The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
GLOOMY TIMES.


 catur, Ala. Almost Depopulated-Ouar
 antine Precautions.
 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 23-A special dispatch from Jacksonville to the Times Democrat says: There is much alarm all over town. Every hour the name of some well-known person is added to the list of dead or sick Among those on to- days list of dead are Dr. F. J. Gould and c. H. W. Elliott. A large number of colored citizens are now on the sick list. Mayor c. F.. Row will endeavor to per- suade the colored people to remove to Camp Mitchell. The Marine Hospital service will be put in charge of St. Luke's and Sand Hill. Dr. Porter found it nec- essary to send the following dispatch last night to Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross Association at Washing ton: "You will confer favor on me by withdrawing Southmayd. He is hind- rance to me in my official capacity in command of the Government nurses" This conclusion was reached after a mis- understanding in the first place between Colonel Southmayd and the authorities on account of the action of the board of health Tn regard to incompetent or im- moral nurses. This action Southmayd resented so consistently that Dr. Porter felt the annoyance more than he could bear.
 At meeting of the sanitary associa- tion yesterday the following resolutions were adopted:
 Rsoirzd. That Congress be urged 10 at once authorize and require the establishment of a scientific bureau in this city for the purpose of conducting investigation relative to the pro- duction and progress Of yellow fever in Florida during the years fSS1 and 1SSS. Sanitary meth ods and other precautions agant the spread of the disease at different times and in different localities in the city and all other conditions relating to the epidemic will likely be of SC tife and practical statistical value in future In determining the methods Of quarantine, sanitation, disiHfeetion and treatment or yell low fever
 Rssolgsd. That our Senators and Representa- lives in Congress are requested to bring this matter before the House and urge its immedI- ate consideration.
 It is desirable that the investigation shall take wider range than any other ever undertaken ln connection with yell low fever in this country, and local and other conditions connected herewith. Surprise is general here that such thorough investigation has not been un- dertaken before this.
 Excitement at Montgomery. Ala.
 MONTGOMERY. Ala. Sept. 23.-A special to the Dispatch from Greenville, Ala, and many private telegrams, say that there ts no yellow fever there. The Greenville Board of Health came to the conclusion, after examining the reported case from Pensacola, that there is no ground for calling it yellow fever. The man is doing well.
 The mayor of Selma telesraphs the mayor of Montgomery that the telegraph operator at Selma learned from Meridian, Miss, of several suspicious cases and great excitement there. Surgeon Gener- al Hamilton wires to the mayors here ln reply to Saturdays telegram:
 Can not interfere with Alabama boards of health, but will communicate with Dr. Cochran.
 Reliable information has been received here, that Gainesville, Fla, refugee, Mrs. Culverhouse. arrived at Opeika, Ala, yesterday. quite sick.
 The Bismarck Hotel is still open and feeding all that apply, whether they have money to pay or not. Two restaurants here are doing the same. The Western Union manager, s. D. Armstrong, has never left his post except for sleep. Jos. T. Dixon, city editor of the Free Lance, is still here. Only two physicians have left. Both of them left on account of sickness. The city is well provided with both physicians and nurses, and all who left the city have left their places in order. Statements to the contrary Sat urday night are utterly false, and do our city great injustice.
 \ Gloomy Day.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. PA special to the American, from Decatur, Ala, says: "To-day has been the gloomiest Sunday in Decatur's history, the sun even refusing its cheerful light to the small crowds on the platform watching the trains fly by them. There are hardly more than hundred and fifty people in the town. Two-thirds of these are col ored. The special train with about fifty refugees left about midnight Saturday night. It is scarcely probable that any more will be permitted to leave. There were but two cases and no death yester- day-cheerng news, were It not that so little remains for the scourge to fasten itself on. One of yesterdays cases was Dr. W. c. Buckley, one of the best physi- cians in Decatur. Total cases to date, seventeen; total deaths, four as follows: A. D. Spencer, Dr. Bowman, ". l.. Prince and 0. Kibbey. The cases now under treatment are Fred Falkenburg MT. Weakley and son, Mrs. Jones, son and daughter w. R. Francis, Jos. Graham, Dr. Buckley and three others, names un- known"
 Quarantine Again New Orleans.
 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 24 = At a meeting of the State Board of Health yesterday the agent of the Texas & Pa- cife railroad said he had received tele- gram from Shreveport that the board of health there refused to quarantine against New Orleans but that yielding to the de- mands of the people and the city coun- cil, they consented to place an embargo on all points below Alexandria which has the same effect President Wilkin- son of the Board of Health said that New Orleans was free from even 0 suspicious
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