Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-10-15
TELE6RAPHIC NEWS
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NEw YORK, Oct. THE steamer villede
Paris, to have sailed TO day for Europe, has
been detained till Mop,lpy to carry out
military stores, She will take 200 re-,
SrUiiG for the French army, including tho
French Gen. Lefevre.
Governors Island has been placed id
quarantinC,. IN ccnset tucncc or the existence
Of yellow fever there. SOuo disease is ia
tho city,
NEw YORK, Oct. o-Sixty-hve yellow fsr
yer cases removed from Governors. Island
to the quarantine hospital. Other PREF
cautions have been taken, which ii i. hops,l
will prevent further spread. Two deaths
yesterday, making twenty since August.
Additional cases received at quara q inc
from Now Orleans steamers. Vessels from
New Orleans are placed under strict sur
veillaECe.
The small pox Is spreading in lie cas-
tern district Of Brooklyn. -,
A case Of yellow fever was reported in
Brooklyn yesterday.
FoRINEss, ,No&Rog, Oct. 2-Sevcre north
cast storm SETH lps,, evening and still
continues, blowing gale of wind. Roads
full Of shipping. ,,r
RicnMoND, Oct. 2-The flood on the Ri.
wanna river is the highest .exberiensv,!
since 1907. The families Of Mr.. Jennings
and of another miller OH the river were
washed away; 10 all five, persons, =. My,
Jennings is supposed 10 have been drowi,;
| ed ; his wife and two children are knows
to have perished. A young lady of tho
family clung to a tree, ,4S hours and was at
last washed of and drowned. Her ieath
was witnessed by a crowd on the other
bank Of the river, but there was no bon,
near, by which she might have been res
cued. On tls .Manassas Railroad the
bridges across the 'iorl aRi South Shen.
andonh rivers are gone, Many lives los:
The telegram to the Dispatch contains
these particulars: SO, II
The Bond Railroad above iiarper's Fer.
ry has been swept away. Scottsville, in
Albem arle county, has been inundated anil
the destruction of property was very great;
Is lives were lost. The trims are run ming
regnlarly, between, AleIaniris. md Rich;
moHd. a dispatch FROM JLynsRburg this
morning estimates the loss there BY :,tly
food at 100000. LOSS to the .. & \. n. /.
half million. Loss to the, canal quarter.
ofa million, and loss to South Side Rail
On Thursday, Will lie viirsSss wa. riis: Is:
ing, James Ransom and aaPSl.ler, ROBBERY
Whitley, wife and thrsS children and I
colored woman With, her children were
standing on the sbutHient. sanal bridge a!
Lynchburg waiting for boat t6 take then,
of, when n dredging machine broke loose
above and drifted against the abutment
and carried it away and all were drowned,
RICHMOND, Va. Oct. The, lexington
Gazette painfully announces that Gen. II.
+. Lee was stricken with paralysis, ON tho
2Sth ult., since which time he has been
altogether spcechles.. The entire commu
nifty are bowed with sorrow at this aff1ic-
lion to the old hero, which they regard s5
O mournful event TO the State.
WAsHISGJoy, Oct. S-Forcign summary
Diplomats nt Parie will ask ~ hour no,
iice before bombsrdinent commences, TO
leave, the city.
The government at St. Petersburg, to
| quiet apprehensions; announces semi Off
cially that the Turkish war will not il;
volve neutrality between Prussia and
| France. n. e..
Russian newspapers are unanimous foe
settlement Of the sasrern question and
abEogaiion Of the treaty.. g..
| Forty reyer lives lost by food q, Ilar;
/ pers Ferry. Baltimore X Ohio Railroad
/ uninjurel by food. Weather this morning
cold bpt. cloudy.
CistISxGri Oci G-The convention re-
I port that the Committee on Direct Trade,
between Europe aud Southern ports, ia
toring aid to American shipping, was
adopted. The COMMITTEE on Southern Pa
eihe Road reported favoring aid by Cof-
rrsss 10 help the r0Ni over tho Bind psr1l.
I lei with . branch 10 vieksburg. MempLis
and Ne~ Orleans. Adopted The repYry
on Bsvigsbls rivers is very long. Cue
resolution declares that they belong TO tAs
! people, ard that they should not be Oh
strBcted BY bridges for individual or corr
pOrsts interers. A iopied. Report CT
| Committee on Free frads pen6ine
1 EEr YOEE, Oct 5-The Worlds special
! from Lopdon, says the Standard Sf to-HoT-
rov will e5niain sh sr1ieie written in at
tieipstion Of the jsafh Of Gen Zee, ierarI C.
Z ed ~ telrgrpph 70 he lying As ils pOiHt q
death in Virgins. The article says: *
eDEHiry Which hss given bi.fh TO sueA >
man ss R5he1 5. Lee may look The proui; /;
sss nation in the rios. ebivalris period u.
he history Of Europe fesrlssslT ~ she
fses. fer 10 race has - sny age trv9ueei
a mother solder. ehrisfihh. Erufirrssu Asd
ran ihsn the heroic TirEiniaa eafiasn.'
Tbe bluhjers Of Congress. SAYS
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