Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

WIN. 0. York, clerk at H. Harder's, died |
| yesterday morning.
| Fireman James Hannah died on Sat |
urday last of fever.
HI. MGrann, our foreman, paid the Of |
| fee visit yesterday.
Will May died of yellow-fever at VIII |
| Inns station yesterday.
| Mr.. Ed Whitmore is, we are glad to re- !
| port, steadily improving.
| Fred Brennan still keeps his bed; no
show for relapse there.
| General Luke Wright, although weak, is |
| able to walk about the house.
| -W.P. Bill, at ]. c. Hills, Cherry sta
ton, died Monday night of yellow-fever.
| B. J. Semmes and NJ. w. Bedford, are
attending to the business of B. J. Semmes q
| Co.
| Robert Hammack, book-keeper of the
Fourth National bank, died yesterday even
| ing.
President Langstatf, we are happy to say,
has passed the crisis, and will be up in a few
| days.
Two new cases and one convalescent
| were reported IN the fourteenth district yes
| terday.
| Captain Harvey Mathes has so far recov-
cred as to be anxious about his APPEAL and
| Ledger
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| Jenkins and Mr.. Jake Gebhart are out OF
danger.
Sisters Matheldis, Bernardine and Mar
| earet were stricken down with the fever on
Monday.
General w. J. Smith, during Mr., Lang
staff s sickness, is acting as president of the
Towards
-Thos Bacon, well known to all old eiti-
zens of Memphis, was taken with fever Mon
day evening.
| Mrs. Kirkland desires to return thanks
to DR.. Purnell for kindnesses shown to her.
self and family during their illness.
-Drs. Bankston and Hicks were reported
dead yesterday by DR.. Mitchell, but up to q
late hour last night were not buried.
| DR. R. N. Mills, city physician of Elmira,
| New York has offered his services to go to
the help of any of the yellow-fever cities.
| Mr.. Vincent Bacigalupo, one of our
prominent Italian citizens and large proper
ty owner, died of yellow-fever yesterday.
There were quite number of cases re-
ported in Ropefeld yesterday. Mrs. Dunlap,
| of that place, was not expected to recover.
Mrs M. J. Virgeson, wife of Willard
Virgeson, an APPEAL press-feeder, was taken
down with light case of fever yesterday
Father Luceli, of st. Patrick's church,
was taken sick yesterday evening. 1t is
hoped his case will not develop into yellow
fever.
-Drs. w. Duncan and Easton Yonge, of
Savannah, Ga, arrived in the city yesterday
and reported for duty. They were assigned
last night.
Jack Bowen, of Memphis, recently on
the Times, died yesterday of yellow fever at
New Orleans. He renamed in Memphis
through the epidemic of 1873.
DIR. M'Farland, of Savannah, brings to
the aid of our afflicted people the valuable
experience he has gained in six epidemics
through which hehas passed.
-Eug. w. Moore. the surviving officer of
the relief board of Temple of Honor, yester-
day received from Waltham, Massachusetts,,
; a check for twenty-fi dollars.
DIR. Thomas S. Easton, physician of
| vast experience in yellow-fever, arrived a
few days ago from New Orleans, and was
assigned to duty by Medical Director Mitchell
! Very Rev. NJ. Riordan, vicar-g general
and pastor of st. Patrick's church, died
Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock. He was
attended till the last moment by Father
: Luiselh.
The following named volunteer physi-
clans died yesterday and Sunday: Menees, of
: Nashville; DR.. MeGregor, of Covington; Dr.
d j. R. Renner, of Indianapolis; and J. l..
:; Bond of Brownsville.
p Mike Cunningham, who was volunteer
Howard, and did good service, died last night
after three days attack of the fever. His
wife was in critical condition, and not ex-
pected to survive the night.
The stricken South has a powerful and
: willing friend in Madame Marie Roze. She
p has, so far, given two concerts at Saratoga in
aid of the yellow fever sufferers, both of
which have been immense successes.
Miriam Virgeson, an APPEAL carrier
! who was attacked with the fever on Saturday
night, was In SO critical a condition last night
as to induce the belief that he would die ere
7 morning. He was a smart, active, intelligent,
young man.
-Mrs.C f. Reid returns heartfelt thanks TO
Rev. Mr. Boggs, Drs. Mitchell and Erskipe,
T and also to Mrs. Ira Elder and Mrs NJ. E.
Davidson, volunteer nurses from Washing
ton, for their kind and skillful attention dur
ing her late illness.
J What an example of devotion to duty
the Catholic priests set. As fast as one falls
. another takes his places. Fathers Seaman,
Thoma and Van Troostenburg have recently
arrived here to take the places of those who
have died at their posts.
j. w. M'Donald, the volunteer telegraph
operator from Cincinnati, died Sunday even
ing. Mr.. M'Donald is the sixth operator
that has succumbed to the fever It is strange,
but nevertheless true, that so far no tele-
grapher that has been attacked has recovered
; "A very sudden death was that of Conrad
| 1OoSPB OclhCL dI Vic L cGOOuy AOt6l. he gave
up work at nine o'clock yesterday morning,
and died at five in the afternoon. He had
had the fever for several days, but refused to
take to his bed. Everything possible was
, done to save his life, but without avail.
We sympathise deeply with our col
League, Mr.. VIII ). Brooks, upon the loss of
his mother. After a struggle during which
there were many CLEANS of hope, she ex-
pred yesterday. Mr.. Brooks has been deeply
afflicted In the loss of his wife and mother
all he held dear-and he has the heartfelt
sympathles of our citizens generally.
We are requested by Capt. Maccabe to
> remind those persons who kindly send dona-
tons for destitute citizens to the commissary
department of the citizens relief committee,
to, In every case, mark each package with
the name and place of residence of the do
nor. By this means the commissary will be
enabled to give due credit daily to each gen
erous contributor.
From letter received by DIR. S. C. Sny-
der, of this city, we learn that Emira, New
FORK, has awakened to the needs of their
suffering countrymen in the deeply afflicted
7 south. At meeting of the citizens. held in
| the city hall, the sum OF eight hundred and
E ninety dollars was promptly subscribed, and
T measures taken to solicit and receive sub
scrlptlone from the citizens of that city. DIR
Thomas ID. Beecher sent to Dr. SNYDER five
gallons of Cognac brandy and five cases drv
champagne, which Dr. Snyder had written
for.
+. M. Cole writes us at too great length
for our columns complaint against the Citi-
zens rehef committee, saying that he cannot
get rahons, the committee assigning as a rea-
son that he is no longer resident OF the CITY.
he having left the city by advice of the com
mlttee. We hope the committee will look
into this case promptly. While they are do
ing 80, we will remind Mr. Cole that the
threat he makes of publication of his com
plant at greater length elsewhere is not
worth the paper it is written upon. and that
that ls not the way to secure what he wants.
"A. Vaccaro, Esq, of A. Vaccaro & Co.
who Is now IN New York City, has had do
mated MN, by fthe generous merchants of