Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-23
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OK BOARD THE ANITA. GOVERNMENT
RELIEF EXPEDITION. VIA VrCKsBuRG.
March 20. Special to Milwaukee SEN
tinel: The Anita left Vicksburg Friday
afternoon with a. little delay as possible.
Nicksburg was full of refugees, but they
were from the plantations within easy
reach and had been brought ont BY the
boats hastily sent by the Citizens Com
mittee in response to appeals. AS to
the condition Of the people up the Sun
flower and Tallahatchie, only the most
meager news can be obtained in a GEN.
eral way. 1t was known that they
We're without homes or food. but no
boat had gone to them because nearer
calls had absorbed the means of res
cue, and instead of the floods in the
fazoo county having reached their
highest, the report coming showed that
the water was rising everywhere Those
who had found knobs and levee-banks,
and who had felt safe in awaiting the
subsistence, learned that their foothold
was becoming precarious and they must
seek safety in further navigation, which
could only be accomplished by boat.
When the Anita turned into Old River,
really the lower part of the Yazoo, some
fifteen miles above Eicksburg, it was
found that the water HAD risen in twenty
four hours so as to lower many of the
knobs which were visible the day be-
fore.
The Anita got under way and steam
ed for the Yazoo On entering the
stream ten miles above Vieksburg, Capt
Bowman, who had been up the river
only the day before, observed that the
water had risen rapidly and that knobs
and pieces of the leyee which were out
of water Thursday were now submerged,
and Capt. 0ttar said he had never dur
ing his whole experience seen the water
SO high.
At McKee's plantation, seven miles
from the mouth OF the Yazoo, some ra-
tons were landed and about twenty ne
groes taken aboard. These latter were
left at Chickasaw Bluff and furnished
with food to last them several days. A
hundred or more negroes who had come
down from the Deer Creek county were
on this bluff, and still others were
StAoi lttN b14Ai1s tto IL 10 ONI VI lAiC ItdtI1
OF any rise that can possibly take place
in the country. The submerged district
is now thirty to forty miles wide and
200 miles long and embraces 5000 to
5000 square miles. 1t is traversed as
heretofore stated by the Tallahate hic,
Big and Little Sunhower, Deer Greek
ColdWater and Yalobusha. all Of which
ale nayigable for light draft steamers.
Now all these streams are as one, the
entire basin being inundated.
WEAyERs OUT.
LAWRENCE, Mass, March 20 Eight
hundred weavers of the Central Pacific
mills refused to work this morning, and
assembled at the mill to induce 900
more to quit, which 700 more did at a.
IN. They complain that wages were
reduced 10 per cent; patterns were
changed, increasing the work; and chat
they were compelled to work ten and a
half hours a day and spend two and a
half hours every week polishing looms.
ENTANGLED AGAIN.
MILWAUKEE, March 20. Hermann
Hidden, the young murderer who es-
capped jail here was captured by Under
Sheriff Golden, Of Outagamie county,
at Appleton at Z o'clock this evening.
A reward of 5000 lad been offered for
his capture.
cLINGING 10 cLoTCRE.
LONDON, March 21.-In the House OF
Commons last evening, during e de-
bate on the new rules OF proce are, the
Marquis of Harrington intim tied that
the government would stand or fall by
the Cloture proposals. Without COM
ing to any conclusion on the rules, fur
Their than debating the matter, the
House adjourned.
ANNOUNCED FOR AUGUST.
ST PETERSBURG, March 20 The
coronation of the Gar has been fixed
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