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ONE WAY OF TREATING PATIENTS.

ST. LOUIS PHYSICIANS MODE OF TREATMENT.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-The following mode OF treat
ing yellow fever is furnished to the Associated
Press agent by physician of considerable reputa-
ton and large practice in this city, and 1t is said
that it be faithfully carried out it will reduce the
mortality list fully three-fourths:
Put the patent on a cool, hard bed, In q welghted
and well-yentiated room. Keep the head constantly
cool by repeated spODgnRH with water from 400 TO 800
Fahrenheit Keep the feet constantly warm by bottles
OF hot water. As as nausea begins relieve II by
cOpiOus draughts OF hot water This must DO repeated
Whenever the nausea is distressing. thick towel
folded and wet in cold water laid the stomach,
will also give relief. Evacuate the bowels
by full Injections daily Of tepid water until the fever
abateR, using fountain syringe whenever one DO
obtained loose crash towel should be doubled in
patient cOnvacsceBt Cool down the body as the
normal heat possible by repeated epongings with
tepd water When fever Is highest apply the pour bath
10 the head fOlOws Place the patient the bed
hIs head over tho head OF It, face downward;
put a tub beneath. and pour cold water, say
heod from the crown forward. Continue this
from twenty thirty minutes, until the temperature
is lowered Give this bath two or three times day or
as often the fever requires As soon as the fever
abates and the crisis over, stop all heroic treatment
and Let the patient rest Give medicine or stimnnnts
of any Kind and drinks except water lemon
ado without sugar. The patient should eat nothing
corn meal and little salt Lemon Juice IN water should
be used freely during the fever. After the patient
is cOnValescent no sparlngy OF the planest
food as ttle bread and fruit This treatment be
carried out BY any without tine aid OF DOCTOR and
IN this regard IL specially adapted TO poor people VINO
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4 WILD STEER IN TIE STREETS.
SUNDAY CROWDS DISPERSED BY THE FURIOUS AMI
MALONE MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.

SUNDAY CROWDS DISPERSED BY THE FURIOUS AMI
MALONE MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A Texan steer broke out yesterday afternoon
from slaughter-house at FOrty-seventh-st and First
ave. and roamed about the streets Of the Nineteenth
and Twenty first Wards for half hour more, ere
ating great confusion but dong little damage First
ave. was packed with Sunday promenaders when the
steer came sweeping like whrlwnd, scattering peo-
pie right and left and ungng fuousy at whatever came
I'm its way number OF people fell or were knocked
down in their hurry to clear the street. None were in
iured however until the animal reached Thirty
Here owen Dcvlin. young living in the neighbour
hood was too slow In his movements The steer caugh
him on his horns tossing him in the air like rubber
ball threw HIM half way across the street. Deylin
was picked up and brought to the Bellevue
HOSPITAL suffering from painful, lacerated wounds
ia the lower part Of the body More than thousand
excited men and by this time pursuing the
steer which turned upon the crowd and charged down
the avenue At Thiry-sxth-st IL came suddenly upon
Sergeant Rooney OF the Seventh Precinct The Sergeant
was on his way homo and little prepared
for the sudden onslaught OF the enraged
animal and before he could realize his danger
was Knocked down. phe steer trampled upon
the PROSTATE and pOughed the pavement with MS
horns in vain endeavor 10 gore him. The sergeant
however was quickly his feet and as the steer made
second dash &c hun empted the chambers Of his revolver
into his head and body. The brute suddenly ceased
prancing and fell dead to the pavement. The DJures
OF the sergeant were slight consisting mainly IN slight
bruises on the shoulders.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Sept l, 1878
Tho Attoruey.G .neral decides that cadets at West
Point are not enlisted men within the meaning OF the
act Of June l5, 1873.
About srty-nye clerks have been discharged from the
Land Office In most cases, the persons dismissed VIII
receive the news at their homes
The representatives OF the United States at the None
tarv Conference will shortly return from Paris They
viii prepare an exhaustive report Of their laDors ior
submssion to the Secretary OF btate.
One of the counsel for the Pacific Railroad land cases
sated last night that he had doubt but that the sec
teTv OF the Interior would bold his decision In the
nndanott case hut that the decision would not stand In
conrt Ia IA understood that the secretary VIII Issue MS
fna deciaon Tuesday.
Mr. W. W. Cotcoran, tho president OF the commission
10 complete the Washington Monument has ealed or
stine OF the commissioners on the 26th inst. At this
eetipg the selection Of plan for completing the monu
Tnent will be the business as nothing can DC uoho
BY the engineers until plan Ia declaed upOh'
recent dispatch received at the Department OF state
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-02
4 GERMAN CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER.

A thousand German Catholic men held q
massmeetng in Cooper Institute last evening to express
their approval of an effort making in this city to es
tablish on a secure basis German Roman Catholic
weekly newspaper. The call for 1t was issued by the
fortytwo Roman Catholic societies OF this city,
There were present upon the platform among others tho
Row Fathers Iamech wirth Kuhn, Grimm Alderman
Waebuer Francis V. Euhring, Jacob schoenenberger,
Francis Ochs, A. schwenninger and Herman
Ridder The meeting was called to order
by Jacob ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Francis Ochs presided, and
s1oke briefly upon taking the chair. An address was
made by the Rev A. Schwenniger pastor OF the Church
of the Assumption FOrty-nnth-st, and series OF
resolutions were adopted declaring that the influence OF
tbe press in religion and politics was unryaled that
The German Roman Catholics in this city could longer
AFFORD 10 be without organ to express their peculiar
views both political aud religious; that the weekly
publication OF RdhOlische VOisbtau was hailed with
low and that IL should receive the hearty support Oh all
the German Catholics in Nev-IOrk.
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TILE JAPANESE EMPIRE.

YOKOHAMA, July 31.-Intelligence was re-
eeyed here on the 10Th OF July the signing Of the new
treaty at Washington, July "a, between the United
states aud Japan The information Is kept secret Tor
the present by the government.
The domestic loan put on the market last May, for
1000 was fully subscribed for by the middle OK
July This was the first attempt OF Japan to negotiate
home loan and it much derdod By English capital
sts who intrigued to the loan in their country
There is considerable agitation in diplomatic circles
on account OF the action Of the British Minister
respecting quarantine in consequence OF slight
visitation Of cholera last year. The japanese
Government arranged for full precautions ana
proposed to introduce necessary quarantine. ~
settled the matter by peremptory refusal 70 ADMIT ne
Rritish Minister'S claim participate IN framing the
resolutions bitter quarrel was raised by the Brtsn
Envoy but the japanese Government was hrm on TINS
occasion The quarantine rules win be ready for pro-
mitigation next month. ,,. ~, ,,,..
TIE infant heir 20 the throne Prince Take-N0Miya.
was crowned with imposing ceremonies Oh tue "a OF
August. -. r....o.. -.
chants and bankers has been established at Toxic.
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cradle excitement. Many persons are leaving the
city, Superintendent David Flanery, of the West
ern Union Company, has gone to Grenada to reopen
teleQaphic communication. Three operators there
are down with fever.
TWENTY NEW CASES IN CANTON.
NEw-0MEANs, Sept. IA dispatch to the How
ard Association from Canton, Miss, says:
Twenty new cases in the last twelve hours Send six
cOiored nurses, If possible, and five white.
Ten nurses were sent to-day.
GRENADA's NEEDS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. IA dispatch from
Grenada, Miss, says:
Grenada is without a relief committee and is solely IN
the hands of the Howard Association to whom all sup
plies and moneys shOnd be sent We need no more dOc
tors but want nurses. Send all supplies ana
moneys by express the Howard Association at Gren'
ada, Miss. Can't checks, drafts or pOstoce Oruers'
We need supplies more than money.
THE PEOPLE OF GREENVILLE PANlC-sTRICKBN'
VICKsBURG, Sept. 1.-The yellow fever has ap-
peared at Greenville Miss. Two deaths are re-
ported. The people are panlc-strcken and lying
from the town. Twenty cases are reported.
THE MORTALITY AT PORT GIBSON.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 1.-The following telegram
was received yesterday from Port Gibson, Miss, by
the Howard Association
Send ten good nurses five male and five female Three
hundred and fifty FOrty-eght deaths All broken
down. Great distress.
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CLOSE OF THE VACATTOM.
FAMILIES RETURNING FROM THE COUNTRY TO THEIR
CITY HoMEs-THE SCHOOLS TO OPEN TODAY.

FAMILIES RETURNING FROM THE COUNTRY To THEIR
CITY HOMEs-THE SCHOOLS TO OPEN TODAY
The trains which arrived at the various rail-
road stations Saturday night and Sunday morning
packed with people returning TO the city from their
Summer recreatiOns 1t specially noticeable that
nearly every group contained children, whose return
from rural delights had been fastened by che opening or
school to-day The at the stations were
animated. As the unusually long trains OF cars
rolled in and came to halt there was
rush Of the hundreds Of passengers, attended by
the usual confusion Of separated families forgotten
delayed parcels, and the desire OF all to secure
baggage at the same time The streets surrounding the
Grand Central Depot, on Saturday night, were nned
with private equipages. Nurses rushed franticaIy
about with lapdog on one arm and an infant OIL
the other in search OF their employers from whom they
had become separatedlby tho hrOng Expressmen were
besieged by scores of hands holding trunk checks the
of which all beseeching TO he waited on
first and for time the depot police were powerless to
preserve order. All night and far into the
small hours OF the morning express wagons
with huge piles Of trunks were rolling along
the streets Of this city and Brooklyn,
and 1t was stated &C the ece OF DOdds Express Com
pany that their kept at work all Saturday
night and Sunday morning delivering baggage. the
boats Of the Brooklyn Annex Company were filed on
each trip by Brooklyn families who had been absent dur
ing the Summer
Along Fifth, Lexington, and MadlsonaVes ana INC
contiguous streets Yesterday there evidences OF
activity aud life aud houses which for smOnths have
been closed were thrown open to let the sunlight and
air again into rooms from which they had been long
excluded There were arrivals of Western trains last
evening and the wOnted Sunday quiet peryaded railroad
depoa With the arrival Of trains to-day still heavier
rush of Summer tourists is expected to meet which an
extra force OF exprcssmen has been engaged.
The steamships from European ports which are ex'
Dected to arrive during the present week reported as
having unusually large number OF passengers, most
or whom Americans.
Many of the city churches reOpened yesterday,
after being closed during the Summer vacation Trinity
Church has been kept open every Sunday during the
Summer as Offset TO the closing of Grace Church and
st. Thomas's Church. The Rev. Walter Williams, sue
the venerable Dr. Tying began his pastoral du
ties yesterday The Rev. r. s. Hatfield OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the Rev. A. G. Wedekind OF the
Lutheran Church. returned to their respective charges
fresh from European tours = -
The public schools OF this city will reopen for the Fall
and Winter this morning, most OF them having
been renovated and refurnished during the summer
months Arrangements have been made for the reeep,
ton of the army OF scholars which last year nunDereu
about 100000.
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GRIMES AND cAsUALTIEs-BY TELEGRAPH.

PoUGHKERPsIE, n. Y. Sept. Fired. Gardiner,
Ian Tuth and Thomas Hamilton were badly injured yes:
fsT,iSy nv a premature blast while digging well.
WuKesBARRE Penn, Sept. 1.--SeVen men were
nrsred Yesterday by explosion OF black damp IN the
new tunnel OF the Stanton niue one OF inc men, William
Dougherty, could not be resdscitated
PoTTsvILLE, Penn. Sept, LIN collision yester.
between coal trains near Locust Cap FRANK MuEan and
petsr Cbonpv were instantly killed. and the engineer was
sshty wounded. Thirtyhve coal caY were demolished
LARAMIE CITY, wy, Sept. 1.-William Enrght,
- 80 from the Penentary Friday, aftor serving
0ne.ycar for burglary was shot and Instantly killed
while resisting officer WHO was trying 70 arrest MN Ior
drunk, naegs
BrFFAIo. n. Y, Sept. las the steamer Alaska
was leaving her yesterday T. H. w Wall in attempting
10 get aboard the gAngpank and struck his head
sganst the dock He received injuries which resulted IN
death said that he was member oil the MISSISSIPPI
Legislature.
PORTLAND, Me-. Sept. 1.-The schooner Volant,
from this port HarbOrve N g. has returned In tow OF
lie ehooner having been run Into az 10 D. n
THURSDAY last on seggn by large threemasted sehto1er
name unknown Voant Osther malnnast malnsals ana
Suwarks both sdeA The captain was knocked oVefOrd
and drowned
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PROTECTING GOVERNMENT LANDS.
RIGID EMO ncEMENT OF THE LAW REGARDING
THE DESTRUCTION OF TIMBER.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUYE.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. by direction of
the Secretary OF the Interior, and in response TO
many letters from officials and others, the Commits
sioner OF the General Land Office prepared and will
shortly circular regarding trespasses upon Gov
eminent timber lands. The circular contains
O review OF the acts OF Congress providing
for the sale OF timber lands in the States
OF California, Oregon. Nevada, and Washington
Territory and authorizing the citizens Of Nevada, Col
Orado and the Territories TO cut timber the public
domain for mining and domestic purposes and says that
the penalties provided in these acts will hereafter be
enforced In all where timber is cut for export
wanOnly destroyed The circular then continues:
Frst-Section 24G1 Revised Statutes, Is st in force
I'm all OF the states ana Territories named IN the DILL ana
its provisions he enforced heretofore against per-
fact mineral or have been withdrawn rs such, and in
all where rcspasses committed upon the tn-
Der upon pablo lands which not mineral, the Tres
passcrs will be prosecuted under said section.
SeeOnd-t shall be unlawful for any person 10 cut or
remove, or be cut removed from any OF the
mineral lands OF the United States any timber or under
growth of any kind whatsoever less than four inches in
diameter, aud auy person offending shall be liable 10
be fined IN compliance with the provisions OF the tnrd
section OF said act IN any sum not exceeding SoOO 10
which be eded imprisonment for any term not eA-
cecding six months.
Directions aregyen to the agents OF the Land Oce to
make periodical examinations 81 the lands In their dis
trcts aud report to the Commissioner all instances Of
violation Of the law together with the names OF wit,
nessos in order that proceedings may be Instituted
against the deprcdators.
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THE PARIS EXHIBITION PRIZES.


Much dissatisfaction is expressed by exhibit
ors because the list OF awards will not be announced
officially until October o. 1t is understood, however,
that exhibitors will be informed informally Of the
awards All the lists obtained thus far are partial and
unofficial there be little doubt Of the accuracy
of those that been heretofore teegraphed in these
dispatches The grand prizes obtained by United States
exhibitors are for McCormies reaper, Edson's tele1
Dhone Gray's telephone, Wheeler a. Wilson's sewing
machines. WheelOcks steam engine, ana Ilnanys silver
work Among the exhibits for which gold medals are
known to have bestowed the foloYing: DOdds
hOrserake Russell Erwins hardware, Wniteleys
champion harvester BurPs shoes Deeres plough Gales
DcksOns pencils Peases oils, ThurDers cotton seed OIL,
WhartOn's Nickel Fairbankss scales. Howe's scales,
Philadelphia and Reading COmpanys coal, and Mason
4 Hnrnlins nrrnnA
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THE sURGEON-GENERAL's REPORT.

OFFICIAL SANITARY REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDED
AUGUST 80.
WAsHINGToN, Sept. 1.-The following is sum
mary of the sanitary report made by Surgeon-Gen-
eral Woodwork, of the Marine Hospital Service,
for the week ended at noon August 30:
NFw-ORLEANs-For the week, 1.2O4 cases OF yellow
fever and 1873 Deaths total 2s77 cases and s67 deaths
VICKsBURG.-FOr the week. 1l6 deaths from yellow
fSer S d sHaS5r Toa s deaBs II s esmated
that 500 have occurred TO date august ~ eve
week. and 50 in the twenty-iour hours ended August
20 evening. DR.. Booth, in charge OF the Marine Hos
pMfniHIs-72i cases and 24I deaths for the week
woRGtS CRY, La.-one refugee died August % /;
seven cases and deaths have since been reported
BAY ST. LOUIS. MIss-One death on August lo =,
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss-Three cases August 10 No
deaths during week.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Mss-seven cases and two deaths 10
August 80, evening" all refugees. Good heaiA 10 city
and United States military camp
LRIGHToN Ala.-A Memphis refugee died August 81.
ST LOUu.-Eight during the week and two
there were six new and DEATH besides twenty
doubtful admitted during the fortyeight hours
CAIRO, nl-A river boatman from Memphis died Au-
gust "a.
been attacked with yellow fever after arrival in Louis
vile, four Of whom have died ,.. ,..,,.-
CINCISSATI.-Nine cases-hye from steamboat Golden
Rule-and four deaths.
PITrsBuRG, Penn-A dcck-hand on the steamhaJ John
A. Porter arrived August 20 and died next DAY Of yell
low fever.
PHLADELPHA.-TwO OF probable yellow fever
occurred August a. the persons having arriy from
VIcksburg a few days previously
KEY WEST, Fa.-NO trustworthy information.
Grenada Canton ana Port Gibson, Miss, no official re-
ports.
PoRr EADs. La.-No official reports
FEYERs II FoREIGN CITIES,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. deaths from yellow fever and
six from smallpox during the week ended August 20.
CLIFTON, Eng.-A outbreak OF typhoid fever has
been reported
TRIESTE, Austria.-Some OF the plague have oc-
Cured at Trieste. Advices toAugust II.
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SEPARATING AT NEW-ORLEANs.

TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY NEW CASES AND EIGHTY
EIGHT DEATHs YESTERDAY.
NEw-ORLRANs, Sept. 1.-Yesterdays yellow fever
renorts showed 234 new cases and seventy-hye
deaths including twenty children under seven
wears of age Two hundred and sixty new cases
and lightweight deaths were reported to-day. Total
number of cases up to noon to-day 1871 total
number of deaths, 1,OO3. The weather was cloudy
and warm to-day, with light shower IN the after
noon.
Two hundred and fifty-three applications for re-
lief were made to the Howard Association to-day.
The members of the visiting committee report gen
oral spread of the fever and state that they find 1t
encroaching upon localities heretofore measurably
exempt Mr.. G. E. Whitney, one of the committee
rcnored twenty-three cases in his district and re-
lated an instance that occurred at the
corner of Race and st. Thomas-sts., in the upper
mart of the First District which to show the
rapid spread of the yellow fever in that locality
As he approached this corner be saw six or eight
children standing there They appeared to recognize
him as one Of the Howard men, and each appealed to
him TO 90 with them to their respective homes to
see the SICK He went first to the nearest house
noiuted ont followed by the little ones then 20 the
next the procession getting one less at each house
until every appeal had been answered.
Though the present situation Is SAD, the geneTal
impression seems to be that the worst has not yet
come. The Ancient Order of Hibermans makes an
the Union for assistance. They state yellow
fever is thinning their ranks. The distress is plttu
and their resources exhausted. The Lusltanlan
Portuegse Benevolent Association and the German
Benevolent Association have each made similar APP
peals to their respective organizations throughout
no IA assistance.
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contributions i'm THIS CITY.

THE SUBSCRIPTIONS srILL CONTINUE LARGE-LIsIo
OF THE AMOUNTS RECEIVED SATURDAY.
The contributions to the yellow fever fund
through the Southern Relief Committee Of the Chamber
OF Commerce still continue large and rs many OF New
Yorks capitalists been out Of town the past week.
larger contributions arc anticipated this week. and 1t Is
supposed they will reach 10000 before its close The
contributions on Saturday amounted 10 1882 o6wheh
swels the aggregate to Sal 67l ~ The Produce Cot
ton Mining and Stock Exchanges also continue to add
to their already large subscription lists or the sub
scriptious through the Chamber Of Commerce Com
mittes on Saturday, $1,000 from J. 8. Morgan
& Co.. OF London; 81 053 II from the employees Of the
New-York Post oe!ce and s434 10 from The Mining
Exchange Postmaster James suggests In HIS letter In
dorsng the Post Office contribution While the relief
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from the Hon. Bayard Taylor the American Minister at
Berlin says that in of the prevailing political ag
tatiOn IN Germany and the Increased tendency 2 re-
pressve measures on the part OF the Government 1t
would be well IL naturalized citizens contemplating Wis
its TO their former homes, officially advised that
many possible annOyances may be avoided by declaring
the probable term OF their stay to the local Gefuan
authorities on arriving; and by abstaning from ilr-
tating political discussions; and By quickly Ooeyng
such municipal laws and regulations apply TO tempo
rary az well as permanent residents.
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CHANGING THE ARMY REGULATIONS.
SENATE COMMITTEE FAvoRs THE sCHoFIELD
REGULATIONS"
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON. Sept. IA subcommittee of the
Senate Military Committee, consisting of Senators
Spencer and Maxey, is in session here, engaged in
preparing new regulations for the government of
the army, which viii be reported to Congress
at the next session. The committee is examin-
ing and will probably adopt as It's report the
regulations prepared by Generals Sherman and Scho
field and Colonel TOurtellOtte. of Shermans staff in
1876 and known to the army as the "SchOfed
regulations" The existing regulations for the
army were adopted by board IN 1861 and revised
in 1863 and, account of subsequent legislation.
are now almost wholly obsolete.
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RELIEF NOTES.

CHEYENNE, Wy. T., Sept. lone hundred
and seventy dollars sent to Memphis yesterday by
the Quartermaster and the employees at Camp CARING,
and 500 by the other officers at the post,
for the benefit OF the fever sufferers
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn Sept. III. b. Morris, NJ. D., OF
this city, left Vicksburg yesterday accompanied by
fifteen experienced nurses.
NEw-ORLEASs Sept. 1.-The Telegraphers' Relief As
ISOLATION here have 800 to the sick telegaphers
OF Grenada.