Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS,

John Nicely, telegraph operator, died
yesterday.
j. NJ. Mullins, of the telegraph Office, is
up, but very weak.
Noah w. Speers, jr., is able to walk
about the house.
George A. Cheek, barkeeper at the Bank
! saloon, died Saturday.
Miss Mary T. Stevenson, daughter of the
late Major Stevenson, died last night.
Lewis Friersou, noble Howard, is doing
well. He is cared for by Jesse Page.
Mayor Leonard of Hopefeld, will raise
| the quarantine at that place to -dav.
R. B. Miller and family are all GONZALES
cent.
John h. Mitchell and wife were taken
| down yesterday.
John A. Strehl and J. c. Gregg were
taken down yesterday.
Another active Howard, w. D. Meal
| lum, died yesterday.
| Charles Lee, volunteer nurse from Hot
Springs, died yesterday.
Mrs. John League has so far recovered as
to be able to walk about the house.
james N. Barlow, foreman of Butts q
| Co.'S saw MILL died yesterday.
Captain P. Haley and Pat Cronin, of
| Hook and Ladder Company, No. l, died, and
we're buried Sunday.
Charles Darrell, a well-known black
smith, formerly located on Main street, we
are pleased to report, is slowly recovering.
Our genial friend, Captain Joe Speer, the
| well-known steamboat clerk, is doing duty
now with the Towards.
| Horace II. Briggs, the well-known en-
| graver, died yesterday morning at the resi-
| dence of Mr.. John Spicer.
James S. Carpenter & Co., general
agents Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
| Company, are at Louisville, KY.
The friends of Hon. John League will be
| pleased to learn of his safe convalescence,
He expects to come up town to-day.
The many friends of Mrs. jessie Moore
| will be glad to learn that she is slowly but
surely oonvalescing.
"A volunteer operator, James B. Bryant,
from Ptisburg, commenced work at the
telegraph office Saturday.
e. c. Marshall was resting easy last
night, and hopes are entertained that ne will
get well.
Barney Hughes is convalescent. Sois the
| young man who had been ASSISTING him in
| tie ticket office.
John Young Craft, of Holly Springs,
died of yellow-fever at Danville, Kentucky,
on the eighth instant.
| Several severe cases of illness in the
1 HS-SAS
yesterday.
F. M. Bostwick and Miss Lizzie Bost-
wick are rapidly convalescing under the care
| of DR.. Troyan, of Houston, Texas.
Miss Lottie Miller is convalescing, and
has been removed to VIM. Miller's house on
Peyton avenue.
H. S. Reynolds and wife are both very
sick, but careful nursing may pull them
| through.
Six of the family of c. Must, 229 Madi,
son street, are down with the fever. Mr.
Must himself is convalescent.
Ned Plummer and sister have a severe
attack of the fever. Their father, B. F
Plummer, and brother, Al Plummer, are
both dead.
After a short illness of only three days
Major VIM. Willis, superintendent of the
Southern express company, died Sunday
morning.
e. w. Gibson, well-known telegraph
operator, died at his residence, 80 Monroe
street, at pm. yesterday, of yellow fever,
after thirteen days suffering.
| The Mcclellan Guards has lost one more
faithful member, Orderly Sergeant Ben Ike.
He is very much regretted by Captain Glass
and the members of the company.
The few Irishmen in Hopefeld, Arkan-
sas, yesterday sent S42 to the knights of In
install. Esquire Quigley and Captain Jim
Cleary, are paying attention to the interests
of the knights.
Mrs. Lizzie J. Lunn, wife of VIM Lunn,
the well-known plumber, is, we are happy to
state, recovering. Three of their children, two
boys and. girl, have died in the past two
days.
The New York Herald of the 10th tells
OF the arrest In Jersey city of one Charles
Shlman, OF this city. He was charged with
vegrancy and was held until something could
be done to aid him.
Walter Grubbs, of this city, a few days
ago, in difficulty with Harry Carrine, of
| Louisville, stabbed him with a knife, cutting
| a four-inch cash in his breast, inficting a
painful but not dangerous wound.
DIR. Robert Buchanan report to Medical
| Director Mitchell shows a sad state of affairs
] IN Moscow. There have been total of 1S
| deaths, four OF which occurred Sunday
Only one physician was on duty yesterday,
add their appeal for medical men and nurses
| was heartrendlng In the extreme.
w. D. McCallum. who proved himself a
| noble Howard, was among the dead of Sun
| day. Mr.. McCalum made a good soldier
| during the war and since the epidemic has
proved by his constant work among the sick
that he had lost none OF the sterling courage
that distinguished him among his comrades
during that struggle.
| Everybody who knows DR.. S. R. Clarke.
who Is just recovering from a severe attack
| OF fever, will sympathize with him on the loss
| OF his wife. Mrs. Clarke died early yester-
day morning, and will be buried early to-day,
| hef praises were on every lip, and her hus-
band and son called her blessed
One of the most distressing scenes wit
messed since the epidemic commenced, was
that reported by neighbor of R. w. Blew's.
The gentleman called at Mr.. Blew's on Mon
day morning, and there found four dead, and
three very sick. The four deaths had oc
CURED within twenty-four hours.
"A lady from Memphis, Mrs Evans, who
lost her husband on the Both ult., and VIII had
mad the fever, tainted and fell on the plat
form at Waverly Station, on the Chattanooga
road. She had sick child with her The
announcement of the fact stampeded the
town, and the people fed to the mountains.
R. w. Mitchell, medical director of the
Howard Association, begs US to notify the
public that owing to the pressure upon him
at all times, night and day, he cannot an
sWer the mauy letters that reach him every
day de Is compelled to forego anything
like correspondence.
There has not been a case of Yellow
fever at Erin, on the Louisville road, and the
panic there was causeess Mrs. Bradley.
who died, has been an invalid for some time,
aud died of congestion. Henry Baird and
Hadley Bradley had malignant bilious fever.
There Is no yellow-fever the other side of the
Tennessee river, so far
The Nashville Batne5-We symyathize
deeply with the misfortune that Mr. w. s.
Br oks, one Of the editors of the Memphis
APPEAL has met. His wife died on Saturday
night, and he Is down with the fever. Mr.
Brooks has visited Nashville several times as
correspondent of the APPEAL and while here
made many friands whose sincere wish is |
that he will soon recover.
DR.. Julius Wise, ordered to Masons do. |
pot by DR.. Mitchell to report upon the situa- |
ton there, states in a letter to US that he |
found three patients in all, two of whom |
were convalescing from mild cases of remit
tent fever; the third was suffering from a Sc
we're, and what will probably prove, fatal
case OF malarial fever. Not a single case of
yellow fever has yet manifested itself, and
there was no excuse for the panic which |
caused the desertion of the town by the peo-
pie almost en- masse. He eulogises Drs. Pet
tus and Elcan, who stood to their posts bnt