Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-12
The Plague.Stricken South.

JERSEY CITY. September IL. A travelling
| agent from Memphis is sick with yellow fever Al
Closter, N. j.
| LKAvESwoRTH, Ks. September H. over one
thousand dollars we're contributed the last two
days Tor the benefit of fever sufferers Total tc
| date, $500.
CHICAGO, September II. A picnic given BY tn.
employees OF the city and county for the benefit OF
fever sufferers, Melted over 1000.
CANTON, Miss, September IL. New cases Is
deaths T. light RAIN prevails. Thermo meter
81 degrees.
NEW ORLEANS, September IL. Cloudy, cool
windy. New cases 250; three deaths. Thermom
eter 80 degrees.
chilly, with stiff northwest wind all day. The
deaths include 81 minors, y being under sever
years.
BATON RoUoE, September IL. Some Tint,
deaths to date. Eighty new cases reported
| ior three days ending yesterday. At least forty
more will be added this morning. The Towards
| have saved many lives. Physicians are untirng
| and the Towards have saved fifty nurses. Meas
| ures adopted are keeping down the panic. II ii
evident however that trying ordeal is now fair
y before us. A cold northerly wind 10 blowing
| this morning.
The board of health (offciaD for twenty -four
hours ending at nine O'Clock this morning, re-
ports Is new cases aud deaths. Total cases to
| date number 297, and total deaths %.
CINCINNATI, September IL. Another death
from yellow lever at Gsllipols. yesterday, Jos
Martin, who was wa lehman of steamer Porter
tie was taken sick Saturday. The corpse Was not
permitted to be removed from the house. Neigh
oors would not allow his wife to leave the house
Physicians will make an effort to bury him to-
day. There is pretty general scare. As three
new cases are reported. All public school are
closed Fires Of coal tar were burning the last
twenty four hours ~ the terminus of every street
opening on the river. MANY citizens are leaving.
Business and travel are almost suspended
MEMPHIS, Sc pts mber IL. The weather is clear
but cool. Two undertakers report Sc deaths to
noon. A. ID. Langstsf, PRESIDENT of the Howard
Association, has telegraphed to Richmond and
Cincinnati for one thousand ready made collins.
CAIRO, September IL. The quarantine phy.i-
clan says that the cases at Mr.. Porters which
were re poited as yellow fever are only bilious
fever Of the usual type of this part of the Mlsss-
sippi valley. They are all convalescing and have
had NO symptoms of yellow fever.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, September H. This
place has SO cases of yellow fever, who doing
| MS well Is their desutution will admit The dest-
tuition is appalling. A hundred whites and seven
hundred negroes here. The negroes growing
desperate and are noisy and insulting. They will
do nothing and force the whites to furnish them
food. Their murmurings are of the deepest aud
most threatening character. The whites are in
dread of bloody fight.
NEW ORLEANS. September IL. The Howard
Association reports pa new cases to-day, includ-
ing the sick and destitute.
GRENADA, September IL. Since yesterday
there were dealhs and new cases.
NRw YORK, September IL. The deaths from
noon to six o'clock z. M. is twenty-eight. The
Peabody Subsistence Association to-day issued
26 $50 rxtions on $3.50 acquisitions.