The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-31
Edition
THE LATEST.
KING OF TERRORS
Still Reigns Supreme in the
Sunny South.
The North Nobly Responds to
Appeals for Aid.
National Associated Press to the Star,

National Associated Press to the Star.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 31-12 M.-Forty-
eight deaths and two hundred and thirty
four new cases of yellow fever since noon
yesterday. The four telegraph operators
at Grenada are all down, and no dispatches
are being sent.
TUscuMBIA, ALA, Aug 31-2 P. M.-Two
cases of yellow fever here to-day.
HAVANA, Aug. 31.-Seventy-one deaths
from yellow fever here this week.
DEATH RATE FOR THE WEEK.
New York, Aug 31.-The weather at
Memphis and New Orleans is wet, and re-
ports show no decrease in the number of
deaths. New Orleans reports 81 deaths.
Reports from Memphis show 70 new cases
and 81 deaths. Vicksburg reports 100 new
cases and 13 deaths. The number of deaths
to date in the five cities is 1,664. Memphis
Joined table gives the number of deaths
from yellow fever reported in New Orleans
Memphis, Vicksburg, Grenada and Port
Gibson. 1t does not include the deaths of
refugees:
New Orleans, 926; Memphis, 1856; Vicks-
burg, 1893; Grenada 149; Port Gibson 35.
Total, 1,664.
AT DELHI, LA.
VIcKsBURG, Aug. 31.-A dispatch from
Delhi La, twenty miles from here, reports
six cases ard two deaths there. There is
great scarcity of physicians, and many die
without medical attention.
THEORY OF THE DISEASE.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 31.-Dr.. Chopin,
President of the Board of Health, is of the
opinion that the yellow fever was imported
to this city ON board the steamship Emily B.
Sander, from Havana which arrived May
Goth. He believes the fever is an exotic,
and that it reproduces itself into the sys-
tenn by the multiplication of its own germ.
1t is a self-limited disease, has its course
to run, and nothing can stop it. He ad-
vises physicians to experiment to see if
some remedy to check the disease can not
be discovered.
BURIED AT DEAD OF NIGHT.
New YORK, Aug. 31.-A New Orleans
(La.) special says: The yellow fever reports
yesterday showed 1859 new cases and 81
deaths, including a number of prominent
victims. The Howard list showed 253 ap-
plications from a. m. to p. m., by far the
largest number yet. Experienced medical
experts now postpone the date of the climax
eliminating rate of mortality at 15O per
day.
Estimates made by the Howard Associa-
ton show four thousand cases now existing
in the city, exclusive of doubtful ones
Resources of the Association are now taxed
to the utmost, but opening the Peabody
Subsistence Association Monday will relieve
the pressure to great extent. From Car
rolton to the United States Barracks, q sweep
of nearly twelve miles, the yellow fever
scourge asserts its sway.
The First District is still by far the most
afflicted, and the more fashionable the
street the more rapid does the disease
spread. Corpses are now hurried to burial
at night, and the spectacle of hearses hurry
ing on with their rapidly -putrefying bur-
dens, unattended by single carriage is a
frequent one. There is considerable indig-
nation in commercial circles against both
Mobile and Galveston for their indifference.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NEW CASES AT
q vICKsBURG.
New York, Aug. 31.-A .Vicksburg,