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The Flooded Regions.

The Flooded Regions.
TOLEDO, February 1Sth.-The gorge below
the city broke this morning. The huge
masses opposite the city moved rapidly out,
ard by daylight the water had fallen five feet.
The river is now comparatively free from ice,
and is still falling. In its outward passage
the food carried awsy the remainder of the
wagon bridge sc Cherry street, an additional
span of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge,
and the Union bridge, which connected the
middle ground with the east side, aud was
used as q transfer between the east and west,
used by various railway companies. Damage
to the Wheeling and Lake Erie bridge, two
miles down the river, is also reported. A few
small crafts lying at the docks we're torn from
their fastenings and carried down as far as the
last named bridge, but no serious injury
to shipping has yet occurred. AS the course
OF the stream is now unobstructed, and the
water is fast approaching its natural stage, no
further trouble is likely to occur. The loss
TO the city and railway companies by the de-
struction of bridge is very heavy.
At 6 o'clock Jais evening the water was
lowered ten feet from the highest mark,
which was twenly.six inches above that of
1881. The Wheeling and Lake Erie trsstle-
work approach on the east side was carried
away, and that on the west end thrown out of
plumb. Several railways losing the use of
bridges will temporarily employ ferryboats.
CAIRO Oily, February 18th.-The river at
this place is 40 feet inches, and rising three
fourths of an inch an hour There ia very
little excitement, but considerable desiitution
| and loss Of stock and property is reported
south Of here. 1t is supposed the river will
come to o stand tomorrow night. The Hi
nois Central Railroad is preparing TO raise the
| grade of the levee at once and committee
of citizens has been appointed TO inspect the
levee for weak places.
THE RED CROSS ASSOCIATION.
WASHINGTON, February 18Th. AT the
meeting Of the American Association of the
Red Cross in this city the foods in the Ohio
valley were considered, and the President re-
ported that the associate Societies az New
Orleans, Lynchburg, Memphis and Rochester
are already at work. 1t was decided that
contributions in money should be received by
| the Central Committee. through Secretaries
Folger and Lincoln and Commissioner Loring,
composing the Board of Trustees, and dis
| tributed through the agents Of the Associa-
tion as heretofore.
The Railroad Consolidation Question.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-It is un-
derstood that the Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads will be recognized in the House to-
morrow, to call up, under a suspension of the
rules. the bill to consolidate railroads in the
Territories of the United States. It is in
tended by the parties in charge of the bill to
| offer substitute which will remove some of
the Objectionable features of the bill, which
caused the California Legislature to request
| the State delegation here to vote against it.
| The substitute, it is understood, conforms to
! the provisions Of the Senate bill for the game
purpose. The principal changes made are in
relation to the land grant question and the
subsection of the consolidated lines to suits
| in the State SIS wsll as Federal Courts. It
will provide that the consolidated company
! may sue or be sueo in any Court in the United
States, and that The consolidation shall not
affect the conditions under which the compa.
MES hold lands granted them by the Govern.
| ment.
Catholic Priest.
NEW YoRK, February 1Sth-"No," said
Father Lynch, pastor of the Church Of the
| TRANSPORTATION, In Mott street, to reporter
yesterday. "the Catholic Church has taken
no stems for the conversion of the Chinese in
New York. These people, who are chiefly
| the scum of their nation, care as rule moth
| ing whatever Gbcus religion. The schools
started by Protestant denominations have
really been able to effect nothing. The few
converts TO Chrfstianity whom they have
made are chiefly actuated by self-interest.
Their profession Of Christianity brings them
| trade. When the Archbishop of San Fran
/! cisco went to Rome, he had an interview with
| Cardinal Simoni respecting the evangelization
of the Chinese in San Francisco. The
| Cardinal, turning TO his nephew, Father An
| tonacci, said: 'Wjll you go?' Father An
tonscci accepted ct once, and arrived in New
York in September last on his way to San
Francisco, where be now is. Ore day while
here he had conversation with Domingo de
Luce, an intelligent Portuguese Chinaman,
and De Luce made remark that struck him
as being just. He said that until the Chinese
| in this city were married they would never
think about religion. This is eminently true.
The vices of these people will
| make religion impossible to them un-
der existing circumstances. They are
| worthless lot, who do no good and very
great deal of harm. a large number Of un-
| fortunste women have taken to opium.smok.
| ing Only short time ago a pretty, young
girl came here and took the pledge against
alcohol. Now she is destroying herself with
opium. These women must have something
\ to deaden their pangs of conscience, and
opium. smoking has become prevalent among
them. These opium dens should be sweptsway.
i To return to the question of Christianizing,
! it is only among the children Of the Chinese
/ by white mothers that we can hope for sue
cess. When I was attached 60 St. Stephens
Church, 1 baptized three Cinnamon of the
better kind. and married them to three re-
spectacle Irish women. The Chinese were
| cooks and the women servants in families. [
| kept them in view for several yesrs, and the
women testified that the Chinese were good
! husbands. One of the men died good Cath
olic, and received the sacrament OF the
| Church. The others / have lost sight OF.
| As to making converts among white people
of this quarter, the field is very small, for our
population is nearly all Irish and Italians,
| who are Catholics already. What we have
! to do is to convert them from their drinking
! and other vices
'' The Manly Art" Agsin-PriZe Fight Be
tween Cinnamon.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1Sth-The first
prize fight in This country between Cinnamon
took place last night 10 room in the pree-
ence of 40 spectators, who paid 81 each. The
contestants were Loo Hing and Hi Sing
Foon. After desperate but unscienti6c
battle of eleven rounds, Loo Hing gave up.
NEW YORK, February 1Ssh.-Slade had a
benefit last night, and was much applauded in
his sparring contest with Mace.
A Russian NObicman Seeking His Rights.
CHARLESTON Is. C.). February 1Ssh.-S. J.
Kulineski matchmaker of Charleston, is
Russian n0olemsn, who owned two villages.
The young man left home before he became
of sge, and was made an American citizen.
Gar Alexander IL. issued pardon for leav-
ing the Empire, and Kulineski now petitions
the reigning Gar for the right due for his
estates. The document will be sent to Presi-
| dsnt Arthur, to be forwarded to the Ameri.
| can Minister at st. Petersburg.
Brown, B0nneII IL Co.'s Rolling Mills.
YoUNGsTowE (0.), February 1Ssh.-Fires
in Brown. Bonnell & Co.'s extensive rolling
mills here were lighted tonight as usual on
Monday night, Superintendent Williams
stating to an Associated Press correspondent
| that he has no notification from his superior
officers that the failure of Herbert G, Aver,
of Chicago. would cause the failure of the
company.
Mexican Lands for American Tmmi-
grants.
SAN ANTONIO (Tex. J, February 1Ssh.-There
| is good authority for saying that Gonzales
Trevino and ether leading Mexicans have ar.
| ranged 60 purchase z, 900, 900 acres of lands in
the northern part of the Republic, to hold
| for sale to American immigrants. A survey