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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
The Most Disastrous Since 1851
Hundreds of Farms Inundated,
and the Railroads Submerg-
ed - Great Excitement.

Particulars of the Mississippi flood,
which was precipitated upon the farm
ers in the vicinity of Quincy, H., and
Hannibal, Mo-, by the giving way, on
the 18th, of the Sny levee below Gin
cinnati landing, have not yet come to
hand. Enough of the destruction of
property is known however, to warrant
the assertion that since 1851 no such
damaging flood has occurred. No lives
are reported lost, though many mar
row escapes are reported. The river
at Bear Creek bottom, four miles north
of Quincy is twenty miles wide, and
the water covers hundreds of rich
farms, extending fifteen miles into Hi
nois and five into Missouri By the giving
away of the Sny levee the farmers are
fearful that the whole Sny bottom con-
tanning 100000 acres of rich land will
he flooded. The levee gave way four
miles north of Hannibal, although a
large force of men worked upon the
embankment during Sunday night, and
Monday, the 10th and 18th, and super
human efforts were made to save it and
prevent the flood and devastation.
Runners were sent out over the bottom
lands, to warn the people and tell them
to flee to the bluffs for their lives. The
levee south of Quincy broke at three
points, and opposite Hannibal, Mo-, on
the Illinois side, houses and barns were
swept away en- nasse. Much suffering
will necessarily follow, as thou
sands of people both north of Han
nibal on the Missouri side and south of
Quincy on the Illinois side, are house
less, having fled to the bluffs for safety.
Meetings have been called at Hannibal
to assist the unfortunate
The damage to the railroads may be
briefly stated: The track of the ST..
Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern, from
Quincy to Hannibal, is almost entirely
under water The road-bed is washed
away in many places, and the bridges
are nearly afloat between Quincy and
Keokuk. The loss will be heavy, the
ties and rails having been foated off
from the road-bed in many places and
lodged against the trees in the woods.
The Quincy and Missouri track is COW
cred with water for distance of near
ly two miles, but it is believed that no
serious injury has been done to the
road-bed as yet The Quincy, Carthage
and Burlington track is washed out for
200 feet, four miles from Quincy, and
passengers are transferred in boats. On
the Quincy, Alton and st. Louis road
there is heavy wash-out where the shy
levee gave way, the road-bed in some
places being entirely carried away. The
track is also submerged for distance
of two miles at one point, and one mile
at another, between Quincy and Han
nibal. The Toledo, Wabash and West
ern is flooded between Perry Springs
and Meredosia, and passengers are car.
ried across the food in boats,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28

THE largest armor plate ever made
was produced March 18th at the Cy-
clop Works of Messrs. Cammell & Co.,
in Sheffield, England. The thickest
made previously was fourteen inches,
but the plate made on the 10Th was
twenty-five inches thick. 1t is one of
several intended for two war vessels
now in construction for the Italian gov
eminent. The plate which weighs thir-
ty-fve tons, will be tested by 100 ton
gun. Each vessel will have two turrets,
and each turret two guns. The plate
was very successfully rolled.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28

THURSDAY, April 2O-Bills were re-
ferred: To grant to Ohio unsold and I'M
appropriated public lands in that state; to
limit the power of courts to punish for con
tempt: also, to enlarge the privileges of the
writ of habeas corpus......A resolution call
ing upon the President to enforce the exist
ing neutrality laws between this country
and Mexico, and directing the general of
the army to proceed in person to the scene
of the recent outbreak, was referred.....
Cox, from the committee on rules made a
report severely reprimanding the action of
Clerk of the House, Smith, in mixing him
self in the bounty claim bill. No action is
recommended, as Smith has resigned......A
resolution was adopted to investigate the
charges against Secretary Bristow in the
Mary Merritt case.
House.
FRIDAY, April 21.-The Mary-Merritt-
10 a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28

FRIDAY, April 21.-The Mary-Merritt-
Bristow investigation WAS referred to the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28
HARD MONEY.

Bristow's Order for the Issuing Of Sill
yer Currency-The Silver Act.
Secretary Bristow on the 18th issued
the following instructions concerning
the issue of silver coin in plae of frac-
tional currency:
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
VOL. SO.
pa,yishpd by Theodore Schoeh.

Two dollars year in advance-aRd If not
lSsf,r, the end of the year. two dollars and hity
esats ~ nansr discontinued until all arrearages
"a sLsspt at the option Of the Editor:
pad pG one square of eight inesl or
e ~ +traa insertions 81 -. Each additional in
lsss. on :, r,uts Longer ones in proportion.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
A WOman's Trick.

DR.. Ii. j. was one of the able, talented
and eccentric surgeons of the last century.
His practice embraced a large circuit. and
his fame extended to every part of the State.
The doctor was one morning sitting in his
office, poring over some medical work, when
loud rap at the door aroused him.
Come in, said the doctor, and an old
lady hobbled into the apartment, who
seemed the very embodiment of dirt and
negligence.
Doctor said she, ''I've got dreadful
sore foot-can you help it ~
Il will try-let me see it.
The old crone proceeded to divest her
understanding of the apology of shoe
with which it was covered, and displayed
to the astOnished doctor a foot-and such
foot
my goodness % exclaimed the doctor,
throwing up both hands in amazement :;
''what a dity foot y
La! doctor, We needn't be in such a
wonderment about it; there's dirtier feet
than that in the world I'll warrant-aye
and dirtier feet than that in your own
house, as proud as { he young ladies, YOUR
daughters, are-for all that > and tie old
hag cackled forth her pleasure at the doctor 5
| astonishment.
Woman ! if you can find dirtier foot
than that in my house, | will give you a
guinea, and cure your foot for nothing"
"Pon honor - said the beldame
'Pon honor" cried the doctor.
The woman stripped off the other stock
ing displayed foot that beggared all des-
cription, grinning in the face of the astonish-
ed doctor, exclaing: "Gae me the guinea
| knowed it; | washed t'other fore | came
here"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
STROUDSBURG MONROE COUNTY, PA, JANUARY 27. 1875.

Slayer" and the ''Nimrod of the Conewago. =
A few days before his death he stated that
h had killed in his life over 1000 deer,
go bears, 20 catamounts, B panthers and
n1mberless wolves and foxes. In his tenth
We he killed one bear and six deer. His
experience in the woods embraced many
hlnd-to-hand contests with bears and
wounded bucks, from all of which he came
out victorious, and his body was covered
with sears, the result of these battles He
was only 40 years of age, but had followed
the calling of hunter and trapper for 80
Years.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
NO. "a.
al a Golden Girl.

There is a servant. girl living with
family in Detroit, says the Free Press, who
wouldn't be permitted to change places if
SO per week would be any inducement for
her to stay. She makes it her special duty
to meet all agents ard beggars at the door,
and to dispose of them without the least
annoyance to the family. She has rule
to meet each case, and her rules are per-
fection. The door q bell never fools her.
She can tell a callers ring from beggar's
ring as certainly as the bell is touched.
When she opens the door and finds man
with red geatee, having a cothes-wringer
in his hand, she dosen' I wait for him to hem
and haw and say that his clothes wringer
beats all the other wringers ever made.
She gets the Start by saying:
"You seem Ike decent, respectable
man, and as a friend Ilwarn YOU that the
owner of the house saw YOU come up the
stels and he ran into tile back yard to un-
chain his Russian blood hound.
The man with the red goatee slings that
wrinSer over. his right shoulder and can
ters out Of that neighborhood with his teeth
on edge and cold chills playing tag up and
down his back.
The next one may be young lady, who
boldly inquiries for the lady of the house,
and has a new kind of face-powder to sell.
~ on can 90 ih,' whispers the girl, ''and
[ will stand at the door SO as to rush in
when you CALL If the mistress asks YOU
to taste anything, boware Of poison She
may not have her revolver with her this
morning, and | guess it will be safe for you
to go in." .....
"Why-vhy?" stammers the young
lady
Go right in she may not be danerous."
Never. mind. I'll call again I'm in a
hurry" Dos
And that settles that case.
The next is one of those chaps who 90
about with tears in their eyes, willing to
work if work can be had but never find
ing any work their health will permit them
to do. ..t.- ..t-
Madam he says, as she opens the
door, for Heavens sake let me work at
something long enough to earn a since of
bread ?''
She motions for him to 90 around to the
side door and is there to let him in. She
hands him an ak weighing seven pounds,
with straight handle, points to three or
four big knots which have become almost
petriied and very softly says
''Iou look hungry, and as soon as you
split those up I'll give you the best meal
you've had in a month"
She goes in and he spits on his hands,
looks at that old AK and then folds his lit
tie tent and slips through the gate like "a
shadow Of fate
Then the little girl who canvasses for
the orphan asylum rings the bell She is
met with a smile and the hired girl says
"1ou poor little thing | pity the or
Phans and I'd like to give you some money
If you will get the mayor to come here and
say it is all right | will give you three
cents"
The little girl thoughtlly pursues her
way and another case comes, is met and
disposed of, and the mistress of that house
is never disturbed or annoyed
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27

and having there an immense field and
great duration of time, would be able to
progress incidentally; last of all, when life
perished in them, the sun itself would be-
come the theatre of life, and after its decay
and death, still more central sun would be
the next fitted for the purposes and develop
ment of life, and so on endlessly. And he
said that perhaps what seemed to us death
was not death but another and higher life,
just as night is not darkness absolute, but
only calmer, purer state of nature
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27

where you can't hang to anything p asked
the boy.
"Begone, say?D
Don't draw no Derringer on me y
warned the boy as he backed off, 'nor
don't think you can scare me with any of
your bowie knives !"
The principal walked in and shut the
door, and after the new boy had stood there
long enough to show that he wasn't afraid
he turned and walked off, growing to him
self:
"I'll git the foreman of No. 6 to pound
that fellow afore he's week older -
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
Hog Raising.

A hog raiser and pork packer in Iowa
gives the following statement as his
experience in the business ''He has
demonstrated to his entire satisfaction, that
after his spring pigs had reached about
three hundred pounds they ceased to grow
with any profit. His pigs on the first of
January weighed nearly as much as they
did on the first Of February, notwithstand-
ing he had kept up the feeding, He is a
great advocate of taking good care of hogs.
He would never shut up his hogs more
than five weeks before he wants to market
them. His food early in the fall was
pumpkins, steamed and mixed with mid
dlings the proportion being about one half
bushel of middlings to forty gallons of
steamed pumpkins. His object was to
develop the bone and muscs of the hog
without adding fat. This he continued
three months and then put them in close
pen and fed them meal and middlings
steamed. After shutting them up for five
weeks they gained two pounds day until
they reached three hundred pounds and
then ceased to grow to any extent
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
hob PRINTING

or ALL KINDS,
.-.,,a5 in the highest style Of the Art and on the
Ek''o''- most reasonable terms.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27

Little Willie. having hunted in all the
corners for his shoes, at last appears to give
them up, and climbing on a chair, betakes
himself to a big book on "a side table.
Mother says to him 'What is darling
doing with the book ?' 1T ith the die
tionary. pap lookth in the dictionary for
things, and | am looking in it to see if I
can find my shoes"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27

Young men are apt to think themselves
wise enough, It's drunken men arc to think
themselves sober enough.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27

He was man of dissolute practices and
irregular habits, and he lived here. He
groaned in his sleep, and his wife arose to
light the lamp. He beheld a vast display
of striped stockings, and then murmured to
himself: 1--WE got EN- sure this time. "
"Got what ?" she inquired.
''The delirium tremens. I'm seeing an
imals of all kinds. I've just seen zebra. ("
She turned down the light aud the me-
nageria Vas closed
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-27
MASON Took,
PAPER HANGER.
VLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONROE STREET,
opposite Kautz's Blacksmith Shop,
STROUDsBURG. Pa.

form - Undersigned would respectfully in
that ~ ,"e Citizens Of Stroudsbnrg nd vicinity
Of p.o.L's,n u now iuily prepqred 10 do al kinds
promd'l, hanging. Gazing and Painting.
viii ana at short notice. and that he
psnar ~ constantly on hand fine stock oi
low ~; ;Iahglags of all descriptions and at
ssr.ae,'' ses' The patronage of the public
solicited. Nav is, 1872.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30
Lett be Acted Upon.

The following sensible advice to farm.
ers, is from the Spirit Of Jefsrsoa:
At the late annua' meeting of the State
Grange of Wcs; Virginis, Patrons OF
Husbandry, the following resolution,
among others, was adopted:
Rescued, That we recommend To the
Patrons Of Husbandry OF this State the
policy of establishing manutactories
wherever the facilities for doing SO are
presented.
Iet our Granger friends act upon such
resolutions as these. and their organlza-
will accomplish much good, not only to
themselves, but u the community at
large. As all instance, let the money
sent elsewhere for agricultural imple-
meuts be invested in manutactory OF
such articles. You ut once stop drain
age upon YOU from abroad, with IN all
probability the counter advantage OF
adding To home circulation by foreign
sales. Every hundred hands en-
ployed will probably represent
five hundred people, and these IN
turn will need houses, clothing aud sub
sistence; giving employment 10 addl-
tional mechanics, decreased business to
merchants, snd n larger home msrket to
producers Let the practical men among
our jefferson Grangers grasp the iull in
terpetation of the above resolution, and
put in practice, and they will do more to
advance the interests of the farmer AS
class and with that class sll classes
than has yet been accomplished, or in
all probability will be in any other man
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30
All busin ess letters and com.
municatiOns, Intended for
this paper, should be address
ed to THE REGISTER, Wheel
Ing, w. Va
Democratic and Conservative State
Gonvpntion.

NNHE DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVE A
l. TIVE party OF West Virginia, are re-
quested to appoint delegates to meet In
the city OF Charleston, on Thursday, the
Sth day of June. at i9 O'Clock A. M, ior
the purpose OF II miuajng candidates for
the offices Of q vernon, Auditor, Treas
urer. Attorney Genera, State Superinten-
dent of Free Schools, and three Judges OF
the Court OF Appeals. Also for the pur-
pose of appointing two Delegates from
each CongressIona' district OF the State,
and four Delegates from The State at
large, to represent West Virginia In
the Democratic National Convention, to
be held in ST. Louis on the 9th day OF
June, for the nomination OF Candidates for
Preside ent and Vice PRESIDENT OF the United
States, the election ofan Electoral Ticket,
aud the transaction OF such O'her proper
business as may come before the said Con-
Vention
All Democratic aud Conservative voters
of the State, without regard to past politi-
cal differences. who are opposed To polit!-
cal corruption in high places, are cordially
Invited 10 parlic pN.- n the meetings
called to appoint sad delegates.
ALEX. CAMPBELL, Chairman.
]. w. GALLAHER. Sec'y.
Democratio papers OF the State please
copy.
PARKERsBURG, March 9, 1876. mrll
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30
Ohio Republican Conventions.

COLUMBUS, March 29.-The RePubll-
can State Convention assembled at the
Opera House this morning, r full delega-
tion being present from all the districts
of the State. General John c. Lee, o.
Toledo. was chosen temporary president.
ana made short speech, warmy urging
a united action to secure the nomination
Of HAYES for President After appoint
ing committees, the convention took q
recess until after dinner.
The Convention reassembled at l:o0P.
NJ Alphonsa Hart, of Csyahsga, was
chosen permanent President. Benjaman
Wade. of Ashtabuls; Edward +. Noyes,
of Hamilton; W. Il. Epson, of Summit,
and J. W. Keifer, of Clark, were elected
as delegates at large to the National
Convention, with Samuel Crsighesd, OF
DAYTON; Clark Waggoner, Of Llcas; &.
H. Grosvenor, of Athers, and Lewis
Weitzel. of Hamilton. sS alter
mates. A. F. Perry, of CINCINNATI, and
L II Hoham, Of Cuyahaga, were
chosen for Presidential electors. The
follow ng State ticket Yves s)so nom'nn nted:
For Secretary of Stste, Milton NJ.
Barnes, of Guernsey; Supreme Judge,
w. W. Boynton. OF Lorraine; Member
of Board OF Public Works, James Z.
Evans ST Delaware.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30
Dana still Hangs Fire.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-The Senate
in executivee session to-day further dis
cussed the nomination of Dana, but ad-
journed without action.
The Secretary OF the Treasury to-day
directed the Retirement of SlSS, "A, that
being 10 per cent of the new National
Bank circulation issued for the
present month.
The bill amendatory of the bank
ruptcy laws reported favorsbly from
the Senate Judiciary Committee to-day
is the measure recently introduced by
Mr.. Thurman with the same anne nd
ments as reported. 1t provides that no
voluntary assignment by debtor of all
his property heretofore or hereafter
made in good faith for the benefit of all
of his creditors ratably and without ere
ating any preference and valid accord
ing to the law of the State where made,
shall OF itself, in event OF his being
subsequently sdjudicated bankrupt in
proceeding of involuntary bankruptcy,
be bar to the discharge of such debtor.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30
F0RTY-F0URTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. March 29
SENATE.

After the introduction of bills and Pc
titions, one of the latter being the petl.
tion of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, that 5000
of the appropriation tor the Sioux may
be given to two German girls, who were
captured and held several months by the
Indians, the Senate resumed the consid-
GRAFTON of tn Consular and Diplomatic
bill
Mr.. Sargent moved that the FIVE min
utes rule be enforced during debate on
the bill Adopted.
Mr.. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, spoke
in opposition to the restoration OF the ap-
preparations cut down by the House.
The Senste then proceeded to consider
the amendment of the Committee on
Appropriations, all of which were
agreed to
Various amendments were explained
as restoring services TO the existing laws
only, creating no new Consulates and in
creasing no salaries, only restoring what
have been stricken out
The bill was then passed on a yea and
nay vote; yeas S5, nays II.
On motion resolution for the appoint
ment Of committee TO investigate the
alleged frauds in the recent elections in
Mississippi, was taken up and made un.
finished business.
The Senate then went into executive
session, and at 4:l0 adjourned.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-30

NEW York, March 29-Lsst night a
Ire originated in the house of Leopold
Thompson, 81 Annett street, Third dis
trict. which was totally DESTROYED. The
flames then spread to the adjoining house
at the corner of Annette and Morals
streets, and owing to the total absence Of
water and the high northerly wind that
was blowing, the fire spread with great
rapidity, destroying the half block bound
cd by Annette, Morals, Urquhash and
st. Anthony streets, comprising fifteen
smsll buildings. The hydranis within
four or five blocks were empty. owing 10
the imperfect draining in that quarter
and h WAS impossible to get water to
where it could be utilized. The lrcmen
we're employed in pulling down the
buildings IN the course OF the Ere A
number of fremen were severely burned.
Loss roughly estimated at $4,000.
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CIymer Invssti gatio Y Committee.

WAsuIYGroN, March 29.-General
Geo. a. Custar appeared before the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the War De-
partment to-day. He testified that Robert
s. Spipe, post trader st Fort Abraham
Lincoln, told hlm that his profits were
sl5, 900 annually, one-third of which was
paid to General Headrick, of lowo, and
one-third to Gen. Rice, at Washington.
He did not know, but he understood that
y portion of it went tosthe Secretary OF
War.
Mr.. Raymond the Indian agent at
Fort Barthald, said he paid Orville Grant
81 900 for getting him the place.
Mr.. Custar testified that the proclama-
tion OF the President. extending the
Great Sioux Indian reservation, enhanced
the value Of the leading posts on the
North Missouri river, because II rendered
them more complete monopoly.
Witness said that Mr.. Thumb,
trader at Ft Peck, was about to be re
moved when be obtained some attidavlts
showing that Orvlle Grant aud the
Layton brothers were mixed in the In
dian frauds.
Gen. Custer said one object OF Gen.
Belknaps visit 10 the frontier was 10
perfect arrangements whereby whisky
could be brought across the border
at reduced rate and increased advan-
tages given to post-traders. Gen. Gus
ter related various instances il which
grain has been stolen from the Govern
ment The post traders had taken il
into their stores.