Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-17

son, JDO Davis, W m 4 HlldeDranu,
Joseph Rasbane.
stricken M en- pi,,s.
NEW YORK, August 15.-Mem-
phis specials report that sixty-six
per cent. of the new cases yester-
day were colored, scattered all
through the city. The white cases
are confined chiefly to two infected
localities.
Relief organizations are working
well, and the sick under their
charge receive good attention.
Nurses are selected with the great
est care from the army of appli-
eants, to which fact IL attributable
the very small proportion of deaths.
English citizens organized relief
association to-day, and will here
after take charge of their own sick.
The colored relief society acknow-
edges through the pupers the re.
ceipt of contributions amounting
to $ll4. They are looking for ad-
ditional amounts from their agent.
who is now canvassing the cities OF
the North.
MEMPHIS, August l5.-Nine new
cases were reported to the Board of
Health up to noon, six OF whom
were colored. Six interments are
reported by the undertakers.
DIR. Il. w. Mitchell. member of
the National Boar of Health, came
to Bartlett, Tenn, on a special
train, but returned at once. He
was en- route to Cairo, Ill.,, at which
point there is to be meeting Of
the Executive Committee of the
Board on Saturday. DR.. Jerome
Cochrane has been ordered to Mo
bile. An attempt Is to be made to
isolate Chelsea, northern suburb
of Memphis. Hereafter street cars
will not be permitted to enter its
limits. There is not a single case
of fever within its boundaries. All
the prominent sick are reported
better to-day. The weather Is damp
and cloudy.
More sptaefui than witsy.
NEW YORK, August l5th.-The
Times has fling at the Pacific
Coast In an editorial on the i'm mi
grafton of two criminals from
Switzerland. 1t says two Swiss
immigrants may appear too small
matter to arouse the Department
Of State, Objectionable through
these persons may be, but in Cal
ifornia where immigration of a
certain sort engrossess much pub
lie attention, two is a horde.
Mining Enserprises d" Ar'Ean".
NEW YORK, August 14th.-Gen-
eraI Fremont, who started on his
return to Arizona several days ago,
has made arrangements for the in
PRODUCTION of considerable capital
into Arizona mining enterprises,
provided the experts recently dis.
patched thither shall report favor
ably.
Grain Export at Now Orleans.
NEW YORK, August 15th.-A
grain elevator at the Fades Jetties
is the latest New Orleans and st.
Louis enterprise for increasing the
Mississippi Valley grain export
trade. The New Orleans Times
says: With sufficient elevator room
at Eadsport the barges OF the trans
portation company could proceed
direct there from st. Louis and
Cairo, and as Eadsport is not op-
pressed by the Board OF Health
quarantine, vessels could come and
receive cargoes of grain there from
all parts of the world at all seasons.
Railway Reform.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The re-
cent agreement of the Joint Exec
utive Railroad Committee to abol-
ish special discriminatory rates on
through East-b0und freights, is
claimed as a disposition shown by
the railroad magnates to treat pub
lie demands respectfully. The Bul-
letin says: We quite expect to see
further acts of concession fort h.
coming, but such acts will be EN-
titled to little consideration from
those who have committed them
selves to a reformation Of the rail
road question system. No culprits
are so little to be trusted as those
who readily cry peccavi and prom
ise reform when they are brought
to book; and the movement for the
legal restraint of these companies
must 20 forward to its full consum'
nation, no matter what they may
in the meantime concede to prom
ise.
Decided Against the Government
NEW YORK, August 14th.--Tht
suit against Postmaster James, fol
infringement of patent for capcell'