Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-19
CHOLERA.
Latest from the Present Field Of 0per.
ati0ns OF the ScOurge.
At Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Union
City-NeW Cases from Bad Water.

From the knoxville Chronicle Of fsunday.l
From the mail agent on the western
/ bound passenger train, who is resident
OF Carter's Station, We learn that there
are four cases at that place, namely:
Young Robert Shell, younger brother
and sister, and Miles Perrick, son-in-
law OF old man She'll, deceased. None
of the cases, however, are considered
dangerous, and all of shem are improv
ing. There is some excitement there
still. but healthier feeling seems to ex
ist From the mail-agent of the eastern
bound train, we learned that a Miss In
gledow died on Friday morning iD
Chattanooga of cholera. Although
some report that it was not cholera, the
agent says that he was at the house, and
the father of the girl told him that il
was cholera. She was taken down Oh
Thursday evening about six o'clock and
died early Friday morning. He say
that there are an average of two cholera
deaths IN that plsce every day. Yet no
excitement prevails, and everybody il
taking matters quietly. The news from
other points continues good. Cholera
rumOrs were sfiOat in our city to some
extent yesterday, but with a very
slight foundation for the same. DR.
Bailey, the health-Officer, informed US
last night that there were really only
three cases of cholera in the city, and
they were all doing well and likely to
recover. There are other parties, living
in that neighborhOOd, opposite the tan
yard on Second creek, who are suffering
with eholeraic or premonitory symp-
toms, but no fears are entertained thai
1t viii reach violent type. DR.. Boyd
we understand, attributes the outbreak
ing of the disease in that neighbOrhOOo
to the use of the water out of the sprine
opposite the lanyard, and has notified al
persons living near there to desist from
using It. We do not think that there II
the least cause for excitement, or fear OF
an epidemic, as there Is nothing in the
cases. spoken of TO indicate anything 0,
the kind, yet it will be well for persons
living in that neighborhood to look well
to the matter of cleanliness and diet.
Al Untoa city.
Fro q the COurier.l
This fearful disease still fingers in our
midst, as if reluctant to leave US. The
weather has been changable during the
past week, but rather productive of dis
ease. The general health is equally a.
good if not better than at this time last
year; the ratio of mortality Is less than
at the corresponding period for several
years. Business is almost wholly sus
pended, and but few of cur people who
had fled from the cholera have returned.
Some few are gradually coming back,
and few are still going away. 1t has
now been more than six weeks since tht
first case Of cholera occurred in this citv
lingering longer here than at any other
point either north or south. What the
cause of this Is we cannot tell. It can
not be anything local, 50 far as we know
The city Is sufficiently rolling to draii
off readily, so that there is little or no
stsgaant water near us. The whole
number of deaths from cholera in the
city limits since its first appear
ance to date August 18TH, is fifty
onei OF these, however, there were
four cases that were not considered
cholera at the time, and were reported
complaint; but admitting them
TO be cholera, it shows an average of q
fraction over one per day since the first
case occurred, yet many of our citizens,
who have been much alarmed, report
On an average of five to ten per day, |
and many actually believe that as high
As seventy-five per day have been dying |
here and the people burying them at the |
lead hour of night. When people be |
come frightened they loose their senses, |
and are unable to report the facts as they
'eally are. We admit that the facts arr |
bad enough, yet we deprecate the exag-
srated and false reports that have gone
abroad, and while we believe that the |
worst is past, and that all win be safe in |
! short time, we would not encourage
'ur absent friends to return yet while, |
however home-sick they may be.