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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. BALTIMORE, Feb. 20.-At the lynching of Page Wallis? at the point of ???, for outraging Miss Marmon, the latter was allowed to fire fourteen shots into the dangling form as it swung. This is the fourth lynching of negroes for outraging white women in a circuit of twenty miles since April. NASHVILLE, Feb. 20.-The river is slowly rising with forty four feet shoals. The lowlands about the city have been covered for about a week past, and a thousand or ?teen hundred have been forced to vacate homes. No damage beyond the flooding of small houses. The rise has washed out an immense quantity of lumber from above, and caused great loss of corn on the lower Cumberland?. The little town of Osceola?, Greene County. Illinois, has been almost swept away by a freshet on Little Barren river. A number of houses were carried off with nearly all their contents, while many were hardly able to get their furniture out before the water submerged the houses. ??? fine flouring mill was shivered? to pieces by the dashing water and carried down the current. The loss is very great, probably $100,000. CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-100,000? bushels of corn were burned in Gilman & Co's elevator in A??, Iowa. NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-An explosion of shells in the arsenal of V??, on the 27th ?., killed twenty persons and destroyed half the building. HAVANA, Feb. 21.-The government has discovered a conspiracy among the Creoles for an uprising in the Vuelta Abago?. and has secured six of the ring leaders, who were employed on the railroad. Three thousand Remington rifles and a vast quantity of fixed ammunition, arms and munitions were smuggled in from the United States and the insurrection was to begin in the first week of March. NEW YORK, Feb, 21.-Rev. Edward Cowley, the late manager of the "Shepard's Fold" who was convicted of cruelty in mistreating and starving the children under his care, was arraigned this morning for the sentence. Recorder Smith gave him the extreme penalty of the law, one year in the state prison and $250 fine. CINCINNATTI, Feb. 22.-The walking match closed to-night with the following scores: Vint, 45?; Harriman, 421; Guyun, 413; O'Brien, 406; Meals, 383; Buckbridge, 374; Brown, 300; Hibbs and Harris out; The four leading men claim to have beaten the best time on record in a similar match. The crowd to day and to night was overwhelming. The receipts to-day alone reach nearly two thousand dollars. GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. 23.-Reliable information from near Linden, Cass county, gives the following: Mrs. Clarke, a respectable married lady, living in the Garry neighborhood, was yesterday brutally outraged and then murdered. Three men were arested [arrested], one confessed the crime. He was horribly mutilated by a mob, his clothes being saturated with coal oil and set on fire. He was afterwards hanged. Intense excitement prevails. ???, Ky., Feb. 23.-A genuine Mormon colony has been discovered on the Big Sandy river of almost fifty persons, two young men are preaching the doctrine of Latter-day Saints and making converts. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-The diphtheria raging in central Russia, has carried off 10,000? Persons since last November, in the province of Charkoff and Poltava?[unreadable] dies out. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-The Mansion House relief fund up to date is £74,800. The Herald's Irish relief fund has increased to $37,100. LONDON, Feb. 23.-In an accident on the Candabar R. R. (India) seven coolies were killed and four wounded. Chendrich, the leader of the ?umpah rebellion (India) has been beheaded by his own followers. |