Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-08-31
Committee Of Arrangements.

PROGRESS OF THE oOUlHEKN CCoIhHE.
The accounts that continue 10 come
to us reporting the condition OF the
scourged cities of the South indicate the
spread of the epidemic to other places
and a steady increase in the number OF
new cases, as well as in the death rate
in the cities first attacked. The malig-
nant character OF the disease paralyzes
effort in some cases and cripples IL in
others. Physicians who thought them
selves secure against the malady have
been stricken. Members of that noble
organization, the Howad Association,
who have volunteered to nurse the sut-
fers, have themselves fallen victims to
their humanity. Quite number OF Sis
tiers of Charity have succumbed 10 the
destroyer in their midst of,heir devoted
ministrations. The cry is for more
physicians, more purses, more help.
Wherever persons can take flight they
have done so, leaving almost everything
behind them to the chance OF being
deprecated upon by thieves, who are
prowling about the doomed cities. Gre
NADIA has shrunk from population of
fully five thousand to less than seven
hundred. The white population of
Memphis has been reduced, it is report
ed, from thirty thousand to not more
than three thousand, which however,
hardly seems possible, as the daily pa
pers are still published and record all
events in their midst, though in half
sheets. In Memphis the large majority
OF business houses are closed and many
of the employees fugitives. Vicksbnrg
is also now feeling the severity of the
pestilence, and the quarantine regu!a-
,;o-r c-..Uriei..i -. T--i---- II Marid
ian intercept supplies. The deputy col
lector OF customs reports "twenty'three
deaths on Monday, six hundred cases
under treatment, and the plague spread
ing with fearful rapidity." He appeals
to the government for aid, and asks for
an immediate supply of ratious. Prom
inent citizens, headed by the mayor,
have appealed likewise to the Secretary
of War for help for the destitute color
ed people, and the Governor of the
State has been called upon TO cause the
quarantine regulations of the interior
cities to be modified. At New Orleans
the fever is still OH the increase, nearly
TWO hundred new cases having been re-
ported there on Tuesday. The record
is a fearful one, and until frost comes
there is no hope of relief. What the
humane of other cities, therefore, can do
should be done at once, and the assist
ance should be kept up from time to time
until the scourge abates. 1t is no tlmet to
speculate about the causes of the cpl
demic. There is sickness and sorrow
and suffering to alleviate and bereaved
families to succor. The sympathy that
is illustrated by liberal giving and the
sending forward of physicians aud nur-
ses was never more needed than now.
The following named physicians left
their names with the mayor as volun-
teers whenever called upon TO go South
to administer to the fever suffers: Drs.
J. w. Nixon, Jas. G. Wiltshire, Geo.
w. Benson and S. Boyle. Mayor La
,robe wrote to each of the four fever
stricken cities to telegraph for physl-
clans and nurses whenever needed. He
expressed the opinion, however, that
physicians and nurses not acc.iinated
would be useless in those cities, and
would themselves probably take the fe-
yer and have to be cared for.-BaHi-
more Sun.