Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A correspondent who recently passed down the Mississippi river from Memphis telegraphed as follows to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: “There are not more than two or three spots of dry ground between Memphis and this point, and scores of the best farms in Arkansas and Mississippi are in a complete state of wreck. Most of them have been abandoned, the owners and laborers having fled to higher ground. At Harbul’s landing eighteen colored men and women in two boats are moored to a tree on the flooded bank, waiting for a steamboat to take them away. There is not a foot of dry land in forty miles. Skiff-loads of colored people, with their household goods, are seen at various points, seeking for ground to rest on. At Sterling the colored people, horses and cattle are indiscriminately huddled in the upper story of the only store there. Most of the fences and houses along the river bank are still intact, though many of them have floated away. At Star landing the dwellings are full of cattle, and the gin houses full of negroes. The water in St Francis river is still flowing . down from the sunk lands and slowly rising at all points. The river is covered with saw-logs. The suffering is intense, and many people are believed to be dying for want of food.” Later advices report the water declining at Helena, but rising below, causing breaks in the levees.

Business failures in the United States for the week ending March 208, a reduction of fifty-two from the previous week. The record is thirty-one over the corresponding week of 1882, and seventyeight more than in 1881. . The projected Socialistic demonstration at Paris proved a fiasco. Several thousand persons gathered in the Esplanade des Invalides, but the police prevented groups from forming and barred the progress of and dispersed a procession of about five hundred men and women. A number of arrests were made A terrible disaster occurred in the German ocean, the steamer Navarre, bound from Copenhagen to Leith, foundering during a storm, possibly that improperly dated by Prof. Wiggins. Of elghty-one persons on board the Hl-fated vessel only sixteen were saved. The Methodist Episcopal Conference of Virginia condemn mail distribution, the running of cars, or the buying or reading of secular newspapers on Sunday. A man, his wife and a hired man were cremated near Frederick, M<l, by>the burning of the family residence. Nathaniel P. Banks has been renominated tor the position of United States 'Marshal at Boston. rr* - * ***?■-& *■»':>* Al 4. .It