The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-04
THE YELLOW FEVER.


Scenes and Incidents of fits Progress.
In the Memphis Appeal OF the 10Th OF
August, we notice in the list of acknowl-
edgcments the receipt OF 500 from Hobbs,
Brorkuincr & Co, OF this city. We also
notice the following item:
Augustus Pollack, Of Wheeling, West
Virginia, sending u handsome contribu-
ton TO the citizens reliefcommittee, writes:
'sThere was enough already in the condition
of our country to make us humble, with
out adding this terrible calamity to the
dire experiences Of the period.
Memphis hacks havenearly all been in
fected with yellow fever by being used for
carrying corpses to the grave. llearscs are
now seldom used.
Mr. Clark tells the Madison Qnd.) Courier
that in New Orleans the people have be-
came so familiar with the scourge that
they don't seem excited. Even while the
procession OF vehicles with the dead are
passing children arc playing in the street,
citizens discuss politics and the fever, and
the doctors quarrel, and have actually had
street fights over tlcirdisputes US to causes
and remedies for Yellow jack. ia.
DIR. Schenck, OF st. Louis, says: "Quar-
antine is useful to allay unnecessary fear,
and furnish n hospital-tor the poor sick
coming from infected districts. AS far as
Tho CITY is concerned, the people would be
safc were the Planters House a hospital
for imported cases OF the disease. Inc
Rocky Mountain locust can 60 so flr and
no firther; each insect life has its home
and its Sphere the yellow fever germ
cannot migrate to us, neither is it able to
live with u.s."
The great year OF yellow fever epidemic
in New Orleans was in 1858. The popula.
ton Of that city, Mt that time was about
$4,000. The total number OF deaths that
year from yellow fever was 0,026 On the
BOD Of August the number from that dis.
ensc was 254. The present population OF
Now Orleans is about 100000. Were the
endemic rs fatal as quarter ofa century
at,o. the deaths would aggregate nearly
81 600 aud the daily mortality 100.
New orleaus Dispatch to Cincinnati Commercial.
Much indignation is expressed in com
mercial circlcsat the Observation-Disclosures
of Mobile and Galveston, both OF which
cities have done incalculablc damagct to New
Orleans commerce by absurd exaggcra-
lions Of quarantine, and who up TO this
time lave not contributed cent towards
alternating suffering. The Mobile Rail;
road propose to sue Mobile for the full
damage resulting from her ridiculous en-
barge on through trains, estimating the
loss at at 100000 week since Aug ]. 1a
MomphIs DispatCht to Louisville Confessional.
HFound dead in a house" has become a
common report from the visiting nurses.
| A sad case OF this character is that OF DR..
Tx p. Watson. He had worked like n
Trojan since the fcvcrbrokc out as physic-
inn and nurse. Finally he was missed, no
one knowing what had become of him.
Yesterday visitor went to his temporary
Quarters This family having been sent out
al lie city(. He found the door locked,
k;cke6 IL open, md found the dead body
with nil symptoms OF having died with vel
low fever lie could not tell how long he
haI been dead. DR.. Watson was one Of
lie most active physicians in the epidemic
OF 1873 ff Y'
Men,phI, Correspondence Cincinnati EnqnirCs.
The theory which holds that the fever
conmot'he taken in day time, and that
those who sleep out OF the city, though
doing business there, are sale, mas proven q
dclusion. Eight persons VINO liyea III ~
that way have been taken down during tne
| last few days, Our doctors say that there
is no hope ill frost; but the question arls-
es. how is the disease destroyed IN troEi-
cal regions where frost Is unknown, 70
this question the doctors give no direct
answer, but shake their heads,and as mueh
as intimate that one must. not DC 100 ln'
0uisitiye; the mysteries that cause the pro.
fession 20 DO honored and reyercd must
NOT be disclosed; the awe-strtcken peopIe,
who 90 to their graves Ia the presence OF
learned proiun,.ity must not nave 100
much light.
Cairo (lls,l Bullctln.
There is no conCealing the fact that y
would be found well nigh impossible Just
now to get the people in here. Ihey
would not come to transact their own bus
mess, much less to answer summonses rs
iurors or witnesses. While there Is not
| The iaintest danger in the world from the
fever in Cairo, yet It cannot be denied that
outside OF town many are skeptical anu
will not bc convinced. We IN Cairo are
not responsible for this condition, but we
must accept 1t rs we find it. An unusual
i2larrc proportion OF our town popula;
lion will be found TO be absentees, and
tScir return cannot be looked for before
The beginning or middle q October.
"a reliable contraband" came rushing
lawn Washington avenue about o'clock
last night, in 4 state Of alarm and terror,
Teporting that man had the black yomit
on trbirtS.iorith street. It turned out to
Ge too true. lie was just recovering from
a protracted drunk, and had parted, com n
kSd Mi been feastlng on for days before. The
foolish fellow refused medical treatment {
saving Id knew better what allied hin
than any doctor could, and II the bystand