The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-09-08
YELLOW FEVER.
SPREAD OF THE EPIDEMIC
AT MEMPHIS.

THE DISEASE PREVAILING IN ALL PARTS OF
THE CTTY-BErwEEN FOUR AND FIVE HUN
DRIED NEW CASES YEsTERDAY--OvER ONE
HUNDRED DEATHS IN TwENTYFOCR HOURS
INCREASED NUMBER OF NEW CASES AT
NEW ORIEANs-FEvER sUBsIDING AT
PEAIs OF THE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS
-REsPoNsEs FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
New ORLEANS, September G.-The situa-
ton here has not changed materially to-
day except in regard to the distress occas-
Toned by the stagnation of business
and the consequent need of employ
mcnt by laboring classes and Others, and
excepting also the distress in some of the
the permanent charitable institu-
tons. In one Of the latter, the st. Vim
cents Infant Orphan asylum, containing
over 200 infants, there are to-day among
the little waits over 40 cases of yellow fe.
yer, while other institutions of similar char
acter report number of cases. In ordinary
times these institutions are supported by
the public generally, but now there are but
few who can contribute, hence the distress.
Up to noon to day the Howard assoeia-
ton booked 1875 persons who applied to
them for relief.
The Young Mems Christian Association
had % sick applications to the same hour
and issued ration requiston, to their desti-
tute convaesccnts.
The Benevolent Relief Association, color
ed, opened business this morning to a large
crowd, and issued acquisitions for rations
on the Peabody Association. This associa-
ton thoroughly investigates every applica-
ton for relief and before giving the neces-
sary order refers the applicant to a sub
committee. of which there are several
throughout the city. At one time during
the day there We're no less than 400 colored
people clamoring at the associations rooms
nearly all with baskets The Times SAYS,
editorially, in the morning: THE various
charitable bodies of this city are all in the
closet union of brotherhood, and perfect
harmony exists among them, as they zeal
ously work in the common cause. 1t is
therefore especially unscemly that
any such reports should have been spread
as that announced from Washington on the
representation of de tacto Senator Kellogg
that it would create dissatisfaction among
the benevolent organizations here to place
the distribution OF government rations in
the hands of any of them. This is a time
when people like to forget old anmosities
and remember a common humanity and
minister to it. In the deep aiflction the
generous charity of the government should
not he embittercd with sIanderous insin-
uations or have the suspicion OF political
object or use"
This afternoon a committee Of the How
ard association waited on the Peabody asso.
citation for the purpose of comforting as TO
the details OF a plan which would expedite
the issue of rations and regulate the sys-
TEN OF issuing acquisitions. 1t is apparent
that either the number OF acquisitions issued
must be improved, MS there are hundreds Of
persons who hang around headquarters the
whole day, and are supplied sometimes be-
fore their turns come. This results from
the great number of applicants. Itrequircs
a corps of twenty-five or thirty clerks in
the commissary department to fill the requi-
sitions, and they are kept steady at work.
The association thought of changing their
quarters, or rather of establishing subs-
diary bureau, from which rations could be
issued after acquisitions had been approved
at headquarters. A strong police is kept
on duty at the depot, and it is MS much rs
they can do to maintain order in the crowds,
as every applicant cndeavors togct ahead OF
his ncighbor.
Reports at the office of the board of
health from Il I'm. to p. m. to-day, slow
twenty-cight deaths and l4j new cases OF
fever. During the day the Young Mems
Christian association had nearly ninety APP
plicatons and the Towards 32l applica-
tons.
The Towards received dispatch from u
physician at Canton, Miss, which says; Six
teen new cases here in the last "a hours,
but the physicians are 50 busy they cant
get reports from them.
MEMPHIS, Sept g. Fit)V-tlrce deaths re-
ported from o'clock am, yesterday to
noon to-day. making l0j for "a hours end
ing ut noon. Among the dead are Capt.
John Cummins, of the steamer Coahoma,
Capt, Joseph Rogers, Dr. p. NJ Dickinson,
Mother Altonza, Of St. Agnes academy, and
Il. +. Risk, Ir. Misses Carrie Davis and