The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Montgomery (Ala. Board of Health
announce four deaths from yellow fever in
that city, Oct. 16.
A St. Joseph, No., special to the st.
Louis RepubEic Oct. 16, says: Informa-
ton has been received here that the Texas
cattle fever has broken out again with
great violence in Dayiess county, near the
Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad, and
that the greatest CONSERVATION exists
among farmers. Great losses are appre-
hended.
The Memphis Board of Health, on Oct
IL, expressed an opinion that the epidemic
in that city had taken more favorable
turn, there being fewer new cases reported
than on any previous day for long
while. The number of deaths from the
disease was thirty. Fathers Sheehy and
Leo had died, and Mayor johnson was
worse.
A yellow fever case was reported in Lit
tie Rock, Oct. II, which created great
alarm.
Snow to the depth of eight inches fell in
the western part of Wyoming, and in
Utah, Oct. IL. Union Patific trains were
several hours late, having been laid up by
orders on account of the severe storm.
The negroes formerly slaves in the In
dian Territory have held a convention, and
petitioned the government for equal rights
with the Indians in the Territory and for
a Territorial government. They claim to
number $1,000, and to raise eight-tenths of
the productions of the Territory.
The Board of Engineer Officers appoint
ed to examine the construction of the st.
Louis bridge have reported that the bridge
as at present designed will prove a very
serious obstruction to the navigation OF
the Mississippi River, and recommend that
a canal or open cut with draw be formed
behind the east abutment of the bridge,
giving clear width of water way of one
hundred and twenty feet.
The weather at Memphis on Oct. 10
was clear and cold, and there was decid-
ed falling off in the death-rate from yellow
fever. The mortuary report for the pre-
ceding twenty-four hours showed total
of seventeen deaths from the epidemic.
There were seven interments from yell
low fever deaths st Shreveport on Oct. 10.
A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 20 says:
The streets are crowded with vehicles
and the sidewalks thronged with pedes-
trians. There is now more activity in
business than for months past. The dis
ease is rapidly yielding. Mortuary report
twenty three yellow fever, seven other
causes; total, thirty. The approaching
cold weather causes much suffering among
those destitute of clothing and fuel.
Two ladies have received appointments
as clerks In the Department of Justice, at
Washington, being the first women ever
employed there.
A snow storm occurred throughout
Western New Y York, Oct. 20.
On Oct. 20 there were five deaths from
yellow fever reported at Columbus, Texas,
and one at Bryan. s=Reports rom Calvert
give very gloomy account of the con-
dition of affairs there, and earnest appeals
were being made for both nurses and
money. The disease had also spread to
the adjacent village of ofSterling.
A Washington special to the st. Louis
Democrat says that "a bill has been pre-
pared by Minnesota gentlemen for presen-
tation early in the coming session. provid-
ing for the United States guaranteeing the
interest on bonds of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. 1t is claimed by them that they
have secured the support of nearly the en-
tire Minnesota and Wisconsin delegations
in Congress. A draft of this bill was pre-
pared before the failure of Jay Cooke &
Co., and as long ago as July last, and par
ties engaged in the matter have spent the
greater part of the summer in perfecting