The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-29
The southern scourge.

The Southern Seourge.
STEADY INCREASE AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 2s.-To-day's fe-
yer report shows 220 new cases and 81
deaths.
The Howard Association reliei-list is gra-
Orally increasing. there being about 10
new applications daily. The Young Mems
Christian Association now have 100 patients
OF their relief-list.
W F.. Ncrville. news editor OF the Demo-
crat, native OF Virginia. aged thirty"two,
and his little boy, aged five years, have died
OF the fever.
THE DISEASE AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CLAhoR-
Gus FOR RATIoNs.
MEMPHIS. August 2S.-Eighty new cases
were reported up to noon, while the indica-
tiops are that there will be quite an increase
in the death rate. A. X. Gillen, OF the Citi-
zens' Relief Committee, died this morning.
4 private telegram announces the death, at
Murireesboro', by fever, OF DR.. d. Il. Hob
son. who left here at the outbreak OF the
disease.
The negroes this morning became c|amor-
Gus for rations. About 1000 men, women,
and children, surrounded the cummlssars
department, and it became necessary to sta
ton guard from coloIed military compa-
nv to keep back the crowd. Numbers OF
the well ones are still leaving the city, aided
bv the Citizens Committee.
The Towards this morning opened the
Market-Street public-school building rs an
intrmary for the pauper sick. They have
also established medical corps OF ten ply
siciuns, under the direction OF DR.. r. w.
Mitchell.
MEMPHIS, August 2S.-The condition OF
our city tonight surpasSes the most sombre
imaginines OF misery. For the tweDty-four
hours ending at p. NJ. there were 58 deaths
from fever; OF these forty-seVen were whites
and II colored. New cases, 119. PhYsl-
clans are so worn out that tonight, for SELL
preservation, they are resting.
The following report OF the Towards to-
day, from DR.. Mitchell, director OF the medl-
cal corps of ten physicians employed by the
Association, gives some idea OF the condl-
ton Of things: "I need ten more physicians
Immediately. find scores OF people sick
and dying without having been seen by ply
sicians. The scenes OF death and distress
to-day and tonight are indescribable. Mem
bers OF the relief committees have been
called to see sick persons, and. responding
to the calls, found in some cases corpses ly-
ing in beds or on floors without even sim
Gle watcher"
In accordance with the views OF Genera,
superintendent Van Horne the telegraph
ers OF Memphis organized an association to-
day whose object it is to assist those OF the
profession who are or may be taken SICK
with fever. They appeal to the fraternity
for aid. The officers are: Charles A. Gas
ton, chairman; E. W. Gibson, secretary
and treasurer.
Contributions are coming in, but not in
sums equal to the needs of the distressed
people. Among the liberal contributions
received TO-DAY is one OF q thousand dollars
from RI. j. O'Brien. superintendent OF the
Southern Express Company.
AT yIC6sBURG.
VIcKsBURG, August 2S.-It has been
cloudy all day; thermometer, 92o; light
rain tonight; 125 new cases have been re-
ported in the past twenty-four hours. and
fifteen deaths.
REPORTS FROM OTHER POINTS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 2S.-A dispatch
to the Picayune from Colone' bennett, at
Brook Haven, Miss, says there is not 4 case
of fever in or around Brook Haven. He
cannot hear OF case in any town be.Ween
Canton and New Orleans, a distl -ce o. over
200 miles.
Reports from coast towns along the Mo-
bile road show there is no fever at any
point between New Orleans and Mobile.
A letter from DR.. Case says there is not
now case at Ocean Springs. Two cases
had occurred there. and one Of the pate ITS
had died and the other had entirely recove =
ed. There is no spread Of the disease.
A dispatch from Canton, Mss, says ::
"Send us two nurses Immediately. The
fever is increasing"
A dispatch from the Towards, at Port
Gibson. Miss, says: 1.-THE fever is very
fatal. No abatement; $50 cases and 30
deaths to date"
The IImes'S correspondent ut Canton,
Miss, under date Of the 9th, says: sc al
rived here Sunday. Petty tough times.
Not single business-house open, except
two drugstores. Once the population was
$500, but now only IS whites are here. The
Mayor and family are sick, and the Board OF
Aldermen have fled. The courthouse is
locked up, and the officers are gone to some
safe place. Nothing but hearses and coftins
are to be seen in the street. There are some
So or 40 cases of yellow-fever here. Many
negroes have died within the past few days.
The few whites now here are scared, be-
cause not a single case Of fever has been
doctored successfully. No person attacked
has recovered"
CONTRIBUTIONS, &C.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, August 2S.-Tbe
Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society OF this
city has 10 warded 500 to the fever sur
ierers.
NEW YORK, August 2s.-The Chamber OF
Commences Southern Relief Committee re-
ceiyed $2,O75 additional in aid Of tie fever
sufT rers. The committee was organized
last Saturday, and have received up to date
S17,SS0.7l.
CHICAGO, August 2S.-The collections to-
day for fever sufferers up to noon amount
to g. 600, including $1,000 by the hotelmen,
S4T0 by the insurance.men, 500 by the
Chicago Tribune, and $50 by the Chicago
journal. 80.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., August %. The He
breHs OF this city have contributed SIPS
for the fever sufferers.
Episcopal House OF Bishops.
NEW YORK, August ga special meet
ing OF the House Of Bishops was held to-
day. Among those present were Bishops
Whipple, OF Minnesota, Williams OF Con-
necticut, Wilmar Of Alabama, Green OF
Mississippi, Smith of Kentucky, Whiting
ham of Maryland. and Clarke OF khode
Island. DR.. Tatlock stated that the object
of the meeting was to transact some, gene
raj business, and that they might consider
the resignation OF Bishop McCoskery, OF
Michigan.
An informal discussion on Church mat
tiers was had this afternoon, and the meet
ing adjourned till tomorrow.