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TVTTPKWOTRTR UAYN jjuoivvv wrvxxi A1 i wholesale deallus in GrOCCriCSj I rOVISlOnSjLiqilOrSjtVC. No. 80 Dey street, New York. June 16. 1859. ly. iiMjiijs. A Tunny Speech. The Wisconsin Legislature have form- 1 have heard the most renowned orators gy-nairea emners, ircmDimg upon me ally considered a proposition to abolish on the floor of the Senate and House dai- verge of tbe graves into which tbey should all laws for the collection of debts. Tbo !J for JearP5 I say here to-day, that, havo Jumbled in their early manhood, aro mover of the bill Mr. Elmore is 0 for clearness of statement, for penetration ; revealed " seducer, rows, or obtained great wag, as is-evidenced by the follow- !of thought, for power of irresistible logic, newspaper notoriety .a s appellants at court ing extract from hU speech upon that for broad, comprehensive, statesmanlike ! for severance from their young and giddy 6Ubject view, for exalted purity of private and! w,ves" Wives supposed to havo been par- The weaker proceeded to review the public character, your own Abraham Lin-iagon,3 of Pie and virtue, with a lavish present system of collecting debts. It c0n is the clearest, noblest, purest, and;dlsPla.J J affection, and the bestowel of was all a humbug and a cheat, a matter ' thim all. In the history of his,""11"" tokons of conjugal endearment, of technicalities and legnlshuffiins." Law- elements which inspire ask. Joir -eonBding husbands i for leave to ycrs gave advice, in order to obtain a feeM enthusiasm the hearts of the masses S n 0 the 0OUD.rJ to visit their relatives and eneour.8c litigation. Judges made of mankind, and rouse the millions to ac-i a"d the permission gained,they disappear, blunders and mistakes. He had but lit'. lioQ. 1 staod UP hero to-day in this the!" 'heir W Lotharios at the ap tle experience in law, and that was rich. Cpital of the State, and in the presence i P0ID rendezvous, and after the enjoy- . t mnnt rt o rennet tintn 11 rtnf nrv et nrn nri fLautrhter.l He would pive a history of it. The sneaker then related how he bad purchased a yoke of oxen, about fif teen yearn ago paid fifty dollars for tbem a few days after, the son of the man of whom he brought the oxen, oame to him and ?aid the oxen were bis. He in fisted on having p3y over again, and com mcnoiid a uit before a iulice. The iurv didn't agree. Finally, through the blun-, ders of the Busbwood justice of the peace, : the cae wont again-t faim. He appeal-; ed it to the Circuit Court in Milwaukee. 'There," said he, "I lost again, and said : to my lawyer, I will giro you ten dollars i to quote Pennsylvania law to Judge Mil-! i. -j i l u.l.J m , Icr. luu uavc d ucn i u uiucid-j. uitJi L laaphtor.1 He took ten dollars, and Der- formed the duty.'.' ! corked ber up, and she launohed right A now trial was then granted, andjover- Great Laughter I think venue changed to Walworth couuty. itac Gaptaiu who proved himself so fitted Judge Irvin was then the judge. Any j to navigate the broad-horn over tbe dam, man who wanted to gain a caue in his . ls no doubt tbe man who is to stand upon court, had either to go hunting with him:tbe deck of tbe old ibiP. 'tbe Constitu snd let the judge claim all tbo game that t,on' 110,1 gudo her safely over'the bil was shot, or else pat his dog. Well, Llows and breakers that surround ber -naftArl th dmr fLaupbter.! I fed the i EnthuH lasttc and prolongued applause. dog with crackers. Renewed Laughter - --o u j Tbecasewas decided m mv favor. When I heard the decision I thought to myself tbe dog had followed me about long e- nough I turned around and gave him a O . " . kick. Laughter The yelp p of the do,'' hardly subsided ere I heard tbe judge ssv "Mr. Clerk, this ludscmeut is set aside and a new lauphterL Mr. trial granted." Great;can best jnipa:bize with the people in! Speaker, that kick eo.t moS200! Convulsive laubJcr. Youjing! He ia tbe representative of the bare no doubt seen a suit in a justice's; Sreat ,dpa of the Republican party court in the country. There is time spent "frcc luhor' T1,e representative of the ge h inrors .ml hanirers-on. brides other' of our frt;0 institutions. A boy, the s,ar l.at S50, beside ill feelings , Jon of poor parents himself poor begins and distentions caused fry it. It U all a." uoaidcd, save by his own industry cheat. The litiant bad better sit down 1 and play a game of old slcdjrc to decide I the case. It would be more uro to set- i tie tbe disputes justly. . 1 "What an example here is for our chil- A Kegro Financier. drcn Hereafter, the poor boy who fol- A sable descendant of Africa, by tlic,jowa Q hs history as he leavca tbo D&me of Mingo, having been at work at a ; o.ate of Kentucky, at the a?e of sis vears. aisttnce, was mei Dy nis master on re turning borne on a frightful-looking old hore, without saddle or bridle, when the following dialogue ensued: "Well, Mingo, bow camo you by that horse!" "Ob. massa T Kmt liim onfl rr irxn , i- 6'" " dollar." 1 But, Mingo, wben your three months are out, what then?" "Den, Massa den Itako up dat note and give mm annodden i" The Question Settled a nice point to decide exactly It ?ben a "girl" becomes a "young lady." In a suit in Schoharie county, lately, the cause turned upon the point whether tbei& defendant's daughter was a child entitled : to be boarded at half price, or a full.; vrnvn snpoimun nf thn ffmlf arriMn ' But where did you get the money toDOblc Lincoln. Cheers. The poor boy pay for biaa! - the poorest of you. though bis parents MJh, massa, me trade; me give em f mzY ua tumble, thouzh he mav have to I form rite down note ob hand for three months." ! fnf fhr pnlrl Wintfir unci tn Rnmmnr's 1 trip opetent to have the "question popped' name to lovo wherever affection would at her, and to faint away at an affirma-(seek a warm-hearted and generous spirit tive response. It is now settled thai a a name which is a spell to gather mil "younglady" i aily delicato individual j lions wherever free hearts and Btrong of the feminine gender who will not touch hands are to be summoned in favor of onions fried in butter, eat fried pork, or i devour boiled cabbage. Tho great prin pie, which must forever settle tbe ques tion, was promulgated by a knowing wit ness on tbe trial referred to. A Customer for Heenan. Tho North Iowa Times has a customer: for Heenan in the person of Andrew Gaff-! nev, who States fight Chicago Oetober next." I orK AndnfMcnr(.nr Tw ! Tn fo nwincf thfl COW She Stumoiea, wniom I - m - J 1 - w . ,. , .- , J L J .. 1. il, nnrnnnln V' . win ueub u y ui iuo u u ueu ineuioucu m """""'i - . , . . ... . , 1 ttt. ne or Canada for 81000 or 35000. tbe ! furious rate. Tho girl's bead was daab-, o mue . mu, ui j to take place within twenty miles of ed against a rock, and the skull crushed ; the wuoie rai way uj , and to come off in September or in. She died shortly after she was taken .mates, 01 woi -The Hon. Richard Yates, Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois, ad Arn.aoA . t c . , u uiucQ-ujutuuj; ui ounuuuciu on - , . lue lUinsc. W i, . i o regret tliat we bavo not rOm to Copy the Whole of his flpeecb, wl,;,.!, ttnC - ln;j nrA t-n;u which was a lucid and forcible exhibition of Republican principles; but wo extract from it the following passago relative to Mr. Lincoln : "Now. fellow-citizens, it mav strike you as rather a Strange ma , e . . people Of 60 great a nation a ' . tter that tbo as this should. come to Illinois for its President that the mighty Republican party should looki to this far away Prairie State for its stan- 'dard-bearor in such a momentous con- iteBt Yet, I say here to-day, that I haveitnat wbioh has been, during the past Ueard tbo great men of this nation, North twelve months, carried on by arsenio.cor- s conrosivo sablimato and strychnine. From Becutive years in the Hall of the HousefMaine lo Texas, from the eastern to the j of Representatives, and in the Senate of western seaboard, an irrepressible con- the United Slates; I have heard tbo Stc-fiiofc seoms to be ra65ng among husbands ; phens and Toombs of the South, the Sew- and wives; domestic dereliction the rule, 1 ards, Chase, and Corwins of the North; and felicity the exception. Old counirymen, to say that the name ot " - 6" -f - B'" - Abraham Lincoln is this day and Lour:C o discovery and detection tn the mightiest name unon the Continent of North America. Prolonged cheers. ' "My friend Green, who introduced me, told me the first timo he ever saw Mr. : Lincoln, he was iu the Songamon River, I with bis r.ants rolled up some five feet, more or loss, trying to pilot a flat-boat over a mill-dam. -i he boat had got so ful1 of waier luat it was very difficult to managcj aDd almost impossible to get it over tbe dam- Lincoln finally contrived t0 Set ner Prow over so that it projected 3 few feet- a"d taere it stood. But be then invented a new way of baling a flat boat. Fie bornd .1 linln fhrnntrli tlm hot.- 7 o 1 , . .. ... mm T r li.r thn n-nfr run mil Anrl fhftn .,T t , - - , - jl ouiu jjiucuiu wua uucu a poor ooy. And is it nothing? Is there no lesson j,n n,s n,e t0 Jou, leiiow-cuizens l ls not hJs examplo and his achievement a lesson to tbe bpeful, the young and the poor? 4 J 111 t.l .1 . 1 IP .1 - 'luu win you umuin iae pcopie 11 mey love tbctr own I Ho is the best friend of labor, who himself has labored. He uie,r waR"- e tory 01 nis me notn and gius, btruggles on. advancing step b v MeP. through many years of patient and rnct endeavor, until he rises to t that proudest ot all human elevations, tbe ! Presidencv of the United State. and grows up in Indiana, laboring faitb fully with hin hands, going to Illinois and working on step by step, until he becomes tbe mighty (tatcsman, and bonorod chief of thirty millions of freemen aa tbo poor hnu nf (utrirn vears reads tbe storv. be will , . - . j leoi stranzo emotions in uis Dreasi, ana determine to emulate tbe example of the sun, however poor ho may be, in this land of freedom, where the avenues to office and success are open to all, ho oan point to Abraham Lincoln and straighten him self up and ay, 'I have tbe same right and same opportunity to be President as any other boy.' "bcllow-citizcns, the name of Abra ham Lincoln, which wo present to you, is winning name a name to rally on wherever freedom requires a obampion a name to boast of wherever you would DOint tO an hOOCSt man Or a patriot a liberty ana humanisy. Lxremenuous applause. A Girl tied to the tail of a Cow and Killed. In tbe town of Delhi, N. last week, Wm. Scott, a lad of seventeen, caused tbo death of his half sister, .Elizabeth Doby, in a verv singular manner With a piece of rope be tied her tp tbe tail of a cow.- home. il Rnnial THcftvrf-orG The divorce mania is now fashionable. jSTon onlv rlivnrr-p hnt. rinh nnrl frnitrnnf. . j - a ovt. oui. eases, eioperaeots, ana seuuc- .- . .. . e ! absorbed the intprefir nsnnllv ; i . -, ,u ,,u uoua"J ted to suicides, wife poisoning IIUU 1U Ull VUIICUUB, UllVU JU1 IUC UlUU appropria- E8 and prize fights. The Weymouth case, the fate of :RVI- S. Harden, and tho excitement over !tbe national mill at Farnborougb Heath, aro likelJ to 00 forgotten in the considera- r i ri f j . . luu a Puaui ol numan iraiuyanu crime equally as degrading a phase, however much moro acceptable to the contemplation ot tne scandal-mongers ot tne eommuyitn. The legal divorce business cannot be oth- erwiso than an agreeable substitute for in 'Jiagram aencm ior the especial fcenent or ,bc courts, lawyers and newspapers, A .school boy elopes with an "institute miss" scarcely, to use a midwife's phrase, "dry beoind ber earfl" and 0 "e cast off b? tbeir stern parents, who are inexora- ,e ,n tne matter ot position and pedi gree, jloc gin Decomes me mistress or a young man "high in tooial standing," and tbo youthful husband takes to a su perfluity of gin and despair, which fact at last coming to tbe knowledge of the a bandoned wife induces her to resort to ineffectual attempts at suicide. Such a case was that, not long since, at Roches- . .1 e l. t i- 1 J 1 tor Mm rumn nt Ihn hno.h niihtinn nm girL-wifc being Charles Cook and Mary w u u ui w v m k v , w t w w u .uu C. 15cthel. Only a few weeks ago, a pretty young woman of tbe ominous and unlucky name of Brown, ran away from her home in Lowell, Mass., and went to New Bedford with a youug man, where being deserted by the fickle lorer and cast off by her parents, she tried to get out of the world by drowning. She was rcpcued and thus probably reserved for tbo living death of prostitution. The "Great Ruroh case," now in pro- igress at Chicago, is another of the oft-re curring disclosures of the infelicity of con jugal life, where the Money God has full sway. Mr. Bureb, a banker, and to all outward appearance a man eminent for his kindliness of disposition, strict integ rity and intense devotion to bis wife, proves, when the expose comos, to bo a domestic Nero a being combininginhim- tself the cbaractcristica of an overbearing fe .?fc"s A t Pecksniff and fhe hypoorioy of a Hcep. er of in fidelity and lewd intercourse with a num ber of men, and more particularly with a lawyer of Chicago, an ex-member of Con gress, whose character before had seemed scandal-proof. The banker files bis com plaint and sues for a divorce. To his ap peal hia wife enters a protest denying all bis charges, and in replication accuses him of harsh treatment toher, of using threats and even force to compel ber to sign a false confession of oriminal inti macy with others. What the end of this affair will be, is difficult to foresee. Of its effect upon the community, but one re sult can follow, that of a half dozen or more cases just like it. Divorce, liko any other epidemic is catching. jjA man named John Johnson, erly of McHenry County, III., was d at Black Jack, Kansas, on the 4th inet., for horso stealing. The Court con sisted of a magistrate and six jurymen. After tbo evidence was ail in, Johnson confessed and begged for moroy. But the verdict was guilty, and the sentence death in fifteen minutes. Tbe oriminal then se lected a man to settle bis affairs, and see that hi mother cot the avails of his prop crty. At the expiration of the fifteen I minutes, at tho command or tne oincers, tboy marched, to the nearest tree, about half a railo from the village, and there gave him three minutes further respite, and then ho was hung, and when ho was dead, bis body was taken down and buri ed decently. jiST The gap on tbo Mississippi rail- ; ished, and the connection ' road is finish through to New Orleans is now complete. Tbe time between New-Orleans and Phil delpbia by this route will be only eighty hours. By the completion of this link, tbero is now a continuous railroad from Bangor, to New Orleans, except three short ferries at the Hudson, Susquehan na and Potomac rivers. This vast chain of railways is composed of eighteen inde- LUUUUUVUJ liuui A Cannon Ball in His Hat, An anonymous writer, supposed to be li T n nrj i i -i cuu iiiiv, usury ivuru uuucuur, attur uc- , ui ymiuy x rugioayic, ao not fary nia soribing how, wbon a bo, be stole a terially from those of former writers. common cannon ball from the Navy j The Dokoi are a people of original fanoy. Yard at Cbarlostown, Massachusetts, and They pray with their heads on the ground with much trepidation and moreheadaoho ; and their feet propped against the trees; carried it away in that universal pocket they live on fruits, toot, mioo, serpents, of youth, bis bat, winds up with the fol- lowing reflections which, though philoso- phically trite, aro conveyed with much forcc and freshness. ! When I reached homo, I had nothing to do with my shot. I did not dare to j show it in the houso, nor tell where 1 got it, and after solitary reflection, I gave it away on tho.same day to a prize fighter, But, after all, that six pounder rolled a good deal of sense into my skull. I think it was tbo last thing I over stole, (except a little matter of heart now and then,) and it gave me a notion of the fol ly of coveting more than you can enjoy, which has made my whole life happier. It was rather a severe mode of catechia- ing, but ethics rubbed.in with a six-pound shot arc better than none at all. But I see men doing the same thing?; going into underground and dirty vaults, and gathering up wealth, wbioh will, when got, roll round tboir heads like a ball and not be a whit softer because it is gold in stend of iron though there is not a man in Wall street who will believe that. I have seen a man put himself to every humiliation to win a proud woman who was born above him, and when he got her, walked all the rest of his life with a cannon ball in bis bat. I have Been young men enriob them selves by pleasuro in the same wise way, sparing no pains, sorupling at no sacrifice of principtofor the sake, at last, of carry ing a burden that no man can boar. All the world aro busy in striving for things that givo much pleasure and much care; and I am accustomed in my walks among men, noticing their works and their folly, to think, there is a man stealing a cannon ball; or there is a man with a ball on hia bead I know it by the way be walks. Tbo money which a clerk pur loins for his pocket at last, gets into bis bat like a cannon ball. Pride, bad tem per, selfishness, and evil passions will roll a man as if he had a ball on his head! And ten thousand men in New York will die this year, and as caoh one falls his hat will come off, and out will roll ,an iron ball, which for years he has worn out his strongth in carrying. Summer Sours. Physiological research has fullv estab lished the fact that acids promote the deposited in a deep vault, which, after, separation of the the bilerom the blood, being a nuisance for years, is at last bu whicb is then passed from the system, ried out of sight, and out of smell. thus preventing fevers, the prevailing dia-j There is no better fertilizer for small ease of summer. All fevers are "bili-1 fruits than soap-suds, urine, dish-water, ' ous,'' that is, the bile is in the blood. ! and other slops of the kithen. Currants Whatever is antagonistic of fever is cool- are most particularly benefitted by fro-1 inrr It U a onmm nn nnvmo t.hnt. frnito ' QDent WaterineS with SUcb Substances. It aro "cooling," 8nd also berries of every description; it is because tbe acidity which they contain aids in separating tbe bile from the blood, that is, aids in puri fying the blood. Hence the great yearn ing for greens and lettuce and salads in the early spring, these being eaten with vinegar; henoe also the taste for some thing sour, for lemonades, on an attack of fever. But this being the ease, it is easy to see, that we nullify tbe good effects of fruits and berries, in proportion as we eat them with sugar, or oven eweet milk or cream. If we eat tbem in their natural state, fresh, ripe, perfeot. it is almost im possible to cat too many, to cat enough to hurt us, especially if we eat them a lone, not taking any liquid with, them whatever Hence also is buttermilk, or oven common soar milk promotive of health in summer time. Sweet milk tends to biliousness iu sedentary people; sour milk is antagonistic. Tbo Greeks and Turks are passionately fond of sour milk. The shepherds use rennet, and tho milk-dealers alum to make it sour tho tho sooner. Buttermilk aots like water melons on tho system. Hall's Journal, A Righteous Verdict. Tbe infamous school toacber, Morris, was convicted at the lato sessions of tho Cambria county Court of violating the person of bis scholars, a little girl about fourteen years of age, and sentenced to tho penitentiary for twelve years. His guilt was as clear as the deed was infa mous, and the Court cave him tbe full extent of the law no doubt regretting tUnt fliinrt n. wrornh nrmlrl not bo consign. - fl ed within the prison walls for life. ggRailroad stocks aro improving a mazingly. New Jersey Central, wbioh Bold a year or two ago at from 50 to S60 a share, is now quoted in the New York market at 118 a 120. New Jeraoy Rail- road shares, which two or thrco months ago sold 115, are now held at 139, with 135 bid. Uamden and Amboy lvauroau shares have gone up about as much. It sold at 115 a 117, and very considerable sales have been made within a week or two at 135, which continues to bo bid. But the most wonderful advance of all, is that of the shares of tho Delaware, Lackawanna and WoAtern Railroad, which is now selling at 98.. A few years ago this stock could not bo sold for 81 a sharel Tbe other railroads in East Jer sey show a very similar rise in'fchares. Tho bonded securities of theso Companies bavo correspondingly improved. A Singular Race The Dokos. The statements conccrnins the Dokos. ' : rp i , . , ' anU and honey; they have uo chief, no laws, no weapons; they run wild in the ' woods, like noble savages as they are. j Another, very carious sort of Lillipufr in the wilderness is Senjero: In Seniero, only fenrales aro sold into slavery,because once a wife cruelly murdered her hus band at the request of tbe king of tbe oountry. At first tbe king is said to have j,desircd tbe husband, who was of high j rank, to kill bis wife and bring bim a piece of her ficBb, which had been indioa- ted by the soothsayers an a ouro for the sick monarch. The husband, fascinated by the beauty of his wife, was unwilling to obey tbo royal command. The king therefore commanded the wife to murder j ber husband, which she did without hesi tatioo. faince that time it has been tbe custom to sell women into slavery into other countries; but when male slaves are trans ported beyond Senjero, they are said gen erally to commit suicide by hanging them selves. Dr. Krapf's Eastern Africa. Cattle Disease in "Washington County, From the Washington Examiner ,oi this ; Stato, we learn that tbe disease wbioh has ' been so disastrous to cattle in tbe Eas- j torn States has broken out astong tbe ( sheep of Mr. James Morrison, of Char- f tiers township, .and carried off a largo number. On Thursday of last week he lost about forty, and others were in a dy- f ing condition when he left home on Fri day. He exhibited a small quantity of a gravelly sort of a substance taken from the stomach of one of the dead sheep, and j submitted it to several physicians for an- ( alyzation; but, alter a thorough examina tion, nothing could be made out of it. He states that tbe disease is very similar to tbe cholera in its operations; oarrying off tbe sheep in a short time after being attacked. It behoves our farmers to be on their guard, and take every precau tion to prevent tbe spread of tbe malady. Wasted Fertilizers. Every farm house constantly wastes some of tbo most valuable Bouroes of fer tility. Soap-suds is rarely saved, yet it contains the potash of the leach tub. The potash is thrown away, while the leaohed ashes i3 saved. Guano is bought while all the feculent matter of the family is will increase the aizc of bushes and fruit. Stick this Up. As tho following table of the number of pounds to the bushel, may be of inter- j e&t to the farmer and dealer, wo publish it, and advise them to cut it out, and ( stiok it up in some prominent place for j reference : Of wheat tixly pounds. Of shelled corn, fifty-six pounds. Of corn in tho cob sevonty poundf. Of ryo, fifty-six pounds. Of barley, forty-eight pounds. Of poiatoes, stxty pounds. Of beans, sixty pounds. Of bran twenty pounds. Of clover seed, eixty pounds. . Of timothy seed, for.ty-five pounds. Of flax seed, fifty-eight pounds. Of hemp soed, fifty-four pounds. Of buckwheat, fifty-two pounds. Of bluo grass seed, fourtoen pounds. Of castor beans, thirty-throe pounds. Of driod peaches, tbirty-threo pounds Of driod apples, twenty-four pounds. Of onions, fifty-sevea pounds. John Dean and his Mary Ann. Old Boker, of New York, disinherited John Dean, tho coaohmaa, who married his daughter, but it seems that Mary Ann will be pretty well off anyhow. Tho Albany (N. Y.) Statesman says : We think tbe statement tnat Mr. Dean is poor is a mistake. A deceased uncle left each of Mr. Boker's four ohildron 850,000. Mary Ann has already, or will shortly havo, that sum at her dispusal. Mr. Boker left an estate valued at over 5300,000. Ho disinherited Mary Ann and a son wbo bad always taken her part, and thereby offended the father. But it is understood that neither the two chil dren who were favored, nor tho mothor, share in the scutiment of Mr. B., and doubtless tbe estate will in the end bo a bout equally divided. Mary Ann's only sistor made a very siejilar match mar rying tbo porter in her father's store. But he was a Gorman, and Mr. B. had-ao much prejudice in favor of his country men, tbat he forgave tho offence. i mm i il. i 1 In Washington County, Va., last week Wm. Woodson, who is wor.th upwards of 100,000, was convioted of; bog steal ing and sentencod to ono year in tbe Pen itentiary. . $-Tbo Now York Herald prides it self upon its political sagacity. It now predictsMbc election 'of Lincoln. " The Ilsrald arrives at a sensible' conclusion for once. From the Lancaster City Express, June 20. Destructive Hail-Storm and Tornado. Last evening, between o and 6 o'clock, one of the most destructive hail-storms and tornadoes which has ever visited this vicinity, passed over the townships of Mount Joy, Rapho, West Hcmpfield, Ma nor, and Conestoga, doing great damage to property and the crops. Tbe storm appears to have como from tbe north or north-west. In this city, although rain foil oopiously, there was comparatively little bail and no damage was done that we have heard of. Tbe first point of which we bare any information is at Silver Springs, aboat four miles south f Mount Joy. At this point the bail fell bo tbiok as to 7er the ground to tbo depth of several inches, and it is aid that some of tbe hailstones measured thrco inohes in circumference, tbe corn and tobacco crops were cut to pieces, and tho whoat, rye and oats beat en down. At Turkey Hill and vicinity tbe hail is said to have fallen to the depth of three incbeB, and in tbo evening persons wero seen shoveling it from their doors. At mount Joy the hail was also very destructive, breaking windows and doing damage to tbe yards and gardens in the neighborhood. Tbe next we hear of tho storm is at Mountvillo. A reliable correspondent at tbat place furnishes us with tho following particulars : "Vegetation is completely cut to shreds, small plants were deeply buried in tho ground; cherries, apples, &c, were cut from the trees, covering the,ground with the green fruit. The tobacco farmers' hopes are frustrated. Tho plants are completely cut topieocs. The wheat and ryo aro leveled with tho ground the stalks split and -tbe heads cut off. Tho grain ia very much injured, as tho beads arc not yet filled, and will therefore not come to perfection. "The creeks were swelled higher than ever known, carrying fences and every thing in their course. About fifteen tuns of dried bay in tho meadow of L. S. Gar ber were swept away, and much damage was otherwise done. The storm extend ed about six miles wide, east and west, and as fsr south as through Manor town ship as we have learned." The storm when it reached Safe Har bor seems to have attained its full power. At this point its destruotiveness to prop erty and tbe crops is incalculable at this time. When tho storm struck the Conestoga, in front of Hess's Mansion House Hotel, it completely lifted the entire body of wa ter from its bed, so tbat those who were on the banks of tho creek at tbo timo could see the bottom. In the creek was a large quantity of lumber belonging to Mr. Reinbold of this city, whioh it also carried up. But, singular to relate, an adverse current of wind carried water and lumber back to tho bed of the creek. The tornado next strnck the islands in the Susquehanna, where it did great dam age. The two-story frame house and barn belonging to Snyder, Sourbecr& Co., were leveled with tho ground. Wben tbo tornado reaohed the bouse, it smashed in all the windows, and then raised the houso from its foundations and dssbed it to frag ments. The occupants of tho house, about fifteen in number, who saw the storm ap proach, took refuge in tbe cellar, and, strange to say, all escaped without any sorious injury. Mr. Williata Williamson was on tho island working, and when he saw the tor nado coming he took hold of a tree to prevent being blown away. The tree wa3 torn up by the roots, carried a distance of about a hundred yard, and Mr. Wil liamson with it. He escaped with a few bruises. Mr. John Campbell, wbo was also on tho island, was blown into tbe river, but saved himself by clinging to a tree, which fortunately floated by him. Tbe crops on the island were complete ly destroyed. Tbe loss on the island, it is estimated, amounts to between $1,200 and 81,500. The tornado ia said to bavo been about three quarters of a roilo in width. Somo of the bail stones whioh fell in tho neigh borhood of Safe Harbor wero of extraor dinary size, many of tbem as large- as hen's ogg. The crops between Safe Har bor and Millersviile are muoh damaged; tho corn in many places is cut to shreds, wbilo tbe other grain is badly beaton down and cut up. THE STORM IN OTHER PLACES. Wo learn that in tho vicinity of Mari etta, the crops were much cut and dam aged. After passing over Safe Harbor, tho storm eccoiB to bare kept on its o,ourso toward the Maryland lino, doing injury to tho crops in Conestoga and Martic-township-i, but wo have no particulars from those plaecs. WSrAn Irishman, who had lain sick a long timo was met ono day by the parish priest, when the following conversation took place: "Well, Patrick, I am glad you ha?o recovered but were you not afraid to meet your God!" "Ocb, no, jour riverenco, it was tho other chap I was afraid of," replied Pat. jr-What do you thinklhe owners ask for tho horse Piitchen! 'Wfiy 'bless your dear souls only $35,000. 'Tffilotf "Itue Democrat.
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