Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-30
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS.

The steamer James d. Parker leaves
Cincinnati for Memphis to-day.
The people of Vicksburg are moving
toward raising means to aid the sick and
suffering here. #
The case of Charles Mccormick, at Ho-
boken, N. Y, turned out to be collie. He
was much frightened refugee from this
city,,
Sanitary inspector Craft telegraphs to
Washington from Holly Springs that he
finds that place in good sanitary condi-
ton and free from yellow fever.
An appeal has gone forth at st. Louis
to do something for the poor driven from
this city by fear of fever and now de-
tanned at the quarantine below that point.
A little child taken to New Orleans
from Morgan City, La, last Monday, had
black vomit at los Bourbon street last
night and viii not recover.
l.. M. Terrell, of Chattanooga, has gone
to meet Mail Agent jackson at Indian-
apolis with view Of establishing mail
route to avoid Memphis and other places
infected with yellow fever.
Cairo has fine health, and it is not much
of quarantine they have. Hickman,
KY, is slightly more particular, as she
quarantines against all steamers both up
ward and downward bound.
Collections for the destitute family of
the late Rev. B. +. Tiller have been taken
up at Shelbyville, Tenn. The family
were held in quarantine there at last ac-
counts.
No new cases of yellow fever at Louis
vile, but they are drawing tighter quar-
antine lines. No baggage can be passed
in or out without being disinfected, and
persons leaving must have their baggage
checked by one Of the quarantine officers.
Or. Austin, Of the New Orleans board
of health, says the yellow fever cases there
are sporadic, and he is confident it will
not spread. The streets for squares about
where the sick are located has been disin-
fected.
A. Firth, barber on the steamship Sara
toga, and E. E. Esty, steward of the
schooner f. G. Ebbett, all frorl West In
dia ports, we're admitted as yellow fever
patients to the quarantine hospital, New
York, Monday last.
1t is now incumbent upon any boats
leaving here for up the river, that they
transfer all passengers and freight to some
other boat not more than fifty miles
above this port. This order emanates
from a place called Anna, Ill.,, wherever
that is.
The fever in New Orleans first appeared
this season very near the same spot where
it broke out in 1858, '67 and '7S, in the
garden, or fourth district, the cleanest,
healthiest and most fashionable portion of
the city. The Italian girl, Sporana, who
died with yellow fever, resided on Con-
stance street, near Second.
F" In the little towns very near to Mem
phis they have shut their doors cruelty
enough. The Sioux themselves are not so
savage as is the panic-siricken cowardice
of an ignorant village population in a
Christian country" This is the New
York Herald's comment upon the present
situation.
Heavy rains have fallen along the up
per Arkansas river, and rise is antici-
pated in the tributary streams of our
neighboring State. The steamer Nilt
Harry is now running from Newport on
White river, as far as Indian Bay, dis
tance of 225 miles. She leaves Newport
every Tuesday.
hepeople of Delhi, below Cincinnati, are
Indignant because quarantine has been
established near there. The Commercial
advises them to consider the fact that the
quarantine was established under the laws
of the State, several feet outside of the
corporate limits of their village, and there
fore beyond their legal control.
John Roper, with five children of
family whose parents died of yellow fever
here last year, in company with Susan
Mccarthy, arrived in Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the 18th inst, and after being in Brook
lyn several days created great excite
ment by it leaking out that they were
from Memphis Lawrence Cunningham,
of Colierville, added to the terror when
it was found out where he was from.
The case of DR.. d. S. Ledbetter at
Louisville is reported to be most pitia-
BILE one. He graduated at the Louisville
University last year, went from here to
Alabama, but was cast out there and for
four days wandered hither and thither.
AT length he boarded Louisville and
Nashville train and was taken to Louis
vile. The health officers boarded the
train ut Elizabethtown, found him ill and
concluded he had the yellow fever. He
was sent to the hospital.
The death Of the Rev. B. F. Tiller at
Shelbyville, Tenn, last Friday, near mid
night, created great CONSERVATION in the
town. He was in an isolated house, near
which a grave was hastily dug by the aid
of lamps, candles and brush fires, and at
o'clock am. he was hastily inferred by
four men, who, finding no one else willing
to aid, performed heburial labor, TWAS
expected that the house in which he died
would be burned.
Tho health officers at Clarksville, Tenn,
fearing case or two of yellow fever
might appear among the refugees from
this city asked the secretary of war
through telegram for tent or two to be
used for hospital purposes. The secretary
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