Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-07
The East,

The East,
HEAVY rains have done great damage in
Pennsylvania, all trains on several rail
roads having been suspended on the 2.th
by washouts. In the mines at Ashland
and " ilks barre work was entirely stopped,
and at the latter place a house had been
carried down seventy-fve feet, and the oc
cupants of surrounding dwellings were
seeking places of safety. Near Scranton
the crops lad been almost ruined. Sew
ersl dams were burst asundcr by the pres
sure of the water and many small buildings
We're carried away. AT Stroutsburg many
cellars were filed. The tobacco and corn
crops near Lancaster were ruined. A
clou1 burst in the vicinity of Portland,
wrecked 4 number of culverts and bridges,
and washed away tracks in large sections.
Ok account of n refusal to increase their
wages one thousand employees of the Beth
lehem (Pa.) Iron Company's Steel Mill
quit work on the 9th.
THE firm of Vanderhoof & Co., brokers,
of New York, made an assignment few
days ago, with liabilities of oll9,DS.
DIR. HATHAWAY, of Phila ielphia, in whose
cellar was founi the skeletons of twenty
infants, was On the eth fined five hundred
dollars and sentenced to seven years i'll the
Ienitenti.ry.
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Home for Soldiers and Sailors published
affidavits on tine 2.th that they had been
sui itcted to shameful cruelties.
AT Harvard College, on the 9th a class
of two hundred and ten was graduated
the largest i'll its history.
HARVARD and Yale Colleges rowcd their
eighth annual boat rae on the IS Ii, at New
London Conn, the Harvards being VIC
torious.
Ir is announced that Levi D. Jarrard,
the missing County Collector of New
Brunswick, n. j., is ''short" just $39,Oo.
THE recent flood near Bangor, Pa, caused
n loss estima ed on the 2S h at s90, $50. At
Ashland twenty-seven coIlieries Were flood
ed, and all work was suspended. Nearly
wear would bc required to free the Cony yng-
ham shaft from water.
IN New York Il few days ago three ex-
pert Iond countcrfeiters, Isaac A. Briggs,
w, ,sley Lyon and Emil Brie, were at
rested.
THE thread and cotton works of Samuel
Scmple, at Mount Holly, n. j., were on the
oS,h attached for debts amounting to SliO,
900.
THE charges o. cruelty against the Off
GERS of :he Soldiers Home, in Bath, n. ",
We're investigated on the 2Sth, and the
statements were shown to be false by re-
pu able witnesses
THE death of Rudolph c. Bierlage, Con-
sui General of the Netherlands at New
York during the last twenty-seven years,
occ urred Mt Brooklyn a few days ago, aged
seyenty-four wears. He was native of
Amsterdam.
THE Jersey Lily, Ms. LanGt.y, has Sc
cured a cottage at Long Branch for the
summer. -a'
A GREEN worm, which has not appeared
before fnr twenty-five years, is reported to
be at work among the wheat fields in Berks
County, Pa, eating eff the heads.
A schooL-BoY named Leroy Currier, thir-
teen years old and an only son, committed
suicide at Philadelphia Il few days ago by
hanging, because of failure to get his les
sons.
ALONG the shores of Staten Island eight
bodies of drowned persons have been found
during the past few days.
MERCHANTS, 1iquor-dealers and cigar
men of New York have inaugurated
movement to drive the trade-doilar out Oh
the CITY, and refuse them for wares. Bull
lion-Iealers woulf givo but eighty-five
cents for those coins. A similar move
rueut has beeu organized at the chicago
banks.
Ar the port of Boston within the past six
months 23,hJ) assisted" immigrants were
examined, many OF them being so aged
come public burdens.
THE New York authorities on the o'th
ult, sent twenty-three "asslsted" lmhl-
grants back to f gland.
MoRMoSS to the number OF 6So arrlvedln
New Yorl, OF the 1st, on the steaulS mp Ne
yada, and it was stated owing to mis-
sionarv work in Europe nearly five thou
sand more converts to Morlnonism would
come to this country within the next four
months.
THE old Arcade Building, the Dexter
Yarn Company's mill, and other buildings
Mt Pawtucket, r. l., were recently de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, S123,OOo
JENNIE ROBERTS, Meadville (Pa-) girl,
drowned herself few days ago TO spite
her parents, who had refused to let ner a.
tend dancing party.
EIGHT locomotives and the machine shop
of the Maine Railroad, at Charlesoown'
Mass, were burned recently causing
loss OF 5000.
THE following persons lost their lives by
drowning on tie 1st: Frank Schuihels' al
Coaey Island, y Y; Henry Hiliner' at
Rcrdeutovn, n. J., and Edward Boer, at
Bo ton, Mass.
Ir announced that Stephen 5. Price, OF
Phi i.adelrhia, has been held for e1nbezzilnS
..:o oD, OF the funds of the Richardson
es.a q. of wnic1 he was executor anu
trusted