The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-27
NEW SERIES---NO. q

efforts are being made to keep the fever out
of the home where the orphans are placed.
This is one OF the most efficient charities in
the city. W. Taylor, chairman of the re-
lief committee OF the Typographical union,
calls on sister organizations for aid. John
&. Lonsdalc, Jr,, treasurer of the citizens
relief committee, IS daily in receipt of sub
stantia aid, and the poor of the city are b.
ing cared for.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Aug 25.--Ncw cas,s Of
yellow fever, 1853 DEATHS 33.
Rev. Father Doyle, c. NJ, st. Josephs
church, died to-day Of fever.
DR.. Stone returned to the city this after
noon from Port Eads. He reports TO the
Howard association that all the patients
there except one or two are convalescent.
One nurse remained and the other returned
with Or. Stone
The fever has appeared at Bayou dies AL
mo. In response to an appeal, there being
no physician there, the Howard association
sent DR.. Oh. Wolf to that point yesterday.
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. %.
II possible send up more nurses. If not
nurses some one to nep the sick the best
they can. Provisions and nOllrishment for
the sick are short. DR.. Hall, DIR. Gay and
the postmaster are down with the fever.
No mail from any point. The negroes are
all getting the fever Deaths last night
numbered six white and four coored The
patients are dying from want of proper
nourishment and domestic attention. am
well. DIR. VEAzEY.
NoTE.-The above shows that the report
of DIR. Neazcy's illness is not true.
PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 25.-Two cases
| OF yellow fever were discovered last night.
A young man called at the Pennsylvania
hospital and inquired of the attending ply
stefan if two patients could be treated there
The doctor inquired the nature of the cases,
and the applicant said he only knew there
were two men stopping at S04 South street
who had arrived Friday from Vicksburg
and showed signs offever. The doctor no.
tilted the authorities and health officers
were Immediately detailed to take the sick
men to the municipal hospital. The house
was then thoroughly disinfected, trunks Of
| the tever-strcken and all clothing in the
house taken away, and the neighborhood
cleanscd. The health board say the cases
have been discovered in good time, and
there is no reason for alarm.
vICKsBURG.
| NICKsBURG, Aug. 25.--SiXty-eight new
cases and sixteen deaths for the past "a
hours. DR.. Booth is something better this
evening. Among the deaths is Rob't
Eggleston son Of Z. T. Eggleston.
The fever continues increasing. Over
| fifty new cases in the past twenty-tour hours
are reported, and twenty-five deaths among
them, Geo, +: Brown, son of Judge Geo.
F, Brown and G. p, Allen, city edi-
tor Of the Vicksburg Herald, are
down with fever; also the latter's
wife and son. His daughter died to-day
Trains on the Nicksburg and Meridian rail
road have ceased running, owing to quaran-
/ rines alongThe fine and threats made To
fire into the trains and wreck them. Nicks-
burg is cut of from all communication ex-
ccpt by the Mississippi river. Two chill
dren of j. Reinhardt who left here week
ago died yesterday at Tuscaloosa, Ala Of
yellow fever, Physicians and nurses from
New Orleans reached here tonight.
INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 25.-The commit
tee appointed to solicit aid for yellow fever
sufferers collected $500 yesterday. The
committee will continue their work to-mor-
| row,