, 1873-10-17
A Marked Improvement in Tho Condi.
tion Of Memphis. ..Twcnty.Six
Deaths Yesterday.
Montgomery, Ala, and Calvert,
Texas, Suffering from the
Prevailing soourge.
A Touching Acknowledgment Of tho
Generosity Of tho North
crn People.

Special Dfspafch to Tho Chicago Tribune.
4 DFonEAAE IN TIE NUMBER or pEATuB.
MEMPHIS, Tonu., Oct. 1O.-The day and night
woro vory Bultry. There was slight rain today.
Few new caaos were reported, and tho doathB
have deoroasod IL. p .
SUDDEN INSANITY OF A NuREE.
4 nurse IN Charge of two sick policemen had
an inBano attaox Inst night. eho was arrested,
after much trouble, md confined In tho asylum,
whore sho has boen takon with tho yollow foyor
to-day.
THE RELIEF SOCIETIES
report tho sick as doing well.
DALE OF COTTON
contributed by Crood Taylor, Of New GaHcony,
Ark, to tho orphans Of this city, waB sold ut
auction to-dny In front Of tho Citizons' Commit
tee rooms. 1t WAS bought by Afr. Thaddeus Ely,
Eoproscuting pool composed Of Ely, Harry i
Richardson, Lcdy l. Co.. pdothers. It brought
$1,000, and was devoted to tho same canso by
tho purchasers. a1r. John 4. spood,
Of D; A. Clarke 4 Co., got up Q pool. Col.
n an the Gxtts oge Of Tho
Tho Union Star Liue made tho Batno PROPOSE
tiou. The cotton was shipped to st. Louis on
the noon train.
THE BOARD or HEALTH
hnvo made tho following mortuary report for the
twenty-four hours ending at o'clock this egon-
Rosalie Weber; es; B. n. hovy, g. !, Mary cas.
Ellen Griffin, + Ellon full, o; 3. Brown, 20
Mrs. N. z. Little, 90 ; J. McCann, "a; Thomas
4 Kolly, 8; Richard Paine, g.; Marin Clements.
Hayden, colored, 24 Jos Klatz, IS, yellow
fever; 4. W. Wagner, 80; Elizabeth Il. Muck
Gilmore, colored, 35. Total 81 ! yollow foyer,
2G !; other diseases, II.
known at noon M to the progress Of the tisenBo,
but tho impression is TINT there aro fow new
casos.
Up to noon, the mortuary report shows 10
deaths from the yellow fever nnd "a from osher
causeB-total, 81.
1EsEr1r COTTON BALES.
The cotton-bale TINT was shipped to tho prosi
dent Of tho St. Louis Merchants Exchange, with
orders to sell 1t for the benefit Of tho Memphis
sutforors, aud slip to other points for the same
purpose, brought a little loss than $3.50 per
1iest bidder.
Tic balo Of cotton donated by Richard Taylor,
of Walaut Bend. Ark:,. to tho Dominican Sisters
of Memphis, sold this morning and brought
2l.5oo. Mr. Ely, Of Ely = Co., cotton mer-
chants, purchased It. A. E. Frank, land auc-
tio1lccr, was tho seller. It is rnmored that Nr.
Commerce, to be sold again for tho benefit Of
tho Memphis sufferers.
ANOTHER PROMINENT v1uT1a1.
Jacob Brust. O respected Heruau and PrcBi-
dent Of the German Benevolent Association, died
last night OF yolow fever.
THE NEEDY onrHANg.
President Lcath, Of tho Orphan Asylum, makes
an appeal AZ follows:
Tile Orphan Asylum, under tho caro- Of
the Association Of tho Protestant churches
Of this city, requests donations Of aid
IN providing for the orphans duly placed in
rs care. Tho institution has recently lost
several Of its most valued frienda by tho pro-
valllng scourge, and the funds which hayo been
otherwise donated have boon absorbed by over
whelm,ng nocossities, nomittancoa ean bo made
to Jyrns johnson, President, care Of J. @. john
eoh j. Go.
CLOSED ur.
Lowonstein Bros large wholesale dry goods
house closed this a. rn., till tho fever abates.
MonTUARy REPORT.
Yellow fever deaths 26 other causes, II. To-
tai 37,-a falling OF Of IL in yellow fevor deaths
from yesterday. Weather very warm aud cloar
at 10 p. N. Very few now oasas.
TuE MEMPHIS DEATu-Ro1L ur TO DATE.
The following table shows tho deatha Ill htom-
pllis from all cauHcs, from tho 18th Of Soptom-
her, tho day when the presence Of yollow fever
was announced, up to and inclusive Of Oct. 13
Other