Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-08
STORM AND FLOOD.
DAneERs OF rnx Bx1xr DEEP.

Tne Condition OF the Father Of waters
Losses OF small Shipping-Traste
Events Hast and Wess.
The storm of Tuesday night and yester
day caused very rough water in the Miss
issippi river, and excited grave apprehen-
sions at Helena, Arkansas, tor the safety
of the weakened levees. The Protection
levee at Elleslie, gave way at 8 o'clock in
the morning and three breaks were found.
One of them was closed, but the others
were soon found to be past control. These
breaks will result in the flooding of
large portion of Issaquena county,
Mississippi. The breaking of the leyee
at Friar's Point on Tuesday will, it il
expected, cause the overflow of Friar's
paint, Delta, and all the towns for twenty
miles back from the river. No actual
suffering among the people is reported
yet. The steamer James Leo arrived at
at Memphis yesterday from Friar's Point,
bringing 20O col0red people taken from
submerged farms. Her officers report
all the country between Memphis aud
Helena under water except where strips of
levee yet remain" Austin, Mississippi,
is flooded to the depth of several feet.
There was o more hopeful feeling in
Helena last evening, the river having risen
less than an inch in tho last twenty.four
hours.
A steamer belonging to the dictator
general of Veintimella, South America,
has taken the sails, charter, chronometsrs
compasses, &c., from the English ship
Mysterious Star at Ruchor, seven miles off
San Lorenzo, and her captain has gone to
Panama to seek the assistance of an Eng
lish man of war. The greater part of the
crew of the English ship were down with
the coast fever at the time the raid was
made, and she was reduced to distressed
condition.
The schooner Adele Thackera, from New
Orleans for Providence, put in at Key
West yesterday for some repairs. She en-.
countered continuous gales in tho gulf for
eight days, during which she made only GO
miles.
The barkentiBe Wolverton, from Carde.
mas for New York, with sugar, struck on
Turner'S Shoals. near ChincOteague, early
yesterday morning. Two of her crew were
taken off. the remaining eight were on the
wreck, but the life saving crew again
started for their rescue.
An unknown schooner of about $50 tons
burthen has been wrecked at Green's
Point, New Brunswick. Two of her crew
were lost.
Tho Record OF Murders.
William Lyons, 55 years old, yesterday
went to the dwelling of his divorced wife
in Cleveland, O., and shot her in the face,
inflicting a severe and perhaps fatally
wound. He then placed the pistol to his
right temple and fred, dropping dead al
most instantly.
A. l.. johnson, a popular young man,
was shot dead in the court room Of the
Miller county, Ark, courthouse, in the
presence of the judge. jurors, attorneys
and spectators, by c. E. Dixon, sheriff ol
that county. The trouble arose from
Dixon's making war ON gambling institu
tions in which johnson was silently inter-
ested.
John Carver, young man from Rich
Valley, Ind, drew $500 from bank on Sat
urday, and since then has not been seen OF
heard of, though diligent search has been
made for him. He is thought to have beer
robbed and murdered.
The trial of Henry D. Debosny's al
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, for the mur.
der of his wife, resulted yesterday in a
verdict of guilty, after ten minutes delib,
Grafton by the jury. He was sentenced tt
be hanged on April 81.
Samuel Ulum, life convict, has just
been pardoned out of the Michigan STATE
prison, after serving 20 years, for murder
of which he is now believed to be entirel.
innocent.