The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-31

greatest good may be done to the greatest
number with the least waste of means.
We call upon all Memphiaus to unite in
shouldering the heavy burden once more
laid upon us. We implore one and all to
protect the good name of the city from
the possible imputation by the world at
large of being a community of beggars
sitting idly down expecting others to
take care of our interests and feed our
poor. Let the good men of Memphis do
their whole duty now, and with economy,
honesty and thorough system in our
management we hope earnestly not to
be compelled to ask charity of the world.
Let it be understood that all moneys or
supplies sent to us will be used for these
purposes: feeding the sick, aged and
helpless in camps selected for health,
giving employment to able-bodied men,
thrown out Of employment by fever, in
guarding, property, public and private,
and in such public works Us will promote
the health and business of our city when
the fever abatcs. We shall keep careful
records of all receipts and disbursements,
publishing the same in such form as will
be sufficient guarantee to all contribu-
tors that their donations have been prop
erly and economically applied.
D. T. PORTER, Chm'n.
MEMPHIS, July 27-11 p. m.-Four-
teen new cases were reported to the
board of health to-day. Nine deaths
from fever have occurred since last night.
At meeting of the Howard Associa-
ton this afternoon, it was unanimously
resolved that the association needs no
assistance at present from physicians or
nurses from abroad to attend to the COM
paratively few cases now under their
charge. The association says: "With
heartfelt thanks to the many who have
already kindly rendered theirservices, and
who will be gratefully remembered, we
would add that under no circumstances
will the services of unacclimated persons
be hereafter accepted"
The two colored military companies
went into camp to-day on the Bluffs un-
der the orders of Col. John F. Cameron,
of the Governors staff. The police and
fire departments have been strengthened,
and the authorities do not now antici-
pate any trouble. Camps for the coloni-
zation of the poor people will positively
be established tomorrow.
BETTER NEWS FROM MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, July %.
Noon.-Three new cases were reported
to the Board of Health this morning.
No deaths have occurred. A detail of
twenty-five men from q colored military
company has been made to do police du-
ty during the day, as the entire strength
of the regular police force has been as
signed to night service. It has been
raining steadily since daylight. DR..
Samuel J. Fox, of Funis, Texas, arrived
this morning. He will be sent out of the
city tonight by order of John johnson,
superintendent of quarantine, as he
has never had fever, and the inspectors
at the quarantine station have been in
strueted not to permit unacclimated peo-
pie to enter the city.
MEMPHIS, July 20.-11 P. M.-Ten
additional cases were reported to the
Board of Health this afternoon, six of
them colored. Two deaths from yellow
fever have occurred, one, however, be-
yond the city limits. The special police
men engaged in taking the census of the
city haYe completed their task. The re-
suit shows the population of Memphis to
be 1910, viz: White 1882, colored
II, 1927 adults 1861, children 5,456. Of
the total number 9,74S have had fever,
leaving 1865 susceptible to the disease.
Failing to secure transportation to the
site selected for the establishment of q
camp on the Paducah Railroad, Col.
John F. Cameron, with detail of color
ed soldiers, took passage on train fur
nished by Superintendent Burke, of the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railway, and
established a camp five miles below
where Camp Joe Williams was establish
ed last year. Tents were taken along,
and by morning the detail will have fifty
tents ready for occupation. A. D.
Lanstaff, president, and Gen. W. ]:
Smith, vice-president, of the Howard
Association, have been added to the ex-
ecutive committee of safety.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The secreta-
ry of war has telegaphed to the president
of the board of health of Memphis, in
response to an application for tents and
rations, that rations will only be fur
nished to persons sick with fever or in
quarantine camp who can be subsisted in
no other way.
Half Sheet Memphis appeal.
When the camps now contemplated
are established, we trust that the colored
people, as well as white, will avail them
selves Of so seasonable mode of life,
and one that affords so ready q means of
escape from the epidemic. To those who
are not independent the camps will af-
ford at the present time the only avail
able means of living. The people of the
North and West, as well as of the South,
have determined that they will neither
contribute money nor provisions to those
who, after receiving timely warning, per-
versely remain in the city. They have al
ready expressed themselves in this mat
ter through their leading organs. They
will send money to the Howards, to be
expended for the sick and dead, and they
will send money to DR.. Porter, to be ex-
pended for the needy who are in camps;
for whom, also, they will send provisions
and clothing, if needed, but they will not
send one cent, a pound of food or single
article of clothing for those who refuse to
avail themselves of the only safe refuge
yet open to them. We urge, therefore,
when the camps are established, that
blacks as we'll as whites remove to them
and thus save themselves from sickness
and perhaps from death.
Among the curious incidents.ofa panic
in yellow fever times, the following is not
the least Last Sunday the outgoing train
over the Louisville Railroad was crowded
to excess by excited refugees. At the
transfer station, some miles out Of the
city, the excitement among the passen-
gers was intense to get seats, and, in
fact, to get into the car being the great
objects. So great was the excitement
that 4 Memphis lady bound for Gadsden