The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
HOWARD REPORT.

| nurses vi uutyS dltSlu4DS 1Oo 1dLulllSsy lie
of whom are white and 81 colored To date
they have cared for 472 families.
THE PRoALEM FOR THE NATIONAL BOARD
Memphis Avalanche.
We are satisfied that there are remaining
in this city no less than 1000 white people
who have never had the fever. In addition
to this there are about $4,000 blacks, many
of whom will, no doubt, have the fever, but
far larger number will suffer from our
climatic diseases, aggravated by ignorance,
neglect and starvation.
The reports of the Howard physicians
show that most of the medical work is done
among the negroes and that there is a great
amount of disease among them, irrespective
of yellow fever. As the colored population
insists upon remaining in the city, and as
we have no reason to expect an abatement
of the fever before frost, the question natu-
rally arises, where is the money coming
Association is paying daily nearly thou
sand dollars and have about reached the
bottom of its purse. The Committee of
Safety is expanding daily nearly the same
amount, and has already paid out more
than it has received.
The Towards must, at an early date
make an appeal to the outside world which
came so generously to our aid last year, and
no one can doubt what the response to our
cry for help will be. But it is not just that
those generous and charitable souls who
have always given so freely should bear
the entire burden. A half million of dol
lars is at the disposal of the National Board
of Health, and it is but common Justice
that a portion of this money should be spent
in defraying the expenses of the camps.
They were established in accordance with
the dictum of the Board to depopulate the
city, and being portion of its plan to pre-
vent the spread of the fever, the National
Bord of Health should pay the expense by
furnishing rations for their maintenance.
ACRowD OF CITIZENS,
mostly negroes, held meeting at the cor
ner of Clay and fernando streets, last week
They entered protest against the oppres-
sive measures, and firmly, but respectfully
asked that unnecessary and unreasonable
disabilities be promptly removed, believing
them to be against the interest and de-
structive to the lives of every class of citi-
zens. They declare that the authorities
stubbornly refuse to lift finger to Tighten
our burdens or to relieve our wants unless
we consent to abandon our houses to the
mercy of every irresponsible and dishonest
character, whether he be member of the
so-called salty committee, policeman, Il
soldier or minute man. They further say
that the city authorities, in the exercise of
their own judgment, regardless of the will
of 10 900 citizens remaining in the city, and
in utter violation of their rights, have seen
fit to enact series of oppressive and tyran-
ical laws,such as quarantining different por-
/ tions of the city against each other, forbid
ding persons passing to and fro in the peace
able pursuit of their own lawful interest,
and this at the point of the bayOnet, forbid
ding lis to venture beyond the precincts of
our own enclosures before 4 o'clock in the
morning, or to dare to be caught away from
our homes at later hour than in the
evening. Their grievances thus set forth,
and their expressions of impotence under
restraint, indicate a disposition to kick in
the traces, and make row. They abuse
the authorities, and at the same time re-
| specially ask for relief.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 25.-The fever is again
on the increase. Thirty-four cases were re-
ported to the Board of Health to-day, four
teen of whom were colored.
The greatest spread of the disease is no
! ticeable in the northern portion of the city.
Six cases developed in Chelsea. Prominent
| physicians are now of the opinion that there
will be a continued increase until October
Notwithstanding the efforts of the State Board
of Health officials to confine the disease to
! the city proper. Scarcely day passes but
new cases are reported in the suburbs at a
distance varying from two to ten miles
| The last instances are those of Esquire
Hoegel and family, six miles east, on the
Poplar street boulevard.
WHITES STATION.
Mr. G. D. Bradford, one of the State
Board of Health inspecting officers, wa.
sent, this evening, to Whites Station to iso
late the case of the negro who is sick with
the fever at that point.
The Towards to-day, assigned thirty
nurses more to duty.
To the Germans of the United States
The Teutonic Relief Association, compris
ing delegates of all the German societies o
Memphis, are compelled to call on thei
countrymen for help. Our fund is nearl,
exhausted and the suffering is great. ScnC
to the Teutonic Relief Association.
A. GOldschmid, President.
Jno. L. Eighberg, Secretary
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 25.-Anna Mair
Hennen, Wife of Gen. J. B. Hood, died a
her residence, near Constance, in this city
of yellow fever. The character of the dis
ease developed but a short time before death
The residence of Gen. Hood is on the SAM
square as that of Theodore Berksou, who's
young son died of yellow fever, July 81.
r. B. Nall, NJ. d. Inspector at Whiteha
; ven, reports that the two cases OF fever ar
progressing fayorably, and Improperly care
for, will soon recover. BY absolute non
intercourse no more cases have been dc
veloped. The prospect Is bright now tbs
no other eases will hIppen.