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Show The Louisville Courier-Journal estimates the direct and indirect leases in moi-ey aud trade by the yellow fever plague, of the paat season at $200,000,000, and says not less than 14,000 people were Bwept away by the disease. These figures are probably very nearly correct, and they ought to sitggest an important ltsson that it will be criminal to neglect This country cannot endure raiDy such scourges and- continue to prcaper. " . Moat riiiid quarantine Iaws must bo enacted and enforced, and strict ordinances adopted as to public cleanliness. A 'few. ytare ago Savannah lost hundreds of Uvea ai,d millions of dollars from, tho yollow fever Biraply by a failure to warn two infected ships J'runi Cuba out of the .bailor. Negligence and carelessness are certain to bring their pains and penalties, and as eternal vigilance is tho price of liberty, so is it the safeguard flgainat such diseases as cholera and yellow fever. |