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■®he Smmmmh ©ritanc Published by the Tbixuxb Pnblllhix 00. 1 J. H. PEYBAUX. Masa.sk* > VOL. HL “GRIM JACK’’ OF YELLOW TINGE, INVADES FLORIDA, CAUSING A PANIC. PEOPLE STAMPEDE FROM JACKSONVILLE — MACON,GA., INVITES THE REFUGEES AND THEN QUARANTINES AGAINST THEM. Surgeon General Hamilton, Dr. Sim mons, of Charleston, Mayor Lester, of | Savannah, and Capt. R. G. Fleming, to gether with a number of health officers and railroad officials, met in conference at Waycross, Ga., on Sunday, to discuss the situation in reference to the present ► scourge at Jacksonville, and to devise ways and means for succoring the people! i and otherwise aiding them. It was de- i cided that it was mecessary to speedily deplete the city of Jacksonville that the! disease might be more quickly stamped out. In order to do this a place of refuge was necessary. It was decided that a camp of refugees be established, and that Boulogne, on the line of the Savannah, Florida & Western Railroad, thirty-six miles from Jacksonville,in Nassau county, | be selected. To this end Surgeon-Gen eral Hamilton will have government tents shipped immediately to the ground, and the camp ground will be inaugurated at once. No sick person will be retained, ! but sent back to the city. The mails will be fumigated at Way cross, Dupont and Chattahoochee, as j well as Gainesville. The transfer of passengers and baggage takes place at j the 99 mile post, three miles south of! ; Waycross. All passengers not properly 1 certificated are placed in the rough cars, ; and not allowed to leave the coaches at ; the station, The strictest patrol is keptj I up by the inspectors from Brunswick, | Savannah and Thomasville. The trains! are passing there crowded and it is pit eous to see the wo-be-gone expressions of! the faces of women and the wonder ing gaze of the children flying to escape I the terrors that are pictured behind i them; caring nothing for baggage or worldly belongings—going—going any- ; where only to be going. As the trains, I with locked doors slow up at the depot the heads are poked out at the windows; ■ as if in mute appeal, only to be directed! to a place of safety. There is no fear at Waycross. Being asked if he would express an opinion on the probability of the yellow fever sweeping Jacksonville, Dr. Hamil ton replied indirectly, saying, however, that he would advise everybody to leavq the city. “Just now the disease appears; to be of a mild type,” he continued.! “Until we have further data it is unsafe, to express a positive opinion one way ori another. All who can possibly leave should do so. Fugitives not only save their own lives in nine cases out of ten, but save the lives of others by robbing the pestilence of so much material which it would feed upon. No disease is so susceptible by quarantine than yellow fever. In 1876 when Savannah had it so i bad, Charleston, which is but little more I than one hundred miles off, kept it out I effectually by a strict quarantine. There I is no reason why any of Jacksonville’s ■ neighbors should contract the fever if ! they keep the refugees out. It did not’ originate in Jacksonville this Summer, but was imported. Plant City was not free from fever at any time during the past Winter.” Quarantine Officers Webb and B.iughn were at work on all the north bound trains on the East Tennessee, Vir- j ginia and Georgia and Central railway trains coming into Macon, Ga., Officer Baughn being stationed at Fort Valley and Webb at Chauncy. As each train arrives, they board it and come on to Macon, en route finding out all parties from the infected districts and informs them they will not be allowed to stop, but continue on their journey. Most of them go on through. One or two have raised r, protest, but when they learned that they were liable to be arrested if they stopped, they continued on their way. The officers accompany each train some distance beyond the city to see that no . one jumps off and comes back. EK A special to Jacksonville, received fc Sunday, reports three new cases aud one as the day’s record in that city one suspicious case has developed at Pablo Beach, where Capt. Tuttle, of the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad, died. Three suspicious cases have developed at St. Augustine, and a stampede from that city has begun. The quarantine lines below Brunswick and all points in Florida is now' fully established and thoroughly guarded at all points. Inspectors are stationed at Jesup, Waycres-. St. Mary’s, Owens Ferry and Burnt Fort, while the steamer Mis chief, is paneling the mouth of the harbor, off Jekyl river. The Brusnwick Ga. board of health his taken every precaution neces sary to establish perfect confidence and a fee ing of security in the city. All is quiet now, and there is no longer a feel ing of uneasiness as to the continued good health of Brunswick. SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 1888. An authority on yellow fever in At lanta on being questioned about the ad visability of permitting refugees from Florida to enter Atlanta said: “I think it gives a change for the spread of the disease and Ido not believe it is good policy to take any chances with such a dreadful disease as yellow' fever. Take the experience of Huntsville, Ala., and other townis along the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, in the epidemic of 1878. Huntsville is every bit r s health fully situated as Atlanta. A resort for delicate persons and young children from all parts of the South; in a high rolling country, with good water and air. The idea of yellow' fever coming there was ridiculed aud treated as a hobby of a few’ medical cranks. The local physicians and others said yellow fever germs couldn’t live there. Yellow’ fever did gain a foothold there, and a large part of the population died from the disease. The governor of Georgia should establish a strict quarantine along the Florida border, and every person coming from Florida should be detained in quarantine eight or ten days, if necessary, before be ing allowed to proceed, or until all dan ger from contagion had passed. If some such action is not taken the people of Atlanta at least should not allow' them selves to remain inactive, but should take stringent measures to prevent this disease from gaining a foothold in the city.” While numbers of cities in the state are quarantined against Jacksonville and other points in Florida, Gainesville, Ga., the paradise of the health and pleasure seeker, opens wide her gates and invites the unfortunate citizens to come and partake of her sparkling water, cool and refreshing breezes and w’holesome diet. The atmosphere is too pure there for any euidemic to take up its abode, and the city extends a cordial welcome to al! those wffio are fleeing from the awful scourge. Chattanooga on Sunday established a quarantine against Jacksonville and all yellow fever infected points. A car load of Jacksonville refugees who were en route to Cnat.anooga were met at the depot by the mayor and board of health, and were not permitted to remain over. They went North. A penalty of SI,OOO fine or imprisonment twelve months on the chaingang, will be imposed on any conductor who allows a sleeping car from a yellow fever infected district to stop within the city limits of Macon, Ga. Hie Citizens’ Auxilliary association to Duval county board of health was in ses sion in Jacksonville on Monday all the morning, various matters being under discussion. The police force has been increased, aud six mounted police now patrol the streets night and day. No case of yellow fever lias yet occurred among the negro population. Business is completely paralyzed, and colored men out of work gather in knots in the streets, and it is feared will soon begin to plun der and pillage the hundreds of unoccu pied houses in the city. Lime, sulphur and tar have been ordered in large quan tities, and several hundred fires will be kindled in every block, in order to kill the fever germs if possible. At night the concussion theory of killing germs was given particular test and Wilson’s battery, with five pieces of ar tillery, began firing continuously from seven o’clock for several hours bn Mon day. Nearly every hotel, boarding house and restaurant in the city has been closed. Hundreds of stores arc closed and the proprietors have fled. All oth ers close at sp. m. and open at 9 a. m. in order to avoid contact with the night air. Many dining clubs are forming in private houses wholly. All mails are fumigated by order of the postoffice de partment. The Western Union telegraph office is seriously embarrassed, as only about one third of its operatives remain. The situation at 7 p. m. on Monday was as follows: Only two new cases of yel low fever are reported in the city as oc curring in the past twenty-four hours— B. F. Dillon, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, and Mr. Sheppard, residing on Church street. Dr. Mitchell, president of the board of health, does not think Mr. Gelder died of yellow fever. No other deaths arc reported. Deaths 1; recovered 1; under treatment, 19; whole number of cases so far, 25; total deaths, 4. Provisions it is feared, will be short. Vegetables are becoming scarce, as there seems to be no way to bring them in. Undoubtedly omong the poor there will be great suffer ing if assistance is not rendered. Im mense fires were kept up in all parts of the city, coal tar being freely burned. Over 1,000 Floridians have located in Atlanta, Ga. COTTON REPORT. Advices from New York state that the total visible supply of cotton for the world is 1,050,823 bales, of which 605,- I 223 are American, against 1,344,490 and respectively last year. The re . ceipts of cotton fur the week at ail inte ! nor towns 6,424. Receipts from plauta -1 tiuns6,6ls. Crop in sight 6,917,900. THE SOUTH. CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGE! IN READABLE SHAPE. lightning plays havoc everywhere— COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES—RAIL ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC. Alabama. Samuel Noble, the most prominent citi zen of Anniston, died on Monday. The Henderson Steel Works will re sume operations at once. The plant will be enlarged to fifteen tons daily capac ity, and will turn out the finest grade of steel. ° A freight train with twenty cars loaded with iron ore was wrecked near Reeder s station, on the Birmingham Mineral road fifteen miles from Birming ham. The wreck was caused by the rails spreading. Every one of the twenty cars were broken to pieces and pulled down an embankment. Brakeman A. W. Sit tle was instantly killed and Conductor Lee Gardner and Brakeman J. A. Fuller were severely injured. Capt. R. F. Kolbs, Commissioner of Agriculture of Alabama, left Montgom ery for a tour of the Northwest. He is accompanied by a party of thirteen gen tlemen, representing as many towns, who go in a special car. He also takes an other car filled with specimens of Ala bama products for exhibition. They go direct to Evansville, Ind., and thence to Des Moines, Sheldon, Council Bluffs, lowa, through Minneapolis and St. Paul, and back to Chicago. From there they will go through Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The object of the trip is to advertise Alabama’s resources in the interest of immigration. Tennessee- Chattanooga’s new Directory shows a population of 46,000. After digging in the ruins of the recent fire at Chattanooga, nearly a dozen bod ies were recovered. News came to Chattanooga, that James F. Decamp, a former prominent citizen of that city, died suddenly in Cincinnati, Ohio, from heart disease. Wm. Baker, a butcher, of Knoxville, on Saturday skinned a cow that been poisoned. He had a sore finger, which became infected. Baker is now 1 dying with spasms. The O. I. Luce Manufacturing Co., en gaged in the production of wire cloth at West Nashville, a new manufacturing suburb of this city, made an assignment on Saturday. The assets are placed at' about SIBO,OOO, while liabilities are $120,000. 11. C. Bate, the United States signal corps assistant, at Nashville, makes the following report as to general conditions in his weekly weather crop bulletin: Since the last report there has been but little change in the percentage of condi tion, and that has been mostly for the worse. In some places good local rains have revived the lowering conditions; this is true of the central portion of the eastern division, and in most of the middle division, while in the western di vision there is beginning to be felt a se rious want of rain to check the rapidly falling percentages of conditions of the late corn and cotton crops. In Smith county the tobacco crop is reported looking well. Fodder is rapidly drying up, and the yield will be greatly' less ened. Plowing for the Fall seeding of wheat has been suspended in many places on account of the dry condition of the soil. In the middle and western divi sions early corn is considered safe. Two men had made ready a very heavy blast in the face of the high bluff at the mouth of Smith’s forks, near Lan caster. It was composed of quite a num ber of holes about twenty feet deep, and with nine or ten kegs of powder to the hole. Everything had been made ready to touch the blast with electricity by means of a wire connected with the bat tery. A cloud came up in the meantime, and as it was lightning, the men con cluded to wait until the cloud passed over. A flash of lightning, however, came running along the wire from the battery exploding the blasts with a tre mendous noise. The whole side of the bluff was blown off and it tumbled with a tremendous crash down below. At the time the blast occurred, two laboring men were seen coming along down under the bluff. They were vigilantly searched for after the explosion, but no trace of them could be found. West Virulnin. Information has reached Charlestown that four of the Hatfield-McCoy gang are working their way through the moun tains of West Virginia toward the Nor folk <fc Western Railroad. It is claimed that their intention is to take a train at some point west of Roanoke for Wash ington und thence proceed North to some locality where they will be beyond dan ger of pursuit. '1 hey are desperate men und will not be taken without trouble. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. i . BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA TIONAL CAPITOL CONGRESS IN SESSION YET —MOVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND — WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES. tWCKEsnONAL. In the Senate, on Tuesday, the discus sion on the fisheries treaty was resumed, and was addressed by Nir. Morgan and much time was occupied by reading from | diplomatic correspondence on the subject of the seizure of American fishing vessels during the last half century. In one of the breaks in these readings, Mr. Sher man, by Mr. Morgan’s permission, intro duced a bill to declare unlawful, trusts and combinations in restraint of produc tion, and had it referred to the com mittee on finance. It declares unlawful and void all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts or combinations be tween persons or corporations made with : a view, or which tend, to prevent a full i and free competition in the production, the manufacture or the sale of articles of domestic growth or production, or in the sale of articles imported into the United States or that tend to increase the cost of such articles to the consumer.... Mr. Sayers, of Texas, moved that the House go into a committee of the whole for the consideration of the general ap , propriation bills. Mr. Townshend, of I Illinois, championing the opposition of 1 the military committee to the fortifica tions bill, inquired of the Speaker what bill would be considered if the motion I should prevail. The Speaker declined I to state, declaring that that was a matter I to be determined by the chairman of the committee of the whole. Mr. Sayer’s ! motion was cairied—yeas 159, nays 9 J five more than a quorum, but the fight i was resumed in the committee, Mr. ! Townshend objecting to the consider i ation of the fortifications bill. That ob -1 jection being reported to the House, on the question whether the House would direct the fortifications bill to be laid aside, the vote resulted—yeas 17, nays 132—n0 quorum. The Senate, on Monday, resumed the I consideration of the fisheries treaty in j open executive session, and was addressed ; by Mr. Call in support of its ratification. ! .. . Mr. Davidson, of Florida, intro • duced a joint resolution in the House ap propriating $200,000 to aid in suppress ! ing infectious diseases in the United ! States. Referred. Ihe floor was then accorded to the committee on the Dis trict of Columbia. After some time spent ■ upon measures local to the District of Columbia, the Senate bill was passed increasing to S3O a month the rate of ; pension for total deafness. Mr. Warner, ! of Missouri, asked unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the dependent pension bill, but Mr. Walker, iof Missouri, objected. The House then ! went into committee- of the whole on the ' fortification appropriation bill. No time ■ was consumed in general debate, and ■ the committee immediately proceeded to the consideration <>f the bill by sections. cowsii’. John H. Dance has been appointed ; storekeeper and guager at Atlanta, Ga. The will of Gen. Sheridan has been prob.ted. He left property amounting to $20,000. In the Senate the bill reducing the ! postage on fourth-class matter to one cent was passed. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Isaac W. Hightower to be gauger ! at Ludville, Ga. i The magnificent war-ships Charleston and San Francisco, will be in service in ! less than three months. i Charlie Crisp, son of Judge Crisp, of Georgia, has been appointed to a clerk ship in the Interior Department. President Cleveland has issued an or der, placing General Bch< field in perma nent command of the armies of the Uni ted States. Col. Elliott has secured the establish ment of a new postoffice at Sykesland, Richland county, S. C-, with Wm. Sykes, postmaster; also at Horace, Sumter county, S. C., with W. W. Denis post master. Acting Surgeon-General Stoner has re ceived a telegram on Monday from Dr. Mitcheil, at Jacksonville'Florida, as fol lows: The official bulletin for the last twenty-four hours new cases, 3; recov ered, 1; deaths, 1 (Mrs. W. S. McClel land); under treatment, 17. Number Os cases to date, 21; number of deaths to date. 3. The River and Harbor bill became a law on Saturday without the President’s signature. No memorandum made, but the President stated that while the bilk c m tained items to which he could not sitrn his approval, the great bulk of work pro vided for is so imp to the beat in terests of the country, thuthewks unwil ling to obstruct it by bis veto. (f 1.25 Per Annum; 75 cento /or Six Month*; ■ 50 cents Three Month*; Siafie Copiw ( • cento- -In Advance. The Senate litis confirmed the nomina tions of J. E. Bacon, minister to Para guay and Uruguay; Rufus Alt Gee, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten tiary to Sweden and Norway ;R. B. Roos velt, minister to the Netherlands; Lam bert Tree, envoy extraordinary and min ister plenipotentiary to Belgium; aiid O. L. Scott, minister to Venezuela. A VENDETTA. There is trouble again in Pike county between the Hatfields and McCoys. Frank Phillips, sheriff of Pike county, who inade : the former arrests, and whose daring deeds made him famous, appears to be the coveted prize of West Virginians, who seem destined to get his scalp. The trials of the Hatfields were set for Pike-; ville on Monday. Last week, Phillips waft out through the county securing es, and when in the neighborhood' of Beter, the scene of the formed bloody encounter, he was approached by. three men who claimed to be detectives, and who demanded his surrender. Phil lips replied by whipping out his revolver and opening fire on the trio. He shot the belt off one Alexander, well knowd and secured his three revolvers. No one was hurt in the melee. The three retreated minus their hats, weapons etc. The next day they returned with nine re-’ emits in search of Phillips and his body; guard, and the West Virginians were!' again repulsed. The Hatfield squad to the number of sixty, passed the mouth of the Bet<?r creek and Captain Hatfield told an old miner that he had leave, as there was going to be trouble? Shortly afterward he heard a skirmish,’ between the Hatfields and the McCoys, the latter being forty-five strong and ly ing in wait for their enemies. After the, smoke of the battle had cleared away itl was discovered that three Hatfields were killed and two wounded, while three of the McCoys were slightly wounded. The end is not yet, but the Kentuckians have the best of them, inasmuch as they are thoroughly organized and well armed. AN EARTHQUAKE. The Steamer City of Sidney, which ar rived at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama, brings through the Ja panese journals the particulars of the volcanic eruption of Bandai bank on the 15th of July. The details of the catastrophe came in a somewhat de spoiled form. The Choya Shimbkn dis patched a special reporter to the scene. According to his account the villages surrounding Bandii heard the strange rumbling sounds and felt the shocks of the earthquake from 13th. These pheno mena continued intermittently for two days and nights, but not being attended by any serious r< suit no great disquiet was felt. On the morning of the loth, at about 8 o’clock, smaller Bandai San trembled aud roared violently. Imme diately afterwards ashes begun to fall, the sky suddenly grew dark and the rumbling sounds continued, accompanied by violent earthquakes and Hare of daz zling (lame. The crest of the smaller Bandai San appeared to be lifted bodily upwards and then to full again with a tremendous noise. Then followed show ers of red mud, mingled with large stones, spreading havoc around. Such, indeed, was the nature of nearly all erupted; and mud with no small stones, but accompanied occasionally by heavv rocks. Nearly 500 were killed. CONVENT BURNED. It was about ten minutes past eight on Munday night when Mother Superior >'■ nes, vicar of the eastern provinces, saw smoke in the u .per p ,rt of the convent ol the Sacred Heart on 132 d street, New York. Mother McDuffy had charge of fifty children who were all in the chapel praying at the time, and the feast of the Assumption is on Wednesday, and the a!tar w-s all decorated. Mother Duffy got the children together and took them' through the porch to St. Joseph’s shrine i : the rear of the building and away from dang. r. The women might have extin guish'd the Harms, it i-> thought, as the fire worked along slowly at first, but they seat out an alarm for the firemen, who promptly responded. The laborers employe 1 about the place started to work with a small hose. The difficulty w'as a scarcity of water. When the fire men arrived they fir t could find no wa ter except what wa in a little reservoir in front of the h use. Beside the build ing was on a hill and the engines had to be pulb dup the hill with ropes. The hose of three engines were finally put togetle ran I water drawn from St. Nicholas and Tentii avenues, a distance of 2.1.100 fe< t, to hydrants, but they were un it le to save the building. SAILORS DIE. Qu iruntiue physicians at Lewes, Del., report that the steamer Ardungorm lost a steward at Havana and afterwards a first engineer cm the vi jage, both having died of y< How fever. The crew at present are all well. NO. 44.