Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-06

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Sisters Dominica, CECILIA, Alberta and
Reginald, of LaSslette, are c~onvalesc'
ing.
J Reilly Anderson Betens and the
Gibbs family of four are all GONZALES
cent.
Cases carried to the country cannot
spread. The people should not be SO
scary.
New York has had a genuine case Of
yellow fever, said to be a refugee from
Memphis.
Capt Joseph Rogers, formerly in the
commission business here, died this
morning.
Out Of the As cases in charge of the
Knights of Honor none have died in the
last "a hours.
Ben Colman, general insurance agent,
has the fever. His wife and three chill.
dren are also down.
Mr. N Dewar, who has been doing eff
feetive service at the commissary depot,
is dowR with the fever.
Drs Pitman and Saunders report thir.
teen new cases this morning-the only
physicians who had reported up to noon.
The fever is increasing at Holly
Springs. Miss. Several physicians are
down with it.
The Linden street school house will be
opened to-day for the reception of col.
Ored patients.
Mr. John A Burns, another one Of our
oompositors, was stricken down with the
fever yesterday.
A man named Sam Townsley, at q
Main street, is reported having deserted
his dying wife yesterday.
At Brownsville the fever is increasing.
They want doctors, druggists, nurses,
grave. diggers and undertakers.
There we're 2Ol new cases and "a
deaths yesterday at New Orleans, No
p%ereeptible change in the situation.
Mr. Charles MeDougall, the feed mer.
chant on Second street, died Oh Gayoso
street, near Third, this morning, Of vel.
low fever, after a brief illness.
Mrs DE- Ingalls,, the stricken nurse, is
doing very we'll. Her husband died
Wednesday of the fever; his age was
reported 40 years-it should have been
sixty.
Mr. B A HOllenberg, 81 Madison street
who anne so near deaths door and
whose wife died of the fever, we are
glad to know, is well and on bis feet
again.
The new cases since the last report oil
the Knights Of Honor are j P Merritt
tuild case), son Of George R Merritt,
the railroad man who died the other day,
and Mr. Paul Snyder, So Mulberry.
Captain ] @ Tbrall got up and showed
himself yesterday, took a relapse and
had q bad time Of it last night. He is
better again to-day. So much tor get.
ting up too soon. Others should take
warning.
The odd.FsllOws having used up tn,
fund left on hand from the epidemic oil
1873 have issued an appeal to the brelh
rem at large for assistance. More than
a hundred of their members, including
their families, have sickoned aud died.
The young ladies of the Hsbre .sewinl
Society, Of St Louis, have forwarded t,
Mr. Jake Kohlberg, acting President o
the Memphis Hebrew Hospital Associa
ton, a number of shrouds and sheet
for the burial Of the Hebrew dead.
An affecting scene was witnessed q
the Howard Ip6rmary this mornin
when Miss Carrie Davis was carrie
there with the fever and found her frisnt
Miss Emma Cole, an occupant Of a CT
in tie fever ward. These two your
ladies came together from Nashville, /,
volunteer nurses.
The doctors who have come here fro
abroad need to understand the dife
euce between the Towards and the CT,
zens relief committee. They send q
ders to the Towards for everything i
Discriminatory. The Towards supp
nourishment for the sick, but not blan
cts, money, whisky and the substanti
articles furnished by the citizens reli
committee.
A horrible case happened on
Charleston railroad. in the eastern pt
Of the city, yesterday. One Of the |
wagons going around gathering up I
dead, stopped in front Of a house for
other coffin. A nan bad died there a
J. others we're down. The wife cane o
and ct that instant a heavy.cofin tn
9 bled down FROM the top Of the To-
bursted vide open and the corpse o
large mar rolled out.
SENT TO THE ISLAND.
The incompetent nurse, D SuGsm.
9 whose outrageous conduct was alluded
yesterday, vas brought before Chief
, Police Arrata, acting as recorder, I
OF morning and fined fifty dollars, which
was unable to pay. No shyster law
was present to defend him, and il
likely that be will serve the city awI
on Presidents Island. Mr. Georg,
Z Elliott, who made the arrest, oonduc
the prosecution with great ability.
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