Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-28

are backed and sulphur-smOked pre-
vious to being carried among the
country, has worn off much of the
scare they some time ago entertained,
and now many are hungry for the
news, by letter, through newspapers,
in any way except by word of mouth
Of visitors fresh from the scene of
action.
Delightful is the temperature dur
ing the sleeping hours, between sun
set and any time in the morning you
choose to rise. With the temperature
ranging among the sixties and a riding
night patrol to drive the burglars
away there is no reason why even
nervous people should not rest in
peace and quiet.
The wife of General John B. Hood
died of yellow fever at New Orleans
last Monday and last nights kilograms
report the general and a daughter
down with the malady. The family
residence is on Third street near Con-
stance, in what is known as the
Fourth district, the most beautiful
part of the city.
Our neighboring State across the
river is in a suffering condition from
the effects of too much quarantine,
Every county, half Of the townships
and many postofice corners have their
particular quarantine set, and the way
they snarl, show their teeth and ex-
hibit jealousy Of each others preroga-
ton is wonderful.
Efforts are in progress to start a
packet steamer from here to points on
the river below where people are
willing and DESTROYS for landings to be
made. Various merchants are willing
and ready to lend aid, plenty of boat
men are on hand to man the craft, and
the scheme is in a fair way on the road
to success.
The Grand Lodge eff the Relief
Board A. 0. U. w. have sent out an
appeal for financial aid to their breth-
rem in Tennessee. The chairman Of
the committee, Samuel A. Taylor, and
other members, have signed the dis
tress call. This is a proper and most
cOmmendable plan. The people of
this State should properly provide for
all of its people in distress who are
unable to provide for themselves.
This sickly city, with its sparse
population, its u-utenantcd houses, its
squalid huts, in which the people are
living, its scattering wayfarers, with
faces sallow and pale, its deserted and
almost unused streets, its dearth Of
trade, its yellow flags, scattered here
and there, and its host of other fea-
lures not pleasant to reflect upon, is
getting %monotonous to many who are
doomed to live within its unattractive
precincts.
The steamer John A. Scudder is
under way from St. Louis for New
Orleans, and the Yeager and John
Dippold and barges will follow toward
the close of the present week. The
Golden Crown has left Cincinnati for
New Orleans. Several coal tows are
detained for lack of water at various
points on the lower Ohio. The river
is rising its entire length, and a depth
is expected at Pittsburg sufficient to
let out several fleets of loaded coal
barges.
Go the whole length of Main street,
from Madison south, the whole length
of Shelby, and all up and down several
other highways and not a yellow flag
is to be seen. Yet it is well known by
passers that the yellow sickness pre-
walls at several places on these routes.
1t seems to go by favor, does this vel.
low flag business, and just like run
ming the quarantine blockade it can be
easily eyaded if one is in favor and
good standing with those who u the
yellow flags.
The Memphis Reserves, a company
of white men under Captain Lewis S.
Frierson, were out for drilling exer-
else yesterday evening. They now
number upward of fifty men, and
among them are some of the best and
cleyerest young gentlemen in this
community. The only requisite to
render themselves worthy Of the full
est public confidence is for their lead
ing officers to keep clear heads
and behave judiciously.
A man away off on the Pacific coast
has been saving himself from yellow
fever by dosing himself with turpen-
tine, by means of loaf-sugar Jumps
we'll saturated, and be thinks turpen.
tine distillers exempt from the fever
malady. If he had been there to see
the way Yellow Jack swept his victims
from a piney wooded knob some forty
miles north Of Mobile, a few years