Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-26

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DIR. Tyner reports Rev. J. w. Register
as convalescing. Mrs. Register has very
serious case, and last evening was almost IN
a hopeless condition.
Mr.. G. NJ. Baker, the manager of the
Western Union telegraph office, was re-
ported very sick yesterday, but his case ISIS
thought to be not yellow-tever.
-Miss Lizzie Speers, the popular young
music teacher, has conyalesced, and has re-
sumed her cody work of visiting the SICK
and administering to their wants.
Judge L. V. Dixon, of the law firm of
Adams 4 Dixon, died of the fever at Ablng-
don, Virginia, on the seventeenth. Judge
Adams died here a couple of weeks ago.
Mr.. James T. MBride, who had second
attack of the fever and was once reported
dead, was on duty at DIR. Mitchells Office
yesterday, looking as If he had new lease
on life.
DR.. Mitchell instructs that calls for ply
sicians to patients living IN the vicinity of the
State female college must be left at John
Heinrich's grocery, on the fernando road
curve.
DR. G.. r. Dawson, formerly of Paris,
Tennessee, who died Tuesday OF the fever,
mad been a resident of Memphis nearly four
years, and was one of our ablest and best
physicians.
Mr. Albert Venus baby Clara died yes
terday. Mrs. Venu is downYith bad case,
and Mr. Venu, though up yesterday looking
after aid for his family, is almost Frustrated
from over-exertion.
Mrs. Annie L. Amos, we are happy to
announce, is convalescent, and will IN few
days be again among the sick and afflicted,
administering to their wants. She Is one OF
our angels of mercy.
DIR. Baskerville, who went to fernando
yesterday to treat fever patients, reports
eighteen patients in that village. The doc
tor returned to the city yesterday morning,
and is again on duty.
Mrs. A. Hitzfeld was taken down with
the fever yesterday. Her husband Is in st.
Louis, and has frequently urged his wife to
cave the city, which she refused to do. We
hope she will recover.
DIR. Sim was able to get into his har-
ness " yesterday morning, and will soon be
out among his many and anxious patients.
Mrs. DR.. Sim is improving slowly, and will,
no doubt. soon be around.
The Odd Fellows have buried one hun
bred and twenty persons. embracing mem
bers and their families. They have reduced
their sick-list to thirty-fve, having now
eighty-fve convalescents.
The Towards are making arrangements
with the various railway lines to give free
transportation home to nurses. Several re-
3DOnSeS nave Deen EeCelV0u IudO I1OW-
ard passes would be honored.
George Landrum, son of Rev. DR.. Land
rum and younger brother of the late lamen-
ted Herbert Landrum, died yesterday after
noon. The afflicted parents have the sympa-
thy of this entire community.
DIR. J. d. Palmer, the Howard physician
IN the Fifthward, reports the fever abatlng
in that locality; also, that the type is less
virulent, yielding more readily to treatment.
He visits daily from thirty to thirty-fve pa
tients.
Rev. DIR. George White, rector of CAL
vary church, who has been constant and I'M
firing during the epidemic, had to yield to
an attack of the fever yesterday. We hope
it is a slight one, and that he may be soon
restored to US.
Mary Williams and Robert Wilson, two
colored individuals, were arrested and lodged
in the stationhouse yesterday, charged with
completely in the Carroll avenue robbery.
Another lot OF the property stolen from the
house was recovered.
Hon. John League, we understand, is
very i'll at his residence. His son Robert
has had a relapse. Under the watchful care
of the wife and mother, Mrs. John League,
we have no doubt, and sincerely trust, they
may come out all right.
President Langstaff was yesterday the
recipient of beautiful bouquet of flowers,
sent him by Mrs. Mary M. Booking, wife of
Carl Booking, the chemist of New York.
Mrs. Booking is nurse doing noble work
here in attending the sick.
Detective Pat Cornell, of the Southern
Express Company, was reported very low
last night. He has had bad case, and the
best medical attention and the careful
nursing of that good man, Andy Granger,
have so far been unavalling.
The reason the interment of Mr.. Jesse
Moore did not appear in the board of health
reports yesterday, was the fact that he re-
sided outside the corporate limits. and the
ordinances prohibit the recording of only
those who die inside the city.
There was but light attendance at the
Mostly DRINKS and disorderlies, which were
disposed of by light fines and reprimands.
Two larcenists, Lou Sunday and and ALI
Lewis, both colored, were bound over.
The phyaiclans employed by the Howard
association are paid ten dollars per day, and
are provided with horses and buggies. For
eign nurses are paid four dollars per
day and board and lodging, and home and
colored nurses three dollars per day and
board.
Rev. DIR. Boggs, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian church, who has been one of
the most active of the Towards, was yester-
sincerely hope, will not prove severe, as the
suffering people of Memphis cannot afford to
lose him.
Louis Roselle, of the AUaldnche, and son
of the commercial editor of the APPEAL, who
has had bad case of the fever and recov-
cred, will leave the city to-day for Indiana,
to be absent a few weeks. We wish him a
pleasant sojourn among the good people of
the northwest.
Two daughters of the late Rev. DIR. Sla-
ter are very i'll, the eldest, Miss Sallie, thought
to be in dangerous condition. Miss Ger
trude is doing well, being nursed by Mrs.
Conner, of Mobile, Mrs. Mann, of Texas, and
Miss Reeder, the noble young lady from Gin
cinnati. They are under care of the Masonic
relief board.
The many friends of Mrs. E. j. Becktel
and family will rejeice to learn that they are
all well and have so far escaped the dreadful
scourge. They are temporarily sojourning on
Madison avenue, three miles from the city, In
a pleasant and healthy locality, where they
will remain until the fever has entirely
abated.
Mr.. Castor, acting manager of the
Western Union telegraph Office, is still at his
post fighting fate like the true hero he is.
He placed one of the ozone generators In po-
sition in his Office yesterday. and will give it
test on It's merits as fever preventive.
ne lnNlI6S his IEienuS u Cdll dIOuuu, Jake u
sniff and be regenerated.
Mrs. Elizabeth Forrest, wife of Captain
Forrest, the stationhouse-keeper, died yester-
day afternoon out on Rayburn avenue. Mrs.
Forrest was one of those noble women who
had drawn around her a host of friends who
admired her; yea! loved her, for those
christian virtues which are the brightest
| adornments of her sex. Peace to her ashes.
The Towards yesterday, in response to
applications by telegraph, sent supplies and
nurses to the following points: Collierville,
seven nurses; Germantown, three; Decatur,
Alabama, FIVE; Brownsville, two female. DIR.
julius Wise and ten nurses were sent to Mar
tin, Tennessee, with liberal amount of sup
plies. A bad state of affairs is reported from
that village.
DR.. Cheviss, the gallant and talented
young physician from Savannah, Georgia,
and who rendered valuable assistance to DR..
T. o. Summers in pathological examinations
at the city hospital, died yesterday after sew
| eral days illness. DIR. Cheviss made many
friends among his medical brethren while in
| the field. and the announcement of his death