Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-17
HIS EBENEZER UP.
President MADDEN Propounds Some Per.
tinent Questions and Answers
Them TO the Point.
The Strietest Quarantine the World Has
Ever Seen to be Established
il Necessary.


| ousiy Ill and cannot live more than few
days longer. The work OF the assassin has
been accomplished. In this hour of grief
Memphis is beginning to look around very
sharply to determine her course of action.
When the National Board has hic jGcet placed
amid the fowerets around its grave, the peo-
| pie of this city will virtually have nobody to
look to for reliable warning on the subject of
| yellow-fever. The people of this city rscog-
nIze the fact that the Louisiana State Board
| of Health ls the assassin of the National
| Board. DR.. Jones has accomplished his pur-
pose; but he will find out before this burg
gels through with him that instead of pluck
ing the laurel, he may
GRAB THE UNISON WEED.
Yesterday afternoon an APPEAL reporter
called upon President MADDEN, who was
found severely medtstiDg upon his next
joke, in his Office. A good many people
don't know our worthy president. No man
loves fun better than he, and no one listens
more patiently than he to what everybody
has 10 say; but if anybody expects 10 catch
him mapping on any of the current questions
pertaining to Memphis he will have to be
walked up several hours before daylight. A
look of recognition flashed from the hand
some president TO the jaded scribe, and it
silently agreed that yellow-fever, quar-
sntIne inspection stations, etc, should form
The refreshing subject OF conversation. In
stead of the newspaper man propounding any
questions, President MADDEN presented the
following conundrums for solution:
THE PRESIDENTS QUERIES.
~ see that the 100000 transferred to the
Marine Hospital service is contingent fund,
TO be distributed when there is an actual or
threatened epidemic. Now, who ia to de-
eide when there is threatened epidemic?
We or the sacred bulls of New Orlesns?"
r. ~ \
the National Board of Health, and will the
paraphernalia of the National Board, consist
ing of the doctors and the boat Benner, be
transferred? Furthermore, while these par
ties are swapping horses, where are we and
what are we going TO do?"
"Are we going to sit quiet and let the
health Of the city go TO the dogs? You be.
your cats we amt"
"While these rivalries are existing ought
not the city authorities to take the matter in
hand and protect the city, as there is no one
else to do IT,"
"How are we to know when there is a
threatened epidemic here? Are we first TO
be appraised of it through New Orleans?"
docs the surgeon-general of the United |
States intend to act through DIR. Murray, |
who is stationed hereW
'If there is to be transfer, will it be done |
Immediately, or is it to consume all the sum- |
mer?"
"Is General Hamilton to decide whether |
we are threatened with an epidemic, or are |
we?n
"The National Board of Health has not |
advised its agents in the Mississippi Valley |
when they are to discontinue their services. |
nor what will succeed. In the meantime
what is Memphis to do"
ave have no confidence in the New Or |
leans authorities, because they don't report
any cases until there is death, and then
they are compelled to report in order 10 get
a burial permit. How can we deal with such
a community, where there may be 500 cases
and no report made"
THE QUARANTINE GOES.
The scribe begged the president not TO
ask any more questions, but TO please answer
a few of those propounded.
"Well, Memphis will in all likelihood
strike out against the whole world, against
persons, baggage and everything"
"Will quarantine be establishedP
eyes sir, Just soon as we feel that our
interests are endangered, and protection af-
orded by the National Board is withdrawn,
We will infct the strictest quarantine the
world has ever seen. We have had up 10 Z
his time TO depend on the National Board !
If Health. When that goes the whole com
nerce of the Mississippi valley will be clogged
because of the panicky feeling that will
XlSL. 1t Is u nllliOHS Vi |
lollars. ard it is no time for sentimentslism.
f they want a shotgun quarantine they can
AVE it."
THE NEW INSPECTION.
The first boat arrived yesterday at the port
f Memphis under the new inspection service.
he carried bill of health written in pencil | I
n a scrap of the old National Board of
Health blanks, of which the following is
srbatim copy:
The tug Vandeburg has no cargo. The crew are ,
ow in healthy condition.
LUTHER SEXTON, MD, per L.
August IL, 1882.
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