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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-08
Criminal Court.

The Criminal Court met at the usual
hour yesterday morning, Judge M. l..
Hall presiding. The following were
sworn as Jurors for the term.
The New York herald., 1875-03-18

quite solid. This large body OF unbroken ice
offered such resistance to the advancing mass
that IL was again checked. The Ice at once
commenced pillng up IN the 'Narrowsn beneath
the bridge until it reached the beams. BY thar
time a large piece or the Hood Ice was forced
beneath that still intact in the Eddy, and the
parted in the centre and the report that followed
was Ike the firing Of q cannon. Instantly that
portion OF tine ice nearest the Pennsylvania shore
raised up ten feet, and, as IL broke into cakes they
were thrown high into the air.
THE DAMAGE AT BIG EDDY.
The upheaval swept in a circle around to the
New York shore, forcing the ice and water through
culvett beneath the railroad the outlet oi
pond on the other side OF the railroad aud sheet
OF water twelve feet deep and covering over two
acres of ground was formed below lhe
large hickory trees Oh, standing at the
mouth OF the outlet, out the Hood
ice having forced sufficient channel on the PENN
sylvania side no lurther damage was done IN tue
Eddy. Darcy Tannery, below NarrOwsburg. on the
Pennsylvania side OF the river, was surprised Dy
the Ice, and all operations there have ceased.
PARTIAL ESTIMATE OF THE LOSS.
The loss above Port Jervs cannot be less than
S5000 1t Is feared that the immense quantities
OF lumber destroyed will seriously affect the
financial question in the lumber region. The hood
of yesterday and to-day may be recorded as the
most damaging ever known IN the Delaware
valley.
OF the great ice Hood In the Delaware
River above this place can be formed
without visiting the various places along
the stream. The rise OF the water was SO sudden
1t took The entire region Dy surprise and where
the least damage was anticipated there the most
seems TO have been DONE Although the river II.
still white with noatlng Ice che worst Is DeneVeu
to be over From the head or the river TO TINS
place and far below, wall Of ice BLOCKS from ten
to twenty ieet high lines each bank. thousands
OF dollars worth OF lumber IS strung along the
whole length OF the stream jammed up IN tho
ice, and the most Of 1t Is irrecoyerably lost.
The New York herald., 1875-03-18
UP THE RIVER.
PORT JERvIs, March II, Is

PORT JERvIs. March II, 1875.
The first sign OF impending danger appeared
az townsville. the west Branch, in Della.
ware county. The Ice began breaking up there
yesterday afternoon, the river rising almost
IN an instant 70 an immense height. The nood
did comparatively little damage until it passed
Deposit. A short distance below that place the
ice formed heavy gorge in the channel. This
was In q few minutes piled thirty ieet high with
large cakes OF Ice. The water being damned by
this blockade 1t rapidly ran back to Deposit, hurl.
ing huge cakes o! ice up 10 the top Of the Erie
Railway einbankment and leaving some across
the rails. The railroad bridge over the river at
Deposit was lifted slightly from its foundations.
The lower part OF Deposit was quickly inundated.
so sudden was the mood that dwellings were sur
rounded before the inmates could escape, and
they were removed in boats. Houses were seen
noating away among the broken ice in very
short time, and horses, cows ana pigs were seen
OH ali hands swimming Tor places Of safety.
Devereux's extensive sawmiii was removed
rom ~ foundations, and thousands OF
dollars worth OF lumber were swept
away. The water had reached almos.
the centre OF the village. and stores and dwellings,
we're being emptied or their contents. when
chaunel was i0rced through the gorge and the
water receded, passing III nood OF heavng ice
down the river. bearing away lumber, lences,
trees and several buildings. Many valuable horses
aud cows were crushed In the sarging mass. BE.
tween Deposit and Hale's Eddy portions OF tho
catcasses of horses lie high ~ the ce cast upon
the banks.
SWEET INTO ETERNITY.
From Deposit the food passed py Hales Eddy.
whore II took away nearly million feet OF lumber
ready Tor rafting. belonging 10 Henry Evans and
James fuhii A. Whiseman, VINO was keeping a
LOOKOUT oat Ior the property. wasawashed away
before iio coula escape, ahd his body has not yet
been seen. Every lence or tree standing along
the bank was carried on. when the advancing ice
struck tue Ice gorge at Hae's EDDY. which formed
Oh February 81 there was a momeniary checS.
Tha moving Ice rose with the iorce behind II la O
great wave. more than nity feet high and rolled
The New York herald., 1875-03-18
Demolition Of Bridges, Mills
and Ice Dams.
The People Save Themselves
by Flight.
PARTIAL SUBSIDENCE OF THE FRESHETS
Further Danger Apprehended
from a Change Of Weather.
TIE DELAWARE.

TEE CALAMITY AT PORT JERvIs AND GERMAN
TOWN.
PORT JERvIs, March II, 1875.
At last the great agony is over and Port Jervis
. people have abundant reason to congratulate
themselves that their town Is still here and has
received damage that may fairly be regarded as
trivial II we compare what Is with what might
have been." Some twenty or thirty homes only
have been destroyed, two lives lost are ail that
We hear OF thus lar, and two bridges are dan
aged, one thas may pe repaired for $4,000 though
100000 Will scarcely replace the o;her, which,
however, 10 not the property OF the town, bu. Of
tne Erie Railway Company. But the great Ice
gorge that has threatened the town for o month Is
gone and the greater storm OF ice that came down
with tho rise Of the river yesterday is gone
With 1t, and the town is still here and
comparatively safe. As the great volume OF
the river Ii now sweeping down rs bed bearing
ttiil. but TRANQUILITY, seawavd great masses oil the
broken. orunbled Zoe, 1t seems scarcely possible
20 rcalize the excitement that agitated the com.
munity but lew hours since; and, indeed, tho
Indifference, affected or real, with which many
treat the recent danger seoms to indicate that
shey never ruy roalized II. Yet twelve hours
since we were community Quite prepared to
take passage with Commodore Noal or any other
man whose boat might have been handy.
THE WARNING O9 DESTRUCTION.
Last night the alarm came that tno enemy was
ln motion. Away up tile river. as the report ran.
tho river had risen ten lest aud was rising 10 foot
Minute" The ten lee. actually Tealizea was
sufficiently alarming detail ia this story, ana the
threatened 100; a minute presented picture
OF speculative horrors that the rural iMag'
nation eould not grasp. If the ten feet
should be maintained as far down as THIS
what would becosae ol Pot. JervIs' 1t would be
placed grea. many more than seven ways ior
suAday-sinco tnaN rise would send liCod over
The ice accumulaleF hera at least SIX feet higher
tnan the bank and give loot Of depth at points
shove the railway station. in water q loot
deep there Is no Igreat power 20 carry houses
away, but there ~ power 10 DO much damage; ;
ana. moreover. as we shall see presently. he
water Itself Ia not the greatest immediate cause
.. destruction IN cases OF this sort. Water sup
plics fhc isrce NJ gtnpOwder moves projcciEes: :
auc tie proiactlles I'M this case were the trer1cn
uo.s csEos o; ice that wnirled MtO the gigantic
seenmula,ed IespuIsc DIT the myriad mountain tor.
The New York herald., 1875-03-18

IHE RUSH OF WATERS.
Breaking Loose Of the Rivers from
Their Icy Fetters.
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION.
Human Beings Swept
Into Eternity.
Towns, Villages and Farm Houses
Visited with Destruction.
FEATS OF THE FLOODS.
Great Artificial Barriers Wrenched,
Twisted and Crushed.
Stoppage Of Railroad Trains and
Telegraphic Messages.
THRILLING ESCAPES FROM DEATH.
Demolition Of Bridges, Mills
and Ice Dams.
The People Save Themselves
by Flight.
PARTIAL SUBS[DENCE OF THE FRESHETS
The New York herald., 1875-03-18

CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
Private Drinking.

The constabulary reports and returns relating to the year 1874, says the Lon don Times, contain letter from the chief constable of Cumberland and Westmoreland, in which, after noticing the complaints made by the inhabitants of large villages, especially in the lake districts, that ten o'clock is found to be rather too early for shutting up the pub lie, the writer goes on to say: Numbers of men club together to buy liquor be- fore the public houses are closed, and go to the house of one of the party and drink there to 3 late hour. Women and children are generally present, and be- heve that the evil example thus set has been attended with very bad conse- quences. In many cases of brutal kick ing and other assaults committed by hus- bands on their wives, the defendants all ledged that when they returned from work they found their wives drunk and their homes neglected, and that then passion, quarreling, and violence fol- lowed. I believe that drinking to excess among the women has greatly increased since men have fallen into the habit of taking liquor home when the public houses close, and sitting up till one or two A. M. carousing with their compan- ions in the presence of women and chil- dren. This practice, which is spoken of as "the bottle system" /" may not be con- trary to the letter of the law, but it is at variance with the spirit of Lord Aber- dare's act, and is resorted to as 0 mere evasion of the law.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
A Very Bad Throne.

The boy Alfonso has, if reliance may be placed upon advices from Spain, grown weary of his task of governing, and it is said that great difficulty exists in keeping him from abdicating ill favor of Antoine Marie Philippe Louis dor leans, Duke de Montpensier, the fifth son of the late Louis Philippe, King of the French. He was born on the 31st of July, in the year 1924, and entered the French army on the 29th of April, 1842. He served during the campaign in Africa, in 1843'44. On the 10th of October, 1846, he was married to the Princess Maria Louisa, sister of Isabella the Second (Alfonso's mother) Queen ot Spain. The husband aud wife were expelled from the Spanish territory on the 9th of July, 1868. The Duke de Monpensier has had Q party of political adherents in Spain ever since. He was proposed as king of the Spaniards by Admiral Topete and other lovers of gov ernmental change. The proposition was finally opposed by Prim and the mem bers of his party in the year 1869 and has ever since remained distasteful to all "blue blood" Spaniards.
 Should King Alfonso abdicate the throne of Spain he will merely follow illustrious precedent in the voluntary re- linquishment of kingly power in Madrid. He will be tho sixth monarch who laid down the Spanish scepter. They count in the following order Charles I. abdi- cated in tho year 1855, Philip V. in 1724, Charles W. in 1901, Isabella II. in 1870, Amadeus of Savoy in 1878, Alfonso XII: Should our report be vcrified in 1875.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
To Die A.trYing.

A "Boatman D sends the following to the St. Louis DenaQcrat: John John
 son was only 8 eel-boatman, born in Giles county, Tenn. Poverty and in clination drove him to keel-beating.
 During the spring of 1873 he and the writer of this sketch were engaged ill keel-boating on the Big Black river. About the last of May the boating sea- son ended, and we were preparing to start for Tennessee river, when the steamer Ben. Sherrod came down and landed at Grand Gulf. We went on her, as we knew all hands, and she was to return to the Tennessee. While we were in New Orleans we hired as deck hands on her. We had but one trunk in
 common, in which were deposited our earnings, some $2OO, and our clothing.
 The Ben. Sherrod left New Orleans with over 400 passengers, and proceeded on her trip. Wooding in Raccounsee bend, we took ou forty cords of dry willow wood. This was piled in the usual way, along side and close to the boilers. o'clock at night, and lay out on the guard, as the inside of the boat was very warm. About one o'clock we were aroused by the cry of fire, and found the smoke suffocating. In a few seconds the after guards were crowded with deck passengers, and in few minutes the flames burst through the roof, and we saw that the pilot had lost all control of the boat and she was circling around.
 Occasionally as the boat swung round near the shore, passengers would jump overheard, and very soon tho lower guard was comparatively empty. A pas senger on the upper guard swung two children, about four and six years old, dewn by the arms, and begged for some one to take them while he went back for his wife and youngest child. Johnson took them. The father went back, and never returned. I began to consider that it was about time to. get away, and said to Johnson, " Let us get our trunk we save anything, it must be the chil- dren." I replied that I did not believe we could, but thought it might be fatal to us. He said, with an oath, ''I It will be glorious death to die a-trying" We did try, and succeeded Since then I have seen, heard, and read of heroes, but never of any more genuine act of heroism than that performed by John Johnson on the night of the burning of the Ben. Sherrod. Over 25O lives were lost .. g....s5s. !. .,.... ... .I
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
|" Making MOney,H

"Fay," writing to the Louisville Coorier-Jo,unal of how money is made at the Treasury department, says Take ono dollar treasury note and look at it. There is fine steel engrav- ing of Washington-the man, not the city-in the middle of the note. In the left hand corner there is "The Landing of Columbus. There is fine lace-work for the denomination, and tho note has a lace-work border. Different artisans make these designs. It is not all the work of one engraver, for each one has his speciality. No engraver can make two plates exactly alike, no more than the same man can paint two portraits so alike but what there will be some little in the other. So, after the engravers make designs for the notes and the Sec retary has accepted the design, the plate being of hard metal is subjected to a cyl finder of solid steel, the metal of which is softer than the plate. The cylinder is laid on the plate and subjected to pres sure of from one to twenty tons. As the plate is depressed so are the figures and characters raised on the cylinder, which then undergoes hardening process, and the plates for the notes are taken from the cylinder. From these all our notes are printed. By this process every note printed is exactly alike and coun- terfeits can be easily detected. These plates and cylinders can be used con- stantly for three months, when the plates are retouched by skilful workmen, who have an apartment especially devoted to their branch of work.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
A PennSylyania Woman.

A correspondent of Cincinnati paper tells story of the exploits of widow of his acquaintance. It runs thus We dwell in a branch of the beautiful Clin- ton valley, in Fayette county, Penn.
 Just to the east of us are the Chestnut Ridge mountains, as rough and rocky as mountains generally are. We'll, upon the top of the mountains dwells a widow, yet in the prime of life, who is now wealthy and owns the best noun tain farm in Fayette county. Years ago, when quite young, she married young man who owned this farm and team, and nothing more. The land was uncleared, exceedingly rocky, and full of ravines. In few months after being married the husband died, leaving his wife nothing but this land, cabin, and team, Thrown upon her own resources, the widow went to work ,felling timber, making cross-ties and hauling them to the railroad at Cornellsville, distant ten miles, and all without the assistance of anyone. This being before the panicky times, she made money sufficient to give her good start in life. Disliking to drive team or attend to horses, as soon as she considered herself able she hired driver, but continued making the cross-ties with her own hands, and be- tween times amused herself by blasting
 rocks and rolling them into the ravines, thus killing two birds with the one stone, clearing the land and filling up the ravines. Thus, by industry, economy, and perseverance, she in avery few years amassed considerable for tune, cleared seventy-fve acres of rough Ia d, filling up and leveling over ra- vines, and fitting them for agricultural purposes. It was indeed an Interesting sight to see her sitting on top of rock,
 with a drill in one hand and sledge in the other, piercing the very heart of the rock and blowing it to atoms, and after ward rolling 1t piece by piece into the ravine. This lady has now a grand house, luxuriously furnished; first class piano, from which she brings forth the sweetest music, and fifty thousand in the bank. She has had scores of offers, but she refuses them all, pre- ferring to pass the remainder of her life in single blessedness rather than under go the bangs of burying another hus- band. .t"
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
Linen Suits.

The gray undressed linen suits found so pleasant for many summers past are being made up in large quantities at the furnishing houses, q city fashion journal says. They are made with @ view to service, and are without founces or any elaborate ornament. The skirt has facing headed by @ single bias band, three or four inches wide, stitched on with piping or without. The deep apron has two straight wide sash ends behind, edged with a narrower bias band. These straight sashes are each sewed to the belt in a double box-plait, and caught up lower down by tapes to form dropping loop. A wide side-plaited blouse or chemise Russo completes the house dress, while for the street is Q linen sacque of most stylish shape, cut with an English back that is much shorter than the long single-breasted front. Such suits are serviceable, inexpensive, and easily laundried. We commend them as excellent models to correspon- dents who have made inquiries about summer wardrObes.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
The Cuban Indians.

The good aatured aborigines, who, according to accounts, must have num- bered as high as two or three millions m the island of Cuba, writer says, have been nearly extirpated. Thousands per ished from overworkingf for the invaders, who treated them as slaves thousands were shot and lacerated by. dogs as if they were game; and thousands were killed by foolish md bloody Spaniardr, who had made VOW to slaughter every morning thirteen heathens in honor of the Saviour and the twelve apostles. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that the Antillenos knowingly committed the suicide of their entire race by solemnly pledging their women not to bear chil- dren.
 The zambo of Cuba, like the. naacaco of Peru, is the most unfortunate of the children of men. He, the son of a negro and an Indian, is cursed and abandoned by father aud mother, and the world treats him as if he had no right to breathe in it. Even negro despises him.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
.JOhnNy9S Dog,

The following is summer episode, as evolved by little Johnny: Last summer our dog Towser was lyin in the sun 8 urine to sleep, but the flies was that bad he cuddent, COS he had to cetch em, and bime by a bee lit on his he'd, and was 8 woking about like the dog was hisn. Towser he hel his he'd still, and when the bee was close to his nose, Towser winked at me, like he said you see what this duff fer is doin, he thinks I'm lilly of the valley which isn't open yet, but you just wait till I blossom and you will see some fun, and sure enuf Towser opened his mouth yer slo so as not to friten the bee, and the bee went into Towser's mouth. Then Towser he shet his eyes dreamy, and his mouth too, and had begun to make a peacefe smile wen the bee st1lng him, and you never see a lilly of the val ley ack so in all your life.
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
4. Tough Race.

The small number of Caribs who set tied on the island of Cuba the Spaniards found more difficult to destroy than they did the native Indians, who have been nearly extirpated. A people tough enough to feast on their own progeny, O letter writer says, or to engage in aswim- ming contest with shark, or to play hide and seek with it, must be quite a formidable piece de resistance.
 This shark story is told by Father La- bat. A Carib made 8 VOW to slay the shark that had swallowed child. sHe took two bayonets, drank two glasses of brandy, and jumped into the sea right before the jaws of the monster. The mo ment the shark snapped for him the Carib dived, and e,a passant pricked the animals belly with his two bayonets. The movements of the shark hereupon became somewhat animated, but the Carib liked the excitement, and gave the finishing thrust only after having tor mented the shark by going through tho same maneuver seven or eight times, and turning the sea red withit blood. Whom the shark lay on it's back, it was found to measure twenty feet. I..... .....:
Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
An Ice Palace.

We may have read the story often, yet 1t always seems new-that of the cele- brated ice palace of St. Petersburg. It was in the severe winter of 1740 that, in order to give occupation to thousands of unemployed persons, the Empress Anne caused an ice palace to be constructed, according to the designs of the architect, Alexis Danilowitsch. It was made of pure masses of ice cut from the frozen Nova, and brought by cranes and pulleys to the building site. The single blocks were ornamented in an accurate and elaborate manner, and then, when two were completed, water was poured be- tween them, which, freezing, immedi- ately united them into single mass, The, palace was forty-six feet long, eighteen broad, and twenty-one high. The front was divided by pillars into compartments, in each of which was window, the framework being painted green, and the panes of transparent tral division had the appearance of being an entrance but the real entrances were at the back of the building-two open ings, about which were grouped icy trees and flowers, gayly painted to re- SouDl0 udGuEo. ArOunQ Luo house was an elaborate railing of ice, and in front of the inclosure stood six ice guns. There lay on each side dolphin, which threw up jets of naphtha at night, form ing two beautiful fountains of fire. Nu- merous other devices were about the palace, among which was a life-size elephant with man upon his back-all of ice. The interior was divided into various apartments. In the dining room was clock of wonderful workmanship, sofas, arm-chairs, and in the cupboards against the walls might be seen knives, forks, spoons, cups, plates, as well as va rious kinds of food-all, all of ice. In the bedroom were mirrors, candlesticks, and candles dipped in naphtha, which shone at night. The bedstead was rich ly furnished with pillows, blankets, and beautifully embroidered coverlet, and these were the only articles in the palace not made of ice. In the grate were ice coals, dipped in naphtha, which shone brightly at night. This wonderful and costly work of art remained intact from the beginning of January until the middle of March, when the mild spring sun slowly but surely ruined it's beauty.