The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-09-04
Ncu;s and C6uricr,

Ncms and Courier.
MEMPHIS, August @.-Thcre were % new
cases yesterday and 20 deaths The death
roll yesterday exceeds that of any day during
the Scour.e of 1879. but 1t is feared. owing
to the wet and damp weather, the mortuary
report to-day will exceed that of yesterday.
There were several deaths Mt Camp Joe Will
liams. Among the new cases is the Mother
superior at LII Salette. The death roll ill.,
cludc> Fathers Martin. Walsh N Mctiarvcy.
Fathers Mahcr and Bokcl arcin q dying con-
dition. Many deaths arc reported from adj
jaccnt country places, among them that OF >.
G. Ryan, merchant of this city -.
MEMPHIS, August 21.-Night.-The wet cool
weather has doubtless created many new
us only two physicians have as yet reported:
The death rate. however, Will equal. II not
exceed, yesterdays. when IS intcrlncnts were
reported. Up TO noon to-day the undertake
ers report 4G yellow fever intermepts. Fathers
BokcI and Manner are dead. W fathers and
two brothers at the Franciscan monastery
arc dead: also Rev. DR.. Thomas, pastor OF the
German Protestant Church.
The fever is prevailing to an alarming en-
tent among the negroes, many of whom have
had no medical attendance for days,
The EreMing Herald SUSPENDED to-das;
Miss Sallic Sullivan, ~ refugee from Mem
phis. is down with the fever ut BROWNSVILLE,
Tenn.
New Orleans Flooded So ~Fifty-ninc
Deaths 49, Two Sisters of Charity
Dcad---The Cold Water Does not
Cure 80 Functions Of the Peabody
Association.
New ORLEANS, August 8.-Thcre are lG9
new cases and 80 deaths to-day. The weather
, was warm and showcry in the forenoon:
Heavy rain and thunder storm from ) to !
+. NJ, and the streets flooded throughout the
city, and some Quarters impossible 1or more
day responded to lis new applications for re-
lief, and the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton to -. The funds of the last named asSo-
citation are nearly exhausted. The Te!cGraph-
crs' ReIicf Association report Benjamin +.
ChisOlm. operator at Port Gibson, ana W. ".
Wall, operator at Bayou Dcs AilcIiahdS:
down with fever. From noon TO . J.. N. 70
deaths were reported ut the office of the board
of health.
The weather Is cloudy and showery.
Among the deaths are sister Laretto Mckcii-
zic and Sister Mary Keenan, at the Charity
! Hospital. Both have been unrclniitiilE IN
their attendance on the fever patients. The
very Rev. Joseph Mcliet, vicar.gcncral of the
Arch Diocese, of New Orleans, is dangerously
i'll with the fever.
James L.cnton, pr. Choppin's patient at the
Nharlty Hospital, who was treated by inc
". Il. Vaudeville. who has been dangerously
Ill with the fever, is slightly better.
The Peabody Subsistence Association make
the statement that their association, the OBJ
Jcct of which is TO supply subsistence to the
destitute, in no way conflicts with the opera
tons of the Howard Associations. The How
ards confinc their attentions mainly TO pro
NldlhG physicians, nurses and medicines for
those suffering with yellow fever and ncces-
Sary nOuriShncnt to the canvalcsccnt. Here
the duties OF the Towards end and the work
OF the Peabody Association begins.
Dispatches to the Associated Press to-day
show there is no fever at any of the Towns OH
the jackson Railroad south of Canton. The
case reported yesterday at poncllatoula
proved not TO be yellow fever.
The PIucky Operator ut Grenada
Down at Last-His ChiId's Re
mains Three Days Unburied for
Want of Money.
CAIRO, August30.-A telegram from Gre
NADIA reports that the town marshal and the
telegraph operator arc down with fever, and
| that the body of the lattcr's little son, who
died three days ago, remains unburied for
want Of money to bury ii with.
Panlc-Strlcken Galveston Threatens
to Quarantine st. Louis-Stcam-
ships stopped.
GALVESTON, August SO. - The board of
health has quarantined against all ports on
| the east coast, between Sabine Pass and Pen
sacoia. and have declined TO permit the steam
ships Morgan, city Of Neac York, and Western
| Texas to come into port. No fever is reported
In Texas.
The board of health to-day notified the post