The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-01

Aug. 9.odHesyy shower last night aud thi'
cases OF yellow fever in the past twenty -four
hours, and twenty. four deaths, among them
| DR.. D. W. Booth.
dug 25.-125 new cases Is deaths. The
deaths include many old citizens.
dug 29.-There was q continuous rain from
an early hour last night till noon to day. 139
new cases for the past twenty four hours and
| seventeen interments. Among the deaths lie J.
! 2. Allen. city editor Of the Vicksburg Herald.
down with the fever.
dug. 80 100 new cases, 13 deathe.
GRENADA, MISS.
On the Goth, Major Walthall, OF Mobile, the
self'sacrifcing philsnthropist who served so
heroioally in Memphis, in 1873, writes:
There has been cruel mistake made in the
reports telegraphed abroad that the material
was almost exhaust I'D. From the best infor-
nation that osn get. I infer that there are at
least 200 whites and an indefnte number of
negroes in this town yet liable to the fever.
The first sick man that saw, after arrival
member of the local relief committee, aud
brother-in-law of Senator Lamar. saw him
at 8 O'Clock: He recognized me and grasped
my hand, although too i'll to speak. At 9 80
called again, and they were screwing down
the lid of his coffiu. HE last and strikin gly
unselish wish, expressed to Mejor Anderson
quickly"-under the apprehension that irfsc.
ton might be communicated tn others by his
remains-was thus fnldlied. The epidemic is
certainly the most frightfnl that have ever
witnessed, except thst of Norfolk, Va, in 1856
No statistics can be kept to chow the NUM- Der
of deaths and new cases. Families are lying
i'll without sttsntior OF the possibility. of get
ting any.
Aug 2S.-The recovery of five of the persous
who were first attacked aud the arrivsf of Dr..
Warren Stone aud several other physicians,
aod a number of good nurses, have in fused new
hope and life in the sick and dying
CANTON MTS9
dug 81 Not single business house open
ed except two drug stores. Ooce population
of three Thousand five bdndred, but now only
ssventy-five whites are TO be found here The
mayor and family sick, aud the hoard of alder
men fed. Courthouse locked up, aud officers
gone to some safe place. Nothing but the
hearse and coffins to be seen on the streets.
Some thirty-fve or forty cases Of yellow fever
here. Miss Miles Steele, Mrs. FoltoD,
three Misses Henry, DR.. Mckay, Mrs. GarreIl,
Mics Bruthel, etc., and many negroes are 6esd |
susceptible to fever than whites. Those few
whites bere now are scared because not q
single case Of yellow fever has been doctored |
successfully. Every person attacked died.
PORT eIBsoN, MISS.
Aug. % Fever very fatal and no abate
ment, 230 cases and 35 deaths to date. But !
one or two convalescent persons 30 far.
PLAQUEMINE, La.
pelican" writes under date of Aug. oath.
Iu my letter Saturday, announced ten cases
Of fever and three deaths Many cases have
been added daily till the nu mber is over for ty.
Eight OF ten of these (including four colored)
we're taken down to-day. Eight persons have
died in al1-five this last week-four adults
and one child, viz: Mrs. VIM l.. Roche, wife Of
our postmaster; Mrs. Thos Courier, Mrs. A F
Foote and child, and Major J Amedee Landry
all natives except Mrs. Roche. The ladies
'bove named we're all young mothers, and
cave families of darling little ones. 1t is almost
to get nurses. aud one of our physi.
'isns is sick. Very few of our people have left,
ret they fear to approach the sick.
A few cases are reported in Bston Rou Re,
They are of a mild type, and the desths have
'een few.