Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-07

InTW due CIV
steamer Golden Crown, and who was sent TO
the quarantine hospital for yellow-feyer
treatment. died at quarantine on Monday
last.
The question as to the solvency OF several
of the sureties on the bonds OF the assaulters
of Captain Reudelhuber came up for hearing
at the criminal court yesterday. The matter
will be further investigated next week before
SpecialJudge Yerger.
The colored ally continues to haunt the
central commttee-rooms OF the National
Republican party on Second street, near JET
ferson, but the treasurer Is never at home,
and the treasury is empty. Yet the scent OF
the roses hang round 1t still.
1t is rumored that it Is the intention of
the attorney-general-elect G. P. NJ. Turner,
to take the stump against General Luke h.
Wright should that gentleman get the DEM
ocratic nomination for congress. The good
| afternoon T. had better change his mind.
in another place will be found the orders
of the board of health to housekeepers,
property -owners, physicians, etc. The order
desiRnates the best means of disiDfectlng
premises, and gives full instructions as to the
preservation of health. Every citizen should
| read the important orders.
Tonight, at Estival park, Pike G. Gray s
| dramatic company will open up an engage
| ment for three nights, and matinee Satur-
| DAY AFTERNOON. Inc troupe Is sdlu 10 Oe tn
excellent one, and gives good performances.
Alone will be the attraction presented to-
night. Admission fifty cents.
The difficulty between Messrs. Thompson
and Sullivan, of Oxford, Mississippi, has
| been amicably adjusted by the friends of the
parties In this city, so no resort to wager OF
battle in Arkansas or elsewhere will be neces-
sary. The matters Of difference were settled
in accordance with the strict rules of the code.
Health Officer DR.. J. H. Erskine has
made the following report to the board of
health, embracing a period of time from July
LIST to August 1st: Number of complaints
made TO health officer, 217; premises in
Spected, 1112; streets cleaned, So miles;
nuisances aba:ed, 1902; arrests, 4; fines I'M
posed, SIS.
The Nationalist and Republicans are al
ready looking out for their candidates for the
nominations for the positions of congress-
man, State senators and representatives. The
candidates are already coming to the 'front.'
wears away and the election approaches in
the ides of November.
"A citizen received letter from friend
at New Orleans, yesterday, in which it was
stated that the cases of yellow-lever were in
creasing rapidly i'll that city, and that the
papers did not report one-half the number of
deaths occurring. The gentleman is a mem
| Der of relief committee of a society, and is
| in position to know what he Is writing
about.
The Nationalist have discovered that a
copy of the engraved plate from which their
| ticket was struck off had been made by their
engraver and disposed of to somebody, and
from which bogus tickets had been made.
There is a row in the National camp over the
| the discovery, since they paid about one hun
| dred and fifty dollars for the engraved plate
| and secresy as to it.
superintendent Toof, of the cotton ex-
change, is busily engaged preparing his fifth
annual circular and chart, showing the move
ment, prices, etc, of cotton in Memphis,
throughout the United States, and at Liver
| pool for the past year. The statement will
he issued, as usual, on September 1st, and
will Ia repIete with valuable information to
planters, tai tors and buyers Of cotton.
DIR. R. F. Brown. secretary of the board
of health, made the folio "ing report to the
board yesterday, for the month 1T July: 10
tai number of deaths for the monLti, Loo;
whites, 20; blacks, Sc; number of indigent
sick treated at the city dispensary, 584; num-
Der Of prescriptions put up, 800; average
cost of each, 5 3-l6 cents; total cost of board,
including salaries and drugs for city dispen-
sary, dlsinfectants, etc., $4,000.
The yellow-feveris believed to have been
much more fatal at New Orleans than has
been reported. Private letters from that city
authoritatlvely state that not more than one
third of the number of deaths up to date have
been reported by the board Of health and
press of that city. The embargo placed on
the press as to reporting new cases and
deaths by the president of the health board
of New Orleans confirms this belief.
Yesterday morning Colonel Martin
Griffin, of the German national bank, was
out driving horse and buggy around the
track at Olympic park. A projecting plank
in the fence struck his buggy, overturning it
and throwing Colonel Griffin to the ground
The fall dislocated his right shoulder. He
recovered rapidly, drove to town, had his
shoulder put back into place by a physician,
and repairing to the bank went on with his
business as usual.
The Democratic majorities in Anderson
county, Tennessee range from 222 to 8O4; in
Blount, 81 to 455; in Campbell, 1877; in
Greene, 80; in Sullivan, $50; in Roane, 800;
in Haywood, 800; in Upton. 2840; in David
son, 1912. In some counties few Republi-
cans and Independents slipped in. 1t was
succeeded, and this was done by uniting with
the colored Republicans and a number of dis
cordant and dissatisfied elements of different
nationalities,
The building of the elevator at the foot
of Washington street by the merchants of the
city will bring about the erection of the long
considered and talked-of Union freight and
passenger depot in the same locality, and in
which will center the Louisville, Charleston,
Mississippi and Tennessee, Little Rock, and
Paducah railroads. These projected and pros
pectlve improvements are subjects for con-
graduation among the residents of North
Memphis, who, since the war, have seen trade
and commerce pass away from that end of
the city to more central and southern loca
tons.
Several passengers from New Orleans
have been at Grenada Mississippi, for sew
eral days, en- route for Arkansas and Texas,
ria Memphis. They were informed at Gre
NADIA that If they came to Memphis they
would certainly subject themselves to arrest,
fine and detention at quarantine They are
watched, and should they start for Memphis
telegram will be sent ahead of them an
nouncing the fact. The authorities of our
city will enforce the penalties for breaking
through the quarantine. We advise people
from New Orleans to keep away from Mem
phis if they desire to avoid trouble.
DIR. Woodward, surgeon-general of the
marine hospital service, who, by law, has
authority over all quarantine in the United
States, says that yellow-fever is not commu-
nicated from a sick person to a well person.
The poison Is conveyed in clothing or bag
gage, especially If confined in trunks or
boxes. The favorite lurking places of the
disease are damp, filthy holds and bilge wa
ter of vessels. When the poison finds lodg-
ment in a boat, house or locality they be-
come centers of infection, which tend to
spread in every direction if on land GUAR
antine by land, beyond disinfectine clothing
or the effects of passengers" says DIR. Wood
ward, lis, IN my opinion. impracticable, if
not useless, not taking into account the harm
that is done to commerce, which is no small
consideration" DR.. Woodward says that If
boat affected with yellow-fever should come
to st. Louis, Louisville or Cincinnati, the in
lection might spread from the vessel, but, he
says, there is not so much danger from a
river boat as from the ocean vessels, as the
former are more open and better ventilated.
de does not believe the disease can be car
| ried by mail.
Paris, France, must be delightful place
in hot weather. A correspondent writes that
| each thoroughfare has its shady side, and,
| instead of the repulsive London public, -
one comes at every few hundred yards across
some little cafe. with its awning drawn over
the pavement, and with chairs and marble