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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
OBITUARY..
RORERT A. SANDS.

Robert A. Sands, the Oldest druggist in the
city, died at his house No. 50 Le1ingon-aye on Wei
nesday last in the seveny-iith year OF his age "heh
thirteen years OF age he became clerk IN Church9 DIS
pensary at No l8s BOwery. In few years he gained
f, confro. Of the business and for the last fifty years
ne has conducted 1t successfully at the same place lie
was also interested for few years in drug business IN
Albany. ...,,.u % ,ba cor,
mon Council of this city and became proml-
neut In that year through his brave conduct
IN Sghting Ib. Cholera. He for a number
Of Years a director Of the Manhattan savings
Rank He leaves widow and four sons Henry -.
sands il Professor OF Surgery In the New1 ork'Oese
of Pbyslcians and Surgeons; George t. SANDS uIuE-
sisf OF this city Parker ;. Sands, lawye OF virginia
and Lanes G. sands who was partner win MS laluei,
and vino will continue the business The funeral t0Ok
Mace Thursday at II O'Clock The body was placed III
me family vault In ST. Peters Church.
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MISS BROMNELL,s SUICIDE.

To IA 7 utFoF OF IHe TtON Y.
SIR: Will you allow me to correct an error
I'm your account Of the circumstances attending the
death OF Miss Brownell near White PIANIST
she was the time OF her death engaged TO be mar
ried to a young now living in New-iork city. He
was telegraphed TO and up 20 the funeral bringing
beautiful floral tribute TO her memory. IL seemsa
marked injustice blame young Grin in TINS matter
His engagement TO another lady we'll known 70
the whole community for two years past
Miss Browuen herself, when asked why she took the
poison. replied she did not know what she was DOING
This statement Of hers probably the exact truth The
recent death aud funeral OF the old IN the house
where she lived probably brought on temporary M
sanity during which she took the fatal craught But IN
anv event II is great injustice 10 lay the blame OF this
sad event on Mr. Howard Gr din IN the absence OF juS
fying evidence. Yours respectfully, c. l. w.
Ne0- Ork, July 80, ls19.
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Fiig.9.

Fig Q--Arebqocvrtbus rniaganrns fossil sponge from
the Calclferous sand-rock Partly restored
But while the life Of the period. taken as whole
was thus lowly as compared with the total life Of
the world of our own time, and only imperfectiy
EXPRESSED the possible structural diversity under
each class so strkngly brought out in the life OF
subseouent periods there is yet dignity, nay an
impressiveness, about its history, from whatever
doctrinal standpoint we may view 1t, that Is well
calculated to commend it as fitting theme Tor
earnest and careful reflection. The sudden ap-
pearance of so many new classes, the Cephalopoda
and Acephala among MOllusks, and the Polypltera
among Radiates, leaving out OF the question the
numerous genera here for the first time appear
ing, is, in itself, most extraordinary fact'
and in the present state of our knowledge seems
utterly inexpicable on the theory Of descent from
n common ancestor through the revamping
of preaxstng types. The fact too, that so
many of the genera. Nautilus, DiscRd, LtnGaia
RhunchonelIa and PleTotomd'id have come down TO
our own time thus affOrdng us glimpse OF the
very life itself Of the period, bears important tes-
timony in the same direction. 1t was my intention
to speak moro fully upon the subject of the appear
ance of the Cephalopods and Acephala at this time,
but other considerations render its postponement
desirable.
One other consideration and 1 shall have done.
Why. it may be asked all this display of life, while
there was as yet no human eye TO take note Of and
nothing in nature so far as can discover, to be
benefited by it7 Why, in short, TINS meaningless,
lopg-continued and prodirious waste 1t will be
answered that on the theory of descent with modi-
fication, the display not meaningless, and this
is perhaps one of the strongest general arguments
that can be advanced in support Of the theory but
the element Of waste still remains But if we
regard the life of the world as having conformed,
both in its structural expression and history, to an
intelligent plan, with the ultimate meaning of
which we are still but imperfectly acquainted, we
shall adopt a view which, however unscientitic 1t
NAV by some be considered, yet appears much more
in consonance than any other with the facts at
present known concerning the history of the life OF
the older Silurlan deposits
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FIgI.

1-a-Ntieps mocrops, BILLINGS Fig. l-b-Bn1pDrel-
Iu nidt b. from the quebec group of Newfoundland Nat
size.
In Fig the eyes are vely large hence the spe-
ciic name " macrops" In Fig. they are smaller,
and the general body structure is considerably diff
ferent. The generic name BathywellHs, signifies a
little, deep tall" Another species, the DcolOceph-
alus magaifcus from Point Lewis, Canada, las a
large fan-shaped tail-pece, terminating in sharp.
triangular points and. tho entire animal, when
fully grown, was eight nine inches in length
Besides the Trilobtes there were bvalve crustace-
ans, of the kind called Ostracoids, already much
larger than most Of their modern representatives
Beyiohia and Leperditia are the names OF some OF
the genera. The species are for the most part, OF
small size, but under LepGdiRa some of the forms
were more than quarter of an inch long, length
rarely matched by existing species of the class.
single species Of STpuIite among Annelds has been
found in the ChaZY limestone.
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%yVtC[NlcnInbZl1ZLl

Fig 5-RbVlchoHett picnd, side viow Fig Corn" ct
ploratOr Fig. 7.--PhgtOgTuDtS tgpuS. Fig 8-Dtdyno-
0raphls gcn1iaUs foreign species.
Radiate life was bat sp9ringly represented during
the Calciferous and Quebec epochs unless the Crap
totes are examples of it, these being especially
abundant in the Quebec group rocks, where they
attain their maximum development. Over fifty
species occur in the Canadian BEDS some Of them OF
remarkable delicacy and beauty. Two different
species are shown in Figs. 7 and S, photographs
sgnifying a leaf and DidymOgraptas a " double "
graptolite. The Calcferous has afforded Crinoidal
columns and the Quebec fine species of starfsh In
addition, but no true Poyp-corals In the Chazy
these appear, however. though sparingly, and arc
accompanied by numerous species of Crinolds, both
Cystideans and true Crinids. 1 shall speak more
fully of this class of animals in my next article.
The Protozoans were represented in the Calclfer-
GUS by sponges of the ArcbGOcydhUS group of which
have treated in article No. also by other forms
supposed by some to be more nearly related to the
Rhizopods-a class of animals forming compound
she'll structures, through the pores OF which, when
these exist they throw ont slender, roOt-like pro-
cesses that serve as feet hence the name which is
the Greek for Root-footed." In the Quebec and
Chazy epochs spouges of still other kinds occur,
and in the latter are numerously represented in
genera and species.
The plant life of the period comprised only small
number of species of seaweeds as in the Primordlal
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PROSECUTED BY A POLITICAL RING.
- tbs Editor Of The Tribune.

SIR. On April 80 or May l there appeared
an item in The TRIBUNE TO the effect that had been III
dicted as Justice OF the Peace for maieasance The
case ended last Wednesday by the Attorney al
hitting in open that there DO evidence against
me. The whole thing political persecution. got
Ten up because as Editor Of The News had exposed
system whereby the Jail had been tiled by ramps at
COST to tie county OF some $4,000 1 showed that
twenty-four officers put on duty az this court,
When ak would have served the same purpose. These
exposures 0nraged the Democratic ring that they
trumped up this charge against me.
While am thankful Tor tue item that appeared In
your paper on Thursday last, afraid youc readers
may '1er that the indictment had been quashed on n
tecbuicay. II YOU IN your own way will kindly state
that t was quaslod FOR want Of evidence, wll feeI
greatly obliged. L. H. LONG
WLtfe Plains. n. L., July 20, 1879
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MAJOR GEORGE s. HUrTER.

LyycHBURG, Va, Aug. 1.-Mdor George 5.
u,, late Of the United states Army died near TINS
city yesterday. He born in Bethlehem Penn, IN
1893 ana was private soldier during the war OF lSI2
President Monroe made him q captain OF the oth ln'
faptry ana he fought In several Indian wars anu III
Mexico lie became major ana pay MASTER A. ' 0o''
-, -, war Ue mad served forty-hye years
.,on in 1851 being stationed at Charleston, ne Weh
WnGeT a,g of truce TO pay of Andersous comnang lu
u u, when the call Tor troops was Issued ne
r.steneG nud retired to his home, near LynchDfs h'
Uttered a Lgh position in the Confederate Army
t1t derlined ON account OF mtitmlty. He was mem
ber AT the EuscopaI Church more than my yeaIs.
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MAJOR John V. DUBOIS.

Major John V. Dubois, retired officer OF
the United states Army, died at Hudson Thursday lie
received his first commission from the West Point Mill
tarv Academy as Brsvet Second Lieutenant OF the
Mounted Rifles July /, 1855. He was promoted 10 DC
first lieutenant May -, 1861 and to be captain on May
Ii of the same year, but this he decheu On
~ 80, -. made Captain OF the Sd Cavalry, and
an May 3 1869 he was appointed major oil the same
TsgmeuI In tho volunteer service he served as ugor
, ii IN fhe First Missouri Light Artillery during
IS6l and s62 aud was mustered out as aludecaIn
F1HniaTv s. 1865 He retired from service May ~,
1876. lie was native OF heW-hOIh o.a'c "hu az VIC
inc of his death was forty-siX years Of age.
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Fig cCsudal shield or Pygidum OF DicellOceDhalu mag
nlfc,S. Quebec group.
The Moluscan sub-kngdOm was finely displayed,
all of It's classes being represented, and three OF
them abundantly so both in genera and species.
The highest, the Cephalopods embraced species of
Nautilus, OrthooraS and LitHtes along with other
kinds; and of these the Nautilus, as is doubtless
well known to many of our readers, still exists
though under different Species in our present seas
Ii is an example of a long-lyed, or, as biologists
sometimes speak of it, persistent" type. The
she'll in Orthocsras is a straight tube crossed by
numerous transverse partitions or dlaphragns
through which extends smaller tube called
the siphuncle, as i'll the Nautilus. The name is the
Greek for " straight horn" Some of the species OF
the period were nearly two feet in length, and one
of them two and one-half inches in width. One of
the species with the body-chamber wanting, Is
shown in Fig. 8.
The Pteropods were but meagerly represented
none having been found in the American beds; but
the British rocks have afforded few forms OF
Tbeod.
The GasteropOds were abundant and Of numerous
genera and species. One of the best characterized
forms is the Macl,rea magma from the Chazy lime
stone, shell sometimes eight niche,
across. and composed of several closely coiled
yybors Sections of this fossil frequently to bt
seen I'm the doOrsills Of of our public buildings
The Calciferous of Now-York and Canada has fur
nlshed over twenty species of this class, and the
Quebec group upward Of forty the whole repre-
senting dozen or more genera. Among these arr
numerous species of Pleurotomdrta genus thai
still continues to exist in own seas, as In th(
case of the genus Nautilus. Who will undertake tC
explain. on the theory that all organic forms have
arisen by some process OF evolution controlled by
the laws and forces of nature, why these types
should have maintained themselves in theil
integrity while 80 many and important
changes were taking place in the organic
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TIC seven got away very QUICKLY. Lady MiudIeton
got In advance in hurry and led all the way ny the
last stride. Then after the greatest effort Checkmate
reached her head and the crossed the line together
making dead heat. IL splendid finish, and
cited all the spectators to enthusiasm. Gabriel
third three lengths behind the two Terror fourth Una
fifth. the Lsamington-El1stlc Ally sixth, aud Dell last
The dead heat off after the fourth race, Check
mate bringing 900 to $500 for Lady Middleton The
latter got away much in advance OF Cbeckmae and the
Jockey of the geding Obliged to lash him a the
start. Lady Middleton set out AT wonderful pace and
Checkmatc was never able 10 catch her. She won by
three lengths In the remarkable time OF l:l5. Mutual
pool tickets bought before tho paid TIC comfortable
sum oi S405 60, and those bought before the deciding
heat S42.
The second a free handicap sweepstakes of
$50 EACH with 5000 added the second to receive 100
and the third $50; distance, a miles. Five started
Hum Reyuodss excellent mare Fortuna "a years, ll3
pounds, Crouses colt Jericho % years 100 pounds
Halls lilly Eunce % years. 90 pounds, Yards horse
NIpper (6 years. l02 pounds and Badwu's mare Bios
som "a years, 92 pounds. Pools sold az follows
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were called upon to pass in the long of geo
logical timel
The Acephala or Lamellibranchs mollusks Of
the oyster class appear in the Cacfercus Sandrock
In O single species. the Oldest certainly known. 1t
is related to the existing genus Cardun', and be-
longs to the highest division of its class 1t occurs
also in the Quebec group where IT is accompanied
by q small number of other species Of two or three
different genera A species related TO AUicald,
genus likewise existing in our own time, occurs in
the Chazy.
The BrachiopOds were also we'll displayed in gen.
era and species, Sirophom.1d, Stricklandinid and
Rhyachoaella among genera 1.-THE latter also pres
ent day genusl being added to Linguld Obo'eHd and
Discipa of the Primordal. Nearly thirty species
have been described from the Quebec group of Can
ada and ono species of the Chazy, Rhynchonelta
pIend sometimes of itself constitutes whole layers
OF rock Two of the species are shown in Figs.
and 6. There were also, in the Chazy, few species
of undoubted coral-making nollusks, or true Bryo-
zOauS
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THE NER-ENGLAND FAIR.

GENERAL DEvENs To DELIVER THE ADDREss-A
LARGE COMPANY or DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE TO
INVITED.
MANCHESTER, n. H., Aug. IA meeting of
executive officers Of the w-Engiand Agricultural
Society was held to-day and arrangements were com
pleted for holding the next annual exhibition a. WOr
cestcr from September to september b, inclusive.
Arrangements have been completed with leading New
England railroads half stock and articles
for exhibition with the rates for passengers as last
year A committee appointed 70 invite President
HAYES aud Cabinet General william L, Sherman and the
Governors OF the NewEDgland States with their stas
The Grand Army Of Worcester County has YonD-
teered escort duty to General DeYens, who Will de-
liver the address.
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Missouri man called on a Missouri editor

a missouri 1laU VdIItU UII q lIIsSOUII tUIVOr
IN nrotesf against something that had Ia the paper
DID YOU And MIR Smith in inquired a gentleman "a
ne came out IN extreme haste. " Can you look at my
face aud ask that I" said the Indignantly. beg
vOur pardon" replied the gentleman, but thought
was talking 20 the back OF head The inteigeng
reader will Observation-Disclosures Express.
A Texas man brought out forlorn, spayined-
looking seed and addressed the spectators thIs Feb
low-citzens this i the famous horse Dandy jack Look
AT him. He's perfect. II be sent 10 tie horse.
maker nothing could be dOne for hun. What shall
have for the matchess steedp "What Will YOU take
Tor mint yelled the crowd. Two hundred dolarsl
"Giye you SO" Take HIM. ] never let Sl9o tiane
between me aud horse trade. ThaEs business"
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Blossom led Tor almost three-quarters OF a mile. and
then passed by Jericho Fortuna mad been moving
easily In the rear but she faster and swiftly
disposed OF all except Jericho. The race was left TO
the two, the rest being OF no consequence, and
a splendid struggle the pair made of lt. Jericho
and then Fortuna, under the whip, at
bis side. Barrett Jericho piled the lash also, and the
result doubt the last jump. Fortuna got her
long neck In advance at tho end, relieving the rOmen-
dous strain on the minds of her many hackers, who
in trepdatiOn until the YerV close. The time was
21O3i. Muual pool tickets paid 50 so. Nipper was
thrd Blossom fourth, and Eunlce last
In the third one mile for purse OF $500, for
three-ycar-olds with allowances the five competitors
were Bowie's gedng Skylark % years, 10S pounds,
Nelson Il Co.'s colt LtncewoOd q years, 100 poundsl,
McGrath's hllY AudaX % years LOG pOunds). DOswets
FLY Dairy Maid q years, % pOuuds), and Yards colt
BoWstrlng @ years, Ill pOundsl Skylark was the
faYOr1tc ana Lakewood second choice LdnceWOnd mad
the the prompt start and remained In advance
for nearly half mile, when he resigned the leading po-
sii0n to Stylark for short distance, Audax running
third Iaucovood gained fresh courage or fresh speed
and soon forced skyllrk TO second place, en-
terng the homc-suetCh In advance, Ssylark
tIruE badly. LanceWoOd his first race in l;4Gi2i
Dairy Maid secOnl, AuidX third SkylLrk fourth, and
Bowstrng last Mutual pool tickets paid $50 20 Lance
wood has beaten often before, and has shown
snch an inclination give II when he gets into try
ing position that surprised many. 1t Is re-
ported that dose or Wnskty put some courage III nun
abe lset ~. mn .,I w in IT, IL purse
Of 1900 the winner sold. Dwyer Brothers geld
ing Charlie GOrham % years l01 pOunds Bells geld
ing Jackscrew "a years 92 pOunds G. b. Morris's geld
ing Bill Dillon (6 years, lOl pounds, aud DosWePs
horse Powhatau q years 90 pouudsl These pools were
sold with others:
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DOES WIND LOWER THE MERCURY

To the Edtt0r or The IrIbuHe.
SIR: Does the wind lower the mercury OF
a thermometer exposed TO til It 4. usually claimed
that 1t does not. The following experiment seems "a
show the opposite and is sent to TIE TRIBUNE for sx
PLANTATION An ordinary bellows, used 20 kindle fires,
was worked upon thermometer bulb, and the mercury
fell 10 40 The bulb perfectly dry, and the ehecs
could not have been caused by evaporation discus
sion pro and has arisen, which We submit 10 youf
decision. lNVObAShS-
LittI Penn. July "a, 1870.
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corxrrpFElr com PIECEs.

PLYMOUTH, n. H., July 31.-A Frenchman
bngnt .ou. goods this afternoon, in warren from f.
: Jewett and in payment gave a new counterfeit ten
dollar gold piece. The coin bore date OF lsO2. nut had
ma yalue marked on the face. As soon as MT Je"ett
i.covered that the coin counterfeit he sent oheIs
ssp lie man Who when OycrtaKeD, stated that Le hdd
cnn. from Cuba aud that he had received tue COINS
t1Tie lie exllulted number more OI tAe Same SORT
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INFORMATION ABOUT KANSAS WANTED.

To the EdttOr Of me Tribune.
SIR: Your correspondents letters on Texas
AsItIs" have been enjoyed. While iG would seem TOO
personal to ask for It, yet think others than myself
would he deeply interested in information on Kansas
with view 70 practising law, after spother years
stndy In Kansas Kansas City, Mo. II cannot look
Tor tine desired information in WEEKLY columns,
can Won saV where II can be obtained Yours truly,
Washington, Penn. july %, 1879. II. r. Al.
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RACING MEN ASTOUNDED.
LADY MIDDLEToN's AMAZING VICTOR

LADY MIDDLETON'S AMAZING VICTORY.
FRENCH POOL TICKETS PAYING $i05 60 FOR So
CHECKMATE BEATEN BY THE DARKEST OF DARK
HORSESHOE OTHER RACES WON BY FORTUNA,
LANCEwooD AND CHARLIE GoRHAM.
lFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
SARATOGA, Aug. 1.-The grand stand did
not contain many persons usual to-day, but the
people who stayed away missed seeing some OF the
most exciting racing and the greatest upset OF the meet
ing II believed by most tur'men to be hardly pos
sbe for the Western geldng Checkmate TO lose the first
race, and unpromsng the chances OF Lady Mid
dleon considered. that only Ave French pool tickets
were sold her out Az Each OF these paid
S4OO, for after a dead heat with Checkmate
Lady Middleton defeated hin handsomely In very fast
tme Fortuna HAD hard task to beat Jericho in the
second race aud only succeeded in the last stride or
Wo In the third the favorite had to yield to the
morse that next in the betting, but in the last the
Judgment Of the spectators justified BY the re-
SUIT 1t was hot day, but brisk breeze blowing.
In the first seven RAM. T. Wiilismss geldng
Checkmate "A years, los pounds, G.. L. Lorllard's fy
Una % years. 90 pounds Puryears Leaning tonEastic
My % years, 80 poundsl Barnes Vests colt Gabriel
3years, lO1 pounds, Nelson Co.'s Lady Middle
ton "a years 101 pounds, Yards 1ly Dell @ years. SO
pounds. and James McCOrmaeks horse Terror "A years,
% pounds. Tic three-quarers OF a mile, for
"a purse Of $500, with allowances. Checkmate was
Thought sure Of success as the following pools show
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EARTHQUAKES AND THE DARIEN TUNNEL.

To The Edttor OF INC IFtO"hs'
SIR: In the construction of ship canal
across the Istbmus OF Dlrien upon the plan pro-
posed by the Canal Congress OF PARIS, could tunnel
through the Cordilleras Of the proposed DIMENSIONS
100 feet high By 200 feet Wide, oceyc-be so con-
truced and so supported be proof against aver
age earthquake of Central American And have the en-.
gneprs taken into the cost IL time, money ana
9umau fe Of repairing damages which might be thus
sustapedl .. W. 3.
San Diego. cal July ls, 1879.
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"TFXAS Az 1T ISD

To the Edftor or The Tribune.
SIR: Will not the letters Of K. Y. S. from,
Tcxs. be issued in the form Of TRIBcNs EXTrAi
Neto- Mlrorf. Conn. May 90, 1879. J. 7. SHAW
Air. Z. V. Smalley's Texas letters have recently
been published in connection with those of Mr.. z.
l.. White from Colorado. The two series can now
be had In TRIBUNE EXTRA No. 49.-Edl
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CONTROLLER KELLYS pEBT STATEMENT

Controller Kellys monthly debt statement
shows that the total bonded debt Of this city, less the
sinking fund August l, was Sl24,s7ss59 40 against
s1134s.4o3 40 on January l. Warrants to the amount
of ~ $40 $40 &C. payable from taxation. were drawn III
Jpv and 10 the amount Of S15s 499 payable from the
procecds Of bonds The bonded debt OF the annexed ter
llory from Wcstcheser County on July 81, was Slo5o-
6l4 including Sc 500 dispute. stocks and bonds nave
- - L.-u. mn l.a-.L m
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plague. You will observe that I have shown that the
yellow fever would start from in Memphis shortly
after June So 1879 see the third COTTON OF The Voice
OF the Stars" which sent You IN May asD We shan
have enough-mOre tBaD enOugh-of pestlence I'D our
country without allowing any foreign mportations
Of disease PROFESSOR q. A. GRIMNER.
San JOst cal, July 10. 1879.
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QUARANTINE MEASURES.

TO the EdttOr or The Tribune
SIR: The National Board of Health should
use strict quarantine against the West Indies
and Braz for from those countries there great dan
ger Of receiving ouy the yellow fever but also the