The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10

Who generally die the second or third
DAY alter the invasion of the disease.
such is no. the case with the Span
lards and the colored people. with
whom the recipe of DR.. Masderail has
produced marvellous effects Gayerre.
from whose history of "The Spanish
domination" in Louisiana we have
quoted, does not inform us of the con-
stitution of Masdersll's marvellous re-
cipe. Morales gives no hint of the i'm.
portance Of the disease.
DR.. Robert y. Murray, Surgeon Of
United States Marine Hospital Service.
IN his aecouni Of the yellow fever ea-
denio ai Fetnandina, Fiorids. in Ise..
says; 81 am certain that owed my
ability TO keep on duty Of not my hfe)
to the nine to fifteen grains of Gin
chonidia that l took daily. In Key
West, in 1875, used quinine in few
cases, as prophylactic, with good re-
suits, but the facts were too meager TO
base more than an opinion upon them.
From personal experience and oonsid-
cradle observation, am convinced
that by taking from ten to thirty grains
of quinlne daily will ward of an at
tack of yellow fever, or render il so
mild as to almost preclude the danger
OF death"
Schweinfurth, In his exploration of
Africa, saved himself and company
from attacks Of these feyers by taking
quinine daily. This was Livingstone's
experience. 1t will be the experience
everywhere when apure article is ia
ken, but it is greatly adulterated too
frequently.
Last Sunday and Monday the gem
eral belief prevailed in Memphis that
the worst was past, and that 1t was
only matter of time, the length gov
erned by the early appearance of frost,
when the fearfully stricken city will
be entirely rid of the fever. The time
is earnestly hoped for, business inter-
ests are worse paralyzed than il is pos
sible for those who haYe not witnessed
it to realize. 1t is not alone the busi-
ness of Memphis, but of tins entire
Southern country. The farmers are
helpless. Their fields are white with
the over-npe cotton, but it ia impossi-
BILE to employ hands to pick it out at
any price, and if it were picked out the
means of transportation is so limited
that not sufficient quantity could be
got to market TO pay expenses of hsr-
vesting. But Tor the fortunate ciroum-
stance that nearly all the SonlheFa>-
farmers had become self-supporting as
regards provisions, having generally
large surplus of meat and grain over
from last year, the cry OF distress
would come up from every quarter of
our land-dIstress that il would be
difficult to relieve because of the limit
ID means of transportation. There are
40 steamboats, running, and the rail-
-oads are so crippled as to Iun their
rains with very little certainty or regu-
arity.
A special from Memphis to the st.
Louis Republican, of the third instant,
'ays: ''Main street presented more
life and animation to-day than has been
since our trouble began; but
beyond the few convalescents and the
array of nurses and physicians, your
can give no cause for
his appearance. True, now and then
/ dray loaded with merchandise could
De seen, and occasionally wagon
oaded with loose cotton en- route to
he GIN and press; all other vehicles
we're in the employ of either the How
lrds or citizens relief committee. A
lumber of refugees have returned, and
ire still returning to the city, in the
ace of warnings daily published, and
he statements that the fever is still in
he atmosphere and only awaiting vic
inns, and there can he no abatement
Of the plague as they continue to re-
urn, except by frost. Speaking of
hat much-desired event the tempera-
ure to-day is somewhere about the
and tonight with windows
md doors all open, the rooms - al !.
rhe reports from the undertakes show
IN increase of deaths over yesterday,
ret that increase occurs in the number
Inferred from outside the city. The
,reater number OF this class are citizens
# Memphis who took refuge in the
and until recently no provis-
ons have been made TO supply them
ATTENDANCE; consequently
he proportion. OF deaths has been
much greater than inside the city linn
ts."