December 30, 1871 (4 pages)

The Daily Transcript NEVADA CITY, CAL. Saturday, December 30, 1871, SRA IES TIE TIT, — The Storins im the State. _ . Since the 18th inst. it has stormed almost constantly. During the en. broken storm the waters about eit tire time little snow has fallen, but . Bay of Monterey have been terribly . . uging torrents, which werecaught up by the wind and whirled, eddied and drifted in blinding sheets. ll the gulches’ and ravines. Were filled to overflowing, and the streams swollen so as to render the roads impassable. ' Santa Craz—The» Sentinel says: } During this week of fearful dnd un. Wife Mut@er in New York. In UlstéF county,’ New York, on Saturday, there was another of those fiendish m for which that county has become noted. . A murder more ‘sickening in its details has seldom if ever found a place in the annals of crime: Rock Locks, the seene of the murder, is situated about ingston: ~The . seven milés from . facts are as follows: : Two years ago Thomas Degan, a it has rained almost without cessa-. 98itated, keeping up a deep and . young man, then ‘about twenty-two Every railroad in the State has Shock ofteavy ordnance. The peo-. short time after their marriage he been interrupted except the Central . ple living near the foothills, more. began a course of brutal treatment ‘Pacific almost since the cummence{than a mile from the bedch, say the ment of the rain, and in the valleys . @arth trembled frequently as though great losses have been sustained, es-. tortured by an anita and tlie pecially by these who owned stock. . TST was So constant and kg oe We obtain the following intetesting . Prelude sleep for two nights. The n to rise seventy-five feet . as . . just below the lighthouse, where the F; Republican says: . Vis sata Siempre soriie localities, breakers are obstructed by a reef“ of by ihe recent storm, hag been con-. rocks. If the scene could have been . presented without the ‘accompanying . items from our exchanges: . Mr. Hanks, who ‘has had . siderable. . storm, its sublimity would be appre. enacted.» It appears the 1 ounds of the 2 . ena : ppes nyc So hces Ge 0 of the . “lated, but when we are compelled to . Went to Rosendale and there became San J.aquin river, lost three or four . receive so much rain and consequent hundred head in getting them to the dH discomfiture, # little more moderahigh ground. A band of 2,000 sheep, . the property of a gentleman named Carson, were nearly all drowned on . °Verflowed,. and the water higher Union Island. Others who have cat. tle, shieep and horses in the same Jo. surf was tion is preferable. than it was ten years ago: Santa Clara—The floods in Santa/ingto help me draw water?’ . Clara county have doné much damcality, must have suffered loss, but to what extent we are not informed. The tules.are rapidly filling with waage. San Jose was partially flooded . by the overflow of the Guadalupe, . foward. her whom-ihe had a few onths before sworn to love and pro+. He’ became dissipated in his habits and daily grew more ecruei in his treatment to his wife. As he would come heme from his drunken the cries andscreams of the abused wife, and shudder as they heard the kicks and blows, . they fell upon the defenseless woman, last act of this horrible drama was . that Degan . thtoxicated. He returned home in} . the evening, and for once appeared . quite: sociable and friendly toward . “ Later advices . his wife. She started for the well . . Say the lower part of the town has . for the purpose of drawing some waThomas -soon followed. She, . . ter. . seeing him approach, spoke. kindly . to him, and said, ‘‘Tom, are you os ; He . replied, in an angry voice, ‘Damn . you! Lam going to take your life!’ . and then seized her and attempted . to throw her in the well: She cried { } F : . years' of age, married a young wo. tion from the summit to the coast. trembling roar, resembling much the . man about twenty years of age. A’ carousal the neighbors would. hear . On Saturday evening the . . approaching trains: «Three accidents . The California Pacific, the inter. ruption of which causes the delay in . our mails and travel was expected to . be in order on Wednesday, but: the . continuation of the storm hais caused . more damage and ‘interrupted the . workmen. ‘The Western Pacific has . had slides and bridges washed away. There is a prospect that there will be . . no commnnication between San Fran. ctsco and Sacramento except by fiver for several days. The Central Pacific is: reported to . be blockaded with snow this side of Ogden and the Union Pacific trains ' are reported snow bound.: The storm along the line of this road are very serious, dd \ A correspondent writing from Chey. enne says:' Already 22 locomotives loud and fast, as! are almost ruined in trying to make . their way through the snow, many of which are wrecked, and lie along the road; merely shoyed put of the way of have o¢curred within the past week; one with a gravel and a freight train, one with two freight trains, and the . great alarm among our oystermen . lest the continued rains should toIn all cases they are tally destroy the fine beds of transthird witha wrecking train and a freight train. total wrecks, aud the remains lie . s-attered over the road. The loss is . fearful to the company. Nearly all . the stations along the road are tak. ing advantage of the delays, and . . Sacramento.. 9.751 inches, . . Stockton. .. 9.88 do . San Francisco.,17.11 do ; Grass Valley-. 21.77 do By Telegraph. The water in the tiver at Marysville is within ‘eight inches of the height it aftained im 1862, Sqarrel -Creek is so high as to prevent erossing, © . The Rain Fall. We have gathered from our ex. changes the following items, showing . the rain fall in: several localities in . the State for the present season, up . to Wednesday morning, Dec. 27th: The rain fall in this city, up to the same time was 30.64 inches. ! . Tae Oysrers rm DancEer.—The . Evening Post sys: If there is any creature in existence that need not } care whether it rained or shone one . wquld think it was the oyster; but it . seems that this is not so ,and there is planted oysters which have been with so much trouble, yet with so mudh success planted at different po:nts around the bay. It seems that the heavy rains effect the oyster injuri; ‘ f sis at bridges were seriously damaged, and! for help several times, and Degan, . charge frightful prices for all eatable ter, and those who have stock in that . some six or'adved houses were'awept . seeing a wagon approaching, loosen. . locality should not delay in getting . it upon high ground--or they may . have little to save in a day or two. The Sacramento Union givesan ac. count of the suffering of stock on . Pylet Island, ‘between Mormon Ie-. tire country south of Gilroy has been . land.and Georgiana slough. Speak-j * perfect sea during the greater part away. . the 27th that another overflow was imminent. The Gilroy Advocate says: The en-, Kinley, and went up stairs to where We learn from the Guide of . ed his hold, at the same timé giving . ‘her a fearful kick in the side, crush. jingin her ribs. Rose Degan then . ‘Tan-up to the house of Mrs. Mc. . Mrs. McKinley was, and said, ‘I am . . killed, I believe! Tom) has killed . ;mne; please send for a do¢tor.’’ Mrs. . "ing diithel@ptemept fo gat ‘the stock . of this week. The railroad company . McKinley seated the injured woman . out, that paper says: Probably 700 ' has suffered'severely. We sincerely . head were drowned or perished from exposure, lack of food or being tram. pled to death by their fellows. There . are still, it is thought, about 150 horses and a riumber of cattle alive on Tyler Island, and an attempt will be made to save them as soon/‘as the cattle that have been saved shall be got to Bruce B. Lee’s San Juan grant, where pasturage has been engaged for them. Since Arranibido & Co. left King's river with their stock, they have lost about $20,000 worth. They have not been by .any means the only losers by the rising of the waters in the pasturaging districts during the past two weeks. So sudden was the rise of the water that it is probable losses equally as heavy as those mentioned above were sustained by other localities. : "Marin County—The Journal, speaking of the storm in this county, says in its issue of the 23d: Since the Winter of 1861 we have not been visited by such a severe storm as that which broke in upon us on Sunday night last. Until Wednesday it raged with unabated violence. On ‘Tuesday morning the cars of the San Rafael and San Quentin Railroad Company were unable to make their tripsin consequence of the track being submerged, and up to the present time travel to the steamboat landing is being carried on by stage.— It was feared that much damage had been done to the railroad, by the bed being washed away, but’ such isnot the case. Besides the blowing down of. fences we have heard of no serious damage. The creeks are. reported very high. An immense body of water has been flowing down the creek on Short’s Addition, testing the capacity of the Culverts on the road on B street, south of Second street, which appear to have stood thé pressure very well. On the White ranch the cabin of John: Rogers was washed away, with provisions, cooking utensils,efc. He is also reported to have lost 40 cords of wood. On Monday night, at about twelve o'clock, a portion of the roof of the ’ new prison building at San Quentin was blown off. During the excitement which followed two or. three . “of the prisoners attempted to escape, but their wary keepers brought them to their senses by confronting them with revolvers and shotguns, . On the Frank Hanna ranch, on Point San Pedro, roofs were blown off and, cabins of wood choppers demolished. CaluvarayThe Mokulumne Chron. ide of the 23d inst, says: The wind came in terrific gusts, prostriting famces. \ wrenching «window: blinds . from their hinges, stripping Shingles . from the roofs of houses, and shaking stone buildings to their very ‘foundations! ‘The ‘ shriéking and} howling 6f the furious blast was ab; filled with every character, of .dgbris, treds were uprooted, ahd the tid voverings .of roofa’ rolled’ togethit Tike the lower Goliax road. regret to see 60 much labor and capital swept away. The new road from here to Watsonville is almost all washed away; from the Pajaro bridge there is scarcely any of the 10ad ‘left. The company with characteristic energy putan army of workmen on the road repairing the damages. We learn from the Appeal that the waters of the Sacramento river were running round the North end of the Buttes by the old French crossing, ‘flooding Sutter county, and inundating a vast tract of land heretofore considered safe from overflow. Nicholaus is again under water and the surrounding couutry overflowed. The plains along the banks of Butte creek are also under water. The Sacramento Union speaking of the condition of things in that locality, Thursday morning says: At 10 o’clock this morning the Sacramento stood at twenty feet one inch above low water mark. It is running with nearly fall banks,’ backing up the American some distance from its mouth. The American river this moring at 10% o'clock, two miles from its mouth, or at Twenty-fourth street, Was. acting very discreetly, being properly within its banks, One mile below, or near Lisle’s bridge, it was somewhat over its banks, but the road was only partially covered with water. There is quite.a margin yet even before the water gets to the bottom’ of thé levee, which &tands its: whole hight—some fifteen feet-above the surface of the water. From the effects of the storm yesterday the American will probably run fuller today, bat there is not the least danger of a flood from that quarter from the presentstorm. Sacramento is amply protected by its levees. ie Brar River Bawos—Thursday afternoon the bridge over Bear river, between Grass Valley and Cclfax, commenced to give away atthe south end. The stage coming to Grass Valley had passed over safely says the Grass Valley Union, when it was no. ticed by the toll keeper that the bridge was swaying, and that the timbers were falling into the stream. side of the pier next to the south bank has given‘away. The pier was on the firm bed rock and its failure at this time is not to be accounted for. After the stage passed over coming this way, a messenger was sent to Grass Valley to warn the stage not to return to Colfax by the lower road. The consequence of thé break down of the bridge on thé Coleman road is that stages and ‘mails will) have to come over the upper, or Crandall road, which. will mike the. arrival of the stages an hour later atnight. All travel is prohibited at present, over Tuege will probably: bea rush to 1} the Spruce Mountain districk and to’ Pee etc Greek, eel, Weel: The ain dosage ny ae} 4 edoht yasdoee jasel } ‘Observation showed” that the lower Sabor ip grading of she, Oregon “and, in a chair, and was about. calling for . help, when she,heard the front door . open and saw the brute Degan enter. . He at once went up stairs and taking . his dying wife »from. the chair, attempted to put her on ared hot stove, . and, as he said, ‘‘roast. her alive!’’ . . Mrs. McKinley fought bravely to . save Rose from so horrible a death. . Degan, having been foiled in his deSign, turned. upon Mrs. McKinley land ste ber a‘fearful blow; then . Seizing his wife, he threw her with . great force into the corner of the . room, und then, when she was bleed. ing and insensuble, struck her sever. al blows upon the head and face with a chair, inflicting ghastly wounds. . Not yet content, he caught hold of . her teet, and, while hoiding her in that position, kicked her unmercifully it the abdomen. (Degan relaxing in his assault, Rose regained her consciousness and; mgnayed to ‘crawl into a bed room adjoining and attempted to lock the door. Before this could be accomplished, however, the fiend forced the door, and again and again struck his now senseless victim, dragging her about the room in fiendish glee, and saying, ‘‘Now I have finished you.’’ The two rooms in which the. horrible tragedy was enacted presented the rance of a slaughter house. The feor, the walls, ond even the ceiling were besmeared with blood. The hair of the woman, which had been pulled out by the fiendish hasband, was thick updn the floor, while the stairway leading to the rooms below was reeking with blood. Mrs. McKinley having aroused the neighborhood by her screams, Degani left the house. A few minutes after the injured — was taken down stairs into the apartments occupied by Owen Gallagher and Sample, ad everything possible done to relieve her (suff Dr Was at once summoned, who pronounced a injunes oot About 11 o'clock e same night, Degan returned to the house a his wife lay re demanded admittance, which was denied him, his wife begging that he should not be allowed to enter, saying that she knew he would kill her. Degan then went away but soon returne d,and again demanded adthittance. Gallagher refused, telling him that he woald not allow him to see her till morning, whereupon Degan said he would come in if he had to force the door. He commenced to carry his threats into execution kicking in one of the panels. Gaflaguard at the door, determined to strike down the murderer See ke he attempt to enter. final withdrew, net wishing. to face. danke to his own honse. On Sunday morn: aieni rel Gs zt night in great agony and died Sunday morning. A Coroner’s jury was at once summoned) and after viewin the body, i F alygerwesse a Sekene ing ai @, the ehest . ribs being ben ken in,rendered eases that Rose Degan came to her death from injuries wilfully inflicted by her husband, whereupon the pri Turns isa Kuklux mine in Cope district. Its owner, Cooke, looks to make a fortune out ef it. ; * Pst dst passed for a shadowy rearguard. The singularity of such a procession party and they have all come to. the be the death of it. Thuis embarrassed by . the party is rapidly going to. the gher, with an axe in hand, stood a x of Grass Valley Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, as we learn from the ings Rbie arrested while preparing Union, after: the installation of offr Wire: Dogan ed A. B. Brady, who has been High ; Priest of the Chapter for five years, with a handsome gold watch and chain, ‘The presentation speech: was made by Wm, Wait. of an unfounded report, Says he has never: entertained a) belief that Gbn~ eral Grant is thé only persen whom the Republicans can elect next year. On :the: contrary,’ he believes that there are twenty men belonging to Taos. ws acc “haa . oe gr Mmige “party who vean be Breer wr step fad keane Min ie ete ae ae at ‘ me, . party tan eléet day man who may ne county, recently, = § ~Yobive'thé nditthation, © 1!" ' 3 matter, .There are 543 passengers waiting at this point for the trains to leave, which. will notjin all probability be for the next twenty-four hours. A 'Funfrax Procession’ Composep or SLEIGHS.— Wednesday afternoon, says the Virginia Enterprise, a large funeral procession passed through C street, in which the only vehicles were sleighs. This was a sight we have never before seen in this city, and one seldom seen in any country, we believe. The noiseléss manner in which the long line of sleighs glided through the city added. greatly to the'solermity of the occasion, and in gazing upon the train the spectator might easily have imagined the whole scene unreal and all in the procession mere phantoms. Following the vehicles was a considerable body of horsemen,and these—for any sound heard from them—might have attracted universal attention. <Inpustaious Tuirves.,;The New York Tribune says: The police estimate that, on. an average fully five hundred persons—men, women’ and children—go into the streets every pleasant day with the intention of stealing anything they can, with any prospect of safvty, lay their hands on. These marauders particularly infest the hotels, public offices, and crowded shops, and carry off whatever they can steal, froma bundle of dry goods, an umbrella, or a cane, to a sheet of paper of & daily newspaper. Many of them are well dressed, have good manners, and would never be suspected by the uninitiated. Tue Passive policy finds little favor in the extreme South. The Savanah, Ga., Republican talks plainly about the family troubles, and says: “Itis a fact that since the Democtatic army. lost.its Southern leaders, it has been but a disorganized political mob. No man North seems to have the sagacity toblaze out a way for the conclusion that the Southern leaders under existing circumstances, would / PRRSENTATION,—The companions Szwaton’ Wirhdn, in contradiction . {) \A Piston exploded: im ithe poéket . of a boy in Bridgeport, Connecticut, ‘ ca ne OURTEEN Tegular . ously in two ways—first, by unduly ' freshening in the water; and second, . by bringing down from the shore . large quantities-ef mud, with which ithe bivalves are covered up and smothered, The oyster beds at Sau. celito are'niow in the greatest danger, but if the storm. continues much jlonger it will probably destrcy all . the beds around the bay—a loss that t . cannot be repaired. > ~ Parson Browntow.—A Commercial . hessee, says: ‘‘Upon entering the Senator’s house we found him lying upon a large sofa, and a megro rabbing his feet.’ He is in wretched health, but no more than he has been for two years. His hands and feet are continually jerking and shaking ‘with the'pa’sy: He sannot read una frame in front of him. He cannot speak above a whisper, and some days his strength is so far gone that he cannot do that. Indeed, he is as helpless as an infant. Nothing but constant care and watching upon the part of his family and friends and his own iron determination keeps him alive. He is aman of tremendous energy and force of character. Not one of the other seventy-odd Senators could be prevailed upon to leave home if they were in the prostrated condition that he is. A Terre Havre (Ind.) man, whose estate was valued at $1,250,000, kept hindself ¢0 hort of foodiand clothing that he was found, the other day, frozen to death. His son proved himself a chip of the old block by ‘boxing his father up, and sending him several hundred miles as freight, rather than ‘pay-the exorbitant express charges. A Suppen Jupement.—An awful thing has happened’ in Harrisburg. The Qourier Journal says: A man was accused by his wife of infidelity to his marriage vows, when he replied that hie ‘idped God would paralyze his tongue if he was guilty.’’ He had scarcely finished the sentence when his tongue refused to perform its natural functions. THE Presbyterians of London proing forty new churches, which are to cost not less than $15,000 and not more than $25,000 each. the other day while he was sitting at his desk in 'school, and inflicted severe wounds in his wrist and abdomen, tail thee? freight trains “a¥etun daily -over the ‘Virginia ‘and Truckee railroad. Taexron, N. J., has “one place of worship for about every nine hundred of her population. Prorgssor Huxley has recently, it is reported, become a convert to the orthodox Christian faith. DR. W. H. PATTERSON, BANARAS sR ap Rgzos correspondent who lately visited Sen. ator Brownlow, at his home in Ten. GENT’ Ss W. INTER . less the book or paper is’ fastened to . pose to raise $850,000 to aid in build. Late of the U. 8. Army. a Peremptcry. Bale . . —OF— FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH CLOTHING: FURNISHING GOODs. WING toa change in the firm which will take plsce in January, 1472, +and the transfer of their main honse and busi. ness ; , To New York City, BANNER BROS, Are compelled te azinounce Dp} ib. THAT THEY ARE NOW SELLING OUT THEIR ENTIRE “ . STOCK OF CLOTHING, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, At’ the following SACRIFICIAL RATES: $30 Beaver Suits for $25. $25 Beaver Suits for $20. $25 Fine Coats for $20. $25 Cassimere: Suits for Twenty Dollars. $8 Pants for $6. $6 Pants for $5. $5 Pants for $4. And all of their Large Stock —OF— dc. dic. dite, = Citizeas of Nevada, now is the STYLISH CLOTHING, For less Money than they could be bought at an AUCTION SALE! see GARDLESS oF cosr. $ Call and make your purCo ty SIRALAEE . P i oe i é "a i See ues @! "4 Fi mS ae “9 . erelticoa"! hee sobgeser? TOM emaat? satW dgant aed bagaaD rhe> Corner Pine & road .iitseets. The Dui NEVAD: a LOCA] /rhe Storm “The rain fall upto yesterday 36.4 inches for inches since th ometer at noor " the thermome cating that it titude 1,600 fee During Thurs were very hea santly. ~Yeste running higher season, and th the county wel at any time ye high yesterday stage could not ed that an atte but the situati ous that the . taken out, the and the stage a On Thursd: o'clock, the b: between Grass badly damagec Bear River. 1 ed to come by the Crandall b city yesterday It was report bridge was uns ed town that been carried however, prov overland stage with Major’s si As yet little to mining clail county, but mines is app: slides. At Scc of land occur: and the mine. on account o would result t _slides which w During the las miners in man ed to the ban! are almost. pe’ these banks bi raytated heavy s the claims uw damage. Pursuit of PA party of . who started { stage, to atte Dutch Fiat, with a disagre: ing Bear Riv tiver they had being able to } with the full 1 got out with tk some other wa five ladies, a ¢ On reaching stream, the ba: by the: high » were unable . and after two . the animals fe] commenced § thé sand and ¢ dies, who . occ driver, jumpe: and got out 4d wer thoroug of them’ came they reached on the opposi' saw the situat: river, and rea wreck in tim horses. The walk to Dutc mile and a hi: the hind wh: that it stands

The Daily Transcript NEVADA CITY, CAL. Saturday, December 30, 1871, SRA IES TIE TIT, — The Storins im the State. _ . Since the 18th inst. it has stormed almost constantly. During the en. broken storm the waters about eit tire time little snow has fallen, but . Bay of Monterey have been terribly . . uging torrents, which werecaught up by the wind and whirled, eddied and drifted in blinding sheets. ll the gulches’ and ravines. Were filled to overflowing, and the streams swollen so as to render the roads impassable. ' Santa Craz—The» Sentinel says: } During this week of fearful dnd un. Wife Mut@er in New York. In UlstéF county,’ New York, on Saturday, there was another of those fiendish m for which that county has become noted. . A murder more ‘sickening in its details has seldom if ever found a place in the annals of crime: Rock Locks, the seene of the murder, is situated about ingston: ~The . seven milés from . facts are as follows: : Two years ago Thomas Degan, a it has rained almost without cessa-. 98itated, keeping up a deep and . young man, then ‘about twenty-two Every railroad in the State has Shock ofteavy ordnance. The peo-. short time after their marriage he been interrupted except the Central . ple living near the foothills, more. began a course of brutal treatment ‘Pacific almost since the cummence{than a mile from the bedch, say the ment of the rain, and in the valleys . @arth trembled frequently as though great losses have been sustained, es-. tortured by an anita and tlie pecially by these who owned stock. . TST was So constant and kg oe We obtain the following intetesting . Prelude sleep for two nights. The n to rise seventy-five feet . as . . just below the lighthouse, where the F; Republican says: . Vis sata Siempre soriie localities, breakers are obstructed by a reef“ of by ihe recent storm, hag been con-. rocks. If the scene could have been . presented without the ‘accompanying . items from our exchanges: . Mr. Hanks, who ‘has had . siderable. . storm, its sublimity would be appre. enacted.» It appears the 1 ounds of the 2 . ena : ppes nyc So hces Ge 0 of the . “lated, but when we are compelled to . Went to Rosendale and there became San J.aquin river, lost three or four . receive so much rain and consequent hundred head in getting them to the dH discomfiture, # little more moderahigh ground. A band of 2,000 sheep, . the property of a gentleman named Carson, were nearly all drowned on . °Verflowed,. and the water higher Union Island. Others who have cat. tle, shieep and horses in the same Jo. surf was tion is preferable. than it was ten years ago: Santa Clara—The floods in Santa/ingto help me draw water?’ . Clara county have doné much damcality, must have suffered loss, but to what extent we are not informed. The tules.are rapidly filling with waage. San Jose was partially flooded . by the overflow of the Guadalupe, . foward. her whom-ihe had a few onths before sworn to love and pro+. He’ became dissipated in his habits and daily grew more ecruei in his treatment to his wife. As he would come heme from his drunken the cries andscreams of the abused wife, and shudder as they heard the kicks and blows, . they fell upon the defenseless woman, last act of this horrible drama was . that Degan . thtoxicated. He returned home in} . the evening, and for once appeared . quite: sociable and friendly toward . “ Later advices . his wife. She started for the well . . Say the lower part of the town has . for the purpose of drawing some waThomas -soon followed. She, . . ter. . seeing him approach, spoke. kindly . to him, and said, ‘‘Tom, are you os ; He . replied, in an angry voice, ‘Damn . you! Lam going to take your life!’ . and then seized her and attempted . to throw her in the well: She cried { } F : . years' of age, married a young wo. tion from the summit to the coast. trembling roar, resembling much the . man about twenty years of age. A’ carousal the neighbors would. hear . On Saturday evening the . . approaching trains: «Three accidents . The California Pacific, the inter. ruption of which causes the delay in . our mails and travel was expected to . be in order on Wednesday, but: the . continuation of the storm hais caused . more damage and ‘interrupted the . workmen. ‘The Western Pacific has . had slides and bridges washed away. There is a prospect that there will be . . no commnnication between San Fran. ctsco and Sacramento except by fiver for several days. The Central Pacific is: reported to . be blockaded with snow this side of Ogden and the Union Pacific trains ' are reported snow bound.: The storm along the line of this road are very serious, dd \ A correspondent writing from Chey. enne says:' Already 22 locomotives loud and fast, as! are almost ruined in trying to make . their way through the snow, many of which are wrecked, and lie along the road; merely shoyed put of the way of have o¢curred within the past week; one with a gravel and a freight train, one with two freight trains, and the . great alarm among our oystermen . lest the continued rains should toIn all cases they are tally destroy the fine beds of transthird witha wrecking train and a freight train. total wrecks, aud the remains lie . s-attered over the road. The loss is . fearful to the company. Nearly all . the stations along the road are tak. ing advantage of the delays, and . . Sacramento.... 9.751 inches, . . Stockton. .... 9.88 do . San Francisco..,17.11 do ; Grass Valley-.. 21.77 do By Telegraph. The water in the tiver at Marysville is within ‘eight inches of the height it aftained im 1862, Sqarrel -Creek is so high as to prevent erossing, © . The Rain Fall. We have gathered from our ex. changes the following items, showing . the rain fall in: several localities in . the State for the present season, up . to Wednesday morning, Dec. 27th: The rain fall in this city, up to the same time was 30.64 inches. ! . Tae Oysrers rm DancEer.—The . Evening Post sys: If there is any creature in existence that need not } care whether it rained or shone one . wquld think it was the oyster; but it . seems that this is not so ,and there is planted oysters which have been with so much trouble, yet with so mudh success planted at different po:nts around the bay. It seems that the heavy rains effect the oyster injuri; ‘ f sis at bridges were seriously damaged, and! for help several times, and Degan, . charge frightful prices for all eatable ter, and those who have stock in that . some six or'adved houses were'awept . seeing a wagon approaching, loosen. . locality should not delay in getting . it upon high ground--or they may . have little to save in a day or two. The Sacramento Union givesan ac. count of the suffering of stock on . Pylet Island, ‘between Mormon Ie-. tire country south of Gilroy has been . land.and Georgiana slough. Speak-j * perfect sea during the greater part away. . the 27th that another overflow was imminent. The Gilroy Advocate says: The en-, Kinley, and went up stairs to where We learn from the Guide of . ed his hold, at the same timé giving . ‘her a fearful kick in the side, crush. jingin her ribs. Rose Degan then . ‘Tan-up to the house of Mrs. Mc. . Mrs. McKinley was, and said, ‘I am . . killed, I believe! Tom) has killed . ;mne; please send for a do¢tor.’’ Mrs. . "ing diithel@ptemept fo gat ‘the stock . of this week. The railroad company . McKinley seated the injured woman . out, that paper says: Probably 700 ' has suffered'severely. We sincerely . head were drowned or perished from exposure, lack of food or being tram. pled to death by their fellows. There . are still, it is thought, about 150 horses and a riumber of cattle alive on Tyler Island, and an attempt will be made to save them as soon/‘as the cattle that have been saved shall be got to Bruce B. Lee’s San Juan grant, where pasturage has been engaged for them. Since Arranibido & Co. left King's river with their stock, they have lost about $20,000 worth. They have not been by .any means the only losers by the rising of the waters in the pasturaging districts during the past two weeks. So sudden was the rise of the water that it is probable losses equally as heavy as those mentioned above were sustained by other localities. : "Marin County—The Journal, speaking of the storm in this county, says in its issue of the 23d: Since the Winter of 1861 we have not been visited by such a severe storm as that which broke in upon us on Sunday night last. Until Wednesday it raged with unabated violence. On ‘Tuesday morning the cars of the San Rafael and San Quentin Railroad Company were unable to make their tripsin consequence of the track being submerged, and up to the present time travel to the steamboat landing is being carried on by stage.— It was feared that much damage had been done to the railroad, by the bed being washed away, but’ such isnot the case. Besides the blowing down of. fences we have heard of no serious damage. The creeks are. reported very high. An immense body of water has been flowing down the creek on Short’s Addition, testing the capacity of the Culverts on the road on B street, south of Second street, which appear to have stood thé pressure very well. On the White ranch the cabin of John: Rogers was washed away, with provisions, cooking utensils,efc. He is also reported to have lost 40 cords of wood. On Monday night, at about twelve o'clock, a portion of the roof of the ’ new prison building at San Quentin was blown off. During the excitement which followed two or. three . “of the prisoners attempted to escape, but their wary keepers brought them to their senses by confronting them with revolvers and shotguns, . On the Frank Hanna ranch, on Point San Pedro, roofs were blown off and, cabins of wood choppers demolished. CaluvarayThe Mokulumne Chron. ide of the 23d inst, says: The wind came in terrific gusts, prostriting famces. \ wrenching «window: blinds . from their hinges, stripping Shingles . from the roofs of houses, and shaking stone buildings to their very ‘foundations! ‘The ‘ shriéking and} howling 6f the furious blast was ab; filled with every character, of .dgbris, treds were uprooted, ahd the tid voverings .of roofa’ rolled’ togethit Tike the lower Goliax road. regret to see 60 much labor and capital swept away. The new road from here to Watsonville is almost all washed away; from the Pajaro bridge there is scarcely any of the 10ad ‘left. The company with characteristic energy putan army of workmen on the road repairing the damages. We learn from the Appeal that the waters of the Sacramento river were running round the North end of the Buttes by the old French crossing, ‘flooding Sutter county, and inundating a vast tract of land heretofore considered safe from overflow. Nicholaus is again under water and the surrounding couutry overflowed. The plains along the banks of Butte creek are also under water. The Sacramento Union speaking of the condition of things in that locality, Thursday morning says: At 10 o’clock this morning the Sacramento stood at twenty feet one inch above low water mark. It is running with nearly fall banks,’ backing up the American some distance from its mouth. The American river this moring at 10% o'clock, two miles from its mouth, or at Twenty-fourth street, Was. acting very discreetly, being properly within its banks, One mile below, or near Lisle’s bridge, it was somewhat over its banks, but the road was only partially covered with water. There is quite.a margin yet even before the water gets to the bottom’ of thé levee, which &tands its: whole hight—some fifteen feet-above the surface of the water. From the effects of the storm yesterday the American will probably run fuller today, bat there is not the least danger of a flood from that quarter from the presentstorm. Sacramento is amply protected by its levees. ie Brar River Bawos—Thursday afternoon the bridge over Bear river, between Grass Valley and Cclfax, commenced to give away atthe south end. The stage coming to Grass Valley had passed over safely says the Grass Valley Union, when it was no. ticed by the toll keeper that the bridge was swaying, and that the timbers were falling into the stream. side of the pier next to the south bank has given‘away. The pier was on the firm bed rock and its failure at this time is not to be accounted for. After the stage passed over coming this way, a messenger was sent to Grass Valley to warn the stage not to return to Colfax by the lower road. The consequence of thé break down of the bridge on thé Coleman road is that stages and ‘mails will) have to come over the upper, or Crandall road, which. will mike the. arrival of the stages an hour later atnight. All travel is prohibited at present, over Tuege will probably: bea rush to 1} the Spruce Mountain districk and to’ Pee etc Greek, eel, Weel: The ain dosage ny ae} 4 edoht yasdoee jasel } ‘Observation showed” that the lower Sabor ip grading of she, Oregon “and, in a chair, and was about. calling for . help, when she,heard the front door . open and saw the brute Degan enter. . He at once went up stairs and taking . his dying wife »from. the chair, attempted to put her on ared hot stove, . and, as he said, ‘‘roast. her alive!’’ . . Mrs. McKinley fought bravely to . save Rose from so horrible a death. . Degan, having been foiled in his deSign, turned. upon Mrs. McKinley land ste ber a‘fearful blow; then . Seizing his wife, he threw her with . great force into the corner of the . room, und then, when she was bleed. ing and insensuble, struck her sever. al blows upon the head and face with a chair, inflicting ghastly wounds. . Not yet content, he caught hold of . her teet, and, while hoiding her in that position, kicked her unmercifully it the abdomen. (Degan relaxing in his assault, Rose regained her consciousness and; mgnayed to ‘crawl into a bed room adjoining and attempted to lock the door. Before this could be accomplished, however, the fiend forced the door, and again and again struck his now senseless victim, dragging her about the room in fiendish glee, and saying, ‘‘Now I have finished you.’’

The two rooms in which the. horrible tragedy was enacted presented the rance of a slaughter house. The feor, the walls, ond even the ceiling were besmeared with blood. The hair of the woman, which had been pulled out by the fiendish hasband, was thick updn the floor, while the stairway leading to the rooms below was reeking with blood. Mrs. McKinley having aroused the neighborhood by her screams, Degani left the house. A few minutes after the injured — was taken down stairs into the apartments occupied by Owen Gallagher and Sample, ad everything possible done to relieve her (suff Dr Was at once summoned, who pronounced a injunes oot About 11 o'clock e same night, Degan returned to the house a his wife lay re demanded admittance, which was denied him, his wife begging that he should not be allowed to enter, saying that she knew he would kill her. Degan then went away but soon returne d,and again demanded adthittance. Gallagher refused, telling him that he woald not allow him to see her till morning, whereupon Degan said he would come in if he had to force the door. He commenced to carry his threats into execution kicking in one of the panels. Gaflaguard at the door, determined to strike down the murderer See ke he attempt to enter. final withdrew, net wishing. to face. danke to his own honse. On Sunday morn: aieni rel Gs zt night in great agony and died Sunday morning. A Coroner’s jury was at once summoned) and after viewin the body, i F alygerwesse a Sekene ing ai @, the ehest . ribs being ben ken in,rendered eases that Rose Degan came to her death from injuries wilfully inflicted by her husband, whereupon the pri Turns isa Kuklux mine in Cope district. Its owner, Cooke, looks to make a fortune out ef it. ; * Pst dst passed for a shadowy rearguard. The singularity of such a procession party and they have all come to. the be the death of it. Thuis embarrassed by . the party is rapidly going to. the gher, with an axe in hand, stood a x of Grass Valley Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, as we learn from the ings Rbie arrested while preparing Union, after: the installation of offr Wire: Dogan ed A. B. Brady, who has been High ; Priest of the Chapter for five years, with a handsome gold watch and chain, ‘The presentation speech: was made by Wm, Wait. of an unfounded report, Says he has never: entertained a) belief that Gbn~ eral Grant is thé only persen whom the Republicans can elect next year. On :the: contrary,’ he believes that there are twenty men belonging to Taos. ws acc “haa . oe gr Mmige “party who vean be Breer wr step fad keane Min ie ete ae ae at ‘ me, . party tan eléet day man who may ne county, recently, = § ~Yobive'thé nditthation, © 1!" ' 3 matter, .There are 543 passengers waiting at this point for the trains to leave, which. will notjin all probability be for the next twenty-four hours. A 'Funfrax Procession’ Composep or SLEIGHS.— Wednesday afternoon, says the Virginia Enterprise, a large funeral procession passed through C street, in which the only vehicles were sleighs. This was a sight we have never before seen in this city, and one seldom seen in any country, we believe. The noiseléss manner in which the long line of sleighs glided through the city added. greatly to the'solermity of the occasion, and in gazing upon the train the spectator might easily have imagined the whole scene unreal and all in the procession mere phantoms. Following the vehicles was a considerable body of horsemen,and these—for any sound heard from them—might have attracted universal attention. <Inpustaious Tuirves.,;The New York Tribune says: The police estimate that, on. an average fully five hundred persons—men, women’ and children—go into the streets every pleasant day with the intention of stealing anything they can, with any prospect of safvty, lay their hands on. These marauders particularly infest the hotels, public offices, and crowded shops, and carry off whatever they can steal, froma bundle of dry goods, an umbrella, or a cane, to a sheet of paper of & daily newspaper. Many of them are well dressed, have good manners, and would never be suspected by the uninitiated. Tue Passive policy finds little favor in the extreme South. The Savanah, Ga., Republican talks plainly about the family troubles, and says: “Itis a fact that since the Democtatic army. lost.its Southern leaders, it has been but a disorganized political mob. No man North seems to have the sagacity toblaze out a way for the conclusion that the Southern leaders under existing circumstances, would / PRRSENTATION,—The companions Szwaton’ Wirhdn, in contradiction . {) \A Piston exploded: im ithe poéket . of a boy in Bridgeport, Connecticut, ‘ ca ne OURTEEN Tegular . ously in two ways—first, by unduly ' freshening in the water; and second, . by bringing down from the shore . large quantities-ef mud, with which ithe bivalves are covered up and smothered, The oyster beds at Sau. celito are'niow in the greatest danger, but if the storm. continues much jlonger it will probably destrcy all . the beds around the bay—a loss that t . cannot be repaired. > ~ Parson Browntow.—A Commercial . hessee, says: ‘‘Upon entering the Senator’s house we found him lying upon a large sofa, and a megro rabbing his feet.’ He is in wretched health, but no more than he has been for two years. His hands and feet are continually jerking and shaking ‘with the'pa’sy: He sannot read una frame in front of him. He cannot speak above a whisper, and some days his strength is so far gone that he cannot do that. Indeed, he is as helpless as an infant. Nothing but constant care and watching upon the part of his family and friends and his own iron determination keeps him alive. He is aman of tremendous energy and force of character. Not one of the other seventy-odd Senators could be prevailed upon to leave home if they were in the prostrated condition that he is. A Terre Havre (Ind.) man, whose estate was valued at $1,250,000, kept hindself ¢0 hort of foodiand clothing that he was found, the other day, frozen to death. His son proved himself a chip of the old block by ‘boxing his father up, and sending him several hundred miles as freight, rather than ‘pay-the exorbitant express charges. A Suppen Jupement.—An awful thing has happened’ in Harrisburg. The Qourier Journal says: A man was accused by his wife of infidelity to his marriage vows, when he replied that hie ‘idped God would paralyze his tongue if he was guilty.’’ He had scarcely finished the sentence when his tongue refused to perform its natural functions. THE Presbyterians of London proing forty new churches, which are to cost not less than $15,000 and not more than $25,000 each. the other day while he was sitting at his desk in 'school, and inflicted severe wounds in his wrist and abdomen, tail thee? freight trains “a¥etun daily -over the ‘Virginia ‘and Truckee railroad. Taexron, N. J., has “one place of worship for about every nine hundred of her population. Prorgssor Huxley has recently, it is reported, become a convert to the orthodox Christian faith. DR. W. H. PATTERSON, BANARAS sR ap Rgzos correspondent who lately visited Sen. ator Brownlow, at his home in Ten. GENT’ Ss W. INTER . less the book or paper is’ fastened to . pose to raise $850,000 to aid in build. Late of the U. 8. Army. a Peremptcry. Bale . . —OF— FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH CLOTHING: FURNISHING GOODs. WING toa change in the firm which will take plsce in January, 1472, +and the transfer of their main honse and busi. ness ; , To New York City, BANNER BROS, Are compelled te azinounce Dp} ib. THAT THEY ARE NOW SELLING OUT THEIR ENTIRE “ . STOCK OF CLOTHING, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, At’ the following SACRIFICIAL RATES: $30 Beaver Suits for $25. $25 Beaver Suits for $20. $25 Fine Coats for $20. $25 Cassimere: Suits for Twenty Dollars. $8 Pants for $6. $6 Pants for $5. $5 Pants for $4. And all of their Large Stock —OF— dc. dic. dite, = Citizeas of Nevada, now is the STYLISH CLOTHING, For less Money than they could be bought at an AUCTION SALE! see GARDLESS oF cosr. $ Call and make your purCo ty SIRALAEE . P i oe i é "a i See ues @! "4 Fi mS ae “9 . erelticoa"! hee sobgeser? TOM emaat? satW dgant aed bagaaD rhe> Corner Pine & road .iitseets. The Dui NEVAD: a LOCA] /rhe Storm “The rain fall upto yesterday 36.4 inches for inches since th ometer at noor " the thermome cating that it titude 1,600 fee During Thurs were very hea santly. ~Yeste running higher season, and th the county wel at any time ye high yesterday stage could not ed that an atte but the situati ous that the . taken out, the and the stage a On Thursd: o'clock, the b: between Grass badly damagec Bear River. 1 ed to come by the Crandall b city yesterday It was report bridge was uns ed town that been carried however, prov overland stage with Major’s si As yet little to mining clail county, but mines is app: slides. At Scc of land occur: and the mine. on account o would result t _slides which w During the las miners in man ed to the ban! are almost. pe’ these banks bi raytated heavy s the claims uw damage. Pursuit of PA party of . who started { stage, to atte Dutch Fiat, with a disagre: ing Bear Riv tiver they had being able to } with the full 1 got out with tk some other wa five ladies, a ¢ On reaching stream, the ba: by the: high » were unable . and after two . the animals fe] commenced § thé sand and ¢ dies, who . occ driver, jumpe: and got out 4d wer thoroug of them’ came they reached on the opposi' saw the situat: river, and rea wreck in tim horses. The walk to Dutc mile and a hi: the hind wh: that it stands