The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-02

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refugee camp. The news from refugees that
1elG ny the special train Friday night from
DuoNque and Centralia and Duoroiu is
cheering. We have heard noll!ine from Chi.
GGago' Cincinnati and Louisville. Dr. Ige-
hart, WHO was one of nine for ST. Tonis
reports: arrived. Rough time. Purchase
OF new clothing compulsory" The suspense
re@afuing the loved ones who have been sent
away Is very great here. Many cases of suf
!erihS ana destitution among refugees
y 5eSv outside 5'raat 1 local quarantine is
necesSaries or comforts, neither ice, food or
medlcne has been passed out yet. Secretary
state board OF Health Johnston has been try
ing TO get a relief train for Chicago but late
ms ms evening Superintendent Mann, of the
tuTaln, but the citizens along the line north of
canton say that they will not permit the train
10 pass" This declaration of inhumanity of
S our fellow Missssippians is unprecedented.
Ihey know fully our wants and by their actions
we are made absolutely helpless. Our women
ana children are denied exit, food, medicine,
ana nurses arc denied admission. We are rats
IN trap at the mercy of any freak OF alleged
quarantines. This condition of affairs
Is not peculier to the Illinois Central road, but
tiled to aid us at all, but quit operating their
lines as soon as first flag was hung out.
Inc ponce are hourly discovering animals
locked up in stables and houses and birds in
cages, but as the fifteenth amendment is in
force here, no chickens remain in the coop after
dark. A refugee camp will be established six
miles from Jackson on the YaZoo branch on
the Illinois Central railroad.
The Official report is no new cases and no
deaths during the past forty-eight hours. Two
OF the physicians, Drs. Galloway and Harring-
ton went fishing in Pearl river today. The
latter caught fine trout. DIR. Galloway cap
tGred large lot of mnnows, for bait
Frost at Birmingham:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September 25.-TSpec-
1al. There was a light frost on all the hills
around the city last night, and reported gen.
eral throughout north Alabama, being the
heaviest on the Sand mountains near the Ten
nessee river. The weather is still cool, and
the temperature falling.
In reply to a telegram from the surgeon
general, asking the cause of the panic in Mem
phis, DIR. E. Is. Thornton telegraphed as FOL
lows:
No just occasion. Sensational publications in
daily press and our sensitive and nervous people.
The city very healthy, and l am now as all sum
mer, confident that there will be no cases here"
North Carolina Shuts Its Gates.
RALEIGH N. c., September 25-Special. l.
Governor Scales has written the following let
ter to the president of the board of health,
jacksonville, Florida.
In deep sympathy with your people struggling
W1tha terrible scourge and anxious to aid you III
every way possible consistent with the safety of
people, many towns in the mountains of North
CarOu0a invited the citizens OF Jacksonville under
proper precautions and restrictions to take refuge
with them. This arrange nent has been
a ts regard 50 Loosely the and bostS with
Of those of our people, among whom your citizens
have taken refuge, that our physicians, many of
whom have before, in their humanity, advised
such action, now regard any similar colonization of
refugees in our midst as dangerous and earnestly
advise against 1t. This is, therefore, to notify you
districts in Floridaas elsewhere that in future such
colonization will not be allowed In this state and
every effort will be employed to prevent it."
Brunswick Boys in Glover.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, September 25.-[Special. ]
The yellow fever alta Fernandina, Fla. has
scared up tho Brunswick board of health, al
though this city is more healthy now than at
any time III years. A great many
solid citizens ridicule the idea of rigid
quarantine as altogether unnecessary as they
maintain that fever would not spread if
brought here.
1t is said that a large body of yonng ladies
will make circuit of the picket lines tonight
when the moon rises and supply the boys with
sandwiches and coffee. In answer to q call
from the mayor, some fifty dry goods clerks
and railroad employees shouldered their guns
and marched to duty tonight. The boys con-
slider it great fun, and the town here has been
liyelier than since the last circus.
Affairs in Jacksonville and Camp Perry.
a party Of Jacksonville people are at the
Markham house. They came in last night on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
passenger train and will remain in Atlanta
several days.
He said: II and those who are with me left
Jacksonville ten days ago. lfad worked my
self down so completely that it was absolutely
necessary L should take a short rest
Tell me something about Camp Perry. Is
it proving success?"
ayes, it is o success, and am glad to say a
good word in its beh alf, for much censure has
been heaped upon Surgeon-Genera Hamilton
| have al yQa mar
sonal inspection of man who had an unm is
taxable case of yellow foyer.
At present there are about 500 refu-
gees at Camp Perry. Altogether about 800 have
been there. There have been twelve cases
of yellow fever and one death at Camp Perry
since it was started. The camp is under the
strictest military discipline, and the rules and
regulations arc rigidly enforced. AT 8 o'clock
at night the signal for going to bed is given,
and half an hour later lights must be put cut.
At seven in the morning everybody is oxpcct-
ed to get up, and half an hour later breakfast
is served Tie ladies with gentlemen and
ladies alone are served first. Tho negroes and
Italians get their food in a different place,
others.
"What do yon think about the state of
things in JaclisonyilleY'
81 take a hopeful view. Its my impression
that the city has seen the worst. AT least
5000 white people have left jacksonville and
the fever. The only material upon which the
disease can work in the future is the negro pop
ulation. There must be about 1900 negroes
in jacksonville at present, and it must be said
to their credit that they have acted we'll.
Mr. Edd Kings Journey.
IT left Atlanta last Friday" said Mr. Ed.
P. King last night to q CONSTITUTION reporter,
with the intention Of going to Jackson and
through Mississ' ppi to New Orleans"
"What kind OF a trip did you havo?"
"a very exciting one, owing TO the terrified
state Of the people about the yellow fever. All
through Mississippi they are frightened nearly
TO death. They are afraid of the mails, even
if fumigated, and refuse to allow the mail
matter to be distributed. made On effort to
get to Jackson, Miss, but it was no 20, That
place is as inaccessible as jay Goald's pocket
book. They use shotguns to keep people out.
There is no chance to get away from jackson.
On one of the railways i'll Mississippi valley the
engineer did not 90 fast enough TO suit
the health officers, one of whom
shot at him to accelerate his speed. II had
the desired effect"
at is hard to calculate how much harm the
jacksonville epidemic has done through the
Mississippi valley. Business has been throt-
tied and all kinds Of traffic paralyzed. Very
few wheels are moving in the stale OF Mis-
sissippi."
In the Beleagured City.
JACKSONVILLE, fla, September 26.-TSpec-