Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-09


den the entry into that city of the New Or
| leans mails.
Il do not think there is any danger from
| letters. | receive letters from Havana and
other yellow fever infected districts every
week, and never think of any danger. There
| is none.
| CONVICTION ASKS FOR INFORMATION.
CovNGToS, TENN. August g. 1873.
| To the Board of Health DR.. d. D. Saunders, Presi-
dent Memphis, Tennessee:
GENTLEMEN-We, the undersigned, clti-
| zens of Covington, Tennessee, would most
respectfully request of your honorable
| board to publish in the city papers, for
| the use and benefit of citizens in the country
| surrounding Memphis: Fi-st-'Ghe different
| kinds of cheap disinfectauts and prevent
| ives. Second-The remedies to be used in
| the event the fever Is taken by persons. BY
| SO doing you will confer on mankind not only
a favor, but never-to- be-forgOtten blessing:
J Lowenhaupt. W. H. Murphy,
| ]. L. Cause, Thos. II. White,
| James L. Gee, C. n. MFadden,
| j. B. Hamilton, A. NJ Owen,
! b. N. Smith, John W. Shelton,
| VIM. Fleming. h. C. HaIsson,
David Ivithan, John A. Upton,
J. P. O'Neal, Thos. NJ. Barrel.
| W. B. Smith, L. Martin,
| ], ". Lennon, R.B. MGregor,
81. HalshOuser, c. R. Harris,
! r. A. Given, Geo. p. Shaw,
j. B. Milan, W. o. Menifee,
II. III. Moore.
As to the remedies, DIR. Choppin's instruc-
| TONS emanating from the New Orleans board
of health, and published above, are excellent,
as are also his instructions as to disinfectants,
and the same agents are in use by our board
of health. In addition, our board of health
sprinkles lime along the street. cutters, and
citizens sprinkle it freely In their cellars and
around their premises generally. Ali refuse
and garbage should be removed daily from
premises. In all suspected cases of yellow
fever send for the best physicians as soon as
possible.
THE MEMPHIS BOARD OF HEALTH.
Quarantine by rail and river continues to
be enforced strictly against infected districts
south. The city is being rapidly placed in
good sanitary condition; the corps OF the
board is at work daily throughout the city,
cleansing the cutters, streets and alleys, and
enforcing the sanitary rules and regulations.
No case of yellow-fever has appeared up to
late last night, and the health board feels
confident that the fever can be kept out of
the city this season. Many communications
have been received by the board from persons
in the infected districts asking permission to
come to or to pass through Memphis. but
these requests have been refused, no excep-
ton being made in favor of any.
SERIOUS FREIGHT QUESTION.
Information has been received by Colonel
NJ. Burke, superintendent of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad, that the authorities
at Grenada prohibit the unloading of all New
Orleans freghts at that town. il conse-
quence OF this there Is serious embarra2 sment
relative to certain New York freights shipped
by steamer to New Orleans, and now en-
route by rail to this city and for Memphis
merchants. Several days ago the board of
health had to rescind the order prohibiting
freight On the railroad coming into this city,
and stopping it at Whitehaven, because the
people there threatened to destroy it unless
ram NyTa1
The freight now en- route from New Orleans
to Memphis, merchants amounts to forty or
fifty thousand dollars In value. The board
determined to prevent the freight coming to
Memphis and ordered it to be unloaded at
Mitchell's tank, FIVE miles south of the city,
where it will be kept ten days and disin-
fected before brought into the city.
OUR QUARANTINE STATION.
The following letter from DR.. Laurence was
read and filed yesterday;
QUARANTINE STATION, August Z, 1873.
]. II. Erskine Md, Health Officer:
DEAR SIR have examined the steamer
John A. Scudder carefully, and find one case
of fever-Mrs. Bleakly, from New Orleans
within one and half squares of the infected
Duffy was put off at Refuge, Mississippi, said
to have been sick all the way from New Or
leans. Our gunner, John Brockinger, left
to day, although told expressly that he could
not do so. Send keg of powder and fifteen
fannel-bags, also ice, at once. Respect
fully, A. A. LAURENCE,
Quarantine Officer.
The police are Oh the lookout for persons
who are attempting to break the quarantine
Sy rail. If they are captured they will be
severely dealt with. The railroads and river
front are watched closely by the police, de-
tectives and citizens, for all violators Of quar-
antine regulations.
BLOCKADE RUNNERS.
At eleven o'clock last night Police Ser
geant Holman was on the landing between
Adams and Washington streets, where he
discovered a skif rapidly approaching the
shore. The boatman was using muttied oars,
and was slipping to the bank. In the skiff
were four or five persons. Just then po
iceman blew a whistle, and at once the skiff
was headed out in the stream, and it was
propelled rapidly but noiselessly down the
river. The police followed the skiff down be-
low the elevator, where it disappeared in the
darkness, making for below Fort Pickering.
A squad of police was sent down to arrest the
party, should they make landing. It Is be-
heved that the passengers got off of the
steamer Paris G. Brown, which passed up
from New Orleans yesterday, and that they
got off somewhere above the islands and
secured the services of a fisherman to row
them back to the city last night. Should
they be arrested, they will be punished to the
full extent of the quarantine law and an ex-
ample will be made of them. The police have
an mixing as to the identity of the blockade
runners, they having been heard, while the
Paris Brown lay In front of the city taking on
coal, swearing that they would be In Mem