Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-04

- NOAhH wiz
M Costello was stricken with the
fever Sunday.
DR.. Wise, of Cincinnati, is reported
out of danger.
= AtNew Orleans, yesterday, there were
327 new cases and eighty.three deaths.
Willie Ames, son of Mr. Ames Of Amss,
Bsattie & Co, died of the fever yester.
day.
Drs. Baskerville. Meade and Williams,
volunteer physicians, are all down with
the fever.
Mrs J P Prescott, of Chelsea, has the
fever; also, her daughter, Miss Florence.
Both are doing well.
Hickman, KVn has the fever. There
have been over forty cases aud ter or
twelve deaths so far.
At Brownsville, Tenn, yesterday,
there were thirteen new cases and four
deaths from yellow fever.
At Greenvills. Miss yesterday. there
were seventy five new cases and fourteen
deaths, with the fever on the increase.
The family of P Prescott, on Chelsea
street, Chelsea, under charge of the
knights Of Honor, are doing very we'll.
Mr. Thomas Burns, well known in
river circles, and also by the Odd Eel.
lows, died this morning at 4 o'clock, Of
the fever.
There we're tw~eniy-six new cases and
six deaths at Delhi, La, yesterday, from
the fever. They call for medicines and
medical aid.
There we're thirty.six interments yes.
terdAy at Vicksburg. The physicians
announce their inability to report new
cases from want o ftime.
A F G Cook, a member OF the Howard
Association, was stricken with the fever
to-day, and is now laying at the residence
of e B Foster, 38l Orleans street.
0fthe officers Of the city government
oulyComptroller Newsom remains on his
feet. Mayor Flippin, sergeant-At.Arms
Drorsche and Tax collector Schaper be-
ing taken down this morning.
The fever has appeared among the
natives at Holly Springs, Miss. Two
citizens, AW Goodrich and Isaac Tana.
Ter, have died with it. Great panic
among the people who are fleeing.
Rev DR. Parsons, Of Grace church, who
has been a constant and hard worker
since the fever made its appearance
here, had to succumb to the ravages of
the fever yesterday,
There were four new cases and three
deaths from the fever at Grenada yes.
terday. DR., ]. Wallace Jays it is the
easiest.msnsged fever he has ever seen
on colored persons. He has not lost a
case. ,vr
Collierville has had a big yellow fever
scare. NJ R Brown and James Person
died, it is supposed, from the fever.
Fifty'one families have fed and others
are going. DR. Waddy, the quarantine
man, was n Of the first to get away.
DrS H Brown, of Chelsea, who has
treated a great many yellow fever pa.
tients very successfully, including DR.
john R Frayser, who is his brother.in.
law, was taken i'll with the fever yester.
day. Heis resting well to-day.
Captain Macabe's force at the commits.
sAry Of the citizens relief committee, 81
South Court street. worked very hard
yesterday. issuing to 1854 destitute fami.
lies lO,l50 r%ations, and to the colored
preachers aid society 300 r%ations, max.
ing a grand total Of lO,45O %rations in one
day. The crowd before the commissary
door has very p~erceptiSly decreased and
good order is preserved there now.
John Donovan is catching it at the
hands Of the press all oveT the country.
The world despises a coward, especially
one who sacrifices bis family TO save bis
own precious carcass. 1t seems that be
got away from Brownsville just in time
to escape the indignation and scorn Of
the people. His two surviving children,
beautiful little orphaned aud fatherless
cherubs, we're nursed through an attack
Of the yellow fever by two old negro wo-
men, under the direction Of one of the
Howards, and are now in good hands at
st Peters orphan asylum.
DR. W r Hoges, one Of our best citizens
aud physicians, fell a victim to yellow
fever and died after a very brief illness
at his residence, in Chelsea, at three
o'clock this morning. he vas tenderly
nursed by the Kaights of Honor, but his
case was a bad one and almost hopeless
from the start. He was q man Of regular.
temperate habits, Of a'splendid:physique
and in ine health, and was one Of the
last men that would have been thought
OF liable to be carried of by the fever.
Il has been suggested by some Of
our leading physicians and citizens that
it will be necessary to move everybody
out Of town to save what few are left
The air is SO full Of the poison o that
it is beginning to be deemed dangerous
to come in during the day time. The
Towards aud citizens relief COMMITTEES
could still operate on the outside, and a
strong armed force could patrol and
guard the deserted city. We throw out