Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-27

citizens We're leaving the town, and
business was almost suspended. From
the last information there had been
/ twenty-five or more cases, and every
one was trseeable to some imprudence,
eating vegetables and fruits, drinking
ice water, lager-beer and bust-head
whisky. r. L. Cobb, Esq, connected
with the tobacco warehouse of Kay,
Cobb & Sehree, became subject of the
dreadful disease from the simple act of
eating dewberries. We met him on
Monday, seemingly in perfect health,
actively engaged in the business of the
house, and the next day he was corpse.
AT GREENvILLE.
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
Wednesday says: From Greenville we
have far better reports than the rumOrs
on our streets had led US to expect. The
receipt of a dispatch by the mayor yes
terday evening from Greenville, asking
that two of our physicians be sent to
that place, gave rise to the most alarm
ing suspicious and suggestions regarding
the ravages of the cholera in that
afflicted village. 1t turns out, however,
that there was but one death there yes
terday, and that of child; that the sick
are convalescing, and that the prosua-
ton of the two physicians was in conse-
quence of their extraordinary labOrs for
two weeks past.
CHASTITY PICTURE.
From a private letter from leading
business man of Nashville, written
Monday afternoon, the Press and Her
aid of Wednesday makes the following
extracts: "The condition of things has
been awful here. Last Friday l report
ed eighty-one deaths. This was obtain
ed from the undertakers; but l am fully
satisfied that there were at least twenty
five to thirty more, who were boxed up
by carpenters in different parts of the
city, and burl6d. | know of cases where
whole families of negroes have died.
One case where the man and his wife
were lying dead on the bed and three
children dead on the floor. A Mr.. Jen-
kins, of Edgefield, had two children to
die yesterday. They were both at Sun
day-schOol in the morning, and were in
their collins at three O'Clock. The disease
seems, however, as general thing, to
be confined to the negroes and the
poorer classes of white people. l no.
ticed that on Sunday, out of fifty-siX,
there were twenty-eight buried by the
where proper medical attention can be
| had promptly, the case viii yield to
treatment. Many have doubtless died
from fright, and likewise from overdOses
Of preventives. While speaking of pre-
ventives, l will give you what con-
slider TO be the best prescription that can
/ be followed: Have a bandage, about
half yard wide, made of good soft
] flannel, keep it tied aroung the bowels,
and every morning rub The abdomen
well with spirits of camphOr. l use
this constantly, and require all my peo-
/ pie to do so. Do this, and live prudent
| ly, eating no fruits or vegetables, and
| keep from getting scared, aud. you will
/ be well fortified against cholera
NO CHOLERA AT MORRIsTOwN.
The following letters, addressed to the
editor of the Knoxville Press and Her
aid of Wednesday, speak for themselves
! MORRIsTOwN, June24.-RumOrs have
/ been put atiOat either through malice OF
a desire to tattle, that cholera prevailed
at Morristown and Tate's Springs. II
is nothing but justice to stamp such
reports as false. We have had no ch0l-
| era. There have been a number of cases
of diarrhea, but every one has been
easily checked by medical treatment.
We have had but three deaths in
| MoTristown for three months. One
was a lingering case of consumption,
| the other two infants. At no time since
/ the war have we had so many deaths.
At Tate's and Mineral Hill, there are
no symptoms of cholera. You will con-
| fer favor upon us by denying these re-
ports most emphatically. We may
| have the cholera. If so, you will be inn
mediateiy informed Of the fact,
H. w. WILSON.
| MORRIsTowN, Tenn, June A.-ln
! Justice to our town and vicinity, / am
compelled to ask you to publish card
/ denying the statement made by some
| correspondent of the Nashville BdR1ae1
relative to cholera. There is no cholera
here. There is none at Tate's Springs
| The vicinity never was more healthy
! than now. There have been but two
deaths in town in four months, and they
/ were both infants. Will you ask the pa
pers to publish this in justice to US?
NJ NJ. MGRRELL, City Recorder.
NO CHOLERA AT KNOXVILLE.
The false rumors, says the Press ana
| Herald, circulated through the Nash.
vile Banner, to the effect that the
cholera had reached Knoxville, and
! that the citizens were panic-stricken anC
fleeing to the mountains to escape it
ravages, have not only done vast dea
of harm to our city, but have also beeI
i the source of infinite detriment to Eas
Tennessee. Persons who, no doubt
would have visited our part of the State
have been deferred from doing so Oy the
/ false and unjust TumOrs of the preva
lence OF cholera in Knoxville. Many
too, who annually visit our watering
places, have gone in other directions, ,anC
thus any one can see the great detri
: ment these untrue reports have done
! Knoxville, at present, is in the enjoy
ment of perfect health, and entirely fre'
from the least indication of cholera Ol
sickness of any kind.
FASTING, HUMILIATION AND PRAYER
The people Of Knoxville, according I,
the papers of that city, are not scared
but they return thanks in prayer for tn
absence of the sO-called cholera. Tn
mayor ofthat city, in obedience to tn
ministers and congregations, proclaims
az. William Rille, mayor of the city o
Knoxville, do hereby appoint Thursday
the tweuty-sixth instant, to be observed
as a dav of fasting, humiliation ant
prayer to Almighty God for his mercie
ia averting disease from this communi
ty, and for thanksgiving to him for tn
health which he has vouchsafed to us a
J a people. And hereby request all cit
izens to close their places OF business
! their stores and workshops on that day
= and repair to their several places OF wor
ship, and, with their pastors, puollcI,
5 acknowledge the goodness of God, an
/ imPlore continuance of his blessings.
1 A STRANGE AND FEARFUL DISEASE
We take the following from the Osce
ola Tines of the eleventh instant: "W
learn from Mr.. Henry Brown the fol
lowing particulars of a mysterious an
singular mortality which occurred rt
e Gently in Pecan township: Miss Pats
: Harrell, daughter of Ben HarreIl, VIII
? lived on the Preston place, in the ben
y of Island No. 35, young lady abou
4 nineteen years old, arose on the mon
Q ing Of last Tuesday week feeling Yer
S well, except that she seemed rattle
:, drowsy. She attended to her usuS
d household duties until nearly breakfas
time, when she complained of a peel