Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-09-20

nretentious, but at the same time careful and
effective attentions to tine sick. None know
her but to admire.
We regret TO state that Mrs. Walter A.
Goodman, OF this city, who was staying at
Townsend's Station, on the Memphis and
Charleston road, was severely wounded last
Monday evening by the accidental discharge
of a gun, the load from which entered the
leg Joint below the knee. Since the accident
she has been removed to Huntsville, where
she is receiving the best attention, and there
is every prospect of her rapid recovery.
"A dispatch from Cincinnati on the ff-
teenth states that four of the infected barges
of the steamer John Porter, that were torn
from their moorings below Gallipolls by the
sudden rise in the river, reached this city to-
day. Two were crushed against the piers OF
the Cincinnati and Newport bridge, and the
other two were sunk below the city. The
steamer Porter, in pursuit, captured the re-
naming barges, and has again started up
the river with them.
Mr.. w. w. c. Miller, most faithful
and efficient assistant of Captain Maccabe IN
the commissary department, citizens rehet
committee, was confined to his bed yesterday.
1t is hoped that Mr.. Miller has not been at
tackled with the prevailing disease, but is
only temporarily Frustrated by hard work,
and that rest will restore him to his place In
the commssary. Mr.. John Carson, another
worthy clerk In the department, has been
down with the fever several days, but has
only light attack.
Knoxville Chronicle, 18th: ''We learn
from DIR. Boyd that the young lady, Miss
Mackey, sister-in-law of Mr.. Ed. Fitzgerald,
who came with her mothers family from
Memphis few days since and stopped at
Mr.. Fitzgerald S; on Third Creek, about i've
miles from the city, and was taken with yell
low fever, was doing just as well as could be
expected yesterday evening with favorable
symptoms for recovery. Rev. Father A. j.
Semmes. of Macon, Ga, nephew OF the late
Admiral Semmes, who has been IN the city
for some days, visited the young lady yester-
day evening In company with DIR. 5. b. Boyd.
Father Semmes was formerly an eminent
physician, of great prominence, has been
through four yellow fever epidemics, and had
the fever himself. He pronounces the case
doing well and being properly cared for.
I'm response to dispatch from Mr.. F. S.
Davis, who is doing good work in New York,
Mr.. Charles G. Fisher sent the following to
be read in Booths theater tonight, during
the benefit given there for the yellow fever
sufferers at the south: deaths to date, TWEEN
ty-two hundred and fifty; number sick now,
about three thousand; average deaths, sixty
per cent. of sick. We are feeding some ten
thousand persons. sick and destitute, in
camps and in the city. Our city is hospital.
Fifteen volunteer physicians have died; TWEEN
ty others are sick. q great many nurses
have died-many that had the fever before
| and thought themselves proof. Fever abat-
ing some little to-day, for want of material,
perhaps, and things look little more hope
full. We are praying for frost, it is our only
hope. A thousand thanks to the generous
people of New York"
+ st. Louis Times: So. NJ Heating, Esq,
editor of the Memphis APPEAL pronounces
utterly false the statement of DR.. Ramsey, of
Washington, in regard to the employment Of
male negroes at Memphis as nurses for white
women, and says it is a gross libel upon the
negroes themselves. 1t was hardly necessary
for Mr.. Heating to notice Ramsey's Infamous
stories. They are lie upon their very face
| Appearances go to show that DR.. Munchau-
sen and his nurses were bad set. The CoV-
rierJ Journal says they all got drunk on the
train between Louisville and Memphis, and
the doctors gable corroborates the asser-
| ton. Whether he bad the Jim jams wher
ne got there, or was scared out of what little
sense he had left, when he struck the area Of
| fever poison FIVE miles in the suburbs, is o.
little consequence. He talks so much like
fool that he hardly deserves the dignity o
| being branded as liar