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Hollow, all the wooden and one fine iron bridge
we're swept off their foundations and crushed
like matches. A grist mill was then carried
bodily down the stream to be dashed to pieces
further along. Just above the village Of Stat
ford Springs where the valley narrows, the
waters gathered, and after grinding up several
tencments, with removed fury burst upon the
little town, washing directly through the heart
Of the place, destroying L. W. Cranes store,
the Home mutual fire insurance company's
building, the Congregational church, tho Stat
ford national bank, Gerry's stables, the block Of
Baker & Head, tho stone house and granary OF
G.. O. Cleveland, the warehouses Of W. Smith d
Co., aud Shoddy & Flock, dealers in lumber,
tho coal yards of G. J. Holmes, the Bor-
ough hall, and the engine house. Out
again from the village the waters went,
CARRYING away bridges, trees and small build
ings, until it reached the Willimantic, whose
broad bed received and swallowed the great
rush of water. When the dam first broke, MIR.
+. C. Pinney mounted his horse andfled through
the valley in advance Of the flood, warning the
residents, so that, as far as reported, but one
life was lost, though many families rescued
none Of their effects. The course OF the flood
across the fertile lands is marked by a broad
path OF land and stones desolation and waste
taking the place Of farming luxuriance, which
was manifest previous to the delvge. The
losses are variously estimated, but cannot fall
short of ST. 900, 900, besides ~entailing much
misery on the mill operatives, who will DO
thrown out of employ, owing to the power OF
the standing mills having been cut off by the
destruction OF their dams.
A military riot occurred in l1ayence. Ger
many, on the birthday of the Emperor William.
There was q fight between some Prussian and
Hessian soldiers, in which several were. killed
and forty wounded. .... Three little ones, aged
respectively five, seven and mine years, children
Of Henry Sicily, Of Creditor, Ont, Canada,
were burned to death in their fathers house.
Sicily, his wife and three other children barely
escaped. The premises burned down, entailing
n loss Of 81, 900 :; no insurance. 800. The s..
Charles Hotel, Paterson, N. j., was destroyed
by fire, and several Of the inmates had O narrow
escape from being burned to death. ..... Seven
frame houses in East st. Louis were destroyed
by fire. John W. Wilson, of the Topeka
Kan.) Times shot and killed J. Clark Seyayse,
Of the Blade, during an alteration 80. While
intoxicated, Guy Kimball, Of Dalton, n. H.,
beat his wife to death with q stick ...... The
forty-fourth call for the redemption Of five
twenty bonds Of 1865, May and November, hos
been issued. The call is for $40, 600, 600, of
which 50, 500, 000 arc coupon and $500, 900 are
registered bonds.
Joseph C. Small, teller Of the Standard bank
Of Toronto, Canada, has been missing several
days. The deficiency in his cash ID said to exceed
Sc, 1000. .....It is now charged that eighty
teamstera, who started overland for California,
through Utah. in 1857, after being discharged
from tho service of tho United States, were
massacred by Mormons. .....A special dispatch
from Singapore, India, announces that the
sultan of Perak. a State on the Malay peninsula,
was forcibly arrested without warrant or written
authority. A writ of hdbeas corpus was moved
for, and refused by the register 80. The end
OF the fiscal year in Great Britain will show a
deficit in the revenue Of over sc, 900, 900, and
the ministers are much embarrassed in conse-
quence. An auction sale Of loo, 600 tons 0f
coal in New York city brought lower prices than
any of the previous sales ...... Austria is mo-
bilizing an army of 40. 900 men, and Russia also
is increasing the number Of her troops.....The
principal business portion Of the town of Gin
ton, Sampson county, N. c., was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; partially insured....:
Combs, Eastman & Co.'S furniture factory in
Fell City, Ind, was burned, ~inflicting n loss Of
$50, 600. I'm the town Of Decatur. n. T.,
George Marclay, aged twenty-five, broke into
. house occupied by Harriet and Fanny Bates.
respectable maiden ladies', aged seventy and
sixty-thrce years, and violently outraged them.
Harriet died the following day Of her injuries,
and the young desperate was held for her muir.
der. ..... Nine buildings in Enfield, N. c., we're
destroyed by fire. Loss, S50,e00.