Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-16

Announce that this entire community has
organized to picket the town and prevent in
gress from all quarters as the only safeguard
against yellow-fever. The dispatch is signed
by b. T. Tnrner, president of the board of
aealth.
The following additional collections were
made yesterday for the Grenada sufferers by
II. Furstenheim, Esq, chairman of the com
mittee: J. I. Petit L. Co., twenty dollars
Rice, Silk d Co., twenty-five dollars: School
field, Hanauer d Co, thirty dollars; C. P.
Ryan d Co. and S. Mosby, each ten dollars.
Total, ninety five dollars.
The mayor and other city hall officials
evacuated the city hall quadnlateral yester-
day, the yeiow-fever having invested the
place somewhat. The city hall officials are
wandering around, but it is stated they may
eventually get together in the basement of
the Planters insurance building on Madison
street, between Main and Second.
The courthouse being in the enemys
country, known as the infected district, pre-
scented a deserted appearance yesterday after
noon. All the court and other offices are
about to be removed to localities further south.
The United States court clerks Office will be
removed TO Bartlett. The sheriffs deputies,
under Major Ben K. Pullen, yet hold the
fort against the surrounding enemy.
The attention of our readers is called to
the change OF schedule on the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad in another column.
On and after Saturday, August II, 1873,
trains will run as follows: Mail and mixed
train leaves Memphis, 800 am, arrives, 200
pm, daily; SardIs accommodation train
leaves $40 pm, arrives $40 am, daily, ex
cept Sundays.
The Odd-Fellows have organized for the
yellow fever scourge. An organization was
effected yesterday as follows: John Link
hauer, president; II. NJ. Gage, vice president;
]. Z. Hoffman, treasurer; William Henry,
Joe Russell, superintendent of
nurses. The Odd-Fellows trustees rooms
will be open daily for the transaction of bust |
ness. The corps of nurses has been regu- |
larry organized for the campaign. Yesterday |
two cases were reported, and nurses were sent |
The Odd-Fellows have ample |
funds to provide for their sick.
early yesterday morning a burglar en- |
tered the cotton Office of Harris, Mallory & |
Co., 255 Front street, and ransacked the Of |
ice. Everything was hurried over and ex-
amined. Drawers were forced open, but |
nothing was carried off. The burglar must |
nave been looking for the safe ombination, |
As every little bit OF paper was unraveled. |
The combination lock safe was untouched |
The combination can only be found in the |
heads of the proprietors and book keepers,
t is not left lying around loose written on l
scraps Of paper.
line nrst pale OF cotton from Shelby
county, or of this seasons crop, raised in /
he State of Tennessee, was received by J.
5. Richardson & Co, from President Island, |
rom w. NJ. Forrest & Co., yesterday, and |
vas ginned at the frst-class ginning estab-
ishment of j. n. Patrick & Co., proprietors of
he Star ginnery, No. 68 Union street. The
Star gin is the most complete glnnery IN this
,Ity, having the best gins, cleaners, busters,
ETC., used for ginning cotton, and we recon-
mend all planters having cotton to gin to |
oatronize this establishment.
Chloride of lead is the most efficient and
cheapest disnfec;ant and deodorizer known
mot poisonous and safe. To prepare it on
small scale for family use, dissolve thirty
TX grains of nitrate Of lead in one quart of
polling water, and one hundred and twenty
grains of comman salt in one gallon of wa
er. Mix the two solutions, and when set
led pour off the-clear solution and keep we'll
orked in jugs and demijohns for use. A
10th wet with this and suspended in q sick |
DOM, crowded cars, cabins of emigrant YES
els, will instantly neutrallze offensive odors,
md little dashed into the holds of vessels
having bilge water, and into water-closets,
esspools and sewers, will destroy all nOxious
.asses by uniting with them. The decompo-
ition of animal and vegetable matters (ema-
atiOns and excavations from the human |
'ody under the influence of heat) generates |
he gas, "sulphide of ammonium and hydro
zen" which produces such variety of fatal
pidemics. The sewers IN London, and all
aces where this noxious gas is generated. |
re disinfected and purified by the liberal APP
ication of chloride of lead, and at a nomi
al cost It's efficiency is certified and its use
by the leading physicians and
hemists of London.