The age-herald., 1897-09-15

i3lfmlnS nam and the1f connexions.
 -. Stats QuararJ,ine Ssrv1ce, Montgomery, Ala,
 Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 13, 1897.
 Dear Sir:-In accordance with the proclamation of the governor of the state of Alabama, quarantine regula- tions are now in force. The following places are considered infected with ySl- low fever: All points between Scranton, Miss, and New Orleans, La, including both Scranton and New Orleans, and Edwards, Miss, and any other infected places. Pleasls issue and enforce the following instructions until further ad- vised:
 Do not receive from any of the above places for any point in Alabama any package, freight, msrchandise, things or express, except on through bills of lad ing bound for poirss beyond the state limits, ito be transported in unbroken cars entirely through the state on through trains.
 Drugs and hardware packed in orig ein- al clean packages, without stray or ether packing, are excepted. Hardware is to mean goods entirely made of metal.
 Do mot receive any mail from any of the above points, for any points In the state of Alabama, unless it has been fum1gated. Do not receive any pasSen- ger cars or sleeping cars or conductors or crews, express messengers nor mail messengers from any of the infected points into the state of Aisrcema until they have been absent from such infect ed point for ten days. Do not receive any passengers who have not bsen ab- sent from the infected points for ten days, except on through tickets on through trains for continuous run, stopping only for fuel and water bound for points beyond the state limits
 Kindly instruct all conductors and train men to render all possible assist ance to quarantine officers toward en- forcing these rules.
 Kindly accept thanks for the prompt assistance already rendered the state.
 Should any quarantine officer conduct himself unbeeoming an officer and gem tleman, or in any manner offensive to the railrcad company, while on your trains or around your depots advise me promptly and he will be discharged im- mediately and replaced by another off, Ger.
 Please advise your connecting lines inn mediately of these rules.
 Very respectfully,
 M. H. AMERINE,
 Chief Executive Quarantine Officer.
 Mobile is included in the above. The local quarantine was put into effect yes- terday afternoon at 1 o'clock by Mayor Evans after a consultation with the health officers. The quarantine officers working for the slate have also received orders to put passengers from Mobile across the state fine, if they should sue ceed in boarding the trains. Stringent measures are being taken in Mobile to keep pallties from purchasing tickets to any paIlc of the state.
 It was rumored on the streets yestcr- day afternoon i.flat a case of yellow fe- yer had deyelopded i'm this city. This rumor is absolutely without any founda- ton and Is denied empala tically by all officials in authority who are in a posi- ton to know, including the mayor, The quarantine officers, the chief of police and others. l. Is presumed that this re- port gained origin from slight indispo- sitions that few Birmingham people who were at Ocean Springs this sum mer have experienced since they re- turned. These people are known, with orJ single exception, ard the gravest in6lsposition experienced by any of them is no.hrg more than a little mal- arial or slight bilious attacks, and they are ready to furnish certificates of the.r health from their physicians at any tlme the authcrites shall 50 request.
 Officer Wtggins, chief of lthe local quar- antine force, said yesterday that the railroadi5 ard officials and the people generally were cooperating with the force in the most satisfactory manner. State Quarantine Officer Amerne has eighteen man a. work. He says at is the best and most intelligent quarantine force that the state has ever had and that it would be an impossibility for a refugee from tils fever-infec.ed district to enter the city.
 Chief of Police T. c. Mcdonald said yesterday afternoon that he had given strict instructions to the police force to cooperate with the quarantine men. He said fup!her that if the refugs e succeeded in escaping the quarantine officers by faisshocd or by clever de- vice he would promptly arrest such per- sons and prosecute them to the full ex- tent of the law, for perjury on the one hand and fer violating quarantine reg ulations on the other.
 The postoffice is not receiving mail from New Orleans at present The local authorities at the postoffice have re- ceived notice that the mail will be held Up from New Orleans for a day or two, and they are expecting a similar order in regard to Mobile. The Immigration of the mail from New Orleans is attended to in New Orleans.
 The fumigat.on of the mail here which went to Columbus. Ga, during the smallpox quarantine by that city against Birmingham has been abandoned sincs the quarantine was raised against this city by the Columbus authorities. The apparatus consisted of a box and a wire screen division. The mail for Columbus was put on the wire screen, perforated, and fumes generated underneath with sulphur and alcohol.