The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-27
g .rnIng Star and Catholic ~e.sengs'. I.
LOCAL NOTES.

Alex Dalsheimsr, we'll kno wn lawyer of
this city, died last Monday evening after long
illness.
OF the AIS men who compose the Police force
76 have had the fever which resulted fatally in
eight cases.
The total number of registered voters ia this
city last Monday was SO 743; of these q. 922
are white and 10 s21 oolored citizens.
Glasses in st. Simeon's Select School, 13l
Annunciation street, and in st. Vincent's
School, Thalia street, near Annunciation, will
be resumed on the 4th of November.
The State Registrar of Voters has officially
announced that the registration Offices in the
several wards of this city will be kept open
till seven O'Clock, Friday night, November l st.
The Ladies Peabody Association, organized
for the purpose of distributing clothing to the
needy, will commence operations to morrow.
Elsewhere we publish tho names and addresses
of the ladies who have the management of
affairs in,their hands.
Since our last issue wherein we published the
Democratic ticket, we have learned that our
well-known and highly esteemed friend, John
Rainey, Esq, has been selected by the Demo
Gratis of the Eighth Ward at their nominee for
the House of Representatives.
The members of the Fever Commission left
the City at different times last week and by
different routes to Investigate affairs and
gather information in the afflicted towns along
the Mississippi River and the Jackson Rail-
road, They expect to meet in Yicksburg about
the 30sh inst, whence they will proceed to Mem
phis
Mr.. Gurley, U. s. Attorney, is taking testi-
mopy in the case of the families of the men
who perished in the McAlester disaster last
January. AS this is done with view to &c.
curing proper distribution of the appropria-
ton lately made by Congress, all interested
parties shonld at zee call on Mr.. Gurley in the
Customhouse.
The Board of Health has placed one sanitary
policeman in each district to devote his exclu
sive time to a supervision of the cleaning of
privy vaults, to insist that none save the odor-
less apparatus shall be used, and that the offal
be dumped in mid river by boats designed for
the purpose. The Board directs the imnedi-
ate arrest of all persons who violate the city
ordinances in the premises. DR.. Chopin sug-
gests that all houses where fever has existed
should be fumigated. Fumigation is made by
the sanitary corpe in all residences where death
has occurred.
The total mortality from all causes in this
city from July 1st to October 2lst was fol-
lows:
For ave weeks ending September l7s6
For four weeks ending September I9.----.....255S -
For yFAA k1
Total mortality. GIT
Under 10 years of 23:G @
Undef Is years OF fsgo.---..---...-. .2ooJ
Thus since the first Of last July over 6O00
persons have died in this oity, of which num-
ber nearly 43 per cent were children under Is
years of age. OF the 6177 persons who have
died, 1888 fell victims 70 yellow fever and 2444
to other diseases.
The Pckwick Club Dispensary closed last
evening. 1t wss organized few days after
the fever was declared epidemic, for the pur-
pose of providing beef tea and soup for CON-
valeecents, of which, to.date, it distributed
about 5000 bottles. The gentlemen of the
Pickvick Club for this one work deserve inf
nitely more credit and have won more praise
than for their great labors and expenses In
years past in getting up Mystic Krewe psg-
esnts, etc. Besides the material assistance
given, they have proved to the poor that the
rchant princes and leaders Of society in New
Orleans are not Indifferent to their sufferings.
At the last meeting of the City Council Mr.
McCaffrey introduced the following Ordinance
which was laid over for confederation at next
Tuesdays meeting:
Be it ordained, etc. That the Mayor be and is
hereby authorized to enter into contract with
the Sisters in charge of the Louisiana Retreat
for the transfer of the inmates of the City In
sane Asylum to said Louisiana Retreat, and the
treatment and care of all insane persons which
may hereafter be sent to said Retreat by the
proper city officer. That the contract be made
for term of five. years from the first of De-
cember, 1873. and that the full compensation
to be allowed for the treatment and care of
such insane persons is hereby fixed at --
cents per day, payable monthly upon the GER
tifcate CT the proper administrator.