Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-06
yellow Fever.


noon TO-. day. Mother Alfonso, superior OF st.
Agnes Academy, is in q dying condition.
George w. i. Crook, prominent worker on
the Odd Fellows relief committee, died this
morning. The Waltball Home or lnhrmary,
on Market street, under the charge OF Mann
Walthall, of Mobile, contains about thirty pa
tients, and the plumber is increasing hourly.
DR.. DowcIl, Of Galveston, is the physician ID
charge. County Undertaken Walsh this morn
ing reports falling off 10 tho number OF appll-
cations for the burial OF paupers. a. j.
Wheeler, secretary OF the Masonic relief board
i, sick. Brother Amandus, OF tho franciscan
Church. Is dcad.
HOLLY SPRINGS, September 5.-James Fort,
B. L. Oliver, Mrs James hletall and Robert
Mclean died last night. There are live or SIX
new cascs--Scvcnty cases altogether. Our ply.
sicians are broken down. and three ore sick with
fever There il great need ct nurses and ply
siciaus. Tho telegraph operator lett his post
Yesterday afternoon. Dispatches sent to the
press have somehow failed 10 get oil. The op.
orator had great deal to do, but he might have
stayed one more day. We pleaded with him
to do so, but 10 valu.
NEW ORLEANS, September 5.-The new
cases to-day were POI, and the deaths sc. The
death list includes SO minors, 90 being children
under sevenyears. Adolph Eyrich, aged twenty.
fise years, a native OF Chester. Illinois, and for
the last two years pastor OF the Lutheran Ifln-
ity Church. OF Aglers has died of yellow lever.
Mrs. Labordeani and Mrs. Kelly, the nurses
who so faithfully discharged their duty at Port
Eads and throughout this city, leave Tor Holly
Springs this evening in response to Appeals p.i
from that nity. Fifteen nurses and one physl
clan were sent tc Holly Springs yesterday by
the HoWards.
A dispatch from Canton says the total mum.
her of yellow fever cases up to date is III, with
81 deaths. The weather is cloudy, with some
rain. There have been sixteen new cases and
six deaths in the last twenty four hours.
DR.. j. w. Duprec, health officer OF Baton
Rouge, reports yellow fever cases to date, lG3;
deaths, Is; convalcscent and under treatment,
Ids; taken sick during the last twelve hours.
16. DR.. Dupree states that many cases are so
mild in character that physicians have declined
TO report them az yellow fever.
Il. j. Webster, Mrs. G.. ". Barnes and three
children have the fever.
MEMPHIS, September 5.--Ony thirty five
now cases were reported to the board of health
10 day, very few physicians making reports.
There were ninety two intotmcnts--w white, 81;
colored, 81. yellow fever deaths, 50. DR..
Avcnt and Dr. Brown, secretary OF the board
of health, are down; also Charles Nundinger
a. Il. l!umes, druggist. and Henry White, bus
mess manager Of the Appeal.
Martin keyer, one of the volunteer telegraph
operators from Louisville, died tonight, and
John Connolly and l.. W. Gibson. operators,
were stricken down to day. The force is now
greatly reduced. The force Of compostors on
morning papers is reduced two each. Owing
to the inability OF the county undertaken to bury
the pauper dead, the citizens relief committee
10 day took tho matter in hand, dlstrlcteG the
city, and employed undertakcrs and force Of
meD to assist them in finding aud burylng the
deaf.
The Howard medical corps report 40 new
cases additional to reports made to the board CT
health. Twenty four sick werc received at the
Howard Intirmary to day.
NlCKsBCRG, September ITO day has been
the gIoomiest known 10 Eicksbure, the inter
meuts being forty three. The new cases arc
estimated at $50. Among the deaths is DR.. =.
I. Whitehead.
ST. LOUIS, September Cit was unoficially
reported las. night that tho Board OF Health 10
secret sessoo discussed the question OF esab.
fishing a stlict quarantine against all cities
having yellow fever, that it was decided that
alter lEis (tsiday) night 20 through passenger
or freight trains from the infected districts shall
be permitted to enter ST. Louis by the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern, the st. Louis
and Southeastern, and the Cairo Short Line
Railroads, and that all steamers and river craft
shall b. held at quarantine twelve miles below
the city or still further away until released by
order OF the Board.
A dispatch from Grenada says :-Df. Beatty
states that ia one house he visited mother lay
dying ard her daughter, young lady, was just
advanced into the stage called cOuvalescnn
The Doctor watched the young lady S face when
he told her her mother was dying. lie says
not muscle uuiVcred nor did her pulse change
one beat, and the mother made no sigu. lie
mentioned this to show that all emotion is par
alyZea BY the fever.
DR.. Stone says patients become SO weak and
apatletic under lts Influence that when told to
put out their tongues they often allow it to lie
exposed upou tbclr lips. Mr.. Stouc also re
latea al iccideot which occurred yesterday.
\ married lady, convalcsccnt, gave birth to a
child After the event the remarked to the
doctor aud nurse, "It it amt u strong, healthy
child let it die She had not heard it cry and
was Indifferent about it, The child, though
very weak, was We'll taken care Of, and is now
living and growing stronger This is the only
full time birth here during the last Blk weeks
The train passed here just now at rapid
rate, aud one gentleman Was observed with a
cloth or something held To his nostrs as though
we were generous people, ready to give every.
body who passed taste OF the fever. Many
conductors rush BY here with closed doors aud
windows, and, it may be, With plugged crew.
cea also
There have beeu five deaths to day. Ono
was shoemaker, named Frederick Fsnner,
who was also the basao of tho choir in the Rev.
Mr.. hlcUrrckcn's church. Another was Louis
trichuus. a volunteer nurse from Chicago, ILL.,,
who before he was stricken was faithful aud
hard working man. lie died early this morn.
Ing. Ludwig lIummcI, Of New Orleans, who
had charge Of the East Ward Cemetery. will
be laid there himself 10 about ono hour. When
he died (which has happened since this dis
patch was commenced), he had upon his face
most cheering smile. A young woman named
SaIlio Burns also died this morning. A colorcd
man, Luke Brand, completes the list for the