Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-13
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS.

Cases OF cholera have occurred at
ConstantinOple, hoped and believed to
be sporadic.
A fatal case of yellow fever is
reported to have occurred at Mayors
vile, the capital of Issaquena county,
Miss, few days since, and much
excitement exists there.
The Little Rock board of health
refuses permission for the steamer
Ouachita Belle to lay up at Arkansas
City, though she passes here without
stopping.
A man in Van Buren, Ark, pawned
his valise for whisky and got on a fine
old spree. They put him in jail for
boisterc1s demeanor. He took sick
suddenly and said something about
yellow fever The Jail doors few open
suddenly and he was told to travel
quick. He did.
A sailor named George Nunnie, of
the schooner Claribel, from Jamaica,
was admitted to quarantine hospital
at New York last week, with yellow
fever. All of the sick were reported
getting along nicely on Saturday last,
and one convalescent had been dis
charged.
The chief health man Francis,
against whom the grand jury of St.
Louis county have had terrible say,
is busy issuing new orders. He now
tries to inspect passengers arriving at
st. Louis by way of Ohio river boats
to find out whether or not they have
been about yellow fever, as if they
were fool enough to tell it.
The merchants of New Orleans
howl over the quarantine and the city
council complains that it is unjust
and says there is not case of yellow
fever in the limits of the city. There
is but one way to remedy this quaran.
tine nonsense, and that is to abolish
it. The people will learn after sad
experience that the whole system is
an unmitigated fraud
Frederick P. King, clerk in Pratt's
oil works, Williamsburg, opposite
New York, died of unmistakable yel
low fever last Saturday. 1t is thought
that he contracted it by going on boarc
of the bark Wallace, which vesse
arrived with cargo Of sugar from
Havana sometime ago. The steward
ess Of the bark Margaret Cregan, hat
died of fever some time before.
The Little Rock health official
have ordered mounted patrolmen
armed with shotguns and the like, t,
be placed on duty opposite Memphis
at the mouth of White river, and a
Arkansas City, to prevent people from
this side entering the State, as if an,
one hereabeuts would ever care t,
penetrate that wild region of law
lessness.
They now bring charge that DR.
W. G.. Austin, of the New Orlean
board Of health, grants certificates o
health to travellers without even cast
ing glance of his official eye upon tn
departing individual. Hemerely hand
railroad men a lot of printed blanks
to be filed out at will, and permit
twenty-five cents to be charged eacl
person, when the National board 0
health gives money to defray all ex
pense. There is no telling what thes
health officials will be up to next,
The brig Shasta, with logwood iron
Port-au- Prince, West Indies, arrive,
at Philadelphia three weeks ago, tn
captain and several men having die
of yellow fever during the voyage
There we're seven persons i'll when tn
vessel arrived at the quarantine sta
ton. All have recovered, and tn
vessel was fumigated carefully, Las
week the mate attempted to discharg
the cargo but was resisted by the mayo
and authorities. They now threate
to blow the vessel out of the waite
with Gatling guns if the crew persis
in trying to unload.