Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-19

The houses of absentees should be aired
| once IN a while and thoroughly disinfected
j. M. Shaw, well-known citizen, died
yesterday, at his residence on Huling street.
DIR. Lawrence, who had a severe case of
fever, is now, we are glad to report, conva-
lescent.
john 4. Burus, one of the Ledger COM
oositors, has recovered, and visited that office
yesterday.
George -Hessinger is reported by DR..
Baskerville doing well. Mr.. Hessinger is at
Horn Lake.
Those who are away should stay away
until after we have three or more frosts-
black frosts.
-Hopefeld is greatly in need of expert
enced physicians and nurses. Medicines are
also wanted.
DR.. D. D. Saunders is convalescing fue-
~, and hopes to be able to attend his patients
in few days.
Rev. L. J. Schuyler, of Hoboken, N. j.,
after a short but severe attack of yellow fever,
died Tuesday.
George Sinclair, of 2O4 Court street, I'M
der the careful treatment of DR.. Baskerville,
Is convalescing.
DR.. A. R. .Spicer, of Charleston, South
Carolina. reports the fever greatly abated in
the Ninth ward.
1t is reported that M Joe Locke, lately
of the Ledger Office, died of yellow fever in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rev. George Harris and DIR. Sol P.
Peabody yesterday.
Augustus Kuhne, nurse from Dayton,
Ohio, was taken sick on the 18th. He was
doing well yesterday.
Mr. A. Badineli, and his son David,
died at their residence, II GOsee street, yes
terday, of yellow fever.
We learn that by reason of two or three
cases Of fever appearing at Shelby Depot, the
place Is nearly depopulated.
-Postofice money orders ar paid at the
First National bank, after being certified to
by F. Lamont, at the postoffice.
Mrs. DR.. E. A. White was taken with
fever Tuesday. and Is at the Waldran place.
Mrs. w. B, Waldran is also down.
The fever, we are extremely happy to
say, appears by the fewer new cases and
deaths reported yesterday, to be abating.
Eugene Crandall, compositor in this
office, whose life was despaired of, was re-
ported yesterday by his doctor slowly i'm
proving.
The secretary of the relief committee of
the knights of Honor, G. F. Aaron, who did
noble work for his order, died yesterday
morning.
"A D. Langstaff, the efficient president of
the Towards, is, thanks to good attention
from both physicians and nurses, convalescing
favorahly.
Miss Bette Burleson, who has been
down with fever for several days, was YES
terday, we are glad to say, able to get about
her room.
DIR. w. E. Rogers, medical director of
hospitals, announces that sixty more pa
tients can be accommodated at the Market
street in6rmary.
Fresh beef and mutton is distributed for
the benefit of convalescants every morning
Mt Seesel's butcher shop, corner Second and
Jefferson streets.
DIR. Bongaren, of Richmond, Virginia,
whose services were not accepted by DR..
Mitchell, has established his headquarters at
Thweat's drug store.
DE-. ]. S. Bankson, Stevenson, Ala, and
DR.. John B. Hicks, Murfreesboro, this State,
died yesterday. They were volunteer physi-
clans to the Towards.
We call the attention of the authorities
TO the fact that as no one is permitted to en-
ter Court Square, the squirrels are leaving
there in search of food.
Mr.. John NJ. Mullins, owing to the care.
full nursing of Senior Pedro A. Avila, of Pitts.
burg, but formerly of Spain, is, we are happy
to state, rapidly recovering.
Two good, reliable clerks can find steady
and lucrative employment at the Office of Dr.
X. w. Mitchell, medical director of Howard
Association, 285 Main street.
Judge Archibald. Wright, though verv
feeble from the fever, will, we hope, be able
to ''pull through" rs the phrase runs. In
attendance upon his son he overtaxed himself
DIR. J. D. Palem, who came here with
eight nurses from Florida, and was assigned
duty in the Fifth ward, reports a considera-
bic falling off, but says it is due to lack of
material.
We regret to learn that General Luke E.
Wright had relapse yesterday His strength
was not equal to his demands upon it. We
trust he will "pull through" He has the
best of attention.
Drs. Collins, of Cincinnati, and Hunter, of
Kansas City, volunteer physicians, were out
after a couple of weeks tussle
to publish this fact.
DR.. Sim, one of the hardest working of
our city physicians, n gentleman who has |
done good work. was taken down with the |
fever yesterday. We hope it will prove a |
light case ard will yield readily to treatment. |
DIR. E F. DeGrateur;ed reports fourteen |
new cases and four Or FIVE as very low in and |
around Hopefeld. The doctor also reports |
that Miss Emma Jackson, who died had no |
fever whatever, and that the fever extends a |
mile from the town.
Porter, Taylor & Co. have opened an Of
nee ut "A South Main street, st. Louis, Mis-
sour. Their Memphis store will be reopened.
They are among our most enterprising mer-
chants, and will do all that can be done to
supply their customers and friends.
Mother NJ. Leonie begs to acknowledge
receipt of one thousand dollars from Hon.
John League, being amount sent through
llrexel, Morgan Co., New York, by ].
Plerrepont Morgan, treasurer. for distribu
ton among the Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
The United States army official who an.
peared on the streets yesterday in full dress
parade uniform attracted considerable
attention and excited a great many ri
diculous remarks. Brass buttons and gilt
epaulettes are out of fashion during the epi-
1emic
Mr.. Il. B. Catron, who was appointad
Associated Press agent at this place few
lays before the fever was declared epidemic,
and to whom the various associations, as well
As the press of this city, are greatly indebted
or many tavors, was, we sincerely regret
stricken with fever yesterday morning.
Mr.. E. b. Hitchcock, who arrived from
Augusta, Georgia, yesterday, is perhaps the
'nly representative of his order, the knights
" the Red Ctoss, in the United States. The
rider was instituted during the great epi- !
Iemlc IN the year 1854, in the East Indies
md IS an English military order for nurses