Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-14
WEDNESDAYS PRESS DISPATCHES.
MEMPHIS,


MEMPHIS, Sept, l0,-At an early hour this
morning rain commenced falling, and has
kept up necessarily. Up to noon 50 deaths
have been reported making lis since yes
terday noon, The rain continued up to p.
m, since which time the weather has been
cool, The mortality is increasing The
county undeTtakeTs, Hoist Brothers and
Flaerty & Sullivan, report 80 deaths for the
twenty-fOur hours ending at y. m. One
undertaken failed to report. OF the so deaths
30 were cOlOred. There continues to be diff
Guilty in getting the dead buried. AT Elm
wood trenches have had to be dug and
collins placed in rows close together. The
same is done at POtter7s field. Among to-
days dead are DR.. Nenable, Ben Coleman
and ]. j. Sullivan, of Fisherty q Sullivan,
4ndErtakers. Hugh Terrence, an old citizen
and POSSESSED of considerable property, died
to-day, and owing to the ABSENCE of friends,
was about to be buried in PotteT7s field
among paupers, when a member of the
Towards interfered and had him inferred
in Elmwood. 1t is difficult TO arrive at the
number of new cases, as few physicians have
time to report The following is the report
OF DR.. T., ", Mitchell for to-day, and A. d.
Langstaff President OF the HOWARD Aasocia-
toni "Namber Of new cases since last re-
port, l5l, My appeal for covered vehicles
with single response, l have supplied
them with rubber coats to protect them
from the storm that has continued during
the entire day. am distressed to report of
our volunteer medical corps stricken down
with fever, Drs. Mccormick, Green, Hunter,
GaE5P hu sE NaR aXAh s r R2nks0 % Mot Mot
be long until all the living will be converted
into burial corps"
BROWNSVILLE.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. lott has been q
cold, rainy day, gloomy, with no ray of sun
shine and an uncertain glimmer of hope for
better times that come not. AS addition to
the list, some six in all, an unfortunate wO-
man, name unknown, who had refugeed
to the country, died ten miles from town of
the feTer, fhd was buried in blanket, for
want of o shroqd ana cQftn, yesterday, The
others returned to town to-day, one or two
of them siok, There are thirty=siX cases
under treatment now, several of them dam
gerous. A few are canvalesing. Our people
are getting terribly destitute. We are de
pendent upon public charity for existence,
and the cOlOred people have concluded to
quit work and depend upon the Howard
Association and the city authorities to feed
them. They gTumble at not being fed and
supported in idleness, and we may have
trouble with thSp. The desperate state Of
affairs in Memphis trpuhles rs, We hgXe to
go whole days without ice, and can get
nothing from the city, We see and hear
nothing from the outside world except by
express and telegraph, except q letter two or
three times week. The papers rarely reach
u.s. Some kind friends have sent us assist
ance that was sorely needed, and Others have
promised to aid us. The country people do
nog eems TO town at all, and the town people
are denied an fSylHHt IL the country, we
cannot count up hundred White peopIF IA
Brownsville, and about seven hundred ne
groes. The Mayor and all the Aldermen
but two have skipped out, The place is
almost deserted, and yet the fever finds food
to keepit up, We hope TO stamp it out, but
are likely to stamp ourselves first, il Yellow
Jack don't get us.
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l0.-New cases, go /;
deaths, 50. The weather is clear. The death
list includes "a minors, Is being under seven
years