Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-31
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS.
Havana had ll7.yellow fever deaths last

No boatmen are reported sick of yellow
fever at St.. Louis.
Marshall, Texas, has quarantined
against Memphis. The health of Jim
Currie is reported good.
According to the St. Louis Times Capt
Milt Harry has an income of $4,000 a
year. He began life as a poor boy.
The city of Natchez has quarantined
strictly against New Orleans, to take effect
at noon yesterday. Shreveport has done
the same.
The snag-boat o. G. Wagner Captain
Straszer, has finished work in the Ouachita
river, and Major Benyaurd has ordered
her to Red river for future duty.
An inspection is to be established at
Island No. l, below Cairo, by the National
board of health, and DIR. Frank w. Riley
of Chicago, who was here recently, is to
have charge.
AT Baynersville, Marshall county,
Miss, the people held a meeting last
Saturday to protest against the quaran-
tine laws of the county; the same being
expensive, oppressive and Intellectual.
The steamer Hattie Nowland, of this
port, is plying between Cincinnati and
Cairo. She was due at the latter port yes
terday. The steamer Florence Meyer is
running between Cincinnati and Pitts
burg.
Steamers are loading at st. Louis for
New Orleans at 80 cents per barrel and Is
cents per hundred for through, and 40
cents per barrel and 20 cents per hundred
for way freights. The barge line starts
tow from that point south to-day.
The business men of Memphis now lo-
Gated at St. Louis and Louisville, have
been eourteously invited to make those
places their headquarters during their
season of misfortune at home. Free ad-
mittance to the floors of their exchanges
have been extended for ninety days.
On Tuesday last telegram went North
from New Orleans saying that four cases
of yellow fever were announced by the
board of health but that private prac-
titioners had about dozen more, making
a total Of seventeen cases. We should
quarantine against that infected place.
Chris Myers, lately in the cattle trade
here, was found at 42O West Third street,
Cincinnati, last Monday in suspicious
condition, having a red face and pain
in the back he was sent to the hospital
as he felt like yellcw fever was coming on
him, and he knew what it was like, hav-
ing had it last year.
Last nights kilograms report two suspi-
cious cases at New Orleans, making to-
tai of five. The work of disinfection is
pursued with vigor in that city. In the
Fourth district every portion has been sat
urated with carbolic acid, from the river
to Court street, and from jackson to Sew
enth street. In the First and Second dis
tricts the same work is in progress.
Our Collierville neighbors refuse to
modify their quarantine regulations so rs
let the mails and ice enter that place
The horrors of last year when only
towns along the railroads suffered with
fever admonishes them to take no
chances. The ladies and children of the
place have nearly all gone away, and a
single case of fever would scatter all
classes.
George Cogan, the man who died of
yellow fever at Water Valley, Miss, was
II boiler-maker 28 years old, reliable and
steady. He went to jackson, got on a
spree, returned home Saturday, was taken
i'll Sunday, and died Friday TIE 1lth.
The case was not regarded as serious un-
til the evening before death. No other
suspicious case has occurred at Water
Valley, and the place is classed as re-
markably healthy.
A lady from Memphis with ten-year-
old boy frightened several hundred peo-
pie half out of their wits at Chicago a few
days since. The boy was taken sick while
going home in carri age from dining.
He turned pale, then yellow, and finally
yomited-green apples, black berries, wa
termelon seed, grapes and other garbage
1t was set down as case of apple jack, -
though the crowd maintained that it was
the yellow fever.
The people out at Braden, on the Lou
isville railroad, have not closed their doors
against refugees nor have they gotten up
any shotgun quarantine. The depot and
postofiice is open there and will stay so,
and persons driven out of Someryile,
Moscow and other sealed corporations,
will find haven of rest at Braden. There
were no cases of Yellow Jack about Bra
, den last year. Esquire Joseph Braden
and Railroad Agent T. l.. Thompson figure
prominently at this station.
The people at Delhi, sew en- miles below
Cincinnati, where Dr. Minors river quar-
antine is stationed, held meeting last
Monday and urged the removal of the
quarantine station to Gravel Bank, six
miles farther down. A letter from DR..
Minor said if he remains in his pres
ent position he will remove the quaran-
tine station next season, provided the
people let it alone, and il they do not let
it alone he will get a commission from
Washington to compel recognition. A
committee of eleven was appointed to lay
the case before DR.. Minor and urge a re-
moval of the quarantine as early as posi-
bic. The committee represents about one
thousand people who reside in or near
Delhi.
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