The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-10
FsTA TABLlSEIED AUGUSTUS 1852. .asygar37 =


possible to makeseparate written acknowl.
ment OF the contributions which are being
received in response to our appeals for
help for our distressed brethren and others
in the pestilence.stricken communities Of
our State. You will, therefore, please
pardon this general acknowledgment OF
your contribution drawn through bank
Just to hand. At the close Of the epidemic,
will, II spared, send you detailed state
ment OF all Iireceipts and disbursements.
As funds are received, they are once for
warded To our Masonic and ]. o. o. F. Re
lief Committees at the several places where
the fever prevails; i have no means OF
knowing what number ofour brethren
and their families are in need OF assistance.
l only know that many OF them have died,
and that those who are spared are labor
ing with noble zeal for their suffering fel-
low-citizens. n 80 81 ta,s'.a,iat. % ,3Ig
Our condition is deplorable indeed.
Nearly every railroad town on this side OF
the State Is quite deserted; business has
been laid aside; the stores are nearly all
closed; homes are abandoned, and fami-
lies are widely scattered and separated.
OF my own household Of eleven persons,
am solitary and alone-my family hav-
ing gone to q place OF safety. l. have re-
manned, 10 dischatge duty that i conceive
l owe to my brethren, by distributing to
them such relief in the way OF money,
supplies and nurses as may be rendered.
We cahn0t Hope for IN cessation OF the pes
thence until the middle OF October; but
may God, in His infinite mercy, remove its
shadow from our sunny land ere that
time.
In;addition Grenada, Yicksburg, Port
Gibson and Canton, / now report the exis-
tence OF yellow fever In GreenYille and
Holly Springs Over 1000 people arc
down in vfcksburg Spreading at all
points-malignant and very fatal.
Fraternally yours,
'ra1a J.L. Bower,
f'e'7s .- Grand Treasurer.
The net proceeds OF Count De Zaba's
lecture ($4S SOY at Washington Hall, FRI
lay night, were rcmitted yesterday to New
Orleans. We may appropriately refer to
he iact tas showing the good offices OF the
telegraph, wires these days, The money
vas deposited with the Exchange Bank in
he morning, and q telegram sent (free)
their correspondent at New
orleans to draw for that amount, which
lispatch would at once, of course cause
lie money to be paid over to the Relief
in New Orleans, thus render
ng the amount at once available. It is
hus that science ministers to the necessi-
les OF suffering humanity. ssi $40. "
The Moundsville people will give con-
ert and festival tonight to raise money
or the afflicted people Of the South. i
Among those who will take part in the ex- I
'rcises we notice the name Of Mr.. Walter !
!. Frissell, (son OF DR.. Frissell) Of this city.
We have no doubt that Moundsville will {
i've a good account OF herself tonight.
AT Bellaire we notice, by our locals
rom. there, that the B. & o. clerks have
,een lending helping hand. Our city I
ocals show what is being done in our own ]
midst. At all points, and
mong all classes Of people, there are sub
tantial manifestations Of sympathy. !
This yellow fever epidemic in New Or. {
cans promises to be more fatal than any
ince the awful year OF 1858, which reached
Is climax August %, and secu red in all /
,6l7 victims The last epidemic, in 1867, c
lid not subside till September q, and car
led offs 400 Up to September 1st there +,
,ad been zoos deaths this year, and there
we're ss more that day; in 1867 there had
,een 2GO September and were II thatday;
II 1858 there had been 1920 and were I
me hundred and three more. With this
'isit the plague has almost lost It's sprevious {
,remonit6ry symptoms, which makes it :
more dangerous and harder to treat tits
Ilso now complicated with malarial fever, i
Witch sometimes precedes and again fol- {
ows it. The sallowness, also, from which
he disease derives It's name, does not now
Ippear in one case in FIVE. Physicians
Ind that, II the patient passes the ninth
lay, there Is only danger ofrelapse. Death
isually intervenes, in 60 cases in 100, on
he third or fourth day after attack, and is
aused III about the same proportion by
lack y;oimit. But in general all the old
lleories have been subverted, and negroes,
natives and those who have passed through
previous epidemics, before considered ex-
,mpt from the disease, have not been so
his year.
Hon. John A. HuTcniSsoN, OF Parkers-
burg was in the city yesterday. He left
IN the three o'clock boat for sistersyille,
al ,,.;ll nidrosp the Tvler County Repub.