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J$dver L tiscr- A Timely Suggestion. The history of every apidcmic teaches .the same lesson which is brought more forcibly to mind each year. The great anxiety of every place to guard its reputation abroad leads it in the same error that of concealing the true facts. So blind are we to our own condition that we see things wrong. To illustrate. Twelve years ago this town had its epidemic. We nursed the disease twenty days in the block on Bay street between the Ocean Hotel and Dillons building, and called it “bill- ious fever,” notwithstanding the fact that Drs. Hazlehurst and Hampton declared same to be yellow ""fever.' So (irm were we not to believe anything of the kind, that we published an ar ticle twelve years ago to-day—Sept., 13, 187(1, from which wc clip the fol lowing that showed wbatwe then be lieved, based on what wc considered good authority; Wc feel constrained to say that, so far, we are forced to conclude that there has not been a single case of yellow fever in our city, and further more thnt the word would never have been pronounced had not our sister city been nlllicted with this terrible plague. The minds of many are in- llamcd on this subject, and they arc ready to pronounce almost anything “a clear case of yellow fever.” Savannah hnd been guilty of the same error. Later on Fcrnandina and other places did likewise. The same thing was repeated in Jackson ville, and more recently still in Mc- Clcnny, a neighboring town in Flor ida—all because the people did not call the ilrst cases by the right name. It is high time the country was coming to its senses. The very lirst suspicious case that occurs in any any town should be so published, and everybody so notified. If the case should prove to be something else, the error could be more easi ly reraidiedthan tho danger done by silence. Wc have heard of several people who knew of the existence of yellow fever in Jacksonville dnys before it was made public. Had that infor mation been known in time, many now in their graves might still be alive, and much suffering now exist ing might have been avoided. It is higji time this blind policy was discontinued, and the truth ac cepted nnd published promptly. This is our suggestion, and when accepted and acted upon by the cities of this land epidemics will bo less frequent. FEVER IN JACKSONVILLE. The A. P. & L. Steamship Line. Tho Amcricus Recorder says: Wo have already announced tho fact that the A. P. it L. has a line of steamers from Brunswick to New York. Few people recognize the magnitude of this fact. There is hardly a parallel in tho history of railroads. . The A. P. & L. wns organized here ut home. The stock was every dol lar subscribed by the people along the line. It is a local company ami the line is operated by home people. Ydt by the support of the people it lias extended until it reaches from the Chattahoochee river to the city of New York. There is a complete line of steam ers plying between Abbeville and Brunswick to New York, all opera- jo baby road. And now there I the establishment from Brunswick lent on the part of ’Americus superior i any city in the State, Savannah and Brunswick. Fgood work go on. As the & L. prospers so prospers bns and Brunswick. ^J'r-Governor Hubbard of Tex- appointed Minister to the ; of Japan, our trade with thnt nntry has grown from $13,000,000 ^25,000,000. $2,500,000 in excess i total Euglish-Japoriese trade same year. It also exceeds frman-Japita trade by $10,000,- |nd that of France by $12,000,- Jacksonville, Sep. 10, 2:30 p.ra.— There were reported up to noon to day twelve new cases. The deaths for to day so far are: Edgar David son, Miss Laura Jenkins, J. L. Me. Kcnnon, Carrie Smith, Isadore Dey. A largo number of trained nurses are expected from Charleston to day. Jacksonville, Sept. 11, 1 p. m. Upon to noon twelve new cases and five deaths had been reported, but since that hour live more cases’ have come to light, as follows: E. C. Cof fee, Miss Weston, Miss Arper, Miss Lula Kellnr and James Nolan. Four deaths have also occurred, though the names cannot be obtained. A train load of 250 refugees left at 9:30 this morning for Henderson ville, N. C. The situation is blue indeed, and the people very low spirited. Jacksonville, Sept., 12, 12:30 p. m.—There were twcnty-fourcases re ported up to eleven o’clock .to day, but there are many more. The death list claims but two vic tims to-day, Louis J. Fleming, Jr., and Rev. T. M. Smith. Mr. Henry A. L’cngle is very low, but will probably pull through. There are several others in a criti cal condition. A. young man named Pryor, of Charleston, wns found dead on the street this morning. lie committed suicide by taking an over dose of laudanum. Thirty-nine patients were discharg ed this noon. SEVEN MORE DEATH. Besides report in other deaths up to 1:30 p. m., are Carrie and Maggie Wolfe, children of Fred Wolfe. Clms. Sembler, Tom Keys, Walker E. Proy- thess (druggist) and child, Mr. Mer- ricie. Many others very ill. John Smith Wanted. ■ We see in one of our Ohio ex changes that sonic one wants “infor mation as to tho whereabouts of John Smith, who was last heard from in Gcorgin five years ago.” lie is right here in Sumpter coun ty, by six oraeven majority He lives in every county in the state—in every county in every state in the union. He is ubiquitous; but at the time called for, his brother Dr. Smith, will attend to his business. Where a country is so far behind ns not to have a Jfthn Smith, wc refer it to Philadelphia, where they keep 3,000 in stock and can supply on short no tice.—Amcricus Republican. «•*•*- Atlanta was deluged Tuesday with a shower of wheat bugs. They are small black bugs, about three- quarters of an inch long. Wheeler Manguin, of tho Western and Atlan tic railaoad who wns on duty at the depot Tuesday night, said they came all night, and when the electric light went out and he lit the gas he could see them dropping by the thousand all around the shed. Mrs. Manguin found them all over the houscouton Hunter street. Dr. Collier, on Hun ter street, saw them all over his bed and in bis room. They were profuse on Pryor street and in other parts of the city. Atlanta is .not so plenscd at the prospect of being filled with Jack- soqvillc refugees. The Atlanta Con stitution, it appears, exceeded the public wish in its lavish show of hos pitality and its criticisms as to the inhumanity of other cities in deny ing a refuge to those fleeing the yel low fever scourge, are likely, like young chickens, to come to roost. The first duty of any community is to its own members, and whenever a Board of Health dictatorially disre gards the public safety, it is censura ble. It would be a wife precaution for Atlanta to arrest the influx of the refugees and let them scatter among the less populfts^ties qj^fc^inpun- tainswh"" ‘ L - liability should Aii Unknown Benefactor. Mae.m Telegraph. Thnt charity is l»est which **L»oast eth not itself;" that benevolence is most beautiful whicb is done in se cret. The uilliclion at Jacksonville has brought nut one of the finest traits of the American people—their rend iness to respond to every call of dis tress. The whole country has made a neighbor of Jacksonville and is re solved that its people shall sutler for nothing that money can give them. And everybody is blessing thnt unknown man who walked into May or Hewitt’s office in New York last Monday, quietly laid down $12,000 with the request that it lie sent to the yellow fever sufferers, and, de dining to give his name, disappear ed, while others have remained for 24 hours in trees. The water was waist deep in Green and Broad streets, and went with such a rush as to endan ger the lives of waders, the current being so swift in many places as to wash everything before it. The ca nal banks are broken in many places. FEVER FROM RATS. Yellow Fever Carried Ashore by Rats from an Infected Ship. Nciv Xork IIcruM, A gentleman well versed on the subject of yellow fever and its intro duction, states positively that rats take the fever microbes from an in fected vessel to the shore. When a vessel is fumigated the rats leave it in droves and swim to land. Frpm That was a royal act. If it had ■ these statements it can he easily seen been done by 'the richest man in j how a vessel fumigated in the harbor America the country would have I could infect a port through its rats, rung with his praise The unknown ! The fever outbreak in Norfolk in 1854 benefactor was not looking for that I is attributed to the rats swimming to reward. He knew thnt there were the land from the infected United destitute people in Florida, and he determined to help them. But he could not escape all earth ly reward. By no means could he drive away the sweet peace which stole into his good heart with the consciousness that he had helped his fellow cveatures. What power had be to forbid tlyi prayers which have ascended to heaven for him from stricken homes, from lonely sufferers, and from the hearts of thousands in happier lots who, touched by the no hie act of this man, have fervently said “God bless him!” So say we. Yellow Fever Remedies. The Savannah News: There are a great many . people wli States man of-war while in process of fumigation. This vessel arrived at Norfolk from the West Indies with fever on board. She was fumigated in the river near the city, and hun dreds of rats expelled by the sulphur swam to the docks of the city. The vessel was kept in quarantine during the heavy frosts of December, 1853. The following summer the fever reigned supreme. There is no doubt hut that the microbes carried ashore by the rats bad hibernated in the soil during the winter. cures for yellow fever, epidemic Jacksonville newspaper have sure Since the began the have contained accounts of a great many of these cures, and tlie Jacksonville board of health has received description of a great many , , „ .. , , , , .I and they oive the warehousemen and more, which have not found their] * way into print. The farmers of Southwest Georgia will be in a better fix, generally speaking, after harvesting this year’s crop, than they have been since the war. Many of them may, to all ap pearances, have less than they had a few years back when they farmed on a more extensive scale and pursued the all-cotton plan, but necessity drove them to diversify their crops, When the emperor Frederic of Prus sia was dying of cancer in the throat, there was scaccly a day that some remedy that was declared to be sure to cure his disease was not brought . , , products ot their terms, attemlents. , era ot Southwest Georgia are fust re covering their lost ground, and the day is not far distant when the farm ... , ., . ,, ing lands of this fertile region will During the epidemic ■i (list to the atlJftion of his None of tin# was tried, however, be cause it was quite certain that there wns no ■'virtue in them. f 1878 all merchants less than ever before, Most of them have made corn and other provision crops to last them for another year, and many of them will enter upon another year free of debt and with their ginneries full of The farm- REWARP. One Thousand ($1,000) Dollars. We the undersigned offer one thousand dollar* cash, U wc cannot send you the picture of the next President of the United States- If you cle- frlre to enter t*it- eontest huv a box-oi the gen- nine Dr. C. Mu Lank’s CELKiinfTED Liver Pills from vour druggist (’trie© 25c.) nnd mail us the outside w.upper nn< 4 cents in stamps with your address plain!v written, we will then mail you l .-in cfoffnnt package of cards. Ad Pitlsburg, Pa. QUINTS -AND- CMMBERLIN L0J1MIELLS KOlt SALE BY . ,, , , • , be in demand at double their present the yellow fever prophylactics and , j remit lies that were ever heard of, and ‘ ’ many that were not, were brought to The editor of the Washington the attention of the public iu one Sunday Gazette announces that his way and another, and doubtless ma ny of them were given a trial. If any benefit was ever derived from any of tbpin, no one ever heard of it. It is certain that some, if not all of those who went to New Orleans with sure rcmidics for yellow fever died there. They showed their faith in their mediesnes, but at the same time they furnished convincing evi dence that they knew nothing about the disease which they pretended to be able to master. The truth is there is no known prophylactic or remedy for yellow fever. In epidemics of the disease more dependence is placed upon care ful and intelligent nursing than any thing else. Alabama almost equals Georgia in the conservatism of her choice of congressmen Georgia will send back nine of her ten old members. The Alabama democrats have nomi nated six old member^ out of tho eight. One, Mr. Davidson, has been defeated for a nomination, and it is probable that the first district will swap Mr. Jones, sitting member, for Col. Clarke, of Mobile. Still the pro portion of old members from Ala bama will bo much larger than is usual with the states. Augusta, Ga.. is undergoing a ter rible calamity in the shape of a flood. The Savannah river has risen some thirty-nine feet and swept the town— dug, it is estimated, $1,000,000 of to juiflMtIw besides loss of <ecn rescued boatmen, journal will hereafter support Cleve land and Thurman. It has hereto fore been strongly republican, and a visit to New York brought about the editor’s change of heart. He said lie found every thing in an apathetic state at the republican headquarters, and the managers appeared to he hopeless. Besides, there is too much Blaine in the republican party for him, so he comes over to the demo crats, whore ho can work with the prospect of showing something for his labors, and where Blain is not an uncrowned king, and is not con sidered the incarnation of statesman ship. - Nellie Bl} - ,” a young woman who bns made some reputation as a spe cial reporter, has alleged interviews in the New York World of Sunday with Mrs. Thurman, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Morton. Mrs. Cleveland declined to submit to an interview, whereupon the young lady makes ungracious remarks about her. The people will stand by Mrs. Cleveland in this matter, ns they have in all others, and perhaps they will doubt the authenticity of the interview with the other candidates’ wives. Mr.Glessncr has gone over into Indianna with his Georgia exhibit car, and is showing at the Fort Wayne fair what this state can produce. The Sentinel of that city, in speak ing of the exhibit, says it is not on ly a great feature of the fair, but one of the finest evhibits ever seen in tbat section, and alone is worth the price of admission to the fair grounds. The great west is having her eyes opened to tbc possibilities of the great south. PALMER BROS. SAVANN AH, GA. -DKALEU* IX- SADDLES & HARNESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, urnUHW AND Leather Belting, Uuhlier racking ami llosc. Sole Leather, t'alf Skin* ami Shoe Upper# Trunks unci Traveling Bags. Wc cull especial attention to our Heavy Team Harness for the mill nnd turpentine trade, which we manufacture ourselves from best selected leather. Come and see us when in tho city, or send u* yourorder* when in need of nnythihg in our line. All mail orders receive careful attention, and satisfaction Is guaranteed. W. B. 31 ELL & CO., 158 and 100 Congress St., SAVANNAH, Ga. WIIV IS IT! WHO DIN TELL? T HE world is wi-c. science Is progtesslve, men arc shrewd at guessing, but no one can ex plain the following strange comlllton of thing, happening every day. A number of people aro beginning to “all they complain of .light indisposition; the sick ness progvc.se. until llnally one will have con sumption, another catarrh, another kidney trout. In, nnd worst of all, some will ho afflicted with that terrible malady, cancer. And to think that ordinary prudence in the heirinning would hnvo saved us from any of these dreadful visitors. Cancer has taken off some of our strongest men nnd women lately, nnd others are stricken with It. The reflection that the dead might lie living and the afllictcdhc in good health (had tho prop er means been used) is not a pleasant one. That king of all blood punfierv. “(iUINN'S PIONEER BLOOD REXEWEU” is tho one great specific known to medical science that attains the above results. It puri fies, enriches nnd strengthens the blee d, and acts as a perfect tonic to tho whole system—prevent innumerable cases of sickness, and save many lives. The following will explain itself: “I am pleased to stale to the public that oriNtni lti.ooi> Renew,:n has no equal as a Blood Purifier, for have tried ft snfflcicntly. J.C. BARNES, M D. „ „ „ „ , llriffln.On. Call on Messrs. Hodges A O'Connor for Alma nac, nnd don’t Torget to take a bottle of the me1- lcine home witli von. Training School for Nurses Dr. DAYTON SMALES, A CTIVELY aided the Itrunawiek medical 1 profession, is forming a Gaining wliool for nur»cft, to be examined, received and employed by the doctors. Call on or nddrci* I)r. DAYTON .SMALES, Newcastle street, nouth.