Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-06

in search Of more dead bodies until a
full load is procured. Night before last
he saw a wagon containing nine corpses
picked up from place to place
and still the driver, like an Oliver Twist,
was calling for mere" This is terribly
pernicious and should not be permitted
il possible to be prevented. Each corpse
should be carried from the house direct
ly to the cemetery. Hunting up load
is merely distributing the poison, and
making the plague a more terrible GER
tainty. Mr. Wenkelman, who calls at
%teution to the matter, holds himself ready
to verify the facts he is a good citi-
zen and has contributed several barrels
Of -four and meal to the poor, aud holds
himself in readiness to nurse any who
requires his services without pay or ex-
p~ectation of reward.
YELLOW FEVER IN 1929, i53 AND 70.
Bad as the yellow fever nov is in the
Southwest, it is not so bad as 1t has been
in that quarter. In 1853 the scourge
was much worse. In New 0rleanO, for
example, the maximum Of deaths per
day so far attained has been 1903 August
% ofthat year there we're 264 deaths
from the pestilence. and on no day Of
that month we're there less than Ito
deaths, while most OF the time they av-
eraged at least 1870 daily. The resident
population was not then, 1t is estimated,
over so, 900, and Of these l2,e00 died that
season, compared with which, the pres
ent mortality, distressing though it be, is
small. In 1922 when the yellow fever
prevailed here, there was a great panic;
the city was fenced 10 below the city
hall park-the infected district was in
the three lower wards-tbe merchants,
bankers, professional men, and the NUM-
cipal government moved to the village
OF Greenwich, now one Of the upper
wards; and yet, despite the alarm, bare
ly two hundred people died. Just be.
fore the close Of the last century the
fever here destroyed $500 lives, and
then New York had not more than so,
900 peOple--a mortality Of one 10 every
twenty inhabitants. We bear nov much
more Of the fever in 1922 than Of the
fever 10 1898. How fortunate that we
so readily forget both our sorrows and
our calamities .-[New York Times.
FEVER INCIDENTS AT LOUISVILLE.
The Louisville Evening News Of Sep.
tember 3. says; Dr. Luke P Blackburn,
Of this city, being telegraphed to by the
mayor of Hickman, Ky, TO visit that
city in aid of the sick there, left on bis
mission to-day, accompanied by two ex.
perienced nurses. The impression il
that the epidemic at Hickman is yellow
fever. There are over sixty cases in the
town, and a number of deaths have oc.
Cured.
The case OF Mr. Samuel B Williamson
excites no little interest in the city. h
left Memphis several weeks beisrs yel,
low fever appeared, and has been in
Louisville since July IL. He has mia.
glsd freely with the fever refugees here
and DR., Blackburn pronounceS bis dis
ease a mild attack Of yellow fever. Fl,
was attacked Sunday night and sent t.
the yellow fever hospital, but other ply
s%icianS who have ssen his case are o
opinion that it is not one Of yellow fever
His illness is not serious.
The Courier-JournAl SAys: The eu
ployesiu the Courior.JournAl Office hAv
contributed $40 40 to the relief fuad 70
the South. Mr. G Able, q yellow fsve
patient from Memphis, who waI admitte
to the yellow fever hospital on the SOtE
; died last night at 9 o'clock. Fran
Beck, a Louisville man who has recent
; returned from New Orleans, was take
to the yellow fever hospital to-day. HI
case is a bad one. Two families at N,
800 T~wenty.Grst street, near the cornt
Of Grayson, who came trsm Msmph
: last week, are in q destituts condition
The heads Of both families are dow
with mild cases Of yellow fever, AZ
, they are entirely out Of bedding, foe
{ and money. There are st present nil
patients under treatment at the yollo
fever hospital in this city, oil the cas-
being Of refugees from the South.
SEDUCTIVE REMEDY.
!: Louisville Commercially
LOUISVILLE, August Is, 1873 IT
following remedy just At'thiS tins
- known BY the public) might bsa gre
:, benefit, and il you feel disposed give
place 10 your paper. The writer clipp
:, it from the Fort Worth Weekly Den
crAt, Texas, August 10, 1873, and, give
to you word for word
In 1890 an American Commodc
gave a citizen Of Houston an antidc
for yellow fever. 1t waI q teaspoon
Of white mustard seed in dram Of py
Ii. whisky, taken three tines . day. I
+. citizen says this will prevent any O
taking it, aud be has passed throu
:; half a dozen epidemies without hims
or family having il.
Respectfully, L. o. C
~ Health, beauty and strong, pure, =
AZ blood will be- secured 10 all who use /