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LATER PARTICULARS.
Breaking of the Railroad Embankments
Above ST. I,Ouis

breaking OF the railroad EmbankmentS
Above St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, June 24-The river is still rising
at this point, but more slowly than hereto
FORE The exact measurement cannot be
given at this writing, the official report not
having been made yet. The flooded district
in the northern part of the city presents
about the same appearance it has for several
days past. In the lumber district large gangs
of men are still working on the levees and
dikes which protect the different yards, and
so far none of them have been flooded. A
rise of another foot. however, will inundate
all of them and 70,00O,0 900 feet of sawed lum-
ber will be surrounded by from two to eight
feet of water. Should this dreaded event
occur it is expected that fully one-half of
this lumber will be upset in which case
great quantity of it no doubt will be floatei
away and lost.
At Alton slough. about twenty miles above
here, among some islands in the Mississippi
river, which are used as a place of deposit
for lumber, about 80 000 900 feet of sawed
boards in RATS are moored, and while the
slough is reasonably secure place, consider
able apprehensions are felt lest the RATS
should be broken up and swept down by the
raging flood.
In East ST. Louis proper the situation is
much the same as yesterday. The Bowman
dixie is still intact and protects the business
part of the city, but outside there is nothing
but watery waste co-extensive with the
surrounding country. Early this fore
noon the water which broke through
the Madison dixie yesterday morning
reached a point short distance above
Venice, and broke a fearful crevasse in the
Chicago & Alton railroad embankment
About 600 feet of track seemed to sink and
disappear in an instant, and the gap between
has been widening ever since. Parallel with
this embankment runs the Indianapolis &
St. Louis and the Wabas'i tracks, which
could not Withstand tine terri fc current which
was sent in through the Chicago & Alton
break, and they, too, went down in quick
succession, cutting OF all direct rail eonnec.
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Prohibition in Iowa Politics.

DEs MONIES Ia, June 23-Nearly thirty
Republican county conventions to-day de-
clared for prohibition. Thus far over two
thirds of the counties in the State have in
structed delegates to the State convention
next Wednesday, to vote for prohibitory
measures. In this county to-day resolutions
were adopted: l. Declaring saloons should be
prohibited by law. 2. That the people of
the State should take no part in the profits
arising from the sale of Intoxicating liquors
3. That it is the duty of the next Legislature
to carry out the will of the people as ex-
pressed on June 81, 1882 4. That we agree
to the principle of constitutional prohibition.
8. That all officers elected are servants of and
amenable to the people, who have the right
to judge of their fitness; any other doctrine
would be anti-republican. 6. That the GRIM
inal code of the State should be amended so
as to secure speedy correction and punish
ment of crime. 7. That personal office-seek-
ing should bediscountenanced by every good
citizen. s. That nominations should be
made in open town meeting, g. That Buren,
r. Sherman ought to 10 reelected Governor
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NAVY EXPENSES.
Secretary Chandler Thinks Three Millions
Too Much for the Results.


Too Much for the Results.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Secretary Chandler
has addressed letter to the chief Of each
bureau of the Navy Department, calling at
tention to the recommendations of the COM
mission concerning the reorganization of the
navy-yards, and the disposition proposed to
be made of each yard. The commandants of
the various yards have been furnished with
copy of the letter, and requested to assist
in carrying out the plan of the
commission. The Secretary alludes
to the statistics of the navy-yards," :"
and says they show an enormous daily ex-
penditure on the 18th day of November
1882, namely: For 657 foremen clerks and
employees other than ordinary mechanics,
and workingmen, 50, 2,179, and 3,SO5 other
employees, SO, 139, making 4462 total en-
ployes at daily compensation of $11, ,319 or
at the rate of So 0e0, 900 a year. when the
only work in progress on ships of war at all
the yards was repairing on the Omaha,
Shenandoah, Trenton, Osspee, Mohican and
Alert. Secretary Chandler considers this
enormous expenditure for such feeble re-
suits inconsistent with faithful administra-
ton.
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THE NICKERSONs,
Mrs. Nickerson's Statement of Her Relations
and Troubles.

and Troubles.
National Republican, Saturday.
lady who was with Mrs. Nickerson on
one or two occasions during the past week,
and who has been one of her intimate
friends for several years, said to a reporter
yesterday that she was greatly shocked to
observe the change in her face.
Why" said the lady, "she looked ten
years older than she did the week she started
TO Europe, and she told me her mental suffer-
ings had been almost more than she could
bear. In spite OF all she can do, believe she
still loves that rascally husband of hers,
though of course she says she would never
live with him again. She cried so when
was with her that l cried myself. She told
me that on her departure for Europe
she had presentiment of something wrong.
Her husbands plea was that he wanted her
to go away for economy, SO that he might
complete the payments on the Rhode Island
avenue house that was to be home for them
and their little daughter, but in her heart
she felt that all was not right and that some
thing awful was going to happen, though she
never dreamed what it was. She brushed it
aside as foolish fear, and thought no more
about it, and her husbands first letters
were so affectonate that they entirely dis
armed her of all suspicion of his treachery
Mrs Nickerson evinced special feeling OF
contempt for Miss Lena Carter, and her eyes
flashed fire while referring to the person she
deemed to be the destroyer of her home L
would never have known that woman said
she, if Maj, Nickerson had not brought her
to our house All the stories about her being
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an intimate and confidential friend of mine
are untrue. The Major always brought her
where was, and had an instructive feeling
that she was snake in the grass " The lady
further added that Mrs. Nickerson was de-
termined that her husband should not
have decree which would enable him to
marry again, and would use every effort to
prevent it.
A report was current yesterday that Major
Nickerson's attorney would offer PROPOSE
ton looking to the giving up of the property
to Mrs Nickerson, if mutual divorce could
be arranged but that the wife's attorney,
being entirely confident of setting aside the
transfer, declined to consider the suggested
compromise.
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THE REVENUE BUREAU.
The Removals by Commissioner Evans To
Be Summarily Stopped

Washington Special. %.
There will be no further removals in the
Internal Revenue Bureau by the new Com
missioner, Mr.. Evans, unless he himself is
anxious to have successor. The transfer OF
the chief clerk, yesterday, to make vacancy
for personal friend, with whom can have
confidential relations" was an indiscreet
step, after the intimations of disapproyal
which had been given from the White
House. In agreeing to some change, for
cause, the President never imagined that the
responsibility for a general tearing up by
the roots was TO be cast upon him. The
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The Trouble with Sailors at milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 24.-The assault
upon the Cleveland schooner Lucerne, the
barge Goshawk, and the Buffalo barge
Vought; by alleged Union sailors, on Satur-
day, was the main topic of conversation in
marine circles to-day. No clue to the perpe
TRAITORS could be got. The police remained on
but no further attempt at intimidation
was made. The Lucernes crew, who left
in body, did not return. neither did the
two men who left the Vought. Provoked by
the premature publication of the fact that the
pol ice were in waiting for the unionists, the
captan of the several vessels refused to
furnish any further information than that
the vessels are run under the management OF
the Cleveland Vessel-owners' Association, and
the names of the crew could not be learned,
The police will be on guard again tonight,
and there is a prospect that the guilty parties
will be apprehended.
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WHAT THEY COST.


Statement of the Actual Expenses of the
Star-Route Trials.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-Complaints are
heard from various quarters that the United
States Courts are hampered for w1nt of
money, owing to the large expenditures in
the star-route cases. The question has been
asked why the star-route lawyers were not
required to wait for their money as well as
the regular court officials The answer is
probably the following: Had the Depart
ment of Justice paid the expenses of the
United States District Courts in the ordinary
way the deficiency appropriation would have
been required for the payment of the ex-
penses incurred in the star routes, and Con-
gress might have applied the pruning knife
with reckless severity to the bills for special
attorneys, stenographers, marshals' expenses,
etc, As the matter now stands, to refuse to
make an appropriation to meet the deficiency
would be to hamper the courts. The De-
partment of Justice officials maintain that
the expenses of the trial have been magnifed,
and that they will not exceed $500, 900. 1t is
claimed that the expenditures are about as
follows:
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GENERAL NEWS.
Argument in the Kellogg Case Postponed
Until Next Saturday.

WASHINGTON, June 23-In the Criminal
Court Mr.. Williams, counsel for Mr. Brady,
asked Judge Wylie to dispose of the original
case, Mr.. Ker said Mr.. Bliss was in New
York and Mr. Merrick was sick, and there
fore asked that further time be allowed.
Judge Wylie said he hardly thought the old
indictment would trouble Mr.. Williams
again. Mr.. Wilson, counsel for ex-senator
kellogg, then asked to have the same action
taken by the court upon the pleas in abate-
ment submitted on Monday last, but upon
Mr.. Ker's statement that the government
was not yet prepared to proceed in that mat
ter, Judge Wyle postponed the argument
until Saturday next. General Brady to-day
gave bail in $4,000 under the new indct-
ment,
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NORTHERN MISSOURI.
Extensive Damage to Crops and Farms
Difficulty OF Communication


Difficulty OF Communication.
ST. JOSEPH Mo-, June 23.-At 10 o'clock
tonight the river at this point is seventeen
feet six and one-half inches above low water
mark, rise of five and one-half inches since
o'clock this morning. A heavy rain.storm
occurred between 70 and 2 o'c clock this morn.
ing seriously interfering with the repairing
of the damaged railroad track and bridges.
The Little Platte river and other streams
which had partly subsided were again
swollen to-day. The damage to public and
private property by the late storms in
northwestern Missouri, northern Kansas and
southern Nebraska has been very great,
but as the railroads have all been
suspended, wagon roads made impossible
and many of the wires broken down the de-
tails have come in but slowly The damage
to wagon roads and bridges, as well as crops
is more extensive than has been believed
Many people have been driven from their
homes by the flood. losing everything THEY
had, including furniture, stock and nipple.
ments.
Only one mail arrived to-day at 5 o'clock
this afternoon, from Kansas City, on the X.
c., St 10. & C. b. railroad. The train was
destined for Council Bluffs, with a farge bulk
of mail, but had TO be abandoned here.
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Monument Unveiled.

CINCINNATI, June 24-The monument to
General Fred. Hecker was unveiled with GER
emony in Washington Park, to-day. A
great procession marched through the streets.
S2eeehes were made by Emil Rothe, Moritz
mebi, and Albert Springer. The monu-
NOUS of Scotch granite, the shaft sur
4 by portrait bust.
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New Railway Under Construction

MONTREAL, June PAL. NJ. Shute, repre-
senting number of American capaists,
closed contracts for the construction of the
Ontario Pacific railroad. and made arrange
ments to float bonds amounting to $4,000
600. Work will begin at once, and trains
will be running over part OF this valuable
road by Oct. l, 1883. The road will connect
Gronenhurst with Callander Station, the
eastern terminus of the Canada Pacific rail-
WaV.
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WASHINGTON, June 24.--The Post will pub
lish tomorrow long article presenting the
question of opening on Sundays the National
Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the
Congressional Library and similar institu-
tions at the capital. Librarian Spofford,
Professor Baird, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
and Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York, favor
the movement, while of the numerous min
listers here but two approve the proposition.
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Narrow Escape of a PASSENGER Train

New YoRK, June pa train crowded
with passengers left Brighton Beach Hotel,
Sheepshead Bay misplaced switch sent the
train upon the west track, on which an
empty train was backing. A collision oc-
CURED, and the engine and two cars of the
empty train were thrown from the track, the
engine falling down an embankment, The
engine of the east-bound train was also de-
rallied, but the passenger cars kept the track,
hence no one was injured.
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Pastorate Resignation Not Accepted.

CHICAGO. June 24-The vestry of the
Church of the Ascension (Epscopal) this
rendered on Wednesday evening by Rev.
Arthur Ritchie, the extreme rltualistic rec
tor but offered him six weeks vacation and
q handsome cash donation, and undertook to
, raise the necessary $4,000 to apply on the
new church edifce. The rector has not yet
made answer
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TIE NEBRAsKA FLOOD.
Tho Southern Part of the State Under Water
Many Lives Lost

MANY Lives Lost.
OMAHA, Neb June %. w, c. Starkey ar
rived here yesterday on the first train out OF
Pawneo county s.nce the flood which has
prevailed there. Tlc relates tat the whole
southern country was flooded by the rising
of the Nebraska river caused by heavy and
extePaye rain storm, joan Berg '"mily liY-
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate
IN sEAsIcKNEss

8. 9. Parker, Wellington. o., says: "while
,rossiDg Lake Erie gave 1t to some passengers
VINO were seasick, and IL gave Immediate re-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-03
PETERSRIIRG


ANOTHER MURDERoUs AFPAR--A WHITE MAN
NEARLY KILLED BY A NEGRO-THE MANIAC
MURDER--BELGIAN BLOCK FOR SYCAMORE
STREET.
correspondence of the Richmond Dispafch.i
JUNE 2, 1888.
Another brutal crime was perpetrated in
this city last night, which may result in the
death Of Mr. William ii. McCue. a young
white citizen, at the hands OF Daniel Yates,
a vagabond negro. McCue lives on Syca-
more street with his mother, Mrs. Ander-
son, and Yates rents house in the rear Of
their residence. The negro has for some
time been in arrears for rent, and had
promised TO settle up his indebted
ness in work-a portion OF which he
promised to perform yesterday. On
reaching home, shortly after dark, Me-
Cue was informed that the negro had failed
to do bis work az promised, and he went
out to Yates's house TO ascertain the reason.
Yates was on the upper floor, which is
reached by Il narrow, steep stairway. Nc
Cue on reaching the room upbraided the
negro for failing TO do as he had promised.
A quarrel cnsued, and Yates was ordered
to leave the premises. The negro became
so angered that he seized knife and drove
the blade into McCue's breast. and as the
latter turned TO run down the steps he re-
ceiyed another plunge Of the blade in his
back. McCue's cries OF distress brought
his mother to his side, who dragged him
to the house. The negro made his escape,
and mp TO this afternoon had not been
arrested. 1t is believed that he has left the
city. McCue's condition is very critical.
and il is feared he cannot recover.
Joseph Henson, the murderer OF his
grandfather, Glemory Henson, is q raying
maniac in the city Jail. All last night he
was singing and chanting I'm wild tones and
unlntelligible words, and to-day his voice
made hoarse by the continual stress upon
it's heard even beyond the walls OF the
Jail. lie Is perfectly wild, and entirely UNI
conscious OF having committed any crime.
II may be mentioned as a somewhat singh
lar coincidence that only two or three days
before his death Glemory Henson was told
10y gentleman OF this city that somebody
would Kill bin in less than six months.
Deceased was keeper Of the city hay-scales,
and there were Yesterday. even before the
body was buried, many applicants for the
vacant position.
The Council last evening passed the or
dinauce creating the Office OF City Engineer,
making the salary $1,000 per annum. APP
plicants are to be examined by board OF
three engineers, from whom they must hold
a certificate OF proficiency.
II is estimated that the cost OF paving
Sycamore street from Washington down to
Old with Belgian block will cost about
500, 900. OF this amount the city will pay
one third and the property-owners the re-
mainder. But il is feared some time viii
yet eapse before this desirable improve
ment is decided upon. ROBIN ADATR.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE

BURNT BY A KEROSENE EXPLOSION--TARGET-
PRACTICE-TEACHERs INsTITUTE-DEATH
OF MR.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ILLNESS OF
MRS. J. NJ. sNITH-THE LATE ELECTION
UNIVERSITY ITEMS.
correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspatch.l
JUNE /, 1888.
A negro girl living at Spring Bank farm.
(Mr. Lyman's,) one mile south Of this place,
was fatally burned by the explosion OF a
can of kerosene oil yesterday. She had
built fire, and finding il not burning fast
enough, she poured kerosene oil from the
can on il, with the usual results.
The Monticello Guard had their annual
target-practice at Cochran's pond yester-
day. Vincent Perley won the first medal,
J. s. Leitch the second, and c. III. Hudson
the third. The company was fairly repre-
sented, and tne Occasion was enjoyable.
The Albemarle Teachers Institute began
its session yesterday. An address by the
superintendent, l.. A. Niche, Esq, opened
the exercises. \ large number OF teachers
are present. Among the visitors we no.
ticed Rev. A. Il. McGilvray, Of Richmond.
Mr.. Il. c. Ferreter, a native OF Ireland,
and long resident Of this place, left here
several months ago to visit his native land,
and while on his return died at sea within
a few days OF New York. His family for
some months have resided in Richmond.
Mrs. Smith, wife OF the late j. NJ. Smith,
/. so i'll rs to cause her friends great anXi-
ETY..
For the benefit OF some papers which
have evidently been imposed upon. we
give the list OF officers elected last week /:
Commonwealth Attorney, VI. Woods
majority, 3,002; Clerk, II. IL. Burnley
majority, 1888; Treasurer. A. j. Parish,
majority, 2,545; Sheriff. $. Nj. Teel-ma-
jority, 2.5S7; Commissioners Of Revenue,
Fry-majority, 2.640; Bowcock, 2,203. For
Superyisors-J. NJ. White, T. r. Barks-
dale. II. VI. Magruder, c. II. Parratt, }. Il.
Abel, W. II. Harris, were elected; all OF
whom are Democrats except j. X. Abel.
He was elected by only nine votes.
Unless change is made in the present
arrangement of the University the finals
will occupy three days instead of four, as
heretofore. This will cause the joint ccle-
bration to be held in the daytime, bring
ing the public day on Wednesday.
Louis Davis, a youth about fourteen
wears OF age, met his death last Tuesday
near Bowlesville, in this county, by being
thrown from n mule and having his feet
entangled in the harness. HIS body was
dragged several hundred yards. DUP.
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adobe II sun-dried brick about eioht
inches long by four broad and three thicL
II IL cemented by the same mud Of which,
the bricks are made. When the bouse has
reached height OF from eight 10 fourteen
feet heavy logs are laid across the ton and
the whole covered over with mud and
sometimes cemented. In the dry CLIMATE
for II seldom rains here-the house soon
becomes ~ hard as rock. The Americans
have improved the adobe houses by p,int-
ing and stuccoing until they are now made
very neatly. Fully half Of the people you
meet are either Mexicans, Indians, or Chi
namen.
There Is nothing worth seeing in III Paso,
and II there was you couldn't see IL for the
dust SO taking a street-car we ride out
OF town, cross the Rio Grande, and enter
Mexico. We are made aware OF the fact
that we are entering foreign country by
the appearance OF custom-house officers,
who simply walk through the ear. and we
enter the town OF Paso del Norte. This
town, which formerly numbered $1,000 in
habitants, extends, or extended, fifteen
miles along the river. The reason for this
- that each man had TO cultivate a small
portion OF land, and rs the ram wouldn't
| nutfl Ills Einu Ht WIS tOfiiltltu W
from the river. All through the streets
run streams OF water, called "aceiqua,'
which can be turned irto the gardens
OF the villagers. The houses, fences, and
walls are all adobe. The objects Of espe-
cial interest here are an old church and Il
bull-pen, now dwindIed down into a cock
pit. Both are used every sunday. The
church (yclept cathedraD is made OF mud,
aud Is remarkable for some poor pictures
and number OF really excellent speci-
mems OF old wOod-caving, which, with
remarkable intelligence, they are embellisl-
| ing with coat OF arhitelrdsh. We
were shown a missal, on the title
page OF which was the date 1853.
| We asked how old It was, and were
informed that it was over three hundred
years Of age. The bull-pen the Mexican
calls something like AmphitedtrO de
Iauro. Ii is a small yard with mud-beg
pardon, adobe-walls, and filed with to-
mato-cans, rags, and such like. About
five years ago the bulls struck. 1.-Two
meals day." said they, cor no 1ght.'
cone" said the noble descendant Of the
Montezumas. in determined aud manly
tones, and then he lald him down TO sleep.
so stopped the bull-fghting.
The only things found TO admire about
Paso del NOrte were the cigars, which
were very good aud quite cheap; but as
you couldn't bring them away without
standing a chance Of being hauled up by
custom-house officials, we sadly turned
our faces northwald without being able to
remark, with the Dutchman, whose rule il
was 10 say something good at the grave OF
each one dying, " He vas goot schmoker."
l., y. l..