The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-09-29
PEATH'S HARVEST.
RECORD AT JACKSONVILLE, DE-
CATUR AND JACKSON, MISS.
FINANCIAL AID FLOWING N-MANY DOC
TORS sICK--INCoMPETENT NURsEs-NEW
ELECTRIC CURE-NoTEs.

ELECIKlC CORE-NOIESs
More than $3.50. 600 have already been
received at Jacksonville, Fla, through
the generosity of the country at large.
The drain upon this amount is, however,
enormous Over 1000 people are be-
ing fed daily, and the expense of carry
ing on most of the machinery of the sani-
tary association necessitates the expendi-
ture of from $50, 900 to $50, 900 weekly
If the epidemic continues six weeks longer
fully 5000, 900 more will be needed to
tide the city over the epidemic. The
!. new cases on Sunday footed up 1873, and
deaths TO- Early in the epidemic the
question of employment of unacclimated
nurses was brought up, the opinion pre-
vailing among the authorities that they
would be likely to take the fever and be-
come burden rather than help to the
community. Still, they were allowed to
enter Jacksonville, and now many of
them are already down with the disease
and requiring the attention of nurses in
stead OF attending the sick themselves.
President Mitchell for few days, was
assigned to the care of one of the wards
at the Sandhills hospital, and two days
after was taken down with yellow fever,
doubtless contracted before he entered
the hospital. DR.. F. J. Potts was taken
i'll with fever and sent to the Sandhills
hospital. Over $50 nurses are under
the employ Of the bureau. Nearly all
local colored nurses, upon receiving a
weeks pay on Saturday did not re-
port on Sunday for duty, and
doubtless will not till their money
is all gone. It is said that in some
instances they even left their patients
Capt. Zach HaddocK is local character
of repute, a one-armed Confederate vet
eran and thorough Florida cracker
Popular opinion has regarded Capt Zach
as fever proof. Zach thought SO himself
until few days ago when an aching
head, pains in the back, high tempera-
ture and burning cuticle sent him to
bed. The fever was on him sure enough,
and the stalwart old political cracker
felt that his time had come Zach wilted
Immediately. He grew rapidly worse
through the night and at three a. m. he
: had no hope of life. Calling his family
about him, Capt. Zach said in the most
solemn tones possible: "See, here, all
of you. Your daddy's going fast. rll
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Willie, you take good care of Pinky and
Kate, and all of you mind your mother
Old Zach will be dead in an hour. Bring
me my cowhlde boots. This old cracker
wants to die dead game in 'em right in
this yere bed" AS prophet Zach was
dead failure, except in election matters.
BY daylight he was up and dressed, and
he will be alive to cast his vote in the
next election.
Printer J. J. Dawson, who was COM
PEELED to leave off work on account of
high fever, pains in his head, back and
limbs, was removed to his room and
treated by Mr.. Webb with DR.. Sanche's
Decentralization cure. The treatment was
applied and the patient then left alone
and asleep. When seen the next day, he
was quite free from fever, though rather
weak, his pulse being about eighty. He
had slept soundly all night and was able
to get up and open the door TO admit Mr.
Webb. He went down town during the
afternoon and wanted to work at night,
but was advised not to do So The
question of efficiency of the contrivance
is an open one. The application of it
can do no harm, but its value in gen
eral is yet to be demonstrated.
The news from Decatur, Ala, is more
encouraging. Only two new cases were
reported on Sunday and no deaths, though
several of the sick are expected to die.
One of the new cases is Dr.. w. C. Buck
ley, one of the leading physicians of the
town. The few people left in the town
have somewhat recovered from their first
alarm, and have organized relief COM
mittee and are doing all in their power
for the sick. A correspondent at Deca-
tur saws that the fever there is malg-
nant type Of typhoid maIarial fever, and
is even more fatal than yellow fever. He
Ssay that while grading a new street re-
thr-an old cemetery was crossed and
that all kinds of decaying vegetable and
other matter was left exposed in the sun
for several days. The street was then
covered with gravel from the bottom of
the Tennessee, which was covered by
decayed matter. He says for days the
stencil along that street was almost I'M
bearable. He thinks this caused the
fever.
A line of pickets has been formed
around the city of Birmingham, Ala, and
refugees will be kept out. Five hundred
citizens have volunteered to assist the
authorities in guarding the city. Owing
10 the ironclad quarantine regulations Of
some Of the smaller towns, all trains on
the Alabama Great Southern division Of