Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-07
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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The family of w. w. Sifer, 294 Poplar
street, have all recovered.
Mr.. Will G.. Taylor is convalescent
This is for the benefit Of his Huntsville
friends.
lett, is getting we'll. No other cases have
occurred there.
We are glad to state that Mr.. w. P
Davy and child are improving; they are un-
der the care of Mr.. Davey's sterfather, ].
w. Heath.
Mr. A. II. Wimberly, for Col. Jesse A,
Forrest, paid over to the citizens relief COM
mittee yesterday. sixty-6ve dollars, collected
by Mr.. John l. Ewing, of Louisville, KY.
DIR. Benjamine F. Sheftall and DIR. S. A.
Chevis, both of Savannah, Ca, were assigned
to duty yesterday b. DIR. r. w. Mitchell,
Medical Director Howard Association.
-Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels gave a
benefit at the National Theater, Washing
ton, for the benefit of yellow fever sufferers.
on the 5th. They expected to raise $1,000.
DIR. Goodyear is not and has not been
sick. His clerk being sick he has to stay at
his store, where he also transacts the city S
business, as acting mayor.
The Linden street school has been opened
as an infrmary for colored people. All cases
occurring among that class of our citizens
should be taken there.
Mr.. M'Callum, of the Howard associa-
ton, will hereafter devote the hours from
IL m. to pm, IN the discharge of certain
duties at his real-estate Office, No. 10 Madi-
son street.
DIR. H. j. Green, of Shelby county, and
DIR. Joseph Yates, of Charleston, S. c., at
l 80 am. had just returned from taking a
nurse to Mrs. DeGray@ Bennett, in Chelsea,
who would otherwise have been alone.
= "A delegation of nurses, seventeen in
number, from Washington City, arrived here
this evening They come in the interert of
the Howard association. Among them Is
Mr.. Uzell, an old typo af this city, and we'll
known among the printers.
"A bale of cotton weighing four hundred
and ninety pounds, raised by Captain B. E..
Moody, and sent to LAGRANGE, Tenn, for
sale. has been shipped to Hill, Fontaine &
eft of the yellow fever sufferers. This is
done at the suggestion OF SigsimundMars who
represents the house of N. henderson & Co.,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Major Willis, general superintendent of
this division of the Southern express COM
paDy, is left alone OF all the employees,
who a month ago were assisting to conduct
a large business, he alone is in good health
The last two clerks he had, A. G. Rogers and
George Lane, were taken with the fever yes
terday. Andy Granger, one of the noblest
fellows we have ever met, is nursing them.
Among those who have offered their
services to the Towards, we see the name of
John ]. Ashe, Esq, formerly of Memphis,
but now residing in Haywood county. Mr..
Ashe is grandson of General john B. Ashe,
of North Carolina, and brave Confederate
soldier. He graduated with highest honors
at Lebanon law school In 1858. Having lost
his wife with the yellow-fever in Texas, he
feels for the stricken people of the South.
Upon the authority of Mr. Phillips, the
superintendent of Elmwood cemetery, we are
able to state that there are no bodies above
ground in Elmwood cemetery. All that have
so far been taken there have been buried
Mr.. Phillips says he has great deal of hard
work with the laborers, and that the time
may come when the dead will have to be
buried in trenches in quick lime. Until that
time does come he will do his best.