Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-19
WEST AND SOU aps,s,.

For the "a hours er ding at noon on tho
10th, there were 40 ea,hs sro,,, ,aI,,,,' s, sne
at New Orleans AZ d lla new cases renortod.
at Memphis, ?" aa.tbs tr o;,T, .a, "a ~,
Jaeehs eoup .srys at Baton Rouge, deaths
anu % lew cases in As hours; at Canton,
deaths and 7new cases; at Biloxi, 1
-sth and 20 new cases in As hours: at
Bay SC. Louis, 10 deaths and % cases in
~ hours; at McComb City, deaths
ard 20 or 30 cases; at Port
Gibson, 9 deaths and several new cases in "A
hours. The fever had appeared at every
station on the Louisville Road between
Memphis and Paris, Tenn, excepting STAN
ton, and the Howards were running a medi-
cal train out daily to attend to the wants of
the small towns along the line. Similar
trains are to be put on the other roads out of
Memphis. The epidemic was still very viru-
lent N the country around yicksburg and
exit nding to all plantations.
At New Orleans, for the "a hours ending
at noon on the 18th, there were 30 deaths
from yellow fever and lbs new cases report
ed; at Memphis, Is deaths and 8 additional
in suburbs, with 81 new cases; at Chatta-
neoga, Tenn, u deaths and 2I5 cases
under treatment; at Bay st. Louis,
deaths; at Morgan City, deaths in As
hosrs; at Vicksburg only l death, but a
number in adjacent towHs and plantations;
at brownsville, Tenn, 2 deaths and II new
cases; at Baton Rouge, 3 deaths; at Biloxi,
deaths; at Grand Junction, 8 deaths; at
Greenyille, deaths; at Thibodeaux,
deaths; at Osyka, deaths; at Dry Grove,
death.
New Orleans, on the 14th, reported 20
deaths from yellow fever and 1888 new cases;
Donaldsonville, La, deaths and 43 new
cases; Thibodeaux, death and II new
cases; Baton Rouge, deaths and 92 new
cases in 4S hours; Dry Grove, Miss, .
deaths; McComb City, deaths; Biloxi,
deaths; Bay st. Louis, l death; Memphis,
10 deaths and 15 additional I'm suburbs;
Brownsville, Tenn, 2 deaths; Chattanooga.
g deaths; Grand Junction, death; Helena,
Ark, deaths in As hours. A number of
genuine cases of yellow fever were reported
at Mobile, Ala, Fultsn, KY, and Helena,
Ark. Lieut.. Benner, commander of the re-
lief boat Chambers, was stricken with the
ever of vicksburg.
The Chief Commissioner Of the Paris Ex-
position has rendered the use of the Troca-
dero Palace for a special performance in be-
half of the yellow fever sufferers, which was
announced to take place on the 18th.
The Yellow Fever Commission met at
New Orleans on the 7th and Immediately
entered upon their investigations. The Com
mission expect to gather an immense
amount of testimony by investigating par
tieular cases, going from house to house,
making Inquiries of convalescents, their
relatives and friends, examining the sanitary
condition Of the foci of the disease, and in
numerous other ways attempting to clear up
the ground and reach some general princi-
piles upon which a respectable and automatic
idea can be based.
In the Cotton States last year there were
100000 acres OF land under cotton culti-
walton, which produced 4,4s5,423 bales of
cotton, and during the l2 months ending the
3Oth of June, 1877, manufactured cotton,
valued at Sl7I, lis ,50s, and cotton manufac-
lures of all kinds, valued at SO, 1901 ,3I1,
were exported.
A vigilance committee of Drake County,
o., at Tampico, on the night Of the 5th rid
died with bullets the body of an old negro
named Steve Wade, who was suspected OF
thieying and had been ordered by the vigil
Iantes to leave the country, which he ne
elected to do.
a successful raid has recently been made
by Government officers on Illicit distilleries
in Overton, jackson, Fentress and Putnam
Counties, Tenn.
Eben W. Keyes, prominent and wealthy
citizen Of Denver, Col, committed suicide
on the 9th by shooting himself through the
heart. Domestic difficulties, which recently
eliminated in his wife's leaving her home
during her husbands absence and taking
with her their four children-was doubles,
the cause of the deed. The homestead wa,
In his wifI's name, and he was ordered by
her attorneys to leave 1t on the day he killed
himself. lie declared he never would leav,
the home alive, and he did not. His widow
who was a Miss Carleton, is at her former
home, Newton, Mass.
A working train on the Toledo and AM
Arbor Railroad was thrown from the tract
by striking a cow, killing the conductor
Richard Nash, and a brakeman, Edwar'
Adams, and severely injuring other train
men.
The village of Monticello, Jones Cofnty