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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

Correspondence Of the Ledger;
Notwithstanding the prevalence Of fe.
yer in Memphis there is 10 panic here,
and not case has appeared. The gen.
eral health Of the country is very good
Yesterday evening, just before the ar.
rival Of the Brownsville accommodation,
the mayors office, occupied recently by
Mr.. Henry Craft and family OF Memphis,
was destroyed BY FIRE. 1t was discovered
in time to save every article Of furniture
in the house; but the kitchen, where the
fire originated, could not be entered, and
the cooking utensils, etc we're lost.
The good people here have concluded
that they might as well be laughing as
crying, and while everything is done
that can be for the accommodation Of
refugees, there is no drag in business
And no lack Of innocent pastime. On
Thursday the people Of NeShoba Springs
and vicinity gave one OF their fashlona
Bile picnics, which was largely attended
and most enjoyable affair. There was
such dinner set before the crowd as
would have tempted the palate Of king,
and the dancing was very fine, Among
The many present | noticed the Misses
Goodman, Miss Kate 0Sey, Miss Marian
Provine, Misses Mosby, Miss Dow, and
Miss Mary Oakley, all Of Memphis, and
number Of gentlemen from the city
aud other points, Itssemed that yellow
fever had lost oil his terrors, at least for
time, and the day was a continued
feast Of enjoyment,
Our little village is crowded to over.
flowing with refugees, and there is
scarcely spare room. Our people are
very reasonable in their charges for
board, charging abouttwenty Eve dollars
per month, while the Raleigh people
charge forty. It seems that they are at
their old game Of extortion again, not
stopping short Of the strangers pile
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

Mrs. Clark as accessory, because, as
is alleged, Of her questionable in
timacy with st. Petrie. From my
reasoning | fully acquit both of the
accused of any part in the bloody
drama. The cOroner's inyestiga-
ton is still going on.
To-day one member of gang of
young thugs endeayored to assassi-
nate a comrade. Unfortunately
for public good, the wound is only
slight.
Last night, in the north division
of the city, Mrs. Nolan in her
sleep walked out of a three-story
window and fell to the pavement.
AT last accounts this afternoon she
was dying.
Our great Interstate exposition
opens here the 4th Of next month
1t will be a grand affair from the
present outlook.
Chicago deeply Sympathize8 with
Memphis and other places South
in her battle with the yellow fever
she is so pecuniarily embarrassed i
is doubtful if she can render he
any assistance. | have used my
endeayors to that end, and will con
tinue to do so.
Colonel John George Ryan, latel
in your city, requests me to tende
sympathies to his Southern friend
their dire afiiiction. NAYR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
TRe Quarantine.

CoLLIERYILLR, August II, 1873.
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
You are disposed to be rather hard on
our town for trying to protect herself
from the fatal ravages of the yellow fe.
yer, We sympathize with Memphis in
her terrible distress, but we have in our
midst lives that are dear to US, and in
establishing quarantine we have done
nothing moro than hundreds Of other
towns You seem TO forget that only a
few days ago Memphis was rigidly quar-
antined against all towns infected with
the iever--towns that we're in more de.
plorable condition than you are now in.
You, too, had your " flaming $50 fines,
and arrested strangers from other
towns" But you see whose "ox is be-
ing gored."
If you knew the character Of the per-
son that wrote the communication signed
Argus" in your issue of the 10th, as
we'll as the citizens Of Collisrville, you
would not be so quick to eondemn us,
nor give credit to the slanderous false.
hoods written therein. The petition re-
ferred to consisted Of about thirty sigma
tures This is far from being nine
teuths," or even q majority, OF HOO OF
1900 (the population Of our town.. Take
few names from the list, and you will
have left q sjority that are not strong
ly identified with our town, and would
have nothing at stake or to lose, were va
attacked with the dreadful scourge.
There have never been at any time
any ordinances prohibiting trains from
stopping here, nor preventing well per
sons from coming. This needs no more
lproof than that we are receiving freightS
from Memphis every day, and several
persons since the quarantine.
Please do not believe all you hear from
irresponsible parties. We are liberal
and humane. No town 10 the South,
considering size, contributed more to the
relief of Memphis during the yellow
fever epidemic in 1873 than ours, and
we are always ready to give not only
our sympathies, but all the aid in our
power. JUSTICE.
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Trustees sale.

NOTICE. BY virtue Of a deed In trust ex.
rem and A. V. Warren, dated the 18th day Of
Maroh, 1874, to secure the payment OF five
hundred dollars to Francis h. Merrill, dee on
a note payable to said Merrill. Tor the sum OF
twelve hundred and fifty dollars. dated the
18th Of March, 1874. paysble the frit Of Feb
ruary. 1875, and also TO secure the pay ment OF
five hundred dollars on note payable to Vir-
einin A, Smith lor twelve hundred and fifty
dollars dated the 18Th ofMarch, 1874, payable
the lst of February, 1875 tboth OF said notes
are executed BY said Thomas Warren and A..
v Warrenl will sell,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

hooAAhy bOuy anu q Clear heaO.
If indigestion, constipation and biliousness
torment the body. the head cannot be clear.
These disorders react upon ihs brain most
hurtfully, and produce a cloudiness in the
organ Of thought not experienced by healthy
man. Happily these brain-oppressng mala-
dies may be entirely dispelled by that peer
less alternative, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which cheers, refreshes and invigorates the
brain and nerves, while it regulates the organs
Of digestion, assimilation and bilious secre-
ton. II expels the morbid humors which
poison the system through the bowels and
urinary passages, and exerts a powerfully in
yigorating influence as we'll. It's cathartic
action is never Irritating, violent or painful,
but even, natural and progressive. As an
appetizer and sleep promoter the Bitters is
unriValed II mitgates the infrmities Of age,
relieves the ailments peculiar to the genter
sex, arrests premature decay, and builds up
an enfeebled physique
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
LEGAL.
Executors settlement.

No. 1908 Record 4-In the Probate Court Of
Shelby County, Tennessee-E. NJ. Apper-
son, executor Of Wade II. Bolton. deceased. i.
THIS is to notify all persons interested in
i tho estate of said Wado II. Bolton, de-
ceased, that will. at my office in the city of
Memphis, on Wednesday, August 2S, 1878, at
10 O'clock, am, take and state a settlement
of the accounts Of E. NJ. Apperson. as execu-
tor Of the estate of said Wade II. Bolton, de-
ceased. This August H. 1878
JAMES REILLY, Clerk.
By HUGu g. CULLEN D. c. 1l3-1b4
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indications.

WASHINGTON, August 20 For Ten.
uessee aud Ohio valley warmer, partly
cloudy veAther, possibly followed by
rain, northeaNterly winds, veering to
southerly, stationery or falling barOme-
ter.
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NOTICE.

CONTRIBUTIONS of Irish and sweet pota.
" toes will be thankfully received, and ap'
piled to the use of the population now il
Camp Joe Williams. Packages shsuld be put
in barrels. well ventilated aud should be ad
dressed to j. c. MACCABE, 81 and 80 Soutl
Court street.
I Memphis and Louisville Railroad Com
pany, the Southern Express, the steamboa
Coahoma have volunteered to deliver such
contributions free. Very probably all tn,
other transportation companies will de like
wise. W, P. PR0UDFIT. Chairman
1881 Fin. Com. Citizens' Relief Fund.
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CASEY YOUNG.

The Washington ID. o. Gazette
of the 18th inst. pays the following
merited compliment to our present
member of congress; "The peO-
pie of Memphis, Tennessee, district
will stand greatly in the light of
their own interests if they fail to
return Hon. Casey Young as their
national representative. During
his services in congress he achieved
a position in influence and popu-
larity attained by few young mem
bers. Coming here with the forty
fourth congress, unheralded and
comparatively unknown, with no
former experience in legislation, he
at once took up the line of a
steady advance, and by the close
of the first session no new member
ranked him in sterling ability
and widespread influence. His
speeches were not numerous, but
always to the point, and of a char
acter shadowing forth ability and
craftsmanship of a high order. His
laborS for his people and the
advancement of their material in
terests, speak for themselves He
secured for Memphis a custom
house that will cost a million dol
lars. He obtained an appropria-
ton to protect the river front Of
Memphis, Of $4,000 more; and
for a survey of the Mississippi,
with a view of ascertaininga proper
method of reclaiming the alluvial
lands on the Mississippi river from
overflow, an additional 5000. No
former representative ever accom-
pliShed SO much. If the people Of
that district wish their material in
terests promoted, they certainly
cannot afford to lay aside a trusted
and well-tried public servant who
has done so much for them, and is
capable of doing so much more,
and risk the chances of taking up
any man Of inexperience, however
great his capacity or superior his
merit; for these rare qualities net
unfrequently plod a weary way in
our national councils before making
themselves known and useful"
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The terrible progress of the yel-
low fever along the Mississippi river
gives to the history of that disease
in this country a new interest. The
close relations which exist between
all parts Of the country and the ia
cilities Of transportation and COM
munication are such as to lead to
very natural apprehension that the
scourge may be transplanted from
one locality 10 another.
An interesting paper by DR.. j.
NJ, Toner, of Washington, D. O.,
on the distribution and natural
history Of the disease as it occurred
at different times in the United
States, has just been published by
Hurd & Houghton. Accompany
ing this paper is a map on which
there have occurred cases Of yellow
fever between 1868 and 1874.
DR.. Toner gives much weight to
the theory that diseases have geo.
graphical areas and limits, modified
somewhat by latitude and by topo-
graphical features and conditions
which are located at every point,
which may determine the types of
disease as do climate and elevation,
the fauna and fora of localities.
At Jalapa in Mexico, on the same
parallel with Vera Cruz, but 1900
feet higher, yellow fever is un-
known. Whatever be the force of
the theory of elevation, yellow fever
has never reached in this country,
in an epidemic form, an elevation
of ESQ feet. The conceded home
Of yellow fever is the West Indies
and the Bahamas, with a portion of
the adjacent continents of North
and South America. ga square
formed by the 45th and 100 de-
grees Of longitude, and 35th north
and 9th south latitude, will include
the fayorite region of this disease" "
1t is added by DR.. Toner: cal
though originating within the
square named, history shows that it
may prevail on the sea. coast in any
locality within the tropics, north
and south of the equator, when
malarial fevers prevail, and the
daily average Of the thermometer
is over rs or so degrees, with a
high dew-point for weeks or months
together" The disease is controlled
in its severity and checked in its
spread, or entirely arrested, by
storms, heavy rains, and most
effectually by frost. 1t is a disease
Of cities rather than of rural dis.
tricts, and Of Villages rather than
Of scattered country dwellings. It's
appearance is generally coincident
with the season of bilious inter.
mittents, and the first cases are
said nearly always to occur neal
the water, in the lowest and most
/ insalpbrious places.
4 It will be seen that all points
where yellow fever has prevailed in
this country are located along the
coasts, or on rivers entering tht
ocean, and all at slight elevation
above the sea. There is not, how
ever, any explanation given or Of
fered why the yellow fever which
eighty and hundred years ago, was
80 virulent in North Atlantic cities
is confined now, and has been fol
fifty years, to the cases intercepted
at quarantine. Is this duo to rigit
.- IL. - .L
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Nm Iames M Iiddnll

Mr. James NJ. Liddell, jr., son Of
Colonel A. NJ. Liddoll, aged twenty
eight years, died in Carrollton of
malarial fever on the 29th alt. He
had been married but a few months,
and was one Of the most generous
and popular young men in the
county.
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On Friday, August 20, 1873,

On the south side Of Court Square, in the city
of Memphis, at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, certain house situated on a
lot of land in the county Of shelby. state Of
Tennessee, which lot is known as part Of lots
numbers II and Is, in Phil II. Thompson's
fronts on Bass avenre. and is tho third house
west of the Hebrew cemetery and about one
hundred yards east Of the margin Of said city;
and also, sell tol ether with said house. the
lease on said lot Of land, which expires on the
LIST day of January. lsIT; the proceeds Of said
arce due of said sums Of FIVE hundred dollars
and tho expense touching said deed of trust.
X. M. DIDLAKE, Trustee.
July Is, 1878 12Ol5l
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
a CARD.

To all who are:suasring 'frOmIthe errors ant
indiscretions Of youth, nerveus weakness.
carly decay. loss Of manhood, ETC.. / will
send receipt that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
BY a missionary in South America. Send a
self-addressed envelope to the REV. JosEPH
7. IEMAN, Station D,:lBiJIe House. Ne,0 York
Ov aa ~iu ,xxvii-s5 eodkw
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NOTICES

CoNCORDTA, Mss. August IA, 1878.
NOTICE to all Steamboats, coming from
IN New Orleans or Nicksburg that the town
OF Conceraia has been quarantined with the
usual quarantine regulations, not to land
within five miles of the town to put of freight
or passengers, under penalty of fine from Sl0C
b $500.
By order Of the Board Of Mayor and Alder.
men. A. l.. GREEN, Mayor.
147-I6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

GAYING been duly qualified as admins
IL traitor of C.. l.. Anderson, deceased, all
persons having claims against his estate are
hereby notified to present them, dulv Guthenti-
cdted, ivithiR The time prescribed bv lGio. and all
persons Indebted 10 the same are requested to
cone forward and make payment.
o, NJ. ALSUP, Admir-.
August 10, 1878. AO-ll6. i52 15S
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The board of health declared the
yellow fever here an epidemic this
morning. This is a mere matter ol
form, we presume, as everybody
knew it days ago. The suggestion
for everybody that can to go away
is timely, although some days be-
hind the press. Great bodies move
slowly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

The best reform in domestic life is
without doubt the introduction Of DR..
Bulls Baby Syrup Where it is known
no more laudauhm is given to the babies.
II sells fer 25 cents. ag
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

tbs type, material and workmen Of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, aud hence we guarantee first class
work aud full satisfaction to ourlpatrons
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

We publish communication
from prominent citizen of Col
liervilIe to-day, who justifes and
explains the quarantine at that
place. We cheerfully give him a
full hearing. The public now has
both sides, and we have no desire
at such time as this to 60 into
further controversy. One remark
and we are done: The difference
between a Memphis and a Collier
vile quarantine is this, Memphis
is liable to yellow fever any year il
appears at New Orleans; Collier
vile is not liable to the contagion,
and as far as our recollection ex'
tends, never yet had a sporadic oil
even an imported case.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

CHAnrEsroN, s. c., August 22-Jeff
David. colored, who was to have been
hanged in Abbeyville to day for the mur.
der Of al old white man and his sister,
named Franklin, has been respited until
the 10th December
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATEST UP TO2P.M. TO-DAY

VIENNA, August % The loss of the
Bosnians at Serajsvo is 300 killed and
700 wounded. 1t is thought that many
in addition were carried away by their
friends. The Austrians wounded is 300
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

QUERY: why will men smoke com.
mon tobeoco. when they can buy Mar
burg Bros Seal Of North Carolina,
at the Same prieo2' [eod.xxvii.l46
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
The MoonshIneFs.

MACON GA, August 23.-Six illicit dis
tillers in Epson county have been cap.
tured and committed to Jail. A large
quantity of brandy and three stills we're
DESTROYED.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
PROBATE COURT.
PROBATE COURT RooM,
SHELBY COUNTY. IENN..

1HUb wv -Vt 4VIVsJ
T J. E. r. RAY, Judge of the Probate
J., Court Of Shelby county. Tenn. do hereby
constitute, appoint, and fully authorize and
empower JAMES a. ANDERSON, public ad-
ministratOr. to collect, hold and preserve all
the assets Of any and all estates of parties
who may have died. or may die during the
prevalence OF yellow fever now prevailing in
Memphis in the absence Of those entitled un-
der the law to the same.
1876 J.E,R RAY, Judge
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
YELLOW FEVER DEA1H LIST.

The following statement Of deaths from yel
low fever each day, since the presence Of the
disease became known. is made up from the
records Of the board Of health and other
sources:
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TO PASSENGERS.

THE depot ticket office Of the Memphis and
/ Charleston railroad, owing TO the sickness
Of our agent, is closed until further no ice.
Parties wanting tickets viii please purchase
7 S. DAVANT. N
lls.l6l lc Assistant. Gen, I Ticket Agent.
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Nov nrlannn-

NEw ORLEANS, August %, New cases
l23, deaths 40
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23

TOR sALR-OLD NEWSPAPERS, 4Oc PER
q hundred, at this office, the ohea pest wrap
ping paper you can got. b5-f
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aooqti BANK.
Manhattan Bank Of Memphis

MannaGCan BANK OF memphis.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 20. 1878.
OWING to the prevalence Of yellow fever.
~ and the consequent virtual cessation Of
business, this Bank will remain closed for
business until the lst day Of November, un-
less the fever should sooner disappear,
The bank deposits have been temporarily
placed in the hands Of the Union and Plan
ters' Bank, with funds to make them good,
and, checks on the Ma, haitian Bank will be
paid by the Union and Planters Bank.
All special packages collections, ets., have
been likewise temporarily placed with the
Union and Planters Bank.
BDW. GOLDSMITH. Cashier.
Parties desiring information on special busi-
ness. will address Levy 4 Borg. box so 9. New
York. 1876
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UNIVERSITY.
EAST TENNESSEE
UNIVERSITY.

THREE colleges, Nine professors. TUT
L tion free to all. In preparatory depart
mont, $50 a year; TO State students, free.
About half rates to aH on Tennessee rail-
roads on some. needy State students pass
free. Board, iuel, light. washing, rOOm-fsnt,
ETC., sl2o year, Fan session opens Septem
Der 18th. For catalogues address
TH0S. W, HUMES. Pres't,
tOl7 Knoxville, Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-23
Friday Afternoon, August 20, 1878,

Ats p M, for the purpose of considering the
situation, and be advised as to our duty in
this hour Of danger and sorrow. We call
upon all colored men who have the welfare Of
our city at heart. to meet with us for consul
tation. We also extend an invitation to his
honor. Mayor J. r.. Flippin, Hon. Casey
Young, General Luke e. Wright, Charles G !,
FiShsr, chairman CitiEens' Relief Committee;
= on. John johnson. superintendent Howard
Association Nurses; Hon. John Loague, DR.
D. d. Saunders, president Board Of HEALTH;
P. r. Athy, Chief of Police; Mr.. n d. Men
ken, and all other citizens who will heartily
CO. operate with Us in maintaining order and
rendering aid to the sick and destitute.
James Lott, sDf Turner Hunt,
Ed Shaw, w. I. Kennedy,
Charles Dickerson, Henry Gaines. ,i
Henry Bunch, George S. Hayden,
Coleman Thomas, j.. Thompson,
George Cooper, II. n. Counter,
II. Trowbridge, j. II. Ssyler,
7. X. Morgan. George Page.
Aaron Stevenson, Robert Washington,
j. M. Bartell j. NJ. Moere,
G. W. st. Clair, W. M, Giyens.
Glenn Harris, George W. Cole,
ft.tal R,L Mccain rs 1bi p
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RAILROAp TINE TABLE.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.

MEMPHIS AND CHARL EsTON R.R.
(CITY TNE.)
Arrives. Leaves.
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YELLOW FEVER.
MEnrHIs. THssI Ausust q, 1873.

WE, the undersigned. colored citizens Of
w Memphis, desire that a mass meeting
should be held in this city. at the GREEN.
LAW OPERA HOUSE, on
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-03
rnR oaRAT sonooLmAsrRR.

Consistency often reyolves itself into
the stnpidest obstinAcy. We assert the
purpose to pursue given course to-
day and finding, tomorrow, that it
would be wrongful or. unwise,
obstlnacy intervenes and drives US to
acts ni folly. Some paper, without
authority, declared that John Hancock
did not approve enunciations Of Demo
cratic financial policy promulgated at
Austin. The newspaper was mistak 5
and confesses the error, and yet a
stolidly obstinate Democrat, having
declared, on false assumption, that
he would not support Hancock because
Hancock was asserted to be hard
money Democrat s,ill refuses to declare
for Hancock. This obstinate gen
sieman is neither wiser nor better nor
worse than those pyrotechnicsl artists
OF Galveston who promulgate the alb
surd idea, twelve years after the Union
is reproduced, that they will not vote
for Haacock because he was . stead
fast Unian man. Let it be remembered
that Hsncock's fidelity to the Union,
and, as he conceived it his steadfast
devotion 10 the bestinterests of Texas,
become ia the glazed eyes of sell
fish prejudice fatal to Hancock's
fitness for Office. When these sea.
shore correspondents OF Nat. Q.
aspire to Office, will not their asser-
tions OF to-day be remembered WIN
adherents OF Douglas or Of Bell and
Everett, or followers OF Sam Houston
forget how their honest conduct Is
criminal IN the eyes Of these fierce de-
chalmers Of the sand beach. II Han
cock be unworthy Of Office for his
Unionism Of 1905. eTen as unworthy
is be whose Unionism. in acts, ended
in 1912. Hancock persisted in pur-
suing = hne Of conduct which every
follower Of Bell and Douglas and Hons.