Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-23
JOHN Walsh.

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low fever.
Frank Wolf, age 22, 10 Bradford
street, yellow fever.
Margaret Kearns, age so, foot OF Elk
change street, debility.
Child (colored), Carolina street, still
born.
Peter Mulvehill, age 30, on Commerce
street, near bridge, yellow fever.
Child, Chelsea, still born.
cooSEY BRO.
Mrs. Mary j. Slater, age AZ, No. lls,
Third street, consumption.
HOIST A BRO.
Minnie NJ. Rutledge, age %, LOG Front
street, yellow fever.
Alice T. Connaughton, age 30, LOG
Front street, yellow fever.
Harry 0. Patterson, age II, l4l Main
street, yellow fever.
Sarah E. Trfplett, age IL, ZIG Prone
made street, yellow fever
Henry L. Harmon, age %, l49 Main
street, yellow fever.
Jno. W. Snider, age IL, l26 Front,
yellow fever.
Total, 81; yellow fever, III other
causes, 9.
One of the undertakers reports but
one interment since noon yesterday,
and another states that but one applica-
ton was made this morning for burial
cases.
One fatal case THAT of street-car
driver) is reported on Beal street, and
another in the same vicinity is i'll.
CONTRIBUTION FROM NASHVILLE.
NASHVILLE, September %, 1873.
IL North Vine street.
Colonel j. j. Murphy;
DEAR SIR-I inclose one hundred dol
lars, to be expended under the direction
OF the Howard Association, for the re-
lief of our suffering fellow-citizens at
Memphis. Yours truly,
JOHN NJ. LEA.
The above letter, with the money, was
received this morning, and is accepted
as token of the generous sympathy of
the giver with the poor of Memphis in
the hour of their trouble. Long may
he live to repeat his worthy acts.
THE FINANCE QUESTION.
B. f. White, jr., Chairman of the
Finance Committee, says in card that
there is no fund in the city treasury to
meet the appropriation of $4,000 made
to the Howard Association. Therefore
we infer that the Association will become
practically, for the present, dependent
upon private contributions. Without
knowing at this writing what the Mayor
intends to do, we feel assured that the act
| of the General Council carries with it and
implies the full power for the Mayor to
negotiate for the money upon whatever
terms he can make. 1t would be cruel
mockery to vote the money without
meaning to give it at such time of gen
eral disasters as this, and we know that
the Council voted the appropriation in
good faith. If there is any doubt about
this let special meeting be called to-
day. This, however, seems unnecessary.
The Mayor has power to act, and the
emergency demands immediate action.
DOWN THE RIVER.
The Friar's Point Delta of the goth
goes for the Memphis press savagely as
follows
1t 1.-THE yellow fever) is also unques-
tionably prevailing in Memphis. The
people have stampeded and are leaving
in every direction in which public con-
veyance can be found. Yet the Mem
phis papers wickedly withhold all infor-
nation from the public and continue to
invite our citizens to visit them, when
they must know that they are imperil-
ing the lives of thousands simply for
gain.
That editor should read the LEDGER
regularly, and he will not only be happy
and intelligent, but virtuous, and cease
to rail at a morning contemporary as he
does in the following style;
The 60" is thought to be blessing
| in ITS extensive diffusion of knowledge,
but when it ceases to warn the people of
death for the seneft of advertising, II is
a curse to the land and should be
dreaded as serpent.
The latter part of which is both UNI
true and unjust. The Delta states that
On Thursday one case occurred in
Helena, which occasioned intense ex-
citement. The people are rapidly de-
sorting that city.
On the intelligence reaching our city
of the prevalence of the disease in Hell
ena, a meeting Of the leading citizens
was held at once at the courthouse, and
after due deliberations they passed the
following resolution and adjourned:
Resolved, That every citizen OF this
city be required to burn tar, and to use
other disinfectants to prevent the dis
ease.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, issued to-day,
contains the full and accurate reports OF
deaths from yellow fever which have ap-
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