Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-05
YELLOW FEVER. ETC
official Record OF the Past Week.
OFFICE SURGEON GENERAL. Us. NJ. H.S :,
WASHINGTON Oct. & 1873

Abstract OF Sanitary Reports Received DIR
,'cIae,. ;rr The Pa Past Weet u''der the National
New OIleans.-During the past week there
were 1,154 cases of yellow fever and $50 deaths.
Total cases to yesterday afternoon l0,2ls total
Southwest Pass. Las deaths from yellow
fever occurred during the past week.
Morgan City, Ll.-For the week ended yes
terday evening there were l55 new ciseS OF
yellow fever and Is deaths. Total cases 500,
deaths 4S.
Baton Rouge, La.-During the week ended
new cases of yellow fever and 81 deaths To
tai cases All, deaths IS.
Piaquemine, La.-2l2 cases of yellow fever
and lUdeaths occurred during the week ended
September 2lst. Total cases 10 that date SAT,
deaths 63.
Pass Christian, Miss-There were 26 cases
of yellow fever and deaths during last week.
Total cases So death i
Mississippi City, Miss.-l2 cases of yellow
fever and deaths occurred last week. Total
cases to yesterday evening 20, deaths 3
Canton, MiSS.-I0tal eases of yellow fever to
the 4th inst. 72O, total deaths ll3. Dr. Semmes
reports fever milder and material nearly ex-
Ocean Springs. Miss.-There were IS cases
of yellow fever and deaths during the week
ended Yesterday; Total cases 1S, deaths p.
fever at quarantine last week.
Mobile, Ala.-For the week ended yesterday
evening there were IS cases of yellow fever
and deaths. Total cases 50, deaihs IL W.
Dr. Cochran reports yellow fever ar Bouse-
COur and Fish River.
Nicksburg, Miss.-There were 20 deaths from
yellow fever during the week ended yesterday
evening. Total deaths, SIG.
Memphis, Tenn.-l9J deaths from yellow
fever occurred during the week ended the 81
inst. Total deaths to that date, 2627.
Brownsville, During the past week
there were u cases of yellow fever and -
deaths deaths. Total cases to yesterday evening, 274;
Grand Junction, Tenn.-The first case OF
yellow fever (refugeel occurred August l25h.
lolaI gases to yesterday evening, l2J;
Chattanooga, Tennis eases of yellow fever
and lo deaths for the week ended yesterday
evening. Total cases, 81; deaths, Al.
Louisville, ky.-During the week ended
yesterday evening there were cases of yellow
fever and deaths. OF these, cases and
deaths were among the inhabitants residing
near the Louisville and Nashville depot. No
alarm exists, as it is believed there that the
fever will not spread beyond its present mar
row limits. The small number of cases appear
10 warrant that belief. Total cases to date,
l0A, mostly refugees, as previously reported.
To!al deaths, IL.
Nashville, Tenn.-6 deaths from yellow fever
tOyesterday; all refugees
st. Louis, Mo.-2deaths from yellow fever at
quarantine since last report. None in the
talfO, lll.-3 cases OF yellow fever and l
deaih since October I'd. Information covering
the first part OF last week not definite enough
Cincinnati, Ohio.-From September 2sth to
| October I'd. there were cases Of yellow fever,
Grenada, Miss-lS eases of yellow fever
under treatment. Number of deaths not def
Dliely aScertained-
Water Valley, Miss.-For the week ended
/ September 18th there were Is cases OF yellow
fever and 10 deaths. Total cases to that date
| 50 deaths II.
| deaths from September 2lst to October 4th.
Havana, Cuba.-36 deaths from yellow fever
and from smallpox for the week ended Sep
| tember 2Sth
| The British iron steamship Ben Vairlish,
! from New Orleans, September Goth, bound for
| kotterdam, put III to The Norfolk quarantine
| October lsr, leaking badly, having beer on The
| Florida reefs 70 hours. one death from yellow
| fever occurred en- route, and there were 3 cases
! Or arrival at Quarantine, ? of which were con-
! ValtScent.
! 81. Thomas, West Indies-Advicas to Sep
! tember 2ith report eases OF yellow fever In
! thai city; one resulted i'll death september 23.
| Advlces from Gibraltar to September 10Th
| bflig favorable reports from Morocco, where
| choleIa has prevailed in the cities Of Fee and
| MtQuinez The Governor OF Malta has ordered
| that vessels arriving from Morocco wi hout
| paSsengerS be quarantined q days. Vessels
| with passengers, among whom cholera or chol-
| erale dldrrhoea has occurred, are not allowed
TO enter The harbor.
! Calcutta.-ll deaths from cholera week end
| ed August Sd.
Bombay 3 deaths from cholera, week end
! There are many places in Louisiana, Missis-
| sippi and Tennessee where the yellow fever
prevails; but they are not named in the bull
| information Of the number of cases and deaths
JNo. M. woopwoRTH,
Surgeon General U. S. nj. II. s.
| LIVELY CAMPAIGN IN CINCINNATI-A spe
cial dispatch to the New York Times from
| Cincinnati, October Sd, SayS:-The campaign
| III the first congressional district is growing
interesting. For the first few weeks Milton
Sayler felt SO sure OF election that he did but
little work. Major Butterwortn's brilliant can.
yass, however, has altered the situation, and
for a few days past Sayler and his friends
have been thoroughly alarmed. To check the
leading German papers have been secured and
heir columns filed with low attacks. One
charge, industriously circulated among the
Germans, is that Butterworth, when in the
state senate several years ago, favored legiS-
i ialion in the interests of temperance. Another
attack, printed in the Toit.treasd to-day,
charges him with dishonesty in connection
WIN the payment OF war claims. In reply to
this. Major Butterworth has procured war
rant Tor the arrest OF Editor Haacke on
charge OF criminal libel, and will also bring
civil suit against the paper. The charges are
outrageously false, and are fully explained by
Mr. Butterworth.. He has lived in this city
body as man of the highest personal charac-
ter. There is no doubt that Sayler, by insti-
eating this method of warfare, will lose more
votes than he viii! gain. He has represented
the first district six years, and the prospect of
his defeat very distressing to the democracy
DID COURTNEY SELL THE RACE?-A dis.
patch from leading sporting man at Auburn,
NY, is to the effect that the most intense
feeling exists In that city against Courtney,
the Oarsman, as they believe he sold the race
with HanlOn at Lachine on Thursday. A large
number congregated. and it was proposed by
some to drive Courtney out of the town when
he should return home. Edward B. Rankin,
who acted as Judge for Courtney, publishes a
letter, In which he says: 81 venture the iudg-
ment now that Courtney Is the better and more
enduring sculler Of the two; that despite the
rOughbess OF the water he succeeded, when.
ever he made the effort, in closing with Han
Ion. and that at the finish he rowed the Toron-
to man and lost the race by ceasing to pull at
the critical moment when nearing the goal,
Had he continued rowing and hauled out into
The course, instead OF resting on his oars, the
race was his own. 1t seems Incredible that a
man OF COurtney'S intelligence shorid be so
lar lost to pride and the interests OF friends as
TO lose the race Intentionally, and until some
thing definite in the nature of fairness is de-
yeloped, 1t is only just to hope and believe
that the race was lost through an error of
udgment.'
MISCEGENATIoN PROHIBITED BY VIRGINr.
LAWs;-The supreme court of appeals of Vi
glnla has decided an important case. estab-
fishing the social status of the negro In Vir-
glnla with respect to marriage. Judge Chris
tan delivered the opinion OF the court It
was held that marriage between a negro and