Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-27
The ModIner Modified.

fFOn an Appear correspondent
GERMANTOWN, September 23.-'Maxey,"
Mr.. Dewitt Rhodes) IN the APPEAL of yes
terday, takes exception to my statement in
my first communication that our railroad and
express agent and telegraph operator left us
on the fourteenth instant. Public offices are
public property. | mentioned the operator
as l would have mentioned any other public
rfficer under the same circumstances.
''Maxey" says "the telegraph operator and
railroad agent here is a true and tried friend"
of his, and he does mot want any
reflection cast upon him. | would
would not presume to say in print who
is a friend of mine, but | may say that
think it would be difficult to persuade this
community, the operator or his mother that
am not as good friend to her son as "Maxey"
can possibly be. His defense of the operator
is as uncalled for as 1t is uncomplimentary; it
is reflection on his manhood for ''Maxey"
to drag his wife into print to excuse his ac-
ton, If any excuse is necessary; and It is also
a reflection to say that be has nothing at
stake here, where his three offices are his
means of support. 1t is equivalent to saying
that the community could do as well without
him as with him; whereas the community
consider HIM as essential in his offices as the
postmaster and druggist in his positions.
there was no medical friend, w. A. Hurt, "
at this place. w. A. Hurt, my former pupil,
had been several years under medical treat
ment," as I said. This may be the printers
error and not 'Maxey's." No Miss Keely
died here on the sixteenth; there was no
death here on that day. Miss Bette Kelley
died at RldgeWay on the seventeenth, and
was buried here on the same day. "Maxey's"
remarks about Mr.. J. G. Meacham and Mr..
A. J. Wright are as uncalled for as they are
unjust. On the fourteenth instant, the most
trying day this community has known during
the epidemic, MIR. Meacham and Mr.. Wright,
were two of the four white men to bury two
Of no Nv ahorn of
four TO bury the third corpse. In the fore
noon his entire family was with him, and
they would have been missed had they been
absent. | was there, and | know whereof |
write. "Maxey' was not there, and he has
no authority for correcting THAT list of
names" Mr.. Meacham did not leave town
until the last was oVer-after the fourteenth.
Mr.. Wright has done his part at other bur-
ials and In other ways. 1t is not appointed
nor desired that all shall do the same work.
Some bury the dead, while others nurse the
sick and render other services. All have
rendered as good service as "Maxey.' His
remarks about Esquire Walkers false friends
are uncalled for. since he has not suffered for
attention, as the list of his attendants goes to
prove. There are only four resident families
in town who have not had sickness at home
or relatives to nurse, and II cannot be expec-
ted that all of the few we'll ones could go to
nurse one sick person. Miss Shepherd false
aunt and cousins are the only persons who,
under the circumstances, could be expected to
20 to her service, and, as their good grand
mother forbade their seeing her. lest they
should become victims to the same disease,
''Maxey's" reflection, which could fall only
on them, will not lnjure them in the respect
of the community, which justi6es their
obedience to the grandmother's injunction.
While there have been many sad, and
several very touching incidents connected
with the recent and unusual affection of our
community, there have been no instances of
inhumanity or serious neglect The dead
have had handsome coffins or caskets care
fully prepared graves, with Christian burial
without delay and without Indecent haste.
All things have ben done with decency and
delicacy of feeling. Notwithstanding Max
ey's" assertion to the contrary, there are other
Christians here than our faithful worker
Rev. r. r. Evans, who nurse the sick; there
are Christian parents, brothers, sisters and
sister-in-laws, who, with the medical services
OF their Christian physicians, have borne
the brunt of the burden. asking, with very
few exceptions, no assistance outside of their
immediate families, yet gratefully receiving
the encouragement of the minister, and what
ever assistance their Christian friends and
neighbors offer. Mr.. J. C.. Buster, of the
! sheriff. staff, died and was buried during
tn night of the twenty-frst instant. He
was an excellent man, in a large circle OF rela-
tlves and friends, and useful citizen whose
death the community greatly deplores. To
date there have been eleven deaths In the
immediate community, and the one that oc-
SALLIE cola RENEAU.