Year: 1878

able In coin of unvarying value. Patience
and courage for but little while longer he
believed would bring about the latter, the
most important of all, and no attempt to
reach a healthy condition of business by any
other means could afford permanent relief,
or end otherwise than in failure and more
widespread and complete disaster and ruin.
INCoNvENIENCEs OF QUARANTINE.
Hoo Passengers from the Stricken Dis


tricts of the South are Treated by the


Quarantine officers.


Philadelphia Times.


The latest man from the South is a gen.
tleman connected with well-known shoe
house on Market street, this city. He went
there two months ago to sell goods in mid
die Tennessee and Alabama, where he had
an experience on quarantined railroads,
which he believes he has cause to remember.
He did not go through any of the yellow
fever places, his experience being confined
to the people who were afraid of it, and who
are making railroad passengers suffer all
sorts of inconvenience on this account. Once
q man gets on a train, he says, there is no
telling where he will leave it. Quarantine
officers board the cars on some railroads at
every station to find if there are any passen-
gers from New Orleans, Memphis, Grenada
or otLer points where the disease is raging.
If any are found they are hustled off in short
order and commanded to steer clear of the
towns. In his experience passengers were
not allowed to get off the cars in many in
stances, and were carried sometimes nearly
hundred miles beyond their destination.


"For awhile refugees from New Orleans
could make direct connections for the North
by means of through train or the Ala
bama q Chattanooga railroad. But that
train has been withdrawn between Meriden
and Tuscaloosa. This leaves them right in
the midst of the strictly quarantined Sec
ton, of which Meriden is the center, on the
line of tie Mobile & Ohio railroad north and
south, and the Alabama Central road west.
1t was along the former road and past Meri-
den that we were rushed, as before stated,
without supper or breakfast. As it is now,
after refugees get up to this point or to Jack
son. they have difficulties in getting out
again, and, I understand, they are not al
lowed to go into the towns until they have
spent about seven days in quarantine in
some hut or whatever shelter they can find
outside.


81 heard of man from Vicksburg travel
ing on the Alabama Central who got off at
Demopolis. A quarantine officer finding
where he was from ordered him to get on the
train again, stating that he had instructions
to shoot any man from yellow fever districts
who disobeyed.


"On the train with myself on the Mobile
u Ohio to Louisville was gentleman from
Boston, who owned house in Memphis and
spent part of the season there. He had got
oh r Ia Arl,o bol
been two weeks trying to get out of the
place to go to Boston. He succeeded only
by taking circuitous land route and finally
slipping past the quarantine.


"Another passenger on this train told me
it verified by others, and then had to be-
lieve it. He stated that about week
before a train, on which were ten or
twelve persons from Memphis, had
been stopped by the quarantine officers of
Little Rock about four miles out of town
and the whole party put off in swampy
place. with no shelter but that of an old hut.
In this party was child four months old.
They remained there four days without any
thing to eat. When they appeared at the
houses in the neighborhood people would
point their guns at them and order them to
keep away. My first informant told me
that on the fourth day he induced quaran-
tine officer to go out with him on an engine
to carry food to the party. None of them
had yellow fever. The quarantine officer,
however, told them they must remoin there
seven days longer before they would be al
lowed to come into town.


"Another case l was told Of was also cor
roborated by others. When the fever first
appeared in Memphis young laay from
Little Rock, who had been visiting there,
returned to her fathers, at Little Rock. In
few days it was found out she came from
Memphis and the authorities made her leave
the town.


Refugees have focked to the mountain
districts of Northern Alabama and Middle
Tennessee In large numbers. At Beersheba
Springs, in Tennessee, where passed Sun
day, found about 600 from New Orleans,
Memphis and other points. At Blunt
Springs, in Alabama, there were between 400
and 5OO.''


"Was there much suffering from scarcity
of provisions in the towns you passed
through"


Gin Jackson understood they had been
without butter for four days. In Nashville
the market has dwindled down greatly. The
country people are afraid to come into the
towns through which there is any traffic
from the yellow fever sections, and that is
one of the reasons the railroads are in some
places 80 strictly quarantined.'