Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-29
yellow Fever REPORTS.

Yellow Fever Reports.
Tho yellow fever is duly becoming more
terrible in its destruction of lfo and the
paralyzing OF business operations in the
Southwest. Reports show that it is spreads
ing over wider urea, aud that active busi.
ness centres ore being dopopulated by the
flight Of tho people from the threatened
pcstileuce. A thorough system of police
ard quarantine has been established over
all the cities and towns on tho rivers and
coast, and yet the fever has not been
checked. An abstract Of the sanitary ro.
ports received at Washington for the week
ending the Gath instant, shows that at New
Orleans there were III cases of yellow fever
and 205 deaths; mailing in all 1,G73 cases
aud 434 deaths. During the twenty four
hours to noon yesterday, 1913 now cases and
40 deaths.
Vioksburg-At least 400 cases of fever
from August IL to yesterday evening, and
60 deaths; 20 deaths during the last twenty.
four hours. DR. Booth, in charge of tho
Marine Hospital service at that port, tee.-
graphs: 81 am siok; impossible to procure
accurate data
Memphis-14 cases and So deaths during
the ak days to Friday evening.
Canton, Miss.-The first case occurred
at Canton on August l. To yesterday
| evening Is cases and 8 deaths.
Port Gibson, Miss.-1lS cases and 8
| deaths to yesterday morning.
A few cases have occurred at Ciucinn natl,
Morgan City, Louisiana, Ocean Springs,
Mississippi, st. Louis and Louisville, though
they were refugees ffom the infected dis
| tricts.
Grenada. town of twelve hundred in-
habtants, has been reduced to less than ono
hundred, and there are not enough we'll
persons to wait on the siek. Recently the
negroes have been attacked by the pestilencc
and state Of decentralization prevails, stores
and houses have been broken open and
plundered.
Canton, town of three thousand five
hundred inhabitants, is reported as deserted, !,
the citizens flying in every direction, so that
tho population now is reduced to one hun.
dred.
Another report says neirly fifty thousand
of the citizens of Now Orleans have left
that city, aid there is pi. portionate flight
from Memphis and othor infected sections.
The foyer is reported to be of malignant
type, and nurses, doctors and supplies are
sadly needed. The cities of tho Atlantic
coast SO for have escaped, and We trust the
stringent sanitary regulations adopted all
over the country will ohock tho further
spread Of the postilenco.> Frost, tho only
sure preventive and check, is weeks away,
| and no creator calamity could bcfal the
country than the spread of this plague in
our great cities Of tho Eastern coast. 1t is
terrible to contemplate its rapages in the
present limited area.
Dispatches Of tho 26th Instant report
the fever still raging at Grenada. The
nurses are worn out and two of the most
eminent physicians have takon down The
despatoh appeals for nurses, physicians uud
supplies.
In New Orleans, August 26, 44 deaths
ond 1875 pew cases are reported for tho lust
"a hours. A despatch from Memphis of
samo date rerorts 76 new cases and II
deaths. Tho fever is spreading among the
negroes to an alarming extent.
Compliance with the requsition of Gov.
Hampton for Kimpton is SO entangled by
law and lawyers in Massachusetts Chat he
hos not yet been started to South Carolina.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops;
and the pattern which was weaving when
tho sun went down is weaving when it comes
up to morrow.
1t is always we'll to remember that nothing
in the world is easier than to pull down and
destroy. 1t requires no intelligence, no
character, only power and will A hog can
root up garden; one hen, scratching for
worms, will destroy in an hour what nature
and the gardener have been years in pro-.
ducing.
AUGUST 20, l878--Editors Register: Do an
nounce that my physicians presorbcs cniirc rest
for mo for short time in the mountains.
But to do so must give up few of the pend.
ing meetings, and hope that our friends will
understand the reason Of my absence.
WADE HAMPTON.
W. r. Gosnell was tried in tho United States
Court, at dreonville, for resisting and opposing
revenue officers and found guilty.
] do not mean to expose my ideas to ingeni-
happens to every man is for tho best but will
contend that he who makes tho best use Of it
fuflls tho part of n wise and good man.
N.----.-
Sou people are always putting their
duties off, They aro sjust going to" all
their days, but the last day comes and
nothing is done. Lavater says "IIo who
prorogucs the honesty of to day rtll to
morrow will probably prorogue his to NOR.
rows to eternity"