Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-05
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS.


Even the State penitentiary has
quarantined against us.
Police at every cross-road or in
terror town catch a fever blockade
runner every now and then and they
Immediately march him to the woods.
" Inspected, disinfected," is the
cheerful legend inscribed on the trunks
and grip-sacks which pass from Mem
phis to other points.
Marshall Gazette, Lewisburg, Tenn:
The Memphis LEDGER, though re-
duced to half sheet, still comes out
on time and is full of news.
Havana had 1877 yellow fever deaths
last week; total for July, 537, and
since the first Of the year 558, against
Sl3 same time last year.
Cairo has quarantined so close that
no one can enter the town without a
permit and a certificate of not having
been in a yellow fever region for ff-
teen days.
About fifty families have left Hick-
man for the summer and a number
have located in the country near, the
male end going to town daily TO look
after business.
William Martin was sent from st.
Louis to the quarantine hospital last
Tuesday, and was much better when
last heard from. Mrs. Brandy and
children are getting well.
Charles Otto, of the steamship City
of New York, and Mr.. Kennedy, of
the Moro Castle, both West India
vessels, were sent to the yellow fever
hospital at New York last Friday.
The people of Vicksburg are living
in trunks, ready to fee at moments
warning The danger of an outbreak
Of yellow fever there, however, is les
scning every day. Their sanitary
measures are strict.
Almost every paper from the inte-
rior contains a yellow fever remedy,
either in the form of an advertisement
or in the free column. Every remedy
fend should first be dosed and rubbed
down with his own medicines.
The brig Stephen Bishop, from
Sagua La Grand, West Indies, is de-
tanned below Boston harbor, having
yellow fever on board. The mate died
four days out, and the crew afterward
suffered.
The statement that every town and
station between Memphis and Knox
vile had quarantined against Mem
phis is untrue. With the exception of
Chattanooga, no point in East Ten
nessee south or west of Knoxville has
quarantined.
No suspicious cases are known to
exist at st. Louis, nor has any more
appeared at their quarantine. All
boats going to that port from the
South must stop at quarantine, and
no vessel can move from there until
permitted by officer Francis.
Humboldt claims to be free from
yellow fever, and Milan announces its
ability to carry out a strict quarantine
without resorting to lawlessness, as
they say the Chicago Times corre-
spondent charged them with threat
ening.
Louis Aufret aged three, carried
from Morgan City, La, to New Or
leans, died of yellow fever Friday
morning last, No new cases were to
be heard of up to Friday evening and
hopes are entertained that the fever
will not spread. The chances are
against a severe season of fever.
Frank Victory, 50 years of age and
from Memphis, died last Saturday at
Chicago in the house of George Gun
ningham, his sOn-in-law, No. 224 JEFF
ferson street. 1t was a suspicious dis
order that affected him, and the
premises were at once disinfected.
General r. +. Patterson and family,
with three assistants and their fami-
lies, are located at Huntington, Tenn,
and will remain until frost. The
moonshine whisky-makers in that
neck of the woods have sharp eye
upon them, probably several eyes,
st, Louis is said to abound with
disgustingly filthy alleys and unclean
and ase-breeding places, and to be
as redolent of stinks as the city Of
Cologne itself. No wonder the au.
thorities there were among the first to
insist upon the adoption Of a rigid
quarantine.
Charles W, Francis, a health off.
cial, has been cutting high shines at
st. Louis, trying to put on airs and
behaving badly by getting too much
liquor aboard, and then expressing
people. The grand jury indicted hin
for his insolence to them and others
Charles W. gave bond yesterday. Ar,
kansas has few Of Charles WIS sort
50 has Tennessee They will subsidc
after the fever war is over.
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