The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-10-09
TELEGRAPHIC.


them dead. No cases originated here.
LITTLE Rock, October IA number OF
persons have arrived here who report
that the yellow fever is ragng alarmingly
at Marshall, Texas.
SHREvEPoRT, October The following
are the intements to-day: John Bertrand,
white, aged 80 years; Charles Horne, no
age; Rev. Father Gergadna, 80 years; Miss
Mccall, % years; Lieut.. E. A. Woodruff
Charles w. Lewis, IS years; Ed. Scbaffer,
16 years.
NEW ORLEANS, October 2.-The follow
ing were the interments at Shreveport to-
day: Johanna Thorn, aged IS years; John
Smith, q years; John Price, 80 years; Mary
Griffin; Annie Whitesell; B. Delaney; Mrs.
II. Mccall, 60 years; Lafayette Mitchell
(colored), 81 years; Matte Mundy, Is
months; Lee Blackstone, 10 years; Henry
Dreyfus, % years; Martha Riggin (colored),
% years Total 10; whites, 10; colored, 2.
NEW ORLEANS, October 3. -Shreveport
interments to-day, John d. Chillis, aged
IS; Charles Miller, aged 90; John 81.
Walker, aged 81; Charles Noel, aged AZ
E. Zal, aged &c; Emile Gersback, aged % ;
Mrs. Gill, aged %; John Vinson, aged "a
VIM. Dendy, aged 81; Thomas Hazard,
aged %; H. Williamson, aged II months
Willie Ward, aged IL months; ]. Curtis,
aged g.; Miss Lee Sims, aged IS; Geata Bat
talya, aged 81.
Twenty female nurses left for Memphis
this evening. They were sent by the How
ard Association in charge of Mr.. F. R.
SOuthmayd
NEW ORLEANS, October 4.-The follow
ing were the deaths at Shreveport to-day:
VIM. Falkner, aged IS years; Ed. Borlay,
aged So; Norman Brewer, aged 81: Samuel
Bergman, aged %; Leonard Zwell; E. P.
Oakley (colored), aged %; John Patterson,
aged so.
MEMPHIS, October 4.-Twenty-one deaths
from yellow fever yesterday.
Yesterday the Masons' and Odd Fellows
funds were exhausted, and they ask aid
from their brethren throughout the country.
NEW YORK, October "A dispatch from
the mayor OF Memphis says: SECT all
possible relief in money to relieve the sick,
pay nurses and bury tie dead. The fever
grows worse daily. Send immediate as
sistance.
CAIRO, October 4.-Tho mayor has quar-
antined the city against ascending steamers.
CHICAGO, October 4.-The Commercial
Board of Trade telegraphed $500 to the
Memphis sufferers. Further donations will
follow.
Bishop Whitehouse, diocease of Illinois,
has requested his clergy to make donations.
LOUISVILLE, October THE Board of
Trade raised $4,000 in few hours for the
Memphis and Shreveport sufferers.
The Masons raised $500 tonight. There
will be $1,000 to $500 more raised.
MEMPHIS, October Tho county court
appropriated $50, 900 for the relief of the
'city..
= MEMPHIS, October 1.-THE fever is de-
plorable, and is spreading with alarming
rapidity. Undertakes are crowded beyond
decent burial. Nineteen nurses arrived from
New Orleans Saturday. Twenty thousand
dollars has been subscribed by citizens for
sanitary purposes. The mortality of Sunday
was greater than any time since the fever
appeared. All that are able to leave are
doing so. Fifty interments yesterday
The Rev. Mr.. Bowen, Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church died of fever.
SHREVEPORT, October There were is
yellow fever interments yesterday.
st. LOUIS, October NEARLY $4,000, in
addition to that previously reported, has
been subscribed for the Memphis sufferers,
and an active committee is still working
The Odd Fellows and Masons also sent some
sums to be distributed by their brethren.
About $1,000 in money, clothing and pro-
visions have been sent to Shreveport.
NEW YORK, October THE Brooklyn
Police Commissioners have appointed in
spector John S. Holk, superintendent of
police.
One hundred and sixteen dollars has been
subscribed through the Hanover National
Bank in aid of Shreveport.
A committee of Memphis merchants met
in this city to-day and acknowledged the
receipt of 1864 additional subscriptions.
washington City.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-The following
are the awards by the Bntish-American
Commission: Crow & Wyhe, Florida,
$21, 600; James Cummings, Louisiana,
$40, 900; heirs of John Purvis, Mississippi,
$27, 900; John B. Harris, Mississippi,
$4,000; administrators of Joseph Syme,
Louisiana, $116, 900; w. B. Booth, Louisi-
ana, $11, 900; Benjamin Whitworth, Geor-
gia, $50, 600; Baird Jacobs, South Carolina,
$40, 600; Benjamin Thornton, Virginia,
$50, 600; John Haskins, Louisiana, sos, 900 ;
Thomas Angel, Texas, $45, 900; E. Mcleod,
Virginia, $24, 900.
Grant has gone to the fair
WAsHNGToN, October 2.-Geo. Grinnell,
Bird 6 Co. are cited to show cause why
bankrupts. The hearing to be October IL.
Grant has returned.
The Treasury payments for September
were as follows: civil and miscellaneous,
nearly So, 900, 900; war, over 81, 900, 900 ;
navy, 81, 500, 900; interior, over So, 900, 600.
Total $17, 500, 0O0
The New York club won the great boat
race easily.
WASHINGTON, October 6.-The President
has requested the Secretary to direct the
commissary to send ten thousand rations to
Memphis, Tennessee, to the yellow fever
sufferers.
A telegram has been received here from
the Howard Association at Shreveport, ex-
pressing gratitude for the action of the
government in sending ratiens for the suf-
ferers there.
WASHINGTON, October 6.-The Treasury
Department is paying persons who were en-
ployed in taking the United States census in
the Southern States in 1860, but were de-
prived of their money by the breaking out
of the rebellion. Over $67, 900 have al
ready been paid to such employees, in sums
ranging from $50 to 800.
Admiral Goldsborough has been placed
on the retired list.
Chas. Diversified, medical director Of the
United States Navy, is dead.
WASHINGTON, October 6.--Numerous in
quiries have been made from various quar-
tiers as to the United States and Mexican
Claims Commission. It car. be stated that
the new Mexican Commissioner is busily en-
gagged in examining claims which have been
argued. while Judge Wordsworth, American
Commissioner, is performing a similar duty
at his home IN Kentucky. The clerical
force Of the Commissioners are Arranging
various papers relating to the unadjusted
cases in order to an early formal resumption
Of business by the Commission. An umpire
has not yet been agreed upon, although the
names of several eminent gentlemen have
been suggested for shat purpose. It Is. re-
ported, however. that on the return Of
Judge Wadsworth selection win be made
without delay.
WAsHrSsroS, October THE United
States Senate transportation Committee
meets in New York on the sixteenth. Az
ter transacting business, they viii visit
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