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Show YELLOW FEVEK REPORTS. A Ill-petition ol tlie Ooleful Tales. San Francisco, 5. A Mrs. Hare and f.imily, from Memphis, August 10th. are quarantined on the Central Pacific railroad near Verde. The eldest daughter died on the train yesterday, supposed of yellow fever. Collectioca by tb.9 citizens, commit , tee for the south are 88,600. Tulare county has given $320 and Winue-mucca, Winue-mucca, Nevada, $210. Baton Rouge, 5. Yellow fever 1 oates to date are 163 death, 15 convalescent con-valescent aud under treatmeat, 145. Taken sick during the last twelve hours, 16. Dr. Dupress slates that many cases are bo mild in character that physicians havn declined to report them as yellow fever. ' Grenada, Mba., 5. The situation situa-tion here is heartbrending. Eight deaths to day, four males and four females. Dr. Ringgold, Dr. D. W. Coon, manager of tre Howard's, and adaughter of Reverend W. McCrakin, were attacked by fever to-day. Abonnt 12 cases have been developed in tbe last twenty-four hours. Mrs. B. P. Anderson, widow of Colonel Anderson, is stricken with fever at Hernando. There no longer remains a house in Grenada that has not been viBtted by the destroyer. Canton, Mies., 5, Total yellow fever cases to date, 151; total deaths, 31. Weather cloudy some rain. Sixteen new cases and 6 deaths in the last 24 hours. A dispatch from F. G. Thomas asks that colored nurses or persons willing to nurse negroes be sent to Canton immediately. He also asks for five additional white nurses. There are over 100 casea now under treatment treat-ment at this place. Memphis, 5. The undertakers report re-port 48 yellow fever interments, up to noon to day. County Undertaker Walsh reports a falling off in the i number of applications for the burial of paupers. A. J. Wheeler, secretary of the Masonic reliof board is sick and Brother Amandus-of the Franciscan convent is doad. Holly Springs, 5. Four died last night, There are five or six new cases. Our physicians are broken down and three are Bick with fever. Tbe telegraph operator left his poBt yesterday afternoon. Despatches sont to the presa by me have somehow some-how failed to get off. Tbe operator had a great deal to do, but he might have Btayed one more day. We plead with him to do so, but in vain. L. W. Holland, Now Orleans, 5. The death list includes 33 minors, 22 bemg children under 7 yeara of age. Mrs. Labour-dean Labour-dean and Mrs. Kelly, the nurses who so faithfully oischarged their duty nt Port EadB and throughout the city, leave for Holly Springs thia evening. In response to appeals from that city, fifteen nurses and one physican were sent to Holly Springa yesterday by Howards. The steamboat men make urgent appeal to their brethren for help. Homeopaths issue a similar request. The Howards sent Dr. Gowrer, Mr. Hammond, compounder, and eight nurses to Holly Sprints thia afternoon after-noon by the Jackson railroad. They will send twelve male and eight female nurses to Greenville to-morrow. There ia no conveyance to day. |