Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-15

pressing needs OF that portion OF
our beloved country suffering from
the present scourge. Its abatement
Is not yet. When 1t subsidies or is
over we have only to excite your
further sympathies by calling your
attention to the fatherless and
motherless children left destitute,
and to the condition of thousands
Of men and women dependent who
are ready and willing to work for
their daily breBd, but who are de-
prived of all opportunity to do SO
until frost comes to remove the ep-
idemic and revive the course OF
trade and commerce. We appeal
to our people everywhere 10 and to
or double what they have given to
provide for the imperative needs of
the plague stricken citizens Of the
South. We rely on the Chambers
and Boards of Trade in the West
to open depots for provisions.
The Catholic Reviea0 announces
that Cardinal McClosky has writ
ten letter ordering collections IN
all the churches. Of his diocese on
Sunday, Sept. 22d, for the sufferers
by the yellow fever plague. The
Carninal exhorts the Catholics to
unite in offering up fervent prayers
to God that He, in his great mercy,
may be pleased to deliver his af-
| flicted people from the scourge un-
der which they are now suffering
and arrest its desolating progress.
The Chamber of Commerce to-
day sent $4,000 to the Memphis
Howard Association, $1,000 TO the
Memphis Citizens Relief Associa-
tion, $1,000 to the Roman Catho.
lies of Memphis, $500 to the He.
brew Benevolent Society of Mem
phis and $500 to the Sisters OF st.
Mary at Memphis. Nine thousand
dollars were also sent to New Or
leans.
wife Murder sad saieids.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14th.-Johr
Bendrickson, Of Babylon, Long Is
land, probably fatally shot his wifi.
and niece yesterday and killed
himself.
rrnpsxe Performer Killed.
PHOENIX, Sept. l4-Robert Car.
vale, trapeze performer, fell
from balloon so feet this after
noon and was killed.
Ratat Ra,Iroad Accident.
BRIDaEPoRT, Conn, Sept. A.
A gravel train jumped the track
near Roxbury, killing two laborel'
and wounding several.
st- Flood at y"rSn,".
TORONTO, Sept. 14th.-All trains
moving west and north from thu
city have been cancelled until fur
ther notice. The esplanade Il
much damaged and the railwa,
tracks have been more or les
washed away. The downfall from
half past three o'clock Tuesday ur
to noon to day, according to mete
geological observations was five
and one-tenlh inches-the heavies
since 1848.
House swept Away.
MEADEvILLE, Pa, Sept, IA
Guntown, five miles north of Con
neautville, the house of VIM. Law
renee was swept from its founda
tion early this morning and wa
borne down the stream some dis
tance with the family in 1t.
rhe Suffering south.
MEMPHIS, September 14th.-Th
weather has taken q change, 1t !
feared for the worse. The nights
are cool and days warm and tn
number of cases may reasonably b
expected to continue large. Forty
six deaths reported up to noon tn
day and ninety-one for the "A hour
ending at noon.
Agricultural Works Hurned.
LEwISBURG, Pa, Sept. l4th.-
The agricultural works of James A
Marsh were destroyed by fire thi
mording. Loss estimated at 500,
900; insurance $4,000.
Imums,ation in Cuba,
HAVANA, Sept. 12th.-Captail
General Martinez Campos has gon
to Cardenas with five hundred la
borers to divert the course of tb
waters now causing the inundatioI
of the greater part of the district
of Alacranes Recreo and Colon.