Connecticut western news., 1878-08-29

to be the only patient who has recovered, doctoring others. The fever turned on its track on the 18th, gong back from Grenada toward New Orleans as far as Canton but the inhabitants, numbering about 400, dis persed hurriedly. leaving seven patients, one physician, and few nurses. In other directions the disease is spread ing, and, as the cotton picking time is at hand, great financial losses must ensue through the cessation of labor. The villages are in special danger from the scourge, because they are rarely well drained, the water is often bad, and all the conditions are favorable to the dis ease, if once introduced. The panic is widespread, for the stoppage of mails deprives the people of newspapers, and therefore the news that they do get is exaggerated, giving them ideas of the plague that exceed the terrible truth.
 On the river front in Memphis are many combined lunch and barrooms, in which boatmen and 'longshoremen eat, drink, and sometimes sleep. In one of them, on Aug. 13, drunken steamboat hand was taken sick. A physician on sight pronounced his disease genuine yellow fever. In spite of an attempt to shut out travellers from further south, the scourge had got into the city. On northernbound trains, within four hours after the case became generally known, over 1, 200 residents fled to safer places. The patient was taken to hospital out side of the city, his clothing and the bedding on which he had slept were burned, and the house was thoroughly fumigated. It was hoped that the pes tilence had been baffled at that point j; but the officials had hardly completed the work before their attention was called to Prof. Decker, well-known citizen, who was i'll with what his family physi. clan thought was yellow fever. It was. Next door to his residence some visitors from out of town had been staying near ly two weeks. Investigation brought out the fact that they had come in the steamboat Golden Grown, which had run the quarantine blockade, landing her passengers surreptitiously. The pro- lessor died on the day that he was taken sick, and his son died soon afterward. Within twenty-four hours more there were seventeen additional cases in the city, and five deaths; and by the 18th the patients numbered ninety-two. The stampede of frightened citizens con- tinued, and the population was soon re- duced by @ third. Every ody went who had money to go with and place to go to. The thieves stayed, because it is easy to rob deserted houses, and their depredations have been extensive. But, although the risk of detection and cap- ture was lessened, more formidable danger was there. One fever patients satchel was found to be packed full ol stolen silverware. The disease had caught him with his plumber in his possession. The desertion of homes was so general that whole blocks of residences were without occupants. Robberies were un counted. The perpetrators were in part professional thieves and in part pool whites and negroes made thieves by op portunity. The Commercial Hotel was closed. The railroad trains going out were barely able to carry all the passen gers, but the trains going in were nearly l of and many stores were closed. The wors was dreadful.
 However, the Memphis authorities acted with good sense. They had uset every reasonable means to keep the feve: out, and, now that it had got in in spit' of them, they came as near as possible to moving the infected part of the city The disease was all in @ northwestern section. A large number of tents wer, obtained from the United States Govern ment, and suburban ercampment wal made in salubrious suburb. Those O the residents of the infected district wht had not already gone away were sent te this camp, and fed at the city's expense Not soul was left in the fever neigh borhood, except the officers who went tx disinfect the houses. But the camp wal not established without opposition. Th' spot selected. was five miles south of tn, city. Dr. Noll went there with thu tents and several assistants. He was a once surrounded by a mob of negroes who drove him back to the city. The, disliked the invasion by possibly fever bearing rabble. On the following day the Doctor returned with two militar, companies at his back, and the epcamp ment was made without further trouble These measures were effective, ane Memphis may keep the scourge unde until frost, when the danger will be past The death rate, about twenty day a the highest, was reduced by Tuesday t' about half that number, and the ney cases were fewer than on any previou day since the fever gained foothold il the city. The police force has beer trebled, few of the bolder refugee have returned, villages in that regiol no longer exclude persons who conn from Memphis, and the panic is subsid ing little.
 Crimes and Criminals.
 F. B. Sanborn has been collecting