Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-25
The Yellow Fever.

was heavy frost last plight Ice formed
quarter of an inch thick. A yellow fever nurse
gave carbolic acid to i patient yesterday by
mistake, which caused death in few minutes.
Another nurse attempted to outrage the wife
of patient in his charge. y magistrate was
{, summoned to a residence in this city yesterday
to marry couple, and upon hls ARRIVAL there
he found another magistrate holding an inquest
over member of the family, who had died
suddenly. The marriage was postponed. The
appea made by the Masonic fraternity has met
with such.a liberal response that they are now
in a condition to Ike care OF their sick and sui
ferpg .brcthcu without asking further contri
buttons.
SAVANNAH GA, Oct. PA special to the
Morning News trom Baiubrldgc, Ga, says ply
sciaps concur in the opinion that the disease
! which broke out there Il week or more ago Is
yellow fever There are eight to ten cases at
present, and more are occurring. Simon An
Eel, prominent merchant it is thought, Will
not live through to-day. B. /. Burton. cx-
Senator from the district, is very low. Some
families are preparing to leave, but there seems
very little disposition to get up panic. Busl
Tess is completely at stand-stiIl, and many
merchants are spanking of closing up altoge!h-
er The city authorities are hard at Work III
shutting sanitary measures, but no quarantine
measures have been taken.
LITTLE Rock. Oct 24-Dr. j. NJ. Boho
men, prominent physician of this city, died
to day Of what is generally believed to be yellow
fever. r. H. Moody, another old and promi-
nent citizen, is down with the same disease
and is not expected to recover. Both these
gentlemen had charge of the quarantine be-.
tween this city and Argenta, and It Is supposed
they contracted the disease while examining
fugitives from Memphis There is consdera-
bic excitement here over the fever, although it
is not believed that it will spread: There was
another heavy frost this morning, and the
weather is clear and cool to night.
MONTGOMERY. Oct "a There we're four
deaths from yellow fever during the past TWEEN
ty four hours in this city.
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. PA humber Of ctiz rs
Of Memphis, s'jOurulng here during the preva-
lence of fever IN that city, held meeting to-
day to devise means to furnish further relief TO
people Of that plague stricken city Col. j. NJ.
Williamson presided, and said it was posi-
Bile for strangers to comprehend the condition
of Memphis The situation is appalling beyond
description The fever is more like plague
than anything else. and its ravages are not
checked by frost. Newspaper accounts aud tel
egrams have in no sense exaggerated the con-
dtion of the city.
KNOXVILLE, TENN, Oct. 24.-The relief
concert realized 500 for Memphis. A pair Of
sleeve buttons auctioned off brought $50.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 24.-Private letters from
Memphis yesterday represent the need for food
urgent, and shipments have already commenc
ed The subscriptions here for Shreveport and
Memphis outside Of private remitlances, reach
$4,000.
/ W1LMINGToN, Oct. 1.-THE Bishop Of The
Episcopal diocese Of North Carolina has issued
a pastoral letter, requesting that immediate
collections be taken up in all the congregations
in the diocese, for the bcueft of the Memphis
sufferers Considerable amounts have been
forwarded by citizens Of Wilmington to Shreve-
port and Memphis.
/ LOUISVILLE Oct. PA bale of cotton for
the relief of the Memphis sufferers was sold on
Change to-day for S455, or about 81 per
pound, to j. ?. Prather.
DEATH OF Dr. TorrEN The numerous
friends Of the Rev Silas Tntten, d., LII. D.,
Of Christ Church Seminary of this city, will
occurred October 7th, after brief but most
painful illness of two weeks. For several years
most of his Sabbaths have been devoted to
ministerial duties at the various towns 10 the
neighborhood of Lexington, NichoIasville,
! Cyuthiaua, and other places, whose Episcopal
Churches have been unable to support pas
| tor. -. s.ry.
Though just com pletng his ''three-scorc
years and ten, few young men displayed the
power to toll the ardent zeal which marked
his latter days participating 10 the arduvus
duties of large establishment, and taking
charge of the higher mathematical and classical
sudies yet he was ever cheerful, gentle and
full of Kindness; kind smile and encouraging
word for ALL And alter the week toll was
over the Sabbath work, IN spite Of labor and
fatigue, found him ready in the Spirit of his
Master to spend and be spent 10 the holy work.
His last hours were spent IN the most terrible
suffering, yet the brave noble spirit uttered no
murmur. The spirit of the hero and the martyr
always characterized him in lite and sustained
him 10 suffering, in agony, in death.
DR.. Totten was we'll aud favorably known in
Virginia When William and Mary College
was at its zenith, under Bishop Johns, DR..
Totteu filed the chairs of Moral and lutellec.
tual Philosophy and Bellies Lettres, and the
classes which produced those polished scholars
and eloquent divines, Bishop Williams, (of
China) DIR. Wingfcld, Henry A. Wise, jr.,
Aft. Randolph, (ot Emanuel Church, Bati.
more,) aud others, owed as much to the careful
training of the learned Tottcu as they did to
the instruction Of our beloved Diocesan.
civilian and Mary, with her bright array
of profound and brilliant scholars in her FacuI
ty, never had better or wiser man than Dr.
Tottcn. -Le1inyton (ky.) Press
PROMPT ACTIoN-One Of the adjuncts aud
concomltants, as it we're, of the Northern Paci
| fc railroad, is Mr. Dave Mullen, who travels
along with the road as it progresses, and whose
mission appears to be to make things lively for
everybody by shooting people, But it is chiefly
asa peace maker that MIR. Mullen emphatcalIy
surpasses all Others At Bismarck, the, new
town on the road, Mullen has established
gambling and dance house. Two cavalry sol
diers playing at cards there recently became in
volved 10 quarrel The wordy war between
the two was however, CALAMITY put a stop to
| by Mullen, who stepped up and lodged a ball
| from his revolver in the face OF one of the sol
diers. Judging by the temper Of the people
Of the place since this occurrence, there will
probably be dance on nothing near Bis