Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-24
late NEWS BIZ THE MAILS.
From the Petersburg Express.
yol,oy Fever at Norfolk & Portsmouth.
From Norfolk.

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1T Il seems that the Fever il -till fearfullY
;,sraa.ing; aud we much fear. that stressng Us
-, been the news already received We are yet
=, hear more of even more painful and narrowing
character.
zen of this place.
NORFOLK, August 81, 1855.
Nv DEAR SIR Portsmouth presents truly
,loomv and desoIate appearance Nearly all the
torres are clio sed, and the streets are much more
,niet than on Sunday. Norfolk is equally sud
aa1 gloomy. Nearly every store is closed and
the entire city given up TO the spreadngs OF the
disease and death. There have been within the
last twenty four hours about twelve deaths
regret to learn that the fever Is on the inc
among the better class of population. The num-
her of deaths nor the number of cases are not so
great as have before in proportion to the
I population; but the gloominess is much mqSf.-
4 The desolation exceeds all | had been led TO ex
uact even from the melancholy accounts In the
/ papers.
DR.. Samuel Stone, of New Orleans, has gone
north He pronounces the Fever here OF the same
type as that which ragged so terribly IN New Or
leans during the summer OF 1898. regret he
could not have remained longer.
learn from the physicians here, That nearly
4 o1 per cent recover-that is out of every 90 or
T 70 cases, not more than ID or 20 die. This Is
certainly small mortality, and understand Dr.
+ Stone pronounces the fever comparatively mild
4 There is surely every reason for encouragement.
The physicians have evidently now got the mas
tery of the disease; far as we can apply this to
any human instrumentality. certainly antici-
H nate an abatement of the epidemic soon.
fN Yours, &C., X. G.. 7.
n The Board of Health. make the following re-
4 mort for the "a hours ending Tuesday at 2 p. NJ
n throurh the Beacon, the only paper OF yesterdays
Il ssue that we received from Norfolk;
II ~ IL ~
4 H., Town: boy named Summers, aged IL resi-
II 1enea Talbot Street; John Christian, aged "a,
4 residence ALVIN Town; Nick Mulet, aged 40, res
idenee. Metcalfe's Lane; Mr.. Greenwood aged
j -. residence Rhea's Lane: a negro OF Mrs. Cord
A On Church street, Miss Adele lie Page aged 80,
4 residence Main street Her sister hneeh'a pre-
1 coded her but few a hours previous to the spirit
world and Just before her death one OF her broth
4 ers was taken down with the disease. Horato
a Moore aged 81 years, residence Fen Church
4 street. Deceased was recently connected with
j The Custom House for the Port of Norfolk, Miss
II Caroline Rufin. aged 60, residence, Main street;
/ n negro owned by DIR. Cook, aged 20, residence
I Freemason street; Mrs. Copes, of Portsmouth,
aged 80, residence, East Broad Water street; a
negro owned by Mr. John Gibbs, aged ~, resi-
dence Wiiamson's Lane; William Wilder,
aced 33 residence, Commerce street, Total. Ii.
But one death in the Hospital Tuesday.
Eight new cases were taken to the Hospital
Tuesday.
Besides the above, Mrs. Elizabeth II Muir
pbey, aged 30 years, wife of VIM. B. Murphey,
died at her residence No. 81, Church street, in
child bed, and Mrs. Rebeeca Ghiseine, OF ntam-
nation of the bowels.
Mr. Henry Burgess, formerly ofPetersburg, is
ok with the Fever.
benjamin Pedder, and Oliver Ellsworth, two
oflae principal witnesses in the case OF Decker
lid G5sins, charged with killing Murphy died
"a Monday.
III Nm Stell, Geo Drummond, and Mrs Nimmo
nj we'll known-are down with the fever.
d. Louis Martiney de Castro Of Cuba, arrived
ia Norfolk Tuesday, and rendered his services
tie Howard Association, who promptly accep-
I'd them and made the DIR. their guest, as was
d 80 dome in the case of DR.. Freeman of Phlladel.
phia. Dr. Castro comes with the highest recon-
mendations.
The Rev. Thomas G.. Keen, Of the Market
Street Baptist church, Petersburg, we learn
from the Beacon, reached Norfolk on Monday by
the cars. and took lodgings at the National Hotel
Mr.. Keen lived in Mobile during the Yellow Fever
epidemic of 1883, and became acclimated by hay-
ing the Fever.
The trustees of the town of Hampton, held
meeting on Tuesday. and revoked their recent
ordinance. All persons exhibiting a Bill OF Health
are now freed from the restriction which recent
ly excluded them. The steamboat will also land
as was customary before the passage of the or
dinance.
Contributions are pouring in from all directions
Hand the Howard as ISOLATION acknowledge the re-
cept of several thousand dollars.
1t seems that 5 much distress as prevails in
the Inflated city, there yet few unprncipled
Williams left, that are disposed to practice their
rascaty. 1t was but yesterday we published the
account of an attempt that was made last Satur
i day night. to burn the Beac on newspaper Office
'Ihe following notice signed by James a. Saun-
ders. Secretary, we fud published i'll the papers
The Howard Association anxious and will
ing to relieve all destitute persons; but in order
10 avoid imposition, which is beginning to be
practced to a considerable extent, they have to
request all responsible citizens, who know of ca
ses of distress. to send a certificate by the appli
cant that they are deserving.
FROM PORTSMOUTH,.
4 Unfortunate town The accounts from Ports
are up to o'clock last Tuesday night and though
exceedingly painful heretofore, we have never yet
recorded so sad and melancholy condition Of
things as that depicted in the letter witch we give
Abelow. The heart we'll nigh sickens and grows
faint, to think that so much woe. and lamenta-
ton, and human misery prevailing in the
8Od Commonwealth of Virginia, and that too III
lone of the heretofore most hosptable, whole
souled and Furnishing towns, of which any State
lean boast.
u We invite attention to the following letter:
PORTSMOUTH, August 81.
n Dear Express: 1t is now O'Clock p. NJ, and
have just got back to my Office after being in
8eessantIv engaged since o'clock this morning.
have seen and prescribed for over 100 patients
#to-day, and every moment new calls made
upon me, and the most urgent cntreaties used to
induce Inc to father, mother brother, or 9th
Sertrend. But can go no further. am COM
Hpletey exhausted, and must have little rest to
Aenable me to resume the duties Of the morrow il