Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-08-21
dying, and l am The only officer left.
Z. A. MELTON
Civ Marshal and Actino Navor

II. n. MELTON,
City Marshal and Acting Mayor.
Immediately on receipt Of the above
telegram the board Of alderm9. N OF this
city convened in special session and
made an appropriation for the Grenada
sufferers, and appointed 2, committee of
seven to solicit contributions from citi-
zens. 1t is thoughta liberal sum will
be raised.
NEW ORLEANS, August l5.-Ninety
eight new cases Of yellow fever and
seventeen deaths were reported to-day.
OF the deaths reported to-day seven
were of children under 5, one was s
one II, and another child aged not
given.
VICKsBURG, Aug. IS,-The health
officer reports DO cases of yellow fever
under treatment at O'Clock last night,
and estimates the new cases to-day be-
tween Is and 90. Some cases have ap-
peared in the northeastern part Of the
city. No deaths were reported to-day.
New ORLEANS, August lS.-A
novene or nine days prayer is ordered
in all Catholic churches Of this cily for
the cessation of the scourge. BishoV,
Elder, of Natchez, directs the recital Of
daily prayer for the aversion Of mortal
sickness.
The Democrat 10 morrow Will pub
lish an account ola reporters visit to
two tenement houses near Poydras
market. and the slckening sight there
presented. The houses were principally
occupied by italian chicken dealers. In
one house sixteen had been carried out
dead during the last two weeks. and in
the other 10. In this nelghborhood
over eight have died during the last As
hours. The yards Of two houses where
the chicken dealers lived presented a
most terrible arpearance-bedding,
decaying vegetable matter and dccom-
posing refuse alording seeds for disease.
The board of health allotted to the
several members retrospective districts
IN which each was to work.
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. Il. 10 p. NJ.
The death list for the past twenty
four hours has decreased to g, being Q
less than the previous twenty-four
hours, with only Q new cases, simply for
the lack of material, One week ago
this town contained l 200 white person9.
They are now reduced, by flight nd
death, to 200, with only 80 to 10 well
ones. The total number Of deaths up
to ten o'clock tonight is GO.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. l8.-Yellow
fever report for the past 81 hours; New
cases, 10; deaths A.. Rev. J. X.
Gutheim. Edwin J. Kurshecdt, and
other officers Of the Hebrew Benevolent
Association, make the following appeal:
sickness, distress and suffering
among the poor is increasing daily. Our
funds are nearly exhausted. In this
sad calamity we deem it ovr melancholy
duty to appeal to the sympathics of cur
brethren throughout the United States
for speedy aid"
PORT EADs, August lS'-Only one
new case OF fever was reported to-day.
No deaths
CAIRO, H., August lS.-The steam
er James Vi. Gon, from Memphis, full
of passengers, passed up the Ohio to.
day without landing. There was no
sickness on board. The Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans railway has dis
continued through passenger trains, bui
will carry mails on local freight trains.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. lS.-To day
the first Sabbath since the stampede,
which reduced the population Of our
city at least onc-half, was quiet and
gloomy one. Notwithstanding a clear
sky and warm sun those visiting in the
infected district report the outlook moic
encouraging. there being only nine new
cases reported for the p hours Guiding
at p. NJ, although there is slight in
crease in death rate, the deaths for the
same. time and number Of hew cases is
doubtless owing to the fact that there is
little material left in the infected dis
trct for the fever to work on, all who
were able having moved out, and it is
expected that the work Of moving
others to Camp Joe Williams, south of
the city, will commence tomorrow, one
thousand army tents for their accommo-
dalton having arrived to-day.
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