The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-26
Telegraphic...Foreign News.

toAAo nuu AQOur lB lmmenSo. All the
bridges at Toulouse were destroyed.
The devastation is widespread. At
Toulouse, nearly all tho houses in the
At Verdun, in the Department of Ar
riege, over fifty houses have fallen and
many persons drowned. From Mortau-
bau the report comes that all tho crops
on the banks Of the Tarn and Gnronne
are ruined. The Garonne in some
places is four miles wide. A bridge OF
seven arches Mt Tarbes has been carried
away. The inundations are general in
the Departments of Aube, Haute, Ga
rome and Tarn. If the rain continues
another day, all the wheat crop in those
departments will be destroyed. The
railways are interrupted in all directions
throughout the inundated district. The
Assembly voted 10000 francs for relief.
LATER---The damage to property and
the loss of life by the floods in the river
Garonne is greater than previous reports
have indicated. At Toulouse alone, the
bodies of 100 persons who were drowned
were found in houses which were flooded
and left standing. Many other people
perished, and their bodies were carried
off in houses that were swept away.
LONDON, June 25.-The Times has a
report that rebellion has broken out in
Burmah
BERLIN, June 25.-Count Won Arnim
will appeal from the decision of knm-
mergerischt in his case to the Supreme
Tribunal.
BERLIN, June 25.-The Court to which
Won Arnim appealed decides that his Of
fence consists in the retention and re-
moval of papers to Carlsbad.
Telegraphic.. News,
New YoRK, June 24.-An unknown
man, about forty years of age, with
brown hair, having three fingers missing
from the right hand, hired boat ut the
battery, and, accompanied by woman,
who gave her name as Sophie Schedler,
aged twenty-four, rowed to the middle
OF the river, ostensibly with the purpose
OF visiting some islands. When more
than h0lf way across, the man took n re-.
volver from his pocket and fired three
times ut the woman, the balls entering
the leg, abdomen and arm. He then
shot himself in the breast and died i'm.
medintely.
New YoRK, June 25.-Mrs. Tilton pub
fishes card and affidavit pronouncinp
the upholsterers' story without ,founda.
ton, nor had she old carpets taken up
or new put down during the time speci-
ned. "Ihere never was any impro-
Prlety OF conduct or any improper rela.
tions between Henry Ward Beecher and
myself, and all charges of adultery or
improper conduct, or of any attempt
upon his part or mine to have or solicit
any improper or indecorous relations or
acts, are utterly and absolutely false"
The steamer Acapulco brings dates
from Panama to the 10th instant. No
further details of the earthquake in the
valley of Cucuta had been received.
Political trouble was brewing in Panama,
owing to the imprisonment of General
Camargo, who came on a special mission
from Bagota; but advices from Washing
ton, that the United States would not
look with indifference on any complica.
t1ons that would endnnger rnilroad
transit, was having good effect for the
preservation of peace. The merchants
OF Panama have agreed to advance to the
Government, by way of loan, the
amount of increased contributions i'm
posed by the decree of May 81 A rcvo-
luton was threatened in the State of
Alagdalena, by Col. Fnris, who had col
lected lnrge force near Rio Hache.
bolivia has sent IN emissary to Bagota,
to warn the Colombian Government if it
attempts to interfere with the soye-
reignty of any of the coast States, all will
combine to resist 1t. The claims Of the
United States Government on Hondums
for insults to its Consul and tlng at
Opea, during the bombardment of that
fort, when occupied by Gen. Streber,
have been nmicably settled, to the salts
faction of the United States. Fifty lives
were lost in the harbor of Valparaiso
during the storm of the 23d ult. Eight
or ten apprentices on the Chillian man
of-war Valdevia were drowned by the
upsetting of boat. Seven vessels were
wrecked, including the British bark
Laura McLennar. Capt. Harris. of the
latter, with his wife and seven ,.Liidren.
were drowned.
A Maricaibo letter, of May ~, in
giving an account of the EARTH, uake
causing the destruction of Sun Jose de
Cucuta, says: "On the 10th and 18th,
there had been earthquake shocks, but
on the morning of the 18th everything
was serene. At half-past II the earth
commenced shaking with great force,
and from all sides people rushed to the
streets. For fifteen seconds the move