Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-11-21
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER al, 1882.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

Young gentleman VI tHis CltNs Nv" WI ~ o'iVu"'
received last evening. and dated on the evening
of the Cd inst. gives the following additional and
distressing in,eisence:-"O Our city has been
very si.kv aud is getting worse. We have the
yellow Fever. Cholera and Cold Plague. The
Sextnns. il is said, are not very particular. and
il is general, supposed that larger number are
inferred than they report"
Here foioas a report of the interments on the
s9th. SOh. 5lst uit. and lst inst, which are less
than those reported above The writer then SAYS:
..On the I'd inst. one hundred and serenity serei.
iniermenfs took place, and sickness increasing
They die iss,er than coliinS can be made, and
faster than they can be buried For the .asi ioUr
or Eve nights, there la, been from 90 tn so left
unburied. A new plan has been adopted Tor in
terring the dead, viz: digging kind Of ditch,
so feet long. 4 feet deep and feet wide; TO con-
tain from 100 20 $50 bodies. where the co!fins
are laid two tier deep; the bottom tier across the
ditch, the top tier lore and aft the hrst tier are
al under water; they are then covered with mud.
10 inrhes TO two feet from the surface. There
can b. seen in the grave yard two or three hun
dr-d Cuflin> at one time uncovered-as they do
no, cover them until completely TILED.
Many poor families swept pf entirely. /
an aware Of two families, one OF IL, the other Of
Il, who have all died. and several composed Of
y.
any season ever before known. In 1922 the
greatest number of deaths in one day was d.
and that is considered the worst wear ever known
befure this You can form, no idea OF the misery
winch exists among the poor. You will hardly
believe me wer- tn state it truly. ~ hai iEuUe
lVrtitea, you c0a depend upon is true | under
stand that the Artillery Companies are to dis
charge their pieces throughout the city, 10 endea.
yor 30 purify the air.
Another letter Of the same date. states that
.'the deaths amount to 200 per day, and still IN
creasing. All bushes is al stand, and will not
revive until the disease abates."
Charleston Courier.
The following extract is from letter dated
New Orleans, LIST instant" The yellow Fever
aud cholera are raging most violently The
mortality irishtfuily great, beyond all precedent
The day before yesterday llS deaths-yester-
DIV l50-and to-day upwards of 200. 1t is im-
pG>sibs 10 bury them "a fast as they are taken to
the commons. Twelve in one house died to dav
of the Cholera. all well Yesterday. and some Of
them l couversed with. General Farrow is no
more; he died last night; he wen, to bed at 10
O'Clock, apparently well, and at l was corpse,
of the Cholera
Extract rom anoiheT letter, dated Nov. Cd
AT this moment half past o'clock. M a
whuie square on the i.evee. between St Philip
and Dunlaine streets. is in flames. They are
burning tar in all the streets and yards. and fir.
ing guns in all directions, to purify the atmos.
pheIe."
The New Orleans papers caution the citizens
against orowdlng around the polls at the election
which was To have taken place on the 9Th Instant
ard not by their presence aid ia endangeriny the
lives of those persons Who are employed in con-
ductng II, and who are compelled ty Law thus
10 expose themselves. 1t is said. that, with one
or two exceptions. the community have not yet
feit The ios. of any distinguished citizens
IL Max"eii Esq. merchant of Bayou
Sara, "h" was on hrs passage home. in the steam
bnat Freedom. with his wife. TO whom he had
bs"n married but a fortnight. stopped at the
is'dlng a. Natchez, where he died IN about one
hcrr, of Cholera. Eleven other persons. il il
said, died on board that boat. on her way down.
LOUISVILLE, (Ky.) Nov. 1a, 1882.
Cholera-ln Frankfort there have been 81 cas,s
OF Cholera. aud Is deaths. Report saws. that at
Lexington there have been 10 cases aud 2 deaths,
NASHVILLE. Ky Nov. Is.
The Chalera-lt becomes our weekly and
we might add painful task. to note the progress
thi, scourse has made and is still making IN our
to- n and neighborhuo6. In osr last we express.
ed the hope and belief that it vas fast dis ppear-
ing here. This opinion, we regret TO saw. vas
entirely premature On Thursday and Friday,
after our paper went to press. it broke out with
renewed and fearful magnancy, sweeping IF
the stage Of lIf- number uf our respectable Ifel-
low cnizens. So fluctuating IS the nature of the
disease, that almost while we are coDgratulating
our ilow-c''izrns on the prospect Of its disap-
pesrance from amongst Us. it is actually gather
lnos IN u,al a ,tah -
fa,allv on its marked victims. In the surround.
ing country, regret to saw, it has proved fatal
In number OF cases; generally without dstinc-
Il m Of persons. In town. has again assumed
mild firm; but we know not how long il will re.
main so. Ere this pap"r reaches half of our sub
sc.,rr,. il NAV. IN all probability. assume new
aud fatal character.-Eagk.