Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-22
LATE NEWS BY TIE MAILS.
! CLAW Fc,c at Norfolk & Portsmouth.
rto,p Norfolk.

y
3 Our accounts from this place represent The
never as still on the increase II is sail the I'M
[,yrents are daily. double The published numher
$,f deaths Tie NJ rfoIk News intimates that
Il hereafter it viii eudpayor Ia obtain a correct list
4 { the hurals IN tie different cemeteries for
Qualification. The same paper says the Fever i,
!, id,lq onthe increase, aud ola most malignant
a ,ar The rteoHrrier are rare IN comparison 10
n he deaths.
The following report of deaths for the 81 hours
u nling Saturday. at o'clock F. NJ, is published
4 = the Boar of Health.
Thomas Keeling, aged ~, residence Cumber
h,nd street; Mrs job Jakeman, aged 81, residence
4I)ndd's Lane, George, colofed man. nged 80
In Halls jail; Miss Lizzie Barron, aged Is, Gran
4 bv street; Mrs Sarah Taylor. aged -, residence
bjueen street wife of VIM V Taylor, clerk in the
Norfolk Savings Bank; Thomas L Mehegan,ag-
4d2l, residence North Church street; Josiah
zShipp, nged IL. residence East Water street, VIM
bless, aged 30. residence West Main street; Mrs
5Fallon, agee 80 residence Main street; Philip, n
3eolored man nged % residence Freemason
Sstreet Mrs Thomas Hughes, aged 36, residence
Church street. Total II.
The death of Mary Mason, (ltalian) aged 42,
sresidence East Water street, is mentioned IL the
\ Sun.
The Argus newspaper says, though larger
humber ofdeaths were reported Saturday than
the Gav before,t has the assurance of physicians
I-hat they do not consider the Fever increasing.
Several of the deaths reported were of patients
4 who have been sick for several days.
No mention is made in the papers of the death
Mr. K. c. Barclay, Book merchant on Main ST..
reported in Yesterdays Express, but our infor
mant who was direct from Norfolk Sunday morn
ing states that Mr.. b. died Saturday, after the
report of the Board of Health was made out.
Saturday morning, says the ArgaS, the mean-
cholv quietude OF our harbor was relieved by the
Georgia, Che Baltimore boat) dashng into its
almost deserted waters at full speed, with her bell
ringing lively peal almost joyous one. She
came, it seems freighted with provisions, and 9th
er suitable supplies for the sick and destitute sent
by the charitable people of Baltimore to the
charge of the Howard Association.
The Ministers of Norfolk, it seems are doing
their duty nobly. Their diligent, unceasing, af-
fectonate pastoral yisiations well deserve notice
and communication. Rev. Mossrs. jackson of
St. pauls, Wake of Christ Church, (the regular
pastor having left for Europe several months ago J
Armstrong of the Presbyterian, Wills OF the
Cumberland street Methodist, O'keefe of st. Pat
rick's, McCleand of the Methodist Protestant,
and Jones of the African Methodist, are among
those who are busily and usefuly engagedin their
forts TO give consolation to the sufferers. Some
If them are in regular attendance at the Hospital
and none of those mentioned manifest desire to
lily from the scourge-p reierrng to die IN the
faithful discharge oftheir known duty. to leaving
the Suffering and afflicted members of their ilocks
in the midst of disease aud death. without these
words of comfort and christian consolation which
it becomes them especially to lmpart in the hour
of extraordinary calamity and trial.
The Herald and Beacon newspapers of yester-
dav failed to reach us last evening.