Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-26
MORE HOPEFUL REPORTs.

Only -Four Deaths and the Fever is
miIder in Form-Frost I'm Several
PIaces-PeopIe Growing Confident.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 25.-The situa-
ton to- night is practically unchanged, except
that hopeful feeling that the worst of the
epidemic is over continued. While new cases
are developing very rapidly the type of the
disease appears to be milder even than be-
fore our equinoctial storms, and while many
people are very sick the death rate continues
very low. The official bulletin for the "a
hours ending at 6 p. m. reports 143 new cases
of which So are among the colored people.
Only four deaths are redorted viz: L. Burah,
q prominent citizen and member of the city
board of public works; Mrs. Hall, colored;
Otto +. Ripp, and Miss Florence w. Stowe.
Total eases, 2, 1876; total deaths, 221.
Camp Mitchell is being prepared slowly,
owing to bad weather and the trouble in pro-
curing reliable labor. Some thirty-fve
houses are ready for occupancy, but there
will hardly be accommodations for any great
number of refugees in time to assist to any
considerable extent in the effort to depopu-
late the city. All plans for depopulation
thus far have failed, owing to the lack of
practical methods for putting them into exc
cution. Mr.. Grace, gardener at the Sub
Tropical died last night OF malarial fever.
He had yellow fever at the beginning of the
epidemic and recovered, but in his weakened
condition fell a victim to malarial fever. A
| special from McCenny reports eight new
cases of yellow fever and one death-thst of
| Jonathan Law. Ample supplies for the
present were yesterday sent to McClenny by
| the sanitary association.
FROST AT MONTGOMERY.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 25.-Telegrams
| to the Advertiser state that there was frost
last night in many parts of the State and
within twenty miles of this city. The tenn
| perature here was o..
PEOPLE MORE HOPEFUL.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 25.-Railroad
traffic is being resumed, the quarantine reg
ulation here and at other points south of here
having to-day been so modified as to permit
trains to pass through from Cincinnati to
| New Orleans by way of Chattanooga, Birm-
| ingham and Meridian. Trains from Mem
ph1s to Chattanooga ore also permitted to
pass Trains of all the other various sys-
TENS centering here are running as usual.
kilograms to the Times from numerous
points in the South indicate that much
more hopeful feeling is prevailing and the
panic subsiding. There was light frost in
the mountains adjacent to Chattanooga this
morning.
| TRAINS NOT YET RUNNING.
| WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. 25.-The post
office department this afternoon received 6
telegram from postal officials at Atlanta sta
ting that no trains are running between
Memphis and New Orleans except accom-.
| modations: none between New Orleans and
Wilson, Ia, nor between Greenwood and
Jackson, Jackson and Natchez, Merediar
and Shreveport, Meridian and New Orleans
Cairo and Mobile, Aberdeen and Durant
: Selma and Meridian, Chattanooga and Me-
| redian, except q short train between Biz
minghem and Tuscaloosa.
Another telegram states: No new cases
| of yellow fever or deaths have occurred a.
Jackson to-day, but this fact does not seen
| to abate the excitement in the least
There are no trains running be
tween Selma and Meridian and Montgomer,
and Akron. A fumigating station has beer
, established at Decatur. No station can ~
vet be placed at Jackson as the neighborini
towns threaten If the mails are taken on o
near jackson they win tear up the track an'
= burn the bridges. Arrangement have beel
t soon as the excitement subsidies. There ar
. slight evidences of reaction. Business me-
|, | begin to feel the pressure and are commend
: ing to resist the mob element.
LITTLE CHANGE AT LOUISVILLE.
. LoULvnLE, KY, Sept. 25.-The situatio
: of yellow fever refugees to-day shows llttl
8 change. BENJAMIN Grant. from Decatur, ha
q mild form of the disease and is being care
! for al the eruptive hospital Many are lea,
4 | ing for northern points as fast as their bag
q gage is fumigsted and turned over to then
: A fund Is being raised for those in need N
aonaerk will be aiyon for kbeif henadk