The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-31


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tram furnished by Superintendent
BuIke 90 The Mississippi; sci Tsratsee
Railroad aad established : csiap i've
miles below whore CsDp Ice WI.ijaals
was established last year. Tcu:s NJ e
taken along, and By uloraing the az
tail will have fifty teats really foI ccoa-
pspcy.
NEW ORLEANS, Jaly 2S- T.o
Shreveport authorities to-day estat;. H.
Ell a retroactive quarantine .gpust
New Orleans. Nothing thai hiss oyt
IN this city Stree July - will De pc.
mitted To enter ShTe7eport.
NATcHEz, MISS, july ~ The city
council TO-DAY declared strict quarar-
tine against New Orleans TO take elect
from and after "Wednesday, the ,hir-
tieth.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 2s.-Aiss.
Pomeroy, who recently arrived with
her child from Memphis aud was taken
with yellow fever. died in the hospital
to-day. The child, who also has the
fever, is doing well. THIS is the third
death here from the fever, all having
been refugee cases. The citizens OF
the town of Guthrie, which is the s ate
quarantine station on the louisville
and Memphis Railroad, had a meeting
to-day and resolved tn resist the estab-
lishment of yellow fever hospital
there.
New YORK, July % Michael Fitz-
gibbons, one of the Memphis refugees
who came here, died to-day at queran-
tine OF yellow fever. John Hennessy,
of the steyedoTes, who assisted in un-
loading the steamer City of Merida
and contracted the yellow fever, died
at quarantine last night. A. Truth,
barber, steamer Saratoga, and L. g.
Estey, steward of the schooner Freddie
G. Ebbitt, from Haytien ports, were
admitted to the hospital to-day, sick
with fever.
| PHILADELPHIA, July 2S.-Saturday
night during the storm, which flooded
the tracks of the North Pennsylvania
Railroad, the Dayton accommodation
train and Bethlehem express collided
near Edge Hill. Both trains were bad
" wrecked. Some of the passengers
had limbs fractured, but no lives were
lost.
SELMA, Ala, July 2s.-Hon. W. Y
Little, President of the Alabama SEN
| ate, is dead.
NEW YORK, July 2S.-The Peruvian
Minister, now here, has just received
the following telegram from Senior
lragoyer, Foreign Minister, at Lima.
via Panama: The Huascar entered
the blockaded port of Iquique and
fought the CHILEAN squadron two hours,
leaving hOrs du combat the CUISINE and
Abato. The Huascar was unhurt.
DERBY LINE, VT, July 28.-Thomas
Reed, the defaulting cashier of the
First National Bank of Galveston,
Texas, was arrested Friday at CRANKY,
Quebec, by detectives. Reed was forty
thousand dollars short IN his accounts
and absconded January last.
| CINCINNATI, July 2S.--In the Con-
gressional election frauds the inYesti-
eating committee examined only two
witnesses to-day, one of whom testified
that marshal had offered five dollars
| to bring another mans vote; ard the
J other, that he had seen deputy mar
shsls electioneering at the polls.
Moscow, July 28.--The publication
of the GrGstdanian newspaper has been
suspended by order of the government.
MEMPHIS, July 29:-Six new cases
were reported to the board of health
this morning. Among the number are
| S. A. Hatcher of the firm of Cochran
! &, Co., Maria Lanahan, L. Rosenheim
and Toney BALTIC.
Late last night messenger arrived
from Raleigh, Tennessee, for a nurse
to attend Dora, daughter of Chief of
Police Athy, who is down with the fe-
| yer.
Col. Cameron, with his detail of COL
| ored soldiers, took quiet possession of
the grounds selected for the establish
ment of a camp, and by o'clock this
morning had 1875 tents erected. The
first train with refugees will leave at
p. NJ. The policy of the authorities
to furnish rations only to those in camp
will be strictly observed.
All mail matter leaving the city is
thoroughly disinfected under the per-
sonsl supervision of the inspecting Off
GERS of the Nat onal Board of Health.
The weather1continues sultry.
NEw ORLEANS, July 29.-No new
cases reported occurring in the city.
A little child at 105 Z u bon street,
brought here sick Sunday night from
Morgan City, has black vomit and will
die. The Morgan City authorities sent
the child and Its parents to this city.
New YORK, July 29.-The ship Fer
eintid, Plymouth for Pensacola, which
arrived at North Sydney, G. B., July
%, put in for repairs, she having been
in collision in a thick fog July 2,
IN latitude 46 degrees and so minutes
and longitude So degrees, with an I'M
known bark, which was supposed to
be loaded. She could not ascertain
what damage was done 1t, as both YES
sells were going fast at the time. The
Fereintid lost her cutwateF and had
her stern split.
NEW ORLEANS, July 29.-The Nor
gan City authorities deny having sent
Mrs. Aufret and child to New Orleans,
but state that she left with a sick child
for homeopathic treatment in this city.
MEMPHIS, July 29.-Two more cases
were reported to the Board of Health
this afternoon, and four deaths from
yellow fever have been reported by the
undertakers, as follows: Ada Hicks,
colored; Easton Otey, colored; Bridget
E. Wsrney and John T. Wsrney. The
last two were never reported to the
Board of Health as having the fever;
neither did the burial certificate have
the signature of the attending pbysi-
clsn, but as both died within two
hours of each other, and had black
Vomit just previous to death, it was
presumed by the undertaken that they
died of yellow fever.
A colored man named II. Wiggsn
also died to- day. He had no physl-
clan and q member of the Howard
Association, whose attention was c5lied
to his death, had him buried and
classed as unknown.
About fifty people went down to the
camp this afternoon. The weather
has greatly niterfered with the removal
of the poor. The camp has been
named Camp Marks, in honor of the
Governor.
The Howard Association te-dRy as
signed ten additional nurses TO duty.
NEW ORLEANS. July 29.-Regarding
the sick brought here from Morgan
City, DR.. Gray, president of the board
of health there, teIegraphs that no
physician of that city was called to or
prescribed for the child of Mrs.
Aufret. There has been no case of
yellow fever In that city during the
present year within the knowledge of
any member of the board of health.
Mrs. Aufret, with her child, is stop
ping at los Bourbon street, next door