New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-09-10
NEW ULM REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1879.

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ONE new case was reported in New.
Orleans on the 31st ult. General ]. b. Hood,
the noted Confederate General, died on the
morning Of the 90th, and his daughter Lydia
on the night following. Another child Of the
family was very sick.
HoUsToN, Tex, having quarantined
against the City Of Galveston, the Governor
OF the State issued . proclamation on the
10th ult ordering the restriction removed,
and on the 30th train left the latter city for
the purpose of testing whether the former
place would Insist on enforcing the quaran-
tine On board the train were q Unite1 States
Marshal and several deputies and other Of
fcials. The train was stopped at the county
line by the Houston Health Officer, who was
promptly arrested, as was also the Health
Officer at Websterville. Both were re-
leased on bonds. When the train arrived
at the city limits of Houston 1t was halted By
the whole police force Of the city. The
United States Marshal, having deput:zed
about one hundred persons on the train, ar
rested the police. On entering the city the
United States officers were themselves ar
rested by the city authorities and taken be-
fore the Mayor. Bonds of fifty dollars each
"CAC uCIuduuCN AOI IACn dppCoIdACC COuIL
on the morning Of the LIST, which the prisoners
refused to give. United States District At
torney Holman, who was one Of the party,
said they had acted under authority of the
United States Government and by orders of
Governor Roberts, of Texas. He showed dis
patches from the Governor to the conductor
of the train telling him to take the train
through at all hazards s..
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
KIRBY died at the New York quarantine hos
pital on the LIST, of yellow fever. He con-
tractcd the disease while in charge of
schooner from Port au Prince. 81
THERE were three new cases of fever
In New Orleans on the let, one of them being
the son Jagged eight years) of the late General
Hood. One death was reported #4@
The official record showed twenty
eight new cases (ffteen coloredl and four
deaths in Memphis On the I'd. The fever had
evidently gained foot-hold at Buntyn Sta.
lion, six miles east Of the city, eight cases
in all having been reported in that immedi.
ate neighborhood.
At Houston, Texas, on the I'd
Judge Jones gave the quarantine breakers a
charged the prisoners, the Judge holding
that the Board OF Health had no power to
declare quarantine, the power being vested in
the Board Of Aldermen alone. It was said
the next proceeding would be to arrest the
Mayor, Health officers and members of the
Houston Board of Health on the charge Of
conspiracy to 0bstruct, and obstructing, the
United States rnail. If
THERE were seventy-eight deaths
from yellow fever in Havana during the week
ending on the Goth ult., decrease of seven.
teen compared with the previous week.
An appeal, signed by w. j. Smith,
acting President, and I. Roane Warning, Secre-
tary, Of the Memphis Howard Association,
was published on the 18th, calling on the pub
lie at large for substantial aid. Every dollar
In their treasury had been used up and no
alternative was left them but to appeal to the
charity OF the Nation. They say: 1.-THE
generous people throughout the Union will
not fail to respond to this call for help. We
feel that we arc performing sacred duty to
the impoverished and distressed people among
whom our lot is cast The bounty of COM
mon people was showered upon US in
1878, and to those same willing givcrs
we appeal. II help is not speedily
furnished we will be compelled to abandon
the work In which we have been engaged,
leaving hundreds to suffer and Die for want
of Howard's helping hand"
TwENTY-sEvENca cases (fifteen coloreh
were reported IN Memphis on the 4th. The
deaths numbered ten. Three additional cases
were reported at Runtyn Station. A.. +. 4
A NEW ORLEANS telegram of the 5th.
in noticing the enforcement Of the National
Quarantine law in regard to vessels leaving
the infected port of New Orleans" says tho
population of the city was not less than 2O0.-
600, and there was then but one case of yel-
low fever there, and that was in the Fourth,
District, fully two miles from the business
center. Total cases in the city so far, twenty
two, and deaths, nine. s:...@s IA
FIVE seamen, just arrived from
Jamaica and Haytt, were admitted to the yell
Elow-fever quarantine hospital at New York
on the 9Th. &
The official report showed nineteen
new cases Twelve Whitley and thirteen deaths
in Memphis on the 5th. Liberal cOntribu-
tons were being received by the Howard Az
ISOLATION in response to the appeal for aid.
Jay Gould sent IS, OO0by telegraph from New
York, and expressed himself as certain that
"generous people throughout the country
will contribute literally to aid your stricken
city. At any rate (he adds) keep on at your
noble work till I tell you to stop, and will
foot the bill" In acknowledging the receipt
of this liberal donation, Mr.. Smith says the
expenses Of the Association aggregated s 200
day, and should the fever continue to
spread the expenses must necessarily In
crease. :.s.A=.-s. .ssSf .a " 4-g
" THE MARKETS.
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