Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-08

green scum on them, stand in our streets
in six feet of cboked ditch, and vacant
houses send out their foul stencil Let the
city attend to this part of the business and
the citizens to their own premises. While
believe that 1t Is impossible for the city aC-
thorihes to clean the city and keep it clean.
without the assistance Of her citizens, yet L
believe the plan of the assistant sanitary
committee too slow, too weak, and too eKpen-
sIve for the present emergencies.
Now, in conclusion, | would say that the city
has all 1t can do or pay for, and her othcers
are discharging their duty nobly; and while
the good citizens are subscribing their money,
in addition to their taxes, | am Of oD1nlon
that it is all too slow and expensive. Bat let
every person, of every class, clean his or her
own place-fumigate, aud spread lime, and
whtewasb; then, amid the sweet-scented
air, ''you can wrap the drapery of your couch
about you and lie down to pleasant dreams.
A Gard from Omcer Wilson.
EDITORS APPEAL beg that your courtesy
will indulge me with word, that may ten
der expressions of my unreserved gratitude
to my many friends. Pending the painful
suffering which ] was recently called to en-
dure, incident to my duty as a city officer, l
have been the humble recipient of regard
which was as generous in kindness as it was
spontaneous in sympathy. Such friendly evil
dences have served only to seriously impress
my mind with an honest disposition to de-
serve the good will OF all citizens and the ap-
probation of both white and colored by a
faithful exercise of prudence and an earnest
purpose to subserve the public interest. In
recognition of the obligations which l owe to
my white friends, whose acknowledged lnhu-
ence IS most formative, and IN grateful defer
ence to my colored friends, whose opinions
none dare despise, take this method of re-
turning to them sentiments OF my unteigned
thanks. CHARLES WILSON.
We Must PurIfg by Fire.
EDITORS APPEAL-It was my intention
before this to make known the practical re-
suit of cremating room sweeplugs and
kitchen refuse of animal and vegetable mat
ter, as was suggested by your Colonel Keat-
ing through the daily APPEAL, but learning
from numerous families that they have
adopted the plan of cremation as well as my
| self, and with like satisfactory result, thus
| that it has become law in great many
| families, | saw no need In making any further
comment on the subj act, as | have become
| satisfied in my mind that the day is not far
| off when it will be declared and proved that
| Colonel Heating, of the Memphis daily AP-
PEAL, is the inventor of the key cremation
which will lock up yellow fever, and any
| other pestllence to which the human race is
subject forever aud ever. | have no NJ. d
after my name, but after all, have studied
sanitary laws closely, made search for
the causes of pestilence through
books, made practical experiments with
decayed animal and vegetable matters, even
| with human excreta (which | declare to be
the source OF all pestilences) and the result
proved to me that their natural decomposi'
certain continued time, give rise to trans
forming the aforesaid matter into real ANNA
life, or in other words, the matter undergoe'
the process of evolution, and transforms
itself into various kinds of animals or insects
as we may call it. Of this everyone inter
ested on the subject can satisfy himself by
| experiments But it the decayed animal anC
vegetable matters are the direct causes o.
transformation l will not dispute, let them bt
the principle or the co agent of the sun-heat
all the same, filth is the cause OF all pesti
lenoes. What Is miasmS A bad-smellns
substance, say the learned men, but declar,
1t to be an animalcul@j although that fac
cannot be proven, neither cal
it be contradicted. But this w
know, that filth is the breede
of various small and larger insects, henc
must be detrimental to the health of the hu
man blooi, as the rniasma Of Eth rises slow
ly bat sure, and seeks like a vampire, to tn
obscar,ty OF science, the blood of men, some
times even animals, which it clasps with al
iron hand and expands its vitality over thou
sands OF its victims, and battling science t
stop its march of victory; therefore | say tn
opinion OF medical men, so far a
regard the origin of pestlence, cal
be no more relied on than On thoa
who profess to be ordinary observers
, But it j. the opinion of every intelligent be
ing THAI from the animal, as well as vegeta
bic kingdom, when in a perfect state ant
vitality, no miasma arises, and only arse
from them in putrid state, and nothing car
stop o. destroy its vi ality but fire (cremation)
as Chemists mottol result depends on treat
ment. AS have demonstrated, natural de
composition does not destroy the animation
of putrid matter. 1t only metamorphosi
the organic bodies OF which it is composed
where, when arti6cially decomposed, as b
fire, animation is destroyed, the bodies ar
transformed into various gases, well know
to all, and carbon or ashes. Thus the cart
! gets back its dust and the atmosphere he
Qases, until in the process of evolution the
will resurrect again, in the form of vegei
ables, not as destructors, but as promoters
mans lite. Does this not prove that the ere
matln of all refuses, animal and vegetable
Is the only safe plan to shield man in the fu
turs from any and all pestilences? C. H. B.