The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-09-05

Emperor, was either mad or fcigning mad
moss. Experts would endeavor to decide which.
More Indian troubles in Oregon were
reported on the 18th. Several settlers At
Priests Rapids, ON the Columbia River, had
been killed.
A Constantinople telegram of the
18th announces the removal Of the Russian
headquarters from San Stcfano to Rodosto.
Two violent earthquake shocks were
felt in portions of Germany on the 18th. No
great damage was dOre.
THE YELLOH-FEvER sCOURGE.
The yellow-fevcr record for Mem
pills. on the 25th, showed decrease in the
number of new cases, rs compared with the
day before, there being sixty-onc reported up
to six p. m. The death list, however, was the
largest Of any day since the fever made its
appearance there, twenty-six fnterments being
reported for the same time. There was
great scarcity of nurses, and more had been
tclcgraphed for. The new cases i'm New
Orleans numbered 1853; deaths, thirty-thrce.
Vicksburg was cut off from all
communication with other points, except by
spread, there being over fifty new cases and
twenty-five deaths reported during the pre-
cc,ling twcnty-four hours. DIR. vcazey tclc-
graphed from Grenada to the Howard Associa-
ton, at New Orleans, for more nurses or
others to help the sick the hest they could.
Provisions and nourishment for the sick were
short Several prominent men were down
with the fever, and the negroes were all get
ting the disease; four of the latter were then
dying for the lack of nourishmcnt and domestic
attention. Aid was needed in all the afflicted
sections of the South, and the calls for assist
ancc were being generously responded to
from Northern and Western cities and towns.
A Memphis dispatch Of the 18th says in
stances were known in that city of parents de-
scrtinS their children, and children their par
entc. Tn. vito aud throc children of - PROM
inent citizen were taken with the fever dur
ing his absence from the city. He was tclc-
graphcd for by the Towards, and replied !:
"Takc care of my family" His wife died,
and the children were conveyed to the City
Hospital, where one of them died, on the 25th
A Washington telegram of the 25th
says the southwestern coast cities had so far
escaped the ycllow-fcvcr. The Secretary of
War had made liberal provisions for furnish
ing rations to the destitute in the South, and
orders were given, on that day, for supply of
5000 rations for Grenada. Liberal contribu.
tions were being made for the yellow-fever
sufferers.
Two eases of yellow-fcvcr were dis
covered, in Philadelphia, on the night of the
oath. \ man died at the New York City Quar-
antine Hospital, on the 23d, of yellow-fevcr,
contracted while unloading a cargo of log
wood.
There were 1901 cases and twenty
six intcrments in Memphis, on the 26th. Sew
cral negroes were among the victims. The new
cases in Vicksburg numbered $40; interments,
twenty-five. In New Orleans there were 1:,5
new cases and forty-four deaths.
A telegram. was received at New Or
leans, from Grenada, dated ut noon on the
26th. saying: "For Heavens sake, send few
nurses. 1t is untrue that the material for the
disease is exhausted; the nurses are exhaust
ed Two Of the most eminent physicians have
just been taken down. Physicians are needed
with nurses, but not without" Another dis
patch said DR.. Vcazey was sick. A physician
and four nurses were sent in response to this
appeal.
A man died in Cairo, on the oath. of,
it is supposed, yellow fever. He was from
Memphis. somewhat similar case occurred
in Pittsburgh, the victim dying on the 9th.
The health report from the Surgeon
Generals Office in Washington, issued on the
18th. gives the total Of cases in New Orleans,
So far, at 1,01s; deaths, 5;i. Vicksburg, 400
cases and sixty-nine deaths. Memphis, Ia
cases and iifty-thrcc deaths during preceding
six days. Canton, Miss, eighteen cases and
eight deaths. Port Gibson, Miss, lis cases
and nine deaths. IN Grenada, SO many Of the
remaining population were stricken with the
disease that definite Information of the num-
Der of cases and deaths could not be obtained.