The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-30
Pine street, fumigates his establishment by

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firing gunpowder.
TIE epidemic has knocked the bottom out
OF politics in tnis borough, and the boys
have been robbed of much anticipated fu N
There is a gradual increase daily in the
disease here, and it will probably continue
until frost However, the mortality is COM
paratively small.
At 10 O'clock this morning the colored
people had meeting to organize relief
a sociaion for their race and to assist the
white committee.
TWO HOPEFUL CLERGYMEN.
Rev. r. II. Weller, rector of st. Johns
Episcopal church, feels hopeful for the sick
OF his church people.
Father Kenny, of the church of the I'm
macuiate Conception. reported all his sick
parishioners doing well this morning.
There is a decided scarcity of lines in the
market, inasnuch as Nassau and other
Bahamian ports have quarantined against
Jacksonville. 1t is not probable that any
more fruiters will come in here this season,
for they would encounter difficulty in get
ting away.
w. D. Vinzant to-day reported Mrs.
street as sick with what Dr. @. T. Maxwell
pronounces yellow fever, and that early
this morning her household goods
were being carted from the house to
other places in the city.
THE CHARGE OF CoNCEALMENT.
The special correspondents here don't
charge that deaths are concealed, but it is
notorious fact-known to all the corre-
spondents here-that dozens of cases come
under their observation that have never
been reported, some because the doctors
were opposed TO the board of health, and
again, perhaps, because they had none
President Neal Mitchell makes the same
complaint 1t is not quite SO bad now as
before, but the correspondents told the
truth, nevertheless.
WHERE THE NEW CASES ARE.
To-day's new cases are principally in the
central and eastern part of the city, the
infection apparently being carried by the
southwest winds of the past few days in a
nor heasterly direction.
At the sanitary associations meeting
to-day, a strong resolution was passed de-
nouncing as false the kilograms to several
northern papers to the effect that the col
ored people of Jacksonville were lawlessiy
plundering abandoned houses. These false
stories were corrected two weeks ago by q
telegram of committee of citizens con-
sisting of the acting mayor. presi-
dent of TIE board of health, pres
ident of the citizens sanitarysassociatio
and the editor of the Times Union. The
colored people passed resolution voicing
their appreciation of the efforts OF the white
citizens to relieve the distress of the colored
working people thrown out of employment,
but expressing the opinion that it will be
utterly impossible to sustain the needy and
urging the Importance Of government aid
in the matter. They assert that 10000
colored people will soon be dependent on
the relief committee, and that $4,000 per
week will be required to furnish them with
the bare necessaries of life.
THE COG WHEELS OF JUSTICE.
Judge Jones of the county criminal court,
has held court and sentenced nearly all the
prisoners in Jail who pleaded guilty, to the
chain-gang, where they will work on the
roads in the healthy parts of the county.
Several cases of fever have appeared in the
county Jail.
With few exceptions. the ministers of
the city are nobly at their posts of duty.
They are nearly all on the relief committees
for the different wards. Prominent among
them are Bishop Weed. Rev. DR.. Weller,
Episcopal; Father Kenny, Catholic; Rev.
DIR. Dodge, Presbyterian, and Rev. Mr..
Sharp, Southern Methodist. Sister Mary
Ann is kept busy, and all the sisters of st.
Joseph are ever ready to nurse the sick and
comfort the dying.
MRS. CROWLEY DEAD.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Aug 80, 2 A. NJ
Mrs. d. j. Crowley wife of Manager d. j.
Crowley, of the Western Union Office in
this city, has just died of yellow fever.