The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-09
The Southern ScOHrGe.
.UNAgATED AT MEMPHIS.

Relief Board, is dying. Four nurses in
the employ OF the Board are dead, and four
others are sick. j. B. Cook, architect, and
DR.. D. u. Saunders are down with the fe-
yer. Rev. G.. G.. Parsons, rector Of Grace
Episcopal church, died last night; also,
Mrs. Apn Philmont and Frank Gates, son
of Samuel NJ. Gates: Miss Mollie Gates is
down.
The physicians and nurses from Wash
ington reported for duty this morning.
There is pressing need for experienced
nurses. Ten dollars per day has been vainly
offered, and many sick lie in rooms without
proper attention, owing to the inability: OF
the Relief Association TO supply many calls
for nurses. Although there are many ne
groes in the city, but few can be persuaded
to walt upon or even approach sick per-
son, while the majority of those who do hire
themselves as nurses for the big pay offered
are inefficient.
Fiftv-four deaths were reported up TO
noon to-day, and one hundred and three for
the twenty-iour hours ending at noon.
Our city is reduced to a desperate strait.
1t seems impossible to secure men enough
70 bury the dead promptly and to burn in
fected clothing, &c. The Mayor has been
down several days, and there is but one Gill
Ger OF the city government on his feet; and
the Board OF Health, on account OF sick
ness, is unable to get q quorum together.
Major William Willis has been requested TO
take the head OF affairs in the city, but has
refused. He pledges the support OF him.
self and the Citizens Relief Committee to
The acting Mayor. Hon. II. Casey Young
has taken in hand the work OF thoroughly
fumigatins the city. The Fire Department
will lie on duty keeping up bontires. AS
soon as the. artillery sent for arrives the
conclusion test will he applied.
Six physicians reported l23 new cases to-
day, and the undertakers report 90 fever in
termentS. Among the deaths is w. +. Full
Ter, OF the Appeal typographical corps.
Among the new cases are W. a. McClay, OF
the Herald; Sisters Catherine. Thiela, and
Constance. J. Harvey Mathes. editor OF the
Led1cr, was taken down tonight. DR..
Mead, Of kentucky, a volunteer physician,
died tonight. Very Rev. NJ. ReOrdan, Vi
car-Genera! OF st. Pati'ck's church, is con-
valeScent.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, September New cases
I'D 10 noon to-day, 232; deaths, II. Among
tho deaths is Willis Il. Wolf, a Western
Union telcgrapll-opcrator, aged twenty-oDe,
Il native Of Alabama.
The deaths to-day include thirty minors,
sixteen being under seven years OF age.
Among the deaths were Charles Gallagher,
Jr., and Rev. N. w. Wilson, d. d., pastor
Of the Coliseum Place Baptist church.
From noon to p. M. eighteen deaths
were rcnorted TO the Board OF Health.
Fourteen female and seventeen male nurses
left for Greenville tonight. ..-
At the Peabody Subsistence Association
the news received from different parts IS
very fayorab!e-seryices, contributions, sup
plies. &C., being freely offered. In Il few
days a large supply is expected, and the AS
ISOLATION will be enabled TO increase its dis
tributionS.
... At CANTON, MISS.
CANTON, September 7.-Twelvc new cases
and three deaths have been reported In the
last twenty-four hours. Refugees are taking
the fever IN the surrounding country, there
being eleven cases in one house east OF mere.
BISHOP ELDER DOWN.
BALTIMORE, September THE following
telegram has been received:
V;cksburg, Miss, September TO
Francis w. Elder, Baltimore: Bishop FL
der has light attack of yello w-fever. He
is doing we'll and sends his love.
II. A. PICKERIT.
AT OTHER POINTS.
MERIDIAN, Miss, September 7.-There
are forty cases OF fever at Lake Station, on
the Vicksburg and Meridian railroad, forty
miles west OF Meridian. Ten cases are re-
| ported at Bolton, on the same road, twenty
seven miles east Of Vicksburg.
MORE NURSES FOR THE SICK.
Especial telegram 10 the Uspach.l
NORFOLK, VA, September six more
residents of Norfolk and one OF Hampton
| have registered their names with Mayor
Tucker to leave on Monday for Memphis, in
response to an appeal from the Howard AS
ISOLATION of that city. 1t is expected that
several female nurses willalso be ready to 60.
no FEVER AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, September THE city is
healthy and free from epidemic. There IS
no yellow-feyer except an occasional case
among refugees. 49,
UNFoUNDED REPORT.
BLoUST SPRINGS, ALA, September T.
The report that yelIow-fever Is here IS
| without foundation.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
MERIDIAN, September 1.-The officers and
employees of the Alabama and Great South
ern railroad have sent $3.50 to Vicksburg
| for the relief Of suffering railroad-men ana
their families.
WASHINGTON, September 7.-Hudsop, n.
Y, will forward 500 Monday to the fever
! sufferers.
| An entertainment by the knights Of the
Mystic Crew at Cairo, ILL.,, netted $3.50.
! The total contributions at Montgomery,
! Ala, amount TO $3.50.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars in
! tfty-cent subscriptions was collected to-day
at Homes dale. Pa.
The subscriptions to date at Columbus,
Ga, amount to SLID. Of which the Eagle
and Phoenix Manufacturing Company gave
$3.50, and its officers, employees, and opera
tives, 1906.
The following additional contributions
are reported: Newburgh, n. T., 1000 !;
San francisco, $1,000; Albany. n. T.,
S., 900; Philadelphia, $4,000, making total
of S43,275 to date; Little Rock, Arkansas,
through Howard Association in that city,
81. 600: besides numerous smaller amounts.
RALEIGH, N. c., September THE ladies'
OF the ten white congregations, including
the Catholic, Presbyterian. Hebrew, Epls'
copalian, and Baptist, held last evening the
most brilliant festival ever given IN the
State. The use OF the capitol and grounds
were given the ladies by Governor Vance,
iorty-one ladies composing the executive
committee OF the Relief-Fund Association.
The receipts were $3.50. This, with $500
previously collected, makes $1,000, check
for which was forwarded this afternoon to
the sufferers. Raleigh has. contributed
$4,000.
NEW YORK, September THE Chamber