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THE CHRISTIAN OITIZEN: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,8, 1888. General News. THE YELLOW FEVER. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. Neal Mitchell issues the following official bulletin for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 p.

10 New 188 Previous report. 02 Previous Total to Total to dat ...1,878 The pestilence continues to spread through the south. It has broken out at several points where the refugees had found shelter, and this has led to the adoption of a shotgun quarantine. The milita has been called out to aid the police of Memphis in barring everybody out of the panic stricken the city. The following despatches indicate something of the terrible state of affairs throughout the south.

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 24. -This morning was cool and cloudy, and rain has begun to fall, making a damp, disagreeable day. The situation is practically unchanged. Reports up to noon show forty-nine cases, more than two-thirds of which are colored people.

Five, deaths are reported for the past eighteen hours: Antonio Chinga, an Italian, Charles Hollins, a child, Eddy Cumming, Lizzie Fox and James Thomas. The general situation indicates little prospect of improvement. 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 various railroads, except those running to the beach.

The railroad business is very small. The boat lines on the river from this point have all stopped. CINCINNATI, Sept. Reports having been received that the statement had been circulated that Cincinnati had quarantined against refugees from the south, there was a movement among members of the Chamber of Commerce to call a meeting and make an official denial, but the meeting was not called. It is the general opinion that no possible harm could arise from receiving even cases of yellow fever, as the season is so far advanced that frost may be expected now at any time.

'There has been no declaration of quarantine, and so far as now known none is contemplated. A special from Jackson, to the Weening Scinetar says: No new cases have been officially reported since last night and no deaths have occurred. Rumor has it that there are two new cases, but it is unofficial and rumors are very wild. There i is great excitement still prevailing, and the country around Jackson is filled with refugees who are camped out in the woods. WASHIGTON, Sept.

reseived at the postoffice department today from various points in the south, indicate that nearly all the railroad trains in Mississippi and Alabama have been stopped by yellow fever invasion. A postal official at Atlanta telegraphs that trains ruaning between Chattanooga and Meriden, Meriden and New Orleans, Meriden and Shreveport, Greenwood and Jackson, Durant and Tehula, Atlanta and Artesia, west of Columbus, are not permitted by the people to run, and the probability is that communication between Cairo and Mobile, Memphis and New Orleans will be discontinued. The only certain route now open to New Orleans is by the way of Montgomery, and even this is constantly threatened. The people along the Vicksburg Shreveport railroad, adds the postal employe, seem to be one vast mob. From Cairo, the postmaster telegraphs that all trains on the Cairo Mobile road have been abandoned, as they will be on the Cairo New Orleans line to-day.

The country below is in the hands of a howling mob and quarantine is everywhere. The bill introduced by Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, to establish camps for yellow fever refugees, recites that many citizens are flying from cities and districts infected or threatened with yellow fever, and are being quarantined. The bill authorizes the President to establish camps of refuge in such localities as may be designated, and provides that tents, beds, camp equipage, provisions, medieal attandance, medical stores, nurses, be supplied; that all camp equipage infected by yellow fever be destroyed by fire after the disappearance of the epidemic, and appropriates $500,000 to carry out the provisions of the act. INCIDENTS OF THE QUARANTINE. At many of the stations the southbound trains--those coming from St.

Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and even further north and -are not permitted to stop. The fears of the people are so aroused that a barrel of celery packed in ice, sent from Michigan City by express, was not allowed to be put off at Woodstock, a small station north of Memphis, on the Chesapeake Ohio and Soutowestern Railroads. This incident will serve to show the panicky situation of affairs in the vicinity. Several packages sent by express from Memphis to La Grange, yesterday, were burned by the alleged qurantine officers of that town. Hundreds of other incidents could be related of a similar nature, where intelligent people are carried away with fear that apparently they have lost their reasoning powers and have only one desire now, and that is to establish non-intercourse with the world.

Last night three ladies and a gentle- man, who were put off at the quarantine station on the Memphis Charleston Railroad, ten miles out from the city, Its came to Memphis at 10 o'clock, having been driven into the city by a negro who had a wagon. It was raining when the ladies were put off the train, and as they could not secure any shelter at the quarantine station' they determined to to risk the chance of getting into the city, it and succeeded. President Hadden, of the Taxing District, to day had a circular printed and scattered about which reads as follows: Volunteers wanted -In view of the fact that the Governor of the State has not responded to our telegrams requesting the services of our militia companies for quarantine duty, we ask for fiity men as volunteers to act on picket duty on dirt roads and river front until the services of the militia can be secured. The City of Providence, from Natchez, en route to St. Louis, arrived tonight with about 150 passengers from Natchez, Vicksburg, Greenville, and other river towns.

They intended getting off here, but were prevented by a squad of police, who were acting under quarantine orders, and all were carried up the river to Cairo and other points. None of her passengers disembarked here. Mr. Tom Carter, an employe of a commission firm, attempted to come into the city to-day. He came from St.

Louis, but had been in Jackson, having left there last Wednesday. The police arrested him and kept him closely guarded all the afternoon, and shipped him back to St. Louis tonight. The health of Memphis remains remarkably good. THE REFUGEES AT LOUISVILLE.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. P. R. Taylor, formerly of Louisville, who has been attending patients with the disease in Decatur, was one of a train-load of fifty who arrived from Decatur tonight. He has what may be symptoms of the fever, and was removed to the eruptive hospital, as was also B.

Grant. No other case has developed here. The refugees that arrived came through on a closed train and were not allowed to stop in Nashville or at other points in Tennessee. A number who were interviewed tonight confirm the report sent out last night to the effect that there is a scarcity of provisions and medicines because the stores are closed. They also state that nurses are few and overworked.

Trains from the south enter the city without interruption. Baggage is retained, and examined, and disinfected. Though during the last week several hundred refugees have come to Louisville, only one death has occured among them, and that Sept. 19. A physician from Decatur, prostrated from overwork, was yesterday the sole oocupant of the hospital set apart for yellow-fever patients, and there he will receive careful attention.

These are the only two cases of sickness among the refugees. While no quarantine is established every reasonable precaution is taken, and travelers whose condition excites suspicion will be isolated and carefully treated. The weather is cool, pleasant, and the health of the city is perfect. No apprehension exists and no cause for apprehension can be found. A GLOOMY SUNDAY AT DECATUR.

DECATUR, Sept. has been the gloomiest Sunday in Decatur's history, the Sun even refusing its. cheerful light to the small crowds at the street corners, or on the platform watching the trains fly by them. There are hardly more than 150 people in the town, and two-thirds of them are colored. The special trains with about fifty refugees left about midnight last night.

It is scarcely probable that any more will be permitted to leave. There were but two cases and no deaths today--cheering news, were it not that so little remains for the scourge to fasten itself on. One of to-day's cases is Dr. W. C.

Buckley one of the best physicians in Decatur. The total cases are 17: total deaths 4, as follows: A. D. Spencer, Dr. Bowman, W.

L. Prince, and O. S. Kibbey. The cases now under treatment are: Fred burg, Mr.

Weakly and son, Mrs. Jones and son, and daughter, W. R. Francis, Joseph Graham, Dr. Buckley, and three others, names unknown.

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. NO TRAINS WILL STOP AT MERIDIAN MERIDIAN Sept. a meetof the Board of Health today at 10 o'clock it was ordered that no persons be permitted te get off any trains in this city, and that after 12 o'clock tomorrow no trains will be permitted to stop in this city, but will be compelled to run through, with locked doors, at the speed of not less than twenty miles an hour. A HOPEFUL FEELING.

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. This is one of the brightest and most pleasant days of the season and is cooler and the hopeful feeling of the people continues. The belief is becoming general that the epidemic will soon run its course and be numbered among the things that were. A cordon has been thrown around the city to prevent the ingress of paupers, and the bridges over Trout creek on the Fernandina road, are closely guarded. A special to the Star from Gainsville, at 11:30 this morning, says: No new cases or symptoms of any.

Convalescents are all doing well and will be moved out of the hospital. The last taken sick is Fritz Miller, who is not expected to live. EMPEROR FREDERIOK'S DIARY. Its Publication Oreates a Sensation in Berlin. BERLIN, Sept.

-The publication of the late Emperor Frederick's dairy has caused a sensation in Berlin. The North German Gazette ay makes no reference to the matter. The National Gazette says it regrets the indiscretion shown in publishing the diary. The diary commences with the date July 11, 1870, On the 29th of the same month, Frederick wrote: "My principal thought is how to carry out a liberal organization in Germany after peace has been secured." The dairy details conversations, with his father, Bismarck and Roggenbach on the subject and he wrote that they were slowly coming around to his views. On October 9 Bismarck confessed that he had not thought the desire for an imperial crown was so strong among the German people and that he was mistaken in 1866 in treating the question with such indifference, Under date of October 18, Freder' ek writes: "This birthday reminds me of th a seriousness of the task I shall somed ay have to solve in German politics.

hope I shall not live to see any more Evidently there are many who 01 Jok forward with confidence. I also a' certain of the fulfillment of the task, because I know that I will prove myself worthy of this confidence." The succeeding pages reveal the slowness of the negotiations. obstinately refusing to consent, The Grand Duke of Baden was one of the warmest supporters. Even Bismarck seemed discouraged at the attitude of the Southern States. An entry under date of November 14 details a conversation wherein Frederick urged the forcing of the South Germans.

He said to Bismark, "Let us act firmly and imperiously. You will see that I was right in saying you were not sufficiently aware of your power." Bismarck protested that it would drive the Southerners into the arms of Austria, and remarked that only Frederick entertained the idea of acting with a majority of the States against Bavaria. He thought it would be better to let the suggestion eminate from the Reichstag. A further somewhat heated conversation between' Frederick and Bismarck appears to have borne fruit. Under date of November 21 Frederick writes that Bismarck has been induced to take up the subject seriously.

Bismarck intimated to the German sovereigns that unless they offered the imperial dignity to the King the Reichstag would. This menance had its effect. On March 7, Frederick writes: "Even the greatest imprudence will not undo that which has been gained. Such experiences as I have had in the last decade cannot be in vain. I shall have a strong hold over the united nation, because I shall be the first sovreign who, without reserve, adheres to constitutional institutions." The diary reveals that Emperor William said: "My son has his whole heart in the new state of affairs, while I donot care about the change." It throws interesting side lights on the affairs of the period.

Frederick expresses the pride he felt in the reproach of being too humane in opposing the bombardment of Paris. Every page shows the writers admiration and veneration for Count von Moltke. All Germany Stirred Over the Revelations of the Dead Emperor. BERLIN, Sept. The publication of the Emperor Frederick's diary is everywhere recognized as a matter of the greatest national importance.

Official and political circles, however, that are intimately versed in the innermost history of the construction of the German Empire have been astonished by the publication, whilst the whole German people are stirred to their very depths by revelations which show the real greatness of the deceased Emperor Frederick, his influence in creating the Empire and his noble aims for its future. Extracts of the diary were communicated to the "Deutsche Rundschau" through the Baden statesman, Baron von Roggenbach, who was long an intimate friend of the late Emperor and was much with him during his illness at San Remo. Baron von Roggenbach, it seems, had the assent of the Empress Victoria to the publication of the extracts, but neither Prince Bismarck nor the present Emperor William was consulted. It is, therefore, thought probable that the publication will have some startling results affecting the personages concerned in the revelations. ELEMENTS OF UNSER FRIT'S CHARACTER.

The most touching feature of the diary is the evidence of the unfailing kindliness of Crown Prince Frederick's disposition and his diffidence of chracter. On July 24, 1870, the eve of the French campaign, he writes: At the baptism of my last born the King was too much affected to hold the child. Which of us will come back? I am appointed to act on the flanks of the principal army. I shall scarcely be able to carry out the great enterprises. When victory was declared on the side of the Germans, he comforts a French colonel, a prisoner, who had said, "We have lost everything," by replying: You are wrong in saying that you have lost everything; having fought like brave soldiers, you have not lost your hor sor.

AN INTERVIEW WITH NAPOLEC The Crown Prince then desor', abed the interview as related to him by the King. Napoleon assured the King hat he had only given in to public opi aion when he resolved upon war. He s' cowed marvellous ignorance of the Forman armies. He thought the force afore Sedan was the Red Prince's arm' He asked where Prince Frederick Charles was. The King answered, seven army corps before Metz." opoleon drew back with every sign of pa' inful surprise.

His face contracted itse Af painfully. For the first time he knew that he had not had the whole of the German army opposed to him. The recital continues: After a half-hour's interview the King and Er aperor came out. The latter, perceivir me, held out one hand, while with the other he wiped away the tears wl tch were running down his cheeks. "The latest entry before the return to Germany displays the nobleness of the man: March 8.

Calm. When I see my endeavors to help the oppressed acknowledged by Germany and her neighbor, and that the people are gaining confi dence in my future I feel quite happy. Moral earnestness and political convictions can only be the result of inward maturity, of inward struggles, which must be continued daily and for which one's self is responsible. PRAIRIE FIRES IN DAKOTA. Farmers will Suffer Considerable Loss From the Flames.

WASHBURN, Sept. Ares are raging all over this section and out along the Little Missouri. The fire burned over the entire southern portion of Campbell county, and the wind being in the southeast all day brought the flames into the vicinity of La Grace, the county seat, A rumor reached here that a Norwegian was burned to death. Farmer Strauss attempted to burn fire break around his farm last the flames got beyond his control, and before they were checked consumed acres of oats and a large amount of other grain stacked up, belonging to his neighbor, a farmer named Jos. Deitrich.

The losses in this neighborhood will be large. Frost destroyed much of the grain and the rest is being burned up, leaving an alarming prospect for the farmer for the winter. MANDON, Sept. 22, -Ranges on Cannon Ball River are being swept by prairie fires. There are no reports of serious loss to settlers except of grass.

The ground is very dry. A good rain is needed. TOPEKA'S SUGAR PRODUOT. The Finest and Best Appointed Sorghum Sugar Works Ever Built. E.

B. Cowgill, state sugar inspector, inspected seventy-nine barrels of sugar at the Topeka sorghum sugar works yesterday. It was the first product of the works. The test showed that the most of it was 97 per cent pure, while one lot reached 98. The test which the state has laid down is that all sugar must score 90 per cent pure.

The report of the inspector is not oniy encouraging to the stockholders of the institution, but it is a fact that the people may feel good over and that cannot be kept too often in print and before the notice of the public. Furthermore, the inspector says that the Topeka Sorghum Sugar works is the finest, most complete and thoroughly appointed, furnished and supplied of any that has been put up. It has a capacity of seven or eight tons per day, although as yet it does not run up to its capacity. As to the disposition of the product of the works, the inspector said, the sugar will be sent to Boston for sale because the house that will handle it, will not sell it for less than cents per pound, on account of its superior quality, while the product of the Fort Scott works is disposed of at 7 cents per pound. The Stewart Whisky Case.

WICHITA, Sept. Hallowell has brought action in the district court to have the fine and costs in the noted Stewart Whisky case made 8 lien upon the Timmermeyer block in which the liquor was sold. Stewart was sent to the county jail a year ago for over seventeen years for selling 208 glasses of beer in violation of the Murray law. At the time no other penalties in the case were enforced, but now the action is again renewed. The fine amonts to $20,800, costs $6,000, all of which it is claimed by Hallowell can, according to law, be collected from the property.

The Timmermeyer block is one of the finest in the city. The amount can easily be realized from its sale. This is one of the first "confiscations" as they are called to be undertaken under the same law, eight of which, it is said, are already prepared to be made this week. Losses by Prairie Fires. ST.

PAUL, Sept. Pioneer Press learnes that the settlers' losses by prairie fires at Round Lake, Dakota, will aggregate $50,000. Some hard battles had to be fought to save property, and narrow escapes from loss of life are reported from around Pamour and Valley Junetion. Most of the individual losses are small. The drought had prevailed since midsummer.

DEATH DE PROFESSOR JAMIESON. Baritelot's Successor on the Oongo Stricken Down with African Fever. BRUSSELS, September 21 Advices from Stanley Falls state that Professor Jamieson, who was engaged in organizing an expedition for the relief of Henry M. Stanley, died of African fever at Bangalas, on the Congo, on August 1.7. The organization of another relief expedition is now regarded as hopeless.

Officials of the Congo Free State believe that Professor Jamieson, having become convinced that owing to the treachery of Tippoo Tib, there was no chance to make further arrangements for his expedition, was returning when he was stricken down with the fever. LONDON, September officers of the Congo State, at Brussels, deny the atrocities attributed to Major Barttelot. In a letter to the Times, on the same subject. Captain Van Gele says that from his experience he believes the reports are false, and that Tippoo Tib would not permit the abuse of his men. The German expedition, for the relief of Emin Bey, will endeavor to reach Wadelia before the English expedition, and thus claim the territory governed by Emin.

FAVOR SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. Switchmen Want the Railroads to Give the Subject Consideration. ST. Sept. -The switchmen have not yet reached the question of federation and are making progress slowly.

The most important work of today was the adoption of a resolution favoring the observance of the Sabbath, and asking all railways in the United States to give this their attention. It is understood that the office of Grand Organizer and Instructor is to be created, and that George S. Bailey, of East St. Louis will be chosen to fill the position. Rio Grande Oity, Texas.

Reported to be in Possession of a Turbulent Rabble. WASHINGTON, Sept. Secretary Thompson this morning received the following telegram from the Collector of Customs at Brownsville, Texas, dated the 23rd, armed mob has possessiou of Rio Grande City on account of the killing of a Mexican by a customs officer in a personal encounter. The officer went to Fort Ringgold for protection. The civil authorities of Starr county are powerleas, Please obtain orders to be telegraphed for the military at Ringgold to protect Custom House and citizens until the danger is over.

The necessity is urgent; fighting is hourly expected, Orders have to be sent by carrier from Fort Brown; line to Ringgold cut by mob." Secretary Thompson replied to the Collector, asking if the situation at Rio Grande City to-day was still of a character to require the presence of United State's troops, but received no answer up to the hour of closing the department A letter was also prepared requesting the Secretary of War to order troops to RioGrande City for the protection of government property. In the absence, however, of information from the Collector that the necessity for troops still existed, Secretary Thompson did not send the letter, and decided to take no furthur action till to-morrow. Where Reform is Needed. Think of a man going to the gallows with the photograph of the girl he murdered in one hand and a small American flag in the other! That was the wretched spectacle afforded at the last San Francisco execution. A great popular want in connection with murderers is not so much an improved method of taking their lives as an improved method of dealing with them between the time they are sentenced and the time they pay the York Tribune.

The law, to be of the highest efficiency, should be quick, silent, and sure of action. Its terror can be maintained only by hopeless darkness extending between the bench of the sentencing judge and the grave. Society needs protection against tne murderer in jail as well as against the criminal without its walls; but as long as prisons are permitted to serve as a stage on which is shown the mock heroism of crime they will continue to be well Francisco Bulletin. The Fotheringham Judgment. ST.

Louis, Sept. the United States circuit court yesterday Judge Thayer handed down an opinion and order in the case of David Fotheringham, who obtained a verdict of heavy damages against the Adams Express Com. pany for false imprisonment, growing out of Whittrock, alias "Jim Cummings," robbery of the express on the San Francisco railroad. Judge Thayer's ruling was that if Fotheringham would elect to remit forty per cent. of his damages, that is to say $8,000, he would refuse the motion of the Express Company for a new trial, otherwise he would grant it.

Official Report. JACKSONVILLE, Sept. hundred and three cases of yellow fever were reported for the past twenty-four hours, seventy-six among the colored. The deaths reported are seven, viz: J. A.

Crawford, J. U. Brainard, Mrs. Paxton, of Panama; Charles Hartel, Jerry Newman, colored; Mrs. A.

S. Allen, of Brooklyn, and Charles Johnson. Total cases to date, 2,237, total deaths 229. WANTEDI ONE HUNDRED AGENTS TO CANVASS FOR SUBSCRIBERS -TO THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN Ministers, Teachers, Ladies and others can find Profitable Employment by canvassing in their respective localities. We desire to have every Christian family in the State personally called on and invited to subscribe.

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