Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-29

rem House, McMinnville, Tenn, $40 IS;
| Centennial Lodge, l. y. q. L, Freeport, Ill,
s25; J; B. & w. A. FAIRIES, City, $40; Henry
Rice, B. Lowensteln, Isaac Schwab and Isaac
and Employees, Madison, Wis, $3.50; Tho's.
| D. Robertson, Edwardsville, ILL.,, by NJ.
Griffin, cashier, $50; J. H. Hobbs, Brockun-
ire & Co, Wheeling, Va, By w. a. T. Jack
& Co, 5000; Citizens of Seurcy, Ark, by H.
I: Force through w. R. Moore & Co,
$l13 so; J. t. Carpenter, City, $40; J. II.
Hoffman, Mayor and chairman Relief Com
mittee, Columbus, o., $500; Half proceeds
l bale cotton shipped by merchants Jackson,
Tenn, and sold by st. Louis Cotton Ex-
change, $185; Schoolfeld, Hanauer g. Co.,
III SMITH, Secretary.
CoSrMIssARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE RE-
LIEF COMMITTEE.
Donations received at the commissary de-
partment, 81 South Court street, Memphis,
August q, 1873: J. II. Winkerman, 2
brls -four, brls meal; James F. r )binson,
2 brls. -four; n. Marley. Collierville, Tenn, l
brl. Irish potatoes; ]. T. Hopkins. Is chick
ems; Bucham & Campbell, brl. -four; from
| New York, 2 brls copperas; the Lenoir Man
ufacturing Company. of Lenoirs, East Ten
nessee, donated 10000 lbs. -four, accompan-
| led by the following letter:
LES0 e1c! MANUF 1C Ta1 COMPANY: u.
| LENoIRs, TENN, August 3d. 1873. J
]. c. Maccabe Commissary, 81 Court street, Mem
| phls, Tenn:
| We send you by railroad, to-day, some
-four for the yellow-fever patients of Mem
phis. The red brand is better -four than the
| other, but we have only small quantity of
| it on hand to-day. We are advised by the
railroad authorities to ship it to you, and you
will see that it is properly distributed.
| Yours, etc,
LENoIR MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR A. o. U. W. SUFFERERS.
Pittsburg, W. W. Sackett, S. NJ. W.,
5000; c. o. Thomas, Murfreesboro, Tenn,
| $40; John Redearmel, Lebanon, Penn, So;
Friendship lodge, No. 81, Paducah, KY, $32.
| Total, $275. u. F. GOODYEAR, D. G. NJ. W.
| CONTRIBUTIONS FOR KNIGHTS OF HONOR
J. II. Cruchlow, Murfreesboro, Tenn, $50;
r. L. G. White, Lee lodge, No. 222, $25;
Grand Junction lodge, No. 795. 80. Teuto-
mia lodge, No. al, Knoxville, $40; A. Ross,
Unity lodge. No; 217, 80; Total. $lO5.
d. F. GOODYEAR. Grand Treasurer
CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
The following are the receipts of the GEN.
trail relief committee Knights of Honor, yes
terday: Rose City lodge, Little Rock, Ark,
$25; Germania lodge, Little Rock, Ark, $50;
Eureka lodge, Piedmont, w. Va, $40. Total,
sos. MAX HERMANN,
Secretary.
ANOTHER RELIEF COMMITTEE.
At the suggestion of Rev. A. Thomas,
relief committee of the German Free Profess
ant congregation has been organized. F.
Nagel, president; A. Thomas, secretary and
superintendent; John Scheibler, treasurer.
This committee received yesterday ifty-six
dollars from Evansville, Indiana, through
Rev. c. Runck; to-day, three hundred dollars
through the central relief committee of Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania.
A FAIR WARNING TO MEMPHIS.
EDITORS APPEAL-We, the poor class of
Memphis, are well aware of the fact that the |
government has sent provisions for u.s. and
we can't help the distress of the city. We
desire to make an honest living, and if some
thing is not done for we will take the law |
in our own hands. We can't starve, and |
don't intend to as long as there is anything |
to eat in Memphis. If we could get employ |
ment, we wouldn't ask it of you. Give us |
something to subsist upon, and Memphis |
shall be at peace; and If not, we will turn |
her up side down, If possible.
IRISH AND NEGROES.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER.
EDITORS APPEAL respectfully call the |
attention of all the ministers and people of |
God, of this city, to the fact that the churches |
of New Orleans agree to observe Thursday, |
the twenty ninth instant, as day of fasting |
and prayer to God for the relief of the stricken |
cities from the yellow-fever, and l merely |
houses of worship, we can at least join in the |
act of worship and meet at the throne of the |
heavenly grace. MINISTER OF CHRIST.
DUNCAN X. M'REA SETS HIMSELF RIGHT.
EDIToRs Appeal telegraphed you last |
night that | had been misrepresented by the
reporter account of my remarks at the meet
ing held for the relief of the yellow-fever suf-
ferers. | senG you correct version of what
| did say. My object was to secure the best
L.
and at the same time to put the people on
their guard against sensational appeals,
through which charity might be misdirected.
doubt not all intelligent and honest men
will justify my action when properly repre-
sented. want you to place me right
CHICAGO, August "a. 1878. -
WHAT HE DID SAY.
To the Editor of the Chicago Times:
CHICAGO, August 23.-The reporters of
the morning papers, your own among the
others, report me as saying at the meeting
held last night to ''aid the stricken sufferers,
that at present did not think there was
need for Immediate succor." This is an en-
tire misunderstanding of my remarks.
recognized the great restitution in the
stricken regions, aud the pressing need for
Immediate succOr. But as to the form the
contribution should take, | suggested that a
money contribution was the least needed and
the least useful.
l stated that from my observation in Mem
phis, in the epidemic of 1873, there would be
panicky appeals from unauthentic sources,
and it would be we'll to receive applications
only from authentic or efficient sources.
Instancing Memphis, l stated that by the
unstinted bounty of the north in 1878, much
more money came In than was needed, and
the Howard ASSOCIATION found itself at the
close with large excess on hand, about the
disposition of which there was much discus
sion; that / had seen but few days since
that the Towards had thirty-fve thousand
dollars on hand, and the Masons ten thou
sand dollars, and allowing the per diem ex--
penditure of the former to be one thousand
dollars and the latter three hundred dollars,
there would be sufficient for some weeks.
| recommended, therefore, that the money
part should be the least of Chicago's contri-
butions and in this connection | put in word
for the physicians of Memphis. | said by
reason of their profession they were called to
bear most of the labor, privatl0n, and peril,
and heretofore without compensation, while
they were especial losers by the fact of the
epidemic; that this was imposing upon them
an undue proportion of self-sacrifce, and [
that there should be some di-
rection in the application of the money con-
tributed toward compensation to the profess
sion who, many of them, were poor. The
main contribution | recommended to be:
!. Of food for the INDECENT, who were out
of employment, as -four, meal, meat, sugar
and coffee.
2. Of food and medicine for the sick, as
rice, crackers, lemons, mustard, tea, beef tea.
brandy, and champagne wine, all of which
are lavishly used as remedial agents.
3. Of underclothlng for the sick poor, and
clothing for those whose clothing is destroyed
to prevent the spread of the disease.
4. And stating to the meeting that the dis
ease had yet career to run, and would take
on larger proportions, and the need for sue
cor would be continuous, | recommended not
to lump the contribution. but to send it in
at such intervals as might be
desired by the officials, with whom there
should be communication.
/ desire to correst the error int which the
reporters fell, on my own account, because
don't want to appear to have been endeavor-
ing to stihe a charity which l intended to
aid, the sufferers being my own people, with
whom have heretofore shared similar Or
deal. Very respectfully, D. K M'RAE.
THE WORKING COMMITTEES RULES AND
REGULATIONS.
The citizens relief committee, in regular
session, authorized and empowered the work