Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-23

bar ASSOCIATION, $500; Mystic Tie lodge of
| Masons, 800, Woodburn & Sarveu. wheel
I works, 800; other manufacturers, 500. A
citizens meeting was held tonight, and
committees appointed 10 canvass the city aud
! obtain further aid,
tzlso.
! CNRo. August 22.-Tne str4u.-. Wa,
/ Shinkle, from Memphis, passed here o-day
/ with seventy passengers. No sickness on
\ board
/ Captain K. Thomas and Morris Dinkelspiel,
/ Of Metropolis, deny the truth of the report
/ telegraphed here 10 firm by special cor
/ respondent that there was yellow fever in
/ that city. The Golden Rule landed It's pas
sengers there, -Out they were all we'll.
New Albany, Ind.
! New ALBANY, August y Dare lodge,
/ Ancient Order OF United Workmen, of this
city, has donated to the yellow fever suff ,rers
/ Of the south the SUN Of tifty-six dollars TO be
I expended under the supervision of General
| w. J. Smith, of the Howard association OF
! Memphis. Jefferson lodge, of Masons, has
also donated fifty dollars to the southern Ma
sonic relief committees.
VIcksburG.
NICKsBURG, August 22.-The yellow-iever
Is now attacking the negroes. a great num-
Der Of them being stricken down daily There
were fully fifty new cases to-day, with ten
deaths up 10 three o'clock this afternoon
! There is a great need of physicians. Drs.
Robbins and Balfour are improving, and are
| now IN a fair way of recovery. Some est
mate the number Of yelow-fever cases now
here ~ SIX huDired, bat the general estimate
Is little over three hundred. Sheriff Flana-
gan, of Warren county, publishes a call on
the State and county officers throughout the
country for financial aid to the sufferers here.
Cincinnati Makes the First Bale of Cot
ton Yield Handsomely for Yellow
Fever sufferers In the south.
CINCINNATI, August PA new bale of
cotton, the first of the season, from a point
in Mississippi, was sold on change this noon
for eleven hundred and ifty-fve dollars, and
the amount has been dispatched south to aid
the fever-stricken cities.
Evans, Lipplncott a. Cunningham and
Charles Kahn, provision dealers, have in
structed the authorities of Memphis and New
Orleans 10 draw on them for one hundred
dollars each for the benefit Of the yellow fever
sufferers.
New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, August 22.-New cases,
lightweight; deaths, fifty-eight.
Up to seven o'clock this evening sixty new
cases and ten deaths had been reported to
the board of health since noon. These will
be included in tomorrow report. Funerals
continue to later hours than usual; one was
reported this evening after seven o'clock,
lanterns being used for lights.
The board of health regular weekly meet
ing tonight had no quorum, only DIR. Chop
pin and Mr.. Mott being present DIR. Chop
pin stated that the next meeting of the board
would be held next Thursday. The board
of health addressed the following circular to
the physicians:
"DEAR SRs-The board of health are de-
sirous of preparing a complete registry of the
cases Of yellow-tever occurring this year, In
order to have the materal for future study of
the disease. You are. therefore, earnestly
requested to make to this Office a report OF
every case occurring IN your practice, accord
ing to the forms provided. Copies OF this
form will be furnished on application. This
request Is intended to apply to cases prevl-
ouSly treated, as well as to those hereafter at
tended. SAM chopin, MD,
President Board of Health"
The following explain themselves:
VICKsBURG, August -, 1873.
Sam Chopin, President Board of Health:
The epidemic is very violent and malig-
nant here, much more SO than In New Or
leans. There is a great want of nurses and
physicians. Five of the regular corps of
physicians are absent from their post. There
were twenty five deaths yesterday from yell
low-fever. Can you help us?
NEW ORLEANS, August ~, 1873.
Dr. E. &. Banks, yIcksburg;
Sorry to hear of your distress. An cpl
demic is the battlefield of the true physician.
Will see the Howard association to furnish
you with medical and.
SAM chopin, NJ D.,
President Board of Health.
The board also received a dispatch from
the mayor of Vlcksburg, asking that four
physicians be sent there. The dispatch was
referred to the Howard association.
The agent of the steamship St Louis,
which steamer is expected soon from Liver
pool, addresses a note to Collector Smith,
asking permission to Tighten the vessels car
90 at the mouth of the Mississippi river, the
object being to have the crew avoid coming
in contact with the fever. In reply, the col
lector says: "You are informed that every
| facility will be afforded you. When you are
ready to unload the steamer please notify me
and will detail a corps of officers to go to
the steamer and discharge her cargo"