The New York herald., 1879-08-31
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE
Shows Only a
Improvement.
QUARANTINE IN TEXAS.
New Orleans Endeavoring to Iso-
late the Disease.
rBy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALp.l

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, August 80. 1879.
There were thirty eight of yellow fever re-
ported TO the Board of Health to-day. seventeen Of
the patients being coiored. The following list en-
braces the whites. together with tho interments
reported by uudertakers:-
Thomas Mcmahon. aged 35. City Hospital.
Mary Hendricks. aged 81 No. $40 Washington
street
7. McLain. aged "a, No. SO Third street.
Mrs. Anderson. aged 20, No. % Charleston avenue.
Minnie Anderson. aged So. Marshall avenue.
Jake Sege. aged so. corner OF Third and Jefferson
streets.
Barney Hartley, aged 4o foot OF vancey street.
William Woodward. aged 70. Gayoso and Main
streets.
Mrs shelly, aged So. corner of Butler and Tcnnes-
see streets.
Adelaide Frayser, aged 49, No. 100 Front street.
Martha Fraysor. aged II. No. 100 Front street.
Susie Fontaine aged s. No. 2G Tate street.
Clifford Fontanc. agod TO- No. 26 Tate street.
Julia Cassanova aged d. No. 205 Tennessee street.
William Hinson. aged II, No. 42S Beale street.
Earnest John. aged 6. Brinckley avenue.
Hortense john aged IL. Brinckley avenue.
Jennie John, aged g. Brinckley avenue.
Amanda Gillespie, aged "A. corner Of Seventh and
Mill streets.
THE DEATH LIsT-wHrrEs.
T.. Il.
and Saffron streets
FRED McCI.EMMONS, aged 80, hve miles east Of
the city.
EUGENIA BOGGIANO. aged 20. corner of Jackson
and Reyburn avenues.
JOHN P. HOFFMAN. aged 50, corner Of Lane and
Dupree streets.
Mrs. JOHN PAPE. aged SO. 1877 Mulberry street.
W. II. CASGILL. aged SO. No. So fernando street.
SOPHIA FALKENBERG. aged A. No. 80 Jackson
street
CoLoRRD.
ANN E. HENDRICKS aged s. No. 90 fernando
street. o4.Ht
ROBERT BUSH. aged %. City Hospital.
JOSEPHINE LOWERY. aged 21. No. 40 Fourth
street. $40 t4,- l.
In addition the official report of cases in
side the city there reported Of
persons sick with the fever just beyond the Corpora
ton line
The Howards to-day assigned twenty nurses to
DUTY. Among those furnished with nurses Sre the
following (whites). whose names do not appear on
the Board OF Health report
Mrs. Mary Graham and her two daughters. Mimic
and Ida
Charles Odder.
Barney Hardy.
Joseph Hanson.
Ella Costello.
Morgan McHugh.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Higgins.
Robert Linden and wife,
Z. n. Goodwin.
:, The Howards' weekly report shows that they have
cOS nurses duty attending 1872 whites and 61
colored families.
From tho official report of tho Board Of Health
are gained the following tatistics:-Total number
of now cases reported for tho week. I'll; Whites ST.
colored 81; under Ave years of ago. 3; total num-
herr tod IN dafo
The total number OF deaths occurring from yellow
fever for the wook. 81; whites. S5; colored. l6.
Total number to date. 22s.
AWAY ACTIVE WORKERS.
The most prominent persons among the dead Of
to-day are John p. Holman and Fred. McClemmons
John p. Hoffman was q member of the firm Of
Mitchell Il Hoffman, furniture dealers. tho wealth.
est firm in tho Southwest. He has resided in Men,
phs for moro than twenty years, and at the time of
his death was a member Of the Committee of Safety.
Frederick McClemmoas employe of the
Chckasaw Iron Works and nephew Of A. J. White.
o prominent hardware merchant. He sickened and
died five miles east of this city. the Poplar Street
boulevard. His infection be traced to tho build
ing wherein he had sought refuge. three persons
had dod at the same place of the fever last year.
The Knights OF Honor havo buried ten members
of their brotherhood since tho outbreak of the fever
They have also inferred twelve wives and children Of
mombers.
The Odd Fellows have cared for ffty-fve sick
brothers and members of families Of their Order
OF these sixteen have died. thirty have
and eight still under treatment
st. Peters Orphan Asylum. tho Poplar street
Boulevard. has ninoty-cight children within its
walls. The.two orphan children of the late George
f. Taylor found shelter there to-day.
Tho Steamboat Mems Relief Association, although
just organized, have several families under their
charge.
There 2.25o rations issued today to people in
camp. divided as follows:-
G76 to Camp Marks.
5i7 to Camp Father Mathew.
229 to Camp Benjes.
SO to Camp Burke.
81 to Camp Langstaff,
o. to Camp Teutona,
33 to the Minute Meu, and
416 to the soldiers encanped on the blufrs and
their families.
The Howard medical corps now consists of
Drs julius Wise. Heber Jones, 4. L. sim, c. W.
ovcral. L. Miles Mett S. p. Green. Thatdcus Dona-
hue. s. J. Quimby and John Gordon. Their daily
report shows they are attending 157 yellow fcver
patients. seventy -throo OF whom are white and
cightyfour colorei. DR.. Mett whose district en-
braces Chelsea, reports fifteen OF fever.
Last night young man known active worker
during the prcsont epidemic called to lady ac-
quaintance. lie passed very agreeable evening
and at ton O'Clock took his leave. after Affection
nto farewell at tho garden gate. Two hours after
ward. while in bis room. he aroused by fu-
rious knocking at his door. The young lady whom hc
had parted from only short time previous had
been strick en- with Tho fever and had sent servant
In hot haste hor friend with instructions to bring
physician and nurse.
The thermometer to-day has ranged between GO