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e. Cinvnnnah Qfritane. Published by the Tarawra Pnblishfaut 00. 1 J. H. DKVEAU2L Maxcgu* > 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.