Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-05
FOKEMN.
The Second Deluge In German

Details OF the Recent storm-Rail-
way Trains awalIOwed mp I'm the
Waters.
NEW YORK, Dec. A Berlin letter to
the London Telegraph says, that the storm
which passed over the north OF Europe on
Nov. Ii, ragged with a violence unpre.
cedented within the memory OF living man.
Indeed the local annals of Baltic and
Ostsee coasts contain no record of so furi-
oas and destructive q tempest for nearly
two hundred years past. Ali the lines Of
railway radiating to different points of the
compass from tins capital are encountered
with broken or uprooted telegraph poles.
Business on the bourse is at 8 stand still.
The sea walls were smashed into atoms
and trains were swallowed up in the great
waters.
The accounts from Stratsund, Kiel,
Griefswold, Swivemunde, ETC., read like the
description Of second deluge. On
Wednesday the greater part Of Griefswold
was under water. The Ostsee stood five
feet deep in the streets of that thriving lit
tie town.
The total number Of crafts foundered at
Stratsu1d was over eighty. ALI the fishing
boats belonging to Singst, Hars & HID
deusO are gone to the bottom. Eight peo-
pie were drowned at Veuvits. All along
the coast the Inhabitants were ruined and
suffered from want Of water, the sea hay
ing flooded all the wells.
Another italian Inundatien.
ROME, Dec. I'D spatches from the
north Of Italy state that heavy rains have
again swollen the waters of the river Po,
and another inundation has appeared.
London I'm Darkness-NO Gas-NO
Theatres.
LONDON, Dee. 3.-FiVe hundred of the
striking stakers employed by the Gas Com
panias were summoned before the Police
Court on chargeof conspiracy. The COM
panies are unyielding and the stakers will
bold out until their companions whose dis
charge caused the strike are taken back.
Meanwhile the absence of gas is severely
felt. The theatres ara compelled to omit
their performances The underground
railway is IN darkness. Candles have ad-
Vsncsd to-day. Two thousand Of the strik-
ers had a public parade.
LONDON, Dec. 4, 6 P. M.-Largs por-
tions Of the City are in darkness tonight,
the gas having been exLinguished in many
HSNLANL-' IO AhnabAsaAso arc u4sCA WILL
CONSERVATION and dread, and the irritation
against the striking stokers is very great.
81 Lives Lost.
The steamship Creswell, from Falmouth
for Cork, was lost during the voyage.
TTenty-0ne passengers and crew perished.
Patching q Broken Heart.
Elizabeth Dredge brought suit to-day il
| the Court OF Qleen's Bench against Clin.
| ton WinaGs, citizen of the United States s
| to recover $4,000 Cpounds?l damages fOr
breach Of promise Of marriage, but the case
was compromised by Winans paying the
plaintiff 1900.
Emigration.
The number of emigrants that left Liver
pool during November exceeded that Of
| The previous month by 2,00O.
Ghe French Fuss.
PARIS, Dec. 4, eveDing.-It is expected
thai the committee CT 30 to be elected By
the assembly tomorrow and whose duty it
will be to draw up Law regulating the
public powers ana prescribing the condi-
ions Of ministerial responsibility will con-
sist of I6 monarchls.s and IA Republicans,
The party of the right has rejected a
proposition for even partial renewal OF
the assembly by an appeal to the people.
a meeting OF the Party of the Left was
held to-day, at which, after q powerful
speech by Gambetta in advocacy of a disso-
luton of the Assembly, measures TO thRt
end were absolutely insisted upon.
CarIists.
A dispatch from Bayonne, In the Depart.
nent OF Bases Pyrenees, says 250 CarLst
entered Spain from France yesterday.
There is much excitement in Malaga
over spprehensions of Carlist demonstra-
lion in that city. Many families are leav-
ing, and troops are being quartered in the
custom-house and cathedral.
Spanish Rebeis--Cuban Coolies.-RlOOd.
hounds.
HAVANA, Dec. "A steamer which ar
rived here yesterday from Spain brought
200 sailors who we're implicated in the Fer
raj revolt.
The steamer Fatchay has arrived with
1000 coolies, who were sold previous TO
the arrival of the steamer.
The Eco newspaper, published in Sancto
Espirits, announces the rival there Of
ten bloodhounds, to be used in capturing
the negroes still remaining in the noun
tains near that city. The hounds were
purchased By order Of the commanding
general.