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THE IOWA VOTER.
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KNOXVILLE, IOWA.
General Mews Summary.
WMhiaartM Mtwa,
•On the 21st M1m Nellie W., daughter of
President Gnuit, and Mr. Algernon C. F. B*r
toris, a young and wealthy Englishman of
good family, were married at the White Home
ri Washington. The wedding wm compara
tively a private affair, there being leea than
200 Invited gueaU in attendance. The pres
ent* to the bride were numerous and costly.
The happy couple left aoon after the ceremony
for New York to take passage on the steamer
Baltic for Europe.
The following National Banks have been
authorized by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency 1') commence business: Ms«ttoon Na-
ond National Hank, Hay City, Midi., *100,000
People's National Bank, Martlrisbarir, W. Va.
tMMM) First National Bunk, Hancock, Mleh.
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9100,000.
David B. Meliiah, a Representative in Con
gross from New York, who had l»e«n removed
to the Government asylum for being insane,
died on the 28d. He had been confined in the
institution about two weeks, and had required
constant watching, being at times very vio
lent.
(iun. Butler has 1»een quite sick, but was
Improving on the 23d bis physician pre
scribes a foreign tour.
Kear Admiral Hhubrlck, senior tifflcer In the
retired list, died at Washington on the 97th,
aged eighty-three.
The District Investigation Committee In
"Washington closed Its labors, so far as the
taking of evidence Is concerned, on the 27th,
ud would at once prepare a preliminary re
port. The evidence taken before the eom
i makes nearly 3,000 printed pa^cft.
Foreign InteiligMiMi
The German Diet was prorogued on the
Slat.
The French Cabinet was finally constituted
on the 22d. as follows: Minister of War, Gen.
I)e Clssey Foreign Affiilrs, Cazes Interior,
Fourton Finance, Magric Public Wosks,
Calllaux Commerce, Grlvart Public Instruc
tion, Cumont Justice, Tullhand Marine,
Jlontaignac.
Madrid dispatches of the '/2d annpunco the
capture of Vittoria by the national forces
under Concha. A Carllst rakl of large pro
portions hud l»een made In the vicinity of
fjantander. 8oine 1,500 of tlie Insurgents were
within Ave leagues of the towu. They were
giving no quarter.
According to Kingston dispatches of the
2&1 the President of Haytl had resigned and
handed over the Government to the Vice
President.
A City of Mexico dispatch of the lHth, via
Havutia, May 24, say* that the Alcalde of
Jacabt), In the Htate of
8IIIH1OI,
had officially
reported to the Prefect of his district that he
had caused to be burned alive one Monlila
and his wife upon the charge of bewitching a
cltlren.
Gen. Croxton, United States Minister to
Bollvin, died at La Par. on the lflth ult.
The 25th was celebrated In England as a
genural holiday, It being the Queen's birth
day. Prince Arthur has been created Duke
of ConnuuKht and Lord of Mtnithmalu, being
the flrnt Irish title ever conferred upon any
member of the royal family.
Hie Italian Cabinet resigned on the 24th in
consequence of the failure of Parliament to
pass certain financial measures Introduced by
the Minister of Finance. The King refused
to accept, their resignations, and has diiocted
them to Introduce new financial bills.
According to Madrid papers of the 20th
Caleb Cushlnur. the United States Minister to
Spain, had been banqueted by the Opposition
Deputies, including Figueras and Cantelar.
Diplomatic relations were resumed with Mex
ico by the presentation of the credentials of
Geu. Coronas as Minister.
A London dispatch of the 27th says that
Prince Nicholas, who was recently arrested at
St. Petersburg, Knssia, for stealing his moth
er's dkuinondii, was thought to be insane.
According to late advlcea from Kio Janeiro
a fresh rebellion had broken out in Para
guay.
Late dispatches from Calcutta say the fam
ine In India was increasing. Nearly 8,000,000
people were dependent upoa Om flvnrwnt
lor food.
Th« Bast
A lew day*
ago a crusading party of forty
tadfn*, while visiting liquor houses to Pitts
burgh, Pa., w-re ordered by the police to dis
perse, and, declining to do so, they were ar
rested urid brought before the Mayor, charged
with obstructing the sidewalks. After hear
ing the case the Mayor said he would dismiss
the charge tkis time, but if brought before
him again they would :be punished to the full
extent of the law.
The total loss of lWe by the recent flood dis
aster In Massachusetts Is stated to be 147.
Some idea may be formed of the terrible force
of the rushing stream of death by the state
ment that the Assure In the broken reservoir
ahows that the Hood must have started with a
volume of 175 feet wide and thirty-live feet
deep.
The Committee of Relief for the Mill River
sufferers reports the number needing assist
ance lu the various villains affected by the late
disaster to be 14# families, containing 740 per
sons, who lost #247,115. The amount of
money contributed up to the 24th was about
975,000.
About forty crusaders were again arrested
in Pittsburgh on the Md for obstructing the
pavements. They were confined in the police
station, snd subsequently released on ball.
Great excitement prevailed, and it Is said the
ladies were still determined to continue their
work notwithstanding the action of the city
authorities.
All the omnibus-drivers of New York city
were on a strike on the 35th for an advance of
wages, and net a stage" was to be seen on
Broadway.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good
Templars have chosen the following officers
(for the current year: Right Worthy Grand
Templar, Col. John J. Hickman, of Kentucky
jRight Worthy Grand Counselor, Joteph
jMolins, of £ng*aud Right Worthy Grand
irice TeuipJar, Mrs. Mattle McClellan Brown,
pfOhfu Right Worthy Grand Secretary, W. I
Jj. Willl.trus, of Canada Right W^thy Grand conventions in the several districts to noinl
5*rei0Orer, J. If. Van Doorn, of IHiDOU- -JMt* candidates for Congress. 'I
Weat and Boatfc.
Henri Rochefori baa arrived In San Francisco
jtrom Australia.
1 s In a
lengthy
Jfcousln,
adfnsi to tbe people of Wis
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May 81, Gov. Taylor reiterates
bis determination to enforce the Railway laws
of the State. After calling attention to the
fact that ample time and opportunity bad
1een given the companies interested to ar
range their business so u to comply with the
requirements of the new law, aiid that two of
the most powerful railroad* in the State had
conspired together to defeat the operation of
the law and had obtained the opinion of hir*.-d
counsel that it wa« unconstitutional, eU.'.,
the Governor aays tke law muat be
enforced with
a rigor
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duly projortlon-
ate to the power and defiance of
the offender*. He concludes by calling upon
and enjoining every citizen of the State to ob
serve with scrupulous care the requirements
of the law when dealing with the railroad
companies, and to pay as a traveler no higher
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fare, and as a shipper or receiver of
freight no higher rate#, than the law
prescrllwsa, and that, If In any exigency
or ncr'wslty lie should suffer any sum in
excess of !egtl rates to be extorted from
him by any sgeut of any such company, he
notify, with all convenient dispatch, the LMs-
tloriHl Bank, Illinola, capital, t.VMXX) First trlet Attorney of his county A( such violation
National Hank, Liverpool, Ohio, $*»,«« Sec-
Ti,!
Governor further says that,
sistance to the local authorities to require the
Interference of the Executive, the guarantees
(orithiiit lu liih proclamation of Mny 1 cau be
relied on with the utmost confidence,
Recent dispatches from tli: Texan frontier
State that a reign of terror was prevailing
along the Klo Grande.
n the case of The People «*. Tbe Chicago
A Alton Hailroad Company, in the Circuit
Court of Hangatnon County, HI., a proposition
from the company to let the people take
judgment on certain conditions was rejected,
itnd on the conclusion of the trial ft verdict
for £,000 was given against the company.
A new swindling device has been exposed !n
Chicago. One A. W. Locke," who pretend
ed lo be an Agent for English-made sewing
machines, had been flooding the country offer
ing to furnish first-class machines of Ameri
can patents, made in England, for twenty-two
dollars and wait three months for his pay,
only stipulating that four dollars, the amount
required to pay the customs duUes, should be
paid in advance. He gave excellent references
'fuid a large number sent In their dollars. Hus
plclon being aroused, an investigation was
had, arid the swindle stood confessed. Locke
was proved to be a myth and his project a de
lusion.
Several suits have been begun in different
sections of Wisconsin against agents of Mm
Chicago fc Northwestern and the Milwaukee
A 8t. Paul Railroad Companies for collecting
fares In excess of those allowed by law.
The House of Representatives of Arkansas
has, by a vote of 47 to », passed resolutions
requcntlng Henators Clayton and Dorsey to
resign, and, In case of their neglect, asking
the Senate to expel them.
An official call has been Issued for the Illi
nois Htate Prohibition Convention, to be held
at, liloomiiigton on the. :10th of June, to nom
inate candidates for State Treasurer and Su
perintendent of Public Instruction, to appoint
a Htate Central Committee, and to transact
such other business as may come before the
-.on vent
Ion.
A large part of the business portion of
Forest, City, Ark., has been destroyed by fire.
Loss uem ly |70,000.
Articles of Impeachment, ugalnsl Slate Au
ditor Wheeler, Chief-Justice Mcdure, the As
sociate Justices, the Circuit Justices, and all
the prominent officials in the State connected
with the Brooks movement were reported lu
the Arkansas House of Representatives on the
25th. The casus of Met.lure and Wheeler
were acted upon Immediately, Impeachment
being voted by a large majority.
The largest lire ever experienced In Iowa
occurred at Independence on the morning of
the 25th, destroying the heurt snd business
portion of the town. The fire broke out
about two o'clock In a frame building, a high
wind blowing at the time, and the fire rapidly
spread, sweeping everything before it, taking
both sides of the principal street, destroying
forty-live stores and business houses, one
bank, two printing oftlrcs, and two hotels.
The loss is estimated at (500,000. Covered by
Insurance, to about one-half that amouut.
After the announcement of the itcqulttal of
Prof. Swing by the Chicago Presbytery upon
the charge of heresy, and the notice of appeal
by Dr. l'attoii, a telegram was received from
the former declaring that he had withdrawn
from the Presbyterian douominatlon. A meet
ing of the Eiders of Ills church was subse
quently held, at which it wa* decided to con
tinue pastoml relations with the Professor, the
church still rciualiiiug in the denomination.
On the 25th a formal letter was presented to
e e s y e y s a i n a e s o u a a u
ture time ask letters of dismissal, assigning
as reasons for such request a repugnance to
religious controversy and a deeire to promote
liarmony In the church.
Atty.-Gen. Sloan, of Wisconsin, on the 2flth
furnished Gov. Taylor with an elaborate opin
ion vindicating the constitutionality of the
law regulating railways pasted at tbe last
session of the Legislature.
A call has beeu Issued by Democratic and
Reform members of the late Michigan Legis
lature for a mass convention, to be held at
Lauslng on the tfth of August, to take such
steps as may be deemed advisable to secure
the organization of a party on a basis of live
Issues, aud for a restoration of ptftlty and
statesmanship to the high placea of our State
and National GoveromtuiU
A recent Arc in Central City, CoL, destroyed
126 buildings, mostly of wood, and occupied
for mercantile and other feuslnesa purposes.
The burnt district covers about eight acres.
The total loss Is estimated at about half a
million of dollars, one-third covered by in
surance.
At the recent meeting in Chicago of tbe Illi
nois Press Association the following-named
officers were chosen for the ensuing year:
President—George H. Scroggs, of the Cham
paign Gautte. Vice-Presidents—1. L. Phil
lips, Springfield Journal Mrs. Myra Brad
well, Chicago Ltyal N*let T. E. Woods, Mat
toon Journal. Recordlug Secretary—Cadet
Taylor, Wenona Indtz. Assistant Recording
Secretary—C. N. Whiting, Princetou HtraM.
Corresponding Secretary—C. P. Richards, Du
quoln Tribune. Treasurer—J. W. Clinton,
Polo J'rM. Executive Committee—J. W.
Bailey, Princeton Jiepublitan J. B. Brad well,
Chicago Legal Xewt H. L. Clay, Carroll ton
Gautte.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Farmers' Reform Organisation and the
Democratic State Central Committee of the
State of Kan***, held at Topeka on the 27th,
it was resolved to issue a call for a State con
vention, to meet at Topeka Aug. 5, to nom
inate State officers, and to call Congressional
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Congress
In the Senate, on the 2l«t, two bills
were reported for the improvement of tbe
mouth of the Mississippi A bill was Introduced
te establish the compensation ef certain customs
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Vats $!*•- ^vWefe *t'«1 .ft until
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officers, etc The Civil Bights bill w« fortiur
4eb»ied.... Adjouraed.
In tbe House, on {he 21st, s petition
wss printed *nI referred from the Wositifs
Chrl»ti»u Temperance Union of Indianapolis, r«
j!i'«iiDi ronjress to th« oatb of office *o
tbst ab ofllrers under tbe Government xhmil be re
i|alre«l to abstain from the ns« of intoxicating drinks
as a b*veraKK d'iritqf '.belr term of ofllce An
amendment U the Vostofllce Appropriation bill
wsr Hirrr,-! to liH to 71 to i-i tbe annual and
monthly reports of the Agricultural I^psrrment
pa*s through the malic free, and th« bill was
passed, as was also tbe Pension Appropriation bill
The bill to repeal the law under which the
Sanborn contracts were made was discussed
Tbe bill for tbe iuiroi"ion of Sew Mexico a* a
Hta'e was debated snd passed--ISO to 64 A re
port on tbe Menate substitute for the Currency bill
was made from the Committee on Banking and
Currency Adjonrned.
In the Henate, on the 22d, a memorial
Of tbe National Agricultural Congress, which was
recently In sc«fion In Georgia was presented, ask
ing tha one-half of the proceeds of the ealee of
tbe public lands be used toward the support, of
ajrrictiluiral colleges, •lncstiori and
labor
... A favorable report :uale on tbe
Ifo'ise bill to extend the time for flllrig
cisinio for adrfliional bounty under the
act of July Jf. 1HMI .. The Hou«e lilll authorizing
ihe J're-liient to l**ue array ruflons and clothing to
(lcslitiite people on the Tombltfhee, Jlio (iraride
and Alabama River* ws* jv**el... The Civil
Kibble bill w.is further deb:ite.1, the mw'Ioii laMU,tr
all nifht. no vote being reached tip to two o'clock
on
tbe morning of the 43d.
In the Kouhc, on the 23d, a bill waa
reported and pas« making appropriations for the
payment of claims which have been reported as
allowed by the ('omtni'siiiners of Claims under
the act of March H. 1h7t .Several private bills
were disposed of in CoinmlUee of the Whole....
Adjorirned.
The all-uight session of tbe Senate for
the consideration of tWe CMvIl Rljrht* bill tcrml.
nated st h:15 on the morning of the *id, tbe bill
beiiij,' ilnally passed by a vote of X: yeas to 14
navs. Ttie first section of the bill a« passed pro
Tides that all citizens and other persons within the
Juri-dlction of the United Htates shall be entitled
to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommo
dations. advantages, facilities and privileges of
Inns, public conveyances on land or water, thea
ters and other places of public amusement,
and also of the common schools and pub
lic Institutions of leBrniiiK or benevolenee
supported In whole or in part by general
taxation, and of cemeteries so supported also tl»e
institutions known as a{ric'iliursl college*, en
dowd by the United Slates, subject only to the
conditions and limitations established by law, and
applicable alike to citizens of every race and color,
regardless of any previous condition ot sirrvtlude.
Mevere penalties nr- imposed for the violation of
the law. and tbe District and Circuit Courts of the
United Htates are (riven jurisdiction tn cases of Its
violation, and actions may he presented In the
United Hlares Territorial. District or Circuit
Courts, wherever the defendant, may be found,
without rejrard to the other party. It is also pro
vided thst no citizen shall he disqualified for ser
vice on anyitiry because of race, color or previous
condition of servitude .. Adjourned to the 2!Vth.
In the House, on the 2ttd, bills were
passed —donating condemned cannon and cannon
balls to various Posts of the Grand Army of the
Hepubllc, for monumental purpose* for the sale
of the Itush Valley Military IteservaUon in Utah
for the sale of the buildings and (.Totind known as
the Detroit Ar-enal, in Michigan .One of the
Hemite amendments to the legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was rejected, and
cithers were discussed at considerable len(."b....A
bill wa« reported allowing u bounty of per
month to soldiers during the laie war. and also
providing for ttrauts of land to Uh-iii....Adjourned.
In the Henate, on the 25th, bills were
passed— to incorporate the Texas Pacific Hallway
Com puny and to aid In the construction of the
rosd House bill to revise, consolidate and amend
the laws relnting to pensions, approved March
H, lK'i-'i, which provides that, all persons who have
lost an nr n at or above tbe elbow shall be rat
ill second class and receive a pension of $24 |kT
month .. A joint resolution was introduced pro
posing an amendment lothei 'onslltutlon providing
that, if uny Stale shall fail to maintain a common
school system under which nil persons between
the age* of Ave and eighteen years, not mcapacl
tatei for Hie came, shall receive free of charge
such elementary education as Congress m«y
prescribe. Congress shall nave the power
U establish therein such a system and
cause the satnr to be maintained at the expense of
such Mate The conference report on the Naval
Appropriation bill was agreed to Several
amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation blK
wcr« adopted....The llouse resolution was prw
sonled snnonnelnjt ttwi death of Hepresnntatlve
Melll'h, and after a few appropriate remarks by
Mr. Conk.iii^' the Kenate adjourned.
In the IloUHti, on the 25th, among the
Mils Introduced were the following Providing
that the residence of three years shall be sullicieiit
to entitle au alien, being a free white person, to
become a citizen, his declaration to he
made one year before his admission de
claring thai all corporations doing business
In any Htate are subject to the Slate
courts of that Htate to repeal Ihe law which sus
pended pay: to loyal masters for slaves
drafted and received as volunteers in the millUry
service restoring to the pension roll Ihe pension
ers of ihe Mexican war who were struck off for
disloyalty .. .The Senate bill lo facilitate thv exe
cution of snd to protect ccrlaiu public
works of improvement at tbe mouth of
the Mississippi WHS passed....A motion to
suspend the rules and take up tbe
snhstltule for the Senate Currency bill was lost,
as was also a motion to sugpend the rules ami
lake up the Senate Supplementary Civil Rights
hill and refer It to Hie Judiciary Committee, with
leave to report at any time... Announcement was
made of the death of Mr, Mellish, and appropri
ate remarks were made, and resolutions relating
to bis funeral were udopted... .Adjourned.
In the Senate, oi the 26tli, bills were
passed—to lcgallne mid establish a pontoon railway
bridge across tbe Mississippi River at Prairie dn
Chlen, Wis. to extend the time five years for the
completion of the raliway from thebt. Croix itivcr,
or the lake between Towi^hips '25 sue! Ml, lo the
wesi end of Lake Superior ana to Bayfield, Wis.
H(IIIS« bill to provide for Ihe protection of tbe
frontier settlements of Texas against Indisn
and Mexican depredations the Deficiency Appro
priation 1)111, with several amendments the
Centennial hill ilr to 17-with a proviso that the
United States shall not be liable directly or Indi
rectly for any expense attending such exposition
or by reason of tile same... .The members of ihe
Senate attended the funeral o' the Isle Represen
tative Mellish, in the llouse of Representatives,
and the Seuate afterward adjourned.
In the Houhc, on the 26th, speeches
were made on the report of tbe Ways and Means
Committee on the Han born contracts... Several
amendments to the bill to amend the existing Cus
tom" slid Internal Revenue laws were agreed lo In
Commitlee of the Whole .. ,Mes«rs. Hale of New
York. (1. F. Hoar aud Young were announced bv
Ihe Speaker as visitors lo the West Point Acaa
emy Tbe funeral service* of Mr. Metlish were
conducted, In the presence of the members of the
Senate, lu a aolessn and impressive manner....
Adjourned.
in the Senate, on the 27th, bills were
passed—to prevent -hexing at the Naval Acade
my amendatory of the act to reduce duties oa
Imports aud to reduce lutcrua! taxation the
bill
to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United
Htates, lu force Ltec 1, 1
F73 HJU»B bill to
extend the time to pre-emptors on the public
lands In Miuneoola to make their final psyuieuts
A bill was lulroductd to aid iu the improve
ment of the Wisconsin aud Kox Rivers A reso
lution was offered declaring Hpcuccr uot entitled
to the seat as Senator from Alabama, aud that it
be awarded to Sykes Adjourned.
Ia the House, on the 27th, after further
debate on
the
report of
the
Committee of Ways
and Means on the Han born contracts, th# bill re
pealing the law on which such contracts were
based was paeced without objection, with an
auisuduieut prohibiting any Senator, Representa
tive or Delegate in Congress from acting as an
agent, attorney, proctor, advocate, solicitor, or
counsel for any person in connection with a viola
tion of the Customs or Revenue laws... Auioug
the other bills parsed were the following
Providing that lite pay of a deceased mem
ber shall be given to his widow or
heirs-al-law up to the dale of tbe
election of his successor, whese pay shall com
mence froiu bis election removing ibe political
disabilities of Raphael Seinmes, of Alshaiua pro
viding that no peison shall serve as jurcr in l:uited
States courts who canuol read auu write the Ku
gllsh language regulating tbe removal of causes
from State court* to United siat» Circuit Courts
... .An evening sessleu was held to consider
ibe
bill to amend the existing Customs and Iuternal
Revenue laws, and several amendment* Op
posed Of Adjouraed.
—No earnest thinker Is a plagiarist port
anil biuiple. He will never borrow irom
others that which he has not already,
more or leas, thought out for hiuutUf.
—The Czar intimates that he arrested
young Nick hcca'aac Jb# mm
Nick generally.
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THE "HX BITER DIfUITEls
THE TOKRDIT.
In an hour and a half from the begin
ning the last house had been upaet or
torn into bits. Quica and terrible work!
Williamsburg, Bkinnerville, Haydenyille,
Leeds, pleasant little towns, %-iUi white
cottages arranged In straight row and
rectangles, and with a wide spread of
gretn meadows to the south and westi
little feudal hamlets, whose people were
almost owned by one man, generally he
for whom each village was named busy
little places,with plenty of factoties, plenty
of bustling life and hard work pretty,
clustered villages, clinging each around
some tall chimney, all standing on the
bro:ui flat*, with hills of more and more
gentle wlope, down and down the valley,
not hemming them in, but making way
for them from out the bold mountains
above. Such was the valley before the
storm of water, loosed by the neglect of
the great men of tbe yalfey, fell upon it
and turned the flats into deserts and the
gentle hills into the barriers of such a
deluge as Massachusetts hud never seen
before. At Williamsburg the torrent was
as deep as it was wide, but here it reached
the plain and spread into a flood. The
flood went straight down the Talley. It
attacked Hkinnerville, not with water
merely, but with the bones of Williams
burg, great timbers and tree-boles, and
the atones which it lifted aud whirled
along. It attacked Haydenville with
weapons caught up irom both vil
lages above, and was here & torrent
thick with dead bodies. Here there
is a sudden bend eastward, and a
narrowing in theoldstreain-bed just above
the flrwt dam. The Hood, thus for a mo
ment contracted, raised into a wall in its
very front the spoils of the bridges,
houses, orchards it had swept away. It
hurled before it a great boiler, picked up
at hkinnerville, and descended headlong
on this third village. It made a sieve of
the brick factory, tore out another boiler,
laid hoid of two great iron safes, and add
ed these to it# weapons piled house
upon housetop, drove two houses into one,
cut one house into two, splintered others,
turned an island meadow into a desert of
sand, smooth as a billiard table, except
where strewn with tree-trunks and stones,
and carried sixty bodies on toward Leeds.
Leeds it struck on the northwestern cor
ner and broke for itself a straight path
through till it landed thirty dead in a
twisted mass of rubbish against the hill
below Warner's flats. The loss of life was
terrible, but undoubtedly far less than it
would have been but for Milkman C'ollins
Graves, who carried the news of ihe flood
just a breathing space ahead of the flood
from Williamsburg through Bkinnerville
to Haydenville.
Is it any wonder that all this ruin
should be a Mecca of sight-seers day alter
day? They were mostly in carriages yes
terday, and, as every turnpike bridge in
the valley was gone and the roads were
chaos, long processions—a wagon with
colllns at every rod—formed omboth sides
the fords.—Cor. N. Y. World.
HOW TIIK AI.AKM WAS OIVEN.
When he discovered that the wall of
the dam was crumbling away, and its
utter downfall was only a question of
minutes, George Cheney, the gate keeper,
rushed to his house and told his father he
was going to the village to warn the peo
ple. Together they hurried to the barn, a
few rods below, and while Cheney was
throwing a bridle on his horse his father
cut him a stick. Leaping on his horse's
back and plying vigorously his lash he
rode at topmost speed down the road that
carries the stream to Williamsburg, cov
ering the three miles, he thinks, in fifteen
minutes. It waa then about 7 30 a. m.
Driving to the house of Mr. Spell
man, who had general charge of
the reservoir, he summoned that
gentleman to startle him with, "The
reservoir is going!" flpelhnan could not
at first credit the statement, and thought
Cheney a little scared, and to his startling
announcement replied, "No it can't be
possible!" But Cheney quietly told him
about the giving away of the earth and
the stream of water rushing through, and
soon convinced hini that the danger was
most imminent. The first chity was to
warn the people further down the stream.
Cheney's horse was exhausted aud Spell
nian directed him to go to the livery
stable, where agtrin precious moments
were lost in convincing incredulous peo
ple that the messenger's Btory could be
true. Finally a horse was made ready
and a fresh man got oft" to notify the
dwellers further down the stream.
Another hero of the occasion is Collins
Graves, a milkman, who was at the
livery stable in when Cheney, was trying
to get some one to spread the news below.
"Ir the dam is breaking," said Graves,
after listening to Chenev's fragmentary
story, "the folks must'know it and
lashing his fleet horse into a run he dashed
away toward llaydenvUie, shouting,
"The reservoir is right here. Ituu! It's
all you can do!" It was now a quarter to
eight, and meanwhile Belcher and Cheney
had rung the bell of the Congregational
Church to further warn the village folks.
On went horse and driver, spreading the
alarm, shouting all the way. He made
directly for the manufacturing establish
ments, fr, said he, "The people could
hear it, but the roar of the factories would
drown any warning for the oper
atives." At Bkinnerville, the pair
were five minutes ahead of the
coming torrent, but at Haydenville
they had but two minutes in which
to spread the alarm. Here the famous
ride, which will be sung in story and told
to the credit of Collins Graves around the
firesides of Williamsburg forever, as the
salvation of many hundreds of lives,
ended at the hotel. The horse and rider
were both exhausted, and here another
herald took up the tidings. Graves could
hear the thunder of the coming flood, but
not fiilly appreciating its extent he turned
to go back to Williamsburg. At the
"dugway" the disaster which he had
predicted burst upon his sight, and he
had just time to turn ofl' on a bank near
Cant. Kinsley's when it crashed past him.
Indeed, he was not twenty seconds too
soon, and as it was he had almost de
spaired of reaching a place of safety and
had thought of abandoning his tired steed
lo its fate. Graves, by the way, is a Will
iamsburg boy, and has a pleasant nome
on the hill, out of all danger of floods.—
HjringjjUli {Mat- Republican,
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BLOCS BOCAlV.
The marvelous escape of ffimng Dun
ning at Leeds has already been alluded to,
but his story is so interesting that it is
worth giviug in detail. When the alarm
was given he was at his work in the
spool-room of the Nonotuck silk works,
and, rushing out of the mill, his first
thought, of course, was for his family.
He found that his father, wife and f.hree
children had all ieft the house. He shout,
ed to them to run for their lives, at the
same time pointing to them what direc
tion to take. His wife and children
obeyed him and were saved bat hit
'&F&WFW
father, an old man of seventy-eight,
thinking that something might be got out
of tbe hooae before the flood reached it,
went back. In dashed the son after him,
begging him to leave the doomed build
ing. While raising one of tbe windows,
the floor gave way beneath their feet, and
his father disappeared from his sight.
The young man had just time to clamber
out of the window, and as the house tipped
over crawled up ite side to the rtof just as
the building broke up, leaving him but a
fragment to clinsr to for his life, and on
he went sailing aown that awful flood in
full sight of wife and children,who, as they
looked on in terror and agony, expected
momentarily to see him sink beneath the
surging mass. In a few seconds his frail
raft was crushed like an eggshell, but his
presence of mind never deserted him. He
jumped for another, and when that was
gone for yet another. He was hastening
down with the current at terrific speed,
and, intent on the fearful task he had in
hand, never once thought of the dams to
ward which he was hastening. The first
one is reached in the awful crash and jam.
He is hurled seemingly twenty feet in the
air, to come dowu and be submerged for
the first time far beneath the waves. As
he came to the surface again and clasped
another picce of driftwood he realized
with an intensity unimaginable by those
whose lives have never been imperiled
that another and higher dam was but a
short distance below, and that he had ab
solutely no hope for life unless he es
caped from the flood before that point
was reached but fortunately the swollen
mass of water and debris at that moment
surged toward shore, and seizing an op
portunity which' seemed to be providen
tially presented he clambered across
some broken roots, which served him as
a bridge, and with a leap again had a
foothold on the earth. The feelings of a
man who, like him, had scarcely a hope
of life, on finding himself escaped from
the jaws of death cannot be depicted.
Only a cool and intrepid man could have
passed through that experience, and pos
sibly Mr. Dunning could not but for hia
experiences before as a raftsman in Can
adian waters. He had been swept half a
mile down the river and was utterly ex
hausted by the intense strain on mind and
body, nerve and muscle, yet as he lay on
the bank for a moment to get his breath
he could not suppress i smile at the ap.
pearance of a man who escaped from the
flood near the same place by seizing hold
of the limbs of a large tree on the bank.
Fleshy though he was, this man went up
that tree like a squirrel, and did not stop
until he was at least thirty feet above the
water.
Mr. Dunning describes as the most ap
palling incident of the memorable riae
the heartrending screams and groans of
women and children in houses that were
swept down with him :tnd seemed to be
beneath him. He says they will ring in
his ears till tke latest day of his life.—-Oor.
N. Y. Herald.
GT1IER INCIDENTS.
Among the many thrilling incidents
glTen in the newspaper accounts of this
fcarlul occasion are the following
All along the course of the flood there
were narrow escapes and thrilling inci
dents. Mr. II. II. Tilton, of Williams
burg, was carrying his aged mother, Wid
ow Sarah H. Snow, to a place of safety,
when the unrelenting waters seized them
Bhe was carried away, while he grasped a
tree, about fifteen feet high, standing on a
bank, and was saved, though the waters
reached and swayed him. Messrs. Han
num and Khodes, living in the same
house, got across the 9treet into another
dwelling, the lower story of which was
flooded, but some apple trees broke the
force of the wave ami the house stood.
Jeremhn Ward thought to save his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Knight, and died with
her. A daughter of Spencer Bartlett
started to flee with her parents to the hill,
but the incoming waters tossed them
away, and she was compelled to remain
in the house, and so escaped.
Two large boilers were in use at Hay
den & Gere's brass manufactory, one of
hem carrying seventy pounds of steam
on the morning of the flood, while the
other was cold. The heated boiler ex
ploded with a terrific report, while the
other was carried over 600 feet and landed
in the yard in front of Joel Hay
den's res
idence.
One of the saddest cases connected
with the disaster was the death of Mrs.
Jane Cogan, of Leeds, and her two
daughters, Grace and Carrie. Grace
Cogan was a pupil in the West field
Normal School, while her sister Annie
was a teacher in a school at West Farms.
They arrived at home Friday night, in
tending to spend Sunday, and the wave
came without warning as the three were
seated at the breakfast table. The only
surviving member of the family is an
absent daughter.
It was a remarkable freak of tbe flood
that Rims' store at Leeds went scot free,
while the railroad track for several rods,
on higher land, and within a few steps of
the store, was badly torn up. The ex
planation of it probably is that the wave,
coming very suddenly, had just time to
break over the bank and tear up the rails,
when the dam across tbe river gave way,
relieving the flood before it could fall
upon the store with sufficient force to do
any damage,
A young French child was found safe
asleep in a bed is a wrecked house, in at
templing to escape from which the re
mainder of the family perished.
Miss Carrie Bonney and Mrs. Sarah J.
Ryan and child, who were among those
swept away and lost, had ample time to
save themselves, but were completely
stupefied with terror, and, with a fixed
stare, stood motionless.
Mr. Raymond, employed in Mr. James'
mill, saw his house sail by, and, of
course, expected that his family were
i
with it, but they, not a Second too soon,
hearing the roar of the impending flood,
had escaped lo a knoll some four rods in
the rear of their home,
Mr. S. Gage, th« head machinist at
i James' mill, interestingly tells his ex
I periences. He was in the basement of
the mill when the cry came, Run for
your lives the reservoir has broke!"
Then some twenty-five of the operatives
passed over the bridge to the hill, about
eight rods diatunt, only just quick enough,
for the structure crumbled almost unSer
their feet one second more, he says,
would have swamoed them.
Three men—J. M. Stephenson and two
new hands whose names are not known
fearing the boarding-house in which they
were with a number of others would give
way, despite the entreaties of their asao- I
dates, left it and climbed an apple tree I
near by. The latter fell under them and
they were drowned, while those at the I
boarding-house remained unharmed. One
man ventured upon the roof of the board
ing-house, ana, though it crumbled under
him, he clung to it and saved his life,
John Atkins, foreman of the weavinir
room, died in saving the lives of his wife
and two children. I
oow floated down from Williamsbmi I
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to Florence, and escaped with only
broken horn.
A sad and affecting case was that ff
three French children, none of them ovtr
nine years old, who sat among the living
and dead in Mr. Warner*j house at Leed^
and told questioners that they had lost
three sisters, a brother and their mother,
but their father was safe and attending
some of the dead people. But many who
listened to them knew that the father, u
well aa the brother and sisters, was among
the dead, yet none bad the heart to break
the terrible news to the children.
One lucky little boy got a safe ride
down the stream in a small house. The
dwelling was picked up by the flood
somewhere between Leeds and Florence,
and went ovej- the dam right side up, land
ing some distance below on the flati.
There somebody spied this novel convey
ance, and took the boy out, safe and
sound.
One of the saddest casualties among the
l^wer classes was that of Mr. Edward
Mocker, an aged Irishman living near
the bridge at Haydenville. He was stand
ing in front of his house when he discov
ered the water approaching, and in trying
to enter ana save his wife and a helpless
boy he was overpowered by the flood and
drowned. Mrs. Mocker grasped the youth
in her arms and struggled for dry land,,
but was twice knocked down and badly
wounded by floating rubbish, but al
though badly wounded she clung to her
invalid boy, and stood waist deep in the
water for an hour until the flood subsided.
Men then came to her rescue, moving her
to comfortable quarters, but in moving the
boy he was by ime means dropped in the
road, and this, with the exposure and
shock, it was thought, would shortly cause
his death. The boy fell on the ice last win
ter, spraining his ankle, and being unaole
to move his legs were frozen before being
discovered, and he has been a helpless m
valid ever since. The mother's lament,
Saturday night, when applying at the
town hall for bed-clothing, was most
piteous. After describing her husband's
vain attempt to reach her, she returned
to her sick boy. "Oh!" cried she, that
I should live to see this night! An' the
boy cried to me,4 Sure you won't leave me,
mother, to be carried in the flood,' an' I
rushed and snatched him out of bed, and
got out between the houses, and, as God
hears me, I couldn't get farther, an' I
stood there, an' the boy in my arms, aa*
the water going over me. And 1 was
knocked from here wid a timber that hit
me on my leg and again in the breast, btlt
I'm alive and I saved the boy, but he'll
die the mornin', an' the man's gone. Rd
ward's gone. Oh, but for the rainy morn
ing, he'd been here at work und saved.
Oh, my darling, my darling, God he^
us!"
—Three men and two boys lately floated
for thirty-two days in the Indian Ocean*
in a small boat, before they were rescued.
For the last eleven days they had neither
food nor water, except that the mate shot
a bird which chanced to fly over them.
They chewed lead to moisten their throats,
tried to eat their boots and jelly fish, and
in delirium sought to kill one another—
inviting death. Blood from wounds in a
fray was eagerly drunk, but when the
frenzy passed the men would shake hands
and kiss each other. Lots were cast, and
a boy in the boat doomed to be killedi.
but this the mate, who acted Uuvu^l^ut
most resolutely, prevented.
—A correspondent notices that .Tftmes
Gordon Bennett is a bachelor who will
soon be forty that Whitelaw Reid is a.
solitary bachelor about forty that Manton
Marble is a solitary widower of forty tiiat
Hurl but, also of the World, is a bachelor
under fifty that Bundy, of the Mail, i4#
bachelor over forty, and that Congdon,
the Tribune, is a widower over fifty.
"'i
—Painting on wood is becoming a fash
ionable employment for young ladi*.
Quite a number are learning to ornamemt
fans, fancy boxes, and tlie like, and if they
persevere they may likely learn to paint
houses and sign boards in time, and make
a practical business of it.
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