The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-17
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Progress of the Disease at Mem
phis and Elsewhere.
The New Cases and Deaths Yester-
day-Aid for the Howards-The
Colored Militia
eral Notes.

bOaTu Oh fipAlkN.
Doctors Ess and VIM, inspecting officers
OF the State and National Boards Of Health,
left early this morning to Investigate the
sickness that exists eighteen miles southwest
Of this city, at Horn Lake Island. One death
occurred there Sunday, and several others
are sick In the neighborhood with suspicious
cases Of fever.
5. w. Nader, secretary of the Peabody
| Subsistence Association, New Orleans, tele-
graphs the Howards to draw on them for
S475. the balance remaining in the treasury
| from last year. ..=.... -s..-=..*.z
| NJ. r.. HungerfoTd, treasurer Of the Hard
ware Board of Trade, Pttsburg, also au-
thorizes the Howards to check on him for
| 500.
| The weather Is clear and pleasant; the
thermometer at daylight indicated co..
/ Noon-Six new cases, two white and four
| colored, have been reported to the board OF
| health. =-
The undertakers report six interments since
last night:
Robert O'Donnell, wife Of ex-Chief OF Po-
lice Thomas w. O'Donnell, Ross Hodges,
colored; Dan f. Sullivan and Richard Sharp.
The last two were mentioned tn these dis
patches last evening.
w. i. White, operator In the Western Union
Telegraph Office in this city, went nome this
morning suffering with chill ana IL Is
thought he has the fever.
| An incendiary fire started this morning at
9 o'clock. in the building No 154 Mains street,
occupied by Mrs. Johi, but was ezttnguished
I without serious damage. Mrs JOhl was ao-
, sent from the city.
Inspecting officers have begun di5infecting
every house where 80 Of fever mas de-
yeioped this year, the work Will be thorough.
D. l. Porter and Col. John Z. Cameron, who
l N.,. lInt fy In vuj
suit the Governor IN reference to further con-
tinuance In service of the two colored mill
tary companies now doing patrol duty.
; Evening wenty-three cases In all-eleVen
/ the board Of health to-day, among the num-
= her Fred Lizzie and Ed. Valkmar, John Hou-
rihan, John Clark, W. >. White. the last
named a telegraph operator In the western
Union office. Three additional deaths are re-
ported Joseph Sharp and two coloted. Jos.
9 Sharp is q brother of Richard Sharp, whose
death occurred last night. Both had sought
refuge In a house six miles east Of the city, on
the Poplar street boulevard. Several died in
3 the same house last year, and four have been
: buried fFeH there this season.
Doctors Ess and Winn, who went to Horn
Lake Island this morning, to investigate tne
case OF sickness at that point, returned TINS
afternoon They report John kreuter' 8 death,
+ which occurred last Sunday, as being from
e yellow fever, notwithstanding Or. OReiily
Q the physician of the neighborhood, pro-
nDlncpf his lltIp5S niitDuo
His infection was traced to this city. A Mt
KrankIe is down with case of yellow feyel
at the same place.
Two other cases have also developed out
side the city; one eight miles south, on the
v Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad the Other
2 | eleven miles north ON the Paducah Railroad
7 This indicates q gradual spreading OF the
j fever in the country adjacent to Memphis.
y OF the nine deaths reported to-day 1oui
q died beyond the corporation line, varying IL
~ | distance from four to six miles.
Donations to the Howards to-day aggre
gated S2249 10, $1,000 being from j. w. Pres-
ton, chairman of the citizens committee O
g Chicago The thermometer has ranged De
e tween 60 and 10.
II LOUISVILLE RAISES QUARANTINE.
= - LOUISVILLE, Sept. Is The board Of health
I has raised the river quarantine against Mem
= pbis. Seven cases of yellow fever have DeeI
treated here this season; all Imported. fou
OF the number died. M@#M@N% za= a+.
q CINCINNATI RAISES HER QUARANTINE.
- CINCINNATI, Sept. 16.-The health office
y y has ordered quarantine to be raised on Thurs
= day next, sixty days from the time OF It's es
tablishment. There has not been case 2
yellow fever here since July. Before ina
time there had been six imported cases, on
y Of which was fatal.
ST. MARTINsvILLE QUARASTISEs AGATNs,
= MORGAN CITY.
fSpectal to the Democrat
Il.
/ from the seventeeth instant, quarantine
against all persons coming through or iron
Morgan City Norestrictions on freight iron
e. New Orleans. 5M@.5 y.
n THE TENNESSEE BOARD OF HEALTH.
,, NASHVILLE, Sept 16-At meeting OF tn
10 State Board Of Health, it was decided to ad
4 here to rule prohibiting the introduction 9
- cotton into Memphis until the epidemic sub
sides, because Of the increased facilities l, %
communication with the country. ana be
$. cause OF the danger, more Or less remote c
n transporting yellow fever poison in cotto
K ginned and baIed in an infected atmosphere
y A resolution was adopted instructing tn
It Superintendent Of quarantine to issue passe
to persons in Memphis desiring to 60 so,tnI INT
n onlv upon condition that such persons sha
10 90 into camp and there remain ten consecu
1e tive days prior to going to the cotton heids
,e other places for employment
T. A resolution was adopted to enforce rll
q eight, il regard to public assemblies until v.
% tober, when 1t shall terminate oy hhieatiol
S CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.