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reached a height of seventy-three feet, or four 

 feet greater than that of the flood of 1832. 

 Very many dwellings and business houses were 

 wrecked by the flood and the strong wind ; 

 several extensive manufacturing establishments 

 were stopped and suffered damage to their per- 

 manent property, and about 5,000 persons 

 were turned out from their homes and reduced 

 to dependence on outside relief. The entire 

 amount of the direct loss by the flood suffered 

 by the towns in Indiana, from New Albany to 

 the State line of Ohio, was estimated as follows : 



NewAlbany $730,OCO 



Jefferson ville 925,000 



Madison 200,000 



Aurora 150,000 



Lawrenceburg 435,000 



Losses in the intervening country 300,000 



Total $2,740,000 



About 24,000 people were made temporarily 

 homeless and dependent. The damage was 

 less serious below New Albany. The worst 

 was suffered at Shawneetown, 111., where, out 

 of 600 houses, all but twenty-eight were flooded 

 in their second stories, and the water ran in a 

 swift current fifteen feet deep through the main 

 street. At Alton and Tell City, Ind., and 

 Uniontown and Enterprise, Ky., the water en- 

 tered every house. 



The legislatures of Ohio and Indiana each 

 appropriated $100,000 for the relief of the suf- 

 ferers. Papers for voluntary subscriptions were 

 opened at several points. A steamboat was 

 chartered by the relief committee of Indianap- 

 olis, and distributed supplies which had been 

 furnished by voluntary contribution, wherever 

 they were needed. The wants of the sufferers 

 in Cincinnati were attended to by their more 

 fortunate fellow-citizens, and the supplies des- 

 tined for that city were sent to other places. 



All the tributaries of the lower Ohio were 

 affected by the floods, but without causing as 

 serious damage as was suffered immediately on 

 that river. 



The highest flood ever known before on the 

 Ohio river since the settlement of the country, 

 was on the 18th of February, 1832, when the 

 water reached the height of 64 feet 3 inches. 

 Other great floods were recorded December 

 17, 1847, 63 feet 7 inches; in 1882, 58 feet 7 

 inches, and in 1862, 57 feet 4 inches. The In- 

 dians are said to have told the first settlers of 

 the city of a flood that occurred, as nearly as 

 can be surmised, about 1774, which reached 

 the height of 100 feet. 



FLORIDA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, William D. Bloxham, Democrat; Lieu- 

 ten ant-Governor, L. W. Bethel ; Secretary of 

 State, John L. Crawford ; Treasurer, Henry A. 

 L'Engle; Comptroller, W. D. Barnes; Attor- 

 ney-General, George P. Raney; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, E. K. Foster; Com- 

 missioner of Lands and Immigration, P. W. 

 White; Judiciary, Supreme Court : Chief-Jus- 

 tice, Edwin M. Randall ; Associates, James D. 

 Westcott, Jr., and R. B. Van Valkenburgh. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature convened 

 on the 2d of January, and adjourned on the 2d 

 of March. Among the acts passed were the fol- 

 lowing: 



An act to protect the food-fishes of Florida. 



An act in relation to injunctions. 



An act for the relief of Jacksonville, and the coun- 

 ties of Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Suwannee, Madi- 

 son, Jefferson, Duval, and Leon. 



An act lo provide for the relinquishment of the 

 dower of insane married women. 



An act to repeal an act to dissolve municipal cor- 

 porations under circumstances therein stated, and to 

 provide governments for the same. 



An act to prescribe the duties of treasurers of mu- 

 nicipal governments as to warrants or orders which 

 may be presented to them and not paid upon presen- 

 tation. 



An act to prescribe the duties of county treasurers 

 as to warrants or orders which may be presented to 

 them and not paid upon presentation. 



An act to prohibit officers of municipal corporations 

 from buying at a discount or speculating in city or 

 town scrip, and to provide a penalty therefor. 



An act to punish the breaking, and entering with- 

 out breaking, of a building in tloe day-time, or enter- 

 ing in the night-time without breaking, with intent 

 to commit a misdemeanor. 



An act authorizing the Board of Education to com- 

 promise and settle with counties indebted to the school 

 and seminary funds. 



A.n act to prohibit county officers from buying at 

 a discount, or speculating in State, county, or school 

 scrip, and to provide a penalty therefor. 



An act to punish slander and defamation of charac- 

 ter in certain cases. 



An act making appropriations for the expense of 

 collecting revenue for the year 1883. 



An act to prescribe the "manner in which lands as- 

 sessed prior to Jan. 1, 1883, shall be advertised for sale 

 for uncollected taxes. 



An act fixing the liability of persons and corpora- 

 tions for damages resulting from the death of any one 

 caused by the wrongful act, negligence, carelessness, 

 or default of such persons or corporations, or the agents 

 thereof. 



An act to prohibit the sale or distribution of intoxi- 

 cating liquors on election-days, and to provide a pun- 

 ishment for the same. 



An act relating to the crime of larceny. 



An act to provide for the maintenance of organized 

 fire companies in cities in this State. 



An act to prohibit school officers from dealing in 

 school text-books. 



An act to amend an act entitled " An act to pro- 

 vide a uniform svstem of quarantine in this State," 

 approved March "ll, 1879, being Chapter 3162, Laws 

 of Florida. 



An act requiring uniformity of text-books in the 

 public schools of this State. 



An act to prohibit persons shipping oranges grown 

 outside of the State as Florida oranges. 



An act to provide for investments by the Board of 

 Education of the State of Florida, of moneys of the 

 common-school fund. 



An act to provide for teachers' institutes. 



An act to provide for nonnal instruction. 



An act levying a tax for the years 1883 and 1884. 



An act for the assessment and collection of revenue. 



An act to fix the pay of the members, officers, and 

 attaches of the Legislature of 1883. 



An act to provide an institution for the blind, deaf 

 and dumb in this State. 



An act to protect the growing sponge in this State. 



An act ,in relation to small estates, and to save them 

 from wasteful costs and expenditures. 



An act to enable actual settlers to procure homes. 



An act to keep in good repair the pu blic roads and 

 highways of this State, and to amend an act entitled 



