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Show THE CHEAT srOl'RtiE. A (ontinuttuce ol the Ulfuvy Ueulh Unlet. Frohpeets For au Abalvmeut Aio Better. Memphis, 16. The mortality, today, to-day, naa been greater than was an-ticipattd, an-ticipattd, 111 deaths being reported, 3G i.f which were colored. Yesterday there wore OS death, iustead of 90, a reported. The original furi-e td physicians has ln.cn df-pluii'd by rick-! neaa and death, but uew m quiitiunc art; iimde almost daily, Hit: lnie-.l hmt; Dr. McFarlau, an emiui-nl puy aicuni from Savannah. Dm. Emmet and Young, from thesamecity, will arrive to morrow. W. D. Brooks, river editor of the Appeal, ii convalescent. Tho Central hotel, ou Adams street, will be opened in the morning Ah an additional hospital lor Howard's physicians and nurses. Resident physicians reported 31 new cases to the board of health to-day. Twenty-one physicians of the How ard medical corpa report 136 uewi caeca to day. Dr. D. D. 8auoders isj improving, but Dr. John Erakine, health officer, is expected to die tonight. to-night. Robert Hammond, ol the state national bank, ia in a critical coudicion. Reports, to-night, show that the fever ia rapidly spreading in the suburbs and surrounding country. H. H. Halgrave, assistant superintendent superin-tendent at the Market Street infirm-? ary, has recovered tind resumed duties. Nashville, 16. R. S. Reed, aged 3 years, refugee with his parents from Hickman, Ky., died here early this morning with yellow fever. Fifty onei Memphis Catholic orphans reached! here to-night, and were provided for a mile out of the city. New Orleans, 1G, From noon till 6 p.m. 24 deaths and 134 new cases are reported. The mortuary report re-port for the week ending 6 p.m., Sunday: Total deaths, 703 of which are 632 males, 71 females; 261 children under 10 yearB of age. Of the total deaths 501 were from yellow fever; 472 were whites and 29 colored. New Orleans, 16. Fever has again appeared at Bayou dos Alamandes. Dr. Goodfieder leaves for that place to-morrow. John K. Irwin, iormcrly of the Memphis Press, recently on the Times, died yesterday of yellow fever. He remained in Memphis through the epidemic of 1873. Caving Olmstead, aged 27," a native of New York, who returned on Saturday eveuing from Holly Springe, where bo had worked by days and nighta as clerk fjr Howards, entirely broken down, died on Monday at 4 p.m. He leaves a wife and two children. Chas. McCoy, was married on Thursday; was taken Bick on Friday, died on Sunday, and was buried on Monday. The association, to-day, filled 3,655 requisitions, equal to 25,585 rations, Vicksburg, 16. Clear and warm. Thermometer 9; 23 deaths to day Among the most prominent are Mrs. D. A. Cully, wife of D. A. Cully, merchant, mer-chant, who died lust week, and Col. W. D. Edington. Eighty-five new cases are reported to-day, principally colored. Vicksburg to her generous friends throughout the country sends greeting: greet-ing: The distress of the south naa . only been equalled by the generosity ol our friends in the north. The responses re-sponses to our appeals have been so generously mot that -we think the aid already recsived will carry us through to the end of our troubles, and that the public charity of our country may not be imposed upon, we request that all future subscriptions for our relief be held subjeot to future calls, of which notice will be given wheu required. re-quired. Wm. Rockwood, President Howard Association Reports from Greenville give Ibe total uf deaths to date t 133. Holly Springs, 16. This has been a bright, warm and beautiful day. Doctors bring in more cheerlul reports re-ports aa to tbe number convalescent. Havo promise of a complete list to morrow and daily thereafter which will be telegraphed. Three deaths reported and 11 new cases. Aflaira at Grand Junction reported to he in a deplorable state, and there ia much distress and no organization. Grenada, 16. Four new cases and 6 deaths during tbe last twenty-four nourrt Tho postmaater general to d y directed J. H. Campbell of this city to assume charge of the post-office post-office Considering the fact that be has bad tbo lever wo indulge in tbe hope that the mails will he regularly distributed thereafter. Weather is several degrees warmer to day. |