Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-29

Personal.
Captain ID. Broadhurst's p~ostofice ad-
dress is St. Louis. lS2
DR.. A. L Kimbro, southeast corner Of
Main and Union streets. l45
Mr.. d. G.. Reahart has resigned his
membership of the Howard Association
Miss Dora Athy is reported to be i'll
with fever at Raleigh. A nurse was sent
out last night.
P. B. Price, of the Memphis Avalanche,
now at st. LOUIS, says if he we're back he
would not leave again.
Michael Fitzgibbons, from Memphis,
died of yellow fever at the New York
quarantine hospital on yesterday.
Mr.. Miles Owens, ST., was reported
doing very well this forenoon. He has
been down for the past six days.
Chris Meyers, from Memphis, has been
sent to the hospital at Cincinnati with a
suspicious sickness, supposed to be yellow
fever.
Mrs. B. McMahon, wife of the we'll
known tailor, was getting on well this
morning at her residence 24S DeSoto
street. She is now in the third day of her
illness.
Mrs. NJ. G. Loop died of yellow fever
at Huntsville, Ala, last Saturday. She
left this city the Monday previous in APP
parent good health, and was taken i'll on
Wednesday.
The Rev. j. Lott, chairman Rev. w.
A. Brinkley, treasurer, and Rev. R. N.
Counted, secretary, We're chosen yesterday
as the officers of the colored Baptist relief
association.
Mr.. Robert Hester was up Main street
this forenoon shaking hands with his
friends. He wears a saffron tinge, but is
otherwise none the worse from his strug-
gle with Yellow Jack.
Mr.. G. Gwathmey, clerk of the steamer
Coahoma, has been caught by Yellow
Jack at the st. Louis quarantine. Mrs.
Boudry and two children were also sick,
and n of the children died.
The wife of Chief of Police P. R. Athy,
was attacked with fever at Raleigh about
II o'clock last night. His eldest daughter
was taken near 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr.. Athy,:: accompanied by DR.. Jones,
went out to Raleigh this morning.
Mr.. Charles Hunter, from fifty miles
below Memphis, was reported sick at
Louisville on Sunday and his case had a
suspicious tinge. DR.. D. s.. Ledbetter is
also announced as a yellow fever sufferer
from Memphis.
A check for 500 is expected here to-
morrow as a donation to the poor from
Mr.. Lea, of Nashville. Among tn n
tributions announced this morning were
$50 from w. P. McLaren, Chicago; S25
from G. N. Erich, and SIS from Judge L
S. Hammond.
Senator NJ. j. Blessing, now in Chicago
sent the following telegram to the Knights
of Honor in response to a request that his
premises on Main street might be used
by them as relief quarters with pleas
ure, hoping it may be beneficial" The
Knights are now quartered there.
Mr.. Sam Hatcher, a ~well-known lum-
Der dealer, is lying very i'll at his rooms
on the corner of Main and Adams streets.
He has had suppression of the urine for
forty-eight hours. His relatives are at
Petersburg, Va, and have not been heard
from.
Miss Evelyn Widrig, aged II years, who
is reported among the interments of Sun
day last, wa Frustrated with fever while
watching by the bedside of Viola God
sey and her sister, who lived next door to
the Tobins. She aided in nursing Mrs.
Tobin, and may be properly classed as one
of the martyrs of this years scourge.
Herself and her father have gone to the
grave, and Fred, a lad of IL years, the
only remaining member Of the family,
was reported among the new cases yes
terday.