Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-14
The Great storm.

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OMAHA, February 18th. = The weather
cleared off this morning, and the railroad
companies at once put forth vigorous efforts
to open the roads. All the main lines of rail.
road in Nebraska will be opened by to-mor-
row, when passenger and freight trains will
resume their regular runs. The east-bound
| Union Pacific express, due here Yesterday,
arrived this afternoon, followed by to-day's
east-bound train. The Union Pacific west
bound express left on time. No trains have
arrived here from Chicago since Friday night,
but are expected in some time to night. The
Chicago and Northwestern sent out train
for Chicago this evening. A special passenger
train left Omaha for Lincoln to-day over the
B. and NJ and Union Pacific. The storm
was not very bad west of Grand Island The
Union Pacific sent out the regular west
| bound express to-day on time. The only
passengers for California were A. G.. Hawes
of San Francisco; Cslmer Henderson, of
Council Bluffs; Lyman H. Booth, of Omaha :;
Stanley Bowen, of Kansas City
MILFORD (Pa.), February 13th.-The Del
aware has flooded the country about Bush.
kill, doing great damage to lumber, hay,
fences and movable property. The loss is
fully S50O,000. A family named Buckley
are imprisoned on Connesbaugh Island with.
out food They will be rescued tonight.
BoRDENTowY IN. j. J. February 13th-The
| freshet is tremendous here. The railroad
tracks between Trenton and Burlington are
under water. A canal-boat is lying across
the track on the Trenton road. All the
small buildings near the Delaware and Rari-
tan lock are partly under water. The old
! Camden and Amboy shops are inundated,
and the fires of the steam-forge of McPher-
son, Willard & Co. are put out by the flood
| As far as the eye can reach the PENNSYLVANIA
shore is covered with water. This exceeds
the freshet in water, but not in lie, of 1857.
WASHINGTON, February 13th.-The food
which came rushing down the Potomac Sat
urday and submerged the lower portion of the
city for nearly q hours. has subsidized An
immense ice gorge, extending from above the
city to a point several miles below, and
reaching nearly to the Virginia shore, threat
| ems destruction to the wharves and steam
! boats lying at them when it begins to give.
| The damage to vessels, wharves and property
along the river is estimated at between $50
900 and 800, 900. Must of the wharf owners
expect greater damage when the massed ice
moves. The damage to property and mer-
| chandise in the inundated pOrUion of the city
will probably reach Sl00, 900, and in George.
town to wharves and storehouses, S75, ,000
! A section of Long Bridge, about 300 feet, was
swept away last night, and was carried about
100 yards down the river to the fats, where
it lies badly wrecked, wedged in with broken
ice. Telegraphic communication with the
South is badly interrupted, as all the cables
at Long Bridge have been carried away.
Tonight only two of over 20 wires are work
ing between Washington and Alexandria.
Railroad travel to the South, on account of
the break in the bridge will be seriously i'm
peded. Arrangements will be made to trans
fer passengers and mails from Richmond and
the coast by stages from Washington over
the Georgetown bridge to the Alexandra,
Fredericksburg AMI Richmond road at Fort
Runyan.
Naturalization Frauds-Eyidence of a
startling Nature.
New York, February 13th.-The Tribune
to-day has the following The investigation
of the charges against J ohm j. Davenport as
U. S. Commissioner and Chief Supervisor of
Elections, has been dragging along nearly two
years, and mass of testimony has been taken
before Z. S. Commissioner Lyman. Daven-
port has put in large amount of document
ary evidence and few witnesses have been
examined on his behalf. Yesterday a wit
ness was called who gave evidence of start
ling nature Much has been said about nat
uralization frauds practiced in the Superior
and Supreme Courts in 1868, but until yes
terday no witnesses fully cognizant of the
manner in which the frauds were conducted
had been called on to testify. When the pro-
ceedings began yesterday Davenport placed
on the stand Patrick Gof, and in
answer to a question put by Daven-
port, he testified as follows: l was
engaged in obtaining naturalization GER
tifcates from the Superior and Supreme
tween 5000 and 10000 certificates in the
names of various people. There were sew
eral others engaged in the same business, and
among them John Gallagher, Charles Dough
erty, John Dougherty, Thomas Craig, James
McCabe, Charles Mccarthy. John McGinnis,
Patrick McCafferty, John Moran, James
Cobb, John Gotfick, Martin Donnelly, Roger
Guion, Michael KeDney, Patrick Reilly,
James Collins, Michael Morrow, jeremiah
Coffey, Philip Cooney and Henry Jacobs.
Lists of names were furnished me daily.
There were eighteen or twenty clerks in the
basement of the City Hall who were under a
salary, and l divided the names I had
among them. They filed out the blank
application, putting in address. There were
no residences written opposite the names on
the lists furnished me, and the residences put
in the applications were fictitious. The
clerks wrote in my name as witness for the
persons named.
At this stage of the proceedings the counsel
retained by Tammany Hall objected to wit
ness answering further questions in reference
to the papers unless the original papers were
produced, and the examination was ad-
journed until Thursday next Davenport
stated he would produce about 1000 original
papers.
Pacific Coast Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, February 13th.-The follow
ing Pacific coast postal changes are an
nounced for the Pacific coast: Offices estab.
lished--0leander, Fresno county, Cal, VIM.
D. johnson, Postmaster; Catalina, Pinal
county, A T., John T. Young, Postmaster !;
Galeyvile, Pima county, A. T., Frank Nc
Candless, Postmaster Nugget. Maricopa
county, A. T., Geo. T. Antan, Postmaster.
Offices discontinued-Wad Modoc county,
Cal. (; Bridge Creek, Wasco county Oregon
Postmasters appointed-Charles c. Cousins,
Columbus. Esmeralda county, New. Daniel
Rullen, Suillent, Chaldam county, w. T.
Secretary Of War Ramsey interviewed.
New YORK, February 13th.-Secretary of
War Ramsey was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday. In response to an inquiry by a
Tribune reporter concerning the operations of
the United States Army, he said: "The
deplorable thing about our army is, it is very
! much detached. To be effective it should be
concentrated. In this day of railroad facili-
ties there is no good reason for maintaining
these many scattered army posts. The
present force is sufficiently large fer all pur-
poses, provided we could have good effect
i've force centered at one point"
Mr.. Secretary" said the reporter, what
do you think are likely to be General Gar
fields Cabinet appointments ?"
"Senator Blaine, as Secretary of State,
will be Premier of the incoming Admins
tration. Naturally he will have some voice
in forming the next Cabinet"
.It has been said that he would throw his
influence against Senator Conkling.
"Oh, no Blaine is too much of a states