The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-27
The Fe ger.
DECATUR IN NEED OF FUNDS.


deaths have been reported. Two new
cases, both colored, were repol ted to
day. Money is badly needed and every
Decatur citizen, wherever found, is
urgently requested to send in his pro
rata for the relief of the sick.
MEMPHIS WILL MODIFY.
MEMPHIS, September 26.-Public senti-
ment has so changed here during the
past twelve hours in regard to fear
from the fever, that there is almost a
unanimous feeling that the present
non-intercourse quarantine should be
modified. This feeling found express
sion tonight at meeting of the board
of health. whi'I body was presented
with several p. , ions asking for the
! raising of the quarantine restrictions.
| The board deferred action on any of the
petitions until tomorrow night. In
the meantime, a joint conference
will be held tomorrow morn
ing at IL O'Clock, with the ad-
visory committee of the cotton and
merchants exchanges, and there
is DO doubt but the result will be the
modification OF the regulations now in
force. A called meeting of the repre-
sentatives of the various railroads
centering at Memphis was held this
afternoon and resolutions adopted for
the modification of the present quaran-
tine restrictions, which will be brought
before the conference meeting to-mor-
row morning.
LUCKY JACKSON.
JACKSON, Miss, September 26.-There
were no deaths to-day and no new
cases.
QUARANTINE RAISED.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, September &c.
Montgomery has raised her quaran-
tine against Albany, Georgia, as an in
vestigation shows there has been no
yellow fever there.
AT GAINESVILLE.
GAlNsvILLE, Fla, September o.
Fitch Miller died of yellow fever thi
evening. No other cases have deVel
oped.
EDIsoN's CURE.
NEWARK, NJ, September 26. =
Thomas A Edison says that the germs
of yellow fever can be destroyed by
the use of gasoline and caustic soda.
All these ingredients, he claims, reduce
the temperature and thus destroy the
microbes.
THE BOTTLING PROCESS.
New ORLEANS, September 26.-Baton
Rouge, Shreveport, Natchez and Vicks-
burg have voluntarily bottled them
selves up. The following letter from a
business esta blishment in Vicksburg to
gentleman in this city is given as
showing the effect in one district, Of the
oottliug process:
"VICKsBURG. September 26.
Everything in this city is in such a
demoralIz ed condition that collections
are next thing to an impossibility, and
the chances are that things will be no
better for weeks to come. A number
of our business men have left. Several
places have been closed, hundreds of
citizens have gore in every direction,
and in consequence of the trouble, we
will not be able to meet our obliga-
TONS"
The opinion is gaining here daily that
there is no yellow fever in Jackso Il,
only malarial trouble caused by the
excavations made during the heated
term.
JACKSON INDIGNANT.
MEMPHIS, September 26.-The follow
ing special from Jackson, Miss, was re-
ceiRed this afternoon:
1.-The feeling to-day, so far as the
fever is concerned, is brighter and more
hopeful. Great Indignation, however,
is felt by the senseless action of the
other towns in establishing a self-con-
| stituted quarantine, on account of their
| inhumen and uncalled for threats and
actions.
Quarantine is established everywhere
and the fever is kept from any points
south of the Macon and Dixie line, but
this senseless and inhuman treatment,
if continued, means nothing less
than starvation, andaWhen that point is
reacheda the first rule of nature will
assert itself, and the danger of
Infection will be increased tenfold.
| Let the quarantine be established at
every house and every cross road, but
do not stop the running of trains bound
on mission Of mercy or medicine and
provisions sent from northern eli
mate, where they open their hearts as
we'll as their purses, are more char
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own citizens. There is not enough in
town to-day to feed those remaining
here one meal, if every store was
thrown open.
Among the negroes great suffering is
experienced; many are without
morsel of food. and the Howard Asso-
citation, while doing all they can, are al
most penniless. They have neither
money nor provisions and while willing,
can't. because nothing is allowed to be
sent here.
AT JACKSONVILLE.
JACKSONVILLE, September 26. - One
hundred and three new cases of fever
we're reported for the past twenty-four
hours, and thirty-One we're among the
white and twenty-five among the color,
ed people. The deaths reported are 7.
Total cases to date. 2 1887; total deaths
229.
MANY REEUGEEs.
ST. LOUIS, September 26.-The
steamer City ofPfovidence, which runs
regularly between this city and Natchez,