, 1874-02-05


teusive flood known for some twenty
wears has occurred at Fulton. The low
er portion of the village was completely
submerged on Monday night, and thirty
families were driven from their homes.
Many more were this morning taken out
of the second stories of houses by boats.
In many places men were wading waist
deep with female members of their
households on their backs. The dam
age to property is very great.
CINCINNATI, Jan27.-Judge Waite to-
day resigned the Presidency of the
Ohio Convention in brief but graceful
speech, after which recess of ten min
i.tes was taken, to allow the members
individually to take leave Of him. A
Committee was appointed to draft ap-
propriate resolutions. Rufus King, Of
Cincinnati, and Louis D.. Cambel are
mentioned in connection with the va
cant Presidency of the Convention.
New YORK, Jan. 27.--A. W. Muerer,
sexton OF Trinity Church, was arrested
to-day and held to bail for alleged COM
plicity in a number of thefts by one
McKeen of Brooklyn. The stolen prop
erty is said to have been found in the
Church.
BcsroN, Jan. 27.-Dr. Wyman has
concluded the autopsy Of. Professor Ag-
ASST and reports as the cause OF his
death disease and obstruction of the ar
teries of The brain.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. 27.--The
House to-day, after a spirited debate,
defeated the bill to allow women to be
elected to Office under the school laws
by vote of 80 to Is.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. = Territorial
Delegates at meeting to-day discussed
the subject of providing, by a general
law, for the incorporation of railroads
in Territories, and also discussed the
subject of irrigation. A bill of Repre-
sentative Page, of California, providing
for the sale of timber lands in California,
Oregon and Washington Territory. was
also considered. There seems to be
disposition to extend the principle to
all the Territories.
Senator Kelly has introduced bill di-
recting the 3rd Auditor to settle all
claims growing out of the Oregon In
dian troubles of 1855 and 1856, in ac-
eordance with the Senate resolution of
February, 1861. The award is to be
paid out OF money appropriated by
The act of March Cd. 1862.
Clayton introduced bill to-day ap-
propriating $4,000 for the removal of
MONDAY Rock and the wreck of the
Patrician from the entrance of San Fran
cisco Harbor.
LONDON, Jan. 27-Herr Bremen, a
German explorer in Africa, in letter to
Mr.. Sbetterman, of Gotha, dated at
zanziba, says DR.. Livingstone died on
the 18th of August last. This date diff
fers from that of previous reports, but
all doubts have been set at rest by an
official dispatch received by the Govern
ment to-day. from Zanzibar which states
circumstatially that Livingstone died
in Lobizco.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 90 At Aurora, Ind,
seven persons are lying at the point of
death from having eaten fresh pork with
trichina in it. About weeks ago Mrs.
Henry Trayner had two hogs killed for
family use. After eating, Mrs. Trayner
and one of the children were attacked
with what appeared to them to be
typhoid fever. Mrs. Bantcr visited her
and with two children partook of the
meat and in few days were attacked
with the same symptoms. None ofthem
are expected to live.
NEW York, Jan. 28.-Pacifc Mail
steamer Acapulco sailed for AsI inwall
with large passenger list.
At late hour yesterday rumor was
sprung on Wall Street that a very un-
favorable report of the Pacific Mail
Cos business had been prepared by the
Directors, and prematurely made public
by interested parties at the Office of the
p Co. 1t was denied that any such re-
port had been made there or had been
authorized; but that the board of Di-
rectors, however, pronounced in favor
of the plan for altering some of the
Company's old wood steamers to sail
ing vessels as fast as they could be re
placed by iron steamers.
CHICAGO, Jan. 28.-Special to the In
Ter Ocean says the nomination of E. Nc
Cook as Governor of Colorado was made
on the motion of the President alone.
and the place was not sought by the
General.
General Sheridan was before the
House Indian Committee yesterday, and
recommended line of Government tel
egraph through the Indian country, be-
tween the White settlements.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28-Ex- Chief JUS
tice Jas. Thompson, of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, fell dead in the
Supreme Court Room this morning.
BAYoNNE, Jan. 2S.- The report that
the Carlists have captured Santander is
denied, but another is now current that
the Corporation is negotiating to raise
100000. 900 piastres, which the Carlists
demand as the price for abstaining from
hombarding the city.
New YORK, Jan. 9.-Police Superin-
tendent Matzell reiterates his belief that
the fire in st. Bridget's Church was the
work of Communists, and thinks other
similar attempts probable. He thinks
there can be no doubt that the Conmu-