Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
NOTEs PROM OrHFR po1NTs.

lines to New Orleans.
Little Rock has chills and fever bad.
Too much watermelon.
Thanks for part of watermelon, !"
says hungry rural editor.
Three trains week run east from
Little Rock and turn back from For
rest City.
The Spanish steamer Enrique has
arrived at Baltimore with case of
yellow fever on board.
Water Valley, Miss, feels good
over the fact that they have no yellow
fever.
They now talk of arresting the cap
tain of the steamer Trader for going
up White river, in violation Of the
quarantine laws.
Mrs. NJ. Adler, of Vicksburg, died
in Mayersville, Issaquena county,
Miss, last week, and the case had a
suspicious tinge.
A genuine case of cholera occurred
opposite Parkersburg, Va, last Thurs
day. Thomas Murphy was attacked
with the fatal malady and died in a
short time.
Captain B. F. Jones, of the Winona
Advance, was defeated at the primary
election for the Office of circuit clerk
of Montgomery county, a few days
since, by nine votes.
Little Rock expects heavy influx
of Memphis business men, as that
point is deemed the most desirable for
them to locate in the opinion of the
inhabitants of that city.
The steamer Marlin Speed, after
twenty-one days detention in quaran-
tine, arrived at Pine Bluff last
Wednesday. She has been allowed to
proceed to Little Rock.
Over fifty yellow fever patients have
been admitted into the quarantine
hospital at New York so far this sea-
son. Ten have died. This statement
has somewhat startled the people of
New York.
Typhoid fever has been almost cpl
demic at Terre Haute, Ind, where
twenty-four persons were down at one
time. As usual, the doctors disagree
regarding the origin and diagnosis.
Natchez was recently scared up "
by the arrival of a lady from Mem
phis. They breathed nothing in the
air but yellow fever until it was found
out she had left Memphis seventeen
days before the first case was an
nounced in this city.
The executive committee of the
sanitary council of the Mississippi
valley are to meet at Cairo tomorrow
to discuss the Memphis pestilence and
adopt precautionary measures. j. d.
Plunkett, Pinckney Smith, John H.
Rauch, j. s. Billings and R. w.
Mitchell are announced as those who
will be on hand.
DR.. Edward Norman, recently grad
uated from the Louisville medical
school, arrived home few days ago by
way of the river, stopping at Bran
denburg, KY, several days on the
way. He was taken i'll at Louisville.
and last Monday the sickness devel-
oped into yellow fever.
An excursion train stUrted from
McComb City, in Southern Missis-
sippi, last Tuesday, for Kansas City,
Mo-, md carried people through and
return for the low price of $40. A
number of leading colored people took
advantage of the trip to go up and
look at the country.
Governor George B. Mcclellan, of
New Jersey, advises Mayor Lane, Of
Bayonne, near New York, to be care
ful of yellow fever by vessels arriving
at the coal and oil wharves, and sug-
gesting arrangements with the New
York authorities to provide for any
cases that may be developed.
A darky was found sick on the
banks of Big Sandy, Carroll county,
Miss, few days since. 1t was limited
that he had yellow fever and was a
Memphis refugee. The people be-
came frightened and did not recover
for week. The sick man was sent
to a retired spot.
Mrs. Gertrude Cooper, daughter of
the late Rev. DR.. Slater, has written
letter in which she says the bedding,
etc, taken from this city to jackson,
Tenn, had never been used during
the fever, and the articles would not
have been carried to Jackson had
there been any danger of infection,
out as the people up there destroyed
them she hopes they are satisfied.
The lady also says that herself and
sister were treated insultingly by the
Jacksonitcs.
DR.. Oaball, the president, and DR..
Turney the secretary of the National
board Of health, it is announced, will
resign next Tuesday. The last named
is the individual who sat in his Office