Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-04
THE NEWS.

tory, saw-mills, shipyard, cooper-shops and
cellars on Ohio street are flooded; also the
freight and passenger depots of the Jefferson
vile, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad,
Despatch received here states that Carroll
ton and Milton, KY, at the mouth of the Ken
lucky river, have several feet of water in their
streets, and that the Cincinnati and Louisville
packet steamer General Lyle landed in the
streets of Oarrollton to-day. kilograms from
st. Louis report heavy rain setting in tonight,
and all points in the Ohio Valley, from Pitts
burg to Cairo, report rains during the day,
and continuing.
In Louisville, KY, the river has risen nearly
two feet during the past twenty-four hours
and is still rising, with 20 IL feet of water in
the canal, and 81 IL feet in the Chute, on the
falls. The first floors of all the houses along
the wharves, from Fourth street down, are
flooded. Teams are busy hauling goods off
the levee, and many families are moving.
Two freight trains colhded near Gaines
vile, Ga, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air
Line Railroad, on q trestle thirty feet high.
Four cars were burned. The two firemen and
one of the engineers were injured, but no
deaths are reported.
Two female pickpockets worked the Ora
torio audience at Baltimore, and robbed sew
eral gentlemen of valuable gold watches.
Fire which originated in harness shop at
Bellevue, Michigan, destroyed sixteen bust
ness houses and dwellings,, causing loss OF
$4,000
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has
Endorsed the proposed Delaware and Chesa-
peake ship-canal.
By the sweeping condagration at HaverhiIl,
Mass, 102 shoe manufacturers and over 200
other firms were burned out. The total loss
is estimated at 1000, 900. Four persons were
killed.
The old passenger depot of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad in West Philadelphia is being
fixed up to shelter the Jewish refugees from
Russia who are expected to arrive by the
steamship Illinois. A corps of competent
physicians will be in attendance. Hamilton
Disston, president of the Okeechobee Land
and Improvement Company has offered to
present as free gift to each of the refugee
families tract of 40 acres of land of the pur-
chase recently made by his company in
Florida.
VIM. @. Clarke, of the wholesale paper
house of Clarke, Friend & Co., of Chicago,
has left that city, and the creditors of the firm
are looking after their claims. There is said
to be paper afloat amounting to nearly $780,
600, of which the other partners were not ad-
vised Eastern paper mills and the Chicago
banks are the principal creditors.
A cargo Of sugar from Honolulu, which re-
Gently arrived at San Francisco, is being
shipped by rail to st. Louis.
The Merchants Bank of .Watertown, N Y,
has closed it's doors.
Mrs. Scoville, in an interview with repor-
ter'at Chicago, stated that the letter written
by her to Mrs. Garfield was not intended for
the public, but as personal appeal from a
woman to woman for forgiveness for her
brothers insane act. How the letter became
public is mystery to her.
No clew has yet been obtained in regard to
the $4,000 in notes mailed in New York
December 22d by the Park National Bank of
New York to the Charleston National Bank.
of Charleston, s. G. 1t is known at the Office
in New York that the package in question
with about twenty other valuable pack
ages, was placed in regular pouch, and
the special agents in New York who had the
case in hand incline to tho belief that it was
stolen after the mail left New York.
The President has pardoned Frank Denny,
convicted Of passing counterfeit coin in Min
nesota, and Mary Love and Sarah Mcdowell,
confined in Westmoreland county (va.) Jail
for making false affidavit in pension case.
All these prisoners have nearly served out
their sentences, and their pardon was strongly
urged.
The wholesale boot and shoe dealers of
Chicago have subscribed 81, 100 for the benefit
OF the sufferers in the late fire at Haverhill.
and twill be sent to Goodrich & Porter, at
Haverhill, Mass, for distribution.
j. M. Brown telegraphs Mayor King, of
Philadelphia, that he will give one hundred
acres of land in Motley county, Texas, to each
family OF the Jewish refugees en- route to
Philadelphia.
work was begun at two points on the ex-
ension ofthe Delaware Western Railroad, one
OF the links in the new Baltimore and Ohio
line to New York. One of these points was
wilmington and the other Kiaminsi, about
four miles from Wilmington. The two lines
from the points named will gradually
approach each other, and probably unite at
some point between Wilmington and Newark,
forming double track after thus uniting.
Superintendent Connel has charge of the
work, which is done directly by the Baltimore
and Ohio Company, and sufficient force will
be put on to insure the completion of the
road between Wilmington and Newark by the
time specified in the charter.
At Lafayette, Indiana, AIN engine of the
Toledo, Peoria and Wabash road exploded
in the Wabash round-house. The conclusion
lifted the roof, blew out the walls, and the
roof crashed down in shapeless mass The
engine was totally demolished Fifteen
locomotives were buried in the ruins, but they
will all be got out without serious damage.
The disaster was most singular one and
created intense excitement. Had it occurred
ten minutes later, twenty men would have
been buried. AS it was, seven men were
buried under the wreck, of whom three were
unhurt, three slightly and one dangerously