The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-21
YELLOW FEVER.
no PRECEPTIBLE ABATEMENT OF
TIE TERRIBLE SCOURGE.

HIGH PRICES OF PROVISIONS CAUSING APPRE-
TENSIONS IN MEMPHlS-TIGE POLICE FORCE
LARGELY INCREASED To PRESERVE ORDER
THE sIUATiON At GRENADA TERRIBLE
BEYOND DESCRIPTlON-ONE HUNDRED AND
TwFNTY.NINE NEW CASES AT NEW OR
LEANS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 10 The day
opened with more hopeful signs. The panic
subsidized, the anticipated trouble about the
poor peoples encampment settled, the va
rious relief committees organized TO effect
such relief to The sufferers as they could
command and the bright, hot sunshine and
continued dry weather all served to restore
to great degree confidence that the fever
would not spread to any great extent be-
yond the district TO which it is at present
confined
There are great apprchensions of suffering
caused by groccrs raising prices on prOvis-
ions. The Ice companies set the example
by increasing the price Of ice to two and a
half cents per pound last saturday. This
cannot 20 very far because there are already
threats made that if grocerS attempt to take
advantage Of the people in their terrible
calamity they will break open the doors
and help themselves. The police force was
increased twenty men this morning, ten
white and ten black men.
\ commis,ary has been established on
South Court street in charge Of the Hon.
Luke +, Wright, with Capt j. \. Maccabc
chief commissary. As soon as the Loo.S
were opened the building was thronged
with negroes, many Of whom it is said have
deserted the farms IN the country in order
TO draw rations from the commisSary de-
partment, The committee will endeavor
to regulate matters so that only the needy
will be supplied,
\ rumor was current on the streets this
morning that three of our leading wholesale
houses were packing up to leave pcrma.
nently for northern cities. Your CORES
pendent interviewed each of the houses
mentioned, who state that they have no
such idea, but that they had stopped ship.
ment Of goods. They have already heavy
fall stocks on hand and are daily filling
orders
The Tennessee Baptist and Western Meth
list newspapers have suspended publica.
Ii N during the prevalence of the fever.
The demand for suburban residences has
run rents in that quarter up to fabulous fig
ures. Houses that ordinarily could be got
for so per month are commanding $50,
S15 and even 800 per month. Many pco.
pie have taken to camps in the old fields
in order to rent their houses out at the
ruling high rates,
All sorts Of rumors are in circulation
about the Cincinnati packet James W. Gatt'
which left here Friday night, crowded with
panic.strickcn people One rumor is that
she had been tied up at Hickman, Ky, with
twenty or more cases of yellow fever aboard
and that her passengers had taken to the
woods
Work which was resumed on the Masonic
temple II week or so ago had to be discon.
tinued this morning 1t was begun in
1873, when il was suspended from the same
cause and nothing has been done on it until
a few days ago.
Furniture dealers are rcaping rich har.
vest in selling cheap furniture for camps.
When the fever first broke out in Mem
pms nearly every niue town, village and
hamlet within n radius of hundred miles
established quarantine against this city
Within the past day or two many of them
have relcntcd, and notified our citizens that
their doors are open to US, The result has
been that many who would have been
forced to 60 into camp have been able to
get comfortable quarters in the little towns
around.
Chelsea, our northern suburb, reported
one case to-day, the first that has appeared
in that quarter.
Six more negroes were added tothe police
force tonight, making sixteen negroes now
ON the force, the first negroes that ever
served in the Memphis police department.
| One Of the military came in from the
poor peoples cncampmcnt this afternoon,
and reports that threats continue to he
made against the camp by the people Of