The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-12
The Yellow Fever.

Telegraphic dates from the plague-stricken South
ern States 70 Sept 20, represent The disease NJ. dy..
ing out, at some points, aud Il others still Incrfae
ing. We give the latest items
NEw ORLEANS, September 20,-The weather 10
clear and pleasant. Deaths for the twentyI0uf
hours ending at noon. 81 cases reported. z64.
Total cases % date, 1926 deaths, 2bIO. Of the
2C4 cases reported AT noon only Jos occurred since
September 10Th. YLitIt 4H
MENPBIs, September 20-To-day has been a az.
markably quiet one. Tbiriy-two deaths from vel.
low fever are officially reported by The Board Of
Health for the past twenty-lour hours ending at g.
O'Clock tonight. OF these, ten were colored. AZ I
or the thirty six inmates Of the Leathe Orphan
Asylum fourteen are down with the fever three
were stricken to-day. Sister Francis Of the Church
Home has %relapsed. Eight Of her charge are elnl
sick.
To date there have been 2.G4s deaths from yell
low fever. DIR. X. w. Mitchell. Medical Director
Of the Towards, reports the disease dying out,
only, however, from want Of material.
Twenty-Five physicians Of The Howard Medical
Corps report ninety-one new cases.
YIcKsBUR0. September 29.-Tbe weather IL clear
and warn thermometer 90. The fever continues
Increasing az points on the river above here. par
ticularly at BOvIna and other places In the country.
Delphi, La, reports 3 new cases to-day Is casea
now under treatment, 100 cases In all and 3 deaths.
The majority Of cases H. conRned W me blacks.
The Howard Association OF VicksbuTK nfe mhklnr
every eXertiOn 90 aid the sick In the surrounding
country. There we're 9 deaths here today. The
number Of new cases II increasing constantly, but
mostly among refugees who have returned from
the country.
Five cases are reported al jackson, Miss, one
death last night and one to-day.
MENFHIs. September 20-Dr. Louis Bryan,
recently detailed for duty at Germahtown, Tenn.
reports having found twenty-five cases Of fever nj
that city. two Of whom have since died. They are
all within a radius Of half a mile. and The local
physician il amply able 70 attend them.
HERoEs or THE SoOURoE.--" Last Of the gthnv
j. the prefix 90 the death notice Of Herbert Land.
rum. city editor OF the Memphis dUaianche, who
died on the 18th inst cine by one biz ass0clatea
fell victims 10 the deadly scourge. the first being
Thompson. the accomplished chief editor Of that
journal. When Thompson was stricken down, and
knew that the attack must prove fatal. bis only go
licitnde was that his wife, whom be had hurried 20
a place Of safety, should receive no intlmati0n %
his fate until she could be assured that her return
TO the seeue Of death and desolation would be- ~
no purpose. Others Of the staff followed In rapid
succession. until Landrum stood NJ his post alone,
and bravely he held Il 10 the end. Was ever the
deadly breach In the Geld OF sanguinhry conflict
more faithfully defended 7 Was the unyioldinR
devotion Of the young hero of the Nile moro grand /.
or the valor Of a Marshal Ney, when he led The
struggling remnant Of the Old Guard ncrosa The
Russian frontier. more glorious than the m0aestI
Gdeliiy Of young LaDdrum Of the Memphis AUa
lanchel His epitaph IL grandly inscribed t" Thai
last Of the staff"