The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-05
Fellows, knights of Pythias, etc, have re-
Lief COMMITTEES at work dsy>snd night.

DESPITE ALL THIS,
the plague i1cre asss IN yirulence daily. II
tie new cases continue at the
ratio OF .Ge past two days, 10 five weeks
every white man, woman, and child will
have been attacked oy the dreadful scourge,
f0r there csuno: be over 1900 white people
LETT in the city upon whom il can prey.
To depOpulate the city is the aim now, and
force is being resorted to for making the
exodus greater.
The fever Is Of 4 violen. form. 1t kills
in many instances within forty-eight hours.
The body's heat gets up to los degrees when
the pulse shows but eighty beats. This is
the unmistakable sign of yellow fever.
Then the skin turns a pale-buff color, the
eyes become blood-shot and CLASSY; the
flesh ia pulled out about the cheek-bones,
then Northumberland. The compare
lively low death rate shows that many are
getting well. The physicians are divided
as to treatment. The method OF the major
ity IL a teacup of csstor-oil, mustard bath,
blankets. The leading physician of the
minority, and a very successful one with
this disease, gives MS treatment as follows
Wash the patient of well with tepid water
and so1p; give thirty to nj Y grains of calo-
alt"r, commence giving ) To % grains of quiz
nine, VIII - grain of morphine, aId give
every three or four hours. Keep the patient
on hcANy doses OF nitrate OF potash all the
time, 50 as To ma Se the kianey> work, and in
cases OF sick stomach uSe musta q plaster on
The stomach aud give Ii ne water With milk
Internally; also small portions of water,
without ice. II the patient has dark. indigo
vomiting, give small doses oil calOnel with
the quinIne At each dose.
The physicians Of Memphis are doing
their full duty. Drs. Marable, Frayser,
John {. Rogers, Robbias, Ess, and Bnrrell
have gone to their beds Dr. Rogers has
past from his to the grave. The others are
rapidly ecovering.
BUSINESS Is As DEAD
as Hector was after the last forced trip be-
hiUd Achilles chariot around the walls of
Troy. The newspapers will probably have
to suspend IN a week for lack of typos
They are at a half sheet now, and last
night the Ippe1i and irolIache could get
but five cases each going, to work up an
apology OF paper Tor this morning. Ma
ny men OF business sleep in the country
around, coming in town late in the after
noon and scamperiDg off TO the country be-
fore sunset. The loss 20 our city will be
incalculable. To repair it in part the
most thorough sewerage must be begun
this winter, and Memphis must be made a
cleaner city.
! could
"a TALE UNFOLD
which would harrow the soul OF every per
son who reads this-a long, pathetic tale,
made up OF dark chapters of human suffer
ing, where death has played his horrible
part in hundreds OF domestic tragedies. Ii
touche the heart, it makes the sympathetic
soul bleed, the sight of such things as are
being enacted in this city tonight. Terri
bic deaths OF delirium, horrible rawlings Of
fever, wilowhood born, orphanage brought
into life,-great God what miseries, what
anguish, what sorrows. | could write you
of families buried from the same hearse the
same day; OF waifs picked up trying in
baby way to kiss the pale, vomit-splashed
features of mother back into life,-but
then | cannot. The man who lives through
these surrounding scenes turns with horror
from their description. 10 CosE.