THE COLD PLAGUE.
The "cold plague,' as it was called, made its
appearance in this year, and certainly was one of the most remarkable and
incomprehensible diseases ever known up to that time. In March it raged
with great fatality. The consternation produced, was far greater in
Nelson, Hardin and Grayson, than in this county. The doctors found it a
new type, and not only a new type, but one completely dumbfounding. Those
attacked were seized with a chilly sensation, which continued for a short
time. It made rapid work and the freezing sensation increased until the
patient lost all feeling of warmth, and literally froxe to death.
FIRST CONVICT TO PENITENTIARY.
At the spring term of the Circuit Court, Amos White was
the first man to receive a free pass over the country to the State
Penitentiary. He was escorted by Elijah King, acting Sheriff of the
county, on horse-back. The distance to Frankfort--one hundred and
eighty-seven miles, and returning--was made in ten days, and the horse
used by the convict was paid for at the rate of fifty cents per day.
Cheap, indeed, compared to horse hire nowadays.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
p. 142
published in 1887
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