Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-08-22
YELLOW FEVER IN THE SOUTH.

that the dreaded scourge, yellow
fever, has broken out in New Or
leans, our principal southern city,
until the intelligence is followed up
with the infol nation that the fatal
disease is rapidly spreading. The
ravages made are truly fearful. In
Greeada, Miss, a town of 2500 peo.
pie, about one half whites, n great
many have died and q great many
more have left. The disease has
spread rapidly and is of the most
malignant type. The negroes have
escaped wonderfully this far but the
whites suffer terribly. All business
is stopped. The rumble Of the dead
carts along the streets are the only
sounds of business heard.
In Mem phis the situation Is APP
paling. The disease has spread rap
idly and the people are panic-Strick-
en-. There is u widespread feeling
of dread that the great plague of
1873 will be surpassed.
NEW ORLEANS, August 16.-For
the past twenty-four hours one hum
dred and eight new cases nf yellow
fever and twenty-nine deaths have
been reported. The deaths to-day
include twelve children, ten of them
under five years. III answer to a
question DR.. Chopin, president of
the Board Of Health. expressed the
op inioh that those who had previ-
ously had yellow fever were in no
danger of taking it again, even
though they had spent u summer or
two away.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug 16.-There
have been sixteen new cases of fever
and FIVE deaths, from nine O'Clock
last night until nine tonight.
| LOUISVILLE, August l6.-Many
persons from yellow fever cities are
| arriving here. One thousand dollars
was subscribed for the Grenada suf-
ferers to-day. The Gait House an
nounces nominal rates for those who
are compelled to leave their homes,
and if the number coming here con-
tinues so large all the hotels will do
the same.
NEW York, Aug. 16.-William
Riley arrived here this morning from
New OrleanSvery sick and was TAX
en- to his home in the upper part of
the city. 1t is believed he has yell
low fever.
DELAWARE BREAKwATER, Aug.
16.-The schooner Ida Lawrence,
Captain Alpheus Barrett, from Sa-
qua lie Grande, Cuba. on the 9Th
inst, bound for New York, put IN
here early this morning, with her en-
tire crew, nine in number, either
dead or sick with yellow fever. The
only passenger on the Scho oner,
Isaac III. Warrington, of Camden,
n. j., sen of one of the owners of
the vessel, died at sea, and his body
is preserved in liquor. Yesterday
two of the crew died, and were bur
led at sea, off the Capes. To-day
the schooner's flag was again run up
to half mast, indicating another
death, ard inquiry proves the vic
tim to be Captain Barrett. One
more of the fever-strlckan crew is
believed to be beyond recovery, but
the remainder are doing very well.
The Union county papers all plead
guilty to the charge that the propos-
ed Harvest Home Picnic will be too
much out of the way. But what
ale we all going to do about it?
The Sitter, Walls Il Shriner, Mfg
Company are just now making eX-
tensive preparations for the manu-
facture of stoves. They make sever.
al kinds and sizes of cook stoves and
heaters, and persons who have
tried them speak 0f them as
fully equal if not superior to any
thing of the kind in the market.
"ON TO BELLEFoNrE." = On
Monday morning bright and early
wagon after wagon, all loaded down
to groaning with human freight,
passed through town on their way
to BelIefonte. There was a regular
exodus from the east. 1t seemed as
if Haines township was about being
depopulated of its men. One wagon
alone had twenty-four men on it.
Altogether over one hundred people
left their homes and went to Belle
fonte. Why this commOtion ? What
ls.it all for ? A law suit-a bitter,
tenacious, sharply contested law
suit between two men, is on the
typis! What a sad commentary on
our boosted civilization. What q
mockerv on that religion which
teaches peace on earth and good ,ctU
to men.
Times Flies and so do diseases of
the skin when that Incompatible
purifier of,the cuticle and beautifer
of the complex ion, CT EMS Sui
PHUR SOAP is used to disperse
them. Pimples, blotches, sores and
bruises, and the like invariably re-
moved by it.
HILLS HAIR & WHfsKER DYE,
Black or Brown, 80 cents. 324.
SEMI-CENTENNIAL.
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