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VOL. HI.
RELIEF AT LAST.
JACKSONVILLE TO BE RAPIDLY
DEPOPULATED.
SURGEON-GENERAL HAMILTON ISSUES AN
IMPORTANT ORDER —A TRAIN LEAVES
DIRECT FOR ATLANTA GA. —NOTES.
At a late hour on Saturday night the
Jacksonville Times- Union received the
following telegram from General Manager
Haines, of the 8., F. & W. Railroad,
giving the first authentic information
with reference to the government excur
sion train: “Savannah, Ga.. September
1. —At 8:20 p. m., I received a message
from Surgeon-General Hamilton asking
me to send a special of four cars for ref
ugees from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Bag
gage must be left at the Waycross fumi
gating station. We will endeavor to
have the train ready to leave Jacksonville
about 1:30 p. m. Please give this pub
lic notice.—H. S. Haines, G. M.” As
soon as people learned this, there was
more or less bustle, especially as tele
phone messages to Waycross depot were
answered by the announcement that the
train had been made up and would
leave promptly at 1:30 p. m. Nearly
two hundred intending passengers had
booked their names with the secretary of
trade and it was expected that every one
of the four cars would be crowded full.
An impression had gained ground in
some way that, inasmuch as this train
had been heralded as a “government ex
cursion train,” under charge of the sur
geon-general, it would be free to all, and
scores of people, both white and black,
were on hand two or three hours before
the departure of the train in order to take
advantage of this, and they were all dis
appointed. There were less than forty
passengers, by actual count. Four ordi
nary coaches had been provided, and the
orders from Superintendent Fleming bad
been to sell tickets to Atlanta only, the
cars to be locked, and no
one allowed to leave the train
at any point between Jacksonville
’ and the Georgia capital. No baggage
w r as received. Those who had brought
it with them, expecting that it would be
taken as far as Waycross and there left
behind for fumigation, were doomed to
disappointment. The train orders were:
“Receive no baggage.” Not even hand
baggage was received, or wraps, or over
coats. All had to be sent back to their
homes by friends or messengers. Lunch
baskets and boxes were the only “extras”
allowed. Orders were' that after the
train had passed the tracks of the Sa
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad and
gone upon those of the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia, the conductor was
to securely lock the car doors, and mingle
with the passengers as little as possible.
A moderate cyclone passed over Jack
sonville Sunday. After the vortex went
by, a gale from the southwest, accompa
nied by loud thunder, keen flashes of
lightning and a heavy rainfall continuing
several hours, clearing the atmosphere
wonderfully and lowering the tempera
ture, washing the surface of the streets
perfectly clean, as well as carrying sev
eral hundred barrels of lime which had
been scattered abroad, into the nvtr.
“The effects of the storm,” said a lead
ing Cuban physician, “will probably be
excellent on the well, tending to lessen
materially the infection, but will be bad
on the sick. Unless watched with great
care many patients may have a serious
set back in consequence of the change of
the weather.”
About thirty new cases were reported
on Sunday, and but two deaths. Up to
date seventy-two have been dischaged as
cured. Summary of situation: Total
cases to date, 258; total deaths to date,
84. ...
At a meeting of lhe Board of Health,
the following resolution was passed:
•‘Resolved, That from this time no up
holstered furniture or bedding shall be
moved from any place in the city with
out permission of this Board, obtained
through M. M. Belisario, chief of the
sanitary guards. Neal Mitchell, M. D.,
l President of Board of Health.”
A committee of the Florida refugees
■afrUo are at present in Atlanta, Ga., went
K^wM^tlabassee, Fla., and interviewed
■ Governor Perry, and the governor said
he will ask the government to erect bar
racks at some available point near Jack
sonville for use by the poorer classes of
. , Jacksonville who are unable to get away
from that city. The governor received
the committee very courteously and gave
every indication that he felt a deep in
terest in everything that would in any
way relieve the dreadful state of affairs
at Jacksonville. He promised to do
everything in his power to arrange for
' transportation for refugees from Jack
sonville, and from present indications he
is going to succeed.
A public meeting, which filled the
court room to its utmost capacity, was
held on Monday night in Chattanooga,
Tear., to take action looking to enforc
ing a rigid quarantine against Atlanta
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1888.
; because she has opened her doors to the
I yellow fever refugees from Florida. A
• resolution was adopted urging the board
i of health to order a quarantine against
I Atlanta and all cities and towns where
refugees have been invited and are al
lowed to congregate.
By invitation of Governor John B.
Gordon, a conference was held in Augus
j ta, Ga., on Monday, between Surgeon-
I General Hamilton and himself and sev
[ eral prominent health officers. Those
; present were: G overnor Gordon, Sur
geon-General Hamilton, Mayor May,
President of the Board of Health Foster,
Chairman Young, of the health commit
tee of the City Council, and City Attor
ney Davidson, all of Augusta; Mayor Les
ter and Dr. W. F. Brunner, health offi
cer of Savannah; Mayor Dunn, ol
Brunswick; Dr. Jerome Cochran, state
health officer of Alabama, and Dr.
James E. Reeves, ex president of the
American Public Health association, and
now special commissioner appointed by
the state board of health of Tennessee.
The object of the conference was to con
sider the situation in Jacksonville, and
the expediency of allowing the people of
Jacksonville to go to other places, ami
under what restrictions. The resolutions
of the Atlanta board of health were re
ceived by Surgeon General Hamilton.
After a general discussion and free ex
pression of opinion by the gentlemen
p-esent. the following re-olutions
were adopted by the conference:
I “Resolved, That this conference cordially
■ approves the plans of the surgeon-gener-
I al of the United States marine haspital
service requiring ten days’ quarantine of
' all persons from infected or suspected
places, together with the fumigation and
other disinfection of baggage, etc., from
the infected points. Resolved, That the
wholesale removal of persons from in
fected districts to populous cities and ag
gregation of individuals from infected
places in any city in this country is re
garded as extremely hazardous to any
such community. Resolved, That the
citizens of Jacksonville have no just
cause for complaint against quarantine
regulations, as at present operated, inas
much as abundant provision has been and
will be made, by establishing healthful
and cleanly camps for the inhabitants of
Jacksonville and provision made
for the maintenance of such
citizens during their detention of cam]?.
Resolved, That, in the judgment of this
conference, after suspects have been de
tained in quarantine camp ten days, and
their baggage fumigated under the di
rection of the United States government,
such persons should be permitted to go to
any community willing to receive them.
The conference adjourned, and Surgeon
General Hamilton left for Camp Perry,
St. Mary’s, Fla.
The orderlies of the Bellevue hospital
in New York, to the number of eighteen
on Monday, resolved to tender their ser
vices to go to Jacksonville to fight the
yellow fever.
Treading for Clams.
The farmers of part of Fairfield Co.,
Conn., are harvesting one of the largest
hay crops that most of them ever saw,
and they are pushing the work with all
possible rapidity in order that they may
get a day off and “go down to salt”—
that is, spend a day on the shore of the
Sound or on one ot the islands that do(
the entrance to Norwalk harbor. Every
morning for perhaps a month there will
be a procession of country wagons
through the streets of Norwalk. The
farmer hitches his best team to his
largest wagon, and loads into it not only
his wife and children but those of his
| neighbors who have no turnout of theii
own.
Arriving at the shore they make prep-
I arations to “tread for clams.” The men
! remove their boots and stockings, put
I on a pair of old trousers, and walk down
; the sloping beach when the tide is low.
; The women do likewise, except as to
trousers. The festive round clam nestles
in the mud all along the shore, waiting
j patiently to be caught, and the hunters
wade along, sometimes in water up to
their armpits, feeling for the clams with
their naked toes. When the water is
up to or above the waist, it is something
of a trick to bring the clam to the sur
face without going entirely under water
after it. Some parties use a long-han
dled rake, but the experts, when the?
note the presence of a clam, seize it with
their toes after the fashion of the arm
less man in the circus, and with a pe
culiar, kicking motion raise it to the sur
face of the water, from whence it is
transferred to the bag which is carried
over the left shoulder.
When the tide gets high the work
ceases, and all hands seek the shore.
There, on a flat rock, and within the
confines of the old wagon-wheel tire, the
clams are placed, hinge up, and upon
them a fire of light brush is started. In
twenty minutes the hot coals are swept
off, the steaming clams are transferred
to plates, aud the party enjoys a feast lit
i for the gods.
OVER TILE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
FOUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES — ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The floods in Bohemia have reached an
alarming proportion. At Budwers, 15,-
000 people are homeless. The inhabi
tants have taken refuge on the hills. The
Danube is rising steadily.
A special from Cygnet, 0., says n
twenty-five thousand barrel oil tank ex
ploded, and the oil scattered in every di
rection, killing two persons and injuring
i number of others.
As a gang ot men were working on the
new highway at Monroe, Vt., an em
bankment fell and Henry Bedell, Wm.
McKay and William Vate were killed.
Several others were injured.
The Ohio centennial exposition, which
is intended to show the growth and de
velopment of the state in the first hun
dred years of its history, opened recently
under most favorable auspices at Colum
bus.
The London Chronicle's Rome corres
pondent says that King Leopold, through
Cardinal Schiaffino, has offered the Pope
a residence in Belgium in the event of
the necessity arriving for him to leave
Rome.
The wholesale grocery and supply
store of Klawben & Levi, at Diego, C 1.,
was entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
The loss upon the stock is estiinated at
$200,000 and upon the building $45,000.
The stock was insured for $125,000 and
the building for $30,000. Several fire
men were buried in the ruins.
'’"William A. Swart, L. 11. Johnston, and
Elijah Beckler, president, teller, and so
licitor of the savings bank at Ro eland,
111., have disappeared. About $30,000,
composing the entire funds of the bank,
are also missing. Roseland is the south
ern suburb of Chicago. The village ha:
a population of 2,000, nearly all Hol
landers.
John Baker, while feeding a thrashing
machine, on the farm of a man by the
name of Weeks, at Guide Rock, Kan.,
was accidently cut on the hand by the
band cutter (a boy.) He grasped the
boy and deliberately feeel him into the
machine feet first. The boy’s screams
attracted the attention of the other
hands, but before they could interfere the
boy’s body had half disappeared in the
machine. The enraged men seized Ba
ker and hanged him to the straw carrier.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
The Baltimore, Md., Manufacturers'
Record presents special statistics as to
lhe development of the railroad interests
of the South during the last eight years.
In 1880 the South had 20,612 miles of
railroad, costing without equipment
$699,800,000, while at the present time
it has 30,000 miles, costing $1,450,000,-
000, a train of 10,000 miles in track and
$570,000,000 in the amount invested in
railroads. The growth of the iron inter
ests has a marked effect in stimulating
railroad construction, and next year the
South will make 1,800,000 tons of pig
iron, against 397,301 tons in 1880. The
traffic in coke, ore and iron developments
by this business will furnish Southern
■ailroads in 1889 over 12,000,000 tons of
freight, which is equal to the wheat crop
jf the country, and seven times as great
is the cotton.
CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED.
The Paris Gaulois has advices from St.
Petersburg, which state that another
nihilist plot has been unearthed there.
The conspirators, nflio had quarters near
the imperial palace, were raided by the po
lice, who captured twelve men and three
women. They also secured a number of
bombs.
NOT ALLOWED.
Rev. H. B. Birnes, of Atlanta, Ga.,
who claims to have the power to “con
jure” people, has been arrested by the
police, and a strong effort will be made
to put him in the chain gang.
.Music in the Night.
Miss Clara (retired for the night)—
“Ethel, wakeup, there is the sweetest
music you ever heard in front of the
house. I u-t expected that Charley and
his friends would serenade ustc-night!”
Miss Ethel (excited) —“Oh, Clara,
isn’t it lovely ( oughtn’t we to drop
some flowers from the window?”
Miss Clara—“Uh, I think so idropp ng
a bunch of roses with great cautiouj.
There, Ethel? 1 ’
Voice < below) —“Himmel, ve no lif on
rosea.”— Aim York Hun,
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Beware of the man of two faces,
against discouragement.
Take a cheerful view of everything.
Tact is the oil that lubricates socisty.
A moment of timj is too precious to
waste.
The best of prophets of the future is
the past.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst
and cold.
Pray for a short memory as to all un
kindness.
Good nature should lead in the list of
the virtues.
The friendship of the artful is mere
self-interest.
Even the worst people have some good
left in them.
Merchandising represents the cold
logic of facts and figures, as shown in
purchases and sales.
Eagerness for enormous gains too often
defeats itself. Immense profits involve
immense risks.
Never reply in kind to a sharp or
angry word; it is the second word that
makes the quarrel.
Even reckoning makeslasting friends,
and the way to make reckonings even
is to make them often.
How Gourds Climb.
The way the gourds clitnb is by
means of spiral, curled tendri'i, which
are in reaiiay small abortive stipules or
leaf-appendages, specialized for the
work of clinging to the external object,
bo it bough or stem of some other
plant, over which the beautiful para
site rapidly spreads itself. The ten
drils push themselves out on every side,
revolving as they go, till they reach
pome slender twig or leaf-stalk to
which they can attach themselves. It
is curious and interesting to watch' them
as they grow, and to seo how closely
Iheir movements simulate intelligent
action. The little curled whorls go
feeling about on every side for a suita
ble foothold, groping blindly, as it
were, in search of a support, and re
volving slowly in wide-sweeping curves,
until at last they happen to lay hold
with their growing end of a proper ob
ject. Onco found, they seem to seize
it eagerly with their little fingers (for
in the gourd the tendrils are branched,
not simple), and to wrap it round at
once many times over in their tight em
brace. It is wonderful how far they
will go up out of their way in their
groping quest of a proper foothold, and
how, when at length they stumble upon
it, they will look for all the world as if
they had known beforehand exactly
when and where to search for it. These
actions come far closer to intelligence
than most people imagine; they aro de
liberately performed in responsive an
swer to external stimuli, and only take
place when the right conditions com
bine to excite them. —[Popular Science
Monthly.
Smoking an Eagle.
How would readers of the Companion
go to work to catch an eaglol By put
ting salt on its tail, perhaps. How
Chief Justice Parsons went about it is
thus J described by his son:
The cry came into the office one day
that a monstrous bird had alighted on
the palings of the garden. So out my
father went, and at once recognized a
young, but well-grown, eagle.
Putting a coal into the bowl of a large
pipe, he filled the bowl with tobacco,
and when it gave out smoko freely, he
slowly approached the bird, and geutly
blew the smoke into its face.
At first the eagle seemed offended,
and threatened with beak and wing, but
soon appeared to like it, and then, in a
little time, was stupefied. My father
then directed our man-servant to come
up and seize the bird round tho body,
while he at tho same moment caught at
the throat with one hand, and at the
legs with tho other.
In this way tho bird was .’safely cap
tured and retained for a day or two, un
til reclaim-d by its owner, from whom
it had escaped. —[Youth’s Couipacion.
($1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Monika;
( 50 cents Three Months; Binjl® C®pias
( 5 oen ts» -In Advano®.
Varnish for Turkey Legs.
When the average householder, or his
cook, who proceeds to the Paris mar
kets for domestic provender is offered
embalmed goese, turkeys with painted
legs, and diseased chickens, instead of
healthy and untainted poultry, it is
time, says the London Telegraph, for
the police to interfere, in tho interest
of the public. Recent researches have
shown that a considerable trade is done
in diseased fowl in all tho Paris mar
kets, and a short time ago a brawny
fort de la Halle, or market porter, died
from blood-poisoning, caused, as the
doctors inferred, by the bite of a large ’
insect which had been battening on
some turkeys. Tho practice of embalm
ing fowl or dressing up long-demised
birds so us to make them look fresh is
of comparatively modern origin, but
that of painting tho legs of turkeys is
as old as tho days of Privat d’Angle
mont. Tho first person in the field in
this department of industry was Pere
Chapellier, who made a little fortune
out of it. He noticed that the legs of
turkeys were brilliantly black for one
day after they had been killed, and that
then they became of a dusky-brown
color. He accordingly invented a pe
culiar kind of varnish, tho secret of'
which ho sold with profit on retiring
from business, and with this ho touched
up tho legs of tho birds which remained
unsold for any considerable period of
time. His services were requisitioned
in every market, and the effect of his
varnish was so conclusive that it de
ceived the most experienced cooks and
housekeepers, who often bought painted
turkeys in preference to birds of the
same species which had been newly
killed. It would be well if tho potfl
try purveyors of the present day con
fined themselves to this comparatively
pious fraud.
A Great Alaska Gladen
Tho glacier enters tho sea with a gi
gantic front two or three hundred feet
above tho water and a mile wide. Fan
cy a wall of blue ice splintered into
columns, spires and huge crystal fhasses
with grottoes, crevices and reccssei
higher than Bunker Hill monument and
a mile in width! It is a spectacle that
is strangely beautiful in its variety of
form and depth of color, and at the
same time awful in its grandeur.
And not alone is tho sight awe in
spiring. The ice mountain is almost
constantly breaking to pieces
with sounds that resemble the discharge
of heavy guns or the reverberations of
thunder. At times an almost deafening
report is heard, or a succession of them
like the belching of a whole park of ar
tillery, when no outward effect is seen.
It is tho breaking apart of great masses
of ice within the glacier. Then some
huge berg topples over with a roar and
gigantic splash that may be heard seve
ral miles, the waters being thrown aloft >
like smoke. »
A great pinnacle ofice isseen bobbing
about in a wicked fashion, perchance
turning a somersault in tho flood before
it settles down to battle for life with
tho sun and the elements on its seaward
cruise. The waves created, by all this
terrible commotion even rock the steam
er and wash the chores miles away. ,
There is scarcely five minutes in the
whole day or night without some ex
hibition of this kind.—[Junean (Alaska)
Record.
The Price of Wild Animals.
The price paid for animals varies very
much. A good male lion is worth
and a tiger $1200; leopards cost $350;
for monkeys we pay from $lO upward,
according to the species. Ordinary
East India or African monkeys are
worth about $lO, and monkeys of rare
species cost a > high as S3O, S4O and SSO
each.
The best speaking parrots are either
the African or the Mexican double yol- <
low head. For young birds of this
species the dealers pay $lO apiece,
when buying u number at a time re
tailing them at sls and S2O each. The
old talking birds of this variety are
worth from SSO to SIOO apiece, the price
depending on the number of words that
the purrot can talk.—(Tho Epoch.
NO. 47.