Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-22
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


DR.. Maury has not left the city, as stated
He is here practlci1g his profession, as usual
Nearly two hundred persons went down
TO Joe Williams camp yesterday afternoon
The Towards have received tenders OF
plenty Of nurses from this and other points
DIR. Ewell only out of the city tempo.
rarily on business. He will be back in day
or two.
Residents of the uptown infected dis
| tricts are moving into camps out In the
country.
All our charitable societies and institu-
tons have organized relief boards and have
gone actively to work.
Huntsville, Alabama, has not quaran
tined against Memphis. There is plenty Of
room there for refugees.
Mr.. Jerome Hill has subscribed for a
number Of copies of the APPEAL to be dis
tributed daily at Camp 10 Williams.
Yesterday the citizens of Paris, Tennes-
see, sent one hundred and Twenty-Five dol
lars to the Grenada, Mississippi, sufferers.
Eclectic, Harper, appleton and Atlantic
tor September; also, large line of new nov
els. Mansford, corner Second and Monroe.
Health Officer Erskine removed several
patients TO the city hospital yesterday after
hO0ot ElOAl lnC hOolbhJ OAobAAOOo VI IIC City.
Mrs. Patterson, 142 Beale street, did not
have yellow-feyer, as reported. She is up and
about, and has sent the nurse back to tie
Howard association.
The ladies of Louisville, Kentucky, as
sisted by Eichhorue's band and prominent
lady singers, are giving concerts for the
benefit OF the yeilow-fever sufferers south.
"A numbered colored people of all shades
have been taken down with the fever in our
city. The colored race does not seem to be
exempt from the present plague.
Cases of fever appeared in the southern
portion OF the city yesterday, at different
points. The physicians believe that in these
cases the disease was contracted in the in
fected districts.
Frank Rice, aged ten years, son of the late
DIR. Frank Rice, who vas taken sick with the
fever on the thirteenth instant, is GONZALES
cent, and has been discharged by his ply
sician, DIR. Thornton.
Colonel Crews, of Huntsville, Alabama,
has telegraphed to the citizens relief COM
mittee that he will ship one hundred sacks of
Hour for the use of the sufferers of Memphis.
he will ship when ordered.
Colonel Butler P. Anderson, of the How
ard association, has returned to Grenada,
Mississippi to help the sick of that Inflated
city. and assist General w. ]. Smith, another
Howard, who is in charge of the nurses and
nick.
M. ]. 0'Brien, general superintendent
OF the Southern Express company, has tele
graphed from New York to Major William
Willis, Of the express company in this city,
thatlf any money is needed to let him know,
and he will at once solicit and secure aid.
The fire yesterday afternoon was at the
Turkish steam bath-house of DIR. f. A. White,
l32 DeSoto street, near Beale- The upper
portion OF the bath-house was destroyed by
ire, and the lower portion was badly injured
~ water. The cause of the FIRE was acct
iental.
The colored people should remember that |
hey are not exempt from yellow-fever. The |
asses at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Grenada, |
nd in this city, prove this to be a fact. !
moving this they should take more care of |
themselves and use the necessary dinnfect- |
nts about their premises.
Within the past six days three persons
brought yellow-fever upon themselves nv in
iulRing in drunkenness. After a drunk the
Itomaeh and entire system 10 out of order
which places the unfortunate inebriate in a
90 favorable condition to take the fever.
Above all acts of imprudence, avoid drunksn.
less at present.
Within the past few days MANY of tbooo
Who died of yellow-fever have been carried
o the cemeteries, for interment. in bacLs
instead Of In hearses. The conseonanco -
hat no doubt many of the hacks are n factaj
hereby rendarAae it somewhat danoerons e..
veil persons to nde therein. We deem =
ue to the public to give this information.
"A gentleman who had wandered from tho
ity 10 the country every evening for the nast
Teek, says; at is preferable to occupv
room and have the yellow-feyer
/ Memphis, than to sleep with ten in a room
nd three in bed out in the country. and
here the water-dipper is always disinfected +
nd looked upon with suspicion after Won
andle and use it. He will 60 the country
o more.
1t is said that several merchants charge
le Towards full price for goods purchased,
lille Others make q fair deduction or dis
punt, the Towards paying cash for all they
urchase- In these days of trial and tribula- ,
on there Is very little charity or humanity |
! charging full price for goods so purchased.
he Howards are good cash customers, but
ley purchase goods not to sell them over
gam, but to give away to the sick. Be a
tile more liberal during the present troubles.
Many persons refuse to leave the infected =
Istrcts, they seemingly preparing to remain r
lereln and run the chances of taking J.
le fever and letting their families do. so :,
= AAutc 10 oOnACbhAuk III Tie / a,
Iture Of man If you want man to go =
anywhere tell him he must not do it, but if !,
"a wish him not to do it tell him he must =
It.. II the above persons were ordered to r.
main IN the injected districts they would ~
eak their NECK "a trying TO leave immedi- h,
ely. ~
Last Eiga, q Second street near Mon nj
e, Tom Shaha, a colored policeman, shot tn
nee at eoloEa prisoner whom he had ar da
cted, but Ehohoke and ran from him and &C,
sped: We LoQting caused a crowd of &C
1s-1he A1ll<8c che sIsot IN q tow sec %
! AZ a1SStea Press, the Apdldnche IA
ene a Saer TIERS. On auy other da
dsion al any .aaSa Tune, In the same To- | O'C
lty, the sascay a A would have attracted
rowd of saeH.nters eooosand persons, but n
sensation hu'f he sslr,e out of town rusti- | M
ing, oJfIng 70 -.s, sa'ow-fever panic. 70
-ThS colored avs of the churches held &C
na-Sns, a feW - q, -ince, and passed n Sc | Gu
: = -eaol itiopa m PRESSING sympathy for IT
o. -. feyer On sers, and rendered their | "
./yenor oY,ersF itor the relief of the dis
and cd oppeely. a. was resolved 70 hold
|ssed anu a. q e. uay In the week FRIDAY
eyer-n eetiDs. sf - -ttsss 81 rrG !a.dIVF 9ence
ksp ,. - ~ paSeTSssry ~l ,