Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-23

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considerable stock with each inch of rise, but
the railway shops, smelling works and distil-
| lery are withstanding the food finely, and can
sustain several feet more rise without appre-
ciable damage. The river men calculate that
the Missouri will reach a standstill here by
tomorrow morning.
| CHICAGO, April 22d-The water here dur
| ing the night receded four inches. and the
mills. ETC., which were stopped By the flood,
have resumed operations.
| OMAHA, April 22d-The river is twenty
two feet and ten inches above lowwater
mark, having risen ore foot since yesterday.
| 1t is Row ten inches higher than the highest
| point of the flood of two weeks ago, and is
still coming up one-hslf to one inch per hour.
| The prospects are of an additional rise OF at
least one foot.
4 dispatch from Sioux City this morning
says the river rose thirteen inches there dur
ing the previous twenty-four hours, and is
still rising.
No reliable reports are received from Y ank-
ton and Sully.
Two dwelIing-houses foated past here this
morning, having come from some point above.
No express or baggage were received in
! Omaha from any direction TO day, and rail-
road connections are being washed out at
every point.
Now that the frost is ont of the ground, it
! is feared that ii the river falls rapidly it will
do serious damage by cutting the banks and
possibly making a new channel, as it did in
the April food of 1875.
The foods are causing a general stagration
of business, particularly in wholesaliug, and
retarding building operations, as material
cannot be shipped here.
| A large quantity OF freight is fast accumu-
lating here.
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ton from the river continues to grow worse,
aud is now not only serious but desperate.
The water has been rising at the rate Of ar
inch an hour all day, and the entire bottoms
are Inundated to depth of from one to six
feet. 1t is now foot and five inches higher
than ever before known here.
what Joaquin Miller Thinks of the Cow
ernmenfs Treatment OF Indians.
NEW YORK, April 22d.-The Tribune pub
fishes notices of Joaquin Miller's new book,
The Indian Tragedy; or, Shadows of Shas-
ta." 1t is a highly dramatic and impressive
exposure of the hideous outrages perpetrated
by the United States Government upon the
Western Indians. Miller gives in his intro
duction his reason for writing the book:
Because last year. in the heart of the
Sierrss, l saw women and children chained
together and marched down from their cool,
healthy homes to degradation and death on u
reservation. At the side of this long chained
line, urged on and kept in order by bayonets.
rode young officer, splendid in gold and
brass, and newly furnished from that now
famous chsrity-school on the Hudson. These
womenSand children were guilty of no crime.
They were not even accused of wrong; but
their fathers and brothers lay dead in battle,
harmless, on the mountain higdts and in the
lava-beds, and these few silent survivors, like
Israel of old, were being led into captivity;
but, unlike the chosen children, never to re
turn to the beloved hearth of their noun
tains."
sana Brannan's Colonization scheme.
New York, April 22d-A dinner WAS
given tonight to Samuel Brannan Of Cali
fornia, who arrived from Mexico last Mon
day. Twenty-Five gentlemen sat down at
Thomps0n's dining. rooms, on Broadway
Brannan states that he has 800 families all
ready on the borders and within Sonora to
colonies his grant of AZ leagues, situated be-
tween the Mayo and Yaqui rivers, and sur
yeyipg party is in the field TO survey the
boundaries of the grant. He proposes to
send sbipload of colonizing emigFants from
here, for which he has the full approval OF
the Mexican Governnen Seaor Peniche,
Senator from Yucatan, will accompany him
to Sonora, via San Francisco, next week. A
syndicate Is forming hare to aid him. He has
also a railroad concession from his proposed
city TO the United States line. Much enthu-
siasm is manifested here il the matter.
serious Railroad Accident.
DENVER, April 22d.-A authenticated
rumor is aaoat that a serious accident has oc-
CURED on the southern end Of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad Six or eight persons
are said to have been killed. 1t is impossible
to obtain particulars at present.
SECOND DIsPATCH-l
DENVER, April 22d.-This afternoon pas
senger coach containing IA passengers on the
Denver and Rio Grande train which left here
for Chama last Wednesday afternoon, jumped
the track two miles east of Rock tunnel and
rolled $50 feet down an embankment. No
other cars left the track. Five men and one
woman were killed outright and three
seriously injured. No employees of the road
were injured except the fireman, who was
riding in the coach. 1t is impossible to give
the list Of killed at this writing.
Curious story OF New Church in CALI
fornia.
ALBANY IN. ", April 22d.-The papers
publish curious story of a man named
Josiah Christians alleged attempt to abduct
the wife of Jos. Schumm, by which it APP
peared that Christian and his two brothers
are members of new church in California,
10 WHICH tHey atteupLeu 10 make IHe |
Schumms converts. They believe in literal |
construction of Bible language, and that |
converts, if females, shall leave the husband, |
parents and children, all for service in the |
faith. They do not state where the new
community in California is located, but |
wanted Mrs Schumm to leave her husband |
if he refused to go and accompany them to
the Pacific coast. In his preliminary exami-
nation Christian defended his course with |
81 81, I'D shoE
to the Bible the woman was justified in leav- /
ing her husband and children to accompany |
himself and brothers to the community which |
is believed to exist in California.
An Effort for Liberty.
PosToN, April 22d.-In the Howe Ladies'
Deposit trial, Augustus Russ, the assignee in |
insolvency appointed by the Probate Court,
testified thatzMrs. Howe, after her incarcera-
ton, told him that if she got out of jail she |
would pay everybody eff, though not all at |
one time. She said she was not at liberty to |
disclose the means whereby she could accom-
plish this Russ told her that there were |
about LOCO depositors, and to pay them all |
would require about $500, 600. He could only |
find property worth about S25, GOO, and if che |
had any means by which to make up the de-
hciency she ought to tell. She repeated her |
statement. She was under oath not to tell |
the means, bus that if she could get out of |
jail they would all be paid off in the end.
Befaication Made Good.
CHEYENNE, April 22d.-Colonel Gilbert |
Adams, formerly United States Marshal for |
Wyoming, and now an employee of the Pull |
man Car Company in Missouri, defaulted in
a large sum while Marshal here, and soon
left for parts unknown. His bondsmen were |
proceeded against, and the Government ob- |
tanned judgment for the full amount of the |
l,fo ,rk,,h ,.atI - NJ.
that Adams whereabouts is known, be will |
be arrested as soon as the necessary papers
are provided and will be brought to Wyo-
ming for trial.
BLOOD Atoncmenf in Arkansas.
LITTLE Rock, April 22d.-Rev Robert |
Mattock was lynched in lizard county few
days since. 1t is supposed that he was
preacher of the New Light fauaticism which |
prevailed in his region last year. The en-