Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-09
81. WASHINGTON D. c., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,
Days of Gloom I'm the Sou,b.
FRIGHTFUL SPREAD OF THE YELLOW FEVER
PLAGUE.

Days of Gloom In the South.
FRlGHTFUL SPREAD OF THE YELLOW FEVER
PLAGUE.
The reports from the yellow fever districts
are still discouraging.
AT Memphis l0S deaths were reported for the
! twenty four hours up 10 noon Saturday. Ii
was lmpoSSlhle TO secure men to bury the dead
| promptly. Hon. II. Casey Young is fumigat-
ing The city py burning turpentine and brim
stone.
Thirty-one deaths and 2l5 new cases were re-
ported at Vieksburg Saturday.
The fever has also made its appearance at
Water Valley, Miss, where four deaths and
six new cases are reported. Only four white
citizens remained We'll in the place. Mr. Hea-
berg, the telegraph operator, was out of dan
ger. j: Y. Fountain, ex-freight accountant of
/ the Jackson railroad, is prostrated.
reports from Holy Springs are dishearten-
ing; eight deaths have occurred, and eight
new cases have been developed. The sitla-
tion is terrible.
An appeal has been published for aid signed
lana; John I. Morgan, of Alabama: w. II.
McCarGle. of Mississippi and Cyrus Busey.
PRESIDENT OF the Chamber of Commerce of
The latest dispatches from New Orleans re
port 4i2 new cases, including sick aud desti-
tute. The Society of st. Vincent de Paul
make second appeal, and begs other confer
enceS 10 advise their friends 10 forward any
contributions either in money, food or cloth
ing, intended for distribution to the scourge-
president. Deaths 81. Maximum thermome-
ter So. Samuel X. Shepard, SON of w. G.
Shepard died yesterday. DIR. Br0aduS, Of the
HoWardS, was taken down yesterday: also the
vile Of Secretary Southmayd aud live chill
Gren.
a dispatch from Plaquemine parish dated
September Sth, says: We are in the midst of
raging pestilehce. OF cur two physicians
only one is on duty, DR.. p. S. Posteil, who re.
ports to-day over enc hundred cases OF fever
under his observation, all within the limits of
CURED. DIR. s ID. Schwing is down with the
lever 1t is on the Increase. Business is sus-
pended. Our financial resources are INSULT
cieye to relieve many poor in distress. Weara
sadly in want; will not the country send us
help: rur people are struggling nobly against
Gov. Bishop, Of Ohio, has issued pro o.lama
ton recommending that on Friday, September
l3fh all Christian people in the state of Ohio
assemble in their respective houses OF Worship
and offer up their united prayers to God to
check the dreadful plague which is affecting
the southern states, and that He in His infinite
sooaness VIII NH restore health, peace and pros
perlty to the houses and homes which have
been called upon TO mourn the loss of friends
and relatives"
THE PRESIDENT AND PARTY reached Miune-
apolis, Mimi, Saturday morning. After break
last Mr.. ana Mrs. Hayes rec iVed few per-
tural fair grounds, when a grand cavalcade of
$u0,tGO worth OF stock was ranged in parade
The President made a speech, in which he eu-
loeized the energy and public spirit of the peo-
PIE of Minnesota. Attorney General Devens
also made speech at great length. When Mr.
Deyens closed the President came forward
and said he had been presented with Bible
by union soldier as his only possession, to be
given to alleviate the suffering of some con
federate soldier the south, who is his friend
but once his enemy, to be sold for what il will
bring. Mayor Rand took the book and il was
sold to Mrs. James +. Case for 500. The fol-
loving letter accompanied the Bible:
f tMhnneGp0t;s tha naoapot September lss-Ihs Bible
the war forthe union in 1864 and 1865. 1t is the
oHly gut In my power TO make. This is the gift
OF friend, and is priced for this reason above
all price. L accept most cheerfully this oppor-
tunlty OF expressing the sincerity of my friend
ship Tor those brave boys who fought in the de-
tense OF what they honestly believed was
right in the war Of the rebellion. We were en-
emles In war, we are friends in peace. Nav
this be the means OF carrying joy To the hearts
and homes OF some poor sufferers, and Shall
be Thousand times paid for the sacrifice It
Is especially requested by the doner that the
Bible be sold and the proceeds given to a fam
lily or families Of southern confederate soldiers
suffering from yellow fever.
ID. NEWTON, of Severance"
THE CANDIDATES IN MAINE ToDAY.-A
governor, five members of the 10th Congress,
a new legislature and county officers are Co be
elected In Maine to-day: The republican,
complete state, congressional and county
tickets in the field. The candidates on the
state and Congressional tickets are named
below:
L.
Congress i, It. B. Reed S.JAndersOn.
2, *Wm. p. Frye. is. c. Belcher
5, IS. ID. Lindsey. F. Smith.
!, IL Powers. tGeOrge W.Ladd.
5, Eugene Hale. Jos. 81. Martin.
Gree7l6dck.
For GOver-IOS L.Smith. *Renomluated
Congress. i, Edw. H. Cove. Unsuccessful
tSolOn Chase. candidates in
3, VIM. Philbrick. 1876.
4, tGeO. w. Ladd. ton greenback
., L. ID. Murch. and democratic
In the last legislature the republicans had
majority of q in the senate and Is in the
house.
Gen. Stewart L. WOolford, U. S. attorney for
New York, made speech in the interest of
the Maine, political campaign, at Augusta,
Me-, Saturday evening. He spoke especially
on the financial issue, and said that this couI.
try sold more to Europe than it bought, and
we ought therefore, to be in such condition
as to compel Europe to pay the balance of
trade in coin, and not in an irredeemable pa
Per money OF our own manufacture. Senator
Blaine closed the canvass at Portland Satur-
day night. The burden of his speech was
hard money and resumption.
GEN SHERMAN SOI ACTING HrNSFIF-A lat