Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Nashville,
Captain w. S. Anderson, the Howard, was
reported all right yesterday.
Mrs, Z. C. Wilson and Miss Carrie Neal,
of this city, are in Nashville.
Mrs. Ed Bolle, sister-in-law of Henry
Schilling, died at three o'clock yesterday at
ternoon.
j. TITomlinson, of this city, is in Clarks
VILE, and will remain there until the fever
leaves US.
j. B. Cook, the architect, is convalescent.
His wife. mother and brother Sid are also
about well.
There's rift in the sombre cloud and q
light in the dim distance. But it Is SO far,
so far away.
John Myers, a carrier OF the AcGlanche
and Ledger, was reported last night In an
almost hopeless condition.
Mrs Harriet Thompson died of erysipe
las, at or near Lafayette Springs, Mississippi,
on the twelfth instant.
Mr. Hessen, at'Thweat's drug store, in
| forms ds that DIR. BougareaI has not made
that place his headquarters yet.
Ed Whitmore, of the Ledger, through
careful nursing of Mrs. Edwards, a lady from
New Orleans, is almost out of the woods.
Our ever pleasant and genial friend Bar
ncy Hughes, with Master Harry, his Office
boy, paid visit to their old quarters yester-
day.
Miss Mackey, a young lady who went
from here to Knoxville a few days since, is
down with yellow-fever, but. is being well
cared for
Julius Rosenthal, of 236 Main street,
who has been nursing in the Court street in
Urinary, was stricken down with the fever
yesterday.
"A Rossville correspondent writes: 1.-TWO
cases of yellow fever, both fatal. w. b. &C.
vyn, a citizen, and Mrs. Morris, refugee
from Memphis"
e. Frederick, a prominent Knight of
Honor, who has labored faithfully for the sick
members of his order, died at ten o'clock on
| Wednesday night.
DIR. J. Forbes, from Round Rock, Texas,
al d DR.. 7. H. Force, from Hot Springs, Ar
kansas, volunteer physicians, were attacked
with fever yesterday.
| M. J. Williamson, United States mar
shall, has removed his Office from Bartlett to
| M'Kenzie, where he can be found, and where
letters will reach him.
John H. Mitchell. the well-known car
| penter and builder, is down with the fever.
His son, Will Mitchell, has passed the crisis,
and will be out in a few days.
| One hundred and forty-four new cases
and sixty-two deaths yesterday shows that
| the fever is at last on the decline. God grant
| that 1t may continue TO decline.
| Mr.. E. Lennon returns heartfelt thanks
| to Haider Frederick, the New Orleans nurse,
| for his kind and skillful attention to Mrs.
| Lennon and family during their late illness.
DIR. E. F. de Graffenried requests US to
| state that it was a mistake to report the death
| of Miss Emma Jackson, of Memphis, as she
| has recovered from the fever and is out of
danger.
There were three more deaths from yell
| low-fever at Gallipolis, Ohio, on the fifteenth.
| Two of the raen lived In the lower part of
| the town, and one of them was from Porter,
| ten miles back.
Ed J. Corson and Frank Marsh, prescrip-
ton clerks at Mansfeld's, are entitled to the
hearty thanks of this community for their
ceaseless devotion to duty in this our most
trying hour of need.
"A correspondent at New Orleans writes
| us that Dug Irwin, of the Times, is conval-
escent from an attack of fever, that Douglass
| Elliott died a couple of weeks ago, and Chas.
Woods is doing well.
AS an encouraging sign of a renewal of
business we would note that several loads of
cotton seed were coming into town yesterday,
aud one or two of the downtown cotton-gin
were actually at work.
Mr.. M. H. Tilden arrived here Tuesday
to represent the Chicago Tribune. Mr.. Til
den has had the feVer-a severe case-iu
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proof against the scourge.
Mr.. Sim L. Barinds requests us to say
that he has not severed his connection with
the Howard association, aud is only tempo
rarily engaged at the Peabody during the i'll
ness of Mr.. Galloway, the proprietor.
Miss Alice Jeffield, the well known school
| teacher, caught the fever while nursing her
friend Miss Missouri Wilson. But both la
dies have safely passed the crisis and are
now, we are glad to say, 'conValescing finely.
MIR. Paul Snyder's friends will be glad to
learn of the convalescence of himself and en-
tire family. Paul was out Yesterday induir-
ing after the other members of Arnold g
band, of which he Is a most efficient member
To-day, the twentieth, is the anniversary
of the battle of Chlckamauga, and is remem-
bered well by many who read this paragraph.
How fearful the battles of that date and of
to-day, the one of arms and the other of dis
ease.
H. NJ. Crowell, one of the APPEAL COM
postors, had a relapse yesterday, but we
have hopes he will pull through. He is a
man of the best habits, has a good constitu-
ton, and ought to be able to conquer even
second attack.
The ward and district visitors of the
Towards yesterday reported ten GONZALES
cents in the ninth district, FIVE in the thir-
tenth, and one hundred and twenty-five in
the ninth ward. This Is encouraging and
gratifying news
Mr.. John League, secretary of the Irish
relief society, acknowledges receipt of the
following contributions; knights 165 of st. Pat
rick, Washington, ID. c., 800; United Sons
of Erin, Muskegon, Michigan, $50; M. j.
Fahey, Greball, Texas, 81.
Captain Reudelhuber was in the city yes
terday, well and hearty, but is anxious to
hear from his mother and sisters, whose
whereabouts he is Ignorant of. He Is in camp
at the tour-mile toll gate ON the Poplar street
boulevard. Direct care Of the postoffice.
Charlie Williams, nephew of Captain
Ross, late superintendent of the Charleston
road, died at Tuscumba Alabama, Saturday
morning. He came to this city from Tus-
cumbia, and nursed Captain Ross through
a severe attack of fever. He contracted the
disease at his post.
The fever is pretty bad at Hopefeld. Up
to date the following is the statistics: Deaths
Mrs. Sarah Num- New cases-Ellen
Stack, James Shay, John Dunlap, white;
George Dobson, J. M. Ross, Alice Chapman,
Maggie Bruce, Mary Stewart, Mrs. Hill,
Lucy Wllks, colored.
The Italian benevolent society, through
: their officers now here, have made call upon
all their countrymen In the United States for
assistance for their sick and destitute in this
| frIghttul scourge that we are now passing
through. The call is signed by A. B. Vac
caro-, treasurer, and T. D. Canale, secretary.
We take pleasure in paying a well de-
served compliment to Mr.. Geo. Hessen, who,
although lately recovered from a severe at
tack of fever, is at present in charge of
: Thweat's drug store. Mr.. Hessen, without
any assistance, is filling prescriptions for that
entire neighborhood, and though weak Is
daily at his post from an early hour in the
morning till late at night.
The Louisville Courier Journal of the
twelfth says that at the Confederate soldiers
meeting. Tuesday night, DIR. L. P. Yandell
gave 800 to the southern sufferers The
doctor requested that half be sent to Mem
phIs, at which place he enlisted as private
in the G.. S. A, and that half be sent to New
Orleans, he having served during the war as