Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-30

observing what your neighbors are taking in
theirs.
The alarm of fire at half past one O'Clock
TINS morning was caused by the burning of
building on the southern outskirts of the
city, the owner of which and the extent OF
the loss we could not learn.
In another column appears the notice OF
the concert at Estival park, to be given on
the night of Friday next the second proX-
imo, for the benefit of the Memphis Light
Guards. Prof. II. Schultze will conduct the
concert, and will be assisted by a number OF
lady amateur vocahsts.
ALI freight from New Orleans and Vicks-
burg up to the thirty-trst of August, will be
held outside Ct the city in quarantine for ten
days and be disinfected, and after that date
trelghts will not be allowed to enter the city,
either by rail or river, until the board agrees
that all danger mas passed.
If there is any virtue IN quarantine
Memphis ought TO feel secure against yell
lOw-fever visit this season. rs a dispatch from
New Orleans last night states that Frank
Louisiana, and Natchez, Port Gibson, and
other villages IN Mississippi, have established
quarantine against New Orleans.
"A dispatch from st. Louis last night
states that, IN consequence OF the prevalence
of yellow fever in New Orleans, and of the
establishing of guarantees at most of the
ports below Cairo, Captain Scudder an
nounces THAT the Anchor-line will send out
but one boat per week until further notice.
The police, acting as assistants to the
board of health, have visited scores Of prem
iseS, and have found numbers of backyards
and sinks in 4 very bad sanitary condition; in
a condition most deleterlous to public health
These places will be reported. Citizens had
better disinfect their backyards and prvy-
vaults, as the police are on the war-path.
II, oI,,r ! H.
quarantine station, last night gave a clear
bill of health TO the tug Nighthawk, COM
manded by Captain d. Broadhrst. He
also reports that he boarded the John Porter,
and found no new cases OF yellOw-fever, but
three cOnvalescents, who are up and on duty,
The vessel was thoroughly disintected; still
he perem ptorily refused to allow her to land
at Memphis.
The Hannibal (Mo.) Clipper, of the
twenty third, gives an account OF the con-
fidence games played upon the people Of that
town by 4 couple of wel-dressed and edu-
Gated sharpers giving their names as Linn
Herrdon and George Kelery, who were
book agents canvassing for Bryant Library
of POETRY and Song. They were the beauX
of the young ladies of Hannibal for a week,
but they decamped, leaving board and other
bills paid. Kellery said he was from Mem
phis, Tennessee, where he had wealthy par
ents residing. OF course the story was false.
The so-called plague-stricken steam tow
boat, John Porter, passed up the river with
her tow at seven O'Clock last evening. Quite
a crowd OF citizens were on the bluff watch
ing the boat. Dr. ,Ionn Ersklne, health Otfi-
GER boarded the Porter from q tug and found
but one man sick 81 board. The officers
deny that any yellow-fever had been or was
on board. They state that they lost four
men from oYerheating or sunstroke. The
men had been working around the furnaces,
and been drinking ice water. The Porter
was ordered not TO stop or land, but to move
on up the river.
The board Of health, at i meeting held
Yesterday afternoon, adopted the following
rules: First-Au ireights by river and rail
from New Orleans and Vicksburg, from the
present instant to August Sd, must be disin-
fected and detained ten days outside the city
at points to be specified by The board. Sec
ond-After August Sd no freight by rail or
river from New Orleans or NicksDurg will be
admitted to The city until further notice be
given Thrd-Ihat the health officer con-
fer with the railroad authorities and ask them
to designate points outside the city limits at
which freight may be detained and disinfect-
ed under his supervision.
"A fioater was picket up yesterday at
Hopeield which proved to be the dead body
Of colored woman, with long straight hair.
A plain gold ring was found On the third
FINGER of the lett hand, with the initials +. v.
a. on the inside. Esquire Turner, colored,
held an inquest, the verdict rendered being
death from drowning. One of the jurymen,
however, gives 1t as his opinion that she was
victim Of foul play, as a cot was discovered
On the back Of her head at the base Of the
skull. The remains were IN good state OF
preservation, indicating that they had not
been in the water any great length OF time.
Here is a mystery which, perhaps, if traced to
its origin may develop brutal outrage.