Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-12
FEVER FLASHES.
FIFTEEN NEW CASES IN MEMPHIS,
Yesterday-Eight Deaths-A Fraudulent
Appeal for Aid-NO Cases in New
0rIeans-President Lang
staff in Pittsburgh,

MEMPHIS, September lI.-Slx new
cases were reported to the Board Of
Health this morning, four OF whom were
colored. Seven deaths have occurred
since last evening. Among the number
were C. H. Shaw, Jr., Mrs. F. Keith, R.
T. Johnson, Mrs. j. S. Houck. The last
named died at Buntyn Station. Col. j.
S. Prestidge is convalescing. His daugh-
ter Pearl also shows signs OF improve
ment. Weather clear and warm.
MEMPHIS, September ll.-Fifteen new
cases, four white and eleven colored,
to-day. One additional death occurred,
Mrs. Bridget O'Neal. The donations to
the Howard Association to-day aggrega-
ted SS35, $500 OF which was
sent by the New York Produce Ex-
change. At the meeting of the Com
mttee of Safety, this afternoon, the pay
OF the two colored companies doing day
duty was considered, and the report OF
the Committee, which proposes to com
pensate them by gift of $500 to each
company, leaving TO the next Legsla-
ture the proper recognition OF their SER
vices, was adopted.
Owing to i'll health, Col. John +. Cam
eron rendered his resignation as super
intendent of all the camps, which was
accepted.
VIM. Ward died OF the fever, this af-
ternoon, near Lucy depot, twelve miles
north OF this city, on the Paduch Iail-
road.
MEMPHIS September 1.-THE Preach
ers' Aid Association (colorcd) have ap-
pealed for pecuniary aid They have
$50 orphans under their care. All re-
mittances should be sent to Rev. \.
Holmes, President.
A Fraudulent Appeal for Aid.
MEMPHIS, September 1.-THE appeal
agent at Cincinnati, from this city, on
the 9th inst, 10 be wired over the
country, asking for money, blankets and
provisions for cx-Federal soldiers, is
fraud. 1t was signed by II. A. Hill as
chairman Of the relief association, and
+. b. Millard, secretary. The state
ment that neither the Howard Associa-
tiOn nor the city government provided
for them is denounced as utterly false
by Gen. w. j. Smith, prominent eX-
Federal officer, and acting President OF
the Howard Association, and W. T. POr-
ter, chairman Of the Committee OF
Safety. There is not now, nor has there
been at any time, any distinction made
in the diSpensatlon OF charity, and the
appeal is looked on by the better class
OF Northern men and eX-FederalS as en-
tirely unCalled for
President Dangstaff in Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH, September ll.-Mr. \. ID.
Langstah, President OF the Howard As
sociation at Memphis, arrived in this
city this morning, the immediate pur-
pose Of his VISIT being to solicit aid for
the yellc,y fever sufferers. The funds
of that association ne reports as almost
exhausted, and without the aid he
comes to ask their efforts will
he greatly crippled, il not en-
tirelv suspended. Mr.. Lang
staff visited great many promi-
ncnt bankers and business men here
and met with a most cordial reception.
4 meeting of the relief COmmittec OF
last year has been called for at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning at the chamber OF
commerce, when Mr.. Langstaf will be
heard in behalf of the Howards and
definite action taken for their relief.
No Fever in New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, September 1.-THE
Board of Health tonight adopted reso-
lutions setting forth that the health OF
N5w Orleans to-day will compare favora-
bly, with any large city Of the Union;
that no case OF yellow fever has oc-
Cured since the 81 OF September; that
commercial intercourse with New Or
leans can now be safely maintained;
that in view of the sanitary condition OF
the city the National Board Of Health
be requested to terminate its system OF
quarantine certificates for strangers as
being no longer necessary, and that the
health of the city announces that New
Orleans is not infected within the spirit
OF the rules, and that interior CONNER
Cial relations can be resumed or con-
tinued without any danger whatever.