Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23


months, Bsal and bayou, measles, DIR
Purnells )s4l5 sra
Dr. Burger, cOlored, age 49, II Ala
bama, yellow fever, DR. Sim.
Phillip Burton, colored, age %, l63
Adams, yellow fever, DIR Mitchell.
Matthias HuppsFt, age 81, dropsy.
] W Byrnes, age Al, consumption.
Maggie Burgess, eOlOred, age %, yell
low fever.
John Forbes, age IS, yellow fever.
John A Roush, age A, yellow fever.
Andy Dolan, age AZ, yellow fever.
E. Hill, age As, yellow fever.
Eliza Ewing, colored, lS months den.
%tition.
Emmons Metcalf, age 40, yellow fever.
Frank shuts, age AZ, yellow fever.
Child, colored, stillborn, l6l Union.
Auguste Anderson, age 80, yellow fe-
yer.
Isaac Isaacs, age 50, yellow fever,
!. 7 3 Saunders, age 50, yellow fever Ire
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A FREE TRANSPORTATION o REFUGEES,
BONNEVILLE. ALA. August Y.
General Luke E Wright. Chairman Executive
Committee:
Your telegram asking for special rates
y to send the poor away from Memphis re-
%ceived. Superintendent Grant has in
~structed conductors to pass persons from
Memphis TO any station on the Memphis
rs and Charleston railroad free Of charge,
re- who hold certificates signed by yourself
ed stating that they are refugees from Mem
phis and have not means to pay railroad
he fare. All we ask is that you protect u
us from those who, while not entitled to
will not hesitate to claim the benefit t
he derived from this arrangement.
ED 7. s. DAvAKT.
nat isov Asst Gen'l Passenger Agent.
adj ABOUT ARMY TENTS.
tho WAsHINGrGK, August %.
=. R. A. Thompson, Postmaster, Memphis;
Tho supply Of tents at Jacksonville
ess about exhausted BY a lot semitic Grenad
are since the order to send five hundred az
nee ditional to you vas Withdrawn. Can
Y YOU get along with what you haveY
ordered now they must be shipped fro
PHILADELPHIA. GEO W MCCRARY,
Get, Secretary Of War.
rem ~uopev avn RuceY wANTEp BY A RELII
ight Sd COMMITTEE.
ven The relief committee Of the Knigt
Of Honor are in need of a horse a
leet. buggy. II any one who is now abst
to. from the city, or who contemplates leI
offer ing, wants his horse and buggy "
cared for, address A L Avery or Geo
ring Elliott, at W l Berlin'S Office, 80 Madi'
elisf street. They would not object payinI
With reasonable hire for same.
cIEorNEArE o., August 2
la State National Bank;
I Instruct Mayor Flippin to draw
es 2 Elias Block & Sons for $3.50 for re
fund. FEUoHT q bLooi
~ to A CONTRIBUTION.
IS re: Major W. Messick, Of Versailles, ]
ply tslegraphs to DR.. John Erskine to d
ON the Union aud Planters Bank
who 800, for the relief OF the poor and
BET. tresssd. This was done and the mo
ser turned over to the relief committee
Q aud day.
g the EIGHT BY E GUARANTEES.
ar'ers By the time the little towns ar
h DIS Memphis get over their fright a
d per yellow fever and conclude to take I
: vast their guarantees, we presume it vi
labor. too late for their hotels and boar,
y" OLD houses to do a thriving business
then they Gao fight it out and set
among themselves as to who wal rel
TO sible for a course which was at
81 nonsensical and inhuman toward
OTS nsigbbors in distress, who never
went back on them in time Of need
PANIC STRUCK.
An NJ, We received the following per
card yesterday and would have ST.
/, Chan. the press to insert it but that our
positors we're getting ready to 9
Thorn. camp:
lnoi" Franklin, Tenn, AuEu
To the Editor Of the Public Ledger:
Thorn. Stop Miss Lizzie Campbelfs par
ap Ill further notice, Rs she is afraid
Hospital, celve u; - !,
o,;nhv soriber TO- the paper or a mild'maI
postmaster we cannot tell. The L
90 has not given the yellow fever
-, body yet, but has kept many peoT
lug il, comforted the sick and 5
800, the dying, It is not likely that a
will ever suffer from taking the L
u..,;, at home or abroad, Yellow fever,
rality and Radicalism can never
gate through such an agency.
QUARANTINE on coFFISs.
|, IN ,ba Uniou City is safe. The railrc
n Poniar thorities have ordered the agents
70 receive no freight for Memphi
xnosi,;on Jack Walsh, our smiling county
taker, had ordered a lot Of cofil
sors 1Al a firm there. He received a lett
lierday morning stating that suc