister Cities. The executive committee appointed by the citizens at the court house on Thursday have been on the street for two days soliciting subscriptions for those sick and dying of yellow fever. The […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday September 29, 1878 THE BLACK PRINCE. Notes From Memphis by a Dubuquer Who Arrived There on the 21st. The Contributions From the North Squandered on a Lot of Shiftless Negroes. Correspondence of the Dubuque Herald. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 24. I arrived here from your city on the 21st, after many trials and […]