Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-14
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| hon. casey / Dung Is DONG very well.
| Mr.. M'Grann and his family are all
doing well.
Hon. John League and wife are rapidly
improving.
DIR. S. H. Brown was doing very well
| yesterday.
| Ed. Worsham is doing SO well as to
| greatly encourage his friends.
| The report from the twelfth district
shows IL new cases and deaths yesterday.
| The ninth district reported 10 new cases,
70 deaths, and % convolescing yesterday.
| Miss F. NJ. Davis, step daughter of j. w
Heath, was attacked by fever yesterday.
| Mrs. Heath's condition yesterday was
| very dangerous, but hopes are vet enter
| tanned that she may recover.
Jim Hope, policeman, who did four
fold duty during the epidemic, was taken
with fever yesterday.
| DIR. Thornton, attending physician of
DR.. John Erskine, reports him to be slightly
! improved.
Dennis Smith, the cotton broker. was
reported by DIR. Cavenaugh, yesterday, out
of danger.
In the ninth ward yesterday there were
four new cases, four deaths, one relapse, and
seven convalescents.
| The outlook is more hopeful since the
wheather changed. The past few days must
have put check on the growth of the fever
| We are very sorry to have to announce
that Mrs. Captain Harvey Mathes was taken
| with the fever yesterday. She is doing well.
| The seventh district reported Yesterday
no new cases, three deaths, and a great many
| convalescing, with a more hopeful outlook
| than ever.
| Horace II. Briggs, through the careful
nursing of Chris Steinkuhl, was reported out
OF danger, yesterday. HIS attack was a light
| one.
The remains of Mrs. Butler P. Ander-
son, In charge of the Towards, arrived in the
| city yesterday, and conducted to Elmwood
and there buried by the above association.
| Up to the sixth inst, Vicksburg buried
| SO persons who had died Of yellow fever.
1t is estimated that they have over three
| thousand cases Of sickness.
Miss Beulah WoodIock, daughter of Mr..
Woodlock, pressman at this office, is down
| with the fever at the house of Mrs. Hoist.
Lucy depot, eighteen miles from the city.
Hon. John League, secretary OF the
Irish relief society, acknowledges the receipt
| Of $56 from Emmet the benevolent asso-
| clation of Galveston, Texas, through the
First National Bank Of this city.
Horace II. Briggs, treasurer Temple of
Honor relief board, yesterday received from
| 500, and from Washington Temple, Bur-
lingtOn, Wis, SIS.
We are pleased to know that Mr.. George
Hessen has recovered from the fever so as TO
be at his post, at Thweatt's drug store. He
is the only druggist In that part of town.
Mr.. Hessen' S mother and son are also on
their feet again.
Mrs. Matt Shelby is convalescing from q
severe attack of yellow fever; but is suffering
for provisions. She is living at Mr.. HAM
mer's place on the Holliford road eight miles
from the city, and would like some friend or
acquaintance to provide her with provisions.
Rev. Father Seaman, pastor of st. Peters
church on Adams street, was stricken by the
prevailing scourge yesterday. Father Scan
Ian has from the first day of the epidemic de-
voted himself to zealously attending the sick.
not only OF his own congregation, but where
ever his services were required.
Mr.. +. P. Smith, while burning tar in
his room at Captain George Mallory's resi-
dence Thursday, met with very painful ac.
cident. The tar was in a small TIN can,
which by some means became upset. and set
fire to the carpet. Mr.. Smith burnt his hands
severely, and his face slightly in putting out
the fire.
Acting Postmaster Chase states that
through the kindness of Mr. W. w. Thatcher.
OF the First National bank, he will be able to
be necessary to turn over to Mr. Frank La
Mont, at the postofice, all such orders. Mr..
Lamont will give checks On the First Ma
uonal bank In payment for them.
We are panied to announce the death of
George b. Elliott, a prominent Knight of
Honor Since thee epidemic began to devas- |
tate our city, Mr.. Elliott, as superintendent |
OF nurses for the order he so nobly repre- |
sented, never relaxed one moment from the |
onerous duties of his position, until death |
claimed him, shining mark.
Some Of the Howard physicians report
finding the dead bodies of negroes in the
fields In the suburbs OF the city One body
so found was actually eaten to the bones in
many places by carrion birds. These negroes
no doubt, when attacked by the fever, drop
ped, and without the care of physician or |
nurse, died neglected and alone.
Colonel Ned Richardson, the Vicksburo
Herald says, with characteristic generosity,
besides his private donations to the people Of
Grenada, Memphis and Vicksburg, has
authorized Colonel Powers, Of the jackson
Clarion, to draw On the firm of Richardson
\ May, of New Orleans, to the amount of
We are deeply panied to announce the
Death last evening Of Joseph r., son of Mr..
Edward Schiller, one of the APPEAL compos-
tors. He was most promising Young man
and was supposed by his father to be doing
hopefully, when death claimed HIM for him.
self. Mr.. Schiller himself, only recovered
rom an attack of fever few DAYS ago. We
sympathize with him on so great a loss.
An humble member of the Howard Asso
cation on active duty (Dame reseryed) comes
10 Ed Neaderers, 30 Madison street. and
says 'St. Louis friends pay extra sums for
in11ks, the profits on which go for the relief
u those nursed and cared for by the Towards
IT our city, and he pays out of scant purse
EN- dollars for one gin cocktail drank by an
Idle bodied man, to serve the same end"
They have a novel way of Collecting
unds for the relief of the yellow fever suffer-
rs at 81. Louis. The papers Of that city an
lounce that some Of the leading saloons and | !
inch rooms have given their gross receipts
or day to the yellow fever relief fund. At {
Mr.. John W. Cullazh came in
NTH friend and threw down ten dollars for
wo cocktails, saying If any other man went
better he would take another drink. Sena-
Or Armstrong plauked two tens and FIVE
or ten drinks. Whisky at 81 50 a drink and
at 81 apiece were much in de-
land.
Major Stephenson, the Oldest compositor
Memphis, aud for nine years past engaged
pom the APPEAL, died, we regret to snvs at
Is residence, yesterday, of yellow-fever. az +,
er but few days illness. More than forty
ears ago the major learned the art of print +
lg, soon after which he established himself
the publisher Of paper in North Ala
anna, with which he did well until the civil
ar came to break him up, as it broke up | u
any others. From this he was never able
rally. Since the war he has worked at the ! m
se, and has been able to make a good lIv-
G., few days after the epidemic broke
1t he gave up work and went out to what TT
believed was place of safety. 1t has.
fortunately. proven otherwise. He has
ed OF the fever. his son is convalescine an
I'm 1t, and two OF his daughters are very
OF 1t, one OF them being, Yesterday. in. p,