Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Friday Evening, august %, 1s7S.
LEDGER LINES.

Many of the sick are convalescent and
out of danger.
Salisbury, Tennessee, has not quaran'
tined Memphis.
Original Lexington Ky } mustard
pure-at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
One hundred and nine persons went
down to Camp Jse Williams yesterday.
Robert Galloway tenders his place. SIX
miles out on the Memphis and Paducah
railroad, as a camp for the poor.
The sixth annual exposition Of Louis
Vile will open on the Sd Of September
and continue to the 18th Of October.
The employees of the Chattanooga
Times subscribed twenty-Oue dollars and
fifty cents for the yellow fever sufferers
You can hear almost any kind OF a
rumor as tc the fever on the streets. The
sen~sationalists have not all left the city
as yet.
Chattanooga has organized a regular
board Of relief for the yellow fever Suf
! ferers, and has already taken up a large
subscription.
The startling increase in the number
of new cases yesterday should warn al
sensible persons who can go to leave TIT
! city Immediately.
The board of health yesterday passe'
a resolution urging those who can t
leave the city, as the only hope for check
3 ing the spread OF the fever is by depopu
e latiou.
IT, a FIRE broke out in the Eighth ward, !
= the Scotland district, about twenty mil
utes past two o'clock this morning, an
: four shots were heard, as if some OF
Is. was firing at an incendiary or incsnd
a. aries.
The board Of health adopted q resol
lion, as follows; THAT any one carryiI
in a public hack to a place of inferno
any yellow fever corpse shall be fin
II not less than ten nor more than FL
u dollars"
,'S0t a Mr.. Ernest l.. Cleaves arrived in /
cut city a day or two ago from Colorat
I'd, where he went in search Of health.
FoTr did not improve as expected. At pr
TTes- ent be is at the Talbot place on Val
street.
VI. VIM. Finnie, who succeeded John
Forbes in charge Of the Howard Assoc
ton sub depot, q Alabama street, '
taken sick with fever at 10 o'clock W
nesday night. The sub depot is nov
charge Of Vice President A. D. La
staff.
The Howard Association Of this
x: not only employs the nurses for the
at Memphis, but also at Grenada,
sissippi. The association has a dol
A contract on its hands. 1t Ellis orders
nurses, supplies, medicines, etc, for
sick at Grenada, and does the aSm'
our sick anG suffering.
General Joseph R. Williams, at n
gomery White Sulphur Springs, Vii
ia, writes to s.. P. Read, cashier Of
I'M Union and Planters Bank: "Shoult
i1GS fund Of the Howards fall below 5
NC please pay out to them $50 ever
weeks during the prevalence Of tb'
low fever or otherwise directed"
We learn that when the train ar
7EE al Bartlett yesterday afternoon at
1891 past s o'clock the mayors Office wa
covered TO be on FIRE aud that it wal
sumed. A defective aus was rep
. IS the cause, though what use thsrI
: for FIRE in any kind Of a Cue this XII
1879 weather is more than any one cOu
oct the agine.
list Of A letter from the country say
ono, once rs "three miles and q half southeas
decline Chester Depot, on the Memphis a.
scted to daeah railroad, about 6 o'clock
say evening Of the 2lst, John Armou
killed by John Person. Armor
shot once in the body and twice
eeti head. Each Of the three shots v
mediate death. Person killed A
in self defense and will give hims
LsOlse at the proper time"
.cAkps JE DILLARD, notary and conn
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