The News

A Londou, Eng., Times editorial bowails thc farming prospecte. Itsays: A crisis lu fle!d workexists; k is water every where; a eootl sowing timo Ís trastea. It is surmised that much autumn sowing is rotten. A)l Eurupo is in similar coudition. Paris dispatches of the 1-tth in.st.,s!iv: It iscxpected that DcFreycinct will farm a consideratiou fcblnet, witta'Leon Say minister of í flnanee: Courftans minister of tlie interior; í (Jen. Campcnon, minUter oí war; Ailmiral Clour, niiuister of niarlue, and Waldeck Rousseau, minister of justice. Hulett, an American who tmrrowly escaped massacre at Madagasear, has arrlvedat l.oudon on bis way to the United States u lay the case befon: the governmeut and duim damages against Mudagasear. Ilulett. inakes a long aud interesting btatcmeut of his adventures. He heartilv thauks tiie eonimauder of her majeety's gunboat Fawu, who brought hini to Natal, The Brltish parliameut conveued on the 18th inst. In her speech opening the Bession the qqeco refera to the maint&inanee of i good relations with foreign powers. She 1 ferred with gratitude to the restoration of tranquility in Egvpt, and warmly eommcnds ! the recoiibtructioñ of the goverument of that country uniiir the Kbedive. Great excíteme nt prevailed when Bradlaugh took his seat, but no otubreak of any kind oceurred. A man named Smith itf arreíted at Dubiin in connectiqn with the couspiracy to i iniinler government' officials. The arrest of , Smlt.li is regarded Important. It Is stated that Sniltli, who worked in' the eatle yard, kept the vitiilaiice committee josted when they wire haiehing tlie plot to blow up part of the'castle with dyuamite. Prince Napoleón' v!U ts FnSlo,,i i. as led to his formal reeognitiou as head of the Bonaparte family. II says that if a popular J Tote of Franee proncunees for the republie he will bow to it, but claims the republie has ; never yet po'led aclear majority of the registered electora and ouly governs by virtue of popular apathy. Should he le cxpelled from ! Franee he will go to I.ondon. Tvventy persons in Malaga have been : attacked by triehinosis, and severa! have (lied. ' It is Btattd tnat the disease waa vontracted from eating American liaras. The heariug of the pursons charged vith consui-ary to rnurder governmeut officials as resuinerl ín Dublin on Saturday, the 17th. ' Facts of the most startlingnature wt're developed, and some of the testinwny teken expllcit nnd conviuclng. The British House of Commons has jjranted leave by a large majority, to introduce i a bilí allowlijg Olrmation iuteal of taking the uatu. - The British government has approved Lhecallingout oflrish military thls year for the usual training. Ithasuot, been caíledont rearü nat owning to the dlsturhed state oí , Lrcland. The hearing of prisoners charged with i :onspiiaey to murder government officials waM ' xmtinued in Dublin oii tile lflth inst., the j Mpal interest centering on the Í )loa of Carey, the man who made nueh , ing n-velations on his first examiiiation. In , lis crose-examinatiou he corroborated every j Itatemeitt made bv him before. As a rcsult of J ,he examiiiation. 21 peraous have bieu ', ed for trial to answer the charge of murdcring , [-ord Cavendlsh and Burke. The London, Eng., Times has this to say about the disclosures made by the ' ir Carey on Saturday. The suspicions raised )y the evideuee given by Carey on Saturday , ' au ouly be allayed by a thorough dlsciosure of he accounts of the land league subject to li pendeut midit. Untll this is done the league ¦ ili be undcr BiiKpii.-ltii of maiutainitii; secret chitions witli criminal conspiraeii'& of thi ] 'St type. The Time asks wliat is to be thought ï )f the offer of Parnell to place the influence of ' iavitt, Eean, Sheridau and Boy.ton at the xisal of the goverument lor the restoration of itder in Ireland, or of tlie statesman who. tn ( 'pite of the warninus of those best acquainted vith Ireland, leaped at Purnell's conditions for eacc! _ JVI TlOS.l 1. t.A VIT 4 U The report of the Jeanuette board of ' nquiry lias been finishod and submitted to the ] iei-retarv of the navy. I í The rumor that Representativo , owp of Michiean Is to be appölnted miuieter to i Spain, i denied by that gentleman It is positivelj stated that the whiskey ( tien are thorougly diseouragcd, and will j ] Jon all further efforts to ëecure actlon on the i i ivhiskey bilí. I , Among the nominations made by the ' ' President on the 14th in6t., was the name of T. ' Van Valktnburg to be postmníter at Hillsdale, md Geo. H. Wells for the same poeition at St. : ' ïohns. Tho secretary of the interior has mitted to conirrrss a request for an appropriaUon of Í348,ÜÓO to feupply wilh oxen and cows 3,6sO families of Sioux Indiane who have gone to farming at various agencies, lu accordancf ; iththe slipulatious of the treat;' of 18C8. On tlio llth inst.. Congressman Horr ¦ nf Michigan, made a most telling argument, in behalf of the luinber trafile. The queslion ur.tler dif cussion was the plaeing of luinber on the free liet. He gave some very interesting 1 tit6 in regard to the himber ludustry in Michigan, and made so strong an argument In favor of retalmug the duty on luinber, as to win the licarty approval of tne entire Michigan delegation. " Gen. Hazen has written a letter to Secretary Lincoln requesting that an investigation of his administration of the signal office be made by a eonimittee of the senate, tuch cominitlee to be empowered to send for pereons and papers and make an investigation eomprehensive aud complete in every particular. Thls requcbt has been made hecause of the í Ing charges of Congressman Beelzhoover eenling the conduct of the sigual bureau. Gen. Hazen's request for an investigation met with a deeided rebufl. Secretary i coln gave that gentleman to understaud that the ar department could manage lts own affairs without an investigation by cougrr-ss. Berdell, one of the star route J spirators created quite a sensation in the court r(X)in at Washington on the ISttl inst., by pleadiug guilty, and signifying hls williugness to turn informer and teil "all he knew about the i matter. A petition was presented to the natloual Senate on the 15th lust., signed byOliver ' Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, anJ T. B. i Aldrich, ai;ainst any reduction of the tarift upon books below 25 [mt cent. These gentlemen claim that the prosperity of American authors and publlwli'-rs is doselv related, aud that whateyer seriouily checks the business of publishing iutrrfcis with the freedom of writing. Senator Edmunds think.s lobbyist and otht r outsiders have too many privilege ou the floor of the Senate, and with a view to correcttag this erll introduced a resolutlon sometbing like this: "That no person shall be admitted to the floor as a private secretary by a senator, until that senator shall certify iñ writing that, he is aetuallv employed for the performance of the duties of sueli" secretary, aud is eugaged In the prformanec of the same." The proposed bill for Gen. Grant's rotirement wlll not k acted on this eesston. The Senato committee on foreign relations will reenmmend the ratification of the Mxican reciprocity treaty. Bob Ingersoll says lieisn't at all intimidftted by the treateued disclosures of Berdell, the star route informer. The civil service appropriation bill his been completed and reported to the House. Tlie bill contalns a elause repealing the pre-emption laws aml appropriating money for iütectlng 'ind preventingfraudulentcntries of land. The liomestead law is not affected hy the repeal of the pre-emptiou law. The facts beíore the eommittee showed that the abuses wlik-h ri sultrtl in (bh repcal have been carried to an exttnt which has in ome Instaures resultcd In the patenting to speeulatlng partios of as high as 40,000 acres of land. In one instancc in Da kota one man alone has taken up 17,000 acres 1 he committcc addc-'d $100,000 to the amount in the original bilí for the Uuited States geologieal survey, making the sum recommendcd 2.)!l,000. For expinpes of the lOth eensuB 100,000 is allowed In the bill. The $10,000 in the bilí for a national board of hcalth was struck out and the signal service arpropriation was considerably cut down. The amount recominended in the bill for contiuuing and completing workon public buildings under the treasury department are in part as follows: C'incinnati $350,000 AIompMs jg 000 L"t8burg 185,900 Louis 1oo,ü00 ?op' ?, bv 10'200 Couueil Blufte 50,000 Dallas 87,500 Se"Sr; 85,000 lies Momes 0 ooo Jaekson, Tenn '..'.'..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 900000 Leavcnworth 4fi rjoo Minnesota 50 000 Listi1 Ie i4o 000 In uearly every case these buildings are for U. 8. courts and postofliees. For the President lal house and grounds $88,600 has been recommended. Other approprlat ious are : To be used by authority of the Presldent in case of dangirous epidemies. $100,000 For completion of the Washington monument 150,000 For observations and exploratlons in the Arctic seas 33 000 For use In suppreesiug couutcrfclting. (57,000 Congress has defeated thenew library Mll. and rrinch réftret Is feit, as a new building U an imperative neccisity. Gen. Hazen doesn't ]!ke to give up tha 1,1, q ,f a Sanaijt iiivcstisation and is out in a long letter explaming hls positioa and iustlfying his previous aetion. The whiskey meu have a little game oftheirown. Their iatest plan to avoid the payment of the government tax in case the bonded spirits bill does not pass is to ship the whiskey iuto Canada and return U to thls country without uuloading. An effort was made in the House of Representatives on Monday the liUh insf 1 pass the internal revenue bill, with the aineuJments made by the Senate. This attempt was Btrongly opjxucd hy botli Democrats and Re publicans. The argument rmdc against it passage was that they eould not afford to go back to their constituent n ith a record of haring voted to reduce the tax on tobáceo, whisky and the luxuriee before reducing the tax on the acecssaries of life. A bill is now pending in Congress to imcnd the reviscd statutes iu regard tonaturalzation. It provides that the children of per sons who have enlisted or may enlist in the service of the United States, in either the regular or voluntcer forces, and have been or may be hereafter honorablv discharged therefrom. ir who died while in sald armies of the United States, though they may have been born abroad ihall, if dwcllius in the United States, bc conidi reil citizens thereof. A bill has been introduced in the Houte of UepresentativcR to readjust the talarles of postmasters uuder the two cent xistage law. It proposes that the salaries of postnmi-ters of the flrst class shall be graduatod Torn $3,000 to $6.000, as the receipts of their jftiees vary f rom $40,000 to $1,000,000; seeond 'lass salaries range from S2,ÓOO to $2,900, as he reei-ipts vary fiom $10,000 to $40,000: third las talarles írom $1.000 to $1,900, ae the re:epts vary from $2,000 to 10,000; the fourth :Iass to be fixed upon a basis of box rente and ancellvd stamps and ptamps gold. The bill for extending tlie time of filng Alalinma claims lias passed the Senate. The President has nominated Dormán 1 5. Eaton of New Yo'k, John M. Gregory 1 1 ils, and Leroy D. Thoimin of Ulilo as the new I )oard of civil bervice couimissioners. After considering the tax bill for 33 onsecutive lcgislative dayp, the Senate reaehed 1 final vote on the cvening of the 20th. inst., md the bill was passed by a inajority of 2ö. A favorable roport has been subraitted o the House from the committee on eleetions, ipon tlie bill to pay the expeases in eoutested ::wes in the 4i"th congress. Seven thousaud dolars is idded to the bill as origlnallv reported. rhe bill to pay Mr. Frost of Missouri $10,000 ma Mr. Sssiiiglmus $1H,OOO will nnt be report¦d, but it is uuderritood that reimbursements vill be asked inthedeticiencv bill in their iscs. Congress has been urged to prevent he ottHrnctlon of the navigatiou of Portage ake, by the stamp snnd from the copper milis ïcar Ilaneock and Ho'ighton, Mieh. It is laimed that these milis annually deposit about ïalf a inillion tous of this saml, and that tlio iffect of this deposit is a scrious iiindrance to he local and general interests of uavigation. Snowiug ones claim that the evil 6hould be corected by lcgislation, andaccordinglyan appeal las been made to Congres?. OKNBHAi. ITE31S. Edwin D. Morgan, New York's "war ;overnor," dled on the eveniDg of theWth inet. It is now definitely known thattwelre ;ives were lost bv the giving way of the freight lepot on the 13th inst. The oxamination into the causo of be lateTailroad acciJent at Tehicipa, resulted in the discharge of Conductor Reed, and tho üolding of Brakeman Patten on a charge nf criminal uegligence. Bkü was eiven in the mmoC $2,000. The business men of Salt Lake think the aftairs of Ferry Bros., of Michigan, have been ably and hönorably eonductt'd in that state. The Gentiles arepraying for Ferry's return to the Senate, and papers to that effect tiave been uuinerously signea A collision occutred on üie Great Western división of the Grand Trunk railroad it Dundas, Out., on thel5tUinst. The eugineer md two paxsengers were killod, and seven oth;rs seriously wounded. Graveyard robberies are nightly ocïurrences iu Montreal. Eight bodien have been stolen iu the past few days, all of tliem being welles of persons who died of peculiar diseases. [t is believed the bodies are taken across the ine and sold to New England colleges. The pólice have a elue Xr the robbers and aro fol.ovrlng it up. Hay is boincr shipped frm Omaha to íeed cat tle in thé Platte valley where the grass : is snowed undcr. President Arthur and ex President ! Srant acted as pall-bearers at the funeral of ïx-Gov. Morgan of New York. The Massachusetts senato has 1 ?d a resolution requestlng the Ma8achnsett lelegatlon in congrees to niake every effort to 1 secure the expunging from the records of the rote of censure passed upon üake Ames by the 42".l congres. The attocney-general of Iowa will soon prepare a petitlon to the supremo court Tor a re-hearlng of the prohibition amendment validity case at the Council Bluff ivrm Mareh 20. One or two lawyers have tried to Ble a motlon for a re-hearlng but the clerk refused to iocket tlieir motion under the rules of the court. An express train on the Cleveland and Coluinbus road, which left Cleveland on the morning of the lfith, was derailed at 11 o'elock nne niile north of Galion. The locomotive reinained on the track but the baggage and express cars, smoker, two coaches and a parlor car was ditched. Jhe train was running 18 miles per hour. No bruken rail was found. Ttie track was of new steel rails and straight. It is gupposed to have been slippery in consequence of the late ralns. Robert Cudell, draughtsman in the Cleveland, Columbus, '¦¦ cinnatiand Indianapolis roadmaster's office at ' Cleveland, the Rev. D. T. Fouts of Shelbv, and an unich'iitifled inan were killed. Conductor j John Daykiu was badly cut on the head and ' Jured on the side. E. E. Popplcton, attorney j of the railway company, was injured about the litad and arma but not gerlouely. A nevs agent uamcd Hammer had an arm broken. George Dawson, one of the leading Journalist of tlie age, and formerJy editor o! th(; Albany Evening Journal, dled at Albany, N. Y., on Saturday, the 17th. A now tbeory has been advanced as to the cause of the lát disastrous fire at Milwaukee, vijs : tramps, the skeleton of an unknown man having been found in the cellar tlu-re a few days since. Tho House of Representativos oí thc Arkaneas leglslaturo has passed the act known as thc "three-mileact." It prohibita íor two years the sale of Intoxicante withiu three miles of any church or school-house on petition of a majority of the adult inhabitants regardless of sex. The present law makes sueh prohibition perpetual, and does not apply to classes of the Ilrst and secoud elass. Tho ncwlaw applieg to all An aeademy íor the education of women as phannacists is to be opened at Eouiflville, Ky., on the first of Mareh. Fítc teachers are to be. cmploycd, and 50 students have already eigniflcd their intention oí entering. The .situaüon at the Diamond miue Ín Braidwood, 111., ruraains unchariged. The work of pumplug out the water has begun. No additions to the drowned have been reported. The mayor of the town called a mass meeting of citizens in order to take the ueeessary steps to relieve the distress in familie of the drowncd miners. A bilí has been introdueed in the Illinois legislatura aDpropriating 810,900 for the widows and orphan of the unfortimate minere. The work of oearching for the bodlcs is being carried on earnestly. The trouble at Sing Siug prispn Ulereases. A few days sinee 122 prisoner rcfused to work and were locked op, aud it is eaid the end is not vet. Xinis far no bodies have been recovered f rom the mine at Braidwood, II!. Rngineers are busy at work puinping the water out and hope to have accomplishod their task iu ten days, at tho fartherest. Drowued in a atine. A most shocking calamity ooeuned at Braidwood, 111., on Friday, the löth inst. A 6ection of prairie land, 4i by 90 feet. over which the floods had extended until the water stood three er four decp, euddenly caved in, the reeult being instautaneous flooding of a nine in which 3O0 men aud boys were at work. [neldc of half au nonr the water had reacheil all parts of the works, and very soon stood within five feet of thc main Tshaft. Seventv'our human beings were eboked to death iu the erim reecsses of thc mine. All hope of the jossible rescuc of any of thom by the openiug ïf a drlvlug from an old ore shaft into the works was abandoned at dusk, when the water poured into the last namcd shaft and workmen were eompelled to deeist The mino is in the extreme corner of WW county. The mine has been operated about two years, and 200 to 400 men and boys have been rcgularlv employed in t. On the eventful morning 30 or 300 went, n. Those who eseaped din so by a miracle. ili&ft No. 2 is 93 feet deep, and above the coal ies 70 to 110 foct of earth. The coal vein varies in tbóekuess from two feet nine nches to four feet. Above it is a ayer of soap stone resting on a bed of flre clay. The vein winde and dips a jood deal, and thus some parts of the miue o ower thauothers. From theinain Shaftradiate assages in every directlon in which coal is to e found. These miners prop their passages with timber aud soap6tone. These props dtd uot prove to be strong enough for the superiucnmbent mass nf soggy earth. One of the eaddest features of the "case is the faet that nost of the drowned men were men of families vho depended upon their support. What, a seene of devastation and destitution tho town of Diamond presents one can readily SoncetTè of when Uk-v thlnk of 46 widows left to teil the tale of this one of the most horrible disasters ever recorded in this state. A Fcarftil Calamity. An outbreak of flre under the stairs of the second floorof a Behool-house attached to the Germán Koman Catholic ehurch oí the Moot Hol; Redeemer, Fourth Street, between avenue A and Firf t avenue New York city, ou ïuesday afternoon, Feb. 20th, was the cause ot a terrible calamity. No lees than 15 childrcn Jpst their lives. Övor TOO seriólas, mostlv ehildren of the poorer elaspep, ranging from Ö to 11 years of age, attended the school and were iu their class rooms when the alarm of lire was raised. A fearful panic soon followed. The removal of the children uu the fourth Hoor began quietly euough aud was procresslng rapidly, when a sister of rharltv. in charge of a elass of girls, faiuted. Iramediately the alarmed class beeame panic-stricken and a rush was made íor the hailway. On the stairs, already crowded, a dearfly crush took place. Tho railing of the stairs broke and tbc mass of strugSliug children was precipitated tó the flnor below, fatlingin a packed mass one upon another, from four to fivc deep. The pólice and firemen, already summoncd, arrived, but thtir work of reseue'was much hampered by the frightened children contiuuing to fall or leap from the btairway. those in Iront beiDg crowded overlhe brokeu balustrade by children beliind still Btruggling to reach the exit. Six ehildrcn were taken out dead from the bottoin aud ten more i'.ied immediatclv after they were résfeuect, making a total OÍ16. A largc nuniber of others who were carried to neignboring teneuients were reported dying. The school building is five stories high, shallow iu depth. The school iü au adjunct ol the church of the Most lloly Redeemer, and is in charge of the Msters of Notre Dame Five hundred girls uuder IS years of age and 200 boys attendthe s.'hoil, and fchey were all in their classes when the panic oceurred. A survey shows that cvery rule and preaution for 'safety in the school had been disregarded. On the four floorí thcre are nine class rooms opcuins; into two hallways with stairs running east aud west reaching "to cither end of the building. Through the class rooms access can be had to cither stairway,l)ut the halls and stairs are separated. Iu nearly every room the' doors open inward and there is ouly one door in a room for egrese for írom 30 to 0 childrcu, niostly girls, aud the doors are ouly two aud a half feelwlde. Thc Btalrwayi are likewise narrow, and at the top of thc highest flight there is a stout wooden gatc not easlly moved. Actual measurement showcd that the inward openiug door eamc within 11 luches of the end of the nearest benches with hardly room to squeeze through. The backs of the benches are within 24 inches of the rear wall and the stove blocked all progress at tbc juuction of the paaeageway and center ai.-lc lietween the rows of beuchep. Turbuleul AVatcr. Additional gloom was cast over the city of Cincinnati on the 14th lust. The continued rain caused the water to risc again, and It eoutlnued to rise throughout thc day, and at 9 o'clock p. m. the rivcr was nearíy IÍ7 teet high aud etcadüy rising. Thc day lias been thc gloomiest cvrrknown in thc history of the city. Busiuesft is wholly ueglccted, and all nttention is given to relleving as far as possible the wants of the needy. A dispatch from lndlanapolls, Ind., of the 14th says: Our city 1 floodeil with water from two to twonty feet deep. Five thousand people are made homeless, many of whom lost all thej bad ou earth. A large uumber of cottage hoiiees in the lower port of Ui city are swept away. Hundreds of people are quartercd iu the eecond storles of public buildings and business bousee. Food ie sent to them in skills. The ecenes of suffering are appalling. It is still raining and the rlver is rising. The loss wW reach jvcr half a million. At Madisou, Ind., the river is rising two inches per hosr. Mitton, Ky-., opposite Madison, is entirely submergcd. Not a single honse is exempt. "Largo cables are being used to anchor buildings, but every effort to save property Is futile. At Loulsville, Ky., the wildest alarm continúes to bc feit. Nothin? can be known regarding the loss of llfe, for It Is imposbible to enter houses save by means of divers. The river continaes to rise, and Is already creeping into the second storles of buildings. At Pittsburg, Pa., preparations are being made for another flood. The Monongahela aud Alleghany riverg are rlslng rapidly At Cleveland, Ohio, raiu Is failing 6teadily, and the river is Heilig rapidlv. Another dcluge is fiared, and men are busy anchoring lumber piles, and blowing up the ice and ürlftwood n hlcb obstruet the river. At all of these rjolnta relief committecs are beingformed, aud evcrything possible done for tbe relief of the euflerers. Dlspatches of tlie 15th indícate some alleviation of the glooroy situation at Cineinnati. The river reaehed its 'highest point at four o'clock on tlie mornirg of that day, when it began slowly to reeede. Ratlroads"are enabled to run their traius within three miles of the city. The work of relief goos on energetically, relief stations being ceiablished in every part of the city, and the work beiugdoncbv men andwomen of cvery sect. A more complete systcm of relief could hardly bo devlsed. There is a most gratifying and notieeable absence of crime. It was expected that burglars and robbers would hokl high ciimival on account of the unprotected state of property in the liooded district. But, fortunately, these expectations have not been realized, and no crimes have been reported. At Louisville, Ky., the flood is unabated. No additional loss of life is reported, but over 100 additional residences and business houses have been overflowi'd. No business is being dono owing to the ceseation of railroad and river eomruunication. As at Cineinnati the relief work here is being systematleally and thoroughly done. At Frankfort, Ky., the river has risen 34 feet. Ono hundred and flfty families are homeleen, and depondeut upon cbarity. JcHërRonville, Ini]., is cntirely under water, and it is impoasible to move anout the eity n-ithuut boats. At Pitte burg all fear is quieted. The waters . f the Monongahela and Alleghany rivers are lowly receeding, and uuless fomething unex lectedly ooeurB, all (langer. is over there. Febmary 16.- At Cineinnati the river i receeding and the rain has ceased falling. 'he towns a)l along the river are much reltevd and have set cbeerfully at work to restore rder as far as possible-. Relief commlttees are doing all in thair power to relieve the eufering ones. It is alinoet impossilile to teil of ie readiness with which aid is sent in from ie outside worM. Every appeal tliat haa been lade has buen most proniptly responded to. All of the theatres are giving benefit performnces. In one day the subscriptions in cash eaehed $12,000. All of the railroads are getng back to their regular time, and in a few ayü It is bopod comparative order will bu reored. At Louisville the rivor is stationary. he rain has eeascd, and for the day no furicr casualties have been reported nor further amage to property. The citizens are doing 1 they can to relieve the suffering, and therc s no danger of anyone suffering for either ood or clothing. At this city the services of ie lifo-saving corps are spoken of in highest iralsc. At New Albany, Ind., the river is stlll eing. One hundred houses are gone, 200 are nder water, and over 500 people are homelcss. 'he loss will reach over $1,000,000. It caunot c over estimated. An appeal has boen made to Congrese, legislatura and the people for aid. Toli'ilo's Tronble. Febucajït 17.- The ice in the Maumee river )ove Toledo broke this morning and carne .hunderiug down with tremeudous forec. crushng the large fleldsof smoothiceintoall shapee. "he curve in the river at the Lake Shore and .lanada Southern bridgts, ju?t above the throe arge Wabash elevators, eaused the ice to ;orge at that point, the backwater flooding the umber district, the immense coal sheds of the elaware and LacKawanna company, and the ammoth Wabash elevator, No. 5, together ith some of the Wabash repair shops. A umber of cars of prain etamlintj on the tracks ere destroyed. Owing to the forethought of ie lumber iirms there was none of the loss of lordes and property that markPd the flood of 881, the only damage beiag to the piles of lumer that ore stonüiug n water to the depth of nr and flve feit. The wildest rmnors ¦ ailed coneerning the danser that threatened city. Every possible precaution was taken, ¦t no human "ekill could avert the fearful rash that eanie ahout 1 i o'clock. With a ant stridc the cotnpressed waters nhivered the orge, carrying away portions of the Lake hore bridge supports and all the treetje of the anada Southern. With a noi6e like stant thunder the advancc waters ushed past the vniou depot and the midle grouud, floodins; the Island house and he depot to the deptn of six feet. The west an of the Cherry ftreet carriage bridge as taken in tbe "headlong llight and tne raw was wreaclied frcun its position and arecned to one side. The water rose raply, flooding Water street and Hummit reet iu the vicinity of ferry, repetine the amage of two years ago. Two spans of the 'enusylvauin bridge were next to go. Below lis bridge there is a low submerged island, rtendlng for nearlv a mile down stream. u this bottom a g-íge formerl, but the chanel being on the aast side of the river, the ater and ico on that side eontinued n the way until within 300 feet of theew Wheêling and Lake Erie bridge. Here the whole mass stopped untll suffleient Ímpetus was cained. when it gave w;iy alone the line and rushed on to the bridge. The entire trestle span on the cast side was carried awav, the fuurth span was moved down stream a íoot. and the' fcupports of the west trcstle were taken out, allowing the span to drop down. The water then eontinued down stream to within a milo of Fresque Isle, where a large gorge was formed, with no pro? pects of breaking. Ofeourse therise of back water in the cltv was tremendous. The lówer jiortions of the city are andfW water, Nrth Erie street almost its entire length, and communication with the flfth ward Í3 cut off except on foot. Cellars all over the city are flooded and the engiue rooms of mauufactories are under water. Very little business is doing. The Bladc news Êaper was unable to gei out editions, and the ee isuod papers uritil C o'elock. when tho water had entered its presa room. The many offices and stores on Water strect are under six and eight feet of water, and one hlock of Summit street is in like coudition. The water roso sorapidly that at 4 o'cloek it was an inch and a Half above the high water mark of 1881. The engins rooms of the electric llght eompanies are liooded, and all gas retorta aru under water. Trains are arranging to leave from the t-uburban dejxts, as every line is damaged to somoiprtent. Tlie Wheêliug and Lake Erie, Lake Shore, Pennsylvania, Columbus and Toledo leave trom the "cast side, their passengere crossing on the ic, so solid ís the eorge. The Canada Southern, Anu Arbor, Wabash, and other roads leave irom poiuts scvoral miles out. Telegraphie communication is badly crlppled. At Cindnuati the river is sttll falling an inch au hour, 6tandidg 01 feet 7 inchea in evening. The additions to the relief fund for the day have been over $10,000. At LouisvUle, Ky., the river is slowly receeding, and tlie rain has coased falling. The chiirity lierc bas been free. generous and un stinteo. not alone from home peo pie, but Irom all feetions In Indiana, with the exception of ill-fated JcSerfionvillu, the prospects are brightening. It is imixissible to describe the desolation and misery of that doomed city. Five-sixths of tho city i under water, and H.000 helpless men are dependent upon the relief bard for shelter, clothing and food. From 8t. Liuls, Ma, Memphis, Tenu., Cairo, IU., Littie Rook, Ark., and several other places the river liowing Uirough to them are risen to a heigtit almost unparalilled, but iu none of them has the danger line been reaehed. February, 19. - The serious (langer which threateued Toledo has been happily averteO, and the citv has wttled back to ite normal eondltion. Tli'e exact loss of propertv eannot be estimated, but will probably reach $800,000. The scène of desolation is fearfully grand, but the worst is over. The flood of 1861 is outdone in all but the aniount of damage, which was lessened, becauf-e preparatione had been madf. for it. At Cineinnati the river has fallen to 59 feet. Business men are makiug every eITort to bring order out of chaos. Railroads are running w ith Eome degree of regularity, iind freiglit is moving slowly. The relief work continúes unabated, and i'ïmtrilmtionK from outsido sources are coming in all the time. At New Albany, Ind., the ('.stress and tuffcring are intense. One Uiuu.-imd families in tbe city and 350 in its vicinity have been driveu from thotr liousee and drpendent upon ebaritv. Au appeal haa been issucd for aid, and the citizens are doiug every thiug in their power to alleviate the sufforlng.