The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
Ono DnY Of Yellow EcYer.

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rnvages OF the pesrilence become more fear.
full with each hour. The Towards report
Bcventy.eight deaths Of patients nurscd by
them since Saturday evening.
-Four persons were found dead to-day
one in the reai Of the Fares residence, his
face partly eaten by rats, two in the old
Library Building, near The theater, and one
IN Il house on JniOn'gtreet. They died With.
out any attendant.
a young Iady has been lying dead since
yesterday a. No A Administered, and they
are all sick with fever IN the rooms beneath.
As yet She has not been removed.
a Mrs. Neiller reports her hubbaGd's
body r. ady 10 burst, ii having been IN her
house since Yesterday, and she writes Il
rOtG saying she does not know what TO do.
II will soon be 80 that the remains can't
be placed in II coffin. Her servants have
fed, and 4he j. alone with her dead hus.
band,
The total death list of the Howards
since the 18th Of August numbers three
hundred and Scvcuty.four. This does not
include any nurBed by other orders.
The fever has spread all over Chelsea,
the northern suburbs, Fort Pickering, the
southern part Of the city, also In the Estral
Park ncighborhood, and IL ID sweeping
victims into tn" grave with swift velocity.
tits getting to bea question whether there
will be people enough to bury the dead.
The fever has broken Outa I Brownsville,
fifty miles up the Louisville rOnd nudn
stampede Of the people foil wed.
NEW ORLEANS, September THE situa.
ton tonight is gloomy, there being no i'm.
mediate silver lining in the prospect. Pow
cry and disease, hand in hand, are strik-
ing right and left throughout the city, and
The yellow death is holding high carnival.
Among the victims to-day was Very Rev.
Joseph Marie MilIet, Vicar General. Mr..
j. Nell. Walpole, II. u. Thompson, the
former city editor, and the latter reporter
Of the PiclV"u', nrG down. Thompson is
dying.
The Howard, Peabody and Y. NJ. c. A.
buildings were thfGngcd all day long. The
Towards report two hundred and forty.
eight applications up to nine p M, en-.
bracing nearly four hundred cases. They
donated $4,000 to the Pcabodies this al, or.
noon. These latter have issued 9,9Gs @rations
up to four p. m, the hour Of closing. All
the military organizations have Relief Com
mittces in active operation,
The pastors Of several colOred churches
held a conference to-day, and established Il
society for the relief of their countrymen,
many OF whom are stricken down.
Many uptown streets are barricaded and
dust is lavishly used to deaden the rattle
Of vehicles. The tOIling OF church and
bells was discontinued to-day. The
Board Of Health is vigorously prosecuting
physicians who do not report heir eases.
The Howard list, however, can be taken NJ
to the official report, as their
physlcl ms have no time to register cases ut
the ROnrd.
The hun Of physicians carriages is now
heard all night through, aud many drug
stores are open till two Il. m, The epidemic
is last assuming colossal proportions, but
when or at what figure it will reach its
climax experts are at u loss to conjecture.
The mo'tuary report Just compiled for the
week ending September ! is as follows:
Yellow fever, ~ go coIOred), other fevers,
SO various diseases, 100; total 500. Adults,
iOS children under ten years of age, 1873.
NICKSBrRG, September Weather clenr
and warm. Thermometer o.. An appeal
is made TO the LsrleliteB throughout the
country for assistance to their sick and
destitute c%Ountrymen here. The distress is
very great, Kemittances TO be made to
Alex. Kuhn, Treasurer Hebrew Relief So
ciety, Nicksburg, Miss.
The Howard Association estimates be.
tween one thousand hve hundred and two
sick, and increa ing rapidly.
physicians report one hundred and
ten new cases. 1t is estimated there are
two hundred new cases to-day. Deaths,
white end four blacks, among them
Joseph f.. Doll, merchant, recently elected
Mayor Charles II. Nathan, Jeweler, and ].
". JOlley.
Thirty cases OF fever are reported ut
Greenyille, Mississippi, and five deaths.
The disease is spreading rapidly.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Alfred II. Sphinx, a young
of this city, who left here three
weeks ago for that III starred city, Grenada,
Mississippi, as special correspondent for
The New York Hrni, returned to-day. He
brings nothing new, but says the condition
here, present and past, is simply beyond
description. There is, and has been nothing
'or the last six weeks but misery, desoIa-
lion, and death. Mr., Sphinx thoroughly
lisinfected himself at Holly Springs, where
ne burned NIL his clothing and personal
is quite we'll, and ia regarded here as
something of q hero.