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Show l)"kMTHl'. SirlKtT?. K..lt R.vr, M w , 22 Sinking apiumr rt-p.irt r-teivir.g In'oi f-ymp it'i-z -rn. J-um- Hiiinc?, a i.oh- I .-lick, wa-j f-t-il.bc-d by striKerc. Anoiiier ncl't-hrk tired upon his as-eail-viits aLd U-d. THE FEVER. More "lew Cuxch Trying to Kft- up Cuitrnue. ' Memphis, 22. Five new cases were reported lo t'je board of beaitn this morning. Four ileal s 'lave O'-currt-d since last mgnl. The two coiund military compauie-i, MCIel-lan MCIel-lan Guaids and M-iupms Z navc-E, have volunttered tbtir service to pru-tict pru-tict the property ol the cny, il necessity neces-sity ari-ts The city autiioriiies will doubilcea sthct a site lu day wnere a oamp will be established, to which the poor of the city will be removed. New York, 22. Tbe Tunc.i, review ing the mortui g difpatches from the eOUtfj, tljjnks there is not the least evidence of an epidtmio at Memphis 1 here have been only lour or five deaths, and the disease generally ii derlaitd lo be a mild type. It is not likely to be carried i-laewiieru, il ordinary precautions are taken. A Nashville epecial eaya Dr. E. M. Wright, Unilt-d States san'tary in pi cior, arrived here from New Orleans this morning under orders ot tbe national hoard of health. He nays h is almost the universally ex pressed opiuion of thoee familiar witb ye low levnr tnat there is great dangf r ol tun fever spreading cvtr the Mit-siasippi Mit-siasippi Valley, and there is a verj-generally verj-generally expiesecd demand lor tbe t-wlahliwhnipnt. nf inlflnunt nuaran- tine under rnlea ot the national board, which everywhere meets wilb approval, ap-proval, with t tie exception of ita app.icatiou to i articular localities woere the lever has hre oloie prevailed. pre-vailed. At these places pbysiciaas and health autbonties familur witn yeliow fever ndvise such qaarao.-tine qaarao.-tine as will pronibit tue stay ol people cummg Irom inlecttd pi acts Ea3t i'tunessee and Virginia, be fays, aie tuount tu be the br-ut localities wilbin easy reach ior fleeing refugees, uLlordiug to em a better asylum, perhaps, than any other region at the same distance from poiuts likely to be iniected. He says the health authorities of New Orleans are exercising great vigilance to prevent pre-vent tbe outbreak of lever there and are very wtclilul of every suspicious case, and tbat any case occurring wiil be promptly reported. The Tunes' Memphis special: The lever is now scattered over the city, and the indications are tbat before the week ib ended there will be no part ol too city without its quota ol sicknesB. Many of toe doctors slill maintain that ihe disease is a mild type ol yeilow lever, while otlierB contend that it is something else Dr. Putnam, an old resident physi cian of thirty-five years standing, says be has five ur six patients under treatment, but does not discover any yellow lever in the sickness which would be reported by other doctors as yeliow lever. General Smith, connected witb tbe Howards, says bo has neighbors with id two blockB of his residence, and Bays he cannot detect id any of tbem yellow fever, although he believes ttiere is yellow lever in tbe city. Tue genfral mentioned cases within his knowledge knowl-edge tnat bau utver been reported, aud said that altoougU tbe patientB were very sick on the tiiet attack, Lliey were now waiting about in their yards or on tue B;reeis to-day. The general said the Huw-irde would bold uu meeting, nor would they organize until the situation wus such thai the Howards must be brougtil iuto'ine field. Smitn was very sanguine thai we wo-ild have no epidetuto as com pared with last year, and such is the , leeling entertained by our most prom- 1 iuent physicians. Dr. Collins, oi I tho board of health, says ROoa 1 humored ly, be expects to have bero in about thirty days tor some point, becausu there will ha nntm dl' tn do. When asked why, when thirty five cases like thoue ol to-day, cuuld be not find (something to do, ne answered tnat the disease in thirty days would be checked as 'suddenly as it begaUj and that no malerial would be ieit for it lo leed upou. Dr. J. B. Tnornton baa relumed after a flying trip to Washington. Ho enters upon his duties as president ol the board of i uealih. Dr. Murray is in Colorado. He has resigned his membership of the state board of health. VVasliiugion, 22. Tbe cabinet discussed, dis-cussed, tc-day, the yellow fever question. ques-tion. The acting puslmaaler general gen-eral was instructed to use all the roeuus in bis powor to keep mail couimumcaiions open. |