The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-18
YELLOW-FEVER NEWS.

At Houston, Texas, on the I'd
Judge Jones gsxe the quarantine breakers q
hearing on writs Of habeas corpus, and dis.
charged the prisoners. the Judge holding
that ~ Board of Health had no power ia
declare quarantine, the power being vested in
the Board of Aldermen alone. It-swas 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 obstruct, and obstructing. the
United States mail.
AN appeal, signed by W.. j. Smith,
acting President, aud T. Roane Warning, secre.
tary, of the Memphis Howard Association,
was published on the 4th, calling on the pub.
lie at large for substantial aid. Every dollar
III 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 are performing a sacred duty to
the impoverished and distressed people among
whom our lot is cast. The bounty Of q COM
mon people was showered upon us in
1878, and to those same willing givers
we appeal. If 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 Towards helping hand"
A NEW ORLEANS telegram of the 9Th,
in noticing the enforcement of the National
Quarantine law in regard to vessels leaving
the infected port Of New Orleans" says the
population of the city was not less than 300
mn nd thor, h,,f 80 ~
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. ti
FIVE seamen, just arrived from
Jamaica and Hayti, were admitted to the yell
low-fever quarantine hospital at New York
on the 5:h.
The official report showed nineteen
new cases Twelve Whitley and thirteen deaths
in Memphis on the 5th. Liberal contribu-
tions were being received by the Howard As
ISOLATION in response to the appeal for aid.
Jay Gould sent $1,000 by 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 Che adds) keep on at your
noble work till 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 81 200
day, and should the fever continue to
spread the expenses must necessarily in
crease. ......
SEVENTEEN new cases were reported
in Memphis on the 9Th, nine of them whites
nd orb Thn
seven, five of whom were white. The total
number of cases reported during the week
was 152-seventy-fou colored; total number
to date 1.OO5. The deaths from yellow fever
during the week numbered forty-three
(tbirty-three whites), and the total
number to date (6th) was 272. The Odd-Tel-
lows Special Relief Committee announced
that they were again forced to the necessity
of appealing to the Brotherhood at large for
material aid. Such contributions should be
sent to Marcus Jones, Grand Patriarch of the
State and President of the Committee, Men,
phis, Tenn.
THREE new cases and one death were
reported to the New Orleans Board of Health
on the 9th.
The National Board of Health re-
ceived word from Morgan City, La, on the
Sth that there had been one death there
from yellow fever.
THERE were eleven patients in the
yellow-fever quarantine hospital at New
York on the sth, three having been admitted
that day.
The report to the Memphis Board
of Health on the Sth showed twenty-five new
cases (ffteen Whitley and eleven deaths in
that city during the twenty-four hours end
ing on the evening Of that dav