Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-16
LOS ANGELES. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 1e 1878

Legislature during the sessions O
1871 and 1872, ia order to defeat his
own impeachment for high crimes
and misdemeanors, and, in order to
raise the money 10 buy the votes
he issued fraudulent warrants or
the Treasurer in the names of i'm.
aginary persons to the amount oi
| 100000
Aid Asked flr Yellow Fevcr Sus.
fsrers.
NEW YORK, August 18th. The
Mayor If Grenada, Miss has tele.
graphei to Mayor Ely, asking pc.
cuniary aid for relief Of sufferers
by the yellow fever scnurge.
rnc FrI=i tsnI Codiiion ut Gr~n ,.in
WILMINGTON, N. c., Aug. 15.-
The following has been received
here from Grenada, Miss, dated
August IA:
To the Mayor Of Wilmington:-
Help US to pay nurses and bury
the dead. Our town is a graveyard.
We need help. The Mayor is dyi ing.
and am the only officer left.
(Signed.) e. d. A. MOTION,
City Marshal and Acting Mayor.
Immediately, on receipt Of the
above telegram, the Board Of Alder
men of this city convened in session
and made Gn appropriation for the
Grenada sufferers and appointed
committee of seven to solicit con-
tributions from citizens. 1t is
thought a liberal sum will be raised.
pref Raxter Drowned.
CAPE MAY, Aug. 15.-Prof. Bax-
tel, Professor of Elocution at Har-
ward College, was drowned this
morning while swimming out be-
yond his depth. The body has not
yet been recovered.
Yellow jack ni Eew Or,en"s.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10 An ex-
traordiDaty increase of new cases
of yellow fever, reported by the
Board of Health up to noon to day
has been the all absorbing topic of
conversation. This afternoon re-
porters sought in vain for an ex-
planatiou. 1t is true the report in
cludes two days from the Charity
hospital, but that only adds seven
or eight cases which have been re-
ported and leaves 126 or 127 cases
that have occurred during the past
twenty-four hours. So far, but few
cases have occurred in the third or
fifth districts. or the deaths re-
ported, nins are under twenty
years; Oh these six wers natives Of
New Orleass.
Latest from New Oriemus.
New ORLE ANS. Aug. 15th.-New
cases, 98; deaths, II.
Train Fired Int,.
MONTREAL, August I5th.-The
train conveying Orange Young
Britons home from Ottawa was
fired into at Gloucester Station.
Several shots entered the cars, but
the passengers were uninjured.
huppr"..inx Socialism
BERLIN, Aug. 15.-The bill for
preventing the spread of socialism
has been submitted to a German
Federal Council. 1t prohibits as.
sociations, meetings aud publica-
tions in furtherance of socialistic
or communistlc objects. Appeals
from the decisions of the central
authorities will be made to an
Imperial Bureau, to be created for
the purpose of considering ques-
tions concerning public meetings.
The press penalties range from
fiue to years imprisonment.
Socialistic agents may be expelled
from towns aud forbidden to pursue
their trades as printers and book
sellers or innkeepers. The central
authorities may, with the sanction
of the Federal Council in districts
where public safety is endangered,
prohibit public meetings for q year
unless such meetings are sanction
ed by police authorities; prohibit
the sale of interdicted printed mat
ter in the streets; restrict the sale
or possession Ofarms and expel un-
employed persons.
The Phyiiuxera Un ITS KnvHxss.
MALAGA, Aug. 15.-Thirty-one
hectares of vineyard have been at.
tackled by the phylloXera, the raw
ages OF which are increasing alarm
ingly.