Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-21

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feet at Moofe's Fiat. Communities
ton between the latter place and
North Bloomfield is cut off. The
mails have to be carried on snow
shoes. L. has been raining here
more or less all day. Should q
warm rain come on, Marysville
and the lower country will un-
doubtedly be flooded.
Tne Psrssnnd RsgSto Mufder.
PORTLAND, March ia dis
patch received here to-day says
that Charley Hamilton, Carrie
Bradley's man, has left Mazatlan
and gone to Valparaiso.
Terrib,e sietusa of sn~ FiooS in
AaSsNsa..
HELENA, Ark, March 19.--The
water is falling slowly in the river,
but the overflow in the city re-
mains stationary. The general sit.
uation is brighter. The effects of
tie overflow are being roughly
estimated, and the figures reach
millions. The suffering at poin se
not eesily accessible still contin.
ues. New stories of distress reach
Helena hourly. The city is full of
the people who have escaped from
the low lapds, and hundreds of
hands will so into the upper coun-
try and desert their old homes for
ever. The steamer C0huma
brought meal and bacon for ship
ment TO the sufferers on the sunk
lauds oD the upper st. Francis,
which went forward his afternoon.
Additional news from that region
shows a still more frighful condi-
tion. They raise cotton and corn
and hay, and are said to be the
finest stock k-raisers on the face of
the globe. Thousands of cattle of
the finest Kentucky breeds are
floating around dead, or are upon
scs sffJlds or on RATS that
have been tied to trees
10 keep them floating. a few
Indian mounds that appear show
the only ground for yearly 400
miles, and are the only remaining
vestiges of that prehistoric country,
and these will be used to land ra-
tious, it being unsafe to select any
Of the houses ou the route
Fr.m IT, Ens,m.a, CnptGas.
WASHINGTON, March, 10th -.
The author of II letter in the WASH
ington Post, some days ago, over
the signature of Justice" in
which violent attack WAS made
upon the late President Garfield,
Will havt, III tO-morrow's Post, an
other letter ~ reply 10 bis critics,
which is signes with bis true
name, Wm Brown. He was
delegate to the Chicago Conven-
tion from the Seventh District of
Kentucky.
The following dispatch was re.
ceived Tonight by the Chairman
of The House Committee on For
eign A fairs:
New YORK, March 9.-Hon. O.
G Williams, Washin0ton:-Ship-
htru has been i'll, but will leave to-
morrow for Washington, taking
his physician's certificate with
him. (Signed)
THOMAS KAvANAUGH,
Deputy Sergeant-at- Arms.
1t Is understood that the COM
mit;ee auditing the bills Of the ex-
pense of transporting members of
Congress to the funeral of Presi.
dent Garfield will present this
week n majority and mi
nority report. The former rec
onmends the passage of a
bill approprieting the amount re.
quired TO settle the various claims,
while the latter will criticize Sc
verely seversl items OF the account,
such as those for wines, etc.
Sh,phsrd 20 Respond.
WASHINGTON, March 2Oth.--
AT the meeting Of the House Com
mittee ON Foreign Affairs a tele-
gram was read from Shipherd
stating that he expects 10 reach
Washington this afternoon.
GUt Her rnr"esi me Canrcm.
CHERRYFIELD, Me-, March Co.
Last evening, as Mrs. Hattie
Sprsgue, widow, was leaving
Chester Cunningham step
ped up, drew knife and cut her
throat. She died almost instantly.
J jealousy was the cause.
=emo, timing sac sRa,s T,m,e.
BOSTON. March 19.-Postmaster-
General Howe, referring 10 his in
tentioD to shorten the mail service
between New York and San Fran
cisco day and half, says he will
make the connections the same
throughout The country wherever
Wees 81. ven in . q a..
BosToN, March 10 The ship
Screamer, from Philadelphia for
New Orleans, with coal, went
down in gale on the 10th instant
in latitude $40 4G<, longitude 74o AT.
Three of the crew sank with the
ship. The remainder were picked
up by brig near by.
MIL ssrIRp.
LAWRENCE. Mass, March 90
The strike in the mills Is spread
ing. Four hundred more opera.
tives Joined the strikers this morn.
ing.
An Afflicted Jews.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, March
9.-There were. IS deaths from
smallpox since Friday. The di-
sense is absting. Many stores and
saloons were closed on Saturday.
Public gatherings are avoided.