The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-12
more grain is raised. Farmers are pursuing
this course now. and the result can only be
waited for q ID. r
DISEASE CAUSED BY COLD. /

Pneum onia Just Now Alarmingly
Prevalent IN the Metropolis.
NEW York. Jan. 10.-The increase in the
number of cases Of pneumonia is alarming,
for it shows that the disease is almost cpl
demic. While the health board is greatly
concerned over the unfavorable showing,
yet it can do little to prevent any further
increase, except by warning citizens to ex-
ercise the utmost care about exposure. The
death notices in all the papers contain daily
sad evidences Of the ravag g of the disease.
1t seems TO be especially fatal with elderly
people. IL was developed immedia ely
after the severe storm which came the day
after Christmas and which, for few hours
here, seemed likely TO prove something Of
blizzard.
The late Judge Muller was Frustrated
from exposure in that storm, and Banker
Eugene Kelly, the abiest and most con-
spicuous of the Irish and Catholic final ciers
in tae city, was stricken and brought very
near deaths door. He seems now TO be i'm
proving. Mrs. Fogg. the millionaire widow,
whose death has Just CURED, and who
leaves so much of her fortune for charitable
purposes, was fastened TO her death by this
storm, and the physicians report many
severe attacks Of pneumonia in all parts If
the city which can be traced directly to ex-
city is remarkably healthy; III fact, never
more so in the winter season.
The health authorities have been able
gradually to cope with much success with
such epidemic diseases as measles, scarlet
fever and diphtheria. A few years ago
diphtheria was both frequent and deadly in
this city, and in some of the poorer districts
its ravages were so great that had the deaths
been caused by yellow fever or smallpox
tbaV would haUa rrndnnad Rnf
under enlightened scientific treatment and
use OF It's power, which at times seemed
almost tyrannical, but was necessary the
health board succeeded in Graduating much
of the cause of disease, and believes that
the few sporadic cases which have occurred
recently were brought to the city by per-
sons who had contracted the disease else
where.
There is no disease regarding which such
general apprehension and horror are felt as
pneumonia. Yet the health officers say hat
1t is astonishing, not so much that it prevails
as that so many people escape it-for the ma
Jorlty Of business men continually expose
themselves most needlessly and in utter de-
fiauce of the ordinary dictates of common
sense.
All the bankers and brokers seem to have
recovered from their gloom of a few weeks
ago and to be going to the extreme in their
exhilaration and confidence in the futu e.
Spectators are again frequenting the
street and the brokers' offices. Investors
are buying bonds. There is plenty of
money at from to 6 per cent for those
who have good collateral and the banks
are accommodating their regular customers
with more freedom than they have exercised
since last fall
This is precisely the condition which the
clearest-headed men expected to see, even
in the gloomiest days Of early December.
They argued that Improvement would be
felt after Jan. l, aud would increase so
rapidly as to inspire general confidence.
An amazing change. or rather indiffer-
ence of opinion is noted here in financial
circles respecting the Dr. posed silver legis-
l4tion. A few years ago Senator Stewards
free coinage amendment aud the chance of
its adoption by congress would have caused
something like a panic here. But now the
bankers are indifferent-even those who
believe that such an amendment would be
un wise. One of Secretary Windonl's most
intimate friends, himself a banker of long
experience and great wealth, explains this
indifference thus: He, says that the feeling
isgeneral that larger supply of circulating
medium is needed, and that the benefits
which an increased supply would bestow
would, for the present at least, Offset any
i'll which might follow from an unlimited
coinage.