Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-29
Ei2EEC| FESER.

lhtrc ware tea new cases and twelve deaths
from yellow fever 10 Memphis yesterday, maxi
leg total to date of so cases aud $50 deaths.
Several cas-; OF yellow fever are reported 10 New
O:lesus. Of cases reported from quarantine
station on the bark 81 .ck Pfi1co, from Havana,
) have died Of the fever. The condition of & sc.
Hood ADD dauehttris reported favorable.
Miss Carrie f. Davis died ct Dayton, Ohio,
90 Monday last of ye.l)s lever, aud the ply.
slclan5 are unable to crtain how the
disease was contracted. Every prccautiou has
been taken to prevent Tho spread Of the disease.
MEMPHIS, August 90 1--we new cases were
reported to the Board of Health this morriug.
Seven deaths have occurred sincc les; evening
Among tho number arc Lonis Fszzi, w. ii.
J5brsJu, Mary Mccormick. Jane " hitcheat;
Elias McDougal IL still alive, tu: death is
hourly expected.
LITTLE Rock. ARK. August 29.--Thc Lit
tie Rock b Iard of Health last night adop;ed
resolutions declaring thst after S,pl'r. G b, 90
ac.oun. OF great expense, the board will exercise
81 petVisi6n over quarantine 90 further than 5
miles from tho ci;y. The State board will likely
assume supervision ov,rthe genera! quarantine,
CURI0sITIEs OF EoNTAINEEIEAU.- In the
old part Of the palace of Foutaiuetlaau arc the
rooms OF Francis |. dark AMI gloomy, bu. Ct
the most BEAUTIFUL wOrkma uship, which lock
fresh, despite the ruiz Of c:nurics: aoi then
the apartments Ct Henry II tha! is, to name
them BY the first Of macy monsrcls wac have
occupied them. la one of ihsso is G bit Of
looking glass, tho gilt of Marie de Medicis.
aud the iirst toy Ct The kind that ever r. il cted
Frcrch beauty. Louis NtIl, tha! good man,
who was modest even among court beauties.
was born here Gnd lh,ir is also souvenir of
tho warIlke saint who tough. tho S.rsc,us, and
who heads the ancestral ne OF Boutbots.
Aaoe OF Austria Marie Antoins,te and many
aGctber royal female hav. left 8 ronoo!ic asso
cial1o, within those ancient walls, AID cue be.
comes ios 10 trarc, of recollectons as ho
stands here. You may, With the tribe CT
ifarc, p'o2lTo lock at the forbidden rooms OF
Matame dc Maintenou aid then at the Rsndsz 2.
Vous de Ia Caa;sa. built more thaa eight csutu
lies ego b7 Robert the Pi0us. The theatre is
ole modtra construction, the one described 10
the Confessions Of Rousseau having been de-
slroYeG.
Oic ct the curiosities Of Foutaiocaesu is the
csrp pont, where the fish may bo scca 10
schools and ssarms CT all ages and sizes, s0mc
OF !hom CT gree. slZ,, AMI many as cid % tTo
huDdtec and fly years. As you lean ever The
OLD parnp3t the view IS varied eaG charming
the park. the palace aad The long svacass lead
log into The FIRES. and bsyo1d tee nights of
Avon.
WHEN Charles Dcleas visited this country
macy years ego be ssWin cell thePenasyIvs
ella peDlteOt'ary ole Charles Ls7sheiner, The
case OF this poor fellow touched TIE hear. OF
me aovc!lst acd be devoted sewers! psg.s 10
ais "AmerieaD Notes" to the objected a1d
81 broken appaaEa5cs Of this criminal whose
NE hsd baen cruelty tortured out Of him By the
SOLITARY confinement system. Mr. Dickens bss
GseD dead shout niue years and MIR. Charles
h'oghelmer has Just been sent back to bis old |
penitent!ary home for breaking open safe 10 |
the 18th year of bis sge. !