The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-07
Third Edition
THE LATEST.
T I'll E r e AP E r
Whose Name is Death
Devastating the South.
Devastating the South.


LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Sept. THE official state
ment of yellow fever is reported as follows,
viz: Deaths from II IN. yesterday to II m.
to-day, II. New cases since last report, 232.
DISTRESSED FOR WANT OF EMPLOYMENT.
New ORLEANS, Sept. THE situation
here is not changed materially, except in
regard to the distress occasioned by the
stagnation of business and the consequent
needed employment by the laboring classes
and others, and excepting also the distress
in some of the prominent charitable insti-
tutions.
THE LITTLE ORPHANS.
In one of the latter, the St. Vincent's In
fant Orphan Asylum, containing over two
hundred infants, there are to-day among
the little waits over forty cases of yellow
fever, while other institutions of a similar
character report number of cases. In
ordinary times these institutions are sup
ported by the general public, but now there
are but few here who can contribute hence
the distress.
1t requires corps of twenty-five or thirty
clerks in the commissary department to fill
acquisitions, and they are kept steadily at
work. A strong body of police is kept on
duty at the depot and it is as much as they
can do to maintain order as every appli-
cant endeavors to get ahead of his neigh
Dor.
CONSIDERATION AT HOLLY SPRINGS.
The Howards have the following from
Holly Springs Arrived with a corps of
nurses all right Great CONSERVATION and
decentralization exists. The town is desert
ed, 800 only being left, and no help of any
kind. There are estimated 80 patients and
l3 deaths in the past 4S hours. DR.. Bailey
and myself are alone for duty, the rest all
being down"
% DEATHS IN SIX HOURS.
New ORLEANS, Sept 7.-Reports at the
office of the Board of Health from II m. to
6 p III. yesterday show % deaths and las
new cases of fever during the day.
AT CANTON, MISSISSIPPI
The Howards' dispatch from physician
at Canton, Miss, says there were Is new
cases there in the last "a hours but the
physicians are so busy that they can not get
reports from them.
NO CHANGE AT GRENADA.
A dispatch from physician at Grenada
says Hummel the druggist sent from here
by the Howards, died Thursday night, also
that there is no material change there and
that the Holly Springs Board of Health
have importuned the physician at Grenada
to send physicians from there to Holly
Springs, which he can not do.
HELP WANTED AT GREENvILLE.
A dispatch from Greenville calls upon
the Howards for thirty female and ten male
nurses, and says the fever is increasing
there but does not give the number of cases.
The nurses, with supplies will go by river.
Contributions funds and supplies are still
coming in from all parts of the country,
and are being distributed in the city as we'll
as being sent to the country as fast as called
for. Several of the Howards here are worn
out by fatigue, but as yet none are serious
ly ill.
NO FEVER AT JACKSON.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept IA dispatch from
Vicksburg says: CDR Whitehead and Rev.
c. b. Galloway both died at their post of
duty. The fatality at Vicksburg, Grenada,
Greenville and Port Gibson is on the in
crease. Jackson, through the closest mu-
ncipal and sanitary regulations, continues
without another case. Sergeant Van Dyke,
of Washington, d. c., is here en- route to
take charge of the Signal Service Office at
Vicksburg. Country towns throughout all
this section remain deserted. Very few
country people are ever seen in town. The
streets and roads are deserted"
NUMBER OF DEATHS.
New YORK. Sept lowing to the failure
OF physicians to report sickness to the tele-
graphers, or some other cause, the reports
of mortality in yellow fever districts are not
kept up fully. The number reported to
date is three thousand one hundred and
twenty, but the total number must be
larger. There is no Improvement anywhere
yet except in Grenada, where the fever
seems 10 be decreasing for lack of victims.
The North is alive on the subject of raising