Identifier: southernstatesof00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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way to the interior of Arkansas.There is a line to Napoleon, Arkansas, two hundred miles below; one to theplantations on the St. Francis river, and one direct to Cincinnati. The lackof confidence between merchant and planter sometimes causes a diminution 268 THE YELLOW FEVER AT MEMPHIS. in amount of supplies forwarded ; but the dull seasons are brief* The man-ufactures of Memphis are not numerous; there are some oil-mills, a fewfoundries, and steam saw-mills for cutting up the superb cypresses from thebrakes in the western district of Arkansas. The yellow fever came to Memphis in 1855 and again in 1867, each timehaving been brought by steamer from below. In 1867 it was quite severe in itsravages, but was confined to the section of the city where it first appeared. InAugust of 1873 it came again, and nothing stayed its course. Two boats arrivedduring the month of August, the George C. Wolf, from Shreveport, and thetow-boat Bee, from New Orleans, each with a sick man on board. These men
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The Carnival at Memphis, Tennessee—The gorgeous pageants of tlie mysterious Memphi. (Page 269. were put off at the upper levee, where there is a coal-fleet, and in front of what isknown as Happy Hollow, not far from the remains of the Government navy-yard which Memphis once boasted. It is a Iomt, marshy place, which the geniusof Dickens would have delighted to picture, filled with shanties and flat-boats,with old hulks drifted up during high water and then adopted by wretched long * The writer desires to express his obUgations to Mr. J. S. Toof, Secretary Memphis CottonExchange, and to Messrs. Brower and Thompson of the Avalanche, for many interesting factsconcerning the citys growth. THE MEMPHIS CARNIVAL. shoremen as their habitations. One of the two men died before he could betaken to hospital; the other shortly after reaching it, and the physicians hintedthat they thought the disease the yellow fever. For three weeks it was kept inHappy Hollow, then it moved northward through the

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