The Russellville Democrat., 1879-07-24
THE YELLOW FEVER AT
 MEMpHIS


 ing last Thursday there had been not ' single new case reported, and we, to- gether with the anxious Memphiant were feeling jubilant. But, alas Thursday five new cases were reported, and the excitement again fared up Friday the excitement was increased by the report of five more new cases Saturday panic ensued upon the ap- pearance of seven new cases, and the city authorities advised the populace to evacuate the city.
 The progress of the pestilence for Sunday and Monday puts still more gloomy aspect upon the appearance of matters in and around Memphis. The following are the principal dispatches given in our daily exchanges:
 Sundy night.-Ten new cases were reported to the Board of Health to-day. There are several other cases of fever in the city, which will be reported to the Board of Health tomorrow. The city authorities are sending the poor people out of the city, and have made arrangement for half fare rates over the Louisville and Nashville rail- road.
 Dr. Dudley D. Saunders, acting Pres- ident board of health, states that the fever Is not so malignant as last year and yields more readily to treatment.
 Citizens continue to leave in large numbers.
 The Memphis and Paducah Railroad ceased running trains to-day.
 The Avalanche, Appeal and Ledger, will from date issue only half sheets. MEMPHIS, July 2l.-Twenty-one ad- ditional cases have been reported to the board of health this afternoon. which makes total of thirty-six reported for the day. This large increase is the ac- emulation of several ::davs. as most of the persons have been i'll from three to five days.
 The city begins to present deserted appearance, many of the prominent re- tail merchants having followed the ex- ample of the wholesale and closed their places of business.
 The Ancient Order of United Work ingmen and Knights of Honor arc also sending members and their families out Of the city, thinking it to be better to pay fares than other bills and nurse hire.
 Nearly every town along the lines of the Louisville and Nashville and Mem phis and Charleston railroads have quarantined against Memphis. Owing to this state of affairs the banks here re- quest their correspondents abroad not to send bills for collection to them on any points outside the city. | nl,n .,c nsf H~ I1ox Ia ill-fated city is daily increasing. Every train that departs is crowded, and hun dreds have gone into the country. All species of vehicles have been pressed into service, and the roads leading from Memphis are filled with wagons con- | veying panic-stricken people to places of safety.
 There were three hundred passengers aboard the steamer Coahoma, which left this evening for St. Louis. Nearly all of them had their passage paid by :he city authorities, who are using every exertion to depopulate the city. Two physicians, Drs. Willett and Brown, were engaged to accompany the steamer to St. Louis. Main street already begins to assume Sunday appearance. Nearly every prominent retail house has been closed. | By the end of the week none will be left in Memphis excepting those who cannot get away, or those who remain in anticipation Of receiving free rations. Perhaps a wooden box will be their share.
 A young man named flanagan shot a part of his skull from the back of his head yesterday in trying to suicide. He tried to get his father and mother to leave town. They refused, and he said he would rather be dead than risk the yellow fever. His injuries are not likely to prove fatal.
 From all other points there is yet no news of an epidemic, although there is a strict quarantine all along the line against poor Memphis. St. Louis and Nashville have instituted the strictest regulations against both freight and passengers from Memphis.
 The towns in our own State along the routs leading Memphisward have determined upon the iron quarantine. Pine Bluff, Forrest City, Lonoke, New port, Beebe, and Jacksonport have Boards of Health and are acting In con- junction with the health authorities at Little Rock to keep the state from be- ing infected with the plague. Little Rock has health officers on the Iron Mountain road, instructed to stop all passengers and freight which may at tempt to come into Arkansas from Memphis by that route. Mail and ex- press matter from Memphis has also been stopped. The President of the Little Rock Board reports that place entirely free from any thing like yell low fever, and we do not think there need be any uneasiness up this road.
 Dispatches from other points arc as follows,
 WASHINGTON, July 2I.-At the re- quest of Representative Casey Young, of Memphis, Tenn, the Secretary of war will forward 15,000 tents, and ra. tions for 10000 people for twenty days, to be used in aid of the sufferers from yellow fever.
 wAsHtNuroN, July 2l.-Reprcsenta- tive Casey Young and other prominent gentlemen, representing the Southern Fever Relief committee are in this city. Their idea is, in the event another epi- demic, to receive in Washington, such donations as may be offered, and to dis