Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-08
Half u Million
Cigars of all grades,
1000
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

Ajd fer the YeIlow,FeveE Sufferers
Contributed by aa Irish Family Re
siding on TIE island Of jamaica.
EDITORS APPEAL-Surely our debt of graf
| ltude is piled mountain high. And now
| comes message of sympathy from the far
| Oft isle of Jamaica, and it Is accompanied by
| substantial charity. The family of st.
George Evans, now residents of Jamaica, but
| recently from Ireland, voluntarily send to
Miss Margaret Trice, a fair daughter of the
"Oid Dominion" two drafts on the Bank Of
Ireland, amounting to nine pounds, and ask
her to use it for the benefit of the yellow
fever sufferers in the south, and that lady
sends it to Mr.. Frank Thurman, salesman
at Joyner, Lemon & Gales, In this city, for
distribution. | am glad that we are a CRATE
full people. and that we do cheerfully repay
this great debt. CON.
Captain Maecebe for "FlOater.-
EDITORS APPEAL-It appears that we are
to have az election for foteriaI representa-
tive for the counties of Fayette and Shelby
on the twentyfrst instant. 1t is but justice
to one of our most capable and worthy citi-
zens to suggest that Captain Maccabe is the
proper man to be selected. Fayette hereto
fore has always had the selection of this rep
resentative, but as no time for united action
by both counties can be had. we may reason
ably presume that we will be permitted to
place Captain Maccabe IN this vacant seat.
1t would be Extensively fulsom to the gentle
man perhaps to have all the reasons set forth,
In public manner, why he should be Sc
lected. But as the ofice is one OF labor and
responsibility, without adequate pay or emo-
ument, and requires talent and energy to
discharge the duties, let's everyone concede
his merit and fitness, and on election day give
him such vote as will show the decided
preference of his constituents for him, and
put his election beyond doubt by the most
positive majority ever given to any one man.
So much Is due to him from the people of
Shelby county. JUSTICE.
What will the City Council say9
EDITORS APPEAL Allow me, through
your columns, to make a few suggestions
| suggest TO the mystic Memphi'' and the
Original Ulks, and the citizens heretofore
cooperating with them, in celebrating
Mardi- Gras, to duplicate their subscription
Of last year. and, instead of celebrating that
festival on the coming anniversary (which in
my Judgment would be very much cut of
place at presently, go to work with that
money, under the supervision of the proper
city authorities, and build good brick sewer,
not less than six feet in diameter, and larger
if thought necessary by the city engineer,
through Beale street from Bayou Gayoso to
the river. This would undoubtedly add more
to the material health of the city and of the
subscribers to the fund than any celebration
that could be produced with the money. |
suggest to the honorable mayor and city
council that, since they have now held their
councils of sorrow for their dead, it is time
to look ahead and provide for the future
They should at once enter upon the work of
sewering the city; and first they should,
under the advice and direction of the city en-
gineer, and such other engineering talent as
they may see fit to consult adopt general
plan of sewerage, and then commence work
and do something this winter, ard do some
thing every succeeding winter until the city
is thoroughly severed, letting the work rest
during the summer, as it is probably not
very safe to work at it in the hot season.
That sewerage is. absolutely necessary to
health, it is useless now to argue Our death
roll 10 conclusive on that question. 1t proves
beyond the power of argument to deny that the
excrements of sixty thousand people, huddled
together in big city, cannot be removed
above ground without corrupting the atmos-
phere and producing sickness and death
among the people. j. z. BIGELow.
Fresh Oysters and Celery
Received daily by express at Victor D.
Fuchs 8, 80 and Al Jefferson street.