The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-09-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

by he arrival on Monday OF The y. A.. steamer
CITY Of Sydney, We have dates from the Eastern
States aud Europe TO the LIST Inst, aud from San
Francisco TO the I'd, the day Of sailing. The oiS
Of Sydney made the extraordinary run down Of
seven days. two hours aud any minutes. The
news from all quarters Is interesting.
Yellow lever Is gaining ground In all the South
ern cities with ~frigbtful rapidly, and h gradually
increasing In severity and fatality. IL IL ielt that
the worst is yet 10 come. Appeals 10 the North
ern cities for help are answered In the promptest
and most generous manner. The warm sympathy
shown by The Northern people in this hour Of
their a%fiictiOn will not soon be forgotten by tho
children Of the " Sunny South"
A few extracts will suffice 10 give our readers q
glance at the terrible scenes OF misery, suffering
and death. Measures are rapidly becoming genera.
for the relief Of the sufferers.
New ORLEANS, August 2S.-The Times oorre-
s~pondent at Canton. Mississippi, under date Of the
9th, says: Arrived here Sunday last. There
is not a single business house open, except two
drug stores. With once a population Of $500, now
only seventy-hve whites are 10 be found here. The
Mayor and his family are sick, aud the Board Of
Aldermen have fed. The Court House IL locked
up, and the officers have gone 10 some safe place.
There is nothing but hearses aud collins 10 be seen
on the streets. Not a single case Of yellow fever
has been doctored successfully. No person AZ.
tackled has recovered" EHHN
NEw ORLEANS, August PA dispatch from
Canton, Miss, to the Howard Association says
" Fever cases are increasing"
A dispatch from the Howards Of Port GIbson
says " The fever Is very fatal, and there IL no
abatement. There have been two hundred and
thirty cases, and thirty I've deaths to-day. Toe IL
wanted nore than anything else. The nurses are
doing well. Our expenses are $50 per day. New
York. ST. Louis, jackson and Columbus are aiding.
There are but one or two convslescent persons 20
far"
The above was IN answer 10 a dispatch asking n
further assistance was required.
VIcKsBUR0, August 2s.-A light rain II falling
tonight. There have been l26 new cases Of fever
in the past twenty -four hours, and fifteen deaths.
Among the new cases are DR.. OLeary aud acting
Mayor j. +. Dale.
The Chicago TribUns's Memphis special says
Visitor MaDsford. Of the Towards, encountered n
scene Of horror upon entering a house on Com
merce street to-day. Upon q bed lay the Lying
and the dead-a husband cold and stiff, a wife m
the agony OF dissolution. On the floor, tossing In
delirum, were two children Of this pair, and be-
side them their cousins, two little girls. them
selves sick. To complete the sadness Of the scene
and give IL a touch Of disgusting horror, q drunken
man and a drunken wOman-parents OF the little
fever-baked Rirls-were reeling and cursing and
stumbling over the dying and the dead. Two hun
dred poor people were given transportation from
the city to-day. IL Is hard. sad wOrk-hhrder still
for the lack OF any star OF hope In the dark cloud
above as.
Startling cases Of destitntion are being developed
every day. This morning, the Office OF the How
ard Association was 20 densely packed by appli.
cants for relief that IL was almost impossible 10
gain admission. n
Several well authenticated cases will indicate
the extreme misery some persons have reached.
The driver OF the charity wagon to-day, while
passing No. 200 Poydras street. heard a shrek Of
agony within, and entering the premises. be quick
ly assembled a eight OF rickety stairs leading 20 a
side alley. He hurried into a back bedroom, and
was startled 10 behold the yellow corpse ola child
lying upon a altby bed. Seated IN a rocking CHAIR
and ~clutching a palmetto fan In one hand and
resting heavily upon the bed, sat a woman whom,
upon closer inspection be was shocked 10 zee was
stark and stiff. The cries continued, aud he hur.
ried to the front apartment, into which the room
opened. There, upon the f0Or, lay q mother and
daughter. dead. The older woman bad evidently
thrown herself on the 6oOr In a frenzy Of dellriBm.
Upon the only bed ia the room, writbing with
fever, lay the man whose calls attracted attention,
and a child eighteen months old had at the time
crawled over her dead mothers breast. That
driver has hauled twenty corpses from the sam
house since the epidemic commenced.
AT Nc. l54 Bienvilie street. a long narrow alley
so narrow that one can penetrate IL only with
diaiculty-leads back TO a building once occupied
as a stable. now q pesthouEe. In the loft Of this
house the Towards discovered a family Of seven,
Gve OF whom were delirious-one. a child OF two
years, dead-and a mother PROSTATE upon a pallet
with a newborn babe. The mother, with many
tears, stated that, utterly unaEsisted and unable 10
move, she lay In the pangs Of childbirth and saw
her little daughter die. mm mrtm.
A volume might be written OF horrors expert
enced by the very poor. But these cases are cited
to show how greatly the relief extended 10 them
is needed.
The TrDaoe's New Orleans special sayss Tho A
death-rate IL steadily advancing hty-seven died
to-day ; no part Of the city 10 exempt The cpl
demic, compared with that Of 1867, n three times
as fatal. IL is thought that the pestilence will not
cease before December.
Sept. /: New cases, 200, and deaths 50.
NEW York. August 28-Liberal collections are
making everywhere for yellow fever sufferers.
NEW YORK, August 29.--The Tribune aayss
Congressman Ackien, OF Louisiana, who Ia In
town raising money for the fever sufferers, suo.
ceeded in getting nearly 81, 900. In speaking
night be said " These generous gifts BY the
people TO as In the hour Of our sore dis
tress will do more 10 heal sectional prejudioes
than all the speeches aud blue aud Rray' meet
ings ever devised. Southernefs never forget such
things. and these timely benefits we shall hold q
loan Of honor" UmM -.HfNMMl
LIvEnrooL, August 2s.-Ata meeting Of inhuen-
tial citizens to-day, presided over by Mayor
Whitley. a resolution was adopted inviting tho
public 90 subscribe for the relief 0f the yellow
fever sufferers OF the Gulf States % America. and |.
a m was appointed 10 make COLLECTIONS.
All the principal towns at which the dIzhhse haA
nouappeared are taking GUARANTEES precautions.