The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
For the "a hours ending at noon on the
10th, there were 40 deaths from yellow fever
1t New Orleans and lib new cases reported
~ Memphis, - deaths in city and II in adj
jacent country; At Baton Rouge, deaths
and IS new cases in As hours; at Canton,
Miss. deaths and NEW cases; at Biloxi, /
death and - new cases in As hours; al
Bay 81. Louis, 10 deaths and % cases in
y hours; at McComb City, deaths
and 20 or 30 cases; At Port
Gibson, deaths and several new cases in "A
hours. The fever had appeared at every
station on the Louisville Road between
Memphis and Paris, Tenn, excepting STAN
ton, and the Howards were running medi-
cal train out daily TO attend to the wants OF
the small towns along the line. Similar
trains are 10 be put on the other roads out Of
Memphis. The epidemic was still very yiru-
lent in the country around vicksburg and
extending 10 all plantations.
New Orleans, on the 14th, reported %
de><he freu. yellow fever ana leo new cases
Donaldsonyille. La, ) deaths and 43 new
cases; Thibodeaux, ! death and II new
cases; Baton Rouge, deaths and ~ new
cases in 4s hours: Dry Grove, Miss, ?
deaths; McComb City. deaths; Biloxi, 2
deaths; Bay St. Louis, death: Memphis,
10 deaths and Is additional in suburbs:
Brownsville, Tenn, > deaths; Chattanooga.
deaths; Grand Junction, death; Helena,
Ark, Q deaths In 4s hours. A number OF
genuine cases Of yellow fever were reported
1t Mobile, Ala, Fulton, KY, and Helena.
Ark. Lieut. Benner, commander Of the re-
lief boat Chambers, was stricken with the
fever on vicksburg.
There were 30 deaths from yellow fever at
New Orleans on the 18th; Is at Memphis; 4
At vicksburg; 1T Chattanooga; Bat Helena,
Ark; 3 II Brownsville, Tenn; at Biloxi,
Miss; 1T Grand Junction; 3 st Patterson
vile, La; 1t Pass Christian; at Tangipa-
hoa; s At Canton, Miss. The disease had ex-
tended to Michigan City, Collinsville, Ger
mantown, and other places in Tennessee,
and also in Alabama.
DIR. Henry G. Davis, resident physician at
the 81. Louis Quarantine Station, died OF
yellow fever on the 18th, contracted while
on hospital duty.
There are reports Of Indian outrages in
Western Texas. In Kerr County, 60 miles
northwest Of San Antonio, three girls and
boy, named Dawdy, were scalped and killed,
the girls being previously subjected 10 the
most inhuman treatment.
It was reported that the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Re Railroad had purchased the
Denver and Rio Grande Railway, although
up to the 18th there seemed to be some
hitch In the final negotiations.
The Missouri Republican state Conven-
tion, held At 81. Louis on the 9th, nominate
ed A. +. Denny, Of Randolph, for Judge Of
the Supreme Court, r. Baldwin, editor OF
the warrensburg STANDARD, for superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction, WIN. n. Nor
val, Of Livingston, for Register Of Lands,
and John B. Tracey, OF Greene, for Rail-
road Commissioner. The platform de-
clares that gold and silver coin
are the recognized standard money
Of the world, and that All our currency
should at all times be kept at par with gold
and convertible into coin at the will Of the
holder: opposes the repeal OF the Resump-
ton act; condemns all attempts to array
labor and capital against each other: ar
rsigns the Democratic party As constant
disturber Of public tranquility and conf
dencc, etc, As faithless to the obligations Of
the National honor, and A. the chief sup
port Of wild schemes Of imitation, repudia-
tion, etc, etc.
Judge Dillon, Of the United States Circuit
Court At st. Louis, having further heard the
Csc OF the Union Trust Company OF New
York against the 81. Louis. Iron Mountain
and Southern Railway, has entered DEGREES
that the defendant u in default Of interest
on the consolidated mortgage bonds due
April J, 1871, and that the complainant a
entitled to recover the amount.
The southern Pacific Railroad Company
has organized under the territorial laws Of
Arizona, with y. y. Cotton a. President,
ana y y said that work will be begun At
once.