A Boring Alligator

The high wind that prevailed did con siderable damage to the levees along the Algiers shore, says the New Or leans Times-Democrat of late date. The wind after sunset blew especially hare against that side of the river. The waves were blown over the revetmen' and in some places did much damage to the earthwork. The guards were very active. They reported promptly al washings, and where the occasion de manded it the damage was promptly repaired. One of the euriosities of the flood in this section developed at the Morgan railroad wharf early one morning. There had been trouble there for some daya with seepage, and a forcé of men had been employed closing the crevices and cracks through whieh the water percolated. There was an unusual quantity at one place one night, and the f oreman of the gang, going over to the spot the other morning to ascertain the reason, announced the hole had been caused by an alligator, which had burrowed through from under the wharf. trail could be plainly seen in the mud, and the workmen, in speaking of it to Sergt. Cologne, commanding the Algiers station, said that they judged that he must have been at least four feet long. They think the water covered all the resting places that he might have had under the wharf, and he decided to bore a hole through the bank, and thus mix his time between dry land and water.