The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-21
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTR AND WEST.

Forty bodies of the victims of the
Rockdale, Iowa, disaster have been recov-
cred, leaving but one missing.
Two Primitive Baptist churches in
Randolph county, Alabama, exclude patrons
of husbandry from their pale.
The loss experienced in the state of
| Iowa, by the recent floods, amounts to one
million dollars.
Seventy-fve thousand young shad
were deposited in the waters Of ~ lsrl river,
near Jackson, Miss, recently, Py the United
States fish bureau.
A little son of Eli Flierbe, while play
ng in yard a few days agoin Roci 'ngham,
N. c., was attacked by rooster, which
pecked the little fellows head so BADLY that
it caused his death.
LaTkin Turner, of Merriwether county
Ga, is one hundred and six years old and
has possession of all his faculties. Mrs. Ro-
bertson, of the same county is one hundred
and one years old.
Four hundred and thirty prisoners are
now confined in the Tennessee penitentiary
at Nashville, while six hundred and twenty
are hired out in various portions of the state,
making the total number of convicts one
thousand and fifty.
The Virginia penitentiary, on Thurs
day last, received youthful convict in the
person of William Alexander, lad twelve
years of age, sentenced for three years in
Campbell county, for hOrse-stealing.
@. A. Kendrick, the Baptist minister,
whose trial for the seduction of a young
lady at Columbus, Georgia, took place in
that city last week, was found guilty Of Sc
duction and sentenced to pay fine of $500
and costs. The fine has teen paid and Ken
drick released from Imprisonment.
The first bale of Texas cotton, this
years growth, arrived at Galveston Sunday.
1t was raised by Mrs. NJ. Houseman, of Mey-
ersville, Dewitt county, and weighed foar
hundred and twenty pounds, classed low
middling, sold for twenty-Six cents, and was
shipped to New York.
Warren Vean, aged fifteen, and Solo
man Dreyfuss, aged thirteen, were drowned
while bathing in the river at New Orleans,
last week Vean first jun ped into the water
and began crying out, Pm drowning"
Dreyfuss jumped in to save his friend. but
they both went down together. The bodies
were not recovered.
A fearful storm swept over portion
of Iowa on the night of the 5th inst, carry
ing death and destruction in its wake. Rain
commenced falling about ten o'clock, and
continued for three hours, with a solid sheet
of water, accompanied with thunder and
u. Al.
perienced.
The village of Reckdale, twenty-seven
miles from Dubuque, built in a ravine on a
strean was inundated at the dead hour of
night, while the storm was raging and the
lightning flashing, by the breaking away of
a mill dam some distance up the stream.
From the Iush Of water every building in
the place was swept away by the flood, ex-
cept the mill, and their occupants carried
away and drowned.
Later advioes show that some twenty-five
persons were killed in Warren county alone;
that six or eight were killed in Madison
county; that probably one hundred aud fifty
houses were completely destroyed, and as
many more badly injured, and that the de-
structiou of crops, fences aud animals is i'm
meuse. The names of the killed and
wounded cannot be obtained. They are
mostly the wives and children of the farmers.
Some reports place the number-of killed in
Warren county alopc as high as forty.
From Red river to the coast, and from
the Sabine to the uttermost parts of western
Texas, tine crops are splendid. A gentleman
who has been making tour through eastern
and northern Texas says that everything in
the crop line looks luxurialnt, and in middle
Texas he had seen a field of oats that was ex-
pected to average hundred bushels to the
acre. Western Texas speaks of herself as
being blessed with fine crop prospects, and
our coast counties, with the richest soil on
earth, are covered with cotton, cane and
corn of such appearance as to almost insure
an unusual yield.
Rockdale is a small place of about two
hundred inhabitants built upon creek, and
contained a pOstofiice, hotel, store and other
structures The rain fell in solid body for
three hours, the caeek rose to the size of a
river, and at about one o'clock, while the
lightning was flashing and the thunder roll
ing, the residents were terror-stricken with
the rush of mighty waters in and about them.
Every building in the place except the mill
was carried down stream or moved from its
foundation. A mill-dam some distance up
the stream broke away and let down the wa
ter in body. After the storm had abated
search was made, and forty two persons were
found to be missing. OF this number nine
teen dead bodies of men, women and chill
dren were picked up along the stream.