New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-16

vol II Tho Epidemic as Shreveport q
Late Shrev veport papers brought down or
the Carrie A. Thorne announce the follow
ing deaths up to Friday of last week: "a
Sunday, September Nv. C. Porter
aged 80; Hank Smith, 80; II. L. Chapman;
Mr.. Murry; Richard GOldstion, o: John
Mundy, "a; Elizabeth Zually, 9; Lena Gard.
ner, colored, II, yellow fever; Johannah
Hentzel, S, diarfhea. A- DE-
Monday, September 81. L. Anderson,
aged o; James b. johnson, %; 5. Cohen,
26; George Nappiin, p; Francis Parsons,
fever: William Nocks, AZ, typhus icterdoes;
Fannie Norris, 18, febris pemsiona; Joseph
Howell, 81, old age.
Tuesday, September Oscar Thomas,
% years; William Spears, q; - Thompson,
%; C. L. Tilley, 4; Alice G. Tilley, 2; James
Spears, -; Frank Davis, 80; Marie Schurr.
z; William Esston. colOred, 35; Tilman
Ward, S, yellow, fever; J. G. Lehman, 7
months, convulsions; stiilbOrn child, col
ored. =Iil s>1flg Tt 1. e. ,1-afJ T.
Wednesday, September l0.-Georpe Au-
gusta, aged IA months; Jane White, "a
years; r. Van Aiken, IS; Mr.. Vernon, IS;
Otto Legros, -; b. Schurr, S; NJ. A. Block,
46; William Burke, 8; c. Falck, IS; David
Well, 81; Henry HOllingsworth, =; = Ri.
pinsky, Ia months Herman Bergman. IL
years, yellow fever; Harry Walters, 20, cpl
lepsy.
son, white, sged As years; = Roper; Mime.
Reid, 10; James Waverly, colored. %, yellow
fever; Moses Wheeler, colored, 80, dropsy;
Martha Vaughn, 3, chronic diarrhea; Ed
ward Arnous. 90; G. I. Riddle; Mrs. A.
Sknolton, 50; v. l. Sknolton, 90; Mrs. Lat
tier, SO; John Cooke, so; Dr. Hibbette, al;
Julius Kahn, 81; Mrs. w. E. Hamilton, al:
= Tilley; Robert Wheaton, q, yellow fever.
We make the following extract from the
Times Of the twelfth: III 97t.'.. -4-
The plague is no doubt on the increase in
spite OF all our physicians and nurses can
do to arrest it. We have no means of
knowing no many cases there were YES
terday, but we could hear of them from
every quarter. Whole families are down
and the nurses are worn out 1t is the
duty Of every citizen, white and d'colored, to
lend helping hand. God only kno ws when
this fearful pestilence will cease
Mr.. Rae, the telegraph operator at this
point, is down with the fever, and one of
his assistants becoming alarmed has left for
healthier quarters. This leaves only one
operator here, and there is no telling how
long he will be able to remain at his post.
Mr. r. A. Phelps has been appointed
chairman of the finance COMMITTEES Of the
Shreveport Howard Association, vice
Colonel r. A. Lindsey having resigned and
left the city with his family on the steamer
Carrie A. Thorn. .f N-tl
f7 A dispatch from Marshall yesterday
states that L. Baer, . merchant of this city,
had died of the fever Mr.. Baer and wife
left here several days since to escape the
pestilence. .-......-. -. =.
We regret to learn that the fever is
spreading in the country towns. Mr.. Will
son, hide dealer, and his wife are both down
at Longview. William johnson, son of
Colonel B. N. johnson, is down with it at
Dallas, and another son of his, Mercer, is
sick with it at Monroe. We understand
that Minden has quarantined us, although
she has no cases of the fever. The Chicago
circus it seems spread the disease as she
went, and it prevails in most of the small
towns between here and Monroe. At the
latter place it is said to be very bad. The
writer has no doubt that the yellow fever
was brought up here by the circuses, al
though there was good deal Of perniciOus
fever here before.
From other late numbers of the Ne,cs we
extract: sab -...ra HL
v We regret to announce the death of Major
Charles V. Crosby, of this city, at Green
wood, night before last, from the prevailing
fever. Major Crosby left here with his
family some days since, to escape the fever,
but was taken down soon after his arrival
at Greenwood. He was accompanied by
DR.. Turker, of this city, who attended him
during his illness. Major Crosby's numer-
Gus friends throughout the country will re-
gret to hear OF bis death.
In time like this, when the hour of afdic
tion Is cast heavy upon us, it is encourag-
ing to receive such q dispatch as the fol
lowing. Mr.. McCaleb is the editor of the
Dallas Herald, and while others are villify-
ing us in their bomb proof shelters, and ac-
cusing us OF suppressing the truth IN regard
to the extent of our affliction, he nobly
offers us his personal assistance. Here is
his dispatch: .-
DALLAS, Texas, September 9. 1873.
EDITOR TIMEs-Do you want any nurses
1t 80 Will cOme at once; have bad the
fever. ID. MCCALEB.
One of the editors of the paper knows him
as gallent Confederate soldier
At meeting of the Howard Association,
held Tuesday, September 8, it was resolved
that committee of three be appointed to
superintend and make arrangements to en-.
tertain the physicians and nurses en- route
to this city from New Orleans. er rl
The following are the committee: William
Morrison, D. B. Martin. George A. Pike.
,! And it was also resolved that the pay for
nurses employed by this association be fixed
at the sum of S5 fer every twenty four
hours. - t-4.
z Says the Southeastern Telegram; '+.
A more gloomy spectacle than our city
presents at the present time can not be i'm
agined. Scarcely a household but some of
its members are sick and dying, and every
h0ur Of hA rf,,i az ORG
reported. Business is FRUSTRATED, and the
hearts OF our entire cGmmunity are filled
with sorrow and regret. Those who have
thus far been exempt from the malady are
doing all in their power to alleviate the suf-
terings of the sick and distressed, not know
ing at what hour they may be stricken
down. 1t Is time OF public sorrow and
disaster, and all earnestly pray that the
dark pail may be soon lifted, and our city
freed from the presence of the fatal disease
that has lately swept away so many valua-
BILE lives.
We consider that no apology is necessary
for the meagerness of reading matter IN our
paper at this time. Mr.. White, the bust
ness manager, has been quite i'll for several
days, and MIR. Shannon, upon whom has de-
volved the greater portion of the work dur
ing the past ten days, was taken down this
morning. but not with a serious attack, we
nope. we have not q j0urneyman COM
positor In the Office, and hence the utter
impossibilIty OF doing any more than issue
very small paper. Our readers will under
stand and appreciate our situation.
The same virulent and fatal disease that
is committing such fearful depredations in
our city, exists to greater or less extent
all along the line of the railroads from
Galveston and Houston, and we learn that
every train to the Northwest is crowded
with people who are trying to get beyond
it's inIiuence -1ea
Major j. w. Warren and Captain w. P.
Ford returned home this morning, the
former on the Thirteenth Era and the latter