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Show The illlKMiN.iippi Flood. New Orleans, 28. Tho captain of the steamer Iberia reports the families abandoning tho plantations and moving mov-ing to the I ighlands; where 5,000 hogsheads of sugar are expected to arrive. The water is over Morgan li. It. for twenty-fiev miles. Three men were drowned in crossing Pearl River yesterday. Monroe, La., 2S. The river has fallen an inch and a half in twenty-four twenty-four hours. Tho steamer tjarry Uwai reports the water falling all the way down. Disasters accumulate daily. |