The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
MIsCELLANEOus.

The President has signed the bill providing
for the issue, temporarily, of army supplies
to people on the LoweEsA ississippi in danger
of starvation.
New Orleans dispatches of the 23d give
sorrowful account of the devastation caused
by the high waters. Appeals were coming
in from various quarters, stating that the in
undation had deprived the inhabitants of all
means of subsistence, and soliciting aid to
keep from starvation.
Five hundred thousand Government ra-
tions at the rate of twenty-five thousand
daily, were on the oath ordered to be distrib-
uted through local committees to the suffer-
ers by the inundation of the lower Missis-
sippi. Money contributions from nearly
every section of the country were also COM
ing in.
The flood in the Ouachita Valley continued
to increase up to the 26th, when it came to
stand. On the 25th, George W. McCranie,
editor of the Ouachita Telegraph at Monroe,
telegraphed as follows: 1T is impossible to
give an idea of the extent of the overflow
here The water is higher than ever known.
The town is on an island two and halfmiles
long by half mile wide, from which there is
no exit except by boats or swimming.
From the crossing of the railroad
and Desard street, back, is one wide
sea of boats, coming and going from Oak
ley's. People living in the rear have been
driven in All the vacant houses are taken,
and, several families are living in the court
house. Business is almost completely sus-
pended, but the houses are open. Fully one
| thousand people in town have not had rations
| for three days, nor money to buy with. Stock
of every description is gathered in town and
starving. On Desart Island almost all the
plantations are under water. -. The river
rose one inch last night. 1t has raised slow
ly ever since daylight. and still rising. There
are no crops to speak OF, and not i've days
work done along the river for four weeks.
Hilrs land is washed badly, and what has
been done toward making a crop has been
labor thrown away. What people are to do,
God only knows Estimates place the num-
Der of people requiring assistance in the sub.
merged regions at SOME 10000.
"A heavy snow-storm occurred throughout
| the New England States on April 26. Al
Danbury, Conn, the snow was reported to
be twenty inches deep, and Rutland, vt, had
drifts ten feet deep. There was also severe
gale along the coast during the same time
causing considerable damage to shipping.
In Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th, a saloon
i keeper named Charles Wagner advertised
grand opening with q free lunch. In re
Spouse to his invitation, some seventy ladie'
4 connected with the Temperance Leagu,
visited the locality, and small squad
headed by Mrs. Dessellem, President 0
the League, entered the saloon. Wayne
{ orlered them from the premises, bu
they refused to go, saying they had come il
response to a general invitation to the public
Wagner then took hold ofseveral of tn
ladies and attempted to push them from tn
room, using some force, and according t
some of the ladies', striking Mrs. Dessellen
Wagner's wife also seized the leading crr
I sader by the throat during the melee.
large crowd congregated, and the polio
t cleared the walk and compelled the ladies an
! all others to keep moving. This order tn