Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-20

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will recover. A young man named Boatwer,
with whom Lynch had had difficulty, is sus-
pected of the crime.
The Republican State Convention of Louisi-
ana, which was called for the 10th, had no
] quorum on account of the quarantine, which
would prevent members from returning to
their parishes. 1t was decided that the Chair
man of the State Central Committee should
call convention at some future time.
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
Reports from yellow fever points on the
10th; Port Gibson, Miss, 475 cases and 50
deaths up to date. The fever continued to
increase at Vicksburg, there being nearly
| 5000 cases in the city. The county under
takers at Memphis reported so deaths for the
preceding twenty-four hours. New cases at
New Orleans, $50; deaths, so. Holly Springs
reports six of its seven resident physicians
down with the fever Those from New Or
leans and elsewhere were being worked to pros
| tration.
Memphis reported l04 deaths and over 200
new cases on the llth. To guard against any
mshaps to the county undertaken and to ex-
pedite the burial of the pauper dead, Presi-
dent LangstafI, of the Howard Association,
ordered 900 coflins, which will be sent to the
city and used as occasion demands. Contri-
buttons were coming in at the rate of about
81 800 per day. The total daily expenses OF
| the Howard Association and the Citizens Re
lief Committee is about $1,000. New Or
leans reported on same date % deaths in six
| hours <eaolly Springs, IS deaths on the 10th
and fCh and 12 new cases.
A dispatch from Gallipolis, Ohio, dated the
1lth, states that in the vicinity of where the
plague ship John Porter was moored, and in
a radius of seven miles, the northern bound
| airy of which is within two miles of that city,
there are reported to be from fifteen to twen-
ty cases of yellow fever and seven deaths
since the 9th. 1t was decided to scuttle and
sink the boat as also the fourteen .barges
which were brought from Nicksburg.
No statement of the number of new cases
was made at Vicksburg on the 18th; the death
rate was much smaller than for some days, 81
only being reported. 1t was generally thought
by the druggists that the fever was decreasing
for want of material The Howard Associa-
ton estimated that there were 5000 cases and
500 deaths since the fever first appeared.
New cases reported in New Orleans, 2l2;
deaths, 81. There were 9S deaths at Memphis
and the list of new cases showed no decrease.
|. Holly Springs called for ten nurses and two
physicians, as many of the nurses were be-
coming frightened and leaving the city.
Fourteen new cases and two deaths at Gren-
ada were reported
One of the physicians who went to Mem
phis with a corps of Washington nurses DR..
Wm. 7. Ramsay, returned to Washington on
the 18th. He states that before reaching
Al, L.,
was laden with yellow fever poison, and as
they approached the city, the stencil was alb
solutely sckening, He went to the Peabody
Hotel, the only one now open, and was shown
into a room from which dead body had just
been removed. Vessels of black vomit were
standing about the room, and the bed-clothes
had not been changed The hotel itself is a
perfect pest-house, and the victims of the
disease are in two-thrds of the rooms. All
commerce has ceased and business of nearly
every kind is suspended. The greatest need
is provisions, physicians, money, nurses and
medicines. The best thing that can be done
now is to send plenty of provisions and cloth
ing. Negroes, and many poor whites, for a
section of country $50 miles around Memphis,
have tlocked in there, learning they could
| get something to eat. The undertakers
on the 18th reported ll3 deaths for the
preceding twenty-four hours. There is
great difficulty in arriving at the number OF
new cases, as physicians are negligent about
making their reports, The opinion prevailed
with some physicians since the late cold
weather that there win be fewer new cases
A special from Hickman, KY, reports the situ-
alton at that place as more deplorable than
ever. There were only two resident physicians
able for duty. New Orleans, So deaths and
22S new cases. Vckshurg, 81 deaths; number
of new cases not reported.
The Chicago Times on the 14th published /
careful compilation of the amounts contrib
uted to the yellow fever sufferers, through
various sources, which shows that a grant
total of S496,659 had been contributed up t.
that date by twenty-five States and Territories
New York was not included.
The total number of cases at Port Gibson
Miss, up to the 18th, was $50; deaths 96. TIL,
fever was abating for want of material. Tn,
death rate at Memphis on the 14th was fright
ful, reaching III Ninety deaths were reporte,
ON the 18th. It is believed many deaths hav
occurred in the suburbs which are no
reported for the reason that undertaken
will not go beyond the city limits, and thougl
they sell collins for interment do not re
port them. Physicians at NicIsburg thin
there is steady decline in new cases, bu
fears are entertained if very warm weathe
returns that the fever will again increase
Deaths at New Orleans on the 10Th, 50; ne,
cases, l40. Canton, Miss, reports total nun
Der OF cases to date, 3S4; deaths, "a; ne,
} cases for the preceding twenty-four hours, 81
The fever is abating at Grenada.
VIM. lockwood, President Of the Howar
Association at Vicksburg, sent dispatc
through the Associated Press on the l6tl
thanking the generous friends throughou
! the country who have contributed so LIBERAL
for their relief, and stating that the aid a
ready received would carry them through /
= the end Of their troubles. He requests thl
} all future subscriptions for their relief |