Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-26
Horrible Condition of Affairs I'm the 81.
Louis n ariue hospital.

ST.. LOUIS, June 23.-The Post Dispatch
this afteraoon publishes an expose OF the
management of the United States Marine
Hospital. A visit to it by one of its re-
porters resulted In the discovery that while
there are handsome buiidiGys OF the
grounds, admirably adapted for hospital
purposes, the patients, twenty five in num-
Der, are hottsed in an old shed, utterly unfit
for occupation by human beings. One OF
these, pilot, whowas horribly burned in an
explosion three months ago, was found in
piliable condition at the mercy of brutal
nurse, who cursed and neglected him, and
covered with a ragged sheet which was satu-
rated with gravy, medicine stains, and other
filth, upon which swarms of flies were gorg-
ikg themselves. The man was afraid to
talk, but said that his treatment
was horrible; that the bed he lay
linseed bsndsges, became in spots
as had as rock, producing agony Of which
II was tiseless Tor him 10 complain. A lire
man engineer stated that his brother, whom
he removed from the hospital yesterday, was
horribly treated. On one occasion he found
him covered with dirty sheet which he
recognized by q filthy stain as the same one
which was on the bed fortnight previous,
the bedclothes not having been changed in
that time. A vessel used by his brother pre-
sented Indispensable evidences of not having
been cleaned for several days. The healing
OF wounded patients ID greatly retarded by
the presence in the same ward of others sui
fering from erysipelas and syphilis, whose
wounds are all dressed by the same nurse
These hospitals are supported by a tax of
forty cents month on all persons employed
on stesmboats, and the two men, whose hard
ships have been published, bsd paid this tax
for twenty and forty-fve years respectively.
A Bedroom Comedy.
New YoRK.-The Iii6ans prints the fsl-
lowing: Everett Stuart, at present acting as
manager at the Cnsmupuiriau ia-as-I. nc
we'll known to the profession. He is the
husband of Maude Brauscombe, and has
filled so many positions of Importance with
different companies that his sturdy figure
and slightly rolling walk reminiscent of the
quarter deck frsm which he stepped to enter
the theatrical profession, are familiar to nine
tenths of those interested in dram attic M atters
1t is not to be wondered at, then, that there
was considerable excitement around one of
the few theaters Uptown whose doors arc still
open when the report gained ground that
Everett Stuart shot Miss Billy Barlow on
rhursdsy afternoon, and that the lady was
lying at the point of death.
An investigation made by Tribune re-
porter showed thst the Tumor was not alto
gether true, but the facts which led to its cir
culation are interesting. Mrs Barlow ar
rived here some time ago from England, snd
while appearing in the various comic operas
conducted under D'Oyly Carte's management
captured the hearts of the young men who
night after night sought sustenance from the
heads of their canes and stared at the stage
from the front row Of the orchestra. For
some time che and Mr. Stuart have occupied
apartments in Thirty-si1th street, and the
latter has, to mis- great annoy ance, been &C
costed by policemen while returning home
from his duties late at night. On making q
complaint at the police station he was told
that his landlady's son was an object of sus-
picion to the police, VINO were, therefore,
watching the house. He promptly gave no.
tice," and told his landlady the reasons for
so doing. This seems to have hurt the feel
iugs OF the young man whom the police have
their eye on, and be rushed on Thursday into
Mr.. Stuart's room and smote him violently
with club. The wound bled, and while
Mr.. Stuart wss engaged in vigorously chas-
Using the pugnacious youth, Miss Barlow, on
whom some of the gore had spurted, rushed
into the street and hailed passing police
man. She was seen while in this excited
state by passer-by who knew her by sight !;
ne told some one else, and as in the game Of
Russian Scandal" the story spread till Miss
Barlow was eventually laid upon CORY bier.
Mr.. Stuart and Miss Barlow were present in
the evening at q rehearsal which took place
al the Cosmopolitan, and both seemed in the
best of he alth except that Mr.. Stuart had 8
little difficulty in putting on his hat.
A woman n Bank Burglar.
New HAVEN, CONN, June 23.-Mrs. Maria
Davis, a handsome and well-counected
woman, wss arrested Al Darby to-day ,ch arged
with being implicated in the recent bur.
glaries ia the Naugstuck Valley a week ago
The postofice at Bristol WAS entered, the safe