Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-23
a. PARAGRAPHS.

~ the saloons have closed for the
SLY, Tennessee, has not quarar
-M11i the sick are convaleScent and
I out Of 1tF.
s --Anzneer is wanted at the Peabody
: hotel-fS Immediately.
-08slndred and nine persons went
down fo.inp Joe Williams yesterday.
! IN Afters of Charity can be found daily
; | and rior visiting the sick and afflicted.
-BnfF magistrates can now be found in
, the CITY sRey have taken change OF venue
10 otIaer 3lities.
: --Aa.lster TO the sick and feed the hun
ory. are'e precepts carried out practically
in Mems at present.
-Ma,m our city officials, exclusive Of
alderrnerhd councilmen, have fled the cIty
on aceo.rIof the fever.
-t,h;ch and eggs will be shipped to the
Howar5s4 Mason depot this morning by
their - y that point.
- ployes of the Chattanooga Times
subsc wenty-one dollars and fifty cents
Off the w-fever sufferers.
u 5uaves, eolored, under Captain
d rendered their military service o
{ le relief committee.
Ne eikth annual exposition of Louisville
will open ION the third of September, and
continue 4 the nineteenth of October.
You can hear almost any kind of ru-
NOR as to he fever on the streets. The SEN
sationalist4 have not all left the city as yet.
-Chattlnooga has organized a regultr
board Of rlief for the yellow-tever sufferers,
and has already taken up large subscription.
-'rna fsfaovrarh OparafOra are ahnuk q
understanS, worked down, so great is the
additional AMOUNT Of work which they have
to do.
The nan who drinks and gets drunk is
yet in town, disinfecting himself with mean
whisky, al swearing he is not afraid of the
yellow-fevs.
The stirling increase in the number OF
new cases esterday should warn all sensible
persons VIII can go to leave the city as soon
as possible.
The seuctive-looking watermelon is now
avoided by FhIte people, but the man of color
seizes it an devours it without fear. tits an
i'll wind thf blows nobody good.
The board of health yesterday passed a
resolution tfging those who can to leave the
city, as tie only hope of checking the
spread Of the fever is by depopulation.
-Passs5-AAyji Fes, one of the operators en-
ployed by the Western Union telegraph COM
pany, was taken with the fever last night,
while working at the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad office.
Mr.. w. J. Smith, of the Towards, sta
toned at Grenada, Mississippi, writes, of
date Of August 2lst: 81 cannot get away
before the last of this or first of next week.
This Is peslilence here"
"A FIRE broke out in the eighth ward, in
| the Scotland district, about twenty minutes
/ -. A. l,ok,
were heard, as if some one was firing at an
inceudiay or incendiaries.
Camp 10 Williams is assuming the air
and proportions of military encampment.
Men, women and children are enjoying them
| selves, and are pleased with the prospect of
being safe from yellow-fever.
-Iha board of health adopted a resolu
ton, as follows: That any one carrying in
pubic hack to place of interment any yell
low-ieyer corpse shall be fined not less than
ten nor more that fifty dollars"
The ofise of cashier and auditor of the
Southern ex press company bias been tempo
ranly removed 10 GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, to
which point all communications, reports and
remittances can be addressed, and to Charles
L. Loop, auditor and cashier.
--Wm Finnie, who succeeded John e.
Forbesi in charge Of the Howard association |
sub depot, g Alabama street, was taken |
sick with fever at ten O'Clock Wednesday |
night The sub-depot is now in charge of |
Vice-President A. d. Langstaff.
The Howard association of this city not |
only employs the nurses for the sick at Mem
phis, but also at Grenada, Mississippi. The /
ASSOCIATION has adouble contract on its hands. |
| Il fills orders for nurses, supplies, medicines,
etc, for the sick at Grenada, and does the
same for our own sick and suffering.
4 "a 1olI
meeting al three o'clock this afternoon, at the
| Greenlaw 0oerahouse, for the purpose OF
making ananeements to act in concert with
the white people during the prevalence OF the
yelloW-fever with a view to maintain order
and render aid to the sick and destitute.
General Joseph r. Williams, at Mont
gomery, White Sulpher Springs, Virginia,
writes 10 s. p. Read, cashier of the Union
and Planters bank: SHOULD the fund of the
Howards falI below three thousand dollars
please pay out 70 them fifty dollars every Two
weeks during the prevalence OF the yellow
fever OF otherwise directed.
-The boar, Of health having by resolu-
ton recommended the evacuation of the IN
fected district of the city by the entire popu-
lation as rccessity, people should take the
hint and ref,r TO the suburbs and the sur
IEundino cenntrv. II is the only sure means
Of Stepping lhe spread of the dread disease
to al portions of the city now not infected
| The asared citizens are becoming |
alarmed ~, the fact that many OF their
race are doya sick with the fever, they not
being exemR from the ravages OF the present
scOurge. ne colcred people snoulo , see tnas
prcpeslr ~; .fscfed daily with carbollc acid.
hey ios3 aiso Be more prudent IN their {
diem 4 a., thev should observe all the I
| rules 4 t.l.h now being observed by large
nurnt<A white peopie.
-Bussa,. broke into the residence OF Mr..
Tobey. N. rs Hill street, at SIX CLOCK last
evening RN broke INTO several trunks Z
but vss lrs htened away by the neignpors; Q
An attempt was made az nlne &c ciOex ias' p
on Th5 80 corner of the alley between
Washinvsas N Adams, but the thief was
fnehter1i 80 Nv a colored woman. Both
houses a. "..s.,,nied, and no persons were
left m O. n tber.. Burglars, when cap
tured, W.. / arcape punishment.
--Tne , s5rdA, company Of col
others who En- a lying ing by hard work. T Sau
their situati BIS y on on duty at Camp up up .,
s ~ in IN discharge Of vI In important
phis was in.,SS ' cd Il has bas A. Mem
gested that -. Soght to Be pa;S sug-
way or IT not n oposs, down there al. IN some
Of the e steaGsgT TS NNultv : me city. Z
1 from the mouth q We, arrived = az clerk
steamer City of Aee -'i q nyer on hue sne CITY
| quarantined SIX sles ne left the Ma,'o me
| Arkansas with all VII oeiow LtfIa Piie =
1 down to the mouth q Nm M board, and ck,
He boarded the stan."' ut nite river IN came 81
antined and tied to anariin Speed o sHln. q
ing, seventy-fve ME SsIokk At jones' ffes
| found the passengea n ~. fine Blnff an5
bad humor. Mr.. MEultS so health bnt
the Arkansas rver LIS Ao to come do,rr
Of escape being e. 6 9s IL I SAsI means
tor O CIDsl M tSe Aka est to-day