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A SAD STORY OF LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY CAUSED BY THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. Towns Will llnve to be Rebuilt and Planters Will be Enable tf male ' ps. The f< - 'ing table contains at estimate, brought up to date, ol the loss of life and property oc casioned by the present greal Hood in tlie Mississippi River: Tot;il lumber of lives lost S!0 Total number of people wade homeless.. 15o.lt* Total number of refugees reported to). OH Unaccounted for, but probably rescued. . 100.oo Total number of (arm animals drowned... 10,00 Total square miles el land submerge,. 10,00> Total damage to property <100,000,001 Number of men lighting the flood '.*0.000.. St. Leu is, Alo.. April 5.?Tei thousand square miles of lloodec farm lands, 200 lives lost ant d? 1 AA AAA AAA - * U - C v niu,uw,v;v;u wniLii ui properij dertroyed. This the record of the hngt yellow monster that coils it: length like the slow spreadinj tentacle of an octopus from tht British line to the Mexican Gulf It is the recoid of the insatiati Mississippi. Seven States are wailing ant wallowing and tl 11 ndering in tht muddy torrent, and thousands o people have gone sailing ove their larms and into the llot de< forests 011 logs, on raits, on tin roofs of their houses. On tin small knolls that yet rise abov< the deluged lands in Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana, littf groups of hnli-starved men ar gatheretl with their families ant farm animals, waiting tor tin res ne that comes so slowly. And still the tide rises ant swells and widens and sings i long song of death and disaste r through the broken levees, ant still the six-foo* snows of Min uesota and the Dakotas melt ant pour their vast volume into tin already unprecedented current. Levees from St. Louis to Vicks burg are broken and destroyed Crevasses are everywhere. Twen ty toousand men hav? fouuh night and day, and ar? still fight ing the roaring waters. In the hack woods and isolate lowlands of Arkansas and Mis sissippi thousands of poor settler have been deluged atid are cu oil' from communication or res cue. Thousands of farm animal have been drowned. Culvert and bridges have been washet away and railroad traffic im peded. Relief is slow arid inade quate, and the end is not yet. CAR LOADS OK KKLIKK AND M0H1 NKKDKD. At the same time the appeal of the sufferer* for help have no gone unnoticed. The Governor of Arkansas, I.ouisana and Mis sissippi have sent car load afte car loan oi provisions to the var ions distributing committees ap pointed. Expedition after expe dition by steamer and railroa< are carrying on the work of res cue. Even the Unites State Senate, which sometimes arise; to an occasion, has appropriate! $250,000 for the sufferers. Hut the worst of the sutrerini is that of which the publii * There la more Catarrh in this section of th country th:ir> sill other diseases put tojfcthe si nil until t lit; lsisi few years was supposed t be Incurable For a t'resit rnsmy years doctor pronounced it a local disease, and prescribes local remedies, sind by constantly fulllni? t cure a lib local tresi iriient, pronounced It In curable. Science hsis proven catarrh to be constitutional disease, and therefore require constitutional treatment. Hull * Catarrh (.'tin manufactured by K .1 Cheney A Co., Toleilc Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on ttf market. It Is inseti Internally In doses fron 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly oi tho 1.)/./?<! rtftd tiiniKittu onsf w./.n They offer one tall tiered dollar* for any ruse 1 tails to cure. Send for circular* and testimo uials. Address. P. .! CHENEY & CO , Toledo. O Sold by DruiTftlats, 75c. llali a Family PHla arc the best knows nothing. Thousands of per- ' sons, men, women and children, i are slowly starving in the tree i tops and on the submerged hil- I locks of Arkansas and Mississippi- I Should relief fail to reach them ] their skeletons will be found later ; 1 on when the grass grows green in II * the torrent beds and when the i Hoods and sufferings caused by I them are forgotten. < 1 The eheif danger at present and ! i ^ the worst one along the entire I length of the Mississippi is that ? ^ which confronts Greenville, Miss. < The town, which has l.*>,000 in < habitants, lies back of the levee | and under the level of the present [J current of the river. J If the levee should break there | is no human power that can avert i another Johnstown disaster. Then 1 the American people may awaken 1 to the real extent of the present suffering in the Mississippi Val- j ley. ! Among the Sad Refugees. s Go into one of the rufugee] camps on the Tennessee bluffs ori on the Arkansas side, and the: heart sickens at the sight of | 0 the people. Many of them of I j the best,who are living on charity, i, people, who escaped from their' j. homes in skill's at night, carrying nothing with them. The most pit-i 1 iahle sights seen sineo the yellow \ fever of 1878 are in these river: e towns, where dozens of families! are huddled on the floor of tine big building. 1 In one ginhouse, at. liosedale, Miss., I saw seventv-tive negroes. V I * * ^ They were fed from the relief boats because they did not wish to leave, but liually had to. 1 j asked the president of a hank at Greenville, who has large interests both in Mississippi and Ar- j j Kansas, how much he thought the damage would be from the flood. ^ "The flood is not over yet," said | he. "Any estimate would be silly,! so far as laying a claim to accu- I racy. A million dollars would not replace the live stock that has beeu drowned, nor that amount the loss of personal etfects and 1 j ruined houses. But ihe worst of it is a half million busy people j ' are idle. They are poor ; most of :hem have lost what little they ; had." R ! "Will the llood subside in time for them to make crops if" "Yes, but their crops will be short." S! s A Million a Day Lost. 1 Every day of this llood is cost ! ing the people in loss of farming! -'operations a million dollars, (lotton should be planted,corn should K be growing; not a fence will be! standing around a farm; not a mule to plough; not a mouthful' .... " will tho people have when thovj I return to their naked ont'K. All of B these supplies have pot to come, | and come on credit. The land is j r, rich, but the masses are poor,and ' .they are going to have a hard, " j time of ir." 1 Bloodhound's Keen Scent. ?; I s A remarkable exhibition ot the ' keenness of the scent of the blond1 hound was given al the little town of Bronson, in Allen county, Mis? sotiri, the other day. The town c recently appropriated $100 out of; - the city treasury for the purchase | ? of one of these animals, the pur,r, pose being detection and capture i of thieves who were operating in ? the neighborhood, and a tent of il the hound was considered desira-i tde. At noon three men started * out on foot and walked four miles into the country. Then they ?l mounted horses and by a circuitous route returned to the town. Six hours later the hound was permitted to smell a glove whicl tiad been worn by one of the men and the next instant with a deei liowl lie caught up the trail am followed it on the run. At on< point the men had walked for cards on a fence, and when tin liound came to this point he car ried his nose along the rail witl liardlv any reduction of speed Looming to the pKe? where th men had mounted, he took u| the trail of the horses and follow ?d it into town, where in a crowi ?f more than 100 men, he pickei nit the one whose glove had beei eiven him to Rmell. ORB OF DAY. Itow it Looks to the People (i the Different Planets. The people of Neptune are ofte in doubt as to whether or not th sun is shining. They are so fa away from the great central or that it is a mere speck in the sk which only men with good eve sight can see. Plenty of the plar ets thai are swinging about i the heavens look bigger than th sun to the people of Nepturn Those on Pranus are little hette oil". Upon Mercury, on the othe hand, the sun comes up 'ike a immense new moon, and it burn with an intense glare, and i so iiot that tho people there ca cook their breakfast by tho ligh of the morning sun. When th sun sets on Mercury it is like large part of the heavens droj ping out of sight, and a col breeze immediately springs u| Kven on Venus tho sun looks s big as to scare an inhabitant ( the earth,could ho be transporte to that planet. From Mars it looks a good det smaller man it noes trom til earth, but a year on Mars is equi to two years on the eartl Another curious thing about Mai is that it has two moons,revolvin in different directions. One t these little moons is hardly bij ger than a good-sized cheese, br it Hies through space with th speed of a cannon ball. This li tie moon goes skimming close 1 the surface of Mars, and the pet pie there,with their long-distant guns, could easily shoot up an hit it. They have to look sharp c Mars to see this little moon,whir comes noiselessly from one dire< tion and disappears around tl corner in another, regardless t movements the regular moon. Hood s Arc kaIiiIiik favor rapidly. g _ _ HiisIiu'sh men and travel- i I'Ts carry them In vt st IBIS p<" kt-fx, I.KlIf* < .irry tlnui %l In purM'i. Ihiiih. Ur>-|nt? Vi-i'p ttuim In modioli eluieti, friend* recoinnii-nd tlirm to friends. 23 One I-'arc for t/ir itoiiml Trip. The Southern Railway wi sell tickets for one tare lor tl rourul trip from all points on i lines and connection, on the o casion of the meeting of tl Southern Raptist Convention i Wilmington, N. <1., on the <5?I of May. Mrs A lnveen, residing at 720 Menrv S Alton. ill.,suffered w lUi Hi iuli* rheumatism I over elifht months. She doctored for It near the whole III this time. UsIiik' various romotll n commended t>v friends, and was trriitnl tin pliyalrhtn.*, but received no relief. She th tided one and :i half bottles of Ctiilir berbitr >*.iIn ll.llin. which < ffccted n complete e:il 'I'llin In published iti her r< <jue?t, hm hIih war other* similarly afflicted to know what e\ir tier Tile !15 and W) ei-nl si/ea for Stile by J Mnekey Co ami II C Mm.i/h A Co (.unci tee, S. C. ? What about that sowing nu chine you promised your wife The kntKiii'KiMK ollico has sever; on hand, and they are dirt rhen] a i rv - ? P' ^ AVcgc tabic Preparation for As- ??j simulating the Food and Rcgula- f| i liii? the Stomachs and Bowels of I i ; 1 PromotesDigesUou.Chocrf.:1- . [ ncss and Rest .Contni ns neither T J Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. &j NotNabcotic. |i JBtajsm of O'd Er?iMl'?L P/2VW?/t fgj J\im/din Sni" jOx.Stnna * J Jlf.1 n JttkdU SWlt ? 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