Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-29
Yellow Fever Spreading.

Yellow Fever Spreading.
PLAGUE STRICKEN MEMPHIS.
Dispatches from Memphis last evening saw:
"Ten additional cases were reported n the
board OF health this afternoon, six OF whom are
coloreo. TWO deaths from yellow fever have
occurred-one, however, beyond the city limits
Special policemen engaged taking the census
OF the city have completed their task. The re-
suit shows the population Of Memphis to be
16,1l0-whites. 4,2ss; colored 11,s27; adults.
1861; children 5,S53, OF whom STAB have had
the fever, leaving 1851 susceptible to the dis
ease. Failing to secure transportation to the
site selected for the establishment of q camp
on the PadUcah railroad, Col. john F. Cam
eron, with detail OF 16 colored soldiers took
Burke, OF the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
way, and established camp five miles south
OF the city, half mile below where camp Joe
Williams was established last year. tents
were taken along and by morning the detail
will have so tents ready for occupation"
THE CASE IN NKw ORLEANS.
xincenza SHAW, an ltatan ia girl mentioned IN
there this season. All unite in the opinion that
that is sparOdic case. The entire neighbor-
hood for four squares around where 1t occurred
has been disinfected with the new preparation
OF zinc and iron and the auxiliary sanitary as
sOciatiOn and board OF health are united In con-
tributing their utmost to prevent the spread OF
the disease The auxiliary sanitary associa.
tion In accordance with resolutions adopted last
week. yesterday began the work OF disinfecting
the city. They began on the river front with
large force and will continue until the work Is
completed. shreveport, La, yesterday estab-
lished restrictive quarantine against New Or
leans. Nothing that has been In that city since
Natchez has also quaranttned against New Or
leans.
CASES AND DEATHS AT QUARANTINE IN NEW
N,onoo, p,tzonhRRI YORK HARgoR; daa T., ~, yonn,,z
refugees sent to New York died yesterday at
quarantine OF yellow fever. John Hennlssy,
one OF the stevedoreS who assisted In unloading
the steamer City OF Merida and contracted yel-
low fever, died at quarantine last night. A. F.
Re1tb, the barber OF the steamer Saratoga, and
f. b. Esty, steward OF the schooner Freddie c.
Ebbit, from POrt-au- Prince and Haytten ports,
were admitted to hospital sick with fever.
A DISPATCH FROM LOUISVILLE
says Mrs. Pomeroy, who with her Child was
removed from Preston street to the hospital last
from fever, is doing we'll They arrived from
Memphis only the day before they were re-
moved to the hospital. The death OF Mrs.
this year from yellow fever and the first at the
yellow-fever hospital. All of the cases were
imported from Memphis.
IN THE NORTH.
Chris. Meyers, 81 years DID, who left Memphis
few days ago, called on the health officer at
Cincinnati yesterday afternoon and stated that
he believed that yellow-fever had attacked him.
the hospital as suspicious case. Manchester,
New Hampshire, is excited over the report of a
case In that city from the south. The board OF
health had no Information to justify the report.
K1TTrE DRrscoLL's COURAGE Yesterday
morning three little girls were playing along
the basin OF the falls In Paterson Nd, and one
OF them, Katie Smith, fell in. The race was q
roaring torrent, and little further down it
runs into sluice-way that carries it to a large
water wheel. Another OF the little girls, Kittie
DriscOll, sprang in after her, and succeeded In
saving her. The children were then afraid to
go home lest they should be whipped for hav
Ing their clothes wet. Their parents, who had
become alarmed at their staying away from
home so long, found the clothing OF the two
girls who had been IN the water, drying on the
grass, and one OF the children wearing the
dress and the other petucoat from the third
little GIRL who had not got wet. An examine
tion OF the locality OF the occurrence shows
that the rescue Of the child, by another child,
was remarkable, and that few men would have
ventured to do such an act.-[N Y. Sum- 2sh.
A RAILROAD SMASH UP.-On Saturday even
ing last, during the severe storms which flooded
the tracks OF the North Pennsylvania Branch
two passenger tra1ns-the Doylestown accom-
mediation and the Bethlehem express-collided
at point between Edge Hill and Sandy Run
The baggage and smoking cars OF the accom-,
ali pushe d into one crashing mass, the crash ex
tending into the forward end Of the latter as
1ar as the fourth seat from the door. The bag
gage and smoking car were totally wrecked,
While the rear ED OF the front passenger car
was almost demolished, with the front end of
the secoLd. as the two came together. Two or
three OF the passengers sustained fractures OF
their limbs.
OuLd and DR.. George:-Judge Robert Ould, q
prominent lawyer OF Richmond, and we'll
known as the Confederate commissioner for
the exchange Of prisoners during the war, and
DR.. A. Speers George, also of that city, were
arrested last evening, charged with being about
to engage In duel. The trouble between the
no rff Nvnt n% thn nnv
George case, :" which was recently settled by
compromise between the Philadelphia claim
ants (colored) to the estate Of the late VIM. O.
George and the Richmond Georges. Judge
Ould was counsel for the Philadelphia claim
ants and Mr. George was one OF the Richmond
heirs to the estate. Both were bailed In 8, 900
each to appear before the police court to-day.
A HUSBANDS sP1TEFUL Acr-A man in the
seventh ward is said to have cut all of his w1fe's
hair on because she had her little girls hair
trimmed short for this hot weather. The neigh
DOrs complain OF this treatment of the husband
but the wife took him for better or for worse
Herald.
DAY three girls, IA or Is years old, daughters of
the Hon. Henry Ballard, of this city, Judge
Noyes and A. c. Dixon, walked from DiXon's to
aggregate distance OF II miles. A good days
walk, that, for young .-[Burlington [Vt)
Free Press, July 2Sd.
NEARLY KILLED BY POISONOUS PICKLES.
Miss Kate Moore came from Newark to visit
Mrs. James M. Darke, at S5th street and River
side avenue. She fell Ill about two weeks ago,
and a few days later her malady assumed an
alarming form. Her stomach and other organs
OF digestion became in a measure paralyzed, as
did her arms and legs, and she suffered excruci-
at1ng pains. DR.. A. G. Goulet pronounced it
case OF poisoning from copperas, and soon
traced the cause to some bright green pickles
that she had eaten. He tested one from the
same lot, and found it thoroughly impregnated
with copperas. So badly had Miss Moore been
poisoned that perspiration wiped from her skin
discolored handkerchief. She was at one
time very low, but Is now little better and
will probably recover. The pickles were bought
at grocery.-[N. Y. Sun, 2Sth.
THE LONG BRANCH GUN CLUB met at its new
park at Deal Beach, N. j., yesterday morning
to witness the match between Edgar G. Murphy,
the crack shot OF the club, and Donald swan,
the famous wing Shot Of Maryland. The con-
ditoDs Of the match were 100 birds each. so
traps, 30 yards rise, Hurlingham rules, $500
side. The attendance was large, number OF
ladies being present. The atmosphere was
hazy, with light easterly winds. Both marks