Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-30
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The sale of watermelons has at last beer
prohibited.
-Twenty-four negroes died yesterday O
| yellow-fever.
There are seven of the Dominican sisters
sick of the fever.
Professor J. G. Handwerker and family
left for Louisville yesterday.
There has not been even one case of fe-
yer in Huntsville, Alabama.
-Rosiua Zacaria, a nurse from Grenada
lies sick at No. sos Main treet.
Barrels of tar are kept burning at vari-
GUS points in the infected district.
DIR. Porter, Dr. Frayser and General w.
j. Smith are rapidly convalescing.
-Tar-b barrel bon6res are in abundance
every night now. Fire is a purifier.
DIR. I. O. Somers, of Nashville, has been
placed on duty at Camp Joe Williams.
There has not been a case of yellow
fever within sixteen miles of fernando.
The additions to the medical force of the
Howard is timely, but more are needed.
The weather, yesterday, though very
good for the healthy, was fatal to the sick.
Colonel r. F. Loouey, and Colonel A. j.
Kelar, of the AUalanche, are in Nashville.
1t is estimated that there are at least one
thousand cases of yellow fever in Vicksburg.
-Jailer r. L. Taggert was taken with the
fever last evening. His name will appear in
to-day's reports.
Mrs. Mary J. Graham, of st. Louis, has
arrived in the city, avolunteer nurse-another
Matte Stevenson.
Mr.. Conn, of the citizens relief COM
mittee, was on duty yesterday, recovered from
an attack of fever.
-Dr Srnith'S rnnkhar diad Of tho
fever yesterday. about five miles from town,
on the Pigeon-Roost road.
The prostration of Howard Visitor Ed
Mansford yesterday makes the fifth who has
succumbed in that district.
H. H. Hargrove. representing the Shreve-
port Times, is in the city, a volunteer nurse.
He will 90 to work to-day.
Mrs. Starnes, Mrs Smith and Mrs. Brown,
refugees from New Orleans, at Golden Lake,
Arkansas, are down with the fever.
Fathers Walsh and Maher, of st. Bridg-
cts, and M'Gairy, of st. Peters Catholic
church, died yesterday of yellow-fever.
The Odd-FelIows of Huntsville have
raised one hundred and twenty dollars for
the yellow-fever sufferers of Memphis.
The Vicksburg Herald, publishes a list
of one hundred and twenty deaths by fever
in that city since the twenty-third of July.
Mr.. N. D. Menken, one of our wealth.
lest merchants, is one of the most untiring of
the Howard workers. He Is a whole team in
himself.
DIR. Charles Baskerville, of Horn Lake,
Miss, has come to Memphis to volunteer his
services for the benefit of the yellow. fever
The colored people have no time to lose.
The fever is upon them, and the only way to
escape it Is to leave the city. They should
go into camp.
If you want to engage in noble work go
at once and attach yourself to the Howard
ASSOCIATION. Active and willing workers are
badly needed.
Mr.. Don d. Wilkie, correspondent for
the New York Clipper, at this city, arrived
in Chicago Friday night, and is stopping at
the Atlantic Hotel.
The Little Rock people are supplying
those residing along the Memphis road with
provisions and medicines. They will not al
low the quarantine to be broken.
Stewart, Gwynne & Co. yesterday re-
dis, Mississippi, and on Friday last the first
bale from DeSoto county, Mississippi.
Mr.. Thos. Oonnelly, the SomerviIle Fat
con states, was not turned out of Somerville.
He was promptly and we'll cared for, and re-
turned to Memphis Of his own accord.
Mr.. Lang Wardlaw is, we are happy to
learn, doing well and will be out in a few
days. The same report will apply to Mr.
Adolph Thumel, of the German national
bank.
The deaths (seventy)l yesterday from
were fifteen more than on
the tenth of October, 1873, when the highest
mortality (ifty-fve) of that epidemic was
registered.
Twenty cases of yellow-fever were re-
ported at Camp Joe Williams yesterday.
This is not corroborated by the information
CLEANED by the APPEAL reporter from that
point yesterday.
Mr.. L. Woeller died yesterday at Fitz-
Cibbon' grove, seven miles from the city on
the old Raleigh road, of yellow-fever. His
wife is sick Of the disease, and is not ex-
pected to recover.
President Langstaff, of the Towards, is
making arrangements to have a reserved
force of nurses In waiting at the Howard
rooms all night, so that applications can be
instantly supplied.
Chattanooga has provided by ordinance
for refugees from the infected cities and
towns. Those that are rich will have medi-
cal attention and nursing, and those who are
without means be provided with food.
The printers of st. Louis sent fifty dol
lars, through Mr.. Fred A. Meredith foreman
of the Globe Democrat, as contribution
the relief of their sick fellow-craftsmen
Memphis. The order was received by ted :
graph. =
One Of the oldest, perhaps the oldest liv-
ing citizen of Memphis after County Tax
Collector Rawlings, Mr.. n. B. Holt is down
with the fever at his residence, on Poplar
street. He was doing very well at last &C
counts.
John Donovan will, we are advised by
publish card in the Nashville
4 Haey.ican, of to-day, explanatory of his
course He might as well spare himself the
trouble Nothing that he can say will salts