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Rhodes, Mr.. VIM. Myrick, Mr.. A: ]. Wright,
Mr. Carpenter, and myself. The absent
members of the family have this assurance
that their sister was not neglected. At an
| early hour in the morning of the nineteenth,
Miss Sallie Bet Shepherd died of this same
| fever, as reported, at the residence of her
grandmother, the aged and venerable Mrs.
Walker. She was at her post of duty nurs-
ing her uncle, Esquire William Walker,
when disease, and perhaps fear, laid heavy
hands on her delicate form. AT the same
hour of Miss Johnson's funeral, she was
borne to her family burial-place. Her friend,
Mrs. Matlock, is worthy of special mention
for coming to nurse her during her sickness.
when there was no one else to come-reviving
in deed" Esquire Walker, who has
been in a very critical condition, is
reported "doIng well" under the skillful
treatment of Drs. M'Kay and Thompson,
and with the coed nursing of his nephew, Mr.
Sidney Shepherd, and Messrs. Joe Weir, ia
cob Roberts and Dewitt Rhodes. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur O'Nell, at whose house Mr.
Roper, of Memphis, the first case in German
town, was sick, are recovering. They have
not had physician, but have been faithfully
and successfully nursed and doctored by their
son and only remaining child, Mr.. Billy
O'Neil, who could trust no one but himself to
administer to his parents. His treatment
consists in administering castor oil and nitre,
and in guarding his patients against impru-
dence in eating and exercising. ALI the
other cases are recovering, and hope we
shall have no new cases. Since we are hav-
ing rainy day with the prospect of frosty
night, think we have good ground on which
to hope for abatement of disease, fear, and
excitement. Somebody has succinctly defined
our epidemic: '' Ninety-nine parts fear and
one part disease" hope the rain will wash
away the disease, and frost will freeze fear.
sAIIIE cola RENEAu
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IN MEMORIAM.
j. G. Buster.


Among the noble martyr dead we have to record
the name of him who heads this article, which
event occurred at his home, near Germantown
on Saturday night last, At the breaking out of the
late war, Mr.. Buster resided In Texas, and was
among the first to enlist In the cause of the South
at the battle OF Seven Pines his regiment In the
thlckest of the fight, he himself losing his right leg
After the surrender, the war; with him, was over
his most intimate friends rarely ever hearing him
allude to 1t; and he Immediately settled up his pr
vate business In Texas and settled near Germantown
Upon the election of the late sheriff. C. L. Anderson
four years ago, Mr. Buster selected for his many
business qualities as one of his deputies which posi-
ton he continued to hold with honor to himself and
with entire satisfaction to the community up 10 the
wearing In OF our present sheriff. MI. l. W. Ander-
on, who, upon receiving the books and papers of
the office from Mr.. Buster In person, Voluntarily
offered to retain him In his late position, saying
THE public good demands it of me to Offer and fol
you to accept the position Out of several hundred
applicants Tor deputyshps prior to the breaking out
to our present worthy sheriff. and taking in at a
Office Of Sheriff in such trying times the taxing cs sI
OF the many prisoners the safely keeping intact the
acted promptly, and Tor the public GOOD accepted
the position, and Immediately entered upon the
tnued duty, In and out Of the Office daily, up to
THURSDAY last. when, on returning home, he was
which he died as stated above.
During his illness of about sixty hours he was at
tended by the immediate family of his late wife's
grandfather, H. T. Jones, ESQ, and few other per
SOnal friends. Dr. r. W. Mitchell, upon learning of
his Illness Immediately sent Dr. BRYANT of Houston
Texas, to visit him, who with Dr. Mckay the attend
ing physician, did all that human skill could to
relieve him. but alas the disease too deeprooted
for human power to battle.
Thus has passed from US lone of natures noble
men"-an officer who had but few equals and no
superors, private citizen who none knew him but
to love- none knew him but to praise" To his only
little, nine year-od daughter and other relatives we
tender sympathy, and can only add the
Master did: "What do thou knowest not now; but
thou shalt know hereafter"
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BurnsviIIe, Mics.
From an Appe

From an Appeal correspondent
huntsville, September 20.-In your edi-
torial of to-day, headed ''Catholic Priests,
Protestant Minister'S" etc.. you say: but
no ray of it (hope) can reach to illumine the
record of those (ministers) who fed and left
their people at time of all tunes, when their
presence and efforts were most needed.
Wanting in faith, they are dead to works. "
minister is a misnomer for those who left
their focks; sunlight shepherds, whose
crooks should be broken, and whose pipes
should be cast away into the dark waters of
oblivion. And, yet, we would know their
names. Would it be wrong to publish them
What has become of Helena, Arkansas? Is
it still on the west bank of the Mississippi
Have they had any fever there? Every day
we eagerly read your paper, and nothing
from Helena" As yet we have had no yell
low-fever at huntsville, but have had three
severe cases of ''malarial," two fatal. Have
not quarantined, and do not intend to. Our
hotel is filed with Memphians. VS.. W.
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Notice of Dissolution.

PY mutual consent, the firm of HERON, Conner q
ID Co. dissolved on the 18th inst The Outstanding
business of the firm Will be settled BY B. r. Rerrop
at their old stand, 266 Front st. Z. Z. HEBRON
August %, 1878. JAMES CONNOR
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MAY we not reasonably hope that tn,
fever is on the decline in the city? Since tn
eighteenth, when we had the first decline from
the nineties, there has been no return to tn
awful death rate which for fifteen days pre-
vious appalled, the world and took from us al
hope. During these fifteen days the average Of
deaths was one hundred and one per day. Will,
for the preceding fifteen it was only thirty
six. For the past seven days the average
has been ffty-three per day. In the mex
seven days we look for still more marked
decline, and after that steady decline, to be
accelerated, We hope, by frosts, that will ut
terly destroy the germs of the disease. This,
so far as the city is Immediately concerned
Out in the county, where there is popula
ton Of over thirty thousand people, perhaps
forty thousand, who ten days ago felt tlem
selves safe froui The disease, the fever is rag
ing with the violence which characterized it
here from toe thicd to the seventeenth
These, of course, lock to the How
ard Association for medical care
medicines and nurses, and to the citi
zens' relief committee for food. There is,
therefore, plenty of work before US yet and
as many avenues open for our aid as wa
found in the streets and alleys two weeks
ago. Taking the whole county into consid-
GRAFTON, it Is safe to say that the fever is a
bad to-day as it was about the fourteenth in
slant, when our highest mortality was
reached. Sanguine people have only to CON
suit the medical corps of the Towards to b.
satisfied of this fact, and the sooner we sci
on foot an expeditions method of reaching
our country friends with aid the better for all
cOncarnad
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Boston, Mass.


BosToN, September 18.-We notice in the
Nashville american an editorial copied from
your paper, headed by an extract purporting
to have been taken from Boston paper, in
substance as follows: Citizens of Mem
phis visiting Boston laugh at the exagger-
ated reports sent North about the epidemic
there, and say things are not near so bad"
As we are extensively advertised in Mem
pins papers as having located our business in
Boston during the epidemic in Memphis,
your readers generally know we are here.
NJ; ny other Memphians may be here, that
your readers know not their location, hence
many may look to us the Laughing absen-
tees" For this reason, and in justice to
others here from Memphis who never heard
of the Laughing before, we write to pro-
nounce 1t a SANDER upon Memphis people
who are here. We feel that you do your
friends here great wrong to publish thing
without giving the name of the paper from
which you copied it. We have tried to find
out what paper it was in, but have not yet
done so.
Some local editor might possibly have
heard some one Memphian laugh and say the
reports were exaggerated, but we doubt even
that. If he did, he had no right to make, as
he did, the whole of the Memphis people
here responsible for it. We can simply say
that it is not true, and great injustice 1--WE
hope Internationally has been done the citi-
zens of Memphis who are in Boston.
GO0nPAR r.
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Deaths In Chattanooga.

Chattanooga Times, 21st: GAS far as known
at this Office, there have been two deaths
since our last report-Mrs. Mary O'Neal, on
the corner of A and Branham streets; Mr..
Ed Murphy, at five o'clock yesterday morn
ing. The disease was pronounced to be yell
low-fever by the attending physician. The
visiting physicians from Atlanta also pro-
nounced the case to be yellow-fever. Mrs.
O'NeaI has been married but about two
months. Her brother, Mr.. P. J. Coyle, for
merly citizen of this place, died in Mem
phis recently from the yellow-fever. Walter
Hunnicutt, aged seven years, son of Officer
Hunpicutt, of the police force, died this
morning at two o'clock. Not having heard
from the attending physicians the nature of
the disease, we cannot report it at present.
At the meeting of the Board of Health yes
terday four cases of yellow-fever were report
ed as existing IN the city. There are few
cases of malignant nalarial fever which have
some suspicious symptoms. All the cases
that have occurred thus far have been in the
low and fiat portions of the city"
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uoun, Some impeftinent intermeddler induced
state the Secretary Of War to revoke his order for
the issuance Of forty thousand rations to the
destitute poor OF New Orleans, whose mum
Anou bers are estimated at twenty-five thousand
cover Some Of the ratons had already been issued
there and some were actually on the way to needy
cases. families. But the moment the order revok-
6aye ing the order of issuance was received these
There were returned TO the commissary depot. The
hospit secretary, who has shown himself to be
y VII man OF broad aud humane feelings, and tc
instan whom Memphis is much indebted for a
case prompt respons to her CALL was, we think
vile. little hasty in recalling the ratons from the
Pltal, people of New Orleans. If doubts had been
Der Is raised IN MS nina as 10 the aolhty O. the
were New Orleans Howard ASSOCIATION to sustain
discrel the thousands who are daily clamoring for
. bread, he could readily have .iatisfed himself
eighty through a commission of naval, army and
bred e civil officers, of whom there a number
pulse there. As it is, the highest civil
weaA, officer of the Covernment-the collector OF
tongue the port-bas promptly demonstrated
differei against withholding the rations from
pale az the people whom he says are actually
vi. s starving. No knows, Collector Smith
the Oh says, well as those engaged Towards OF
that th relief committeeman, the restitution which
temper an almost entire cessation of business has
and in tro,,ht ,ho,. Al Co. 49, ,,c =, ~ ,,,i
the san '.ous"' "OOu'' anu io' any One, !" VI ou'
states of New Orleans, not so engaged to venture
have hi even opinion to what the relief or How
became ard Associat,on IL ding il an ;nonertinence
bowels II. - a.. ..- - -.
charges 'u'' uHuT, 'ns ",nouu'S "
in mecrime. thousands without 1000 went last
in othenight supperless TO bed and this morning
bad csu will have N 90 without breakfast and all
served 49,. - -, IL; -. -,
majorit oG0auSe s0i11 !" OusS O0US'
In the who has, perhaps 10 of know
but sonng any more than any ordinary per
son, has influence enough with the Secretary
-; to induce the revocation Of an order that was
im1te TheartiIy indorsed by the whole country. We
GLIDING hope the Secretary Will be guided by Col
ance Injector Smith, and that we shall have the
New S5leasure of knowing to-day that the poor Of
ylctsburNew Orleans are in receipt of the bounty of
Port 'Gti6the government.
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The Brave ninIster OF 1t. lazarus

wnsd Boston Advertiser: Our heroes of the
an SIplague- stricken cities of the south are as
on Roworthy OF admiration as the heroes who
Louis fought on the battle fields of the south, Con-
iSylli Spicouou> among them was Rev. Charles Car
. hSgroll Parsons, rector Vi ST. Lazarus and Grace
at Memphis, who died last week OF
=. yellow-fever. He remained at his post with
d ,D. he same steady courage with which he de-
III, Isended our flag during the war of the rebel
gan Con A graduate Of West Point in 1861, he
y i, II2Served with Mendenhalrs battery, Company
adieyM Fourth United States artillery. At Per-
xxi, Styvilie, Parsons battery was ordered to
mandrake position on a little hill overlook
hylls ng the river, IN clearing, while
an, Tour infantry skirmIshers were pushed for
Is reward toward the water; they presently ran on
iI'isS,o the heavy columns of the enemy, moving
. trough the open wood toward the clearing.
All h,l'he enemy broke from the woods In heavy
olumns of attack by the time Parsons had
m an got two Napoleon guns IN position, and
7opox githin two hundred yards Of his guns: He
NJ, pened hre on them with double-shotted can
,t;o5ter at short range, at each discharge sweep
~ - ng away the head of the column; the en-
= -, my advanced ga1lantiy, IN spite OF our we'll
cit Irected fire, closing up the gaps as If on
~, ,arade. Parsous's other guns never reached
a = he top of the hill, all but seventeen horses
" enf his battery were shot General Jackson,
-, is division commander, fell dead at his side;
: t., very man at the two guns on the top OF
~ 1e hill was shot down except Parsons; he
anu ut in the ''primers' for the last discharge
istead 5 :; 81 o,,,5 - ,,o5 90 s1are
h, prc'rjS1 a1;tb aa~b ba,d an5 vga,ted nnt,l Tbe
u !, IN 1emy were thrustiGR at him across the guns
III 18th their bayonets, when he fred both guns
18th awful effect Resolved never to leave
les Bsg 80, L oj-I 15at 1bon1 he
rk Ir' - 60 's Sto,,1 ,,,iionaJ nm tbrau,
)m our -. a. - - -; : - - a. 81 oer-;ad
Ga i'm off IN safety. The enemy left the guns
PIC J'l the field when they retreated that night.
one of those who witnessed the anguish of
rat gallant man wheo me reported to Gen
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GRAY-On september %, 1878, near Mid
dleton. Tennessee, Rev. ]. II. GRAY, of Lagrange
Tennessee
GRIFFIN-Sunday morning, September %. 1878,
at seven o'clock of the prevailing fever, DURELL F.
GRIFFIN, in the thirtyfour year of his age.
GILLMART NAT National cemetery on Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad, Of yellowfever FELIX
GLLMARTIN, aged thirty-nine years. [Chicago
papers please copy.]
DASHIELLS-On September "a, 1878, at the resi-
dence of the family near this city, MRS TATE Ed
MoNDsoN DAsHIELLs, wife of George Dashiells, in
the forty-third year of her age.
DAvIS-September 20, 1878, at winters's place,
Breedlove avenue, of congestion, WILLIE JAMES,
only CT Henry L. and Matte A. Davis, aged two
years, five months and four days.
BROOKS-Monday morning, September %, 1873,
in this city, CHARLES CUNDIFF only son of Will s.
and the late Victoria Anna Brooks (ee Pace, aged
sixteen years, one months and ten days. jackson
Wing and Tribune plese copy.l
CLARK-On September 13. 1878, at Tuscumbia,
Alabama, of typhoid fever, CAPT. WIN. CLARK, pres
ident of Franklin female college, Holly Springs,
Mississippi. AS christian. scholar and gentle
man he had few equals and no superior.
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Milan, Tenn.
W. I'VE WESIBROOk,
Secretary Howard Association

Special % the Appeal
MILAN, September 24.-The climax of fear
was reached to-day, eliminating in perfect
hegira; four-ffths of the families are now in
the country, and stood not upon the order of
their going. The "can t-get-aways " are
burning bon6res and firing anvil guns to keep
up courage and test the conclusion theory.
]. G. Boyd, an old and muchloved physi-
clan, died Sunday, his wife Monday evening,
both aged and infirm; their negro servant
woman, who was sick, Is better this evening.
The alarm extends to the surrounding coun-
try, and could be no greater if acknowledged
to be genuine " Yellow Jack " in our midst.
Physicians yet in doubt. PES
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name unknown, left Memphis for Nashville
the beginning of last week, wishing to change
cars at M 'Kenzie, but when the train passed
NJ 'Kenzie he was asleep, and was put off or
got off at Springville. He started back to-
ward Paris for the purpose of taking the
night train to NJ Kenzie. When near Por-
ter's Switch he was taken sick and laid down
by the roadside, and on Tuesday evening he
died. He had the yellow-fever, and In an
swer to inquiry Of persons passing, said he
did not want anything. Since writing the
above we ascertained that the mans name
was James Kerney, that he was a timer in
Memphis, and that his family are in Louis
vile Kentnckv"
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washington. -. q.

WASHINGTON. September 24.-The Secre-
tary of War receiving information to the
effect that the Howard Association of New
Orleans has some two hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars on hand, and that they are not In
need in funds there to relieve yellow-fever
sufferers, has ordered an investigation in
regard to the matter, and has also suspended
his order of last week to issue forty thousand
additional rations for the relief of persons
suffering from yellow fever.
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RroWnsviIIe. Tenn.

70 ING Appodl.I
BROWNSVILLE, September 24.-No word
of cheer to-day. Twelve new cases. Among
them are City Marshal Russell, Fritz Plertz
and child, and Rivers Grove. The deaths
are Wesley Wills, an old citizen, and Miss
Kate M'Farland, a popular young lady, in
the list. Our hospital is in better order,
and we have two good nurses from Memphis
to-day. DIR. Ware is resting easier tonight.
We have got good many people out in the
woodsto camp to-day, as it may do some of
them good. Mr.. Tom w. Samuel has
taken Hop Owens place as railroad agent
and operator God bless him.
W. I'VE WESTBR00K,
SecratarY Howard Association.
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a Memphis Man Dies I'm New Jersey

case of yellow-fever terminated fatally
on Wednesday at Gloster, New Jersey, a vii
lage of about one thousand inhabitants, nine
teen miles from New York city, on the line
of the Northern railroad of New Jersey The
victim was Clarence o. Valentine, aged
thirty-four, robust man weighing over two
hundred pounds. His father, the Rev. An
drew w. Valentine, resides at Gloster, but
breaches at Demarest- Clarence 0. Valen-
tine had lived at Memphis many years, and
was engaged In business there as the agent
of sewing machine company. At the urgent
invitation of his father, and on account of
the dizziness of business at Memphis, he de-
cided to come North for some time, and on
September Sd be left there with his wife and
two children. When. Mr.. Valentine died no
one in the village would help to lay the body
out. The family sent to Hillsdale and en-
gagged an undertaken, who came with a
hearse, but at first refused to assist in laying
the body into the coffin. This work had to
be done by the aged father and his remain
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COE0W8reF, MISS.
From an Anneal CORRESPONDENTS

HIOIl PpodI OOIIOSfOII0eII1.I
CoLDwATER, MISS, September 22.-No
yellow-fever here yet. One very sudden
death here Friday last afforded material for
gossip dealers, but DIR. Talbert, the attending
physician, assures us that it was congestion
of the stomach, and no yellow fever The
forty-ffth amendment of our quarantine law
allows US to receive newspapers, and we re-
joice to learn of brighter days in Memphis.
Colonel W. H. Anderson, one of our generous,
whole-souled and noble-hearted citizens, sent
Memphis sufferers, in addition to other lib
eral subscriptions, one hundred dollars, say
ing his purse was open for more, Who will
initiate his heroic example?. J.R.B B.
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Fever at Meade, Miss

Lexington Miss Adrertiser: IA report
was prevalent few days ago that little
boy, nephew OF Mrs. Egglesto1,, deceased
of yellow-fever, since the death of Mrs. Egg
gleston. We now learn that such is not the
case, but that all the cases there, four in
number, are improving. Mr.. ESgleston him
self is with his family, we hear, and as he has
in times past had the fever, knows how to
treat them, and is treating them very success
fully. We learn, also. that two nurses have
arrived there from New Orleans. We sin
cerely hope Mr.. E. may be able to control the
disease there, and save to the community
those persons who now have the fever"
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GERMANTOWN, September 20.-Miss Jen-
ME Johnson, eldest daughter of Rev. Angus
Johnson, of this place, died at half past FIVE
o'clock on the evening of the eighteenth in
slant. She has been an invalid for many
years, and it affords us some consolation that
she did not die of the prevailing epidemic.
1t has quoting and reassurins influence on
the community to know that ,ve,y death IL
not necessarily the result of yellow lever
She was an unwayerinv Christian, even unto
death; and the s. parents, with the
blessed promise Of IL resurrection, resigned
their frst-born TO Christ The family was at
tended, with sympathy and service, at the
house or at the grave, by Mr.. and Mrs Evans,
Miss Emily Clark, Mrs. Garner, Mr.. L. A.
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New York.

NEW YORK, September A.-The southern
relief committee of the chamber of commerce
to-day sent two thousand dollars to the citi-
zens' relief committee at Memphis, thirty-fve
thousand dollars to the Howard association
of Memphi, three hundred dollars of which
is for Martins, Tennessee, five hundred dol
lars for Brownsville, two hundred dollars for
Williston, and five hundred dollars for Holly
SprinOs
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ing son. The body was rolled in a sheet
which had been saturated with whisky. The
undertaken was given some to drink and
wash his hands with, and finally he consent
ed to help and lift the sheet. The father per-
formed the burial service himself. Part of
the dead mans clothes were burned and
part buried, and the house was disinfected
with carbolic acid and fumigated with sui
phur. The villagers feared that if the clothes
were burned the smoke might scatter abroad
the germs of the disease.
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ACCORDING to Mr.. ]. II. Chinn, acting
observer, the thermometer at 7 am. yester
day registered g. degrees, with the winc
south. At 2 p. m. 81 degrees, with til,
wind east, and at 8 pm, "A degrees, witt
the wind from the southeast, and clear sky
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WE HOPE our friends in the country will
continue to report to us the names of all who
are sick or who die of the yellow-fever
Short communications, confined to facts and
names, will be appreciated by our readers,
especially those of them at distance, who
are anxious concerning their friends.
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The Howard Association for yesterday re-
ported ll9 new cases. Thirty-seven death,
we're reported, Of which number Is wer,
colored and "a white. This makes a total o.
cases 70 date, 5.243, aud deaths. 2.45s.