Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-12

NurdePous 1ngPates.
NEW ORLEANS, March IO.-An aced
couple at Monroe, La, named Rodgers
we're murdered BY two men TO whom
tnes extended hospitality. The mur-
oerers tailed to secure their money
which VAS concealed In a mattress.
The Mississippi Overflow.
NIcKsBuEG, March l0.-The water at
1leenVllie Is now at the high water
mark OF 1888. The crevasse at Hughes
Is w feet vide and the water 70 feet
deep, ponring through and overflowing
All IN. Snnfower and Yaz 40 bottoms.
and encroachine on all places On the
cas-. side OF Deer Greek, doing more
damage than last year. The Mississippi
alley raIlro bed in Suuica and Ca
hoina counties and a large number of
plantations are submerged. There are
very little preparations for planting.
end th- indications are that the crop
will be very late.
Je6rr>Oa Davis Makes q Speech.
JACKSON. Miss, March 10.-Jefferson
DAVIS was invited by the Legislature to
deliver an Address ON the life of 8. 3.
Prentfss. He appesred ia the House
today and made speech. in which he
regretted that ne could not deliver the
speech on account of ph hysical inability.
lie referred to his past history and that
CT the State. and said that, though de-
pri cd of many rights. he yet claimed
and enjoyed the privilege of being
Mlssissippian. Though living in Retire
ment, he watched with deep interes. the
progress Of the State. All the State off
GERS. the Supreme Cou,t Judges and
many ladies were present.
Gel. Cash In Jail.
COLUMBUS, s. c., March Io.-The train
from Cherane came in on time, and the
deputy immediately turned Col. Cash
over to the sheriff. fhe colonel was
extremely polite and asked the sheriff
what he VAS going to do with him. The
sheriff replied, that he was going to
take him to jail. The colonel then said:
Well, 1 want You to understand me to
oner no resistance. | will go anywhere
you desire to carry me, but | do SOL
EMMY protest against going to Jail, and
against this whole proceeding" Tie
sheriff then assisted the colonel into
buggy and drove to the jail, where he
was placed in what is called the 'parlOr,'
large. well-furnished, heated and VEN
ti!ated room. Il. g. Wall. counsel for
the colonel, is now in Columbus, and
Will serve writ of habeas corpus tOmor-
row to enquire into the illegal detention
and arrest of Cash. The ATTORNEY Gen
erai will also be notified.
The New Party.
BERLIN, March 1O-The newspapers
are absorbed in a discussion of the rise
of the new political party formed by
the union OF the SecessiOnists and Pro-
presslOnists. The Bonn Gazette saws the
death of Lasker gave the signal for the
union, and that the formation of the
party meets the aspirations felt by the
chiefs OF the two sections, who hope the
fusion will enable them to fight with ad-
vantage against the reactiOnists.
Threatening the RoyxIisss.
PARIS, March l0.-President Crews
organ, lie Paris, contains a threatening
note directed against the COmte dc
Paris. The note says the Government
IL aware that the Rovalist party is en-
gagged III active Work against the Re-
public. and that the Government has re-
solved to adopt most energetic measures
against the preteRder. The COmte has
gone FOR SIX months sOiOurn at
Cannes under private warning that
his presence IN Paris WAS fostering hoy
alist intrigues.
In Regard 10 the Dynamiters
LONDON, March 10. - The FOREIGN
Office has sent dispatches to the British
Minister at Washington in regard to the
dynamite outrages, supposed to be in
tended As basis for negotiations with
the United States Government; but no
communication of any kind on the sub
lect has vet hHen raca1ya1 1, o<a