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VOL. 111.
DEATH’S HARVEST.
RECORD AT JACKSONVILLE, DE
CATUR AND JACKSON, MISS.
Financial aid flowing in—many doc
tors SICK—INCOMPETENT NURSES—NEW
ELECTRIC CUKE —NOTES.
More than $160,000 have already been
Received at Jacksonville, Fla., through
the generosity of the country at large.
The drain upon this amount is, however,
enormous. Over 12,000 people are be
ing fed daily, and the expense of carry
ing on most of the machinery of the sani
tary association necessitates the expendi
ture of from $25,000 to $30,000 weekly.
If the epidemic continues six weriks longer
fully $200,000 more will be needed to
tide the city over the epidemic. The
w new cases on Sunday footed up 133, and
deaths 10. Early in the epidemic the
question of employment of unacclimated
nurses was brought up, the opinion pre
vailing among the authoiities that they
would be likely to take the fever and be
come a burden rather than a help to the
community. Still, they were allowed to
enter Jacksonville, and now many of
them are already down with the disease
and requiring the attention of nurses in
stead of attending the sick themselves.
President Mitchell for a few days, was
assigned to the care of one of the wards
at the Sandhills hospital, and two days
after was taken down with yellow fever,
doubtless contracted before he entered
the hospital. Dr. F. J. Potts was taken
ill with fever and sent to the Sandhills
hospital. Over 360 nurses are under
the employ of the bureau. Nearly all
local colored nurses, upon receiving a
week’s pay on Saturday did not re
port on Sunday for duty, and
doubtless will not till their money
is all gone. It is said that in some
instances they even left their patients.
Capt. Zach Haddock is a local character
of repute, a one-armed Confederate vet
eran and a thorough Florida cracker.
Popular opinion has regarded Capt. Zach
as fever proof. Zach thought so himself
until a few days ago when an aching
head, pains in the back, high tempera
ture and a burning cuticle sent him to
bed. The fever was on him sure enough,
and the stalwart old political cracker
felt that his time had come. Zach wilted
immediately. He grew rapidly worse
through the night and at three a. m. he
* had no hope of life. Calling his family
about him, Capt. Zach said in the most
solemn tones possible: “See, here, all
of you. Your daddy’s going fast. I’ll
be dead in an hour—mark what I say.
Willie, you take good care of Pinky and
Kate, and all of you mind your mother.
Old Zach will be dead in an hour. Bring
me my cowhide boots. This old cracker
wants to die dead game in ’em, right in
this yere bed.” As a prophet, Zach was
a dead failure, except in election matters.
By daylight he was up and dressed, and
he will be alive to cast his vote in the
next election.
Printer J. J. Dawson, who was com
pelled to leave off work on account of
hign fever, pains in his head, back and
limbs, was removed to his room and
treated by Mr. Webb with Dr. Sanche’s
electro-libation cure. The treatment was
applied and the patient then left alone
and asleep. When seen the next day, he
was quite free from fever, though rather
weak, his pulse being about eighty. He
had slept soundly all night and was able
to get up and open the door to admit Mr.
Webb. He went down town during the
t afternoon and wanted to work at night,
but was advised not to do so. The
question of efficiency of the contrivance
is an open one. The application of it
can do no harm, but its value in gen
eral is yet to be demonstrated.
The news from Decatur, Ala., is more
encouraging. Only two new cases were
reported on Sunday and no deaths, though
several of the sick are expected to die.
One of the new cases is Dr. W. C. Buck
ley, one of the leading physicians of the
town. The few people left in the town
have somewjrat recovered from their first
alarm, and have organized a relief com
mittee and are doing all in their power
for the sick. A correspondent at Deca
tur says that the fever there is a malig
nant type of typhoid malarial fever, and
* is even more fatal than yellow fever. He
that while grading a new street re
; ' old cemetery was crossed and
• that all kinds of decaying vegetable and
other matter was left exposed in the sun
for several days. The street was then
covered with gravel from the bottom of
. the Tennessee, which was covered by
decayed matter. He says for days the
stench along that street was almost un
bearable. He thinks this caused the
fever.
A line of pickets has been formed
around the city of Birmingham, Ala., and
refugees will be kept out. Five hundred
citizens have volunteered to assist the
authorities in guarding the city. Owing
to the ironclad quarantine regulations of
some of the smaller towns, all trains on
the Alabama Great Southern division of
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1888.
the Queen and Crescent route will be dis
continued. After Monday no trains will
be run in Alabama except local accommo
dation trains. The Board of Health, at
Jacksonville, Miss., issued the following
notice: “This city is now surrounded by
a cordon and every effort will be
made to prevent the spread of the yellow
fever. A census is now being taken,
which will not only show the number of
persons remaining here, but also the
number protected and the number un
protected and tlffi number protected by
a previous attack of the disease. The
city is now r pretty well depopulated; but
as soon as a camp for refugees can be es
tablished an effort will be made to re
move the unprotected persons remaining.
The public may rest assured that we will
do all in our power to prevent the spread
of the disease. The report for the twen
ty-four hours ending at 6 p.' m. to-day
is: New cases, 1; deaths, 2; to
tal to date, 14; total deaths, 4.
Meridian, Miss., has stopped all railroad
trains from running through it, and the
2d Tennessee battalion has been
ordered out to guard Memphis, Tenn.
Dr. Deakins, who attended the man
Wilson, who is supposed to have died of
yellow fever at Wildwood, on Lookout
Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn., is
sick, but a Chattanooga physician who
visited him returned and reported that
the sick man was suffering from a bilious
attack. All freight and passenger trains
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
have been abandoned owing to the rigid
. quarantine at Chattanooga, and at other
points on the line. Memphis and
Charleston trains cannot enter that city.
Arrangements will probably be effected
i whereby mail and express matter can be
delivered between Memphis and Steven
son. Trains will Dass through Morgan
county in which Decatur is situated at
. not less than fifteen miles an hour, and
all train men are under oath not to take
on a passenger in any county in which
an infected point is located. The Chat
tanooga quarantine has been and is so
effective that one person from an infected
point could be discovered even after a
! liberal reward was offered for his appre
hension. No one is allowed to enter the
city of Chattanooga without giving a
satisfactory account of himself.
ABOUT COTTON.
The New York Financial Chronicle in
its weekly review of the cotton move
ment, says that for the week ending last
Friday, the total receipts have reached
89,677 bales, against 45,691 bales last
■week, 39,164 bales the previous week
and 43,639 bales three weeks since,
making the total receipts since the Ist
of September, 1888, 174,532 bales,
against 414,737 bales for the same period
of 1887 showing a decrease since Septem
ber 1, 1888, of 140,205 bales. There is
a decrease in the cotton in sight of 584,-
358 bales as compared with the same
date of 1887, a decrease of 28,115 bales
as compared with the corresponding
date of 1886 and a decrease of 383,779
bales as compared with 1885. The total
receipts fr mi the plantations since Sep
tember 1, 1888, are 195,664 bales; in
1887 were 463,461 bales; in 1886 were
: 243,534 bales; although the receipts at
the outports the past week were 89,677
: bales, the actual movement from plan-
I tations was 104,894 bales, the balance
j going to increase the stocks at the inte
; rior towns. Last year the receipts from
i the plantations for the same week were
I 217,782 bales and for 1886 they were
j 114,473 bales. The telegraphic advices
' from all the South indicate that in Texas
j and the western portion of the Gulf
I States, the weather has been quite favor
j able, and the picking is making excel-
I lent progress. Elsewhere the conditions
! have not been so satisfactory. On the
| Atlantic, especially in Florida and Geor
■ gia, r tins have continued and
i ble damage has been done.
NOT WANTED.
Joseph Hayden, W. O. Ware, Mace
Redmond and Abner Lanham, of Felic
ity, Ohio, were arrested on affidavits by
Pierce Grayson and several other colored
school children, residents of Felicity,
i charging the four individuals arrested
with assault and battery. This is the
culmination of a bitter warfare over the
i admission of the colored school children
to the white schools of Felicity district.
I It appears from the evidence that a col
ored child is not permitted to enter the
school building, and if these children do
! gain admission, they ate taken hold of by
i the guards, who seem to have been ap
pointed by the whites, and forcibly re
• moved from the building.
VIRGINIA.
A fire at Bristol totally destroyed the
; business houses of Colman, Hyde Bros.,
Dr. Peastor, A. S. McNeil, W.W. Davis,
; S. II Clyde, J. T. Powell & Co., and
l dwellings of J. W. Bondurant and Rob
ert Hill. The Indios formed in line and
j pas-ed buckets of.water, while a numbei
of men stood idly by.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
The Memphis & Charleston Railway
has ordered work to start immediately on
the company’s machine shops in Sheffield.
The cost will be
Rev. A. IL McGaha, pastor of the
Central Baptist church of Chattanooga,
Tenn., preached his farewell sermon to
that congregation on Sunday, hiving ac
cepted a call to Howard College Baptist
church, of Birmingham.
GEORGIA.
Street railroad cars are now being
manufactured in Atlanta. The cars are
made of woo'd grown in Georgia.
The Atlanta Board of Police Commis
sioners are weeding out their incompe
tent policemen, and discharged Officer
Lynam for sleeping on duty.
The Salvation Army of Atlanta has
organized a colored branch, but the
white contingent is in serious trouble,
on account of charges made by one of its
principal members against Capt. Jegnie
Foos.
Mr. Brossius, an Atlanta man, has in
vented a motor for sewing, machines,
which consists of coiled springs, and a
strong company will soon manufacture
them. It is the only practical machine
for the purpose yet invented.
Charley Burke, a colored man, aged
63, who drove the wagon of Chief Joy
ner of the Fire Department in Atlanta,
died Sunday. His enjoyment of the
chief’s reckless driving was one of the
features of a fire alarm in Atlanta.
Governor Gordon has ordered the sus
pension of the collection of taxes in Rich
mond county until the Legislature meets.
The city of Augusta and Richmond
county have sustained such an immense
loss from the recent floods that the
Governor thinks the hardship of paying
state taxes ought to be withdrawn for
this year.
Judge Milo Olin, a white-haired and
aged justice of the peace in Augusta,
left for Jacksonville, having volunteered
his services as a nurse for yellow fever
patients. He is sent by the Augusta
Exchange. He has been very successful
as a yellow fever nurse, and has had
much experience in the epidemics in
Memphis, Norfolk, Wilmington, Pensa
cola, Savannah and Fernandina.
Owing to the damage by the recent
floods to the sections of the state from
which both the people and exhibits were
expected to be drawn, and the excite
ment in other sections because of the
yellow fever in Florida, it was decided,
by the joint meeting of the Macon Board
of Trade and a committee from the Ag
ricultural Society, to indefinitely post
pone the Georgia State Fair.
Gov. Gordon has determined to quar
antine the convict camps of Coal City
and Rising Fawn. This step has be
come a necessity from the fact that offi
cers from Chattanooga are putting off
suspected passengers near these camps,
and there is serious danger of the yellow
fever breaking out among the convicts,
if these people who are put off the trains
are allowed to come into the camps.
In answer to the questions sent out to
the crop correspondents by the Georgia
Department of Agriculture, inquiring into
the amount of damage to the crops of
cotton and corn by reason of the late
unprecedented rains in Georgia, reports
from sixty counties have been received
showing the injury sustained by each
county. Richmond county reports dam
age to cotton 50 per cent. Average
damage to cotton crop of other counties
reporting, 19 per cent. Richmond
county reports damage to corn 60 per
cent. Average damage to corn crop of
other counties reporting, 13.5 per cent.
SOS Til CAROLINA.
Alfred Flynn, a notorious negro con
vict, was capture I by the Charleston po
lice in the suburbs, and was at once sent
to the Lazaretto, where he will be de
tained for fourteen days and then proba
bly accommodate i with quarters in the
jail. Upon being arrested Flynn was
identified as an old convict who had
served out several sentences in the peni
tentiary. He hails from one of the camps
of refuge near Jacksonville, and claims
to have been watching the inmates. A
large sum of money was found on his
person, and letters showing that he had
remitted several hundred dollars to per
sons who are unknown to the police.
Dr. Nipson, the health detective, recog
nized him as soon as he saw him. He
*ays that Flynn wus put off the train at
the Junc'ion and gradually worked his
way to Charleston, when he was captured
before he entered the city.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE WASHINGTON SOLONS GET
TING IN THEIR WORK.
i WHAT IS BEING DONE FOR THE ARMY AND
NAVY —LIVELY DEBATES IN CONGRESS
—NOTES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on Monday, the House
bill requiring judges of the United States
circuit and district courts to reduce their
charges and decisions to writing in all
states where state judges of the courts ot
record are required to do so, was reported
I back with a suostitute and placed on the
calendar. Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following: By
j Mr. Stewart —To prohibit the immigra-
■ tion of Chinese laborers. By Mr. Plumb
I —Offering a reward of $100,009 to any
| person or persons who shall discover the
| causes, remedy and treatment of yellow
fever. By Mr. Call—For a commission
j of medical men in Jacksonville, Florida,
■ to observe and report upon facts relative
to the yellow fever, and the best method
of its cure, prevention and suppression.
In connection with the two latter bills,
Mr. Harris presented a telegram from
Memphis, Tenn., attributing the exist
ence of yellow fever in Decatur, Ala.,
and Jackson, Miss., to unrestricted in
tercourse between Cuba and Florida
during the past two years, saying that
that demonstrated the necessity of a
I perfect system of seaboard quarantine,
! and recommending the establishment of
; a national board of health. On motion
i of Mr. Brown, the House bill to include
. Sapelo Sound, Sapelo River and Sapelo
Island in the Brunswick, Ga., collection
■ district, was passed. Among the
amendments reported from the committee
. on appropriations and agreed to, were the
following: Appropriating $77,250 to
| pay to the state of South Carolina for
i the rent of the Citadel Academy at
Charleston, S. C., from 1867 to 1882;
appropriating $8,945 to pay to the widow
of the late Chief Justice Waite, the bal
ance of his year’s salary....ln the
House, Mr. Clements, of Georgia, pre
sented a memorial of the farmers of
Georgia for the removal of duty on jute
bagging. Referred.
GOSSIP.
The President has received official in
formation of the refusal of the Chinese
! government to ratify the amended treaty.
The Postoffice Department has re
ceived telegrams from yellow fever dis
tricts which indicate that the running of
trains on nearly all of the railroads in
Alabama and Mississippi have been aban
doned and that the whole section is panic
| stricken. The people along the Vicks
j burg and Shreveport road seem to be one
| vast mob.
The President lias nominated John G.
Parkhurst, of Michigan, to be Envoy
; Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Belgium,
and Walter C. Newberry, postmaster at
Chicago, vice S. C. Judd, resigned. lie
also withdrew the nomination of John
Fitzpatrick to be United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The Navy Department lias ordered
that the launching of the cruiser Balti
more at Philadelphia will not take place
until the end of next week, on account
I of the alteration of her ground ways.
■ Orders have been issued to have the
United States ship, Boston, now at the
New York navy yard, put in readiness
! for sea service in a few days. The vessel
is under secret orders to proceed to the
West Indies on a diplomatic mission.
Surgeon J. W. Ross and Assistant Sur
geon William Martin, have written to
j Surgeon-General Browne, of the navy.of
' sering their seivici s forany duty in the se ■-
I tions of the country infected by yellow
fever that may be required. Surgeon Ross
is now on duty nt Pensacola, Fla., and
Assistant Surgeon Mart n at San Fran-
■ cisco, Cal. The former will probably be
• detailed to investigate the situation of
affairs at Fernandina, Fla.
The bill introduced in the House by
Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, to
i establish cmips for yellow fever refugees,
■ recites in the preamble, that many citi
i zeus are now flying from cities and dis
tricts infected or threatened with yellow
fever and are being quarantined. The
bill authorizes the President to establish
. camps of refuge in such localities as may
i be designated by hirn, or by the officers
he may detail to take charge of the same.
It provides further that tents, beds,
j camp equipment, provisions, medical at
tendance, medical stores, nurses, etc.,
be supplied; that, all camp equipage in
fected by yellow fever be destroyed by
fire after the disappearance of the epi
demic, and appropriates $500,000 to carry
out the provisions of the act.
The text of the bill introduced by Sen
ator Call on Monday, for the appoint
ment of a yellow fever commission, is as
follows: “Be it enacted, etc.. That the
President of the United States shall ap
i point a commission of several physicians
($1.96 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months;
< 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies
( 5 oents»-hi Advance.
of the different schools of medicine, so
far as practicable, who shall observe and
view and make a report of all the facts i
on yellow fever in Jacksonville, Fla., so
far as practicable, and shall also observe
and report all facts as to the condition
of the city in respect to sanitary and lo
cal c. uses of disease and the greater or
less prevalence of the disease in particu
lar localities and under particular condi
tions. Section 2. Said comnyssion
shall make a report of the Marine hos
pital service, with the suggestions and
conclusions on the subject and the 1 sur
geon-general shall prepare it for publica
tion with his opinions and recommenda
tions and report it to Congress.”
HIE WORLD OVERJ
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
HIK FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
Gen. Solomon, ex-president of Hayti,
is dying in Paris, France.
A dispatch from Madrid announces
that Gen. Bazaine died in that city on
Sunday. The cause of his death was
heart disease.
Ex-United States Senator Charles W.
Jones, of Florida, is still in Detroit,
Mich., in good condition mentally and
physically, and is engaged in journalistic
work.
A man who was sandbagged in Indian
apolis, Ind., died, and has been identified
as William Magill, of York county, Ne
braska. The circumstances attending,
Ihe murder have aroused the indignation
of all classes, ns it occurred within fifty
feet of the Central police station, where
half a dozen officers were lounging
around doing nothing.
A conflict arose between German resi
dents and coast tribes at Bagomoye, Af
rica. A German admiral lauded with
forces from the Leipsic to assist the Ger
mans, and killed a hundred and fifty men
without suffering casualty. Gen.
Matthews, who for fifteen years has been
trusted by the natives, has tied from Pan
goni, having been nearly murdered. Th®
rebels are declaring against al I Europeans,
and a general rising is feared. 4
A conspiracy has been discovered in
Chicago, 111., having for its object the
marriage of innocent girls to Chinamen,
Two victims were brought from Milwau
kee, and after being drugged into insen
sibility, were delivered to Chinamen,
who paid $250 to the agency, which was
conducted by Sam Wah and his white
wife. It is said that fifteen white Mil
waukee girls have been thus disposed of
to Chinamen.
Bismarck has expressed the opinion
that the alleged abstract of the diary of
the late Emperor Frederick, published in
the Deutuche llundttchau, lust week, is
apocryphal. This view of the chancel
lor was given after he had carefully ex
amined the matter published and was in
response to a definite question as to his
idea of the authenticity of the alleged,
abstract. Well-informed persons believe
that the work as published was specially
prepared; that the original was muti-'
fated and distorted, and its real charac
ter destroyed by the deliberate selection
of certain extracts, and the parts pub
lished are not genuine throughout.
Farran, Henry JI. Stanley’s fyrian in
terpreter, has arrived in London, Eng
land. He left Arunhimi on account if
illness three days before Maj. Bartelotte
started on his journey, lie confirms re
ports as to Bartelotte’s hot temper, and
the brutality shown by him to the na
tives, and says he expected that Barte
lotte would be killed. Stanley, he says,
insisted on the natives being kindly
treated. The acts of brutality began
soon after Stanley left. Farr in believes
that Stanley reached Emin Bey, but he
admits that the anxiety ielt concerning
the explorer is justified. Tippoo Tib,
he says, hated Bartelotte, ami therefore
obstructed the progress of the expedi
tion.
The friends of Melville W. Fuller, the
new chief justice, gathered by the hun
dreds at Chicago, ill., to take him by
the hand and listen once more to his
voice before his departure for Washing
ton, D. C., to assume his office. The oc
casion was a banquet tendered Mr. Fuller
at the Palmer House by members of the
Chicago bar, among whom he has so
long been a worker. The attendance
was not limited to the legal fraternity,
but included scores of citizens of the
West distinguished in other pursuitr.
There were 500 or more present. Judge
Drummond presided. Behind the chair
a floral arch reared in graceful propor
tions bearing the inscription: “Melville
W. Fuller,” and the delicious perfumes
of more than 100,000 rcses filled the
chamber.
Did it ever occur to you tbnt in grog
gy weather the halyards are always tight
when the sails get full ? •
NO. 50.