The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-21
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TO TIE DAILY 7NTE11IoENcgR
YELLOW FEVER.
BLESSING OF THE FROST.

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; BLESSING OF THE FROST
Prospect Of an Early Abatement Q
the Disease.
NEW ORLEANS.
NV ORLEANS, October ia heay,
frost this morning. Weather clear ant
cool; Deaths, %; cases reported, s.: tota
deaths, 5000; total cases, l2,237.
The condition OF telegraphers Babbit
and Hunt Is serious. Babbitt was not ex
pected to live through the night. West
Fisher and others convalescent. Miller
and Leloup at work. West and Cottrel
will resume duties in few days.
Indications are that New Orleans will
be favored with slight frost between mid.
night and sunrise Sunday morning. There
has been fresh breeze from the north.
west blowing for the last thirty.six hours,
which has at length veered over to the
northeast and diminished somewhat in
velocity. It brings with it q night TEN.
perature of about forty-seven degrees.
Last night the lowest point OF the ther.
mometer was forty-five degrees, sufficient
to produce frost which we would have had
thismorning had not the wind prevailed.
There were frosts reported Friday morn
ing at Montgomery, Atlanta, 0syka aud
Shreveport. Duck Hill was visited by
heavy frost.
Franz Veigt, a native OF Switzerland,
formerly Professor Of Mathematics at the
Louisiana State Agricultural and Mechani.
cal College, died of yellow fever, aged
thirty-two.
Col. 7. S. Hardee, State Engineer OF
Louisiana, has been appointed by Surgeon
General Woodwork as Sanitary Engineer
OF the National Yellow Fever Commission.
Applications for relief to the Young
Mems Christian Association, Il; Howards,
$50, including many old cases not hereto
fore entered on the books.
The Howards to-day sent nurses to Va
zoo City, Clinton, La, and Simmsport.
DR.. Quijano telegraphs the Howards as
follows:
Nothing to be done at Dry Grove. I
shall give my entire attention to lebanon
Church settlement, where l have sixty
two patients. The disease at this place has
assumed the malignaney 1t did at Dry
Grove. In one hour an entire family,
thirteen in number, were prostrated with
the feverl The people are in very des-
titute condition. Heavy frost this morn
ing"
MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, October 19.-H heavy black
frost fell last night. This morning ice q
sixteenth OF an inch was found in pools
beyond the city limits.
From 6 o'clock last evening until noon
to-day the undertakes report ten orders for
interment. .
PIT. Scruggs, Judge-elect Of the Crimi,
nal Court OF Shelby county, died this morn
ing at Gosdlett Station, eight miles east OF
Memphis, on the Charleston Railroad.
Pat McElroy, Sergeant OF Police, also died
early this morning, five miles east Of the
city. Mrs. John Hollywood died last
night at Camp Father Mathew. Fred
Henninger, well known shoemaker, was
prostrated with fever to-day. DR.. B. F.
Sheftall, OF Savannah, Ga, has been sent
out TO the relief OF the sick at fernando,
Miss.
The Board Of Health officially report
seven deaths from yellowfever for the past
twenty-four hours, ending at s o'clock to-
night. The undrtakers report 1Saddition:
al interments OF persons who died beyond
the corporation line. Sixteen physicians
OF the Howard medicateorps report 40 new
cases, 10 of them within the city limits,
and so in the suburbs.
Among the deaths occurring since noon
are Mrs. W. P. Cleere, Mrs. Fl. Cohen, Mrs
Nancy L. Pollard and r. H. Heidel.
The Howard Association this afternoon
sent large lot Of supplies to Brownsville
and Martin, Tennessee.
DR.. r. W. Mitchell, Medical Director OF
the Howard Association, in reporting the
death OF DR.. N. T. keating, Of New York,
said ~ regret to announce the death OF .
physician OF extended experience and the
highest accomplishments, who brought TO
our aid an ability second to that Of no
other member OF our corps, and devotion
to the cause that eompels from me special
mention, and the expression Of o deep and
heartfelt sorrow for his loss"
In response to many letters making In
ouiry il Traditional funds are required, the
Citizens Relief Committee and the How.
ard Association authorize the statement
that ample means are yet in their hands 70
supply the wants OF the sick and distressed
of this city and the towns adjacent.
Should the present funds become ex-
hauSted, due notice will be given. Funds
now in the hands OF committees abroad
might be retained until further adyices are
sent them that they are not needed.
CAIRO.
CAIRO. October 1.-two deaths aimee
Inst night. No new cases. Frost this morn
ing. 10 correct any erroneous impression
which NAV have gone abroad, that dest'
tuition exists here, the following has been
requested: o.,,o
"There are no cases Of destitution here
except such as can be relieved by our own
people. Should any necessity for outside
laid exist, it will be made known through
m, "W. II. MoRRIS, President.
"W. n. WILLIAMS,
Secretary Citizens Relief Committee"
i BATON RouGE.
i B,roS RouGR, October 19.-New case.
10, deaths 1. Light frost this morning.
Tobe, engineer OF the steamer st. Johns
died here last evening. His companion
Charles Fields, is reported dying.
They both came from the West some twt
weeks ago on the first down tr'p oI th'
new steamer 81. Johns They tell 70
gether, and were put ashore here LOT trea!
m1nt. Every attention was paid them o!
physicians and experienced nurses.
MOBILE.
StoRrLE. ALA, October l9.-Up TO nool
,.o,,osFja,, thara yrara IL new cases OF teYe