The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-22
.ATEsT MAIL Ne Ws.
progress Of the Fever IN No''0iA anu
l Portsmouth.

7ne sad record Of deaths; the
ree'''os of ,bs victims being persons well known
-. ,esoed social circles OF the cry .s
u Tss repcr. Of the Board OF heseo ioi ' .sor,
q ,.ss endus Monday afternoon al oc''eA,
tae Marohv. Charlotte street; VIM Wsms s.,.
~, "a ss,den's Point: Mrs. Fried man. ~, r
asea Fliza suuon's child, Rheas L ans.
nsei,v IS. Main street Mrs Samuel a ~ stree,
p.nS street: Miss Maria auene.: nsnt st Cain q
Mis- Malone, II, Churcn s s,rs Lee, Bermuda
B hosel, 30 1,sh',,. child, 6, Main stre.. a.,
sree.: M w, reds Lane; Mis-: E" q, 800
SCUM 90 nake street Negro boy, 49, strset
LIB walters, Lsne ,,, oses street: Mrs G n
Richard 1sT rns" cbnrch street; Miss Euaenla lie
4 Hstton, - -. .tree,. Tho's jennings 3d. Cnar
fsge, 80, White msp, name unknown, aoou'
io"7 fatal IT, Two deaths In the nosphai Ses'ef'
dsy-a chIa aa Wii.bjnmau Walter F. Jones, U. s.
90 saa ".,,na a mother and family to mourn bic
loss. ,,,, paddler, and Oliver Ellsworth, two OF
ayinrIpsi witnesses In the case OF Decker ano
r t1e charged with killing Murphy, dieo on
q Monday. no,d .,d Mrs Nimmo-
-, Lnown-are down with the fever.
8 The Herald of Monday says;
Mes. OF the stores are closed sha 'ne i., sa,.
3 defe'a In ali the eridemics which Norfolk has
gsn.d ibrouxb. from 1883 to the present time, we
hsvs seen nothios to eqas' ~, T.et OF ,nn
re- 100 Iso0 and 1901 when Norfolk always had
.s.r.isst population Of 1870 or 2o0a composed OF
snjsrants ships crews and strangers eonneo 90 Win
a.. commerce. of the port; aud when IL was no I'M
.u,I thing TO see 50 or 40 buried In cay.
y "sThs,. Was not store closed on account OF the
feysr in either of those years Inc me'caahts QUO
th lar
Eos "a ,hs cit;gens never thought for moment
Of moving out Of town out OF the injected os.ct.
The old residents hal their Billions ana ueeIl1ohs
f,v.r from which they seldom fsiied 10 fecos9i au
The narsitS was Chi hy among strangers ana tno'e
not acc'imsted. These we're res',y 90 sneau
i and men did not allow fehow 1act ~ InteIieIe
;,h ~ al, business or pleasures How things have
Lsa.aS NV with a mortality, the highest range
IF - bicb has not exceeded IL deaths In dsy-in
population doubl ng what it then was a business Is
ssu'nepded and the alarm 10 80 great that half OF
tbs While inhabitants have left the town.
4 On Saturday night. some hend attempted TO fire
the Office of the Beacon, and II the attempt had
bseu ccessfu the entire lower portion OF the city
which is almost deserted-would have been de-
.uoyed The FIRE companies were proinp ly on the
,pot and saved the building. This is the third at
tempt in thee years to burn the Beacon office.
i TIE Beacon 1esrns that DR.. Stone, of New Or
leans left Norfolk for Baltimore, Monday afternoon,
y and says:
sutsged daily and nightly in visiting the sick in the
city, the City Hospital and has paid two visits to
s the Naval Hospital. He promptly went whei ever
b. wa. invited He has Riven all our physicians the
benefit of bis professional experience aad observs-
lion in yellow fever cases in New Orleans. His visit
a and that of Drs. Permission and Freeman hes had
q most hsppy effect on afflicted community, gviog
Il moe confidence and aaying apprehension. The
a disease was pronounced to be of less malignant
type Yesterday. and the cases to yield more readily
& to treatment The weather has been cooler for two
DAYS the thermometer having fallen "a degrees. DR..
Pension will remain rome days longer.
4 Dr.. VIM. H. freeman, Demonstration Of Anatomy
10 the Philsdelphs Medical College, arrived in Nor
ok Saturday and offered hio medicsl services to the
n Howard Association Gong as they might wish them.
ii He has had much experience in Barbados and the
Il French AID Spanish West India Isles.
n Miss Andrews, of Syracuse, who has been attend
Ing on tue sick at the Hospital was brought up from
e Julsppi Monday by his Homer, Mayor Woods and
shs d now attending on the sick family of Captain
Guy chief of police. who Is quite i'll, together with
= all bis family. The Mayor and all others who have
witnessed the exersns of Miss A, speak in the very
CHEST terms of her ptilsnthropic and pdsfatigsble
attention to the sick, both at the Hospital and in the
i Ii, Herald says: Contributions from abroad are
pouring in upon the Howard Association fer the
lief Of the destitute posr and sick OF city and
y Portsmouth. This ia no tiue to stand upon false
notiouS of pride and etiquette Let overlook the
errors of those who have placed themselves been
pl.eed in false position; for we know their sym
pathes are with
q Bat there will be no want of money and prov
i isons, though there is depiorabls deficiency of
nurses and attendants which money cannot slsays
procure ssse of sickness ia som stiuaes left un.
attended to Ia due time, for the vast of messen-
ger to 80 for ply ssiAn procure medicine; hence
Is sble TO be neglected till it 10 too late We are
glad to bs able to report that the sick in the City
Hospital at LAmbeffs Point doing we'll, and thai
death had occurred within the "a hours ending on
Saturday.
The Hsrss alro that it will be under the
necessity of diminshing the of its paper for want
Of eomSositors to set it up
Collections have bssn taken up in the churches of
Alexandria and Washington, aud in the latter city
BIT. PatrcSs church, with 500 given by "a Protes.
tant ssntleman, raised $3.50, and 800 has been rails.
! ed 10 Savannah, Ga.
For --latest" from infected Cities see telegraph CO.
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