The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-19

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LoNpoN. My IS, 1QApt. Tyler, who
ssts,ass sinxsssigstes Esie i matteFs called % On
The .Ozar's nephew was arrested for
stealing dtamonds. He is the eldest
son Of Grand Duke Constantine. The
Gar went to Windsor. yesterday. and
bid farewell to the Queen. To-day he
visits Guild Hall. All the flags OF the
city are flying.
The Times and other morning pa.
pers say the impression that the early
dissolution OF the French Assembly is
unavoidable, hourly gains strength.
PARIS. May 18.-The attempt OF
Gouiard to form q mini,tr failed.
LONDON, May 1S.-Tke Paris oor-
respondent OF the Times writes to that
journal that the vote against the mi
nistry in the Assembly, on Saturday
last. on the question of giving the
priority of discussion to the electoral
law over the municipal bill, means the
speedy dissolution of the Assembly
and the removal Of the seat of Govern
ment from Versailles to Paris. Count
DeChambord has suggested the pro-
priety OF defeating any measure calcu.
LONDON, May 18.-The London
Standard says it is understood that the
Queen will go to Russia in the autumn.
BERLIN, May 18.-The Emperor has
ordered the temporary retirement from
the German diplomatic service of the
Count Won Arnim.
PARIS, May 8.-.LeGaulois says
the Duke DsChartres has sent cha!-
lenge to Paul Dec Oassaignac, in conse.
quenoe OF the publication in the lat
.:7'1 papsr-LePdys-of an abusive
aetiole against the Duke.
TelcRraphic-Americ Matters.
BosToN, May 16.-Hon. Stephen M.
Crosby, Of Williamsburg, now in Bos.
ton, furnishes the following descrip-
tion of the localities and property
visited by the overflow: The villages
which are affected by the disaster are
Williamsburg, Haydenville. Leeds and
Florence. and are situated on Mill
River, which is tributary of Connec-
ticut River, running into the latter at
Northampton. In the village Of Will
liamsburg, Mill River divides into two
branches, one of which has its rise in
Goshen and the other about the edge
of Conway. Two large reservoirs are
situated on Goshen branch and one on
Conway branch, containing q total
depth of not less than six feet. The
reservoir dams were all most substan-
italy constructed; built by skillful en-
gineers in the most approved and mo-
dern method, and large sums have
been expended during the last year in
putting them in what was supposed to
be perfect order. The oldest dam is
supposed to be at least twenty-five
years OF age, and is on Goshen branch.
It was most carefully rebuilt within the
last two years. Above this was new
dam, bniit last year. The dam on
Conway branch is about six or seven
years old. The mills on the stream,
reckoning from williamsburg down to
Northampton, are as follows: William
Thayer's tool factory, 25 men, and two
button factories, together employing
30 hends, men and girls; tho corset t
woolen mill Of Henry James employs
about 30 hands; the large brass works
of Hayden, Gere & Co. employ about
300 hands, and is perhaps the largest
and best appointed factory of the kind
In the United States. It was formerly
the property OF the late Lieutenant
Governor Hayden; the cotton mill of
the Hayden Manufacturing Company,
5000 spindies, employing about rs or
30 hands; the Diamond Tobacco
Works. employing IL or 20 hands; the
two extensive silk mills of the Mono
tuck Silk Company, employing 300
hands In ell; the large brick mill of the
Northampton Brush Company, EN-.
ploying about 60 or rs hands; the cot
ton mill OF the Greenville Manufactur-
ing Company. 5000 spindles, employs
rs or 80 hands; the Northampton
formerly Bay state) Cutlery Company
Mill. employing probably 200 hands;
the Clement d Hawkes. Manufacturing
Company Mill, agricultural imple-
ments, employing so hands.
BosToN, May ia later despatch
says that 100 lives have been lost, and
upwards of 81, ,O00,0 600 in property and
treasure swept away.
The international Screw and Nail
Company, employing seventy ve
hands. and tho large basket factory of
the Williams Man ufaoturing Compa.
ny, employing about 100 hands, also
SINNERS silk mill. employing about
fifty or sixty hands. Besides the fore.
going. there are some half dozen prist
and saw mills, some OF them of cousi.
derable cGpacity. which ara within tl,o