The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-16

thV IOduh icauillS uut OF hempnls. reports
on the Memphis and Charleston road were
expected to be completed Tnesdaynight. The
town of Agenta, opposite Little Rock, Ark,
is entirely overlooked, including the depots
of the Memphis and Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroads. The river is three feet deem
near the depot. \ numbered plantations above
and below are oyerilown. The levee of Zeb
Ward, protecting over n thousand acres of
cotton and corn above Little Rock, broke on
Monday evening, submerging the whole.
The worst is not yet known. The river is
higher by Is inches than last year.
Very heavy rains have fallen in Western
Missouri and Kansas during the past few
days, and railroad travel in various directions
is interrupted. In Western Tennessee, also,
heavy rains and floods are reported. The
loss TO the lumber interest in Memphis is es.
timated at $4,000. The Missouri river at
Kansas City had risen ON Sunday to the
highest point reached since 1874, and was
still rising The town of Harlem, opposite
Kansas City, had six feet of water in its
streets, and there were fears that il would be
destroyed People living in the Missouri
bottoms were moving to the bluffs with all
the property they could save. The Missouri
Press Association, on an excursion to Hot
Springs, Kansas, are water bound there, an
impossible railroad break preventing their
return to their homes.
The owl train on the Pennsylvania Railroad
between Philadelphia and New York due at
Jersey City on Sunday morning at o'clock,
was boarded by four ruflians, who robbed aud
"beat nearly to death passenger named
Thomas Downing, The conductor and brake.
man attempted to rescue Downing, but were
driven off with reyolvers. They then locked
the robbers in the car, and telegraphed to
Jersey City for the police to be ready at the
depot. Three of the robbers escaped from
the windows while the train was going ut a
speed OF thirty miles an hour, but the fourth,
who gave his name as John Williams, and
said he was sailor, of New York, was arrest.
ed when the train reached the depot. Thos.
Downing, the victim Of the robbers. states
that he is New Yorker, and was going home
on a visit after residing in Philadelphia for
nearly year.
The Maryland State Fish Commissioner I.
u. Ferguson has returned from the POGO.
moke, Nanticoke and Wicomco rivers, in
which together he has placed 275, 900 Young
shad. The fish in Wicomico river were nut
IN under the supervision Of Slate Senator
Ihos. Humphreys, Of Wicomico county. Mr..
Ferguson expects that next year the results
OF the labors Of the fsh commissioners will
be seen Ia the increase Of shad aud salmon.
MT, Ferguson says that Prof S. Il. Baird, of
Baltimore, has received true specimen Of
white shad that was caught in the Ohio river,
at Louisville, where hundred a day have
been taken. The shad has never before been
caught IN this river since the white settlement
OF this country, and il goes to prove the fact
That shad return 10 the points when grown
where they were put ia the river when yonne
Young shad, an inch in length, were placed
in the Ohio river in 1872 and 1874. Prof
Baird's specimen weighed four pounds.