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Show AID SOLICITED T03, MEarHIS. i For wetkj now, the yellow lever has been raging in rities ujy)n the lower ilwoUoippi. To what exu'nt our daily telegraphic reports b:.v fur-nwhed fur-nwhed jine indication, meagre as they have been. From fifteen to thirty deaths liave taken place daily at Memphis, for a long time, and the fever continues to rage at this point with muwt malignant fatality. On Tuesday six hundred persona were, under treatment. The means of the city have Ijeen cxhau&ted in providing provid-ing nurses, physicians, hospitals, and frxxlfur the sick, and in caring fur the dead. The German societies of the , city have appealed to all German associations as-sociations throughout the country; the Odd Fellows have thirty-five or forty members sick and appeal to all r. O. O. F. lodges for money to ns-si-tl their miflbring brethren; the Masonic Ma-sonic order has fifteen or twenty sick, h burying members daily and calls fer aid;tho St. Andrews society clso makes earnest appeal. The panic as driven from the city not less than five thousand people, many of whom have been attacked by the epidemic in surrounding towns and villages. All over the land the people peo-ple are contributing to the relief ol this and other plague-stricken cities. Yesterday Mr. H. Wads worth, agent of Wells, Fargo A Co., in this city, received the following telegram, which explains itself : San Francisco, Oct. bt '73. To Agents Wells, Fargo & Co.: Tho yellow fuvor in ft horrible form, is niffintr ftt Memphis. Aid has boon asked. We tel. -graphed $1,000 yesterday, bj your prominent citizen., take up sub-seriptioms sub-seriptioms immetliately and telcjiniph me ttie amount as soon as possible. J xo. J. Valentine, General Agent. To Lhi call Salt Lake can afford to respond liberally. The cause is one that appeals to our common humanity, human-ity, and t ic demand that comes for help, in this hour of sore distress and terrible suffering, should meet with prompt and generous response. We earnestly recommend that some practical prac-tical steps be taken to-day, either to Eolicit subscriptions direct from those who can afford to donate for so charitable chari-table and humane a purpose, or to call a public meeting at which the matter may be fairly presented to our citizens. Who will first step forward to aid Mr. Wadsworth in the work ? |