The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-28

trunks at Camp Perry. 1t was reported
that people outside of the city were being
paid through the Brooklyn commissary.
The matter as ordered to be investigated.
George f. Vlson, of the committee on
nurses and medicine, reported that the board
or health had notified him not to fill orders
from certain physicians whose names have
been stricken from the list. Rev. E. G.
Weed reported that he ordered relief ex-
tended to people who are residents Of Jack
sonv1lle, but at present residing in the cour-
Try. RESOLUTIONS Of respect and condolence
We're passed on the death OF Charles @.
Elliott, a member of the executive commit
tee, who died on Sept %
This has been lovely autumn day,
warmer than yesterday, but very pleasant.
AID SENT TO MACCLENNY.
Two nurses and medicine were sent TO
Sanderson this morning from here DIR.
Gill is now there, and 1t Is expected that he
Will report tomorrow, when all supplies
at be desires will at once be sent to him.
Mrs. K. o. White, postmistres of BlufPton,
Mich, and a member of Phil Kearney Post
No. of the Woman's Relief Corps No. s,
arrived here tonight. She secured Il two
months leave Of absence from Washington,
and came here to help fight the fever, and
VIII aid more especially the families of tn Q
Grand Army of the Republic men. She is
q big, mOtheriy- ooking woman, and will
do noble work. She was an army nurse in
the army of tho Potomac from 1862 TO 1885,
and went through the epidemics at Mem
phls and Mobile. She is gladly welcomed.
MELANCHOLY AND MoNoToNY.
The epidemic drags along the weary
weeks with most unpleasant melancholy
and monotonv. While the people are be-
coming familiar with scenes of suffering,
death and sorrow, they do not relax their
efforts to relieve those who are in
distress or to conserve the public
good. the various committees are much
retarded by the ravages of the disase which
so often strikes down the most devoted
worker at their posts of duty. To-day there
are comparatively few inhabited houses in
which there are not sick or convalescenUs.
Many houses are private hospitals The
list Of new cases, which lags in the morn
ing while tf physicians are out making
their rounds, grows rap dly as the hands OF
the clock near the hour of q O'Clock. The
hope that it will grow perceptibly smaller
fore the people.
DISTRESS INCREASING.
The general distress among the poor is
daily increasing, and piteous appeals for re-
lief come daily from the county districts
near the city to which refugees have fed,
as many heretofore able to support them
selves have exhausted their means. The
work Of the relief committee is daily ex-
panding and imposing arduous duties on the
few brave men who can stand the strain of
the appeals of the destitute and the abuse Of
the unworthy. Bishop Weed is now at the
head of the relief committee, and
he remains in perfect health,
although performing herculean Ia
Dor, besides visiting the sick and often
ministering to the dying and performing
almost alone the last sad rites for the dead
Within another week probably 10000 peo-
pie, nine-tenths oolored, will have to be fed
by the hand of charity. The hope of get
ting shelter for any considerable number at
the camps of refugees is abandoa ed, though
many more are anxious to go there than
was tine case two weeks ago, for now the
disease seems to be seizing many in the col
ored suburbs.