Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-29

LIZ A.PPEAL----
business manager. city and commercial editor mail
hand for work. We congratulate him In his
recovery.
The only case Of yellow-fever now in
Huntsville, Alabama is that Of a negro boy, twelve
or fourteen years old, who recently went from Men,
well.
"A report reached here yesterday that
Major John Hughes the welknown glass-stainer,
was down with the fever six miles out on the Horn
pitched camp.
Henry Woods, colored, wants to know
where he can get a thousand dollar bond. Henry
stole rug from Molie Donnell, colored, deceased,
valued at ten dollars, and will have to answer
charge Of grand larceny.
=. b. Smith, white man; empl 90Sgsfs,d as
special policeman made his grocerS stnre of ar9
sTGD Sy Ak NE %oodf building on Main
Street, Street He Ps n1ti De Investigated Monday.
charley Howard, one among the most
active members of the Howard association is on his
feet again. and will enter upon his duties IN the
Howard ranks Monday MI Howard owes , ms recoV-
H-Mrs. Ellen Glissons eldest son, Alvin, is
rapidly improving from severe case Of blackvomit;
thanks to his physician, Dr.; Duncan OF savannah,
ness and kind attention. He will be specially re-
memDered by the family
Pat Gatens whose family is in Browns
Vile, and who went to their relief as he was
sufficiently convaescent telegraphed exMayor John
johnson yesterday that four of his children
down with the fever and he IS afraid the remainder
of MS family will be stricken.
Phil Doherty, the porter at Wilkins's,
who while crazy with the fever inflicted serious
finally recovered, but his convalescence is sad one,
as he has become raying maniac; He was yester-
day imprisoned on Iunacy warrant
-RIllia Willis altar halnin0 IN Eol 10
Of several members of his fathers family and the
late J. F. TTezeyant was taken down with the fever
denee, No 314 Madison street. and has bad case.
Mr.. c. R. Trigg, his brotherin-aw is convalescent
EDITORS APPEAL-The friends of Rev. Dr.
are doing remarkably well. Their physicians are
encouraged to believe that everything promises the
Ot'O'N' -''''''' u ' EDWARD c. JONES.
Mr.. G. B. Galloway, of the Peabody,
downstairs yesterday receiving the congTatula
OF his s pGk0 Ogg o o%
Will visit his family now in Louisville MI Lathrop,
from Denver, Colorado, was Mr. Galoway's nurse
DR. Orr the last one of the volunteer
physicians, was stricken with clearly defined case
Portable duarters at the Peabody IH1War6) inrmary
for physicians. Dr. Orr untirilg in his labors,
and will be missed His recovery Is earnestly hoped
Mr.. VIM. Brown. the warden OF the
Court street infirmary, is from Shreveport and
most efficient Official obliging In the extreme, keeps
|
ing information about patients at that institution
| man with whom 1t Is a pleasure to come In con-
/ tact.
We are panied to announce that Mrs. J.
Harvey Mathes Is still laying In critical condition
She passed her seventy-secoDd hour yesterday morn
ing with improving signs the fever having subsidized
Everything Is being done that kind and good nursing
clan, DR.. Mitchell
| a-Mrs. Walter A. Goodman's wound proved
/ to be much more serious and painful than was at
first supposed, and has caused her great suffering
bama, by Drs Dement, and Erskine, who think that
| she is doing well, and may recover without any
permanent injury.
| Jesse Woods, the vigilaut colored police
play of jewelry and fine clothing by Ben Parker,
colored, therefore he pulled him. A good case was
unreliable citizen and a tough character generally.
Ben's difficulties now are with the bolts and bars at
| the jail.
-Four hard citizens-yea, tough fellows
named James Conrey John Murphy, Shamus Mack
and D. Donald-invaded the solemn precints of a
yeIow.feyer patient at No 124 Front street aud as
Craig They had gIudge to pound Frank In retail
| against them. They are all in jail.
President w. ]. Smith, of the Towards,
received the following dispatch from Louisville yes
committee for the relief of yellowfeyer sufferers in
| to-day six horses buggies and harness" They are
| for the use of Howard physicians, many Of whom
have to attend patients several miles in the country
The following friendly and sympathetic
dispatch was received yesterday by Mr.. Lonsdale:
"CHICAGo, ILL, September %, 1878.
'Our love, sympathy and prayers are yours in
| strain you. THOMAS s: CHAkA,
| 'For the Firemen's Fund Office
| DIR. H. E. Wendall, from Lima, Peru
but recently of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has
been here the past eight or ten days quietly but dill
gently investigating the character of the malady
that has been dreadful. The doctor has great
perence in epdemtcs and is capable of giving valu-
able Information to the medical fraternity and
withal Is clever genial gentleman with whom IL Is
| pleasure to converse.
| The Flynn family, living in the northern
part of The city, near the Louisville railway have
a daughter has been down thirteen days, and has
had spell of black vomt, but yesterday her con
daughter aged fifteen, was stricken yesterday. They
have an attentive and experienced nurse In Mr.
| Henry Green, of Charleston.
Captain Tom Johnston has, at last, had
| to succumb to the prevailing. No man has come
nearer doing mis- duty to his fellow-men than Cap
was of the Odd-Felows relief committee, but
did not confne himself alone to his stricken breth
look with anxiety the result of his attack hoping
earnestly praying for his early recovery.
Still they suffer, and still the heart is
rent with woe. But yet the nobility of the lanC
mainly Captain James Cleary of the fire depart
ment, been bIed to the of his heart by the
shrnken heart but head erect serve the poor anC
and destitute as Of yore he stood on the battle
grounds of north Georgia. May God bless jim
Cleary
Tom Taylor, a colored man, who ha.
made himself conspicuous as a religious enthusiast
but nothing could be made out Of his case, and b,
was discharged. The poor old man seemed to get Il
| praying, and as soon as discharged he began
TRADE of abuse and cursing Jesus Christ for whicl
he was again arrested and imprisoned on warran
for lunacy.
We publish elsewhere list of the vol
: unteer physicians that have been on duty with tn
ths1 most ecient department The list embrace
those who have died, are now sick, and those OF
us BY Colonel W. S. Pickett secretary of the Howar
| medical board, who has shown himself In all PAL
ticulaFs most obliging and thoroughly sociabe. hi
final report will be one Of the Interesting docu
e ments of the epidemic.
The cracking of small arms In the vlcin
:, last night, created considerable excitement, an
drew together crowd of three or four curious pee
pie. 1t proved to be from Louis Ponita's little pis
toll, who was trying to overhaul couple of negroe
!. | whom he caught trying to steal some sheep mea
from his butcher shop at the corner OF Madison an
Third streets. The negroes got away but Louis
the stationhouse to answer to the charge of shoe
!, | ing in the corporate limits.
IS E. E. Furnish died last evening, at tn
Peabody. He was formerly In the employ Of B. Low
enstein d Co., but has recently oiciated In a Gle
: ical capacity at the Howard association headqua
fused to acknowledge the presence of the preyain
fever. On yesterday morning; while walking !
d the floor He was conveyed to his room and mea:
d ures undertaken to produce reaction without avail
" however, for he steadily sank and finally died
stated His family are absent In Louisville an
a have been communicated with.
1T Among the heroes of this epidemic who's
names will go down to posterity with honors none
more deserving than Captain Henry B. Fontain
. who has stood like stone wall In the Office OF Il
| treasurer of the Citizens relief committee. Near
$ all his comrades have fallen sick about him; son
IL nave paid the last debt of nature; others have
| covered, but Captain FOntaine has stood like her
@ closely scrutinizing land faithfully performing tn
E. duties of that office. Through his diligence al
courage alone has the intricate business of that
sponsibie position been faithfully kept.
n There are couple of large trunks at IL
y stationhouse evidently packed with vauables, abo
rs which there will develop an interesting history at
trial of the drayman Monday morning, In who
1 | possession they were discovered, The draymar
n story is, that the lady who owned the trunks die
D. leaving express orders that they be burned; but
er thought he would take the chances OF keeping Z
| trunks rather than burn them. others say that &
~ lady gave this drayman money to pay her funeral
= peTse but he converted it to his own use, stole
H. E In