Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
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We have never before Been called
upon to record so many disastrous
effects of storms upon life and prop
erty as have visited different sections
of our country during the past week.
The most serious perhaps that has
occurred in our own section of eoun-
try, was that at Mt. Carmel, Hl.-a
town in the southern part of the
State, which was almost entirely de-
stroyed, and quite a number of per-
sons killed. The Presbyterian and
Methodist Church houses. and like
wise the Court House, all valuable
buildings, were ruined.
The rain-storms in other parts Of
the West have been far more serious
and destructive both to life and prop
erty than usual.
Rain fell in the city of S.. Joseph
last Wednesday and Thursday in such
quantity as to inundate a large part
of the town. The water rose as high
as two feet in many dwelling houses,
destroying household furniture and
in some instances almost destroying
the life of the inmates.
Reports from Holly Springs, Miss,
tell of fearful destruction of crops
by storms, and that the farmers are
much disheartened in that locality,
and as far down as Water Valley and
Vicksburg. .
In West Tennessee also, the storn
wrought unprecedented disaster.
Some OF the streams rosa higher and
more rapidly than was ever known
before, washing away many houses,
the occupants barely escaping with
their lives.
From all accounts, the storm was
even more disastrous in Arkansas.
Whole fields of cotton and corr are
swept away or buried beneath the
ground fences carried off, and what
promised a most hopeful outlook is
utterly destroyed.
The earthquake and tidal wave that
visited the South Pacific coast last
month, almost entirely destroyed II
towns. About GOO lives were lost.
The destruction of property is esti-
mated at twenty-million dollars.
A fire broke out in Galveston,
Texas, on the 9Th inst, causing q
loss of property amounting to about
two and Il half million Of dollars.
About twenty-six of the finest build
ings In the business part of the city
were destroyed. Nearly all covered
by insurance.
|. Instructions to Gen. Ord, author
izing him TO pursue the Mexican ma
| RAIDERS into their W country if
necessary, has caused that govern
ment to open one eye mt least in our
direction, and now proposes very
kindly to assist the L. s. authorities
to suppress the lawlessness OH the Rio
Grande. .....
Attorney General Dibblc, of Louis
ana, under the kellogg regime, has
been arrested on an indictment charg-
ing him with embezzling over SIP, 900
Of State funds.
Decoration Jay WAS generally oh
served throughout the L. 5. with APP
propriate ceremonies, etc.,-except
at Jefferson City.
A most unfortunate accident oc-
CURED last week at Columbus, Ohio,
by which the Holy Cross Catholic
Church was destroyed by fire. An
organ valued al So, 900, WAS entirely
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consumed.
The degrees Of the Missouri School
of Midwifery and Diseases of Women
and Children, were conferred on four
teen female graduates last week.
Rev. n, l.. Rice, for forty-eight
years a Presbyterian minister, form
erly a resident of Fulton, Mo-. and
late Professor Of Theology in the
Danyille (Ky.) College, is dead.
The editors who attended the State
Convention ut Frelsriektown on the
5th inst, haze all reached home again
except the few who fell by the way
side OH account of taking bad med
Icine." .,. .r...e E-.
The party visited Hot Springs
where they were detained several
days by high water, Colonel John
f. Hutton, editor and Noprietns ol
the ''spiciest'' daily in the vest, was
elected president OF the convention
for the ensuing term. grus r
Railroad Commissioner Harding
having inspected the branch road o
the G. & A., reports Auxvasse bridge
and all the tresties. tiles, rails
switches, &C., in an excellent con-
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Reports from the seat of war il
the East are 80 meagre and conflict