The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-23
THE YELLOW FEVER.
A More Cheerful Feeling Prevail
ing at Memphis.
The New Cases and the Deaths With
in Twenty -Four Hours 30, 600
Already Left the City.
Especial to the Democrat.l

Especial TO the DemOcrat.I
MEMPHIS, July 22-Five new eases are re-
ported this morning. Among them are Mrs. |
Powers, at Mulbrandon's shoe shop, 374 Shell |
by street. There have been four deaths to IL
q. m. this morning: Thos. Nrnan, Memphis
and Charleston road, Harry Ray, Moll1e
Hammerle and Louis Brumond.
The latter was reported dead before, but 1t
was his wife.
This makes q total of seyenty-four cases to
date and twenty deaths.
Memphis looks like a city of silence On
Front street, where the great produce houses
are, not q dray Is to be seen. Main street Is
as quiet at noon as at midnight, except that @
large number OF negroes can be seen on the
corner discussing the situation.
Owing to thesmalI police force now on duty
being insufficient to preserve order, the two
colored companies, the Memphis Zouaves and
Mcclellan Guards, have agreed to remain on
duty in the city as police These companies
preserved the city from rapine and murder
during the last epidemic
Among the passengers for Louisville the
other day was Mrs Fred. Eckers, whose hus-
band died of fever last week. Unknown to
the authorities she slipped aboard with all
her clothing and got away. Another woman
took her sick child against the express orders
of the physician and went off on the Vint
Shinkle for st. Louis
The site for the poor peoples camp will, in
| all probability, be chosen to-day. They will
| be supported by the supplies given by the
government at the instance OF Hon. Casey
Young.
Noon-Six new cases and seven deaths this
| morning.
/ Thos Herman, local passenger agent Of the
| Memphis aud Charleston Railroad, died this
morning. Harry, son OF Judge Ray, also
died. The office OF the Southern Newspaper
/ Union is being moved to Atlanta. Many are
leaving the City BY the dirt roads, falling
| with fever by the way. Twenty thousand
| whites have left.
1 m-Up to 8 o'clock this afternoon but
seven new cases were reported, and the feel
do so have left town. The weather to-day
has been fair and hot, and the city more
quiet than since the disease commenced The
reason for the sudden falling OIL IN the num-
Der OF new cases is that they were held back
as long as possible TO give people time to
leave town, and then reported in bulk. Three
OF the cases reported this morning will die.
The disease assumes very malignant form.
time d thorough system will be OBJ
served and the deaths and new cases
reported at the health office will represent
the actual progress OF the fever. The follow
Towers, a years; John Whelan, a years
Mrs. Daniel Creedon, 40 years; Rosa Walker,
N years; Mrs Hemeriy, 4D years; Van
Fletcher, 40 years; VIM. Capwood, 40 years.
The following are the deaths up to o'clock
Miss Molie Hamerle, Harry Ray, Thomas
Herman, Robt. Thompson, Pat Meathe, Louis
} Brumond and John Brumond.
12p. m.-There have been no new cases or
} deaths recorded since those already sent but
four new cases are ready to report, making q
total Of eleven for the day, with one or two
physicians in the suburbs to hear from.
FEVER NOTES FROM NEW YORK,
New YORK, July 22.-Steward John Schi-
ven, OF the steamship Niagara, who was sick
in the yellow fever hospital, has recovered
and was discharged yesterday.
J Antonio Sala, which arrived from Havana
Sunday, were sent to Swinburn Hospital sick
with the fever Colby died Sunday night and
!. was buried yesterday.
The captain Of ths brig Munson, from Car.
denas, which arrived In New York last night
) states that on July Is, in latitude n, longi
tude 1880, he saw brig flying signals OF dis
tress, and found her to be the brig A. n. Bal
; from Havana, bound for New York, with the
officer in charge sick with the yellow fever
6 One Of the sailors had died the day previous
and the captain had died in Havana. The
brig required q navigator, and the mate Of tbs
Mnnson was put on board.
The reported case OF yellow fever In Cherry
street was a case OF cholera mOrbus. No new
cases of yellow fever were received at the
quarantine hospital either to-day or yester-
day Out Of about ten patients received thus
far, for this season. three have died, and the
: others, except one now in the hospital, have
recovered, and been discharged. Last veal
: about thirty cases were treated IN the
hospital, and fourteen of them proved fatal
Officers of the health department express
: confidence that no yellow fever will elude The
J. vigilance Of the quarantine. The precautions
taken with the incoming vessels are all tha
! are possible to be taken, to guard against tht
danger Of importation Of the germs OF tht
9 disease. Last year five cases OF yellow fevel
. came into the city by means OF railroad.
Postmaster James says there Is no danger
. of yellow fever being disseminated by mails
coming from infected districts. No orders
9 have been issued by the postoffic. at Wash
ington in regard to the fumigation of mai
matter. If means for disinfecting the mails
are used it will be at points where the fevel
was known to exist. The mails are received
as usual from the South and the West Indies
but no fears are entertained that they br1Dt
with them any seeds Of disease.
II THE SITUATION AT CAIRO.
CAIRO, July 22.-There was slight rail-
this morning. Quarantine restrictions ar
!. increasing. There is no sign Of fever here.
STARKVILLE, MISS.