The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-04

ture of health. He was deemed incorri-
gible and turned over 10 the police.
Memphis Avalanche.
A well equipped and commanded col
ored company are doing duty about the
commissary store and takes position at the
office Of the Relief Committee, keeping
back the pressing crowd of basket "toting'
colOred people. The ZOuavcs arc doing
good service.
Unless some means is discovered TO re-
move the crowd Of idle colored people IN
town, who will not leave or attend tho
sick Of their race free Of charge, the Buf-
iering amongst them from sickness and
hunger will be great before the plague is
over.
A Mr.. Bennett came into the Arutancle
office yesterday and denied that he has de-
serted his sick family. True, he said, lie
did not go into the house since they were
taken, but that he looks OvcrtE fence and
inquiries about them. As the bored re-
porter never heard OF the individual be.
fore, he gives his explanation, by way Of
showing up the style Of devoted parent
and husband he reallyi Is uL.
The mortality OF the worst day OF 1873 is
surpassed, and yet the maximum nny not
have been reached. One day in October,
five years ago, Memphis, with 1900 white
people within her city limits, buried eightyr
six OF her citizens. This was the maximum
OF the last great visitation OF yellow fever.
Yesterday, with white population not
exceeding 5000, ffty-eight citizens were
hauled out ut trot to the cities OF the
dead. 1H
It is rayless night, gloom, gloom, gloom,
the deepest gloom. The bare figures,
heavy. shocking, and repulsive astheyare
do not OF themselves alone measure the
depth. The refugee who reads them US he
sits hundred miles away needs to be told,
that he may appreciate their meaning, that
out OF s, 600 white people in the city SOOa
sick, dying, or dead; that medical aid has
not reached many who have been tossing
on beds OF fever for days; that some OF the
dead lie unburicd for days; that horrors,
and suffering, and destitution to be en-
countered on almost every street. Then
he cnnuot realize One-tenth what is seen
blythe faithful philanthropist whose day,
is spent in fcrreting out the sufferers ana
bearing them succor. tar
Memphis Appeal.
Annie Cook, who kept the noted dcmi-
monde establishment, the Mansion House,
has discharged all her female inmates, and
is taking yellow fever patients in her elo-
gantly-iurnishcd rooms. Being hcrselfan
expert in the management OF the disease,
she is personally experimenting, the nurs-
ing OF all the patients. One, we learn, has
already convalesced in that establishment.
The disease is steadily gaining on the
colored people, Yesterdays report showing
fourteen new cases and seven deaths. The
proportion OF deaths among this class OF
our people is double that OF the whites.
consequent upon their habits and general
defiance OF the simplest sanitary rules.
Notwithstanding the advice daily given
them, they continue to expose themselves
and TO- cat every description oil vegetables
and all the fruit they can put their hands
upon -watcrmelons being their tavorite.
On Court square and Second street they
can be seen at any hour OF the day, from =
to 8, in the vicinity Of the Citizens Relief
Committees provision depot, sitting in
groups under the blazing MONDAY sun,
eating this death.dcnling fruit, and luSu..
Rating in the prospect OF idleness and
plenty to eat. This should be put stop
10. The sale OF watermelons should be in
terdicted, and provisions should be with
held from all who will not leave the city,
except the sick and those convalescent.
Tho total cases to date foot up GO, and the
deaths l02, and the end is not yet.