The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-24
day and several are among the new cases .e

day and several are among the new cases ,c-
ported.
A special telegram to the Appeal from
Helena announces the death there to-day of
Gertie Weathers, Memphis refugee, of vel
low fever. The event caused stampede
OF the citizens of that place and more
| rigid enforcement of quarantine. The
special says the town is picketcd to prevent
any one from Memphis or elsewhere from
entcringi it.
AT vICRsBuRG.
VIcKsBURG, August 25.-Yellow fever il
attacking the negroes. A number have
been stricken down to-day. 1t is estimat.
ed there are fully fifty new cases to-day
and ten deaths up too p, m. There is great
need Of physicians. Drs. Robbins and Bal
four are improving and in fair way of re-.
covery. Some estimates there are 900 cases
of yellow fever here, but the general est-
mate is little over 300. Sheriff Flanagan,
Of Warren county, publishes a call on state
and county officers throughout the country
for financial aid to the sufferers here.
The following explain themselves:
NICKsBURG, August 90, rs.
Samuel Chopin, President Board of Health.
The epidemic is very violent and malig-
nant, much more than in New Orleans.
There is great want of nurses and phys-
clans. Five Of the regularIcorps of NJ. Dis
are absent from thcirp post. There were %
deaths yesterday from yellow fever Can
you help us! Ed. G. BANKS, NJ. D.
NEW ORLEANS, August %.
Dr. Z, G. Banks Vicksburg
Sorry to hear of your distress. An epi.
demic is the battlefield of the true physi-
clan. Will see the Howard association to
furnish YOU with aid.
SAM. CHOPIN, VI. D.,
President Board of Health.
The board also received dispatch from
the mayor of Nicksburg, asking that -four
physicians be sent there. The dispatch was
referred to the Howard association.
New cases. SO; deaths, So.
Up to pm, go new cases and ten deaths
had been reported to the board of health
since noon. These will be included in
to-morrows report. Funerals continue to
later hours than usual. One was reported
this evening after O'Clock, lanterns being
used for lights.
A dispatch from Morgan City reports one
case of yellow fever there
AT JACKSON.
JACKSON. Miss Aug. 22.-Not twenty
white families are left, All the state officials
or those having business with any of the
departments can communicate as usual. al
though state business is almost totally sus-
pended in consequence of the blockade.
Favorable news comes from Canton. \ few
cases have occurred out in the country.
FIRST DEATH At LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, August 22.-H r. Da-
Wis OF Grenada, died at the Waverly hotel,
this city, this morning of yellow fever. lie
was taken sick Sunday, but had the germ of
the disease in his system beforecoming here.
This is the first death from yellow fever in
this city.
GOVERNMENT AID.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Aug. 22.-Thc
commissary here, by direction of the COM
missiary-general at Washington, will send
to sufferers at Grenada 1000 rations each of
flour, beans, coffee and sugar, 300 pounds
each of bacon and pork. Three cases Of
fever here, all refugees.
CINCINNATI AID.
CINCINNATI August ga new bale of
cotton, the first of the season, from Missis-
sippi, was sold on Change this noon for
SL,l55, and the amount has been dispatched
south TO aid the fever stricken cities. Evans,
Lippencott & Cunningham, and Chas. Kahn,
provision dealers, have instructed the au-
thorities Of Memphis and New Orleans to
draw on them for 800 each for the benefit
Of yellow fever sufferers.