The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-29
MEMPHIS MATTERS.
COlOred People Starving Rather
Than Go to Camp.
An Elder Who Steals Clothing from the
Orphans.
Sixteen New Cases and Six Deaths
To-day.

Special to the Star.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 29-11:30 A. MN. A.
Comstock, who was arrested here yesterday
for violating the quarantine law, turns out
to be a noted horse thief.
Charlie johnson, an Elder in a colored
Baptist Church, was arrested yesterday
with lot of clothes stolen from the Or
phans' Home.
Five new cases of fever reported to-day.
Salle Bilbo, Cora Horton and Louis Kerk-
land white; VIM. Mckenzie and Carter
Bockler, colored.
Hundreds of negroes are known to be
starving rather than to go to the camps,
and the regulations are so strict that they
can not steal. PICKETT.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 29.-1:2O P. M.-The
following additional new cases are reported;
Maude X. Roper, white, and ten colored.
The following deaths are reported: Mary
Mccormick, George Graves, Louis Fazzi,
George Genevieve, w. H. johnson and
James Whitehead. PICKETT.
National Associated Press to the Star.
THIS MORNING AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Aug 29-9 A. M.-The weather
this morning is clear and pleasant The
decrease in the number of new cases yester-
day makes all little more cheerful this
morning, though few dare hope for the end
of the epidemic before frost The fever
seems to be spreading toward the suburbs
from Chelsea, in the northern part of the
city, and southwark from Fort Pickering.
Its progress toward the center Of the city is
very slow. But few cases have yet occurred
along Front street, about the river, or in
the business portion of the city. The Pea
body Hotel has not yet had case. 1t is
evident that the physicians are not exer.
cising due diligence in their reports. Of
yesterdays new cases three are nearly well,
having been under treatment two or three
weeks but not reported, the physicians say
for prudential reasons.
There are nearly 700 people now at Camp
Matthew. The health is excellent and but
two cases of yellow fever have yet occurred
there, both contracted in the city.
The official report of yesterday closed
with new cases and 10 deaths.
THE DISEASE IN FOREIGN PORTS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29-Supervising Sur
geon General Hamilton, of the Marine Hos
ptal service, has received reports from
abroad as follows: There were at Rio Jan
eiro for the week ending July 10Th five
deaths from yellow fever and one from
smallpox. For the week ending July
26th, five from yellow fever and four from
smallpox. For the week ending August
| I'd, eleven deaths from yellow fever. AT
Singapore, for the week ending July 14th,
every ything is reported healthy. No fur
ther adyices were received regarding the
| cholera epidemic in Japan.
ANOTHER CASE AT ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS Aug. 29.-Vincent Lyons, a
| lad fourteen years of age, who came from
Memphis ten weeks ago. was taken with
yellow fever yesterday and sent to the
quarantine.
| ONLY ONE CASE AT NEW YORK.
| New YoRK, Aug. 29-Juan Cazellas, a
passenger on board the steamship City OF
Merida, and Mr.. Burke, from the City OF
Vera Cruz, were yesterday discharged from
the Quarantine Hospital conyalescent, leav.
ing only one yellow fever case there, that
of Mrs. Josephine Van Buren, from Mem.
phis, who is srapdly recovering.
HOW THE NEW BILL WORKS.
The steamship Niagara, from Havana,
has arrived at the lower quarantine. She
has no sickness on board, and her passen.
gers came up last night. The ship is an.
chored at the upper quarantine discharging
ground. The Niagara is the first vessel that
has arrived here under the form OF the new
bill of health prepared for vessels leaving
Havana for United States ports, by the
United States National Board of Health,
with the approval of the President