The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-27
MODIFYING THE QUARANTINE.

| MEMPHIS, Tenn, September PA meet
ing of the joint committee of the Cotton
and Merchants exchanges and city au-
thorities was held to-day. The stringent
quarantine regulations which have been
enforced since Saturday were amended by
the adoption of the following:
Resolved, That passes be issued upon
certificates of the president of the taxing
district, or president of the board of
health, to persons to come in and go out
of the city, who are in the city or its vi
cinity, and who will not go to any infected
district; that this authority will also cover
all cases of people desiring to bring in
produce or carry out supplies in wagons
or vehicles.
Resolved, That any person or persons
who are at present at quarantine stations
shall be permitted to come to the city,
upon permits issued by the taxing district
authorities, when satisfa otory evidence is
shown that they have not been in any in
fected districts.
The local military companies reported
for duty to-day, and later will be assigned
to duty as pickets on dirt roads.
NEWS FROM JACKSON AND DECATUR.
A special from jackson, Miss, to the
Evening Scimitar says: No new cases
have been officially reported since last
night, ana no deaths have occurred. Ru-
NOR has it that there are two new cases,
but it is unofficial and the rumors are
very wild. There is great excitement
still prevailing, and the country around
Jackson is filled with the refugees who are
camped out in the woods.
The latest received from Decatur, Ala +,
is to the effect that no new cases have de-
veloped since yesterday, nor any deaths
occurred.
SITUATION AT JACKSONVILLE.
JACKSONVILLE, September "a. - The
morning was cool and cloudy and rain
had begun to fell, making damp, disa
greeabie day. The situation is practically
unchanged. Reports up to noon show
forty nine new cases, more than two-thirds
of which are cOlored people. Five deaths
are reported for tie past eighteen hours
Antonio Chingi, Italian; Charles
Rollins child, EDDY Cummings, Lizzie
Fox, James Thomas. The general stua-
tion indicates little prospects of improve
ment Business is cut off by local
quarantine throughout the state. More
than half the stores are now closed, and
others are doing but little business. Only
one regular train arrives and departs each
day on the railroads, except those running
to the beach. The boat lines on the
river from this point have all stopped.
DOCTORS OPINION.
CHICAGO ILL.,, September 24.-Dr. j q. H
Rauch, of this city, member of the state
board of health, arrived from Washington
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ference of the state boards of health at
Nashville. He says the shotgun system of
quarantine prevails most extensively in
Tennessee, and it's cruelty and bsrbarity
is illustrated in the killing of man who
left the train at Durant, Ky. DR.. Rauch
approves the course of the authorities at
Louisville, KY, in inviting refugees from
the south.
Relative to the aspect of affairs in the
southern states, the doctor said: "From
personal observation during the confer
ence at Nashville, and from official re
ports received, 1 see no reason to
change the opinion expressed by me a
week ago: that there is particularly
no danger of yellow fever in Tennessee,
Though the development at Decatur,
Ala, and jackson, Miss, increase the pos
sibilities of it. So far, only one death has
occurred in Tennessee at Wild Woods, and
that was of refugee from Decatur. This
was a week ago and so far no other cases
have occurred in that locality. The
death of refugee at Louisville is the only
one that has occurred in Kentucky. If it
had not been for Decatur, the outbreak,
the true nature of which was for some
time doubted, the conference az Nashville
would have agreed upon the southern
boundary of Tennessee as the limit north
of which there was no danger. But, owing
to the panic existing in Chattanooga and
Memphis, the northern boundary line
of the state was adopted. The
only real danger of the
spread of yellow fever is now in the south.
Portions of South Carolina, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas are threat
ened. The danger line 10 daily movin e
south, and the most powerful ally in pre-
venting the spread of the disease is the
constantly lowering temperature. The
situation is not nearly so alarming as 10
was in the months of July and August, in
1878 and '79. The chief source of con-
Germ is that the shotgun quarantine pre-
walls, and in many instances the regular
health authorities are over-ridden by the
mob. Unfortunately this condition of
things may continue for some days, even
if no new outbreaks of fever occur.
THE PEOPLE PANIC STRICKEN.
WASHINGTON, September 24.-The post
Office department has received several
kilograms to-day from the yellow fever
districts which indicate that the running
of trains on nearly all the railroads in
Alabama and Mississippi have been
abandoned, and that the whole section is
panic stricken. One of them says the
only way of reaching New Orleans with
any degree of certainty is by way of
Montgomery, and even this route is
threatened The people along the Vicks-
burg and Shreveport road seem to be one
vast mob.
MEMPHIS HEALTHY.
J MEMPHIS, September 24.-The following
has been furnished the Associated Press
and is official:
"The undersigned, comprising the adj