Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-28

No. sickness whatever Of a contagiOu
or infectious nature prevails at this tint
along the railroad between Grenada anC
New Orleans. So says DR.. Writ John
son, who last week inspected the rout,
and reported to the New Orleans board O
health.
The towns in the interior arc drawing
tight lines against refugees and keer
armed guards stationed at various points
to prevent people from entering. Should
a case of fever break out what a howl
they will issue, and how they will beg for
nurses and other help from this ethyl
The train leaving the city by the Lou
isville road at 8 pm, is generally detained
at the quarantine station or transfer until
about II O'clock, then the train strikes out
and never stops until it gets beyond the
scary region, which is not this side of
Mckenzie. ,
A woman named Johanna Brennan,
age AZ, and three days from Memphis,
died last Friday on East Nineteenth
street, Harlem, near New York City
Her effects and the bedclothing used
were at once destroyed by fire and the re-
mains were buried in a closely sealed
casket at the quarantine grounds.
Our neighbors over at Little Rock don't
want any kind of mail matter from this
direction. Fumigation makes no differ
ence, and they have informed the depart
ment at Washington that no mails will be
received from the cars that have passed
through St. Louis if they are suspected
to be from this direction,
Two gentlemen, DR.. Fox and Captain
Stewart, arrived here yesterday from
Texas, coming by way Of Columbus, KY,
and the Louisville railroad. 1t was a
rather oircuitops route, hut no other
course could be travelled 20 get across the
State of Arkansas unless they had come
ON foot, and the gentlemen were rather
averse to that system Of locomotiOn.
Dennis Manning died last Tuesday, of
black vomit, at 4s Columbia place, Brook
llyn. He was taken i'll on the Friday pre-
vious. On Sunday he had bleeding of
the nose, his eyes were yellow, his tongue
was swollen with a black and red tinge,
and death allowed after four days illness.
Manning was fireman on a Havana steam
ship.
Some days ago Mr.. GoOdbar wanted to
bet $500 that no genuine yellow fever
could be found here $3.50 that there would
be no epidemic this summer, and $3.50 that
not over thirty-fve deaths would occur
here in any of the next six weeks, No
body seemed eager to take Goodbar up
and he left town in disgust. His address
until after frost Is Boston. Goodbar was
not panicky, but he may be classed as
prudent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzgibbons, who left this
city for New York a week ago last Fri
day, reached their destination on Tuesday
and three days after were sick with yell
low fever. A Mr.. Corbett, wife and six
children were in company with them and
the party were to have sailed for Ireland
on Saturday, but their plans were de-
ranged by the sickness of the Fitzgib-
bons. The latter were removed to quar-
antine and the furniture, bedding, cloth
ing, etc, in the house they had occ.pied
was destroyed.
They have a kind of shotgun quaran-
tine out at Raleigh. A poor Dutchman
is hired at about 50 cents each night to
stand guard at the Wolf river bridge and
tell people they can't pass that route.
There are about IS people all told, includ-
ing refugees and citizens, ut the noble old
town. The rest have been scared away.
Sometimes the Dutchman or some one
else, through sheer politeness, as it were,
lets a poor wayfarer tramp by, but he
must not tarry. Only Sheriff MCGOWAN
and his aid-de-camp haYe permission to
come and go at will. Raleigh, in its pres
ent lonely and desolate state, is a sad spec
taelc, and could Sir Walter Raleigh, for
whom it was named, gaze upon its heroic
people, he would groan aloud and turn
his agonized bones in their grave.
Charles Mccormick, a mechanical en-
gineeF by occupation, a native of Cinein-
matt, and about thirty years old, left De-
Soto street in this city after the first alarm
of fever. He was found last Tuesday in
an exhausted and terror-stricken condi-
ton in front of a saloon near the Wash
iRgton street ferry, Brooklyn. A crowd
gathered around. and when he told the
doctor that he had just arrived from
Memphis, a general stampede followed.
The symptoms we're analogous to those of
yellow fever, and after several hours de-
lay the man was placed in acart, and after
a rough, dusty and exhaustive ride, he
reached the Snake Hill hospital, only to
be refused admission. He was finally
taken back to Hoboken, whore what was
left Of him by the mosquitoes wa placed
on a cot, and the mans sufferings were
relieved as far as possible. II turned out
that he merely had congeAjonof the liver.
NJ. ]. COHE's Wholesale and retail
cigar and tobacco store, corner Main and
Jefferson street, will be open during the
yellow fever ron 7 am, 70 SPIN. 1923
You viii find the best cigars and to-
baccos for the least money at Hartmann