The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-28

| A resolution of thanks to parties contrib
uting as above was unanimously passed.
The following resolution was passed:
"Resolved, That merchants. manufactur-
ers and other employers be respectfully re-
quested to present to their employees an ap-
peal to contribute to the fund for the relief
of the yellow fever sufferers in the South. !"
The Committee on Distribution was au-
thorized to send $1,000 to Memphis, 81 900
to Vicksburg, and $500 to Grenada, in
money and other articles, as the Commit
tee might see fit.
| After the adjournment of the general
committee the Committee on Entertain
ment met and appointed a committee con-
sisting of Col. L. M. Dayton, Enoch Taylor,
and Col A. Z. Jones to take charge of the
grand entertainment to be given at the
Music Hall
Mr.. Frank Harff presented the following:
'To the Committee of Relief for the Southern
People:
81 tender you my entire place for vocal
and instrumental concert for next Tuesday
evening, September Sd, for the benefit of
the plague-stricken Southern people. The
following have kindly volunteered to assist
in giving this entertainment: Miss Flora
Miller, Miss Emma Kuster, and several
ladies have already volunteered; the Ger
| man MlllldIy DdIlu WILL OOlIdtc PLO Vi tllcll
salary on that night, and the employees of
the Lookout House will donate their days
salary. shall try and get the beer and
mineral water donated so as to enable me
to give over to you the entire receipts for
that evening. Hoping you will accept the
offer, | remain yours, &c.
FRANK HARFF,
| "Proprietor of the Lookout House."
| Mr.. Harff also stated that his Opera-house
could be used for a concert on the same
night, and the Committee authorized the
press to urge the vocalists of the city to take
part in such concert.
1t was also stated that Mr. Doherty, of the
Man-street line and Inclined Plane, would
donate the receipts of one day business.
Pursuant to the call issued by Captain
Lew. Wilson, the Knights of Honor, met at
the City Buildings last evening and donated
$100 to the Yellow Fever Relief Fund.
Freeman Lodge, No. SO, X. of H., donated
$25 last night for the relief OF members of
the Order in the South.
Archbishop Purcell last evening, in answer
to dispatch from Memphis, asking that he
send some Sisters of Charity to that place,
replied that if nurses were not send from st.
Louis and Louisville, he would sent all the
assistance needed, since a number of priests
and sisters had already volunteered to go.
Father Mathew +. A. Society of the
Church of the Atonement, at its last meet
ing, contributed $40 for the relief of Mem
phis sufferers
A reading-room has been opened at Hop
kins' Hall, corner Fourth and Elm streets,
for the use of all Memphis refugees, where
papers from Memphis can be seen daily.
The Murphies have changed the place at
which to give their entertainment for the
benefit of our suffering Southern brethren
from Bible Chapel to the Vine-street Con.
gregational Church, between Eighth and
Ninth streets They will offer an excep.
tionally fine programme for the occasion.
A meeting of members of all Masonic
bodies of the city is to be held at the Ma