Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-06-27
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Gen. Sherman a Very
Unhappy Man.
he HATES 70 GIVE Up HIS POSITION
m THE ARMY.
The Lowlands at East st.
Louis Inundated.
WHOLE FARMS AND HAMLETS
UNDER WATER.
The Losses Will Probably Run
Into the Millions.
CELEBRATIoN OF BEECHER'S
BIRTHDAY.
CELEBRATION OF BEECHER'S
BIRTHDAY.
ESPECIAL TO THE sEsr1sEL.l


is o very unhappy man. high army Off
GER, who knows him well, declares that be
is not what he seems in his bluff and hear
ty interviews. In the first place he really
hates to give up his position at the head
of the army. 1t has been his sole occupa-
ton against melancholy or bitter domestic
disappointment. He is the very life OF
certain Washington circles. He has always
beer the hero Of every social f~estivity all
over the country. 1t is true that he is
tired Of Washington, and that he is anx-
ious to go to st. Louis. Soldier-like, he
puts a good face on the matter. but this
bluffnees does not conceal from his friends
the deep-seated chagrin that is upon him.
The dispatch goes on to say how disap-
pointed the man was when his son joined
the Jesuits. Mrs. Sherman is q woman
who has the most personal ambition for
the advancement Of her church. She is
one Of its most active agents, aud is in cor
respondence with the authorities at Rome.
Gen. Sherman made q struggle to remain
in Washington after his retirement from
the army, but Mrs. Sherman determined
to 20 to St. Louis, where the Catholic
Church has 3 wide and powerful field, in
which she could have a most influential
and leading position. Among the last days
Of his stay in Washington the General has
been seen walking with his hat carelessly
slouched over his eyes, and his figure,
which has been 30 erect. has within the
last six months learned to stoop. Those
-. I..o .o-.1onkal lio, nth tho i1ao Of
his being gloomy have always been re-
PEELED with some rafting bit Of brilliant
chaff, indicative Of the highest spirits.
When he is settled in st. Louis Mrs. Sher-
man believes that she can win him from
the frivolities of this life, and get him to
find salvation in the Holy Catholic Church.
He is growing old, and in the dull regions
Of st. Louis he may fall a prey to his wife's
persistence, and for the sake of peace 60
through the form Of joining the Church.
Up to the present time Sherman has got
ten along without any religion whatever.
He said recently: II do not think / need
any priests crutch with which to hobble
the rest Of my way to the grave, but
can't tell what may happen" He is now
off on his last free play spell. 1t is to be
hoped he will have a good time on his last
round Of his military post.
says lie Was Violently Married.
New York, June 26.-William Rohrs
Jr., "a years old, married Carrie Rocken-
husen, q Jewess Of 10, on March Is, at the
home of her parents, 118 Essex street. He
left her the same evening, and on May s
brought suit in the Superior Court to have
the marriage annulled, on the ground that
he had been forced into it by threats.
He alleges in his complaint thatsMiss
Ro ckenhusen sent him word that she
wanted To see him on important business
at her home. He swears that when he
called he found her with her brothers, her
mother, her sis~ter-in-law and q person who
represented himself to be a lawyer. This
man Rohrs swears he afterward discovered
was only q barber. He also swears that
as soon as he got into The room Miss
Ruckenhusen's brothers locked the doors
so he could not get out. Then one of
them cried:
"Now, marry my sister. or you'll never
get out Of here alive. I'll shoot you dead
first"
He protested, whereupon the brother
said that he had consulted o lawyer, and
had been told that he had . perfect right
to kin Rohrs if Rohrs did not marry the
girl.
Eyes, that's So" cried the barber FAC
cording TO Rohrs' complaint). 1.-The law
provides that q nan that don't marry can
be shot under such circumstances"
Thereupon, Rohrs swears, all the rela-
tives cried out in violent chorus that they
would cut, stab and kill him if he didn't
marry the girl at once. Fearing, he says,
that these things would be carried out, he
then and there married Miss Rockenhusen.
A minister performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Rohrs denied all these allegations
in her reply to her husbands complaint.
Yesterday her counsel made q motion be-
fore Judge Freedman in the Superior
Court for alimony on her behalf. She
repeats her version of the story in the
application. She denies that any of her
relatives ever locked her husband in any
room or threatened his life If he refused
to marry her. She asserts that Rohrs
promised to consult his parents about the
marriage, and did so. Subsequently be
came TO her voluntarily and was married
to her, while she lay on q sick bed, in the
presence Of her mother, brothers and
family physician. He left her immedi.
ately and has never since visited or con-
tributed anything to her support. She
has . child, born just after the marriage.
She lives with her brother, Charles
Britzke, Q barber.
Counsel for young Rohrs opposed the
molten for alimony, aud Judge Freedman
reserved his decision.
Rohrs' mother says that she knew moth
ing OF the marriage until her son told her
he was married.
Hundreds Of Acres Overlooked.
ST. LOUIS, June 26.-The river is falling
slowly in East st. Louis and ON the river
side Of the Chicago q Alton track. and still
rising out on the bottom. East Of that
embankment the fall is small, but is
enough to create a strong. hopeful feeling
that the worst is passed. In East st.
Louis all the lowland is inundated to q
dept varying from 10 to IL feet, and hun
dreds Of homes within the city limits have
their lower floors flooded and many OF
their second stories. South Of the city the
entire bottom, for an indefinite distance,
including the village OF East Cor0ndelet,
Cohokia and other small hamlets, are sub
merged, and all the farms for miles down
the river are under water. The crops are
destroyed, and the families Of farmers who
or rented them are scattered along |
the ridges and bluffs, seeking shelter where |
ever they can find it. There is hardly .
doubt but that the aggregate loss in the
American Bottom, between Alton and Cairo.
run into millions, and this Is not half
The story. for nearly ~ much bottom land
d on the Missouri side, most OF which 10
subject to overflow. Hundreds Of thou
sands OF acres along the Missouri River
md it's tributaries between here and Kan
Ias City now lie under the devastating
iood, and have been swept OF their crops.
The losses in the southeastern section Of
IT. Charles County, Mo-, are alone over
1900, 600.
Beecher's Birthday.
NEW YoRx. June 26.-Henry Ward