Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-01
n.structtye Flood in Virginia,

inc around them, went down tho Rlvanna,
with dwelling house completely iurulshed'
together with debris of furniture, barns agrl'
cultural implements, crops, &c The river at
Lynchturg is said 10 be many iect higher
than ever. known before. Much alarm had
been created at Richmond, as at the last ac-
counts the James was rising with fearful
rapidity. The following dispatches have been
received:
RICHMOND, Sept. 30-The food reached
here at 1890 p. m, in wave, i've lset hign,
and in twenty minutes the river rose SIX 1cet.
There is great excitement in the lower part OF
the CITY, removing goods from places accassi'
bile to water. The Orange Hotel ~ and Orange
and Alexandria Railroad bridges at Lynch
burg were swept away this morning.
GoRDoNsyILLE, Sept. 30-rho accounts
that come in from the flood arc more and more
disastrous The Orange and Alexandria Rail;
road bridge over Rockfsh river Is reported
swept away. The bridges over the llver and
| Moore's creek, on the Chesapeake aud ONO
Railroad, are also gone. BurlcyS u Wehs
two mills are both floating down the RlVanna,
| with 400 barrels of -four floating around them.
| A dwelling house, completely furnished, went
| by this afternoon. The Rlvanna IS filled with
debris of furniture, barns and agricultural lm-
Elements, crops, &c. All the crops on the low
grounds are o total loss. The telegraph lines
| to Lynchburg and the West are badly damaged.
| President Wickham, Of The Chesapeake and
| Ohio Railroad, is between Greenwood and
| Waynesboro' with two trains, unable to recede
or advance, Superintendent Vandegrtt, OF
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, went to
| the hreak at Moore's Creek with train this
| afternoon.
RICHMOND, Sept. 3O.-The water has risen
| here ten feet since noon. This is water from
the Riyanpa; that from the Lynchburg flood
will strike here about midnight. The water
at Lynchburg is twenty five feet higher than
was ever known before.
On the south side the food is as bad as 1t Is
Oh the north of the James. The Roanoke
and Stanton rivers have risen fifteen ieet,
doing great damage. A dispatch from Con
cord saws that Mrs. and Miss Buskln were
drowned in the food at Lynchburg last night.
WONDERFUL Growth. The growth OF Iii
nois is almost fabulous. It is one of the most
striking events of this riod Of wonders. 10
1910 the Illinois territory, then Including what
are now the States of Illinois and Wisconsin
and a part Of Minnesota, contained only
II, 2S2 inhabitants. Two years after tho at
mission OF Illinois into the Union her popula
ton was only 55,2 10 1880 1t reached
l57:445: in 1910 it numbered 476, 1873 10
| 1850. ISL; 47O; in 1860, ,7ll,945; and now,
in 1870, it mounts up to 2,567,O32 q gain in
one decade of $50. OTIS, or over 50 per cent -
Illinois now takes rank as the fourth State IN
population, being exceeded only by New York,
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio When another de-
cade shall have passed the three States named
may we'll look to their aurelS. wing.
LEGAL "BosH AND STUFF. "A corrcspon,
dent of tho Lynchburg Republican says that
Judge G. \. Wingfed, of the fifth circuit has
great aversion to examining large bundles of
chancery papers that are of little import, and
often pronounces all such lumber from the
bench. AT recent term of Nelson court lie
wrote upon certain bundle oil lumber the
words, forty pages OF bosh and stuff and re-
marked that he would not have acted as I'D
verse counsel while that deposition was being
taken for less than $40 per day, while only $40
per day was charged. The correspondent says
ut is evidently the aim OF the Judge TO teach
lawyers not to cucumber the court with useless
"lumber, bosh and stuff" and it is END
greatly desired by all sensible people in
terestcd
The SIAMEsE TwINs.-A question much
discussed some years ago has lately been settled
by the eternally quoted logic Of facts" The
question was whether the serious illness Of one
of the famous Siamesc twins would necessarily
affect the other. II seems now that Chang has
had paralytic stroke, and that the health OF
Eng remains quite unaffected by 1t. Long ago
it was determined that the twins could not lie
separated without involving tho death OF one
or both. But prominent medical journal Of
London afirms that, should either die, the
ligature mi ht bo safely cut so as to preserve
the life OF the survivor. The twins are now
well stricken in years, and it would be almost
| as anomalous as their strange union itself if
either survived the shock of being parted from
the othcr,-Buh american.
| ELECTIONS. Five States hold important
elections on the Ith Of October-Pcnnsylva-
MIA, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska
Pennsylvania chooses congressman; Ohio, Con-
qressmen and Secretary OF State, Supreme
Judge, Comptroller, and member of tn, Board
of Public Works Indiana, congressman and
a Secretary Of State, Auditor, Treasurer, At
torney General, Superintendent Of Public In
struction, and judges of the Superior Court for
four districts Iowa, Congressman and Sec
rotary OF State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney
| 0enefa, heRlstrar, ana Judges OF inc OIL
preme Court; and Nebraska full State ticket
and Congressman.
LoUDoUN CoUNTY-Thc fruit crop of LOU
| doun is pretty much failure this season.
Worry few peaches were raised and the apple
orchards present beggarIy account of empty
trees.
The hog cholera is prevailing in some narts
OF this county-many tanners have suffered
considerably.
The Virginia and Mary land Railroad Com
pany has postponed the time fer opening
books in Leesburg, until Thursday, the Goth
day of October.-Leesburg Washin9tonian.
PRESERVATION OF EGGs.-AmoDg the ma
ny methods for the preservation Of eggs, one
highly recommended consists in rubbing them
over with nseed OIL Immersion in salt water
or lime water gives to the eggs disasrccable