Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-08
IMPOVERISHED BY A PEST
AFTER EFFECTS OF THE SMALL
POX IN JACKSONVILLE.

pressed-The Prohibition Movement
The Bonding QuestiOn-Fernandin
Great Gain-Other Notes.
JACKSONVILLE, May Now do [
citizens begin to realize the DAMAGE su
tanned to this fair city by the few cases
smallpox occurring here the past mont
BUSINESS OF every description has sufFere
considerably, and the prospects for ;
early resumption are not favorable. Tn
forty cases here and in the county ba,
affected the welfare of Jacksonville mo
than the thousands of cases have Ne
Orleans. For here, at the first notific
tion of the existence of the disease. n
took fright and imagined its ravag
tenfold to what it really was. Not on
did all the winter visitors take fright an
| run away, but some of the home folks fo
| lowed in the same wake. This ehvin
from danger was evidence sufficient ft
sister towns to establish picket lines an
a rigid quarantine. and upon rumOr Drol
| ably they were justi1iable in doing so.
few ignorant people here actually wrot
friends in neIghbOriug towns that the dis
| ease was 'all over the city and spreadin
daily" If those only who have sssow
the wind could reap the Storm" it wOul
not be so bad, but they are not of a elias
VINO have business risks of anV magn
tude. The business men of this city hav
sustained serious blOw-One from Wbic
1t will take many a day to recover
AT this season of the wear heretofore
business has always been fair, but now i
is dead-a large firm here says witt
them more so than at any time in the pas
ten years.
Not case for week has been reported
nevertheless business does not revive
and 1t will be difficult to draw patron
here from anywhere outside of the cit,
until the last vestige of the disease is eX
tlnct. People i'll the interior appear to b,
more alarmed than was at first supposed
and 1t VIII be weeks before convincing ar
guments can induce them to again visit
this city. Yet, our merchants with heavy
stocks of goods, millmen with few orders
to I'LL, have got to bear the burden through
long and weary summer. ushereC
III Il month earlier than usual by
the scare. To help along the dull
season the courts to open here to-day
nave been adjourned to next regular term
December. 1t was believed up to YES.
terday that Judge Settle would ''face the
music" and convene the United States
Court, but he has suceumbed to the scare
and ordered an adjournment. Judge Ra-
ker. OF the State Court, answered yea to the
first request. So here is more loss to the
business men of this place. These two
courts have been the means of bringing
quite number of people here, who gen
orally purchased literally of our mer-
chants. But if the lawyers can stand it,
so can the merchants, boarding houses
and transportation lines.
~ rnrIr of
clean sweep of the smaller grOggeries in
this city and county. Baldwin's great
ness is to fall with other interior towns
OF some Importance. The enforcement of
the law, or strict compliance Herewith.
seems to have been death blow to the
crossroads dram shops, from which has
sprung so much evil in former wears.
Nor are they the only ones affected
thereby, but the large and more refined in
TINS city watch with anxious gaze for the
handwriting on the wall.
The first applicant for license to con-
tinue the retail traffic, at the ever notable
Brooklyn bridge stand, in this city. seems
to have met with half dozen reverses
before he got well under way. FOrgerIes
OF signatures to his petition, an attempt
TO eVade the proper publication, etc,
are charged. Others, seeing how many
trials and tribulatiOns the first of the
army have encountered have become
weak, and if they do not surrender un-
they will come forward
with fear and trembling with their pc
titiOn.
A wrong idea seems to have taken pos-
session of some of the temperance people,
and that is just where they will iniure the
cause which they have so warmly espous-
ed, If not cautious. They must remember
that the law does not take from the liquor
1ealer every right, and that they are al
lowed chance to comply with the new
law, and are to be protected in that right
ust the sane as any one else who endeav-
)rs strictly to obey statute law. The
UNJUST remarks and threats from the ad-
'Ocates towards the liquor dealers are
not calculated to win favor from the bet
5er class of citizens. The posting of hand
)llls containing harsh language in way
If appeals, the rough and severe filings.
'rltlclSms and lnSinuatiOnS will drive
away some who might be won over to the
cause by different mode of warfare,
6emember extreme measures and per-
'onal abuse have in days gone done much
injury in Florida to the cause of temper
'nce. Let the law take its course in the
natter and each side abide the result.
fanaticism has been the death angel to
many good and noble undertakings.
Polk county is the banner Democratic
county of the State and the first to
riumph under local option. A private
etter to party here states that the last
lin mill in the county fell a victim to the
lew law last week. 1t had been drOOping
or month, and upon the expiration of
is license hauled in its horns. The next
ounty to hear from, it is presumed, will
e Brevard, as a gentleman from there in
his city few days since informed your
that all places where
quor was sold at retail had closed save
ne, and that would pass in its checks in
week or two. So thus one by one the
0ses fall.
The election to be held to-day for the
urpOse of refunding $50, 900 city sanitary
onds with bonds of a lower rate of in
crest and of longer date, has been post
oned until June 7th by the City Council,
'hlch met for that purpose Saturday af-
9rnOOn.
Considerable discussion has been going |
n the past week III reference to this bond |
uestiOn. The trustees of this fund ask |
II $4,000 to make necessary changes and |
improvements in the water works, and OF |
curse there is no way to comply with the |
but to issue new bonds to that |
mount. This feature of the question is
0W being thoroughly ventilated by
lany property holders, and by some
BILE legal gentlemen. The latter
re cOntining their remarks to the
wv points and the legality of
suing bonds to the amount of $4,000,
nd at present they are pretty evenly
vided In opinion. There is one point
pom which all are agreed, and that is that
le city water works have not proved
hat was expected and that they are be-
)ming rather burdensOme to the tax
ayers. 1t is suggested and strongly ad-
ice 90 50iins" "pffy ate eomlaffy and 'f6Is
It rid Of an elephant.
oaturd ay, the first through cars from
!. Louis, Mo-, arrived here via Pensacola
I'd ChattahOOchee. WI"
only two deaths occurred in the city
e past week-both infants.
More IRON for the new st. Augustine and
lcksonVliie Railroad has arrived. The
Qgress OF the road is slow.
Iron for the st. Johns and HaIifav Poll
ad is also arriving.
The letter carrier system recently imam
rated here, is working satisfactorily.
w Ork on the new railroad continues tn
pushed ahead. ~
II IS runored that your regular cores
ndent ''W. III. B.' will return IN tho
" from exile and isolation next week.
Ihere are more schooners in port than
mber. -1i' 'O''Oiiio
Long trains of cars laden with vegeta-
IS pass over the Transit Railroad every !
V days. The freight is sent east and
me late decision of the Treasury De-
rtment, hnally dispOsing of the long
h95ihS question as to whether the Uni.
DIdUes government has any title to cer- 7
n lands in Fernandina, sold for tawas :
$50 by Tax Commissioners, is a great .
lei TO that seaboard town. The order a
ne government relinquishing ali claim q
ABOUT 700 city lots, valued at a million
half dollars, carried joy into the
rus OF number who had given up ali
'e long since. This has held Fernan- c