The New York herald., 1879-08-29
Marked Reduction in the Number Of
New Cases at Memphis.
NINE DEATHS REPORTED
Visit of Dr. E. NJ Wright-He Inspects
the Infected District.
Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

Board of Health exceeds that of the new This
affords favorable outlook. although no calculations
can be relied upon where yellow fever is concerned
There yet two months to eapse in which the dis
ease may assume more malignant form and tho
hopes OF to-day may be dspelled by the reports OF
tomorrow. The following are the names of the
new reported to the Board of Health to-day
Fannie Combs. aged 49, No. l8o Carolina street.
Lizzie Schwartz. aged 10. No. 295 Poplar street.
Mrs. Pope. aged As. No. 139 Mulberry street.
Grace Prestidge. aged 16. corner Of Jessamine and
Lauderdale Streets
Clanton prestidge. aged 25. No. 22o Wellington
street.
Harrison Prestidge. aged 10. corner of Jessamine
and Lauderdale streets.
The death list embraces:-
RACHAEL SLOANE. aged 40. No. 400 Pontotoo
street extended.
JENNIE SLOANE. aged 49, No. 400 Pontotoc street
extended.
GEORGE E. TAYLOR, aged 81, No. 7s Vance
street.
D. o. wILKIE. aged "a. corner of Fifth and jack
son streets.
MARTIN MORAN aged 35. No. 81 Vance street.
Mrs. RUTH f EGNEW. aged Sc. corner Of Sixth
and Saffron streets.
PIERRE LALLANNE aged q. OF Pickering.
J. LOWERY. colored, aged 2a. No. ~ Fourth
street.
EMMA JACKSON, colored, aged 2. No. $40 Vance
street.
The names Of Colonel j. s. Prestidge's chill
dren. which appear in the list of cases. have
been mentioned previously in these depatches. but
for private official report Of their
was made by the Board of Health until this after
noon. The Howard Association assigned twenty
additional nurses to duty to-day. Among those fur
nished were Mrs. Dyer, George Batzelson. Maude X.
Rolher. A. Dorrica Mrs. Murray Hicks. Louis Kirk
land John G. Moore, Charles Cash. s. A. Moore and
Mrs Richardson. The last named is a daughter of
G. L. Dennison of the firm of Orgill Brothers Co.
DIR. wRIGHr's VISIT.
DIR. E. NJ. Wright inspecting officer of the National
Board of Health. came into the city this morning.
In an interview with your correspondent he stated
that he was highly pleased with the stringent and
efficient rules that being enforced by the State
Board of Health and their officials, especially the
regulations that govern the transfer of all passen-
gers and baggage the transfer stations along
line of the Louisville. aud Nashville Railroad. He
left at noon for Nashville via the Memphis and
Charleston route. and will inspect the transfers
this railroad. which duplicate OF those the
Louisville line. The Memphis Reserves-the white
military company which was lately organized-were
furnished with arms this afternoon. They
muster seventy-one men and are rapidly becoming
proficient in the evolutions. They drill for two
The therm ometer to-day has ranged between 65
and SO degrees.
WHIPPING NEGRO.
few days ago Thomas Williams. . youth eigh.
teen years Of age. committed breach Of de-
corum At Camp Marks. for which he was
given twenty-five lashes by order Of Captain
Robbins The parties engaged in thrashing the
youth were arrested q warrant. and. being
raigned before q magistrate waived examination
and were placed under $500 bonds to answer the
charge to tho Criminal Court. At meeting OF the
Committee of Safety yesterday the matter re-
ferred to q committee Of three composed of General
W. J. Smith. N. w. Speer. Jr., and G. B. Galloway.
who report follows:-
We. the committee appointed to examine into the
outrage alleged to have been perpetrated IN Camp
Marks upon the boy Thomas Williams. would report
| that have carefully examined the boys person
from head to foot We find no bruises or marks Of
| violence on his body. The boy upon being ques-
| toned said he had committed what we judge to
| have been gross indecency while disguised, and
further that he received twenty-five strokes with
grape vine, but added joculariy 1t didn't hurt any.
| lie added that he had made any complaint, but
others had done it. The boy now lies in jail under
charge OF petit larceny committed since the al
legged Outrage.
At q meeting of the Steamboatmen's Relief Com
mtee, held yesterday. it resolved to make call
for aid upon steamboat men of the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers and their tributaries, all donations to be
sent to L. n. Blakemore. treasurer. of the firm of j.
w. Avery 4 Co. The committee is composed of Is.
T. Graham. James +. Sweet, and Mat. Tremmel. well
known steamboat mon.f
RELIGIOUS CAMP.
Everything is progressing in good order at the
Father matthew Camp. 1t is chiefly composed of
poor Irish Catholics who could not for lack OF means
go away. Religious devotons characterize tho
camp. Tonight Thursday, "novena" in honor
of the Sacred Heart is being commenced. beauti-
ful little ark chapel of safety is just completed.
Father Walsh appeals to religious societies ana
faithful Catholics to unite with his poor peo-
pie In the Of prayer. BY special dis
pensation the jubilee is being celebrated at
the camp. About thousand people assist
at divine services there Sundays. Next Sunday is
to be q day of solemn devotion there The different
streets to be placed under the protection of diff
ferent saints An appeal for statues to be erected in
each street will be made OF the societies under pro-
lection of these different saints. The Father Mathew
camp has no funds. but owes sl.ioo. Father Walsh
is procuring what tho comforts and necessities Of
his people need military rations alone being for
the present supplied through Colonel Cameron.
LATEST NEWS.
Edward Kcating, keeper Of Court square for the
past fifteen years. died of the fever tonight at
o'clock. He had q attack last year. Elias
McDougan is dying, and will hardly survive the
night. General John l.. Skeifngton is reported
worse. At an early hour this morning the dead
body Of negro named James Etteridgo found
hanging mulberry treo in his mothers back
yard, at the OF Auction and Third Streets In
North Memphis. At the inquest. which was held
by Esquire spcllman. it developed that he had
committed suicide from jealousy. caused by his
sweetheart nursing u rival. who is sick with the
fever q. " Graves train dispatcher at the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, died tonight at eight
o'clock Ho claimed to have had the fover at Shrovo-
port La. in 1873. His family reside at Emira. N Y.
His wife, who recently came from Charleston, NO.,
is in q critical condition. having but a few days
ago began to recover from attack OK the fever.
The disease is reported to have developed at Bart
lett Tenn. In the person or negro who came to
Memphis several days ago and visited some of his
friends who were sick with the disease. The follow