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The Unlit fuHentt. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE. J. M. HUBBARD, Editor and Proprietor. TKKMS OK l K IIIMXi : One square of eight linos, $1.60 for the first Insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. One column, one year oo OO Hall column, one year 18.1 OO Quarter column, one year 75 OO Eighth column, one yVilr 40 OO One column, six months OO Half column, six months 75 OO Quarter column, six months to OO Eighth column, six months 35 OO One column, three months 75 OO Half column, three months 40 OO Suarter column, three months 2o 00 ighth column, three months 15 OO Special rates given on application, fcw"" All business letters must to addressed to J. M. HUBBARD. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : For one year i in advance 91 5 For Biz months 1 OO VOL. XVIII. XO. 40. BOLIVAR, TENN., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1883. .50 per Annum. mww NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. The Duke of Connaught opened the Irish Lace Exhibition at the Mansion House on the 25th. The French Senate has passed a bill providing for direct postal Hervice between Havre and New York. The winning horses in the races at Chicago, 111., on the 25th were Sadie Mc Nairy, Apollo, April Fool and Viola. The cases against A. E. Boone.known as the star-route straw bond cases, wert nolle pro8sed on the 2.th at Washington. The Paris, France, municipality has voted 10,1)00 francs to defray the expenses of the delegates from Paris to the forth coming Boston Exhibition. An executive order was issued on the 25th for the reorganization of internal rev enue collection districts. The number of districts was reduced from 120 to 82. The finding of the court-martial in the, case at Paymaster Wosson has been approved by the President dismissal from the army and eighteen months at hard lalor. tJovKKNOK BusJUUt's request for a committee to search for rascality in va rious departments of the State Government lias been refused by the Massachusetts Senate. The Minnesota Republicans, in con vention at St. Paul tu the 27th, renomina ted Governor Hubbard by acclamation. C. A. Oilman was nominated for Lieutetiant tioverrtor. Colonel I). P. Parker, Chief In spector of the Post-office Department, has declined an appointment as Postmaster of Washington, D. C, with an increase of flflflQ in salary. A delegation of Land Leaguers called on the President at Washington the other day and presented resolutions re garding assisted emigration. A. M. Sulli van delivered an address. The liabilities of Meticoeh, Evering liam & Co., ChicaKo, whose failure was an nounced a few days ago, were steadily growing on the 'iiifh. The Receiver said he bad already figured up .,000,000 indebted ness. The Mississippi River Commission concluded a two days' session at St. Louis, Mo., on the 2(th, having agreed on esti mates for appropriations to be made for work befttwt Cairo. The figures were not made public. H. W. WniOHT, formerly Postmaster nl itaoine.who has been doing an extensive lumber business at Merrill, AVis., made an nsigument the other day, to cover liabilities of about .t2H,otKi. His assets were nomin ally 120,000. The Iowa Republicans, in Convention at Des Moines on the 27th, renominated B. R. Sherman for Governor, O. H. Manning for Lieutenant- 5 overnor and Professor Akers for Superintendent of Instruction, nil by acclamation. , 1 . 1 Great distress was reported among the rKhing families along the Labrador const on tho SHh, owing to the detention of the spring supplies'by the jam of gulf ice along Uieir shores. It was feared that some deaths from starvation had already oc curred. The recent reorganization of the internal revenue collection districts re duces the number to eighty, forty-six dis t riets being abolished or merged into others. The annual saving by the "eduction is estimated by the Internal Revenue Bureau at atfMN. j e There is a hope for better tea. It was reported fronf China the other day that spring rains had greatly improved the crop, while from New York HUM news of enforcement of the new law by the seiz iSSe of a cargo f adulterated teas valued at.22,000. The corner-stone of the new Univer sity of Vermont and the unveiling the stat ute of Lafayette, took place nt Burlington a few days ago, iu the presence of ten thousand jeople, including the Governor mid State officials and nearly all the living cx-Oovcruors of that State. LorisK MiciiEi , the French Socialist, has been sentenced to six years' imprison ment and ten years' police supervision. f t ht other prisoners charged with rioting and yillnge, Pouget and Monset got eight and one years' imprisonment, respectively , and two others were acquitted. The case of Genera Adam Radeati, a retired United States army officer. now t'oimui-tienerai at uuvnua, iiiik been referred by tho Secretary of the Treasury to the Court of Claims. It in volves the question of tho right of a retired army officer to enter the consular service and draw two salaries. e A recent statement prepared in the olSee of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington shows that the aggregate receipts during May, 18S.1, were !S'lt)18 greater than for tho same month of 182. There was an increase of 2:U,72! from spirits; an increase of $220,527 from tobacco ; an increase of $84,049 from banks and bankers, and a decrease of $18.s,7.".-' from miscellaneous articles. A terrible hail storm, which lasted thirty minutes, is reported to have visited the town of Essex, Iowa, the other night, breaking nearly every pane of glass in the village and leaving banks of hail from four to five feet deep on the windward side of the houses. Farmers said that the corn ah through that region was entirely de sfro cd and wheat was so badly tangled that it would be difficult to harvest it. Severe storms and floods were re ported from various sections of the country on the 27th, the most serious damage occur ring in Pennsylvania, where the corn and tobacco crops had been seriously injured and traffic interrupted on many railroads by washouts and landslides. A number of mines and collieries were flooded. In tho vicinity about Portland, Me., the devasta tion was widespread, the Bangor fc Port laud Railway suffering washouts which in some placea were twenty-five feet deep. The Western part of Michigan suffered greatly! especially the railroads. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A great fire occurred on the 2oth among warehouses and vessels at the island of Gutujewski, mouth of tho Neva. The loss would be over 1,500,000 roubles. The cable announced the other day that Mormon missionaries were making many converts in the mining districts of England and Wales. A large party had already started for Utah. There has been more bloodshed in Ireland. In a fight between two militia companies, one from Dublin and one from North Mayo, at Curragh the other night, seventeen men were wounded. The tight lasted two hours. Lynch, alias Norman, who gave tes timony that secured tho conviction of his fellow-dynamite conspirators in London, has been released. The Jenkins brothers were both held for murder without bail at Mansfield, La., on the 25th, for the killing of Rev. J. Lane Borden. Colonel Farinhlot, of Essex Coun ty, Va., had a quarrel with a blacksmith, and the other evening visited the smith, with a five-pound weight in his hand, to ef fect a settlement of the trouble. The black smith crushed the Colonel's skull with a sledge-hammer. Eight persons were killed and many others were injured by a railroad collision near Havana, Cuba, on the 25th. John L. Sthyker, a wealth- New Yorker, was drowned while bathing at Sar atoga on the 25th. He had been married only t wo months. Rev. Henry Ward Beeciier's sev entieth birthday was celebrated by a largo number of his friends and admirers on the 25th at tho Academy of Music, in Brook lyn. N. V. ; The Planters' Cotton Seed Oil-works, in Algiers, opposite New Orleans, La., was struck by lightning during a thunder storm on the 25th and entirely destroyed. It was the largest cotton seed oil-works in existence and the loss was roughly esti mated at $1,000,000, including the building, stock and machinery. Several cottages adjoining the oil-works were also de stroyed and five firemen were slightly scalded by the explosion of a tank. While a wake was in progress at Milford, Mass., the other night over the body of Captain William P. Burke, a kero sene lamp upset by one of the mourners set fire to the house. The hilarious mourn ers had barely timo to save their lives, leaving the dead body behind thorn to be burned to ashes. The house was destroyed, together with three others close by. The entire loss was .12,000, and nine families were made homeless. A large stave factory at Mannville, Wis., was destroyed by tire the other uftrht and a young Fulander, night watchman, was burned to death. Ei.mer Snvder, a farmer residing near Glen City, Pa., was recently surprised hy a visit from a young man claiming to be his runaway son, who proved to have been a Chicago (III.) thief. The villain waited his time and then robbed the old man of .f8,500 in money and bonds. Mrs. David a. Rath ford, living in the extreme northwestern part of Hunt ington County, Ind., was struck by light ning the other day while attending to milking and instantly killed. Andrew Mt II vi.e, thirteen years old. fell several hundred feet to the bottom of the Enterprise CMliery, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., the other day, and had his skull crushed nnd his body horribly mangled. MEDICAL superintendents of Ameri can institutions for the insano were in ses sion at Providence, R. I., on the 20th. A BURVET 01 the country west ot the Rio Pecos in Texas has been ordered by the Government. At Lebanon Junction, Ky., James Tewell, colored, was shot in twenty-seven places the other night by an unknown ene my, lie leaves a wife. No cause for tho murder was known. It was reported the other day that the recent operations of the British soldiery against Chief Gbpowa in West Africa were attended with horrible atrocities com mitted by native allies of the English. At Elk Creek, one mile and a half east of Missoula, Mont., a few days ago, on a siding, a gravel train backing down was run into by a wood train, and instantly killed eighteen Chinamen, wounding from twenty t twenty-five others. The engineer of the gravel trnin was killed ami the fire man seriously wounded. No one was hurt on the wood train. At Swathmore College, Pennsyl vania, of seven graduates who took the degree of bachelor of arts the other day, live were females; of five who became bachelors of literature, two were females. Cholera is said to be making- sad ravages at Damietta. Of forty-two deaths there in one day recently twenty-eight were known to have been from cholera and the rest were supposed to have been. The Ohio Supreme Court has de clared the Scott liquor-tax law constitu tional. A special from Jefferson, Tex., on the 26th reported the lynching of a negro for assaulting a white woman. He made a full confession. In Wisconsin a negro un der arrest for a similar crime, though not so aggravated a case, was shot to death. A frightful accident occurred at Trespassy, N. F., the other evening. A large fishing boat went down and six men were drowned out ot a crew of seven. It was supposed she was overloaded. Fears are entertained of a rice fam ine at Soura. Baya and Rembang, Java. Disease has destroyed 200,000 acres. Count Demores, who has recently expended a million dollars in fitting up one of the largest cattle and sheep ranches in the world, is having a taste of life in the western wilds of Dakota. An outlaw named O'Donnell was after the Count's scalp the other day and said he would kill him on sight. Hubert N. Parks & Co., bankers, of New York, filed an assignment the other day, giving preferences for $208,000. During a thunder-aionu at Chatham, Eng., a few days ago, four soldiers were killed by lightning. The Garfield Monument Committee the other day selected a site in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, O., overlooking the country for miles. The fund in band was $130,000. Joun O. James, for many years a QTomiucut dry-goods merchant of Phila delphia, Pa., died suddenly a few days ago. Contributions toward a pedestal for the Bartholdi statue of Liberty at New York have been made by several represen tative men of Ohio recently, and the com mittee has reported the possession of over .100,000 with which to commence the enter prise. Maud Lennon, the voting daughter of John Lennon, Esq., of Lockport, N. Y., died the other morning in convulsions from blood-poisoning, caused by the prick of a tack in her forehead one week before. The case was a very unusual one. Fire was discovered the other after noon in the heading in the breast at Moni tor Colliery, two miles from Mount Car mcl, Pa., and several men, overcome by gas, were carried cut of the mine. The colliery employs over 500 men and boys. Three hundred Chinese shoemakers at San Francisco, Cal., have struck for an increase of twenty cents a day in wages. A dreadful tradgedy occurred at Collinsville, Ala., a small town on the Alaba ma Great Southern Railway, a few days ago. A dispute arose between the Hall and Mul lins families regarding the dividing fence of their respective estates, which culminat ed in the killing of two of the Halls and one of the Mullins and the fatal wounding of John Mullins. The college boat race between Har vard and Columllia freshmen tho other day was wou by the former. There was another lynching at Jef ferson, Tex., on the 27th, the victim being an accomplice of the negro who was lynched there the day before. The Pennsylvania Senate on the 27th passed the Republican Congressional Ap portionment bill and the House passed the Democratic Legislative Apportionment bill. The Millers' National Association concluded their annual convention in Chi cago, 111., on the 27tb. At the Chicago (111.) suburb of Pull man, on the 27th, a boarding-house keeper named William Ray shot and killed George Fox and Thomas Dowdle. Ray surren dered to the police, and said he shot in self defense. Commander Frederick Smith, United States Navy, court-martialed re cently for duplicating pay accounts, will not be punished, but will be allowed to re sign. General CroTjk has telegraphed to Washington that the report that the Chiri cahua captives had been forced on the San Carlos Reservation was false. As a l'esult of negotiations between Russia and tho Vatican the conclusion of which was announced on the 27th, the hier archy will bo allowed freedom iu matters of faith, but interference in temporal matters is forbidden. NAsnviLLE, Tenn., had -10,000 lire the other day. Luxuries suffered a chew ing gum factory was among the establish ments destroyed. The Hoods continued to subside slowly on the 27th, and the condition of affairs in tho inundated district was im proving slightly. Lieutenant Hunt, United states Navy, and a daughter of Adjutant-General Drum, United States Army, were married in Washington a few days ago. GOVERNOR Uutler, of Massachu setts, went to the Harvard commencement on the 27th in grand style. He rode iu a barouche drawn by six horses, and was es corted by his staff and the National Lan cers. A THOUSAND employes of tho steel works at Bethlehem, Pa., struck on the 27th for an increase of wages. The American Rifle team have crossed tlie ocean safely. They landed at Queens town on the 27th. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Bogus Missouri bonds to the amount of 1271,185 were sold to Edwin R. Kirk, a a sailmaker of New York. After he had bought the bonds Kirk became suspicious, and started an investigation that led to the arrest of Isaac A. Briggs, a broker, and Wesley Lyon, a lawyer, both of New York, and Emil Brie, a lawyer of Stamford, Conn. Brie, in tho role of a Missouri offi cer, had the bonds lithographed. Mrs. Pope was stung on the nose by a bee at Milan, Tenn., "a few days ago, and death ensued in a few minutes. There was another bad break in the markets at Chicago, UK, on the 23th, and more failures were reported. The telegraph reported on the 28th that twenty-three collieries in the vicinity of Ashland, Pa., had been flooded by the storm which occurred there the day before. On May 24 Lieut. -Col. Schlayer of the Austrian army and Lieut. Bolgar, edi tor of the Military Journal at Vienna, fought a duel, in which Schlayer was slain. A trial at Vienna the other day ended in acquittal of Bolgar, the evidence showing he was the challenged party, and was forced to fight. The bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister in England has been rejected by the House of Lords. Oklahoma Payne has applied to the United States Circuit Court at Topeka, Kans., for an injunction restraining the Secretary of the Interior and General Pope from interfering with his occupation of lands in the Indian Territory. Rev. Mr. Wichborne, an English clergyman, while travelling from Calai3 to Paris, a few days ago, was attacked and stabbed five times with a chisel. He fought desperately, and on arrival of the train at Amiens the would-be murderer, also an Englishman, was captured. The minister was fatally hurt. The object was robbery. Another hero in humble life has been discovered. His name was J. Samuel Smith, a locomotive engineer, and when his train on the Sumnerville Railroad, in South Carolina, jumped the track the other day he stuck to his post and saved the lives of many passengers, sacrificing his own. Investigation shows the recent charges of cruelty against the man agers of the Soldiers' Home at Bath, N. Y., are untrue. Lawlessness in Montgomery, Yell and Garland counties, Arkansas, has called forth a proclamation from Governor Berry, urging officers and citirens to do their duty. A conspiracy has been discovered, j the purpose of which is to betray German f military secrets. Arrests were being made j by wholesale in Dresden, Berlin, Cologne, i Hanover and other cities on tlie 2?tu. SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. The death of II M. Ogden, aged forty-three, occurred at New Orleans a few days ago. He was Attorney-General under the Nichols administration, and figured prominently in the politics of Louisiana in 1874 and 1875. Emma Key, eldest daughter of ex-Postmaster-General Key, was married the other night at her father's home in Chatta nooga, Tenn., to M. B. Thompson, Superin tendent of the Mail Service of the United States. Rev. J. C. Hartshorn, of Providence, R. I., has offered to erect a building to cost $20,000 at Richmond, Va., to be given the Baptists for a school for the education of colored girls. E. V. Logan, of MiU'hellsburg, Ky., fell off a train near Lebanon while drunk the other morning, and was frightfully mangled. At the meeting of the Executive Com mittee of the Sanitary Council of the Mis sissippi Valley, at Memphis, Tenn., the other night, it was decided that when the National Board of Health closed on the 30th of June, to maintain the inspection service by river and rail as now enforced. Its rules for that service would be adopted and maintained intact by the Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley. It em braces inspections at Memphis, and also on the river between Vicksburg and the Louisiana State line and at New Orleans. The President has recognized James Hunter as Vice-Consul of Portugal at Mo bile, Ala. The fifty members of the Texas Legis lature indicted some time ago for poker playing have about all settled their cases without trial by payment of fines and costs. Miss Colista Hopewood, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Balti morcan, has married William Obendorfer, a wealthy young Hebrew of Norfolk, Va., against the consent of her family. Another natural gas well has been struck at Wheeling, W. Va. The Kentucky Central road has com pleted its Richmond extension, the last spike having been driven at Paris a few days ago. An experiment has been recently made in scouring wool at Fort Worth, Tex., and the clean product forwarded to Boston for inspection. Thirty or forty million pounds will be exported from Tex as this year in an unscoured condition. An allowance of fifty per cent, for dirt and grease is said to be obtained. A "genuine tiger11 was slain in St. Landry Parish, La., lately which meas ured nine feet from tip to tip. The '-peen-to,"' or flat peach of Chi na, is revolutionizing peach culture in Florida. It is flat like a biscuit. Recent information from Dallas states that within the past few days northern capitalists have been looking over Texas in a quiet way, and have been reported from different points prospecting for locations for themselves and those they represent. Northern railroads are organizing plans for sending large parties on such tours intc the State to investigate the country as in telligently as possible. A few days ago there was sold on the trash wharf at Key West, Fla., $9, 810.29 worth of sponges. A reeler of silk in New Orleans, who kis hitherto employed some nineteen hands, proposes to go into the manufacture of silk fabrics, and to organi ze a joint stock com Xany for that purpose. He has already reeled 1,500 pounds of silk and has an im portation of cocoons on the way from France of 1,200 pounds. A sixteen foot shark, of the hammer head variety, has been recently killed at Fernandina, Fla. Of the 5,100 Episcopalians in Ken tucky, it is said 2,3 K) are in Louisville. Minnie Mitchell committed suicide at Slirevcport, La., recently. A local p iper relates that her death in Shreveport, and the killing by a railroad accident of the man who brought her to that city, on the same day, was a singular coincidence, par ticularly as it was thought her suicide was caused by him. Twenty thousand pounds of zinc were shipped one day last week from Knoxville, Teun., to Connecticut. Moses Stuart, while fishing near Rod dy, Ky., a few days ago with dynamite, was injured by the explosion, fell into the water and was drowned. At tlie National Cemetery near Mem phis, Tenn., the other morning George Fletcher, section boss of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was shot and killed by William Kennedy, a negro. Fletcher's little boy was roughly handled by Kenne dy, and when Fletcher expostulated Ken nedy, without warning, drew a pistol and fired, the ball striking Fletcher in the side, from the effect of which he died soon af terward. Kennedy made his escape. Judge Pardee, of the United States Circuit Court, at New Orleans, the other day rendered a decree in the case of New Orleans vs. John A. Morris et al., by whi h the city recovers 4,344 shares of stock o the Waterworks Company which had been seized and sold by various parties, who are now ordered to restore the stock to the city. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that the stock was held in trust by the city and not liable to seizure and sale. Fourteen judgment creditors, stock dealers and brokers who sold and purchased the stock are ordered to restore the bonds to tho city, which, together with dividends since 1879, amounts to nearly half a million dollars. Cleburne County claims the tallest average set of officers of any county in Arkansas. The average is about six feet; the Sheriff, Assessor, Treasurer, Surveyor and Coroner will fall a little short of six feet. The Judge, Clerk and Deputy Clerk will measure eighteen feet six inches, and all combined will measure fifty-four feet Crops promise well in Eastern Texas. A branch of the Southern Historical Society has been organized at Houston, Tex. This is the first branch organized in the State. General George E.Johnson, of Georgia, in a speech, said that he was as sured that Mississippi and Alabama would soon follow the example of Texas in donat ing v5,000 to the society, as would eventu al;' all the Southern States. Letters from Upsher County, W. Va., tell of the discovery there of unmistakable gold-bearing quartz. The find was creating considerable excitement in the vicinity. THE GREAT FLOOD. The Mississippi Falling Slowly and Confi dence Being Restored The Worst Thought to be Over. St. Lotus, Mo., June 27. After rising for twenty-six "days, and reaching the highest stage of water known since 1858, the Mississippi, to the gratifica tion of all, is subsiding slowly. At six o'clock yesterday evening it had fallen one inch, when the Government gauge at the foot of Market street registered thirty-four feet nine inches. The decline will proba bly not be rapid, but will be sufficient to greatly lessen the danger of the situation when the anticipated '"June rise" comes. The telegrams from Upper Missouri River points bring information that the rise from the mountains has begun, but over a week must pass before the effect will be felt in the neighborhood of St. Louis. It is the opinion of many of the river men that the worst of the flood of 1883 has been seen. In East St. Louis the news that the river had commenced falling caused universal rejoicing. The situation yesterday wat considered more favorable, and it is gen erally believed that the worst is over. N further danger is feared unless there should be a heavy rise. Every dangerous point about the town is well protected against any possible influx of water, and work goes on constantly. While elated over thi change, citizens and railroad officials are as vigilant as ever, and prepared for any emergency. At Bowman's dike yesterday everything appeared safe. The water in the slough had gone down three inches since, Monday morning, and the fall wa: perceptible. The new ridge on the dike i considerably above tho sweeping water, and it will require a heavy rise to cause any weakening. Cahokia Creek was higher, however, caused by the influx of watei from the breaks at Venice and Brooklyn. The current was quite switt, and for th first time in four days running in its nat ural direction down stream. In the region known as the M willows," and at different points on Bloody Island the inundation is extensive, and many houses, nearly 400, are still in deep water. Some familios have been obliged to leavt their homes and take quarters in box cai on the railroad tracks. The leak at Jarrett's Station has been stopped and no danger is feared for Easi St. Louis in case of the embankment beine cut. In the old railroad yards, midway between the Relay Depot and the junction, there is water over all the tracks. A dilu about two feet and a half high was buili between the two west trtftks and those east f them. On the east side of this dik' there were four inches of water, and on thi west side about twice as much. The watei was rising steadily last night, but having very nearly found a level, there was no perceptible motion to it. The principal danger along the line of the Alton Road is from the ground moles, which, driven from their usual haunts by the water, have made their way to the road-bed, the only dry ground they can reach. They are in count less numbers, and are continually burrow ing and loosening the track below its sur face, so as to concentrate in springs the water seeping through. Probably from the result of these burrowingsan alarming, though not serious, break below the water line occurred yesterday afternoon, about a mile above the junction. An extra force of men and a liberal supply of sand-bags stopped the flow nnd restored confidence. ' Later reports from the flooded farming region to the north and south of East St. Louis show that hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of ripening crops have been destroyed and hundreds of farmers ruined. A great number of families have been left absolutely homeless. Immense Loss Above Chester. East Carondelet, III., June 26. The river at this point came to a stand last night, since when it has fallen three inches, a fact hailed with great joy by our people,who, for the last ten days have lived in painful suspense, hedged in on every side by the threatening waters. It is now confidently felt by all that the crisis is past. Further south, in the vicinity of Fish Lake, the ruin wrought by the waters simply beggars description. At thn eastern end of the dike, which crosses the lake, is a narrow strip of land connecting two ridges across which the farmers of the neighborhood had constructed a temporary levee, which up to twelve o'clock yesterday held the water back from about 1,000 acres f corn, potatoes and wheat. For seven days and nights tho farmers have battled in the hope that just this little spot at least might possibly be saved, but all their ef forts proved fruitless. The water steadily crept up the crumbling banks, and at noon the workers threw down their shovels, as the waters burst through, laying waste the last of the crops. In the vicinity of Smith's Landing, Har risonville, Chester and Grand Tower, the situation was but a duplicate of that pre sented in the Fish Lake country. The entire bottoms from East St. Louis to Chester on the Illinois side and from St. Mary's to Bailey's Landing on the Missouri side being inundated, save an occasional knoll here and there. In an interview with Mr. Welsh, ex Sheriff of Randolph County, it was learned that the St. Mary's levee, opposite Chester, broke night before last, looseuingthe waters of the Mississippi upon 200,000 acres of wheat that was ready for the reaper, and accord ing to the opinions of those competent to judge, would have yielded thirty bushels to the acre. The town of St. Mary's is partly submerged, and is still further threatened unless the water should subside. From Chester to Grand Tower, a dis tance of twenty-five miles, the situation is even worse than in the St. Mary's Bottom. The bottoms between these points repre sent an average width of ten miles ; hence in this locality alone an area of 2T)0 square miles is said to be fully three-fourths under water, while the influx continues to spread out, swallowing up the rich fields. In the neighborhood of Kaskaskia the same doleful aspect presents itself. The town is to be utterly abandoned to the ris ing waters, the inhabitants having already telegraphed to Chester for a boat to convey them to the latter place. The breaking of Levee No. 1, in the vicinity of Smith's Landing, which occurred at two o'clock yesterday evening, destroys the last hope of laving anything in that part of the bottom. Sufferers Near Mitchell. Mitchell, III., June 30. At what time last night the waters began to fall no one knows, but when the people about Nameoki got up this morning they found that during the night the great lake in front of them had gone dwn seven inches. Visitors in from the country re ported that the water in Big Lake had gone down a foot, and that the backwater from Venice, which last night tbre itened to en tirely submerge Zimmermatn's farm, three mile southeast of here, had fallen more than foot, consequently there was a feel ing of great relief here. Those who suf fered from the overflow of the Wabash tracks think little of their loss, as on no farm are more than four or five acre flooded. Ail the way down to the breaks at Kinder the water has powered also, so that everywhere in Madison County there has been a decline. The actual number ot acres now under water in three townships of Madison County is thought to be about 7,000 acres and the entire loss is placed at near $300,000. Viewing the Flood from a Hand-Car, 8taumton, III., June 28. A newspaper correspondent with a crew of seven started from here at two o'clock this afternoon for the flooded regions, and ran to the water's edge, thirty -three and a half miles on a hand-car. At Mitchell tho water has subsided three and a half inches since seven o'clock this morning, with four feet as an average. At Nameoki, two miles south, the water has fallen two inches. From Nameoki the party proceeded to Kin der, two miles south, and thence to the water eleven and a half miles further on. Hore the water has been measured repeatedly by the inhabitants, and they claimed at noon the water had risen half an inch, but at four o'clock they say it had fallen two and one-fourth inches. From the edge of the water East St. Louis and St. Louis are plainly seen above this mighty lake of water. Wheat that could not be seen yes terday is now above the water half an inch. At Kinder flatboats and skiffs are busy carrying people to a place of safety, the stock being left to perish. Hundreds of rabbits, coons and fowls are seen crossing the track at Nameoki. The Chicago & Alton and Indianapolis & St. Louis Rail way dike at Mitchell is all that saves the water from flooding the eastern part of the American Bottom. The Kise at Chester. Chester, III., June 2. Both the Mississippi and Okaw Rivera continue to rise, aud each additional inch of water is doing hundreds of dollars' worth of damage, swelling the grand total high up into the thousands. The water is sev eral feet deep in the basements of ware houses and stores on Water street, and sev eral houses in Bois Brule Bottom, opposite Chester, are partly under water. Hun dreds of acres of fine wheat lands, on which tho grain was ready for harvesting, are submerged, and the crop will be a total loss. The water extends from the Chester bluffs to the bluffs in Missouri, a distance of about five miles. Only here and there land can be seen. A rise of six inches more will make the space between the bluff an unbroken sheet of water. Families living in Bois Brule Bottom are seeking safety in places far from their homes. Flatboats and other water craft are rescuing families from tin bottom above Chester. The old town 01 Kaskaskia, eight miles above here, is en tirely submerged, and is in danger of be ing swept from existence. The town is in undated, from one to six feet of water cov ering the place. All day yesterday boat.--were transporting the inhabitants from their overflowed homes to places of safety ot the hills on the east side 01 the Okaw River. These people, in most cases, will lose near ly all of their property. A Bad Break in the Levee. Cairo, III., June 2. While tho John A. Scudder was lying at Price's Landing, Mo., last night, twenty five miles above here, and during the heavy storm which prevailed, about 8j0 yards ol the levee was washed away bv the high waves, and an immense body of water h now devastating a large area of grain coun try. An outlet is found at James' Bayou forty miles below Cairo. The storm was very severe, accompanied by high winds and the wildest of thunder and lightning. Some few trees were blown down, and the Sherlock, moored at the wharfboat, sus tained considerable damage. It lasted about an hour, during which nearly an inch of rain fell. The river raised three incli t in the last twenty-four hours, the gaug reading thirty-nine feet three inches, thir teen feet below the high-water mark or February, 1883. At Bird's Point, oppo iiti Cairo the wind last night assumed the pro portions of a tornado, the heaviest oak and cottonwoods being twisted and toru down as though they were pipe stems, bu ; no lives are reported lost. The Missouri at Atchison. Atchison, Kan., June 28. Since last night the river has risen tw and a half inches. At this hour it is sta, tionary, with every indication that it wil recede unless severe local rains fall in tin next twenty-four hours. All advices fron, points further north Sioux City, Nebraska City and Omaha are to the effect that the river is on a decline. Such streams as the Nemaha and Platte, which have poured most of tho water into the main river, owingtoex cessive rains, are also subsiding, as the former has lowered four feet in the past twenty-four hours. Old rivermen here in cline to the opinion that while the present waters may recede two feet, still the June freshet may catch tho then high water and cause disastrous results. This is partially confirmed by reports to the Government Engineer that the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri are rising. How much or how rapidly is not given, but it proves the theory that high water may yet be antici pated and that all danger is not passed. The high water has at last affected the bot toms and low lands opposite here In Mis souri, as it has cut through what is denomi nated tlie Sand-Cut, near Rush villa. Inun dating that section. The Cottner Ievee Goes Down. Cape Girardeau, Mo., June 28. The Cottner levee, situated three miles above this point on the Illinois shore, at which fifty men have been at work night and day to keep it from breaki ng, broke yesterday evening. The water at that point is three feet above the highest point reached in 187ft. The McClure settlement, which has a dike constructed around the entire tract, is two feet under water, and should the feared and predicted rise of eigh teen to twenty inches prove true this entire settlement will be lost. The farmers in the bottoms are preparing for the worst, and are flying to the high lands to save their lives. Suffering In Saline County. Waverlv, Mo., June 26. Waverly is in the center of the best wheat and corn country in the State, and the damage done in the river bottoms by the floods has been fearful. Thousands of acres have been submerged. Farmers have lost, in addition to their growing crops, large amounts of stock, including sheep, hogs, mules and horses. It will be difficult to reap the wheat located on the high lands, as the ground has been completely soaked. Many of the people living in the vincinity of Waverly found it necessary to escape to the bluffs without attempting to save any thing except the clothes on their backs. The Biver t Kmnas City. Kansas City, Mo., June 28. The river rose about tbreo inches during the forenoon and in the afternoon remained nearly stationary. Old river men gener ally agree in opinion that the Jane rise has not yet appeared here, but they antici pate its coming within six or seven days. This, however, is no more than mere specu- ! lation. The river has risen slightly to-day j at Omaha and Yankton. The Missouri Pacific went north to-day via Lawreoce, BURSED TO HEATH. Forty-Seven Out of an Audience tf Only Ninety Perish in a Burning Theater Drrvlo, Italy. London. June 38. Tlie intelligence of a frightful calamity at a place of amusement in Dorvio, on tho shore of Lake Como, has just been received. While a performance was In progress at a puppet theater the structure took tiro nnd was WTitirely destroyed. Forty-seen per sons lost their lives and twelve others whv injured. The performance wa given in a small hall over a tavern. Ninety men. women and children composed the audience. A Bengal HgLt was used to represent fire. Sparks from this ignited a quantity of straw an I fire-wood in the adjacent room. On perceiving the flames the showman shouted "fire," but the spectators thought the cry was merely a realistic detail of the show, and remained seated. Cries of lire wero soon raised outside the hall. The audience, thinking an affiay had arisen in the sheet, fearrod tlie dooi leading from the hull. They did not discover their mistake until the flames burst into the room. Alter the Bra had been extinguished, forty-seven charred corpses were found near the table, including the bodies of the showman nnd his wife. The greater number of the remains are those of women nnd children. The wounded were hurt by leaping through win dows. A child was flung out of a window by its mother, and fell upon a pile of straw. This is the only one present in tho hall not bote Dervio is a charming little village on tho borders of Lake Coino, very sequestered and picturesque. It Is about six miles north ot Ballagio, a charming seaside resort much frequented hy Engiish and American tourists, and about thirty miles north of Como. 1 Reduction of Revenue District Washington, Juno SO. ' The President has lasned an orc"er cutting down the number of n llortion (Istricls from one hundred and twenty-six to eichty-two. The new order of things beguis July 1, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Illinois loses two district. The Second nnd Third will be consolidated, and will bo known as tho Second. Lucien Crocker will be Collector, with headquarters nt Aurora. The Seventh and Eighth Districts will be merged under the name of the Eighth, with John W. Hill as Collector. Wisconsin All east of the dividing lino Is to be known as the First District, with Irving' M. Bean, Collector, His headquar ters will probably be at Milwaukee. All west of the dividing line will be known as the Second District, withLeonaid Lottridge, Collector. Indiana The Tenth and Eleventh Dis tricts are consolidated to be known as tho Eleventh, with Thomas M. Kirkpdrick, Collector. The First and Seventh are con solidated to be known as the Seventh, with William W. Carter. Collector. He will probably continue his headquarters at Terra Haute. The Fourth and Sixth ai.i consoli dated under the name of the Fourth, with Horace McKay as Collector. Ho will prob ably have his office at Indianapolis. Iowa Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Linn, Muscatine, Scott, Louisa, Washing ton, Johnson, Keokuk, Iowa, Benton, Ma haska, Powesheik, Tama, Marlon, Jasper, Warren, Tolk, Madison, Dallas, Adair, Guthrie, Cass, Audubon, Pottawattamie, Shelby end Harrison Counties are consoli dated Into one district, te be known as tho Second, with John W. Green, Collector. All that portion of the State south of tho counties named is consolidated into one dis trict, known as the Fourth, with J. W. liur dette. Collector a new appointment. All that portion of the State north of the coun ties named is constituted one district, known as the Third, with James E. Simpson, Col lector. Michigan The State is to be divided by a line running north aud south which now marks tlie boundaries of the United States judicial districts. All east of the. line is to be known as the First District. James 11. Stone is Collector, lie will probably bare headquarters at Detroit. All west of tho line will be known ns the Fourth District, with Charles W. Watkins, Collector. Ho will probably be located at Grand Rapids. MiS80un'. The First and Second Districts re consolidated, with Isaac 11. Sturgeon Collector. He will probably make St. Louis his headquarters. The Fifth and Sixth are consolidated, with Philip Dopplcr, Collector. Minnesota The First and Second aro consolidated, with William Biekel Collector. He will probably lie located nt St. Paul. Omo The Third and Sixth Districts aro consolidated, with George P. Dunham, Col lector. His-headquarters will probably bo Dayton. The Seventh and Eleventh aro consolidated, with Marcus Boggs, Collector. His headquarters will probably be at tiilll cotlie. The Fourth and Tenth are consol idated, with John P. Kuinlcr, Collector. The Fifteenth and Eighteenth are consoli dated, with Worthy 8. Streator, Collector. His office will probably be in Cleveland. Changes were also made In Alabama, California and Nevada, Georgia, Nebraska and Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming, Ari zona and New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon and Washington, Montana, Idaho and Utah, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. Exploded Fire-works. Jacksonville, 111., June 28. At fonr o'clock Saturday an explosion of fire-works occurred in Ixni A. McDonald's store and set fire to the building. I,ou A. McDonald and Leonard G. IaM were stifled by the smoke. McDonald was rescued by citizens, but Ixitt was suffix-ated and died as he was being taken out on the roof by the firemen. A. N. .McDonald, father ef tho proprietor, escaped from a rear second story window, but was also seriously hurl. As the fire was on the square a whole block of prominent business hou iea were endan gered, and there was much excitement, thousands of citizens turning out. A Coro ner's inquest was held over Lett's remains, and returned a verdict in accordance with the facts. The loss on McDonald's stock is about 81,000, and on the building about 0ML Large Cattle Purchase. Lv.xi.vrte, Ky., Juno 26. Probably the biggest cattle transact ion ot the age Is the purchase just concluded In this section by it. B. Edmondson of 1,100 high grade and short-horn I nils for the im provement of the 100,000 Texas cattle on the half million tract of tlie Franklin Land and Cattle Company, located in tlie Texas Pan handle. The company is an English syndi cate, associated with B. B. Giooni & Son, late of this locality. Fifty-four head of Jersey cattle imported by Alexander Mc Cilntock & Son, ot Millerbuig, direct from the Island of Jersey, arrived In fair condi tion, considering their voyage. Lynch, alias Norman, the informer who testified against the dynamite conspirators, has been released from custody became ot' bis services to the Government.