Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-28

Ut OaVenagn, on the defnanuO
road, has been sick since Tuesday
morning last. aud has n tyet hada
physician He is-Yerylow.
4 Frank w sohIey, So Winchss-
ter avenue, dropped dead on Thor
ton avenue, Schley had been a
cOnyalescent for three weeks
DR. DeGraffenreid reports all of
his patients, with one or two excep-
tions, as doing exceedingly we'll
He has lost no cases over there yet.
John q DizOp. eQlOrsd, was tax
en- with the fever Thursday morn
ing, and was doing we'll last night
at 8 o'clock, out near Union ave.
niue, A @
Mrs L. P. Townsley, the wife Of
our old, reliable pressman, has re-
covered fromoarlight case Of the
fever. Her SON, Eddie Case, is also
cOnvalescing.
Little WillieMc Cram, son of our
friend Hugh McGrann, foreman Of
the Appeal, we are glad to say, has
passed crisis, and was better this
morning.
There have been four deaths at
Shelby, Tenn : JR Stewart, Hal
Buckley, and two children of j N
Sackett, Of Memphis. There arr
no new cases.
Miss Annie Robbins, a lady very
much esteemed in our city, was to
Ren down yesterday morning witt
the fever. Under her careful nurs
ing her sister was conValescing.
Mrs. Plischke, wife of Charles
PIischke Who died two or three week
siuce of fever, passed away yer.
calmly this morning, leaving two
lovely little children Zone an infant
almost alone in the werld. ~
. Nick Uni, well. known in print
ing circles died at his residence Of
Pontotoc street, last night. Mel
was a jolly, goOd-natured old Ger
man, and had not an enemy in tn
world. Peace to his ashes.
Billy Willis, after helping to nurs
several membersof his fathers fam
lily, and the late ]. P. Trezeyant
was taken down himself last Thurs
: daS, and is out at bis fathers, M
314 Madison street. His is a prett
bad case.
Phil ]. Shide, the efficient an
}. polite delivery clerk Of the pos
Office, after an absence Of thru
weeks with fever, came up Smilin
and happy this morning and too
has accustomed place in the ofic
z; His friends will be glad TO see hir
U1N WEllNO
A report reached here yeSterdi
I; that Major John Hughes, the wei
known glass ~stainer, was down vii
0; the fever, six miles out on the Hol
Lake road, where he and a par
8; Of friends had pitched d cam
Never say die, Jack.
q Louis Chapski, Of the Union al
Planters bank, has a severe case
A.lthe fever. HI is one Of the band
the faithful who have remained
h. their posts from the lcommenc
ment Of The fever, and his ma
friends will watch with anxiety t
- reports Of his condition.
Mr. II Esch, the tobacco ma
=" was in the city yesterday. lie
ports the sickness about Horn La
of q very mild type. He tells
that DR. Bells adopted daugh.
val diedlseIeral days ago, after viii
Of DR. Bell himself went to Louisvil
where he sickened and died Of
er, fever.
The Sisters OF st Mary (ProI
w taut Episcopal request us to
led knowledge the receipt Of 1856 fir
y Mrs Rose p Thompson, being
nj. contribution Of friends in Steub
on. vile, Ohio, collected by Judge
seph W Gordon. They retl
Of their gratitude in behalf Of the
,bs phans under their care.
We are panied to announce {
An. Mrs J Harvey Mathes is still lay
In. in . very critical condition.
passed her I'D hour this morn
with improving signs, the fl
VIM having subsidized. Everything