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©lie at vn nn a h Cuilmnt. Published by the Trubumw Fnblishfaac Co. | J. H. DEVEAUX. > 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.