The office, No. 37, South Court street, Memphis, is occupied by that experienced physician Dr. A. GILBERT, who successfully treats all kinds of female diseases, and cures the worst cancer without the use of the knife. Do not fail to secure his services, for he has an experience of twenty-five
The old Commercial Hotel in Memphis, which for a long period was used by the U.S. as a marine hospital, has been leased by our enterprising friends, A.J. WHEELER and S.H. MONROE. The Commercial has been thoroughly repainted, replastered and refurnished. Every stick of furniture, all the bedclothes and linen
Fatal Case of Sunstroke at Memphis Memphis, July 14th – John B.R. SPALDING, a telegraph operator, died this afternoon from sunstroke. Deceased came from Baltimore last summer as a volunteer during the epidemic. Source: Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 109, 15 July 1879. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Memphis (Tenn.), July 14th – Mrs. TOBIN, residing on Bradford street, died this morning at 6 o’clock, and was buried at 8. Source: Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 109, 15 July 1879. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection. <http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc>
Mrs. Susan E. JONES, daughter of John KIRK, Esq., and wife of W. A. JONES, died suddenly at her fathers residence in Memphis on the 20th from the effect of chloroform which she had inhaled. Deceased was highly esteemed by all who knew her. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County,
A “Dab” at Memphis Extract of a letter from a Memphis merchant, to a merchant of Galveston, Texas; “Memphis is mightily changed from what it was when you and I lived here together before the war. It is filled up with German-Jews, Germans, day-go Italians, Irish, Freedmen, and a pretty
On last Saturday night near Memphis, a negro named Joe WHITE shot and killed an Irishman, Frank MURPHY, without any provocation whatever. The murderer was arrested and committed to jail. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 02 Feb. 1867. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
Everybody has heard of Gen. R. V. RICHARDSON, of the C.S.A., who held the surrounding country in terror during the war, conscripting and marauding with recklessness which brought him the animadversions of his superior officers in the rebel army. This hero, notwithstanding his shining exploits during the “times of unpleasantness”
Heavy Loss – The Memphis cotton mills, situated on Wolf river, a short distance north of Memphis, were burned down on the night of the 13th. Loss $202,000; insurance of $90,000. The owners of the mills were J. W. PAGE, Esq., George H. CHECK, Esq., and W. B. WIGGS, Esq.
General N. B. FORREST has become a heavy contractor on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad. He left Memphis the other day with over two hundred hands, all of whom are in his employ. Work on the road beyond Madison will be pushed rapidly ahead, and the road completed to
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