The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-27
South and West.

rum ipNlsbl, i'uhObhi bcth bul
out. The soldiers there were compelled to
camp out, with the thermometer at twenty
| five degrees below zero.
A GANG of nino cOuntcrfeters were ar
rested by United States Secret service off
GERS at Louisville, Ky.
ABOUT 5000 persons in Cincinnati and
the adjacent towns of Covington and New
port were rendered homeless by the flood.
liz dis atch from the mayorof Cali
polls, Ohio, to the mayor of New York, tell
ing of the restitution which prevails in the
submerged region, and asking for relief, the
sender says: "At least 1000 houses have
been swept away or damaged ~ such an ex-
| tent rs ~ DE uninhabitahle after the flood
has sub ided. 1t is for those unfortunate
people that we appeal for help. The farmers
have lost largely Of their horses and cattle
and nearly all their grain AMI feed, and all
their fencing; the merchants and manufac-
turerS their stocks the mechanics are thrown
out of employment; coal mines and salt
works are flooded, and everything is desc
late indeed. II will be weeks, months be-
fore busines can be resumed, and help will
| lie needed long after the waters have gone
| down.
GOVERNOR KNOTT has issued procama-
ton to the people of Kentucky calling upon
them 70 aid the food sufferers by private sub
scriptionS. contributions and otherwise. Tho
| Kentucky legislature appropriated S!j,OJO
for the relief of the sufferers,
A FRIGHTFUL catastrophe, the result OF
the food, occurred at Cincinnati. About I
o'clock A. NJ. n terrible crash was heard Mt
the corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets, in
the flooded district 1t was found that the
rear parts of four brick buildings, which had
been Undermined by the waters, had fallen
M IL f,II h
of horror. Men were shouting and women
and children were screaming for help. Soon
several boats arrived, and the boatmen, with
the aid of lanterns began 10 rescue the in
mates OF the houses. About fifty people were
taken cut OF the wrecked buildings. Ten
persons were crushed to death in the ruins.
STEAMERS with supplies Of food and cloth
ing have been sent by the government along
the Ohio and tributaries to relieve the ne.
cessities of the sufferers by the foods.
COLONEL HUNT, a milliona re lumberman
of Michigan, has just died, and being lover
of humorlstS aud humorous books, of which
ne had accumulated large number, he has
left 81, 600 each to the mother of Artemus
Ward, to Eli Perkins and TO Josh Billings.
A DESPERATE shooting ARRAY at Hot
Springs, Ark, between two factions OF gam
bers--three brothers named Flynn, who
were in hack at the time on one side and
seven men on the other sde--resulted in the
killing Of one of the FlynnS and the hack
driver, the mortal wounding of another
FLYNN and two innocent bystanders, and the
shooting away of part of the third Flynn's
hand The men who fired upon the Flynns
began hostlities, and were arrested The
affray grew out Of an attempt of two fac
tions to control the gambling " business of
the town.
THE estimated total loss by the floods in
Wheeling w Va and vicinity. amounts Ia
$1,000, 600. An appeal for aid, Issued from
Wheeling, states that the suffering there and
at points above and below Is intense, and
that more than 10000 people of the city care