The New York herald., 1879-10-03
AFFLICTED MEMPHIS.
Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. !

MEMPHIS. Tenn Oct .. 1879.
AS predicted in those dispatches last night. there
was increase in the number of new cases of yell
low fever reported to-day. or the eleven names
handed in to the Secretary of the Board of Health
seven colored. DIR. L. Miles Wiett Howard
physician. had the honor of reporting seven of the
eleven cases. the accumulation of his practice since
Sunday. Tho following the whites:-
Sophia schilling. aged SO, corner Of broadway and
Second street. Fort Pickering.
Thomas Mcbride. aged 4. No. II Market street.
j. Mehrens. aged 35 No. Al Robinson street.
j. w. Blanton. aged corner OF Auction street and
Raleigh road.
j. w. Blanton died yesterday, at noon. which goes
show how inaccurate the statistics are being kept
by the local Board of Health authorities In addi-
ton to the new cases reported the following whites
supplied with nurses;-
lin Casey, aged 80. No. 217 Pontotoc street.
Lulu Lockwood. aged 4. Jackson street.
Rose Roynon. aged 6. Central avenue.
Mary Conde. aged 49, three miles out on Poplar
street boulevard.
Mrs. Gobel ndchid, Elmwood Nursery.
Mrs. W. G. Nicholson. aged 45. four miles out on
the Horn Lake road.
THE DEATH ROLL.
The names OF the dead to-day are:-
Mrs. MARGAREr L. STEWART. aged SO. Pigeon
Roost road.
CAROLINE GLENN. sixty-three miles out. on Horn
Lake road.
CHARLOTTE WHITE (colored). aged 81. No. 1873
Poplar street.
The donations to tho Howards to-day wore fol-
lows:-
Mrs. w. W. Guy, for expense Of nursing her
Thomas Gwyn and Alexander Todd. Florence.
Andrew ain n Kirkwood, Mosncrvie. Mich. 90
Total. .$S7 IS
Thomas H. Milburn, president Of the German
National Bank, continues to improve
Miss Jane James was worse tonight.
RI Dabney the Signal Service officer. is rapidly
convalescing. He on the streets this afternoon.
Across the river at Hopeheld. Ark. there 1900
bales of cotton awaiting shipment to st. Louis and
Now Orleans.
Nothing has been heard from Brownsville. Tenn.
in reference to the injunction argument made yes
terday before Chancellor Livingston His decision
is expected tomorrow.
gin house, owned by w. N. Elters. situated fve
miles south Of this city. was burned yesterday. The
loss is about $4,000.
The thermometer to-day has ranged between ~
degrees and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
TIE FEVER SPREADING AT CoNCoRDIA.
New ORLEANS. Oct. 2. 1879.
| special from Greenville. Miss. says-"Tho
warm weather has given to the fever at Concordia
| fresh start. Four cases are reported"
! PORTUGAL RAISES THE QUARANTINE AGAINST
| VESSELS FROM THE ATLANTIC PORTS OF THE
UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON Oct. 2. 1879.
Upon tho recent outbreak of yellow fever at Men,
| phs the Portuguese government hastened to put q
rigid quarantine upon all vessels coming from the
Southern States of the Union. Diplomatic repre-
| scntations against this unnecessarily sweeping
measure were directed to be made by the Depart
ment OF State. and were accordingly presented to
sthe Portuguese Ministry by Mr.. Moran. the United
States Charge d'Afiaircs at Lisbon. from whom y
telegram dated the 10Th ult.. has been received by
Secretary Evarts, confirming tho cablcgram pub
| lished to-day announcing that an order has been
issued raising quarantine on all vessels from the
| Atlantic ports or the United States