| Show NEWS ITEMS IT is asserted on reliable authority that the king jang of sweden has invited invite the prince of wales and prince napo leon icon to be present at the military camp of the swedish and norwegian troops to be formed at the latter end of the summer it is believed the crown Prince oi denmark will also visit the camp ednid tire THE choom FLOODS the spring fres frea freshets fresh liets ets which are ard now subsiding have hardly a parallel in extent or des within the memory of the present generation the breaking up of winter winte r the mhd cpr spring if 1 co rains and t the ile melting of sno in the he mountains from whence the tributaries tributa ries rles of ou our r great rivers flow always brodu produces C e S h hi ig gh I 1 1 water and frequently causes cates the destruction st property at lon lop intervals these floods assume unusual magnitude it is one oner of these binary floods that has just occurred in the rivers riven of kew new york and pennsylvania sylva and also aiso but in a milder form in the theY rivers ivers of jile file the eastern states houses barns fences bridges canals railroads and almost arery every species of property have suffered greatly 1 the tho an n nathe d the genessee und and tho the seby sebr to t have beeh meen been mast destructive although a vast vash amount of pro property P erty has been lost along the line lib of the hudson the mohawk the DeIa dela delaware ware wafe the connecticut an other rivers the greata great est devastation apparently has occur od ed on the Busque susquehanna hanna which has been higher than at any previous period since the thin early earls sett element in 1819 we believe the great pumpkin flood occurred on this fiver river sweeping sleeping away farmhouses farm houses obliterating fences destroying live stock by the wholesale carr carrying tring away bridges and doing incalculable cula le damage T the d next extraordinary flood which reached about the same magnitude occurred in 1847 again sweeping everything before it the details of the damage done by the flood which has just occurred y have hane inot diot yet fully appeared but the destruction of property will probably ly be unprecedented for the river 1 h as Is b been een at harris burgh three and a half feet hither higher than on the occasion of the great flood in 1847 the railroads along the river have been submerged in some places to the depth of ten or twelve feet bridges houses in short every efery variety of property Sr ilas lias lias ilas been swept away by the current and the tim damage must be immense the railroads lri iri in lif this state have aiso also laiso heen been materially damaged bythe hl hilb high 14 water bridges have in many instances been destroyed and sections of railroad have been immersed and washed away CN W F Y siai Stat lin tin 31 march 21 y INDIAN attack ATTACH 1 lle LF LEY Y eighty f four our indians made an attack on paradise valley vailey april esth killing men wo women men and child children re ana and burning housek housed house liay hay and wagons the only on 1 y names known are are E R B doon and wife and mrs stockham burned to abath leathand deat hand and thomas raper paper arm shot off many others are reported killed wolverton on the humbolt rr river ven ver thirty thirty mi miles ies les south from paradise made an a alback I 1 yesterday oli olt on a cam poo booda da killing five shoshones Sho taking six P prisoners il s boners and some tome guns gunst powder an and lead e ad wolverton with W ith twenty I 1 men started fer paradise this morning thirty nty armed citizens started from here hue and arid union vine vino last night one lit indred hundred and anid fifty one more started toda today day por for granite creek cleek an on honey lake foid road noad A another nother company start from here tomorrow to morrow for paradise ah an I 1 immense mm ense amount of stock being wintered here herd has been taken by the indians virginia unon on etli RIVAL RAILROADS PUSHING rai roi MOUNTAINS the neva da transcript of of the tho pacific railroad RaI ral road teel 1 company have about 1600 1500 men merr now naw employed 0 1 in 1 grading tb the road and bythe the middle middle middie of april the cars ears ivill ivill be be rerunning running to aub auburn urn making the distance of stage travel from nevada only 28 miles over a much better road than the newcastle one by the of september it is expected that the railroad will be completed to illinois town the stage route will then be on only 16 miles the road will pass ahr through 0 yu gh clipper gap which is only 14 miles from this city A company Is now building a magnificent toll toil arpad from nevada to clipper gap which will be traveled by the stages as soon as the railroad i is completed to illinois town on the other hand the placerville erville news of the same date thus b speaks of the progress of work works on the placerville erville and sacramento line steady and irrepressibly the work of constructing a rall rail railway wa over the most direct and practicable route to nevada namely that selected by the placerville erville and sacramento railroad company progresses with unwearied unite aried energy and zeala and unflinching perseverance the work is being prosecuted A large force of laborers are now employed in putting the roadbed road bed in readiness forthe forth rails these with carriages and 8 spikes 12 11 ces tes and all things requisite i are already on oil hand more than goo men arem w at work on the road noad between latrobe and Shi shili nigle nigie te I 1 3 springs and a large number will be or have been already added to these so that there are or soon will be 1000 or ot 1200 hands engaged in putting the road in hi running order to the tho latter place by the of june jine passengers an and d freight will be conveyed by rail rall to shingle shin ld Spring springs sl and by autumn it itis is expected exper iv that the line will mill have reach ed mud u springs o E SF sit euile Sull tini eUni P i THERE THEu zare zaro aro are now in in tiie tile the j imperial i R library of france franco two million printed punted works two hundred thousand manuscripts j three million engravings and hundred thousand maps plans views ac furthermore a museum of rare coln com and medals any person may read an any work it c contain sand take notes on gi giving lii iii his add aad address ressy resEy may borrow any work k ho lie may wish to study at boinet ho liu U inel inet 6 1 f 1 i let lel bagano higano ja bl gand GANO adien I tl the stoie stole oi brigandage g a told fold day dby papers are veny very frequent und and n iSy butic 0 late laten pwe ae so extraordinary have havo lieen been narrated n nar i raten t as that which has appeared in the P bungo pungo a 0 10 lo of naples A band of brigands brigande bri gands descended es upon the ther commune of st john of cam Gam cammorata morata a district containing about ten terr thousand inhabitants the robbers took possession 0 of f all the commanding points in the neighborhood so as kocul to cut ox loff the communication with the town of cam cammorata 0 rata they then fired right and left among ong the de fenceless people eople and a exies eries derous agurs urs discharging dischar upwards of gix six sim hundred shots A j party next pro proceeded ceede lo 10 pillage liim the town and broke broka into hito and 1146 robbed abd aleithe uthe houses that yielded to their efforts among others othera was one belonging to two rich proprietors named john sohn and nid sibo no alessi where after taking tawn possession of alt all X the tho money ate and linen they could nind find I 1 they kindled a fire fife and suspended the tile two brot brothers fiers in order to make them confess where they had hidden the rest of their property y having obtained all they coula these rum ruf ruffians flans beat a retreat without encountering the slightest opposition anoai ties of greater or orless Jessma magnitude than ihan these are almost of daily occurrence in in southern bouthern italy post thu THE colored coloja people of cincinnati hold taxable property to the amount of one of them efthem alone aion being elting worth in new york they have invested I 1 in n b business 9 carried on by themselves ives 7 00 in brooklyn in th they thoy myown own independent of t this s unencumbered real ical estate I 1 in n N x tew ew york worth in brooklyn in williamsburg in philadelphia there are tareo hundred eo colored lored families living in their theli own houses one ond man i stephen smith is said to be nort worth over hov proe aror dress press t ti I 1 sl A letter ietter to tol toi the jn Y worlds fard from atchison bahsa neb feb 19 afra says bays davs y im j atchison lias ilas become the gi r jakstadt eat starting ina point for every everi everything ll 11 going 0 1 D 1 11 tp the he gold regions of elo colorado olo a lioi ge Salt sait 5 A ig atto Jake ake nevada idaho ac o ac and ana nd the amount of freight already here and ila iia dally arriving would astonish any olie oile one not perfectly familiar with the vast trade of our western territories the levree at atchison and at the depot opp opposite osite af of the atchison and st joe railroad is ono one vast heap of machinery hild and the warehouses uses overflowing with all kinds of merchandise so go that one e experienced would suppose that if it would require all the oxen and mules that could be congregated here in a vear year ear t to 0 haul off i what i is already on hand but those engaged in that business inform me that what is here now is is a mere drop in the bucket and that already five times as much aa as is here now has been engaged to be delivered here before the first of may bray the indian troubles do not seem to daunt thom them in the least borday for day after day at this time I 1 see train after train of mule teams loading and moving off west for fort kearney Kc arney anney denver and other points the THI first batch oi of chiai chinese emigrants sailed J jan an ath th for tahiti to be employed olit oli on t the e estates of the tahiti aptton and Coffee plantation company the ithe managing director reports ZO acres cotton planted which he hp considered equal to the very best sea island in quality ts and was about at once to coina commence ence enee picking tim TIIS st Peters petersburg huta bute elzette dra draws vs the following picture of the present state of lithuania dit jit it is only in commercial circles and with population such as those traversed by the tha railway from warsaw to st petersburg that any traces of social life ilfe can be seen and that any movement is observable but go 90 het bet beyond ond ona the city tak take 0 an anz any y d direction you please visit scores of villages and you will not meet a single trav traveler elbr nor see a sing single lo 10 living creature lenter enier enter a village and you will fancy tancy yourself in some abandoned place not a word not a sound sou son nd as it every evea one ono ne were in the sleep of death ileath 11 A tiie trie ratie italic of turin publishes published a 1 letter fromson from san nicander Nic nie andr near lako lake les lesina na in the province of the adriatic stating that for the last lait seven months shock earthquake have hame been daily felt there that thit all MO tilee houses are in a ruinous condition that mat several have fallen in and that thau noo MOO P people J are gradually emigrating fri from the hd town to this phenomenon are now how added subterranean noi noles alid and there isi is a general in the alape that a volcano is abut to fiirst into existence there thero as these phenomena hear bear j str strong ng resemblance to those which prec dd an a eruption of mount tiit tift winter lii lif ill ijuro EUrope t appears to ha ham have 6 heen been more more severe thana chanin in this cou cor country Atry in scotland the kii kyi allows bivs have been een almost unprecedented deer and all kinds of game gamb were starved tasted out great lumb bumb numbers ars of bf sheep thee p e perished ana and e even ven h gouseff were so covered up bp with sn snow that 11 at the neighbors in digging out the inhabitants the engish poor have havo been great sufferers during the winter from ther theold doid eold dold and want of f im |
