Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Mrs. Carrie Parker is improving.


Mr.. John ]. O'Brien clerk at Seesel's
| meat store, is convalescing.
Mr.. A. F. G.. Cook, one of the best of the
| Howard workers, Is down with the fever.
AT the Father Matthew camp to-day g
nOrena, or nine days mission, will be begun
for the cessation of the plague.
Mr.. G. w. L. Crook, one of the heroes Of
the epidemic of 1873 died yesterday of the
| fever.
William Chase, one of the oldest of oul
citizens died of the fever yesterday at mis-
residence on Second street.
The fish killed in the bayou by carbolic
| acid emit foul odor which little more car
bolic or a sprinkling of limewill cure.
-Messrs. Connolly and Gibson, telegraph
operators who have been doing double duty
since the epidemic commenced were taken
with fever yesterday.
Martin Keyer,a volunteer telegraph opera
tor from Louisville, died last night, after a
fewdays sickness, of yellow fever.
DR. Bartlett, of Buffalo, the inventor OF
the ozone generator, proposes to kill yellow
fever by his invention. Hope he will try it.
Bishop Fehan made provision for eighty
three of the children of st. Peters orphan
asylum, who were forwarded on Tuesday to
Nashville.
DIR. P S. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Miss Salie
Jones and P. S. Jones, jr., On the boulevard,
who have been down with the fever about a
week, are all doing well and out of danger.
-MissClara Conway offers to give the pro-
ceeds of the sales of her novel, "Life's Prom
Use to Pay" to the yellow fever sufferers of
Memphis.
-TheSecretary of War sent forty thousand
rations to the yellow fever sufferers at Vicks-
burg. They are most acceptable as there
ol, co. of fO0l
Five good COInpOsitOrs can find
employment at this office. AD-
ply Immediately.
Dean Harris, of st. Mary's Cathedral, a
tireless laborer In his Masters Vineyard is,
we are glad to say, rallying from severe at
tack of the fever.
"A. ]. Wheeler, Secretary of the Masonic
relief board, hero of three epidemics, has
at last succumbed. Only few days ago his
wife recovered from an attack of the fever.
The concert given by Peter Tracy, in
Cincinnati, on Monday night, for the yellow
fever sufferers in Memphis, netted thirteen
hundred dollars. Good for Tracy vino is
always trying to do good, and generally sue
ceeds
There are only nine compositors at work
in the city-three and the foreman in the
L1D6HUy LeuyeT, GWO anu Iu6 lOT0Ildn III Iu0
AUGIanche and only two on the APPEAL,
the only one of the editors on duty-Mr. J.
NJ. Keating-acting as foreman.
We deeply regret to record the fact that
Mrs. Butler P. Anderson has been taken
down with fever. We had hoped that she
would have been spared to her children.
The noble wife of noble husband she has
the sympathies of the people of Memphis.
There are but FIVE operators now on duty
at the telegraph Office, the chief and one as
sistant by day, and the chief and two assist
ants by night. This reduction of the
working force shows to what straits the cpl
demic has reduced US
Capt. Bob Wise, of the Cincinnati Packet
Company is doing good work for Memphis.
He sold about one thousand tickets for the
concert which came off in Cincinnati on
Monday night and which was superintendent
by Peter Tracy.
The force is so small at the postoffice that
some of the letter carriers have been called in
Mr.. Bigelow informs US that route No IS
discontinued. People heretofore supplied by
that route must call at the postoffice. Absen-
tees would do well to give orders to forward
their mail, as a vast quantity bias accumu-
tated and is liable to be sent to the dead-let-
ter Office.
The money for which the following is a
receipt, was received yesterday:
MEMPHIS, September 5, 1878.
Received through Rev. Past. Thomas, for
the relief cf the yellow-fever sufferers, sixty
dollars 1900 Of Henry Moser of Wapaconeta,
O., and also ($5) five dollars of Miss. A. S.
Furst of Baltimore.
JOHN scHEIBLRR,
JULIUS NAGEL.
The following letter sufficiently ex-
plains itself:
MEMPHIS, TENN, September 8, 1873.
DEAR SIR-1he arduous duties which
have already assumed IN the treatment of a
large number of yellow-fever patients compel
me to decline respectfully the appointment of
Howard physician. Yours,
Miss Emma Reedes and Mrs Lizzie
Temple, of Cincinnati, ladies OF refinement
and intelligence, who volunteered to nurse
our sick, maze been engaged by the masons,
and they are nursing the wife and three
children of Mr.. Ben. ColHan, on Pontotoc
street They could not be pursUaded to go
back home. Brave ladies, we hope they will
pass through the trying ordeal safely and re- |
turn to their friends, crowned with the |
praises and filed with the blessings of now |
people.
"A bad case is thus described by theLedgery |
D. Sussman, a nurse who came from Chica- |
90 has been acting very badly and has i'm |
posed on nearly every organization IN town, |
the Towards. He went off and |
eft an Odd-Fellow patient named Aug.
Kiordan, who Jumped from window in |
Ielirium and died in the yard unattended. |
de is totally worthless and irresponsible, and
unfit to be employed by any organization. /
He was sent to nurse DR.. Brown, in Chelsea, |
md managed to break the doctors watch and |
thermometer, and drank nearly all the
liquors IN sight. Mr.. George b. Elliott, the
interchangeable worker for the knights of
Honor, finding HIM there this morning, and
.noging MS character, ordered him off,
5ussman Ieade show of fight, when George
promptly arrested Tim, and caused him to be
edged IN the station-no2se. Such charac-
ers had better give Memphis wide berth or
hey will find it a warm place. Our people
ire able to protect themselves yet, and will