Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-28
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

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WASHINGTON.
On the 14th Secretary Sherman rescindet
an order previously issued by him for tn,
exchange by the Government repositories
OF standard silver dollars for greenbacks
which order was to have taken effect on tn,
18th of September. The reason for revok
ing this order by the Secretary is under.
stood to be Difference on his part to the opin,
ion of many others, that, by the terms of the
Resumption act, the Department had nC
right to exchange coin for greenbacks priol
to the date when the Resumption act takes
effect, January LIST next.
The banking -house of H. Z. Offiey & Co.
Washington, d. c., has suspended. A de.
cline in the District of Columbia bonds, ir
which the firm dealt heavily, is the cause OF
its downfall.
The Commissioner of the General Land.
once has decided that soldiers in the regu-
lar army may file claims and acquire home.
steads on the public lands without intending
TO become actual settlers. The decision wa.
made ON the application Of General JEFF. c,
DAVIS, now and for many years in the mill.
tary service.
Edward Mcpherson, Chief of the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing of the Treasury
department, has resigned his position, in
order TO become political editor of the Phil
adelphia Press.
There was no little excitement in Wash
ington on the Goth, caused by a threatened
communistic uprising under the leadership
OF one Isaac Cohen, an agitator who had
been previously arrested and fined for in
citing riot. As a measure of precaution,
Secretary Sherman placed additional guards
In the Treasury building, and a company of
troops from Baltimore was sent for in order
to make assurance doubly sure. There was
no outbreak.
Secretary Sherman has written letter to
the Secretary of the "Honest Money
League" denying emphatically that he or
any other member of the Cabinet had pro-
posed to recede from the position hereto
fore taken by the Administration in regard
TO the Resumption act, and assuring him
that there will be no letting down by the
Executive branch of the Government as to
resumption on the 1st day Of January next.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
A summary of yellow fever reports re-
ceived on the 18th, shows that during the
preceding "a hours there were 135 new cases
and SO deaths at New Orleans, 81 new cases
and deaths at Baton Rouge, 1 death at
Mobile, Ala, new cases and deaths at
Grenada, Miss, 6 new cases and deaths at
Grand junction, 8 new cases and deaths at
Terry, 100 new cases and 81 deaths at Men,
phis, and 10 deaths at vicksburg.
Yellow fever reports for the 22d: New
Orleans, 40 deaths and 1876 new cases; Mem
phis, 3S deaths and ia new cases (only par
TALLY reported); Canton, Miss, @ deaths and
"A new cases; Grenada, 1 death and 20 new
cases; fernando, no deaths, but 8 new
cases; Hickman, KY, deaths and 9 new
cases; Grand Junction, Tenn, 8 deaths and
3 new cases.
Information was received at New Orleans
from Greenville, Miss, en- the Goth, that the
town was entirely cut of by mail and tele-
graph from the rest of the world; that out
OF 500 people remaining in the place nearly
400 had been or were down with the fever,
and 162 had died, % in the "a hours preced-
ing. The Howards Immediately forwarded
by steamer to the stricken community a
force Of 20 nurses under charge of a ply
sician, and full stores Of supplies of various
kinds, together with n telegraph operator.
For the "a hours ending at noon ON the
23d, there were 134 new cases and A deaths
at New Orleans; 80 new cases and o deaths
at Holly Springs; % new cases and death
at Canton, Miss, 9 new cases and deaths
at Hickman, KY; 2 deaths at Martin, Tenn.
10 new cases and deaths at Brownsville,
Tenn; and deaths at vicksburg. Mem
phis report delayed, but apparently no
diminution in number of cases.
At Lake, Miss, up to the 2lst, there had
been 80 cases of yellow fever and 21 deaths
at Morgan City, La, 66 cases and IS deaths
at Brownsville, Tenn, 80 cases and A
deaths. The disease had become epidemic
at Colliersville and Martin, Tenn, at Her
nando, Dry Grove, and Mayerville, Miss, al
Tangipahoa, La, and q number of other
places.
A dispatch from Hickman, KY, 18th, says
that two-thirds of the white people of the
town are down with fever, and that the re-
mainder were unable TO bury the dead ol
nurse the sick.
The disease had so far abated at Canton
Miss, on the 18th, that the President of the
Howards requested that further contribu.
tions be discontinued.
A movement has been started in Nash.
vile, Tenn, to secure donations to FUND
for the support and education of the orphan
children Of Butler p. Anderson, of the Mem
phis Howard Association, who fell victim
to the cause of humanity at Grenada, Miss
Remittances may be sent to Thos. S. Weav
er, Treasurer Anderson Orphan Fund
Nashville, Tenn. Gov. Porter, ex-Gov
Brown, and other well known gentlemen
arethe originators of this worthy scheme o
benefcence.
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following physicians of the Howard Medi
cal Corps have fallen victims to the plague
w. p. Hodges, of Memphis; RIB. William.
of Woodburn, KY; j. w. McKim, of 81
Louis; w. C. Meake, of Ark; L. II
McGregor, Of Upton County, Tennes
see; T. W. Menes, Of Nashville; j
r. Harlan, of Hot Springs, Ark.
j. X. Kenner, of indianapolis; j. b. Hick,
Of Murfreesboro; j. s. Bankoon, of Steven
son, Ala; I. w. Bond, of Brownsville
Tenn; A. NJ. Pooree, Of Cincinnati; p.
Nugent, of St. Louis; w. j. Armstrong, q
Memphis; p. II. Tate, of Cincinnati; j. {
G. Gosnell, Of Fort Wayne, Ind; r.. Tat
(colored), of Cincinnati.
Additional Congressional nominations
Missouri-First District, Henry Ziegenheil
Republican; Third, Lyme S. Metcalfe,. II,
publican; Sixth, Charles G. Burton, Repui
lican. Illinois-Twelfth District, Gen. job
Cook, Republican. ('Renominated.)
Hon. J. III. Slater, Democrat, has bee
elected United States Senator from Orego
to succeed Senator Mitchell, Republics
The Senator-elect, in an interview, says
is not in sympathy with imitation, advocat
the substitution Of legal tender for Nation
bank notes, opposes fiat money, and d
mands the currency shall be on a coin bas
The recent floods in Ashtabula Count
o., caused damage of a quarter milli'
dollars.
Mrs. Charles Morse, of Chardon, o., in
MT Of temporary insanity, killed her lit
dauohter aoad 7 apd than o,,, L. -,