Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-07
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| closed quiet and firm at the decline
The Floods in the East.
AUGUSTA (Me.), January 6th-Two I72-
feet spans of the railroad bridge across
the hennebee river at this place were car
RED away by a freshet at O'Clock this
morning. Late in the fall repairs were
commenced on the bridge, and at the time
OF the accident two spans rested entirely on
the trestle-work built up from the bed of
the river. Much delay will occur to travel.
LANCASTER pa }. January 9th .-The food
IN the Susquehauna reached Columbia this
morning, and the rise is higher than for
twenty years The water is up 70 the track
OF the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad.
The canal and river are one body of water.
tred. Keller, a young man of Columbia.
fell into The river this morning, and was
drowned
MAUcH CHUNK tPa.), January 6th.-The
Lehl5h river and the creek that passes
through town were even TO-DAY. and every
cellar on Broadway was half full of water
The water in the Lehigh Valley Railroad
building was four feet deep. Long before
this the dam al Stroh's foundry gave way.
and a raging torrent rushed through the
streets. The merchants on Broadway were
busy from l to A. NJ, carrying their goods
from the easements to the upper floors.
Matters were made worse in several parts
of the town by the walls OF the creek giving
way. In many cases, not only were the eel
lars filled with water, but the contents of
the rooms on the first floor were floating
about. Trains are stIll running.
Lock HAVEN (Pa.), January 6th.-The
flood has subsidized to the S-foot mark. and
travel was resumed on the railroads to-day.
The damage to the Pennsylvania Canal is
extensive.
PoRr DEPOSIT (Md), January 6th.-The
Susquehanna is higher tonight tban il
has been since the great flood OF 1865. All
the cellars and easements in the lower sec
ton of Port Deposit are 1illed with several
feet OF water. Early this morning the
occupants could be seen moving their pro-
visions, etc, to the upper floors. Ali the
wharves in town are submerged tonight
The lumber yards are also partially sub
merged and the propretors have found it
necessary to surround their wards with
b0oms. The water is within few inches
OF covering the tracks of the Columbia and
Port Deposit Railway. DISPATCHES from
up the river tonight are 70 the effect that
the west branch is slowly rising, while the
north branch is receding slowly. The pre-
yalling cold weather tonight will ma
terialiy affect the numerous tributaries of
the Susquchanna, and it is thought the
water has attained its maximum.
a General Snow-storm.
DENVER tCol.), January CHA snow
storm, not unusually severe though gen
eral, prevails throughout the Rocky Mount
ain region. The snow blockade, caused by
drifting, which has been confined to Kan
sas and Nebraska. delaying the Burlington,
Kansas and Santa Fe trains from thirty-six
to seventytwo hours, has been raised, and
this evening all trains arrived departed
on time. Mountain travel is not DELAYED
at all. The snow IS not over six inches
deep. Cattlemen do not anticipate any
loss of cattle, as the wind has drifted the
snow, exposing plenty of grass to support
the herds until the snow melts.
KANSAS CITY, January 6th.-The snow
blockade on the western railroads has been
raised, and the last of the delayed trains
arrived to-day
New Kailroad-Cold Wavc.
Ell PAso TEX, January 6th.-Work has
commenced on a new railroad at Ell Paso-
the Ell Paso, st. Louis and Chicago Rail-
road. a full corps of engineers is in the
field, and they are actively locating the
road from Ell Paso northward For over
100 miles the road runs over a level table
land, over which it will be easy and mex
pensive to build the line.
Ell Paso has been struck for over a week
past by persistent cold wave, and during
that time the thermometer has been
steadily below the freezing point. This is
something unusual for this section of coun-
try, as ordinarily Ell Paso has a much
warmer temperature than its latitude and
altitude would warrant
The Street Car Situation in New York.
New YORK, January 6th.-A strike has
for some time been contemplated by the
conductors and drivers Of the surface rail
ways of the city, and as a prospective safe
guard to themselves, the men secured the
passage by the Board of Aldermen of an
ordinance requiring drivers of street cars
in New York to have a license. which
could be secured only by men who had lived
given time in the city and State. Before
signing the ordinance, the Mayor submitted
it to the Corporation Counsel to determine
if it was constitutional The latter official
to-day submitted to the Mayor an opinion.
III which he holds that the ordinance is un-
constitutional, in that it requires persons
seeking license to be q resident of tbe
State, and that the citizens of other States
are entitled to drive railroad cars, or trans
act any other business, in this city upon
the same terms and conditions as anv ciri
zens of this State may.
Admitted to the New York Bar.
New YORK, January 6th-Anthonv VI.
Kelley, who received the appointment of
Minister TO Italy and to Austria, has been
admitted 10 practice as an attorney and
counselor at-law in the Courts of this
Sale. Mr.. Kelley for several wears has
practiced in the Supreme Court of Appeals
at Richmond, Virginia. Algernon S. Sui
Ivan yesterday moved the admission of I.
McCourts Stewart (colored) to practice in
the Courts of this State. Stewart was born
in Charleston, South Carolina, December
%, 1852. He graduated from the South
Carolina University in 1875. and was adj
mitted to the bar in the same year. His
application to practice was signed by Chief
Justice James Simpson, of the Supreme
Court OF South Carolina. Kelley seconded
the motion to admit Stewart here, and the
Court granted the application.