Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-31
The Plague.Stricken South.

New YORK, August 30. Specials report the
two cases OF yellow fever at Philadelphia will not
result fatally.
The board of health Of New Orleans believes
the fever must now run It's course. unless some
rare meteorological change takes place. The city
will probably be swept throughout by the cpl
demic. Many physicians are SO over taxed they
refuse new cases.
la Memphis there is hardly a house not entirely
vacant which does not contain the sick or dead.
The increase of the fever among the negroes is
frgbt1l. Many burg occur. y, j. keone.
dy, While on quad at his stable last night, mis-
took young nan living with him, who had gone
to the isrm TO relieve Kennedy, tor a burglar, and
shot hlm dead.
1t Is SAID that the amount raised in New York
Guy ior yellow fever sufferer, is nearly soveL,y
Thousand dollars.
New ORLEANS, August 80. New cases, 100.
deaths, 81.
Auotter despatch says the weather is cloudy
WITH iItqleat showers. Among The deatas to-day
were many prom nent ctizsns.
Despatcut- to the Assn, iaten Pres to day show
no fever al an, of the towns ON tue Jackson r.
south vi Can on. The case reported yesleI-
day III Poucha ouia proved .pot 10 be yellow ie-
YER The pa lent Is now codVa.escent.
vIcKsBuRe. August 80. There is no change
for tue Uetter mere. Seventy new cases were re-
ported up to one o'clock, AnI TIVE We deaths.
A despatch from Deihl, La, 20 nj Is fom here
gr, AT scarcity oil physicians, and many Gied With
out medical attention.
An evening a,spalch saws rev cases the past "A
hour, are loO, deaths iIom yellow lever, IL, FROM
other Causes, 4
Fur h,r generous contributions have been re-
ceyed from PhIAde h a, NV York, Boston AID
other points. Liverpool also sends one Thousand
dollars.
ST. LOUIS, August 80. Tue Merchants Ex-
change fever tuud now reaches oil 900. Inc
iCpi. Mems Christian Association a,e actively
a. woik ial ing MONEY anu clothing, which thvy
send direct 10 snilaI associations III The nj CT, u
cnies. Nearly every benevo'eDt order Ia the city
and Lun. societies OF u. tirre mt k,nds are also
active II The cause, aud dong much good.
Tue total subscriptions to date Close SlO,O
MEMPHIS, August 80. The wet cool wealher
has uuuOubtedy created many ne cases OF fever
| but physicians have not made iul Reports yet
The Death tate will exceed that oi Yesterday,
when seventy -elgnt lnteineni were re, ott-d.
Up To uoon to day uudertskets report forty six
Ia eiments Phy-cIans report the lever prevail
ing 10 AN alarming ext, nj among the col ned peo
/ pie. May hal 10 IN edIcai stleu0alce fIr days
A large ILcr ssse ia mortality Is expected Tue
Evening Iieraid Is suspended to day.
lne weather 10 day va, damp aud dissgreea5le
and favorable to the spIead OF The lever.
AT The board oil heal office ouly - cases
were report, for "a honIs ending al d L. NJ.
TINS however does dot exhibit Tue true state oil
epidemic Tor the day, ss several pbyslciaus have
fai ed to report Tor same Tine.
Tue uudeuskers report 81 yellow fever inter
nens. Dr. Greenvine Doweil, an experienced
ply sleian iron Galveston, aIiiTed ihls evening
and teLdeieu his SERVICES ~ the Howard As-ocla-
lion.
The sssocati u to-day eceived fourteen nurses
from Shreveport, six hom Maj shall, leXso, and
blue Il om Mobile
Maj. John {. McCabe, comni.sArv. reports to
the cIzeus relief COMMITTEES, tnat 80 OJU worth
oi rstous have been lssLed to drsU ute people
from Aug. 1914 TO Aug 70. Inc jelnaud ; cou-
stantly Increasing, S4jJO worth belu, issued to-
day.
The supply on hand is sufficient to last not
longer than The Stu iroxuu.
Ia view OF these tuIuss an appel has been
made iVr aid.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, August 80. Yellow
fever Is reported hete. Miss sullivan, refugee
from MemunI-, Is Ill.