Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-22

| say, is not the case. He would not have
gone had it not been to please his better-half
His first intention was to get his wife OF
| and go to see the sick of our panic stricken
little village, and could he have gotten her TO
go he would have been among us to-day,
helping with o willing hand, as he told me of
| the very first case that he was going to sea it
| that evening, the victim being a medical
| friend, w. A. Hurt; but. owing to his being
OPERATOR he had to stand and work his in
strument and did not have time to go down.
His wife wanted to leave, so heard, and
| would not go unless ne went. He then asked
permission from Superintendent Grant to shut
up his office, so that he might take his family
off, and suppose, as he got the permission
without hesitation, he concluded to remain,
having nothing at stake here, like ''our prin-
cipal merchant" who happens to have the
only drug store in town, and of course is do
| ing the "biz." | wish also to correct that
| list of names whom your correspondent gives
as having been so ''faithful to the humane
and christian work of administering
to the sick and burying the
dead" There has been no christian
ligion, waiting and nursing upon the sick,
with the exception of our most noble minis
ter, Bro. R. R. Evans. AS to A. ]. Wright,
also in the list of names among the faithful,
to my certain knowledge he has not been In
or near house where a case of sickness was
since the plague commenced, but believe he
had something to do with organizing or was
connected with a relief committee, which no
one has ever seen head or tail of. He, (Mr.
Wright proposed to get a lot of wood and
was particular to say how much he had do
mated; but alas! we've never seen the smoke
which the sawed wood was to make. All the
smoke we've discovered so far was that COM
ing from some body's cook house. AS to an
other one want to make special mention of,
Mr.. J. G. Meacham; oh! where, where Ia
Meacham gone. "Where the lion roareth
and the whang doodle mourneth for its first
born;" safely ensconced himself in the back
woods, "Nonchonah' bottom, and his beau
tifu countenance is only seen when he has
some bull beef to sell his partner. Mr.. j. S.
Weir, who has been with us all the time, adj
ministering to the sick and helping to bury
the dead. hailed him the other day while
passing, he gave his old plug an extra nudge
to enable him to widen the distance between
himself and Weir, who left poor Joe standing
akimbo, gazing at his disappearing figure,
and as yet he has never reappeared, being
afraid of the air.
Since Monday last there has been four
deaths, viz: Miss Keely on the 18th, Mr..
Clark on the 18th and Miss John
son on the 18th. and no doubt the
false friends will be panied somewhat
to hear of one of the most estimable and ac-
complished young ladies of this community,
Miss Sallie Shepherd, who departed this life
yesterday morning, at six o'clock, with only
one female friend to see her breathe her last.
In fact, there were four that saw her gasp
her last, with your correspondent. The lady
friend l speak of would like you to make
special notice as being faithful in admins
tering, not only to her, but to W. Fl. Walker,
the young lady's uncle, who is now very i'll,
though much better. Their principal nurse
was Mrs. Maddox, who did all that human
aid could render, and she is certainly a
woman with more pluck than l ever saw in
ali rQg travels. With all the popularity which
Esquire Walker enjoyed during his healthful
days, he has been almost forsaken during his
illness by his many false friends. Mr.. Ben
F. Owen has shown his friendship to the last
in the latter case, assisted by Mrs. Maddox,
Messrs. J. S. Weir, Jacob Roberts, Lee
Rainey and your humble servant, with L. B.
Shepherd, his nephew. We are now doing
all we can in the hope that we may raise him
in few days. We have no Towards; two
were sent out, but being too fond of "lager
juice" they were immediately disch arged.
One of them had the cheek to go to Mrs. Weir's
house in that condition to see her daughter,
who was laying very i'll, and pronounced her
dying. Mr.. Weir ordered him out. Since,
the young lady has almost entirely recovered,
and will be up and around In a few days.
But the above was the consolation the
Shreveport nurse gave her mother, that ''she
was dying, and no use to do more" Very
consoling. Two new cases in the last twenty
four hours. All the sick, with these excep-
tions, ar, loing as we'll can be expected
MAXEY.
P. S.-Ihose who sit up in the amen corner
and sing the loudest-
al would not live Away,
ask not to stay"
were the first to leave, and that before the
Hmorninp train ="