The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

merchants Every day looks likessSupday.
God only knows what the poor would have
suffered had it not been for the generous
contributions which enabled the Howard
Association to come to their relief, as they
have done for the third time.
A Baton Rouge dispatch announces the
death of Robert Wisemln, Chief of Police,
by fever.
At Memphis, on the 23d, the weather was
turning warm, which was favorable to the
spread of the disease among those who yet
remained well.
The Southern Relief Committee ~ San
Francisco, to September Il, have collected
in all $4,000 of which $4,000 is still on
hand, waiting advices from the fever
stricken districts. The committee is in fre-
quent receipt of requests for pecuniary as
slstanCe from various private societies, all
of which were refused. The commi ttee
announce that they remit to the Howard
Association alone, making the latter
almoners for their respective cities and
outlying districts The total remittauees
from the Pacific Coast. including citizens,
from Wells. Fargo & Co, and other sources,
are about $75, 900.
From Greenville, September "a: DR.. Sam
uel Walker is sick. Over three hundred
cases to date, and two hundred and ten
deaths. No decrease. The fever is spread
ing in the country. The Mayor and Marshal
are dead; very fe" left: great trouble in
burying dead terrible indeed.
At Little Rock, Ark, to the 25th Septem.
her, the Howard Association mad collected
and forwarded to the yellow fever districts
about $1,000. The quarantine at this place
is still enforced witl rigidness. No case of
fever has occurred here, and this city was
never healthier.
The young Mems Christian Association,
of Memphis, makes the following state.
ment: The generous sympathy of the
whole country for the distress prevailing in
the city finds expression IN varied contri-
buttons quite as needful as money. Thus
the Young Mems Christian Association has
received from its sister associations of St
Louis, Mo-, and Detroit, Mich, contribu.
tions of clothing and bed clothes, and from
the ladies of the Fruit and Flower Mission
of Detroit, Mich, large package of deli
cacies. Ladies and church organizations
can render material aid by similar gifts
The fever has thrown under the care of the
association upward of tweuty-four hundred
cases of fever, and large number of des
titute. The Contributions have not egualed
the demands made upon it. and now, as q
general impression prevails that New Or
leans needs no more money, it is feared that
| before the sickness ceases a large number
of cases will be left its hands without
| means to carry patients through to conva
lescence. The association still solicits The
continued aid of its friends, in money, anG
| in the mode indicated above"
| A note from Holly Springs of the 26tl
| September, SAYS: The situation is very
| gloomy, and we need great deal more
than we had supposed. Five hundred
persons now lie stricken with the fever
About one hundred and fifty have died, anc
| there are yet over five hundred to tax it
| We pray for frost and friends. The only
! hope for our people is a killing frost.
Total deaths in New Orleans from yello "
! fever up to noon Saturday, 276; total mum
! ber of cases, 9,021.
The Southern Relief Committee Of New
| York refuses to join III the proposal Il
equip steamboat with supplies and sent
| her to those towns along the Mississippi
which have been cut of and arc in need o
help,
New York has shipped two hundred pair
| of wooden blankets to Dr. w. f.. Mitchell
Director of the Howard Association, Mem
| phis, and one hundred and six cases O
clothing.
Great excitement prevailed at Soutl
Charleston, Ohio, over the arrival Of Joh
Flannery, refugee from Grand Junction
Tenn, who has just recovered from fever
He buried his brother, his brothers wit
and little child few days before leaving
A meeting of the Health Officers was called
and they voted unanimously to destroy III
infected clothing contained i'll his trunk
by burning, which was done.