Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-16
NEW YORK.
The City Aiming against the Cholera.
II New Cases Develop in Quarantine.
In Bad Company.

In Bad Company.
! New YORK, Nov. 15.-The Herald saws
Butler, Schurz, Blaine and Conkling have
| been holding a secret consultation at the
| Fifth Avenue Hotel this week.
ChOIera-II New Cases-BeIknap Gem
sured.
Six new cases of cholera are reported at
/ quarantine, including the steamship Frank
lin, two of which were fatal.
! Commenting on the case of the steamship
! Franklin, the Sanitary Committee of the
] Board Of Health to-day made a report on
| cholera, reiterating their former recOmmen-
! datiOns to the authorities and citizens, and
asking thorough eXactiOn of precautionary
| measures. They say the streets are still in
| a dangerous state. of uncleanliness, and d.
/ recting the Sanitary Inspectors to institute
| the proper measures of relief. The Secre-
! tary Of War is condemned for his refusal to
| require returns to be made to the Board of
| contagious and infections diseases among
| the troops at ports within the city limits,
! and to enforce the needful sanitary Ordi-
nances and regulations.
Eighteen Assistant Inspectors were APP
pointed to attend to vaccination in view of
| the increase of smallpox.
There were eleven new cases of cholera
to-day among the Franklin's passengers.
The hospital ship Delaware has gone to the
lower bay.
Labor Association.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Labor Association have arranged to
hold their next meeting on Dec. 6, at
Washington, d. c. The most important
business will be the settlement of the ques-
ton Of tax on tobacco.
Brooklyn.
The Board of Canvassers of Brooklyn re-
port only two Democrats elected on the city
ticket, Mayor Powell and Treasurer
Sprague. The Republicans have all the
rest of the offices. About one hundred en-
plOyees of the Brooklyn water board were
discharged to-day.
COaImine Communists.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: 1t is
rumOred that an organized band of incen-
diaries boast that they will lay the city in
ashes during the winter.
A MurderOus Depot.
The City Sanitary Inspector submitted to
the Board of Health a report stating that
seven persons have been killed in the past
twelve days by cars entering the new Union
depot, Forty street, and denouncing
INC uCpOJ d udLSSlOtlo " lllCs anu
that the company be compelled to sink the
tracks ten or twelve feet below the road
way, or place gates at all street crossings.
The matter was referred to counsel.
Ex-MatrimOniaI Troubles.
Jas. Fisk, Jr., President of the Erie Rail
road, learning to-day that a warrant was
out for his arrest on a charge of libel, the
complainant being Miss Helen Josephine
Mansfield, surrendered himself in the York
vile Police Court this afternoon. Miss
Mansfield charges that Fisk suborned a col
! ored boy named Heng, formerly in her en-
ploy, to swear to an affidavit charging her
and Edward S. Stokes and a Mrs. Williams
with conspiracy to blackmal him bv threat
ening to publish statements regarding the
management of the Erie road, and also cir
culated the affidavit. Maggie ]. Ward, a
servant in the employ of Miss Mansfield, in
| an affidavit, swore that Fish offered her in
| ducements to swear false affidavits for him.
He was placed under $1,000 bond to an
| swer.
Grimes and Casualties.
A car driver named Fish shot himself and
then jumped from the roof of mouse in
| Hicks street, Brooklyn, this morning. He
/ died a few minutes after.
Last evening locomotive engine on the
! BoontOn Railroad, at Boonton, n. j.,
| jumped the track, near Montyille, and
turned over, killing Christopher Hendricks,
the engineer.