Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-24

over on the opposite shore near Hope
field. He has also chased severa
small darkies. A party Of twenty anC
a pack of dogs have gone in search o
the voracious animal.
Leave the city everybody liable t,
suffer from yellow jacks poisonous
breath. 1t will soon permeate ever
portion of these bluffs. Hill and val,
are alike dangerous to human lift
when Bronze John draws near.
Mason's Depot has QuarantineC
against Memphis, and Ripley, Miss.
has Quarantined against freight.
Stackville, Miss, prohibits the en-.
trance of all persons and things from
Memphis. Jackson, Tenn, has also
quarantined.
Yellow Jack m%ysteriously climbs
the highest hills and sneaks unbidden
into the lowest novels. No wall can
be built high enough to prevent his
scaling it. Our people should be
moved in time and depart for a
healthier location than this will be for
the next four months.
Bonfres of mattresses, sheets, pill
lows and other objects used for those
who have died are daily seen in the
streets, in front of houses where the
yellow plague has claimed a victim.
The perfume spreads upon the breeze
and a wayfarer snufs it with anything
but pleasure.
The dead body of a mulatto named
JEFF Brown was caught ahoat in the
river yesterday. His head was crushed
and 1920 found in his pocket. He is
said to have lived near Mound City,
five miles up the river, on the oppo-
site side. Violence was evidently the
cause of his death.
DR.. Frayser, at 10 o'clock, called at
the rooms of the Howard Association
and stated specifically that he had
visited ten cases offever in the neigh
bOrhOod ofChief Athy's residence this
morning, and he does not regard one
single case Of the whole number as
being typical yellow fever cases.
The Knights Of Honor have lost
five persons since the yellow fever
broke out. This will cause the neces-
sary disbursement of $4,000 to the
families of the deceased. The Knights
are now sending their remaining
members with their families out of
the city, and they pay their passage
and provide funds to feed them.
Under the stringent State board of
health regulations now in force, PEG.
pie must send their baggage to trains
or steamboats, twelve hours before
they expect to leave. 1t must be dis
infected and SO must the person going
away, if he is suspected of being
tainted.
The shop where Mr.. Mulbrandon
worked, on Shelby street, appears to
be the infected spot from whence he
caught his death. A person who &C.
cupied the premises afterward is now
down with the fever. The house
where Mulbrandon died, on DeSoto
street, is still healthy, and so are all
who live in it.
Epidemics at various places might
have been avoided by a judicious en-
forcement of quarantine regulations"
says a writer. The quarantine busi
ness is not, has never and will never
be judiciously or effectively enforced.
1t is a first class imposition in every
sense, and the public will find it out
to be so before they are many years
older.
The medical fraternity held a meet
ing last night and agreed to devote
their spare time to a careful study of
the yellow fever. Last year they were
too busy fer such action. This season
they will have plenty Of leisure be-
cause there will not be much mate
rial here for the fever to work upon.
The medical gentlemen appointed
committees on several scientific sub
jects and the committees will set ia
work without delay.
Nearly three-Quarters ola million in
money was expended in this city last
year to take care Of the sick, provide
nurses, doctors, provisions and so on.
The same amount would have sent
every person liable t, the disease to o
place Of safety and would have paid
their expenses at a firstaclass hotel
during the whole time of the scourge.
1t is cheaper to care for the living
who are well, than to nurse the sick
and bury the dead.
In times like these every family
should have a supply Of stimulants OIL
hand in case Of sickness. and of cours,
it should be pure and unadulterated
Tom Sullivan, l89 Main street, keep
il. There Won can get Old Tom g;n