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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The death-rate from yellow fever at New
Orleans had decreased on the 18th to 81.
with 2l2 new cases reported. DIR. c. L. C.
Herndon, aged 40, formerly Surgeon in the
United States Army, IL among the dead.
thermometer down to 60 deg, which SEEM
cd TO be favorable to the sick, but fastened
the development of new cases. Memphis
mad 62 deaths from 6 p. m. on the 11th to
noon on the. 18th; new cases no longer Of
fcially reported. Among the dead is
Herbert S. Landrum, city editor of
the Ardidnche. At vicksburg there
were about 10 new cases on the 10Th and
81 deaths. On the same day there were IA
new cases and two deaths at Grenada-ma-
terial nearly exhausted. At Baton Rouge,
La, che disease was thought to be under
control-no deaths in preceding "a hours.
AT Holly Springs, Miss, there were five
deaths and "a new cases-great suffering on
account of lack of nurses and supplies. At
Grand Junction, Tenn, there were 10 cases
and two deaths; at Hickman, KY, IL new
cases and two deaths; at Canton, Miss, new
cases and two deaths. The disease had also
developed at Cairo, ILL.,, the first victim be-
ing Thomas Nally, editor of the Bulletin,
who died on the 18th, and another employee
of the office was down with the same dis
ease. AT New Richmond, o., 20 miles from
Cincinnati, a very malignant disease, gener-
ally believed TO be genuine yellow fever.
carried off five persons suddenly and several
others were prostrated. A number Of deaths
of Southern refugees occurred daily at st.
Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, and other
Northern cities
For the "a hours ending at noon on the
18th there were 149 new cases of yellow
fever and SO deaths at New Orleans; new
cases and deaths at Holly Springs; new
cases and 2 deaths at Greenville, Tenn; AZ
cases at Grand Junction, Tenn; 81 new
cases at Canton, Miss; Is deaths at Vicks-
burg, and 80 deaths at Memphis.
AT New Orleans, on the 10th, there were
% deaths from yellow fever and los new
cases reported; at Memphis, Ill deaths and
136 new cases with many not reported); at
Holly Springs, 8 deaths and IL new cases; at
Grenada, deaths and new cases; at Can
ton, 1 death and 20 new cases; at Baton
Rouge, no deaths, but 81 new cases. The
epidemic was generally believed to have
reached its eliminating point and 10 be
slowly on the decline.
Twenty eight cases of yellow fever, 16 of
which were fatal, had occurred in the vicini-
ty Of Gallipolis, o., up to the 18th. The
disease was communicated from the steam
er John ID. Porter.
Among recent deaths by yellow fever are
Fathers McManus and Vitello at yicksburg;
Drs. Woolfolk, of Paducah, KY, at Grenada;
VIM. Willis, Superintendent Southern Ex-
press Company, John G. Lonsdale, Jr.,
Treasurer Citizens Relief Committee, r.
w. Blow, publisher Western Methodist, and
DIR. McGregor, of Upton County, Tenn, at
Memphis.
Cardinal McCloskey and the Catholic
Bishops generally throughout the country
have ordered collections to be taken in the
churches for sufferers by the yellow fever
plague. The New York Chamber Of Com
merce has issued an appeal to the people of
the whole country to add to or double what
they have already given for the same cause,
and recommends that depots for provisions
and other supplies be established in the
principal cities.
Additional Congressional nominations:
Illinois-Third District, Hiram Barber,
Democrat; Sixteenth, VIM. A. j. Sparks
Democrat. Missouri-First District, Hen
ry Eshbaugh, National Greenback; Sew
enth, James A. Boyd, National Greenback;
Thirteenth, A. III. Buekner,s Democrat.
Kansas-First District, j. X. Mcclure, Dem
ocrat. Mississippi-Fifth District, Charles
f. Hooker Democrat. (sRenominated.)
President Hayes and suite had grand
reception at Madison, Wis, on the 10th.
The President made an address at some
length at the Fair Grounds.
At Chicago, on the evening of the 9th,
sylvester E. Dean, baggageman on the
Illinois Central Railroad, residing at S72
Michigan Avenue, attempted to cut his
wife's throat, and then severed his own
jugular. Dean will die, but his wife will
recover. Unreasonable jealousy had driven
the man mad.
The track of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad has been completed to
Trinidad.
DIR. E. NJ. Wright, of Chattanooga, has
been nominated for Governor by the Repub-
lican State Committee of Tennessee, in place
of Emerson Etheridge, declined.
A terrible tragedy is reported near Auro-
ra, Hill County, Texas. Two young men,
Eli Ramscale and Zack. Hays, returning
home from revival in the village, began
quarreling about young lady loved by both.
From words they proceeded to blows, aud
then, drawing knives, desperate fight en-.
sued. They cut and stabbed each other till
both fell PROSTATE and bleeding in the road
where they were found by a neighbor soor
after. Hayes died two hours afterwards
and Ramsdale was dying at last accounts.
Alexander Austin, a well known busines.
man of San Francisco and ex-Collector o.
Taxes, shot and killed himself on the 11th
There is 4 shortage of some $3OO, 900 in hi
accounts.
A report reached Bismarck, on the 11th
that Gen. Miles and an excursion party o
ladies and gentlemen had been surrounded
by the Bannocks in Yellowstone Park and
number Of the party killed.
Reliable information concerning Gen
Miles, recent fight with the Bannocks wa
received on the 18th. The encounter tool
place on Soda Butte Greek on the 4th. Gen
miles had 81 men of the Fifth Infantry ant
35 friendly Crows. The Bannocks were sur
prised at daybreak, and after a two hours
fight in which Captain Andrew S. Bennett
Fifth Infantry, was killed, and one soldie
mortally wounded, the hostiles were over
powered and "a prisoners captured. TIL
Bannocks lost 10 killed in the fight. Tn
laoies of Gen. Miles's party had been sen
to Fort Ellis for safety previous to the bat
tie.
"SnOwing for past 80 hours, with no pros
pect of clearing-thermometer 80 degrees
was the news from East Cariboo Mine
Atlantic City, Sweetwater County, Wyom
ing Territory, on September o.
Gen. Howard has had a conference wit
Moses, one Of the Indian chiefs who hav
given trouble in Idaho and Oregon, an
Moses announced the willingness of his trib
to go on reservation OF his own choice nc
remote from their country.
Ex-Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, has de
cided that he will not he a candidate 70
Congress.