Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-09

terday received $50 from MI. j. r.
Miller and Mr.. J. W. Cochran. The
Towards took in $68O.6O yesterday, of
which $500 came from Vicksburg, $50
from j. w. Cochran & Co., $l245O
from Selma, Ala, and $500 from E.
B. David at Aled, Ill.
The Teutonic Association yesterday
received $50, of which $50 came from
W. J. Lemp, the St. Louis beer man;
$25 from Henry Luehrmann, and $40
from his business manager here, Mr..
John Rehse; also 81. 80 from the Bis
marck Club of williamsburg, n. Y,
and one dozen blankets from B. Low
enstein & Bros.
Another theorist announces that
cutting the forest trees down is the
cause of the prevalence of yellow
fever, yet it is we'll known that in all
new countries febrile disorders prevail
in great variety and abundance until
after the timber is cleared away, farms
opened and the driving winds have a
chance to sweep out malarial poisons.
The life Of the late VIM. l. Berlin
was insured for $4,000 and the en-
dowment fund of the knights of.
Honor will pay his familyS2OO0. The
funeral Of Mr.. Berlin was attended
yesterday by nearly 40 people, and the
ritual of the Knights of Honor
burial service was used on the occa-
sion. The Rev. VIM. E. Boggs
oficiated.
The governor of Arkansas and
other officials are said to have been in
consultation at Hopeield yesterday
looking to a raising of the quarantine
blockade so that boats may land and
railroads resume, provided Mem
phis continues to be fastened up as
tight as a bottle. They would hardly
allow any one from this side to par
ticipate in the movement.
The board of health at Little Rock
has quit business and the Gazette
there seemed to be no sadder when
they did. It heads the proceedings of
their last meeting this way: Down
and out the board of health takes
leave of the council room no tears
shed, no evidence of sorrow, no re-
greet; the new board fails to put in an
appearance alas for the scarcity Of
medical boards under the council"
A meeting Of the president and
directors of the merchants exchange
at st. Louis was held last Saturday
evening and a committee was appoint
ed to take action upon the matter Of
aiding Memphis to fight the yellow
fever. A conference was held with
Mr.. A. D. Langstaff, president of the
Towards, and an expression was
given that the exchange would do all
it could to relieve the necessities of
our people,
Mrs. Josephine Van Buren,, Of this
city, who was taken i'll some time ago
at Jersey City, opposite New York, is
getting we'll at the quarantine hospital,
below that city. Eleven patients suf-
fering with yellow fever it is claimed
are now in hat hospital. A Jesuit
father name Jesus Altanimiram, from
Vera Cruz, Mexico, by the steamship
City of New York, was admitted to
the hospital yesterday. So says a dis
patch to the morning papers.
A writer in this mornings Appeal,
signing himself Leumas," which is
Samuel It spelled the other way, says
the board of health inspectors during
the late siege of fever might as well be
shut up in the Peabody billiard-room
and let the pass applicants stick their
noses under the door as far as any
system of inspection was practiced by
them he wants to know if we are to
be dieted. The chances are that we
will ere long, if frost fails to come to
our relief. Some are already on half
diet and our astute health officers will
put us on cold mutton or worse, if we
don't watch. However, we should
sunnort the authorities