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THE STEWS.
PARK, XXOTUCCET
NEWS OETHE WEEK
Condensed and 3?u.t Into Bead-,
able Shape.
AT HOME.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
e call for the redemption of bonds of the
five-per-cent. under loan of 1881, continued
at three-and-a-half per cent, from August
12, 1881. The call is for $25,000,000, and"
principal and interest to he paid at the
Treasury on the 23d of December next,
nd interest cease that day.
Two serious accidents occurred in the
Exposition building at Pittsburg on the
25th inst. A gallery in the building gave
Tray, precipitating a number of people, together of
with a piano, a distance of thirty
feet-to the floor below, seriously injuring
seven or eight persons, and within five
minutes thereafter a shed on which a number
of persons had collected to witness a
display of fireworks gave way, seriously at
injuring a Mrs. Crawford and her husband. a
The old stone fort, Castle "Williams,
that faces.the New Jersey shore from the
lower end of Government Island, New
York, was the scene a few days ago of an
accident that resulted in the death of two
artillerymen, the probably fatal wounding
of another, the mangling of a fourth,
and the injury of two other cannoneers,
caused by the premature discharge of two
cannons during the firing of a salute in
honor of Admiral Grevy, of the French
Naval Service.
The jury of inquest in the case of Charles
Matthews, editor of the Hot Springs (Ark.)
Hornet, who was killed last week, returned
the verdict that "deceased came to his death
by three or more blows by a hickory club
in the hands of S. W. Fordyce, and by
three pistol or revolver shots from the
S. "W. Fordyce, D. C. Eugg, and Frank
Flynn, and that the killing of Charles
Matthews was unjustifiable."
The Western Hardware Company of
Atchison, Kansas, has failed in the sum of
$250,000.
A "Washington dispatch says the Board
of Direction of the Garfield Monument
Fair orders application for space, either for
loaned or donated exhibits, must be made
on or before the 1st of November, and all
exhibits must be placed in the hands of
the Board on or before November 11. Two
dollars will be charged for entry of all
exhibits made for advantage or profit
of exhibitors. There will be no
charge for space for exhibits of this class,
but all cases, counters, etc., must be put
up jit the expense of the exhibitor. All
packages should be addressed "Garfield
Monument Committee, Washington, D
C," and bills of lading mafled to 5?. T.
"Wilson, Secretary of the Board. Transportation
and insurance upon all art exhibits
leaned for the occasion, and transportation
upon all'articles donated, to be at the cost
of the Board of Directors. Transportation
upon all other exhibits made for profit of
exhibitors to be at their own cost and risk.
Says a dispatch from "Wytheville, Vir
ginia, of September 26: "The annual
Baptist Association was in session to-day
at Hampton Cross Roads, but the religious
exercises were broken up by a tragedy
which caused a thrill of horror to run
through the vast assembly, for almost all
the people in that section were in attendance,
including a number of women and
children. Unfortunately a number of
country bloods went to the meeting for
other purposes than to worship,and carried
along with them not only whisky, but
pistols. During" the long prayer two of
this party, Jerry Cox and Levi Bryson,
feegan to quarrel, and, both being well
heeled, drew pistols and began firing at
each other. One of the bullets went
whizzing so near the head of the praying
minister as to cause him at once to suspend,
and prostrate himself on the platform
for safety. Another went in the"
midst of the amateur choir and through
an old woman's bonnet. The scene of confusion
and terror became almost incU
Heritable. The whole crowd of worshipers
became panic-stricken. Men, as well ag
women and children, all rushing
for a place of safety, trampled upon
many whe were too feeble to withstand
the tide. No one attempted to interfere
with the combatants, and finally Bryson
fell, shot entirely through the neck, mortally
wounding him. As he fell, and in
his dying desperation, he raised his pistol,
which held only two more cartridges in it,
and shot Cox in the back as the latter was
attempting to leave the field victor in the
impromptu dueL Cox fell and died very
Boon. It was one of the most desperate affairs
of the kind ever known in this section."
Northeastern Missouei and Southwestern
Illinois were disturbed by an earthquake
on the 27th of September. The
6hock was also felt at Vincennes, Indiana.
Eleven Sophomores have already been
expelled from Lafayette College, atEaston,
Pennsylvania, for hazing Freshmen. Six
were expelled last week.
Things are not going on swimmingly in
Utah under the new ordef oi things. Governor
Murray, in obedience to the law of
Congress providing for appointments to fill
vacancies occasioned by the failure to hold
an election in August, has appointed a
numbed of officials throughout Utah. In
defiance of law and the Edmunds bill
which disqualifies polygamists, the appointees
of the Governor have been refused
the records and places to which they
have been appointed. This organized nullification
is in obedience to the orders of
the Mormon leaders. Those who think it
criminal to hold over were whipped in by
the council and threats, and the polygamists
are holding on, Congress to the contrary.
"Writs of mandamus have been applied
for to enforce the title of the officials
appointed. The action of Governor Murray,
in firmly executing the law in the face
of the Mormon leaders is approved by all
law-abiding people.
Leander Merrill, aged sixty years, living
at Chauncy, Illinois, last week shot
and killed his wife, who was but
years old. She was his fourth wife,
and being beautiful, he became jealous of
her and doubted her fidelity. She had
better been a "young man's slave."
The breaking of a mill-dam at Heaths-Tille,
Virginia, washed away the house of
a Mr. Bush, drowning his wife and five
children.
Pensacola, Florida, on the 27th, reported
fifty new cases of yellow fever and six
deaths.
Seventy-six lottery dealers have been
indicted by a New York Grand Jury."
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
to reopen for settlement a large
tract of agricultural land, embracing about
ten million acres, in Northern Dakota,
withdrawn from settlement by Secretary
Schurz. The tract once formed part of the
Great Sioux Reservation, but was purchased
by the Government from that tribe.
Portions have been occupied by the Turtle
Mountain Indians, a roving band of
These Indians presented a claim is
urging their right to occupancy, and Secretary
Schurz withdrew the lands from
settlement, pending consideration of the
claims. Secretary Teller now decides the
claims of the Chippewas invalid, and reopens
the land to settlement.
McCamman, Assistant Attorney General
the Interior Department, negotiated an
agreement with the Flathead Indians, of
Northwestern Montana, to allow the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company to build is
their road through their reservations, a
distance of fifty-three miles. The Indians
first fixed upon $1,000,000 as the price of
strip of land, two hundred feet wide,
across the reservation, but finally accepted
$23,000 $1G,000 for the land, and $7,000
compensation for destruction of buildings
and crops on the line of the proposed
roadway. a
Jim: Cummings, the train robber, one of
the most notorious members of the James
gang, is in the Caldwell, Kentucky, county
jail. He was arrested upon an order from
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, and will
be taken to that State.
Secretaky Teller and Inspector Hay-worth
made the following distribution of
Indian School Funds for the present fiscal
year: For support of non-treaty schools
already established, and to be established,
$317,000; increased attendance at schools
now established, $50,000; establishing new
industrial schools, $150,000; contingent expenses
of agency schools, $75,000; purchase
of stock cattle for industrial schools, $80,-000;
completion of school building, outhouses,
etc., for the Industrial School
near Arkansas City, $15,000; support of
the above school, $31,500; support of Industrial
School at Genoa, Nebraska, $31,-500;
support of Indians in schools in
States, $17,000.
Five expert burglars and cracksmen, in
jail at Mercer, Pennsylvania, for robbing
the express office at Greenville, escaped
last week. They suddenly seized and
bound the guard, gagged him and put him
in a cell; forced the other prisoners into
cells with revolvers, seized the turnkey as
he entered, locked him in a cell, took the
keys from him, passed out, bound and
gagged the Sheriffs wife and fled:
A thief stole $9,000 worth of diamonds
from a show case belonging to Clemens I
Oskamp, jeweler, in the Exposition at
Cincinnati during the absence of the attendant.
He unlocked the small padlock
on the show case under the eyes of observers
and took the brilliants out and escaped
with them, those who saw him supposing
he was one in authority.
At the close of a politilal meeting at
Lancaster, South Carolina, addressed by
Colonel Cash, of duel fame, a difficulty
arose at the stand between a white man
and a colored man, which resulted in the
former being wounded in the head by a
blow with a stick or stone. At this time
two or three pistol shots were fired near
the stand, but no one was hurt. Soon after
a large procession of colored men on horseback
came upon the streets. One of the
number, having a large pistol buckled to
his body, drew the pistol, pointed it at a
white man and said: "There's the d d
rascal who did the shooting." The white
man gave him the lie, and the colored man
fired at him. Immediately several shots
were fired by white men, and the colored
man fell dead. Indiscriminate shooting
followed by whites and blacks, and three
other colored men were killed and many
wounded. The number of wounded is
given as twenty, two of whom are whites.
ABROAD.
Arabi Pasha says the best thing the
English could do for Egypt would be to
send all the notables and other leading
men connected with the rebellion out of
the country. If they do not do so vengeance
will surely be wreaked upon them
after their departure. Seeing the manner
in which the British treat their prisoners
and wounded, Arabi says they are a great
people, and that he is heartily sorry that
he fought them. He asserts that he never
thought that the English would send a
large-army to assist the Khedive, and so
was lead into the war. He denies that he
had any communication with the Sultan
during the war.
On the 24th inst. all the churches of 1
England held thanksgiving services for the i
success in Egypt.
At consistory at Rome, September 25,
Monsignor Czaki, Papal Nuncio at Paris,
and Monsignor Abianchi, Nuncio at Madrid,
were created Cardinals. The Pope also
preconized one English and several French
Bishops, and appointed a number of Predates
to sees in America and Oceanica.
The military and police of County Mayo,
Ireland, have evicted fifty families in the
last few days in the Barony of Erris, and
the people have been ordered not to shelter
them.
Overdank, now in prison at Vienna,
confesses he drew lots with his eight confederates
to decide who should attempt to
take the life of the Emperor, and that he
intended to throw a boom into the garden
of Miramar Castle. The High Court of
Venice has given an opinion in the case of
the recent arrests that extradition of the
assassins shall take place if they conspire
against the life of the Emperor of Austria
on Italian territory.
Mb. Gladstone states that he is unable
to interfere with the operations of Mormons
in England, as he presumes the converts
go with them willingly.
The German Government is devoting
attention to a project for the construction
of a canal connecting the North Sea with
the Baltic.
Cetewaygo has arrived at Capetown.
A constitutional amendment has been
adopted in Mexico declaring that in the
event of the deatn or removal or tne
his successor shall be the Senator
who presided over the Senate during the
month preceding the vacancy. When the
Senate is not in session, the President of
the Permanent Committee, alternately a
Senator or a Deputy, is to succeed. Elections
will be held immediately. Hitherto
the Chief Justice has been Vice-President.
Smallpox is raging worse than ever at
Cape Town.' Two thousand cases thus far,"i
mostly natives, six hundred fatal. The
disease has reached the military. Cape
Town is declared infected, and all vessels
sailing thence for other parts in the colony
will be quarantined. The greatest
excitement prevails in the diamond fields.
Illegal measures are taken to exclude persons
arriving there suspected of having
the infection. The streets of Cape Town
have a deserted appearance, and business '
suffering greatly.
A Dublin correspondent of the London
Times intimates that Dillon has withdrawn
from active political life, because he does
not fall in with what he considers the
milk-and-water policy of his assciates.
Three members of the Salvation Army,
recently arrived at Calcutta, have been arrested
in order to prevent a riot, which
was imminent. But one of the contingent
which arrived there a short time ago
at liberty.
At a meeting of the ministers at Cairo,
on the 27th, three decrees were agreed to,
viz. : The first decree institutes a special
commission for the prosecution of all acts
of rebellion committed by the military or
civilians. The commission will consist of
nine members, and will be under the Presidency
of Ismail Bey. The second orders
court-martial, with eight members, Reouf
Pasha presiding, to be held in Cairo, and
that it shall give judgment according to
the military code, without appeal, in all
cases submitted by the above named commission.
The third directs the assembling
in Alexandria of another court-martial to
try all cases submitted by the tribunals
recently appointed in Alexandria and
Tanteh. The proceedings of both courts-martial
will be public, and the accused
will be permitted to employ counsel. The
Khedive will shortly issue a decree granting
amnesty to all officers, from Captains
downward, engaged in the rebellion, excepting
those who participated in the riots
or joined the army since the beginning of
the campaign.
Cholera exits in the shape of an epidem
ic in Chiapas, Mexico,
It is stated that the Czar's coronation
was accomplished secretly during his recent
visit to Moscow.
A Dublin dispatch' states that a farmer
named Hickey, in Tipperary County, was
murdered for paying his rent in violation
of an order of the Local Land League, and
for assisting in the defense of some men
employed in gathering crops for an evicted
tenant named Carroll. Carroll's family
have been arrested.
A statement is published to the effect
that a number of lottery tickets in the last
drawing of the Havana lottery were falsified,
and the attention of the Government
bag been called to the matter.
Dispatches state that there have been,
riots in several towns in Upper Egypt, owing
to the efforts of the officials to enforce
demonstrations of loyalty to the Khedive.
Flags and devices have been torn down by
the mobs and Christians insulted and maltreated.
A dispatch from Cairo September 28
says: "An ammunition train exploded
near the Cairo Railway Depot this morning.
The explosions still continue. Arabs
and Europeans are fleeing from the scene.
Thirty persons arc reported killed." Further
details state that two trains were consumed
by the fire in which there were a
number of invalids. The whQle of the commissariat
stores, the main ordnance stores,
the greater part of the forage, all the hospital
necessaries and a large quantity of
clothing were destroyed. The loss is estimated
at 100,000.
3L.A.TISI2, NEWS.
A fire at Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, destroyed
property to the value of $100,000.
Henry Edmund Knight is the new Lord
Mayor of London.
A man named W. G. Whittaker has-been
arrested at Philadelphia, on the charge of
poisoning his wife, six children and a
boarder, by putting arsenic in water with
which tea was made. The dispatch states
that some of the sufferers are in a critical
condition.
It has been decided to retain for the
present 12,000 men in Egypt to carry on
and consolidate the work for which the
suppression of Arabi Pasha does little
more than clear the way.
Floods in Tyrol have reduced hundreds
of wealthy land owners to poverty.
Rev. H. O. Hoffman, Methodist minister
at Lincoln, 111., has been found guilty
of bastardy, fornication and falsehood.
When the verdict was announced Hoffman
was affected to tears, and declared that he
would appeal the case to the Judicial Con-
ference.
The California Prohibitionists have nominated
Dr. R. H. McDonald for Governor,
and Wm. Sims for Lieutenant Governor.
The gross receipts of the Postoffice Department
for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1882, have been $41,265,317.10, against
$36,217,511.55 the previous year; receipts
from sale of postage stamps, postal cards
envelopes, $39,533,317, against $34,678,212
the previous year.
A dummy car used in conveying passengers
over the International Bridge between
Erie, Ont., and Black Rock, a suburb of
Buffalo, fell through an open draw into
Niagara River, twenty-five feet. Engineer
Bohn and Edwin Hershey Reeve, of Bertie,
Ont., were killed. Mrs. Parmlee,
of Black Rock; Captain Haggart,
the dummy conductor, and a lady,
name unknown, were seriously injured.
The steamer Falcon was coming up and
the draw was opened for her to pass at the
same time that the dummy engine, used to
cross the bridge with passengers, was making
the last trip for the night The
gineerdidnot perceive the draw open,
and the dummy plunged into the river.
The failures for the week ending September
30, were 120.
The farmers appear to have beaten the
speculators in corn at Chicago, but a corner
is looked for in pork and lard.
The value of imports of merchandise
into the United States during the twelve
months ended August 31, 1882, was $741,-983,917;
for preceding twelve months,
$643,248,555. Value of exports for twelve"
months ended August 31, 1882, were $737,-038,772;
for preceding twelve months,
$894,717,454,
C03DEERCIAL LAW.
Brief Digests of Lato Decisions
fFromtlio St. Louis Commorclal Gazotte.1
INCREASE OF FIRE RISK.
"Where the insured had placed a steam
threshing machine ne'ar his barn tempo
rarily, and in consequence of an explosion
the barn was destroyed by fire, the
company defended on the ground that by
the ri3k had been increased without their of
consent. Eeld, that as the use of such of
machine was not expressly prohibited
by the policy, the company was liable.
Foreign Mutual Ins. Co. vs. Moyer,
Court of Pennsylvania. of
EXCESSIVE CONSIGNMENT.
Defendants, with a knowledge that a
consignment of goods was in excess oi
the quantity ordered by them, made no
objection on that ground, though a negotiation
took place for a reduction oi
price, but received into stock fifteen out
of twenty-five cases sent. Thn other ten
cases remained in bond until they were
sold to pay duties. Held, that the defendants
had waived any objections as to
the excess. Goodyear Rubber Co. vs.
Foster, Vol. 2, Law Times, p. 342.
FRAUD AND DAMAGES.
A vendor of goods who has been de
frauded by fraudulent representations
which induced him to part with them
for less than their value, may recover
the price of the property, less the sum
he has received, in an action he has
brought for the damages be has suffered,
without returning the amount he
has already received. Clews vs. Traer,
Supreme Court of Iowa.
TITLE TO PERSONAL PROPERTY.
The rule that a party selling personal
property, of which he is in possession,
as his own, warrants the title to the
thing sold, and that, if by reason of defect
of title nothing passesv the purchaser
may recover back his money,
though there be no fraud, on the part of
the vender, does not apply to the case
of a vender of Over-issue
of stock of a corporation, as he has a
title which he can transfer and a remedy
against the corporation. People's Bank L
vs. Kurtz, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
COMMON CARRIER.
Common carriers can not iniist upon
unusual or unreasonable conditions before
receiving freight. A condition that
goods carried shall be liable for "arrearages
of freight due on other goods
of the same consignee or owner," is not
unreasonable where the consignee is
actually indebted for such arrearages.
The fact that one has been in the habit
of shipping goods under such conditions
does not in itself make goods shipped to
him under similar receipts liable for
arrearages. Where a consignor has no
special authority to make such an agree
ment, a consignee who has not himseli
assented to it is not bound. Kirkman
vs. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company.
OPENING STREETS.
When by the opening of a particular
street by the municipal authorities the
owner of property through whieh it
passes would be unable to lay out another
street or streets upon his own land,
thereby increaing his available frontage
and the market value of his property as
a whole, such state of facts should bo
considered by the jury in estimating the
benefits,. Whatever contributes to the
market" value is a fair subject of consideration,
and the test is the market value
for any ourpose for which the property
is available, and not the use to which the
owner wishes to put it. City of Allegheny
vs. Black's Heirs, Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
ALTERING NOTE.
A promissory note, was made payable
to A, and there was added to his name,
after the making of the note, the word
"President," and to his indorsement the
words "President O. F. B. Association."
In suit the defense was made that these
alterations invalidated the note. Held,
that it made no difference in this case
whether the alterations in the note were
material or immaterial. Such alterations
having been made by a party interested
in the instrument, the makers
of the note were not bound by it. First
National Bank of Springfield vs. Frioke,
Supreme Court of Missouri.
ATTORNEY AND CLIENT.
An attorney has no power by virtueof
his employment as such to compromise
his olient's case. But where an attorney
has apparent power to make a compromise,
and the compromise so made is not
so flagrantly unfair as to imply fraud or
put the opposite party on inquiry, it will
be upheld and enforoed, although it
may subsequently appear tnat the attorney
exceeded his authority. Black
vs. Rogers, Supreme Court of Missouri.
TRUST.
An executor who sells trust property
in violation of his trust is responsible to
the beneficiary, and if deceased the
beneficiary may pursue his estate to recover
the proceeds of the sale and in
such cases he may file a cross-bill to a
creditor's suit against the estate of the
deceased trustee. Loving vs. Ashlin,
Supreme Court of Virginia.
ATTORNEY'S COMPROMISE.
Courts are inclined to favor a cone-promise
fairly made by an attorney of a
matter in litigation, and will uphold it
if good reasons can be found for it.
Whipple vs. Whitman, Supreme Court
of Rhode Island.
COLLATERAL SECURITY".
Defendant borrowed $500 from A anol
crave him five $100 coupon bonds as
collateral security. A failed, made" an
assignment, and became a fugitive.
HelduoiL a suit of A's assignee, that he
must produce the collaterals or account
for them before he could recover from
defendant. Stuart vs. Bigler's Assignees,
Supreme Court of
libel.
In determining whether a publication
Is libelous, the words are to be taken in
their usual, popular and natural sense.
, as they would be received by the world.
Uommonwealth vs. Uhambers, Vol.
B, Criminal Law Magazine, p. 542.
LICENSE TAX.
A lioensefee is a tax when it is imposed
mainly to raise revenue, which a
municipal corporation is without power
jo do, and ihe courts may inquire
whether, under a mere power of license,
the raising of revenue- is sought to be
City of St. Louis vs.
Spiegel, Supreme Court of Missouri.
THE EASTERN DELUGE.
The Heaviest Kain-Storn Known for Years
Great Damage to Property Several
Lives Lost.
Paterson, N. J., September's.
One of the most extraordinary storms within
the recollection of the present generation
has prevailed in and about Paterson the past
two days, and to-day's storm was accompanied
the loss of life. The rain fell heavily most
the day, the rain gaugo showing a total i all
4.97 inches for the first twenty-four hours
up to nine a. m. to-day, and two inches had
fallen during Friday. To-day the rain came
down with still greater force, and between
one and two p. m. the rain gauge showed a fall
3.0G inches, making the total for tho day
5.92 inches. About three p. m. the rain slackened,
but still came down steadily during tho
ove.iing. The total fall for the thirty-six hours
up to nine o'clock to-night was fifteen
inches. During last night the river rose
four and a half feet, and the water began
pouring over the falls once more. All day today
the river rose steadily, and during the afternoon
the water got higher at the rate of
eighteen inches per hour, so that to-night it
was higher than at any time since the memorable
flood of 1810, which was the highest on
record. The Oldham Brook, the principal
tributary of the Passaic near Paterson, just
above the city, rose with great rapidity, and
about two p. m. burst through the mill-dam at
Oldham. The torrent thus suddenly released
rushed furiously down the stream, sweeping
all before it, iucluding several bridges and a
part of the horse-railroad track. A brick and
stone arch bridge erected by tho county at a
cost of $S,000 ten years ago, and recently repaired
at a cost of 58,000 more, on Redwoods
avenue, near the city alms-house, was undermined
and washed away by the resistless flood.
Dr. Myers, the city physician, driving up to
the institution and to visit the small-pox patients,
got to the bridge as tho flood was beating
savagely against it. He urged his horse
over, and had barely reached the other side
when he heard behind him a terrific roar, and
looking back saw the whole bridge tumbled
into the stream and carried down the channel.
A massive rcta'ning wall of stone adjoining
the bridge to protect tho alms-house property
from encroachments by the stream also went
down With a rush, and in a twinkling the mad
torrent was eating its way into tho sand-bank
on which the alms-house rests.
Martin Rossiter, a gentleman aged about
seventy, lived in a pleasant cottage along the
river bank, near the outlet of the Oldham
Brook, with his family, and had some fine
stock on his farm. About three o'clock he
tried to drive along the doad near the river,
when the flood came down with such a sudden
rush that before he could get out of its
way ho was sw ept into the swift current of tho
river, and, with horse and wagon, was whirled
down and out of sight before any one could
extend. him a helping hand.
All the cellars along the river below the falls
were and several of tho adjacent mill3
had their lower floors filled with water, to the
greur lamage of their machinery. The shops
of tho great locomotive works had to shut
down on account of the great flood.
The flood dashed with such violence against
the Lincoln bridge, above the city, that it finally
gave way, and wont down with a mighty
crash. The bridge consisted of two iron spans,
very substantially built, one span about 140
feet and the othpr about ninety feet, resting
on an island in the river. The bridge cost
about $00,000 in all. It was one of the best
bridges in the country, the masonry and superstructure
being of the most substantial character.
The Hohokus stream also felt the effects of
the great storm, and last night Zabriskie's Mill,
at Hohokus, which was about to be converted
into a rubber factory went down the stream,
involving a loss of perhaps $15,000. The heavy
rainB have inundated all the meadow section
of the city of Hoboken. Houses are cut off
from the streets by sheets of water, and the
occupants are obliged to sail on rafts to get
from the sidewalks to their front doors. The
ravine road sewer which empties near tho
meadows yielded to the increased pressure
and burst this morning. This burst let all the
water from Jersey City Heights out upon the
meadows and increased the discomfiture ot
those residing there.
Jersey City, September 24.
There has been immense damage in Hudson
County, N. J. Entire sections of Jersey City
and Hoboken are inundated. Cellars and basements
are flooded. The inhabitants aretak
ing refuge on the upper floors. The Jersey
avenue wooden pavement was hurled into the
mouths of the sewers, completely choking
them. The waters, backing, swept into tho
houses, destroying carpets, etc. Jlorris Canal
is'overflowed, and the tow-paths washed. A
section of one of the main sowers, twenty-eight
by six feet, was lifted bodi.'y out of place, and
the rushing waters dashed into tho air thirty
feet. Dwellers on the "Meadows" were
by boats and rafts.
Tho new tunnel of the New York, Ontario &
"Western Railroad was damaged between S-0,-000
and $100,000.
By the giving way of a bridge over Berry's
Creek a freight train was precipitated into
the stream. Edward "Webber, the conductor,
was killed. George Currie, the engineer, and
Francis Burke, a fireman, probably fatally injured.
Plaixfield, N. J., September 24.
French's dam, the last dam but one remaining
in Green Brook, this city, gave way at ten
o'clock last night. The flood then carried
away two frame buildings at Somerset street
A large hole was washed through French's
four-story carriage factory. Fred Mpore, a
boy, was lost off one bridge. In Bound Brook
tho water rose suddenly, flowing ten feet deep
through the main street, lined on both sides
with stores. The water rose over the show
cases, and a large amount of goods was ruined.
In the Ramsey Hotel tho water Is almost to the
top of the bar. One family were rescued from
a house by a boat. The Elm Park Hotel is submerged
almost to the roof.
Tho flood is the highest known in Bound
Brook. It was nearly three feet higher than
that of July, 1865, which was the greatest previously
recorded. More loss will be suffered
by the Bound Brook people from flood than
by the fire which destroyed the greater part of
the town some months ago.
The damage caused by the heavy rains in
other portions of New Jersey, in Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, etc, is very
great, and the rain-fall in many sections is
unprecedented. Nearly eleven inches fell at
Philadelphia in seventy-two hours.
A Connecticut dairyman, having
brewed half a barrel of strong beer, ana
having carelessly left it exposed, one of
his cows found the beer and drank it,
the result being that those who drank of
her milk beoame visibly affected. From
the number of men within ten miles of
that dairy who have since blamed their
peculiar condition on that cow's milk it
is estimated that she must have given
about 300 gallons on that night Philadelphia
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Captain Sara, the Shosbone Chief,
died in Lander County, Nevada,
and according to the big medicine
uiau ui ins uiue, nis aeatn was caused
from tWHnfluence exercised by evil
spirits in his horses. The superstitious
Indians cut the throats of all of them
four in number and now think they
are safe.
A Boston court has decided that ice
cream is not to be classified among the
necessaries of life, and has fined a confectioner
ten dollars and costs for selling
it on Sunday.
The trade in cotton in Montgomery,
Ala., last season footed up $6,000,000
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About three-fourths of the Georgia
fruit crop has been dried.
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Ben. Butler has been retained by
the Dorseys in the Star Boute trials.
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The last of the Irish suspects have
been released from Kilmainham jail.
A farmer at Yaldosta, Georgia, has
made two crops of coru on one piece oi
land. ""
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The proposed introduction of Chinese
labor into England is meeting- with opposition.
Hereafter no breechloading rifles
are to beincluded in stores for uncivilzed
Indians.
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A fatal case of blood poisoning from
the bite of a mosquito is reported from
Louisville, Ky.
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Sir Garnet "Wolseley is a one-eyed
man, and was left for dead in the
trenches at Sabastopol.
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Oliver ArES, Bepublican nominee-for
Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts,
is a son of Oakes Ames.
"One country, one starry banner, and
one wife," is the platform of an editor
whose field adjoins jMormondom.
According to the Minneapolis Tribune
there is not enough low grade wheat in
Minnesota this year to feed the chickens.
Lieutenant Danenhower will enter
the lecture field in a few days,having for
his subject "Arctic" and Siberian experiences.
The United Presbyterians have
agreed to raise a fund of $500,000 in
honor of the twenty-fifth year of their
organization.
It i,s the thing now for young men of
society who have nothing to do, to claim
they " write for the papers." It makes
them seem to have brains.
Ten thousand acres of oysters have
been discovered in the North Sea. The
attention of managers of church festivals
should be called to this item.
Half a ton of the silver three cent
pieces which originated under Buchanan's
administration was shipped a few
days ago from Boston to the Philadelphia
mint.
A recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Florida makes railroad property
liable to taxation, and thus adds
about $5,000,000 to the taxable property
of the State.
The Egyptian war helped the sale of
English journals wonderfully. The London
Standard, on the day succeeding the
bombardment of Alexandria, sold over
300,000 copies.
It is stated that a block of creosoted
pine, in use in the street pavement in
Galveston for seven years, was recently
examined and found to have lost but an
eighth of an inch.
Special inducements to plant trees
are offered in Dakota, where for every
five acres of trees, forty acres of land
with 1,000 in improvements are exempted
from taxation.
A Boston banker went to the Oceanic
House at the Isle of Shoals for recreation,
taking five rooms for himself and
family. When he went away, September
1, he paid his three months' bill of $8,-000
and said it was cheap enough.
Herbert Spencer is in this country,
and he is sick, yet withal he is able to
use this forcible language in speaking of
Oscar "Wilde;, "He is that outlandish
person who attempted to reconcile
idiocy with art and namby pambyism
with, sentiment."
The Louisville Courier-Journal expresses
the opinion that if Alfred
Tennyson were to go through a newspaper
waste basket, and attach, his
name to all the original poetry he-should
find in it, he would still be read,
admired, and paid.
"What sort of doctors have they in
New Jersey ? A Jersey paragraph saysr
"Tte health authorities of Paterson
have declared the office and residence
of Dr. Daeumer untenantable from
filth, and the inmates are to be removed
and the premises cleaned and fumigated."
A number of immigrants of various-nationalities
passed up Broadway, New
York, the other morning. The Italian
men carried deep carpet sacks, and the-women,
left far in the rear, and wearing
pink and green costumes, carried or led
half-grown children. The Scotch women
and men were about equally laden. The
Englishmen carried nothing at all, while-the
women, endeavoring to keep up with
them, were burdened with a heavy portmanteau
in each hand.
The African expedition under Stanley,
sent out by the King of Belgium, is
said to have established the first four of
a line of various stations which, starting
from the Congo, will for commercial
purposes tap the most populous districts
of Central Africa. These four stations
are described as cities in embryo. They
possess houses and gardens; they are
connected by well constructed roads, and
at each a European acts as Chief of the
community, having another European
as sub-chief.
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