The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-02
CONSIDERABLE ALARM IN vrcKsBURo-NINETY-
EIGHT NEW CAsxs YEsrERDAY-rHE FEVER
At oRsENyfILE AND JACKSON.

CONSIDERABLE ALARM IN vrcKsBURc-N1NETY-
EIGHT NEW cAsRs YEsrERDAY-THE FEVER
AT oREENvrLLE AND JACKSON.
[BY rELEaRAPH TO THE HERALD.
vIcxsBu1o, Miss. Sept. !, 1878.
To day though bright warm aud clear, has been .
field day for the pcstence The whizz Of the wheels
OF the coctsrs' carriages as they drive al full
speed indicates too surely Eight doctors
were all that could be ipterviswcd, and they re-
ported niaety-eighI new oases, showing decided
increase over yesssrdav's figures OF 2o4 Drs W.
whitshead, BirshsE, DAVIS and Green have sue
cumbed to The fever, making total Of ten physicians
who are sick with to-day. The sections report
mounts up again to twenty-five interments to-day,
oisspating the bopescreated Dy tho low death rate OF
the past few days
PROMINENT .cfrIxExs AFFLICTED.
The Hat OF well Known csixcns In so-day's new
cases 10 rs follows:-
William rrowbridge. Acting Mayor.
George Burns, agent OF the southern rxpress Com
pany.
serseau, J. A. Cody, sigma, ssrvieeA
W. X. Spcarsa
Edward Wilson.
). H. Bailey, acting foreman Or vlcksburg Herald
J. n. Ferguson.
Mrs. J. J. Fitzpatrick
J. L. Low.
Harvey Mantle.
s. Geissnbsrg.
HELP FROM CHATTANOOGA
Dsx Norris and Blfchnedt, Of Chattanooga, with
fifteen nurses arrived In tho nick Of time by SPECIAL
train this svsaing.
BRAVE rBLsoRAPH OPERATORS.
c. N. Carr and George Lsnsox, telegraph operators
from 81 Leuis, have shoWn themselves brave men
by coming for duty today. To-Day they report
the hero Of Grenada (sddiax) dead and cold wheel
horse" D. NJ. Fiauery dead. tho supcrinsen dent Is
going up TO oil his place.
cArHoHo puIssr DYING.
Father McMsnus Is reported dying to-uigh.
THE PHYSICIANS REPORT.
The report Of the phyncisns place the deaths ~
nearly sixteen hundred TO date. while the sections
total Is 1855.
TWENTY CASES At GRANVILLE
Grsenviile, above this place, on the river, has
twenty cases OF fever tonight, and a depopulatsd
panic s,rickea town. Notwithstanding It's early, thor
ough, strict aud scm-militsry quarantine, where
every road guarded night and day, and no steam
ers SLOWED 10 land within ave miles Of the place
proviug that quarantine may be elective for while,
but that u viii not de TO depend on.
ONE pyArn Ar JACKSON
Jackson hes also the lever and reports three cases
ana one death. The citizens took time by the tore
lock and quietly evacuated several weeks ago. leaving
the disease but little to work there.
sxvEN CASES AT pELHs
DELHI, Ls., reports seven cases snd telegraph
operator wanted.
PROPHECY.
I, seems thst the prediction OF one Of our Oldest
physicians will bc fulfilled, that the lever this year
would spread all The Seath, and that hardly q
man, woman Or csfid ia asy town would escape.
A STEADY PROGRESS on THE FEVER IN NEW
ORLEANS EronTr-EIoHr DEATHS rEsrER-
pAY--A bAsoE MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN.
[BY ru.EoRAPH TO THE HIBALD.
Nsw ORLEANS, Sept !, 1879
The yellow fever seems to 10 steadily on the 10
| crease 26o new being reported In the past
| twsnty-foa hours sgina 234 yesterday. The num-
Der Of deaths to-day 10 IS agaipst 40 yesterday The
! inervassd msralny u bes,oeabia Taking NE whsSs
nunssr u casss, however, the death rate 10 sill
lever shan ~ other places whsrs the fever ss pre-
walls, being hi,c thirty three per cont II shocd
also be remembered tina, many cases have
| no treatment until brought to tine charity
Hospital, and are tnsn desperate cases Tue
osndios Of the streets better than u has been Ter
yssrS ana the greater prevalence sf the disease ~