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| THE M6R!J 'N '} ItIWB, 1
. Established ISVi Iacom>ORATED 1888. >•
I J. H. KSTILI,, President. t
LIFE’S YELLOW-HUEDFOK
TEN DEATHS AND 133 NEW CASES
IN JACKSONVILLE.
Two New Cases and One Death at
Macclenny—The Reign of Terror Still
Holding Sway in the Mississippi Val
ley-Col. Southmayd Recalled from
Jacksonville.
Jacksonville,Fla., Sept. 23.—President
Neal Mitchell issues the following official
bulletin for the twenty-four hours ending
at i o’clock to-night:
New cases 133
Deaths 10
Total number of eases to date 1 ,878
Total number of deaths to date -12
DEATHS OF THE DAY.
To-day’s dead are:
Mabel Thomas.
Thomas Zither.
Louis Bruner.
A. C. Whitnkr.
H. L. Smith.
George J. Howe.
IV. S. Simmons.
Mrs. Smith.
Kev. VV. P. Ross (colored).
Gkoroiana Branning.
new patients.
To day’s new case are:
Mrs. W. M. Jexeles.
Mrs. Amelia Buchanan.
Carter Somerville.
Alice Jexeles.
July Platte.
Frank Rossionol.
Elizabeth Culpepper and three chil
dren.
Jessie Poinsett.
Mr. Elliott.
Catherine Frost.
May McDaniel.
Gertie McDaniel.
Arthur McDaniel.
Dr. Eddy.
Gertrude Q. Artson.
John H. Allen.
Mrs. E. C. Griminer.
Miss Ellis.
Francis Ayers.
Winnie Henry.
H. DeVauohn.
Mary DeVaughan.
Arthur A. Rogers.
E M. Hunter.
William Ganltz.
Joe Heller.
C. R. Armstrong.
Mrs. Moran and two children
Dr. Pacetti.
William H. Drake.
J. M. Brown.
Mrs- Julia Crompton.
Helen Crompton.
Willie Crompton.
Ruth Crompton.
Mrs. Charles Hazzenb.
L. M Newman.
James Crowley.
To-day’s list comprises 43 whites and 90
colored.
Over twenty cases were given in too late
for the official bulletin.
COL. SOUTHMAYD WITHDRAWN.
Dr Portei received a message from Clara
Barton this evening saying, “Your Older
obeyed. Col. Southmayd will be with
drawn. Col. Southmayd was seen this
evening, but was very reticent, about the
matter. He claimed that his nurses, those
he sent from New Orleans, were treated un
justly in being sent back without due
trial. He added that he had com
plained to Washington in regard to it.
He seemed surprised to learu that he was
removed, and said at first that he didn’t un
derstand it. Later ho said that ho had re
ceived a telegram from Miss Barton saying
that perhaps he would lie neejed in Waxh
i’ gton and to prepare to move at anytime.
He is rather bitter regarding the board of
health here and their actions, and accuses
them of treating him very badly.
another nurse gone.
George Parker was the only nurse sent
to Camp Perry yesterday.
Judge Beilisario of the Knights of Pythias
is still on deck. Ho says yellow fever must
be afraid of him.
P. Tiscbler, after a long and serious ill
ness, was on the street again yesterday.
Among yesterday’s discharged cases were
those of Mrs. Frank Marvin and John
Hedrick.
J. C. Greeley acknowledges the receipt of
sll7 from Rev. Dr. William Elliott Griffis
of Boston for special u<e.
Dr. F. D. Miller of East Jacksonville,who
has been sick with yellow fever for a long
time, is rapidly recovering, and will soon
be among his patients again.
no fever at bweetwater.
It was reported yesterday thnj there were
several cases of yellow fever at Sweet
water. Dr. Carr was sent there by special
train to investigate the matter, and found
that the rumor was false.
Dr. Matthews, after fighting the fever
among his patients for nearly two mouths,
has himself succumbed to it. He is doing
nicely, however, under the careful nursing
of his wife, and will soon be ‘‘at the front"
again.
A poor little white girl was in the relief
committee store yesterday with a basket
mr provisions. When asked how her mother
"as, the poor little thing burst out
crying, ana it was some time be
fore she could control her emotion
sufficient to make known the fact that her
mother had died, and there was nothing in
tlie house to eat. There are no doubt many
other ea os quite as sod.
Although a quiet unostentatious man,
the late Dr. Francis J. Gould was
a most estimable and worthy one.
Bis life was a most eventful one.
Born on Jan. 2, 1828, his life was
of labor and usefulness. Charlestown.
Mass., was bis birthplace. Ho graduated
fu m Harvard College in the class of 1850,
and about three years later took his med
i'id degree in the same institution. He
started for California in a yacht in the year
184, was wrecked in the straits of Magel
lan, and finally landed in Vaiparais >.
FILLING A PROFESSORSHIP.
1 here he was professor of the English
language in the university for two years,
l ater he found himself in IUo Janeiro, and
there began the practice of medicine, ac
quiring in ;t a valuable exjierienre In the
treatment of yellow fever. The year 18BU
found Dr. Gould a resident of Tampa. There
P® married, and he hud made Florida his
h ime ever since. He resided at different
tunes in Tampa. Gainesville, Co.dur Keys,
"h'ldleburg and Jacksonville. During the
yeaiß i872-’73 he was surgeon of Battery
• v| , First United States artillery, stationed
t n the Dry Tortugas. Dr. Gould came to
“hiksouville nine years ago. Ho practiced
[l 1 * profession here comparatively little.
o' i ro yearn *g„ he was enraged in the ter
| w r tm ducts, and of late had kenf a drug
‘ore in the northwestern part of the city,
the officers and members of the Q. M. I
tPje Jiofninrj
| Mitchell Post, No. 4, have never met a
j greater !os than has befallen them by the
death of Dr. Gould, surgeon of the post.
Dr. Gould has left a heart-broken widow,
one son and four daughters.
grave inaccuracies.
The News correspondent here has time
and again called attention to the very in
accurate report he is compelled to send out.
To do the bourd of health justice they are
not to blame in the matter. They do every
thing possible to make the official record
perfect. Day before yesterday Willie Long,
a runaway boy from home, was numbered
among the dead, while in Friday night’s
report Miss Conrader was reported as dead,
when the fact is she is rapidly convalescing.
A young friend of hers, Miss Susie Lemon,
was sick at the same place and she died. By
some strange fatality hoth names were re
ported among the dead.
HARD WORKERS SICK.
To-day’s new cases include mauy of the
hard workers.
Rev. W. 11. Dodge, pastor of the Newnan
Street Presbyterian church, was taken sick
last night and to-day he is quite ill.
Rev. Dr. Weller and Mr. Dodge, with
Bishop Weed, made a trio of the hardest
workers here, and their ministrations ac
complished a world of good. Rev. Dr.
Weller is now convalescing rapidly. Bishop
Weed still keeps up, ami his cheerful coun
tenance and hearty greeting are worth a
great deal to the dispirited citizens.
Judge W. Whittier, of the law firm of
Fleming & Daniel, and Mr. Howe, in the
furniture establishment of Cleaveiand &
Son, are abo reported among the dead to
day.
the new cure.
Dr. Webb, of the electro-libation cure
fame, was introdheed at the meeting of the
Citizens’ Auxiliary Sanitary Association
yesterday, and the conference committee
were instructed to see that he was intro
duced to the board of health, with a request
that they look into the merits of tiio inven
tion. The doctor claims to have produced
some wonderful cures. This morning’s
Jimes-Unitm relates the case of a printer
who was taken with the fever, and
immediately applied this remedy, with
the result that the next morning,
though weak, he desired to return to work,
but was dissuaded from so doing. Time
only can tell ho.v permanent the cure is.
The doctor claims to have made other cures.
great interest.
Some curiosity is manifested to see the
effectiveness of the theory, as the inventor's
claims aro si artling to say the least, and if
the method should prove at all valuable
will remove many of the horrors of this
fell disease. One claim is that be can pro
dace a sweat on the most obstinate case in
from thirty minutes to an hour.
In con vet-potion with Dr. Sofia*'" Mitchell
yesterday, the latter offered the doctor
good lacilitio- to test the invention. Ha
said that in some cases he would allow the
doctor two hours in his endeavor to pro
duce a heavy sweat.
AN UNREASONABLE CONDITION.
Dr. Sanche at first acceded to the propo
sition, but said that his patient must be
isolated, and that the doctor should not see
him for twelve hours, This proposition the
doctor very naturally refused to accede to,
as he said be would have to watch the
patient, and if be found that the libation
treatment proved unfavorable and likely to
result in harm to the patient be
would interfere To this tiie doctor replied
that his method “always made the patient
worse till just before he recovered.” The
doctors laugh at the claims of Dr. Sanche,
aud say that it is the veriest bosh.
SURVIVING BLACK VOMIT.
Dr. Sollace Mitchell reports two cases at
the Sand Hills who have had the black
vomit and yet who will recover.
Dr. Potts, who was taken sick several
days ago. has had a bard fight with yellow
jack. Thursday he had the black vomit
and was quite low. He rallied from it and
was much stronger Friday. Yes
terday he had another terrible attack
of black vomit. He presented a horrible
appearance even to tiie nurses who are ac
customed to such sights. Strange to sav
lie recovered from this, and to-day is doing
very' well indeed.
C. H. Morse, another patient, had the
true black vomit five days ago and was not
expected to live at one time, but he rallied
soon after and Dr. Sollace Mitchell says
that in all probability both of these patients
will recover fully.
HEALERS PROSTRATED.
The nur-es and doctors now seem to be
coming in for their share of the fever. Four
nurses, J. J. Bryson, E. \V. Drake of New
York, L. M. Newman of Tampa, and H. J.
Arlomiz of Washington, were taken sick
this morning. Mr. Drake is one of the
Harry Miner delegation.
Dr. Eddy, one of the new physicians, is
also down.
In order to accommodate the new doctors
who are here when they become sick the
medical bureau has rented a bouse in a con
venient location where all the doctors can
be well taken care of. Evidence of the
untrustworthiness of tiie home nnrxes
is found in the fact that a large number
who were paid off Saturday night, failed to
go to work to-day when ordered. All such
are put on the black list, and will not be
given employment again.
NEED FOR MORE NURSE*.
Of the 3GO odd nurses here on the' bureau
books there was uot, one to spare this morn
ing. They are greatly exhausted by their
week’s work, and will require a day of rest
at least. Many more could be used to great
advantage here, but they must be accli
mated, for all others prove a
hindrance instead of a help. Some
twenty or thirty are expected from
Tampa and Philadelphia this evening
ami to-morrow. Female nurses are needed
the most.
W. J. Saunders and Miss Emma E. Bye
water, an Atlantic City, N. J., young lady,
were married here this afternoon by R.t.
Rev. Bishop Weed. Mr. Saunders was
proprietor of the May Flower house, where
tho first ca-es wore. He and Min Bye
water were taken sick and recovered nearly
at the same tune. He now has charge of
the board of health hotel and restaurant
for doctors aud nurses.
The board of health received the follow
ing to-day:
Spider web pills will cure yellow fever. Try it.
George Hollenbeck, a Western Union
operator, was taken sick this morning.
An operator named P. D. Wade has arrived
from New Orleans. More are needed.
FRAUDS OBTAINING RELIEF.
The executive committee of the sanitary
association held a joint meeting with the
relief committee to-day to discuss com
plaints of übuses. Numerous cases of fruud
have been discovered and it is believed that
hundreds of families of negroes have ob
tained relief through different members, so
as to attempt to lay up supplies for the w in
ter. These will be cut off as
rapidly as discovered and sent to the
refugee camps or put to work. The branch
commissaries wliiuh have been unduly mul
tiplied will bo abolished and a more rigid
system adopted to prevent imposition on
the nart of irresponsible parties. Chair
man Stansell’s young men have found over
a hundred destitute w hite families who have
not applied for relief.
A strong, dry east wind has prevailed all
day. A more hopeful feeling exists among
the iieople. many intelligent olnervors of
former epidemics believing that the worst
is over.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1888.
A special train was sent to Macclenny by
the Jacksonville Relief Association to-day
with supplies.
HAMILTON’S ADVICES.
Camp Perry to Receive the Nurses
Banished from Jacksonville.
Washington, Kept, 23. Dr. Hamilton,
surgeon general of the marine hospital serv
ice, lias received a telegram from Dr. Neal
Mitchell, president of the Jacksonville
board of health, saying:
We have nurses who aro guilty of drunken
ness, criminal negligence and incompeLeucy.
Such must go home, tarpp Perry is the only
outlet. Can you net equip guard houses for
them?
Dr. Hamilton informed Dr. Mitchell that
all sucli pen sons would be received at Camp
I’erry, and sent the following telegiam to
Surgeon Hutton, who is iu charge of the
camp:
Receive alt persona sent from Jacksonville.
No need to keep nurses under guard, unless
they misbehave, at Camp Perry. You must re
ceive them, Inn cannot bo expected to punish
offenses committed at Jacksonville,
This morning’s report from Cauip Perry is
as follows:
Present: Officers. 6; ‘guards, !0; employes,
including carpenters. 52; refugees arrived, 23;
discharged, 21; remaining, 128; in fever camp, 4.
A TELEGRAM FROM GAINESVILLE.
The Pillowing telegram was received this
morning from Dr. Carlisle, secretary of the
board of health at Gainesville, Fla. :
No new cases All the sick are doing well.
The weather is clear.
Speaking of the disease at Gainesville,
Dr. Hamilton to-night said to an Associated
Press reporter that when the yellow fever
broke out there he requested l)r. Carlisle
to employ special policemen to guard every
house where yellow fever had appeared,
for the purpose of isolating each ease
and preventing the city from becom
ing infected. At the same time he advised
rapid depopulation of the place, as ouaran
tine would not lie declared against Gaines
ville until it was announced to lie infected.
SUCCESS OF ISOLATION.
"A week has now elapsed,” said the doc
tor, “and the success of the plan is begin
ning to be evident, us the second crop of
cases, had tiie fever patients not been iso
lated, would have appeared ou the sixth
day. that is day before yesterday. As no
cases have been found ut Gainesville, the
probabilities re entirely against an epi
J'mu lc in that place at present, unless some
Its* is found in isolation of the patieuts
now under treatment. Tho same plan was
pursued with entire success in the case of
Ballentine, the postal clerk who was stricken
with fever at Blackshear, Ga., three weeks
ago In that caso special ; xiliconion were
eiuoloyed, who kept the house under con
stent surveillance and prevented persons
from visjung it. Ho other case developed.
TO INSPECT FERNANDINA.
Dr. Hamilton had a conference with Bur
geon General Browne at- the navy yard to
day, and arrangements have been made for
a detail of naval officers to investigate the
state of affairs at Fernandina, Fla., as all
the officers of the marine hospital service
available for inspection duty are now other
wise engaged. An officer will probably be
detailed ft r this purpose by the Secretary
of the Navy to-morrow.
The medical officer at Live Oak has been
instructed to fumigate baggage coming
from Gainesville or Fernandina.
Yesterday Dr. Hamilton sent a telegram
to Dr. Weil Johnston, secretary of the Mis
sissippi state board of health, at Jackson,
asking if he needed aid, and he received a
reply as follows;
Thanks for your offer of assistance hut we
do not need aid at present There have teen
ten cases and one death here to day
DECATUR’S DECLINATION.
A similar telegram was sent to Dr.
Cochran at Decatur, secretary of the
Alabama state board of health, and the
following response was received;
We need no aid at present. Very few are left
in Decatur except negroes. The problem will
lie to feed them.
Dr. Hamilton said the negroes usually re
mained in a fever stricken town because
they were too poor to buy railroad tickets,
nnd, besides, had no other place to go.
They did not generally take the fever until
a whole town became thoroughly infected,
ami then their cases were as a rule of a mild
type- '
MEMPHIS MUCH CALMER.
The Non-Interoourse Quarantine Pol
icy Enforced.
Memphis, Sept 28.—This city has been
very quiet to-day. Confidence is restored,
aud tho fooling of uneasiness, which
amounted almost to a panic Friday, has
given way to a more rational view of the
situation. There really has never been any
cause for the alarm that has been
felt here. Docatur, Ala., and Jack
son, Miss., the only two towns in
the south, outside of Florida, affected by
yellow fever, are both a considerable dis
tance from Memphis, and none of the refu
gees from these cities have been allowed to
come here. The non-intercourse quaran
tine regulations, which are being enforced
against all passenger trains on the seven
railroads leading into Memphis ou the east
side of the Mississippi river, have caused a
suspension of travel, and the result is
shown in the few arrivals at the hotels. It
is estimated that fully 4,000 people have
left here since Friday.
PRINCIPALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
They were principally women and chil
dren, the wives aud families of merchants
and others who on the announcement of the
outbreak of fever at Jackson, Miss., took
alarm and sent them north, fearing that
in the event of a enso developing here that
In the stampede tuat would surely follow
they would suffer great hardships.
Business is virtually at a standstill
Country merchant* cannot come to the oity
under the present quarantine regulations,
and every small towu adjacent has locked
its doors, so tkero are no mercantile trans
actions to be recorded.
Local freight and nassenger travel on all
railroads is suspended, and all the outcome
of the panic which prevails throughout this
section of the country. It ia the Bame from
Louisville south to Mobile aud New
Orleans. At many of tho stations passen
ears ou the south bound trains coming from
St Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville
and even further north and west are not
permitted to stop.
A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
President Hadden of the Taxing district
to-day had a circular printed, which reads
os follows:
Volunteers Wanted.—ln view of the fact that
the governor of the state bat) not responded to
our telegrams requesting the services of our
militia companies for quarantine duty, we aak
for fifty meu as volunteers to act on picketdiity
on the dirt roads aud river front uutil the serv
ices of tbs militia can be secured. Volunteers
will please report to Chief of Police Davis at
the station house immediately.
This call is made to carry out the non-
IntereouiKO policy as now ordered.
Dr. E. H. Thornton, president of the local
board of health, is in receipt of hundreds of
telegrams from absentees asking to be al
lowed to return to Memphis. Ilis answer
in every instance has been; “Muuipuix has
established a non -intercom* quarantine. I
have no discretion.”
ARRIVAL or A STEAMER.
Tiie stenntor City erf Providence from
Natchez, Miss., an tout* to St. Louis, ar-
rived to-night. About 150 passengers were
aboard from Natchez, Vicksburg, Green
vt lie, etc. They intended getting off here,
but were prevented by a squad of police,
who were acting under quarantine orders,
and all were carried up tue river to Cairo
and other points.
Thomas Carter, an employe of a Front
street commission firm, attempted to coins
into the city to-day. He came from St.
Louis, hut had been in Jackson, Miss.,
having left there last Wednesday. Tho
police arrested him, kept him closely
guarded all the afternoon, and shipped him
back to Sr. Louis to-night. The health of
Memphis remains remarkably good.
THE GOVERNOR HEARD FROM.
Memphis, Kept. 23.—11:45 r. m.— The fol
lowing telegram was received to-night:
Nashville, Tins., Sept. ‘-’3. 1898-
lion. I). 1' Hodden, Vreaident Taxing Dutriet.
alcinph ts, Ten n.;
Dear Sir —Your telegram of yesterday ask
Ing me to order the militia to report to you to
aid in enforcing the quarantine, was held await
lug my arrival in the city. I am powerless to
comply, having no aiilhority of law to
call out the militia tor such purposes,
and without a dollar of appropriation
with which to pay them If
the militia see proper to volunteer for such
purposes. T will not forbid it. I should lie ox
ceedmglv glad if by any stretch of authority I
could aid you. hut 1 see no other way to do so
except to withhold my disapproval so,-old they
volunteer. If you can suggest any plan, wire
me ai Springfield Monday or Shelby villa Tnex
day. I am ready to aid yon to the utmost.
Yours vorj T truly, Robhht L. Taylor.
ORDERED o|IT.
President Hadden immediately consulted
with May Bam Unrues commanding the
Second bat I all nof the National Guard of
the state of Tennessee, nnd the following
will be published to-morrow:
Headquarters xecono Battalion N. O. S. TANARUS., I
Memi-his, Tenn.. Sept. 23, 1888. (
Special Order AVi. 1.
Tills command is hereby ordered to repnrl at
the armorv of the Chickasaw Guards tn-mer
row (Monday) morning at 0 o'clock in fatigue
tt inform for the purpose of doing quarantine
duty for the protection of our city against tho
outside world. By order,
T S. Carnes. Major Commanding.
By Harry Allen. Adjutant.
DECATUR’S DESPONDENCY.
Two New Cnees and No Deaths the
Showing for Sunday.
Nashville, Sept. 23. —A speck! from
Decatur. Ala , says: “To day has been the
gloomiest Suuday in Decatur’s history.
There are hardly more than 150 people in
the town, two-thirds of these being colored,
A special train with about fifty refugees
left about midnight last night. ft is
scarcely probable that any more will be
permitted to leave.
There were but two new enters and no
deaths to-dav This would be cheering
news, were it uot Lhat so little regains for
the scourge to fasten itself on.
One of to-day’s prostrations Is that of Dr.
W. C. Buckley, one of the hart physicians
in Decatur.
TOTAL TIOTOW.
The total cases to date are seventeen, and
four deaths.
The Bismarck hotel is still opeq and feed
ing all that apply, whether tody bapta money
to pay or not. Two restaurant* j here are
doing the same thing.
Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany's force manager 8. D. Armstrong has
never left his post except for sleep.
Joseph T. Dixon, city editor of the Free
Lance , is still here.
Only two physicians have left, Dr. Taylor
and Dr. S. F. Cross. Both of them left on
account of sickness. The city is well pro
vided with both physicians and nurses, aud
all who left the city have left their places m
order.
LAKE CITY ALL RIGHT.
Every Infected Point In the State Quar
antined Against.
Lake City, Fla., Sept. 23.—The recent
report of yellow fever at Gainesville aroused
the health authorities to renewed efforts.
Lake City has a cordon of 100 men around
the town, through which no one is allowed
to enter. The county board of health has a
guard stationed at every entrance into the
county, with orders to allow no one to
either enter or depart from the county.
The Florida Railway and Navigation trains
are not allowed to stop at this place. All
mails are taken from the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway at Fort White, and
brought into town over the railway from
Fort While to this place, which train is
guarded, and no one allowed to travel on It
who hails from an infected locality. The
rnoit rigid quarantine regulations have
been ordered against Otnnp Perry, Camp
Mile 1 ell, Duval, Baker aud Alachua coun
ties, M icclenny, Jacksonville, Fernandina,
Gainesvil.e.Taimta,Plant City,Manatee,Pal
metto, and if the report just received that
Branford, iu Suwannee county, has the
fever is c irrect, Lake City will quarantine
against that place at once. Ho far Colum
bia c untv has not had a case of fever in it.
Lake City is in iietter sanitary condition
and enjoying better health than over before
at this season of the year. Although she
appears to be surrounded, she apprehends
but little danger. Mite will spare neither
time nor means to prevent its introduction.
Yellow fever is reported at Branford and
Fernandina. The mills are the only danger
Lake City has to dread, it it tie true that
the fevor is in Fernandina. Uninterrupted
communication and exchange of bands has
been going on for weeks iietween Fernau
diua and the lumber mills m this section of
the state.
It has been announced that the college
will open promptly on Oct. 4, as appoined
by the board of trustees. The public school
will also open on that day, as appointed.
Fort White, In the southern pert of this
county, is enjoying good health. Tl;e
county tioard of health sent one of its mem
bers there who, upon examination, found
the sanitary condition aud the health of
the town good.
POWERS OF HEALTH BOARDS.
A Local Organization Taken to Task In
Louisiana.
New Orleans. Sept. 2s.—At a meeting
of the state board of heulth, this morning,
the agent of the Texas and Pacific railroad
read a telegram received by him which
showed that the health board of Hhreveport
refused to quarantine against this city, but
tb&t, yielding to the demands of the
people and city council, they consented
to place an embargo ou all point* below
Alexandria, which had the same effect.
Pres.dent Wilkinson considered that the
local authorities had exceeded their powers.
He said that the state hoard was 00-o|ierat
iug with the health officers in preventing
the introduction of contagious diseases.
New Orleans was free from even a suspici
ous cose, and such arbitrary action as had
been taken by Shreveport bad not been
countenanced'
LAYING DOWN THE LAW.
He accordingly telegraphed the Shreve
port authorities as follows:
Boards of health have not arbitrary powers.
The supreme court has plainly decided these
cases The state board will assist all local
board.. In keeping out infectious diseases, but
will not countenance mob law. Any quarantine
against any healtliy place in Louisiana will be
resisted by the state board. If parties Inter
ested join issue witb you, all will aid* against
you.
It is understood that the Texas and Pacific
railroad receivers will to-morrow make applies
t ion to the United States court for an order for
bidding the health authorities of Shreveport to
Interfere in any manner with trains of the
Texas and l’aeillc railroad.
TRAFFIC ABANDONED.
Chattanooga's Quarantine so Bigld as
to Paralyze Travel.
Chattanooga, Sept. 33.—A1l freight and
passenger trains on the Alabama and Great
Southern railroad have boon abandoned
owing to the rigid quarantine hero and at
other points on the line.
Memphis and Charleston trains cannot
outer this city.
Arrangements wifi probably be effected
to-night whereby mail and express matter
call I>e delivered between Memphis aud
Stevenson.
Trains wifi pass through Morgan county,
in which Decatur is situated, at not less
than fifieeii miles per hour. All train men
are under oath not to take on passengers in
any county in which an infected point is
located.
The Chattanooga quarantine has been
and is so effective that not one person from
an infected point could bo discovered even
after a liberal reward was offered for Ins
apprehension.
Traffic on the northern and eastern roads
ia uninterrupted. No one is allowed to
enter the city of Chattanooga without
giving a satisfactory account of himself.
This oity w as never before in such a healthy
condition.
LAKE WEIR HEALTHY.
Alarm Over the Fever at Gainesville
Subsiding.
Lake Weir, Fla., Sept. 23.—Tho alarm
occasioned by tho rei>orts of yellow fever in
Gainesville and among member* of the
Ocala Rifles in quarantine at Blue Springs
has about subside I, since the disease is not
spreading in Gainesville, and there is no
sickness of any kind among the Ocala boys,
who folded their quarantine touts yesterday
and returned to civil life.
There is no sickness on tho lake, except
two cases of chills at, Ocklawalm and one
little child suffering with dysentery.
IROF. PROUTOR’S CASE.
The wife of one of Florida's prominent
citizens saw Prof. Proctor a few days be
fore he stalled for New York, and from his
bilious appearance’she expected to hear any
day that he was fiiid up with an attack of
malaria. There is a malignant type of
bilious fever which frequently terminates
in black vomit but is neither contagious nor
infectious. This was iu all probability the
cause of the professor’s death
Thu public schools of Ocala and Lake
Weir will not open till Nov. J.
The mails axe becoming more regular.
Jacksonville papers which come to this
office ore burned.
Lake Weir’s quarantine has been raised.
MADISON QUARANTINES.
All Travelers and Freights from the
Southeast Under the Bar.
Madison, Fla., Sept 23. —The board of
health of Madison county has declared a
strict quarantine against all points south
and east of Live Oak.
The mayor issued tho following procla
mation:
That a strict quarantine is hereby declared
against all travel and freight east and south of
Live Oak, anti persons holding certificates from
points east ana south of Live Oak will not be
allowed to stop within the limitsof this county
That we do hereby require the railroad autbori
ties to take the passenger coach off and allow
no passengers to travel by the freight train, or
we shall he forced to prohibit the freight trains
from passing through the limits of this county.
The above was made necessary by the
report of yellow fever at Gainesville. Mad
ison is unusually healthy at this season of
the year, aud the town is in a clean condi
tion.
MERIDIAN AND THE TRAINB.
All Must Run Through the City at the
Rate of Twenty Miles an Hour.
Meridian, Miss., Sept. 23. —As numer
ous inquiries are daily received here from
the press of the country relative to yellow
fever in this city, the Associated Press cor
respondent to-day obtained from the presi
dent of the board of health tho following
official statement:
At a meeting of the board of health to-day at
JO o’clock It was ordered that no persons be per
rattled to get off of any tracts in this city, anil
that after 12 o'clock to-mor rno trains will im
permitted to stop in this‘city, but may run
tti rough with locked doors at not less than
twenty miles an hour. There is no yellow fewer
here, or even a suspicious case.
J. H. Blanks, M. D.,
President of Board of Health.
SUSPICION AT LOUISVILLE.
A Doctor Arrives Who Has Been At
tending the Sick at Decatur.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 23.—Dr. P. It.
Taylor, formerly of Louisville, who has
Iteon attend i tig patients with the disease in
Decatur, was one of a train load of fifty
who arrived from Docatur to-nigbt. He
has what may be symptoms, and was re
moved to the Eruptivo hospital, os was also
B. Grant. No other ea-e developed here.
Tne refugees who arrived cams through ■ n
a closed train, and were not allowed to st ip
at Nashville or at other points iu Tennessee.
Candler Feels Safe.
Candler, Fi,a., Sept. 23. The prev
alence of yellow fever in the state will keep
many cf thus * who contemplated coining
here away until law in tbs winter. A uuin
ber of families from Lafayette, Ind., would
have lieen here Oct. 1, but they will wait a
month longer before earning on account of
tho fever. This section continues very
healthy. There is no sickness here what
ever, bat while the iieople ar<> fortunate,
they de"ply feel for the afflicted people in
tho towns where taq fever prevails. They
do not apprehend any dangers, as in this
high healthy, pine country the fever would
hardly exist long.
The Appropriation Bill.
Washington. Sept. 23.—1n tho House
this week the bill making an appropriation
for tho relief of tho yellww fever sufferers
is likely to lie reported from the appropria
tionscommittee and an effort to secure con
sideration for it will doubtless result in
come lively proceedings, as the opposition,
though c mfined to one or two members,
is very determined,
Freight Refused.
New Orleans, Sept. 23.—A Cairo special
says:
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company re
fuse to lake freight for any point on their line
in Miaalvstppi, as they cannot deliver it on ac
count of the quarantine. Illinois Central trains
run directly through from this point to Canton,
Miss., without stopping. Local trains on both
mods from here to Jackson, Tenn . are aban
donnd. ,
, City Gates Closed.
Nashville, Sept. 23.—A Jackson, Tenn.,
special says:
Tbs city bas quarantined against parts of
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi nnd the city of
Memphis No trains from those places will be
allowed to stop within Uzs miles of the city.
Macclenny'a Bulletin.
Macclknwy, Fla., Kept. 21!.—Ft the
twenty-four hours ending at (l o'clock to
night there have been two new cases and
one death, that of Glenn Shuly. Miss Mc-
Call is still living under the treatment of
Dr. 8. M. Gonzalez,
Arlington Quarantines.
Arlington. Oa., Sept. 23.—At meet
ing of the counail yesterday Arlington
quarantined, and it is thought that Blakely
will follow m a day or two.
PROGRAMME OF CONGRESS.
The Measures Which May be Acted
Upon This Week.
Washington’, Sept. 23. — The Senate has
left no unfinished business, and the order in
which this week’s expected events may
come tip is problematical. The week’s
programme includes the passage of the
general deficiency bill, a hundred or more
private iHt.ision bills, one or two of the
territorial admission bills, the Sherman
trust bill, and tinai action upon tbe sundry
civil bill. Probably tills is more than can
be accomplished in a week, even if the
programme lie strictly followed.
IN TUB HOUBK.
No legislative business is likely to be ao
cotnplished by the House this week bey end
action upon tho two appropriation bills re
maining undisposed of. They are tbe sundry
civil bill, upon which future conference
must lie ordered and the general deficiency
bill, which hits not yet been acted upon by
the Neuat*, lint which is ex|>e<'tod to reach
the House during the week. Unless the first
Hamid measure is iwssed tiefore Tuesday it
will be necessary to adopt another resolu
tion extending the appropriations carried
by the bill.
Mr. Crain’s resolution directed against
trusts may also be a fruitful theme for dis
cussion.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Good Weather In tome States and
Unfavorable in Others.
Washington, Slept. 38. —The weather
crop bulletin issued by the signal office
says:
Poring the week the weather has been geu
•rally favorable for all growing crops in tbe
states of the Mississippi va!!**v.
The reports from the . >rn licit indicate au
nnttstmllv large corn cro| <if e from front
in perilous of Kentucky heavy rains injured
the tobacco and com crops probably to the ex
lent of IN per cent., hut the fruit crop bos im
proved and |s to tloe cnndltli.it.
The weather conditions have also been favor
able for wheat seeding throughout the Atlantic
wheat- states and as far south as Tennessee
IN TH COTTOV KMOIou.
ID ilia cotton rector:, from Alabama westward
to Texas, the weather baa conn joueraily tavot -
able (or all growing crops. Heoont. raina m
Texas Unproved the late crop of cotton, while
some damage is reported to cotton la Tennessee,
due to heavy rains.
In Louisiana, the weather improved Ute con
dition of caue and was favorable tor rioe har
vesting and cotton picking
In Alabama and Mississippi the condition’is
reported more favorable for tbe cotton crop. In
North and South Carolina tbe conditions were
unfavorable, and the crops are thought to have
been seriously damaged
Heavy rains have affected Injuriously the
growing crop* in the New England anil Middle
Atlantic states.
FREDERICK’S DIARY.
A Resolution to Cultivate More Inti
mate Relations with England.
Bbrlin, Sept. 23.—The diary of the late
Emperor Frederick contains many remarks,
showing that, be had resolved to cultivate
most intimate relations with England,
though apprehensive that the predilection
of Germany for America and Russia
would render it difficult to do
so. One entry states that Napoleon,
while a prisoner at Wilhelmshohe,
proposed an nlliauce with Germany for a
war against England. Other entries further
show Emperor Frederick’s desire to create
imperial ministers responsible to parlia
ment. .
Tbe Liberal Journal says that the liberals
cannot make a better election manifesto
than Emperor Frederick’s diary.
CONFLICTB IN ZANZIBAR.
The German Admiral Lands Marines
and Kills 150 Natives.
Zanzibar, Sept. 28.—A conflict arose
between German residents and coast tribes
at Bagomoye to-day. The German admiral
landed with a force from tbs Leipsic to as
sist the Germans, and killed 150
men without suffering a single cas
ualty. Gn. Matthews, who for fifteen
years has been trusted by the
natives, has Sod from I'augoni, having been
nearly murdered. The rebels are declaring
against all Kurofieans, and a general rising
is feared The Hultau has temporarily re
sumed the administration of the Tanga and
Pangani until tho auti-German feeling has
subsided.
A HERO OF THE FRENCH.
Premier Goblet Unveils a Monument
to His Memory.
Paris, Sept. 113.—M. Goblet to-day on
veiled a monument to Capt. Vogel of
Amiens, who was killed while defending
the citadel In 1870. In a speech M. Goblet
said Krauue ought not to forget the lesson
of the war. A blind policy hail
led her to irreparabla disaster. Unless
she desired a 'repetition of these disasters,
she must preserve her dearly won liberty
und not give herself into the hands of a dic
tator. A united people could again become
great without recourse to arms. In con
clusion he expressed the pious gratitude of
the jieoplo toward the hero, and said that
the country bail invincible confidence in
the future.
GOTHAM'S SOCIALISTS.
Candldatee to be Nominated for All
the Offices.
New York, Sept. 23.—At a meeting of
tho Socialistic Labor party at the Labor
lycoum to-day, it was resolved to nominate
candidates for national, state and municipal
otliees. A committee was appointed to call
a mass meetiug, at .which the nominations
are to be made. It Nvae argued that the
principles of the party would Ire advanced
by this course. The placing of new candi
dates in the field iu this doubtful state,
whore the socialists have a good follow
ing, further compUcatee the political prob
lem in the eyes of the politicians.
Marshal Bazalne Dead.
London, Hept. 23. A disnatch from
Madrid announce* that Gen. Ha tame died
in that city to-day. The cause of h s death
wus heart disease. He bad be< n ill for sev
eral days. The funeral will take place to
morrow. __
Cleveland on a Farm.
Philadklphia, Sept. 28.—President
Cleveland passed a quiet Sunday at the
farm of William M. Singerly. He will re
turn to Washington to-morrow morning.
Gen. Hoioman Dying.
Paris, Sept. 23.—Gen. Holoman, ex-presi
dent of ilayti, is dying. Thu last sacra
m >nt has been admiuuterad to him.
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SUPERFLUITIES OF LIFE.
TALMAOE TAKES A LESSON FROM
THE FATE OF A GIANT.
Deepite His Four and Twenty F.nger*
and Toes, He Was Slain by Jona
than Giants Not Useful Nowadays,
Except to Enlarge the Precarious
Inoomes of Cheap Museums.
Brooklyn, Sept. 23. The Rev. T. D-
Witt Talmage, D.D., preached in the Brook
!yn Tabernacle this morning on the subject,
“Superfluities a Hindrance. ” Several ocean
steamers arrive in port- Sunday mornings
and many of tho passengers, browned by
the sea, coma directly from the wliarf to
the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The groat con
gregation, led by Prof. Ali’s cornet and ac
companied by the organ, at which Prof.
Browne presides, joined in tho opening
hymn:
We arc thy people, w c thy care,
I Mir souls and all our mortal frame.
What lasting honors shall we rear.
Almighty Maker, to thy name.
i)r. Tuluiuge's text was: I Chronicles,
xx, *l-7: “A man of great stature,
whose lingers and toe* were tour and twen
ty. six on each hand, mid six on each foot;
and lie also was tbe son of Hie giant. But
when lie defied Israel, Jonathan, the s :u of
Shi men, David's brother, slew him.”
Malformation photographed, mid for what
reason ! Did not this passage -lip in by mis
take into the Sacred Scriplur* s. as some
times a paragraph utterly obnoxious to tbe
editor gets into his newspaper during bit
absence! Ls not, this Scriptural errata' No,
no; there is nothing haphazard about the
Bible. This passage of Scripture was as
certainly intended to be put in th • Bible as
the on usage, “In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth,” or, “God >o
loved the world that ho guve his only be
got ton sou.”
And I select it for my text to day be
cause it i charged with practical and tre
mendous meaning. By the people of God
the Philistines ha-i been conquered, with
the exception of a few giants. The race of
giant* is mostly extinct, I am glad to say.
There is no use for giants now except to
enlarge the income of museums. But them
were many of them in olden times. Go
liath was, according to the Bible, II feet 41$
inches high. Or, if you do not believe tun
Bible, the famous Pliny, a secular writer,
declares that at Crete by an earthquake a
monument was broken ojwn, discovering
the remains of a giant 48 cubits long, or hi*
feet high So, whether you prefer sacred
or profane history, yon must come to tin*
conclusion that there were in those olden
time* cases of human altitude mon
strous and appalling. David bad
smashed the skull of one of
theae giant*, but there were other giant*
that the Davidean wars had not yet sub
dued, and one of them stands in my text.
He was not only of Alpine stature, but had
a surplus of digits. To the ordinary Augers
was annexed an additional Anger and the
foot had also a superfluous addendum. Ha
had twenty four terminations to bauds and
feet where others have twenty. It was not
the only instance of the kind. Tavernier,
the learned writer, say* that the Emperor
of Java had a son endowed with the same
number of extremities. Volcatius, tbe poet,
had six lingers on each band. Maupetius,
in his I’elelirated letters, speaks of two fami
lies near Berlin similarly equipped of hand
and foot. All of which 1 can believe, for I
have seen two rases of the same physical
superabundance. But this giant of the text
is in battle, and as Davki, the dwarf war
nor, had dispatched one giant, the brother
of David slays this monster of my
text, and there he lies after the
battle in Onth, a dead giant. Hi* stature
did not save him and his superfluous ap
pendices of hand and foot did not save him.
The probability was that in the battle his
sixth linger on bis band made him clumsy in
the use of hia weapon, and bis sixth toe
crippled his gait. Behold the prostrate and
malformed giant of the text: “A man
great of stature, whose Angers and toes
were four and twenty, six on each hand, and
six on each foot; ami he also was the son of
the giant. But when he defied Israel,
Jonathan, the sou of Btiimea, David’s
brother, slew him.”
Behold how superfluitiee are a hindrance
rather than a help! In alt the battle at
Gath that day there was not a man with
ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordi
nary stature that -ears not better off than
this physical curiosity of my text. As
physical size is apt to run in families tbs
probability is that this brother of David
who did tbe work was of an ab
breviated stature. A dwarf on ths
right side in stronger than a giant
on the wrong side, and all the body, and
mind, and estate and opportunity that you
cannot use use for God and the betterment
of tbe world i* a sixth Anger and a sixth
toe, and a terrific hindrance. The meet of
the good done in tbe world, and the most of
those who win tho battles for the right are
ordinary people. Count the Angers of their
right hand and they have just live, no more
and no less. One Doctor Duff among mis
sionaries, but three thousand misstonariM
that would tell you they have only common
endowment. One Florence Nightingale to
nurse the sick in conspicuous places, bub
ten thousand women who are just as good
nurses, though never heard of. Theßwamp
Angel was a big gun that during
the war made a big noise, but muskets
of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinary
heft did the execution, {’resident Tyler
and his cabinet go down the Potoniao one
day to experiment with the Peacemaker, a
great iron gun that was to affright with ita
thunder foreign navies. The gunner
touches it off and it explodes and lea vug
cabinet ministers dsad on the deck, while
at that tune all up and down our coasts
were oeuwnn of ordinary bore able to be the
defense m the nation and ready at the flrsb
touch to waken to duty. Tbe curse of tha
world is big guns. After tbe politicians
who have made oil the noise go home hoarsa
from angry discussion on the evening of the
first Monday in November, the next d*y
tlie people with tbe silent ballots will settla
everything end nettle it right, a million of
the white slips of {taper they drop making
about as much noise as the fall of an apple
blossom.
Clear back In the country to-day there
are mothers in plain apron, and sbuea
fashioned on a rough last by the shoemaker
at tiie end of the lane, rocking babies tha*
are to be the Martin Luthers, and the Fara
days, and the Edison*, and the Bismarcts,
and the Gladstones, and the Washingtons
and the George Whitfield*of the year 1938,
and who will make the twentieth century
bo bright that this much lauded nineteenth
in comparison will seem * part of tbe dark
ages. Tho longer I live the more I like
common folks. They do the world 1 * work,
bearing tbe world’* burdens, weeping the
world’s sympathies, carrying the world's
consolation. Among lawyers * **e riaa
up a Rufus Choate, or a William Wirt, ora
Samuel L. Koutliand, but society would go
to pioctw to-morrow if there were not thou
sands of common lawyers to see that men
and women get their rights, A Valentine
Mott or a Willard Parker rise*
up eminent in the medical profession,
but what an unlimited sweep would
pneumonia, and diphtheria, and scarlef
fever, have in tho world if it ware not fo
ten thousand common doctors. The old
physician in his gig rolling up tbe luue ot