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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1884. _VOLUME XIX.:--NO. 33. Letter from Florida. Mb; Editoe : Lake City is the capital i of Coldmbia County. It is located on ! the railroad running from Jacksonville ; in the East to Pensacola in the West.' It is a beautiful little city, and much ad- j mired by strangers for its beautiful lakes j and the gigantic water oaks that line the J streets. It is a town of some 1,000 or : 2,000 inhabitants, perhaps. It gets its' V. Bame, from the numerous clear water .lakes that-. environ it on every side. Most of the residences are embowered amid orange trees, and when they are in full bloom tbe' fragrance of the flowers is truly, -delightful, reminding one of a tropical city. Tbe lakes afford pleasure to the many sportsmen, who with hooks and line never fail to draw many of tbe finny tribe out of tbe clear, pure water. Njot.'ouly ia-fishing a pleasure to tbe young people, but is a source of consid? erable revenue to the sable sons ef Africa, many of whom make their living by sup? plying the city -market with delicious ?. fishl.:Tbo fish, mostly trout, weigh from four to ten pounds each. During the fish season the most of tbe colored peo? ple, not only boys, but many' men also, engage in this business as their only oc? cupation. There being so many anglers, flsh i9 necessarily very cheap. In tbe cool of tbe evening, particularly moon? light nights, tbe young men and ladies have a delightful time gliding over tbe smooth surface of the lakes in row and sail boats. Tonng people, above all others, know, bow to appreciate this kind of amusement. Tbe city is growing now perhaps more rapidly than at any other time in her history. A grand Agricul? tural College is now being built. Tbe brick and lumber are upon the ground, and tbe corner stone will be laid at an early day by the Masonic iraternity. Tbe city and county together bought the land (100 acres), and are to build tbe College structure, and the State, I think, appropriates $10,000 annually to meet all ? expenses. Since it was known positively that tbe College wonld be located there> ?.property at once began to increase in value. Not only is town property ad? vancing, bat lands all over the county are becoming more valuable too. Tbe railroad facilities are becoming better also. One road now runs through tbe centra, or near tbe centre, from East to West. Another road is running through the Southwest portion of. tbe county; and another still has been surveyed, and v .work will commence about tbe 1st of March. This road will run North and South to intersect the Florida Central at Lake City. It will run through the best portion of the county, both as regards / agriculture and fine timber. This road will start at Gainesville, some thirty miles Sooth of us, and run to Macon, Ga., via Lake City. Georgia has given - a charter from Macon to the Florida . Line. ?-? This last mentioned road is sure to be built, for some sixteen miles of it are already graded and ready for tbe iron. So we will be well supplied with railroad facilities. From my house I can now on a calm day hear the whistle of tbe locomotives of two different roads,, the survey of the third runs in a hun? dred yards of my dwelling. The country for three or four miles around Lake City is very poor; the sands are deep and so white as almost to injure the eyesight, but soon the land improves and continues to improve until tbe end of this and 'the middle of the county Sooth of us is reached. Though this county was-first settled near forty years ago, yet there was no rapid increase of population till within the last fifteen yean. Since then the increase has been lapid. Before that period the bulk of travel and immigration were centred in those counties that were more accessible. South Florida was their objective point, because the St. John River could trans? port them so easily. But railroads now traverse, or soon will traverse, this coun? ty in every direction, and people will see that one of the best counties of tbe State has been most entirely overlooked. The people who have filled up this country are almost to a man Southern, intensely Southern in their sympathies and politics. Tbey welcome all good citizens Jamong them; they truly give them the right hand of fellowship. I find that everybody I meet with is from Georgia or South Carolina. Those from Abbeville are familiar names, such as Hawthorne, Hogan, Wilson, Liles and a host of others who are good men and true. From Spartanburg we have the Whetstone, Means, (several families of tbe Means), and from Anderson there is but a small representation?Rev. D. W. Humphreys and myself are the only rep? resentatives that I can uow r"ft*li. From Edge fie Id there are a great ma iy, and as for Georgia there is no end to them; their name is simply legion. And it is wonderful that among all these people I see none but who are getting along well. They are good citizens and well to-do farmer*. They came here with very limited means, but with energy and economy tbey have succeeded in making their condition independent, indeed, some of them have grown rich. And had they have had the forethought and planted out orange groves wheu they first came here they might have been tbe wealthiest people in the State. It bus been only within the last few years that tbey have turned their attention to orange culture, and almost everybody now has a thrifty young grove, and many * of tbem deriving handsome profits from them. Game is not plentiful in this county. The wild animals, like the wild Indians, have gradually retreated before the march of civilization. While a few deer and turkeys are occasionally seen, yet it would pay no man to hunt. But I am told by men who are familiar with the grounds tbat there are places not very far off where game is abundant. Some of the counties here have extensive areas of low, flat, swampy lands?immense jungles, where the wild animals will con? tinue to roam to the end of time. For such places can uot be iubabited by the white men; and such places are often resorted to by hunters, and they invaria? bly succeed in killing large quantities deer, bears and turkeys. These hunters during the huuting season, supply the town and country with game, and are well rewarded for their trouble. Fish is plentiful in the rivers and lakes. But sometimes they are ditficu to angle. They may bite well to-day but wilt not approach the hook to-mor row. This is a fact known to every fish ermau ; it is singular but true. Many people think that especially in Florida all they have to do is to.bait the hou and cast it into the waters. Sometimes they take to it readily, at others they are as coy as a maiden. W. D. Hatton. Aft. Tabor, Fla. A WOMAN BECOMES A MAN. The Great Virginia Sensation. Below we give the details of a most re markab e occurrence. It sounds more like romance than fact, but we must re member that truth is frequently strange than fiction. Nor can the least doubt be entertained, because we have the assu ranee of a well known citizen of Atlanta that the facts stated in the article con cerning Miss (beg pardon,) Mrs. (pardon us,) Mr. Rebecca Payne, are absolutely true, he having known her (him) and her (his) family from childhood. A special from Winchester, Va., says: Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, daughter of the late Joseph Payne, seven miles from Winchester, who has lived for thirty-eight years as a lady, suddenly avowed herself to be, a few days since, ?man, and startled James P. Reiley Clerk of the County Court here, by ap plying for a license to marry a Miss Hin ton, who had resided in the Payne family as a domestic. The lady , who fired the heart of- Mr. Payne with stich passion as to compel him to throw off the habit of a lifetime and declare bis sex is prepos sessiog and forty years of age. The strange affair has caused a decided sensa tion in the Shenandoah Valley and noth ing else is talked about. Payne waa brought up as a girl. No one ever ques tioned his sex, and his avowal that he was a man took away the breath of the community. Elizabeth Rebecca Payne was one of a family of six daughters was brought up as a woman, and was ad muted into the best society in company with other members of the family. He waa always regarded as a somewhat mas online girl, but no one suspected he was a man. He was a most dashing and graceful equestrienne, and always chal? lenged admiration as he frequently rode into Winch estenvith his habit and some I what long hair trailing in the wind. He j was'one of the most widely know ladies I in the valley. In addition to good birth I and inherited acres he developed remar kable business talent for a woman when reverses in the family fortunes rendered it necessary for some'one to put a shoul? der to the wheel. His sisters were distinguished for their culture and personal charms and several of them married prominent gentlemen. Rebecca Payne devoted himself to the management of a farm and to the super? vision of a store which he had established at Best, where be also held the appoint? ment of Postmistress. He also dealt in cattle and horses and became an expert in that way. All his enterprises pros? pered and he has acquired considerable wealth. Determining to marry he threw off his dresses and applied for a license from court at Winchester, but the aston? ished clerk, who, like everybody else, knew him as a woman, declined to Issue a license for a woman to marry a woman. The parents of Miss Hinton lives in Berkeley County, W. Va., adjoining Frederick County, in which Miss Payne lives, so the latter proceeded to Martins burg, the county Beat of Berkeley Coun? ty, and procured a marriage license in the name of L. B. Payne, aod the mar? riage was celebrated Thursday afternoon, as above stated, the Rev. John Land street, of the M. E. Church, South, Martinsburg, officiating. A large crowd witnessed the marriage, the church being thrown open to the public at the expense of the groom. The groom, who put on male attire only a few days before the wedding, is good looking, tall and slim, rather delicate looking, of fair complex? ion and with long curls. Additional interesting details of the groom are given in the Baltimore Ameri? can in a letter from Staunton, written by l former teacher of the girl-groom. She speaks in the highest terms of praise of Rebecca. She made friends everywhere by ber gentleness of manner and open? ness of heart. She was a true Christian, and circumspect in all her actions?re? spectful and attentive to her instructors, ambitious to excel; and that laudable ambition carried her up to the highest rouad of the ladder of Knowledge. She was famed for her muscular force and was a leader in all brave exploits. A shadow of sadnes^ however, seemed to rest forever on UA--\fixed and handsome features, caused b, vme deep Beeret that marred her youth(u. ^sppiuess. Years after her graduation a pI^j$?erous young farmer fell in love with her and proposed in this way: "Becky, I have a farm worth $60,000, and would like to marry you; but I dou't want to marry all your sisters. They can't live with us." She replied: "John, I have as good a farm as yours, but don't want you nor your $60,000. I am already married to my mother and sisters. We all have enough to eat without my marrying." Jotin went ancf got married to another girl, and after awhile Becky bought bis farm for about half its value and added it to the family estate. The sequel of this strange, eventful hist >ry is told in the details giveu in the letter from Winchester. ? A geutleman in California recently found in bis well, sixteen feet deep, a mass of roots belonging to a eucalyptus tree, standing some fifty feet distant. The roots bad gone through a brick wall, and had then sent out millions of fibre*, forming a large mass at the bottom of the well. The roots or the elm aud wil? low will often go twice fifty feet through moderately stiff soil in order to reach a moist spot, or even water, and for this j reason such trees should never be planted I near wells or drains into which the roots can find access. ? The year 19C0 will not be a leap year although it is divisible by four without a remainder. In order to make a calendar and solar time agree, as nearly as they cau be got for many years to come, the Gregorian calendar drops three leap years out of every four centuries, and these omissions are upon such leap years as will not divide by 400 without a remainder, although they can be evenly divided by four. The year 1600 was :i; leap year, but 1700 and 1800 were not, j and 1900 will not be. THE GREAT STORM. Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, in addition to South Carolina, Devastated by the Cyclone?Some of the Details of the Fearful Wreck. Montgomery, Ala., February 20 ? The cyclone sweeping yesterday over this section has left worse traces within a short distance from here than immediate? ly around Montgomery. From Kellyton to Weturapka, in Coosa county, a big hail and wind storm injured several, blowing down houses, barns, church steeples, carrying them into every direc? tion. At Cross Plains, eight persons were killed, and others seriously injured. At Kock Bun and Amerson life and property were destroyed. Many other casualties from other sections, but the wires are partly down. News comes in meager. Marion, Alabama, had but one victim, but much property was damaged. Montgomery had houses unroofed, trees, fences, bridges torn down, but no other casualties. The damage near here is considerable, but does not compare with the havoc played in the interior of this State. The steamer, Maggie Burke, got out of the woods this morning, where the tornado bad sent her. She went down the Alabama.' ? Fire at Goodwater, Alabama, destroyed nearly the whole business portion, in? cluding telegraph office and instruments ; hence news meager. Birmingham, Ala., February 20.?A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu? tion boarded the regular passenger train on the Georgia Pacific to day and went to Leeds, fifteen miles East of this city, to get further particulars of the terrific cyclone that swept through Cahaba Val? ley yesterday. No idea of the devasta tion can be conceived without visiting the track of the cyclone. At 1 o'clock the people saw a dense funnel shaped cloud, black as night, approaching miles away, from the Southwest, roaring louder than a thousand coal burners, and the whole heavens were illuminated with a peculiar glow, never to be forgotten by the terror stricken people. As it ap? proached Leeds, the black shafts darted from the top of the strange cloud toward the earth with almost lightning rapidity. At 1.30 o'clock it swept over the new town of Leeds, a hundred yards East of the depot, leaving absolutely nothing in the way of houses and trees in its path. It followed the track of the Georgia Pa? cific road six miles, covering it that dis? tance with debris. The West bound train from Atlanta was fifteen minutes behind time, and escaped total destruc? tion. The East bound train was stopped by a tree blown across the road from the main cyclone. Thus both trains were providentially saved. Before night 200 hands were put to work cleaning the road and by this time this morning the trains passed without trouble. The scene around! Leeds beggars description. Houses just completed were blown away, and not even a brick left where a bouse stood. Horses, n. les and cows killed, and in some instances with fence rails driven clear through their bodies. At Dr. Wright's two horses were killed and three blown away and never heard fiom. He was a contractor on the road and all his houses, twenty-three carts and two wagons were utterly demolished. The most heartrending news was that brought to the station by people giving account of the dead and wounded. The following is an additional list of dead so far as beard from around Leeds: John Poole, bis daughter Alice and son James, Tom Davis, Robert Davis, Mrs. James Wright, Dave Casper, Rebecca Cooper, J. W. Wright, Jim Poole, Mrs. Carr, all white; Hamet McCrea, Dave Cloud, Burton Keith, Jeff Few, colored. The latter was blown three hundred yards. When found not a vestige of clothing was on him. The heads of two negroes were crushed so that their brains ran out. One bad nearly every bone in his body broken. The following is the list of the wounded, at least one-third fatally, the remainder all seriously: S. R. West, R. L. Wilson, Bowdy, Mrs. Bass, Tom Lit? tle, Louis Poole, Clark Batson, bis wife and two children ; Mrs. White, Jim Her? ring, Mrs. Glass, Mrs. Davis, James Wright, Tom Wright, Joe Wright, Katie Wright, Jack Wright, Amanda Mc? Laughlin, all white; Pomp Jackson, Bill Brannon, Tom Miller, Jim Sadler, Mat Camp, George Talliaferro, John Barnes, Henry Freeman, Charles Casby, Andy Stephens, Tom-Little, colored. Mrs. Bass had a small rock, an inch in diameter, blown into her back, and it had to be cut out by a physician. She is not expected to live. At Poole's house, a trunk containing fifteen hundred dol? lars was blown away and has not been heard from, also two bales of cotton were blown from this place. By actual count twenty-seven dwelling houses were utterly demolished, besides many barns and out houses. The widow Carr's house was blown down, killing her, and immediately after the cyclone the debris caught fire and burned. Many of the suffering and travellers who have gathered at Leeds from the surrounding country have fearful experiences and narrow escapes to relate, sufficient to fill every column in the Constitution. The citizens of Birmingham, aided by the excellent officers of the Georgia Pacific Railroad, have acted nobly in sending prompt and substantial assist? ance to the sufferers. Money and sup? plies in abundance have been sent out ble Jdone to relieve the distressed. Six physicians of this city went out prompt? ly and are attending the wounded. At Brook's Gap, teu miles below here, the cyclone was severe. Nine houses were blown down and fifteen persons injured. Being off the railroad, no definite infor? mation can be bad of the extent of the damage there, though every reportunakes matters worse. At Leeds the cyclone was attended by severe bail, some stones being as large as a man's fist. Fearful Work In Georgia. A volume of cloud, with a loud rum? bling noise, was observed moviug north? ward from the Alabama line, near the edge of Harris County. The skies over? head assumed a dull leaden hue, with that peculiar tint which denotes an over? charge of the electric current. The great handle which marked the track of the destructive funnel from the gulf here split like the prongs of a fork, the one taking a Northeast direction, following the valley of the (Jhattahoochee, further up behind to the West, striking Cave Springs and Rome, across the country, through Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens and other couuties West, seeking out an out? let possibly in the vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia. The other prong took an Eastern curve, careering through Dougherty, Sumter, across to Columbia up to Elbert, and out to the Atlantic at Hatteras. Along the track of this fork of disaster the destruction of life and property, enough has come in to show that two hundred lives at least must have been lost; that five thousand houses muBt have been destroyed ; and that the damage to property must reach one mil? lion dollars. The stories of suffering are incredible. The storm pursued the well known course, from the gulf to the Northeast. The story as told in the in? terviews and telegrams following will trains, and everything possi give a good idea of the extent of the destruction. JoNESBono, February 20.?Colonel J Doyal says he saw a meteoric display of j ball lightning last night, which lasted about one minute. At first he felt the i cold shivers run over him like Daniel i when they put him in the lion's den, and j as soon as it passed away he got as hot, as one of General Bragg'a guns at the battle of Buena Vi *a. He said it was j as impressive as a t,ump meeting, or an | old time militia muster, or thereabouts. The balls were about the size of minnie balls, and fell thick and fast with a streak below them like a comet, and illumina? ted the whole atmosphere. He didn't have time to smell any azone; never thought about it iu time till the whole thing was over, or he would have snuffed at it one time at least. Jasper, Pickens County, February 20.?Yesterday at two o'clock a man stood on the rear varandah of the hotel at this place looking quietly toward the summit of Grassy Knob, the highest point of the. range of Long Swamp mountains. It was a dismal day to start ,withu?.nd a superabundance of rain had fallen. Quick as a flash tbe low rumble broke into a loud roaring, aud at once a wild and furious cyclone hove in sight at 'he right band or Southwestern end of the strip of country just described. The face of the country seemed suddenly to have been seized with convulsions and the elements battled furiously. A huge mass of black clouds with a bright white lining was seen to pass along to the South of Jasper, first rushing furiously toward the ground, then darting wildly upward, boiling this way then that like a huge pot of sheepheads, then whirling and whizzing and lashing each other, yet moving along with dignified grandeur toward tbe summit of Grassy Knob. The noise of the cyclone was like unto that made by the flushing of a covey of quails, multiplied ten thousand times over. The windows rattled, and the bouses shook as tbe huge whirlwind passed in sight of and within three miles of Jasper. The mass of boiling clouds, steadied a moment to wrench off tbe na? tive forest that capped a bill top, dashed over like a huge bee to snatch a moun? tain spur bald beaded, then whizzed along over a level ridge, danced a few fantastic jigs and with a sweep went over Grassy Knob 3,290 feet above the level of the sea and 2,126 feet above the tallest spire in Atlanta. The cyclone bad come in sight seven miles to the right of Jasper. She went over the mountains and out of sight eight miles from Jasper. She was iu sight perhaps five minutes and in ton the track returned to its erstwhile quiet, tbe devastated route being from half a mile to three miles across. Now let's see what u did in the five minutes trip over that fifteen mile slice of country. Here is a list of the dead: Mrs. Levi Cagle, and two children, William Grover, William Herren, Alonzo wright, Mrs. James- Dowda and two children, Mrs. Wyly, Mrs. Lewis King and two children, John Nicholson, (reported.) Mrs. John Nicholson, Mrs. Nations, Mrs. Watkins, a child of Perry Pettitt, child of W. H. Collies, child of Hiram Walker. Making in all twenty deaths known and accoun? ted for yesterday. The printed list above tells a sad story of sundered families, but it is cold and impotent when it comes to giving an idea of what those deaths mean. The cyclone whisked over the moun? tains and into the valley where it paused a moment to gather its forces in the un? broken space, then setting down it began to zoon like a top and away it whizzed like an arrow aimed at tbe house of Levi Cagle. For a second it flew through the air unobstructed, then it wrapped itself about the bouse, gave an angry jerk and literally tore the happy home into a million pieces. Not a shingle clung'to its fellow, and of tbe place and all its outhouses not one stick was left above another. There was a crash and a clat? ter and the air was filled with flying tim? bers, tin pans, furniture, feathers, corn, wheat, bedding, chickens, and in fact everything that tbe place held. Mr. Cagle was at the residence of bis brother, just outside the fury of the storm, and when he saw the cyclone com? ing be started toward his bouse. Before be reached there he was forced to cling to the underbrush to keep from blowing away, and as soon as tbe wind was gone be proceeded to where a moment before bis bouse stood. A heartrendering spectacle met his gaze. His wife and two children were found a hundred yards away dead. Fur? ther on three ofber children, one a baby eighteen months old, were picked up in an almost dying condition. Two of them had been blown three hundred yards. Scattered about in the woods were three men, Grover, Herren and Wright, all dead, one with a huge tree across his body. At Tales, or Cool Spring, as the town is called, the winds wiped the place from the face of the earth. The following had houses blown down : Levi Darnell, Darnell & T?te, Cool Springs Church, Jack Gobs, colored, Lina Griffin, Perry Pettit*, Betsy Chitwood, Mrs. Dooly, Sarah Jones, S. A. Darnell, Hiram Darnell, Mr. Griffith. Only one or two houses were left standing. Mrs. Darnell, Miss Bradford, Hiram Darnell, John Perry and wife and Luke Wood, were injured. All along tbe track of the storm houses, forests and fences were swept away, and many persoua were killed or injured. A large number of animals were also blown away and killed. The Marietta and North Georgia Road runs through the midst of it. On both sides where the track crosses the path of the cyclone the woods are strewn with fallen timbers. Tates looks like it had been sat on and squelched. Her bouses, with one accord, were leveled to the ground. The trees are thrown first one way and then another; showing the circle in which tbe wind was blowing. In many places the face of the country has not a vestige of timber left standing, and where two days ago were dense for? ests now barren hilltops alone arc left. It is easy to see from the railroad, a dis? tance of eight miles, where the cyclone went ovci* Grassy Knob. Up the moun? tain side the rent and torn trees make white dots that are easily distinguished. Mr. Sam. T?te, of Cool Springs, was in the storm. Said he : "I. waH passing by the Cool Springs Church and saw the storm. There' were two or three young men iu tbe church writing a letter, and when I heard the church crack I called to them to come out. They came with a rush. I threw myself on the ground, and about that time I saw the little town begin to move. It seemed that every house was coming right at me. Mr. i Darnell's house blew down, and left his family standing unhurt on the floor." At one place qp eye witness affirms that the cyclone blew all the water out of the creek and carried it up into the body of the great air spout. MACON, February 20.?Accounts of the storm from Jones County are heartrend? ing. The work done was fearful. Tho storm swept over a tract of country two^ hundred yards wide, leaving devastation and death in its path. Numerous houses were blown down, fences demolished, and cattle and human beings killed. Win. Davidson, of Jones County, came to Macon this morning to purchase twelve coffins for persons killed yesterday afternoon. At half-past four, on the ! place of Jack Miller, near Bloiintsville, a he use blew down aud Mrs. Miller and her four children were killed. One child, a small baby, has not yet been found. It was carried away on the bo? som of the wind. Gus Hunt and six negroes were also killed at the same time and place. Mr. Miller was absent from home at a neighbor's house and thus escaped death. Dr. Bui lard's house was [ also blown clown. His wife, two chil? dren and two negroes escaped unhurt. Mrs. \V. A. Juhan and her little son, Lewis, ol Macon, were visiting the house of Mr. James Hunt, of Jones County. She was only a hundred yards from the track of the storm. She and her son, with twelve others, sought refuge in a but, and thus escaped injury. Great trees were uprooted and large obstacles j carried hundreds of feet. The people are all panic stricken. Passengers along the Macon and Au? gusta Road report great damage in the counties contiguous to the Road. All of No. 12 station on the Central Railroad has been swept away. A Mr. Divire, jyell known in Macon, was killed. One Victim of yesterday's storm at Davisboro is now very sick iu Macon, at the Brown House, named Thomas E. Melville, Gen? eral Agent of the Domestic Sewing Ma? chine Company. He was badly hurt in? ternally. He was blowed 20<J yards away. MON'ticello, Ga., Feb. 20.?Yester? day evening our vicinity was visited by a severe hail storm and cyclone. The ground was completely covered with hail stones, some of them as large as a gopse egg. The cyclone came from the South and West toward the North, and was seen by a large number of our citizens as it passed within a mile of our town. The first we heard of it was at Colonel W. F. Jordan's plantation, where all of his houses except one or two were blown down and away. Mr. Wyly Goolsby and wife were seriously injured. Passing on through Mrs. Carter's place destroying houses and timbers as it came in contact with them. At Mr. H. S. Glover's place it blew down a large two-story dwelling and all of the out houses. The next place in its course was Mrs. Bentou'sand Campbell, on Mr. Campbell's place. It blew down a double log house to the ground. There were some negro women in the house who barely escaped with their lives. At Mr. Edward Elder's place it blew down his residence, a large, two-story building, his gin house, cotton press and every other house about the place, carrying the sides of the house filty yards or more. Mr. E;der and his wile, both eighty years old, with some other relatives, were in the house at the time, all of whom were injured, but we think not seriously. The next place, Mr. C. D. Goolsby's, lost every house on his place and only saved ihe lives of him? self, family and R. F. Ezell and daughter by going into a cave prepared for such storms. At Mr. Joshua Hill's and S. C. Charping's place the destruction was equally as great, not leaving a single building standing. The tenants on the places saved their lives by getting into gullies and holding to bushes. The de? struction is very great. The writer pass? ed over the most of the track and writes as an eye witueas. At Mr. C. L. Gools? by's it blew down his gin house, dining and stove room. The track was about one-balf a mile wide. Texnille, February 20.?A terrible cyclone and bail storm passed through this County last night, carrying desola? tion and death in its track. It entered the County crossing the Oconee below No. 14 Central Railroad, and moved in an Easterly direction, demolishing fences, houses and reaching the. town of Davis? boro on the railroad. Every store and house were blown dowu and the frag? ments scattered in every direction. There is nothing left of the large and substan? tial brick warehouse except the bare walls, and they are not over six feet high. A part of the roof was blown two miles. One store and two dwelling houses are all that survives the wreck. Wm. Va reen was killed by a flying piece of tim? ber, and Mrs. J. W. Hudsou and Mrs. Cornelius Jordan, were badly hurt. The former is not expected to live. Mr. Jor? dan lost several mules. Cave Springs, Ga., February 20.? Mrs. B. C. Yancy was badly hurt by yes? terday's storm. Mr. Gaillard and a negro boy were blown two hundred yards, and were found uuder a log dead. Ar? thur Ford's family were all injured. He and his wife and daughter seriously. Miss Holt, who was staying with Mrs. Lapsley, was badly injured. Lapsley's beautiful residence was destroyed. D. H. Copeland and wife were injured. The latter, it is feared, fatally. Mrs. Tilley received severe injuries. Reports from different portions of the County regarding yesterday's storm indi? cate that outside of Cave Spring the damage is not so great as at first sup posed. The loss in aud about Rome will not exceed $3,000, but the damage in the country mainly on account of tho de? struction of fences will be much greater. As far as can be ascertained there was no loss uf life in the County except at Cave Spring, aud there also was largest injury to property. The rise in the rivers has thus far amounted to very little, aud all fears of a freshet at this place are hap? pily dissipated. Athens, February 20.?The cyclone struck Mrs. Jarrett's, near Jefferson, and unroofed her house and killed one of her horses. Parlies in Harmony Grove saw the cyclone and say it looked like a fun? nel, that it went up in the air so that they could see under it, and a cloud comiug from the Northwest carried it below Harmony Grove, where it struck the Nash house, completely demolishing the house, killing one of the old ladies who has beeu living in the house for a number of years and the other one is thought to be dying. Mrs. Carlisle Nash, who was living with her two maiden aunts, is badly mangled. Franklin, February 20.?A terrible cyclone passed through a part of Heard county to-day. The result is not fully known at Franklin as yet, but it is cer? tain that one negro was killed and several other negroes and whites have been badly wounded. Many houses were blown down and the trees and fences have com? pletely blockaded the roads. Some cat? tle are knowo to be killed, and also horses and mules are missing. One white family liviug on the farm of F. C. Moore, are all missing, and all the buildings of every kind on the place blown away. It is hoped that tho family was off visiting and will yet come up unhurt. This, however, is thought not to be probal e. Parties have gone out to-night to assist in relieving the suffer? ing and will return to-morrow wheu full results will be reported. In Oconee county it blew a great deal of fencing down. Hail stones fell at Harmony Grove as large as a man's fist and would weigh seven ounces. The hail was not round, but looked like largo Suantities had come together and frozen.. ut iuformant states that tho storm must have been fearful about Apple | Valley, in Jackson county, as he saw it strike in that direction, and from its looks nothing could have been left startl? ing. He says the cloud from the North? west must have broken the force of the cyclone before it struck the Nash house. Indian Spring, Ga., February 20.? The heaviest hail storm ever known here visited our community at 3 p. m., yester? day, and lasted half an hour. The hail stones fell as thick asraiu drops until the ground was perfectly white with them. First ten minutes the hail was small, but continued to increase iu size until they measured nine inches in circumference by actual measurement. The sight was terrifying, but beautiful. The stones were in shapes of full-blown roses, dahlias and crystals. Our oldest cilizrns say they have never seen anything like it before. The damage done was very great?many persons were injured by falling stoues; tin roofs were knocked into holes ; limbs of trees torn off; glasses shattered and caused several runaway scrapes. Tbe news of the storm at Mon ticello is appalling, indeed. Reports say the places of Mr. E. A. Elder, Glover, Charping and Jordon's near Monticcllo, were ravaged by the storms. Few houses on these places were left standing. No loss of life yet reported. Mr. Elder had his arm broken when biet house was destroyed. No other casualties yet re? ported. Death and Ruin In North Carolinit. Rockingham:, N. C, February 20.? About 10 o'clock last night a most fear? ful and destructive storm swept over this section. For awhile the scene was ter? rific. Lightning flashed to lightning, thunder muttered to thunder, wind howled to wind, and torrent of hail an? swered to torrent of rain. The general travel of the storm was from Southwest to Northeast. Its full extent is not kuown here, as the wires are down, cutting us off from communi? cation by telegraph. The breadth of the severest part was less than half a mile, which did not reach our town. Our information, thus far, extends only seven miles Southwest, where we learn that houses, trees, fences and every mov? able object were either damaged or torn away. Four miles from town, in the same direction, the dwelling of Mr. Daniel Watson was demolished, his wife and one of her brothers were killed out? right, and Mr. Watson himself seriously if not fatally injured. Two miles East from Rockingham were the mills and tenant houses?a dozen perhaps?of Mrs. Eliza McDonald, and the sight presented to the eye of tbe beholder there this morniug beggars description. Men, wo? men and children, dead or seriously in? jured, were lying here and there amoug the debris of demolished houses, shat? tered furniture and drenched bedding, while far on either side were scattered fragments of dwellings and remnants of clothing. Horses, cows, hogs, dogs and chickens shared the terrible fate of their owners. The mills were swept away. The rocks in the grist mill were lifted from their bed and carried fully thirty feet. Of the tenant houses not one sill or chimney remains in place. Three whites, namely, Richard iHtw kins, Charlie Sanford and Henrietta Griffin, were killed outright, and a little son of Mr. Dawkins is expected to die at any moment. Ten colored persons were also killed outright. I find it impossible to get the number and names of all tbe injured. Mr. Asbury Sanford is serious? ly injured, as is also Mrs Grant. The casualties will aggregate fifty or more, of whom twenty at least are seriously in? jured. About three miles from Mrs. McDonald's, in a Northeasterly direc? tion, lived Mrs. Watson, the mother of Messrs. J. S. and H. C. Watson, of Rock? ingham. Not a bouse, chimney nor fence was left on tbe premises. Strange to say no serious casualties occurred, a son and daughter of Mrs. Watson being only slightly injured. Mrs.Terry, living near Mrs. W., had one child killed. The aggregate of killed, so far as heard from, is sixteen. The stores in Rocking? ham have been closed all day, and the pall of death seems to have settled over the town and vicinage. The dead and injured from Mrs. McDonald's place were brought to town this morning, and the Courthouse was converted into a temporary hospital and morgue, and tender bands ministered to the wants of the suffering and prepared the dead for decent burial. I feel that I have fallen short of the reality in the above description, and to give you a still further idea of its terror, a gentleman who visited Grinnell, 111., soon after the storm there, tells me that the one last night was far more terrible. Not a house in Rockingham could have withstood the severest part of tbe atorm had it struck fully. Wilmington, N. O, February 21.? Special advices to the filar give further particulars of the cyclone. The centre of the storm struck the outskirts of Rockingham and with such sudden fury that '.he people were unable to escape from their bouses. The buildings were blown into fragments. Some bodies were found under the timbers and others were carried by the wind 150 to 200 yards. A woman was found clasping to her breast an infant scarcely a month old. Both were dead. The bodies of the victims were terribly bruised and cut. The force of the wind was such that two mill? stones were moved one hundred feet. Chickens and birds were found picked clean, except the feathers on their heads. The largest trees were uprooted, and smaller ones had all the bark stripped from their trunks. The storm first made its appearance at 7:20 p. m. coming from a Southwesterly direction from Hamlet, Richmond Coun? ty, N. C. The Eastern sky was over? shadowed by dark flying clouds tinged with red, growing thicker every minute and nt last assuming a hue of fire. At 8:30 p. m. there was a heavy fall of rain and hail, the heaviest of the clouds mov? ing Westward. At midnight the sky was dazzling red and at 1 a. m. there was an unusually heavy full of rain. The killed and wounded belong almost exclu? sively to the poorer class, and there will be suOering and destitution among the survivors. It is feared there was great loss of life and property in interior points in the track of the storm not yet heard from. Already thirty-three dead bodies have been fouud in Richmond County, near Rockingham and Hamlet. Tito Tornado lu Tennessee. Nashville Texx., February 21.? Clarksville was visited on Tuesday by two destructive cyclones about two hours apart. They swept through the central part of the city, leveling many houses and doing serious damage to hundreds of buildings. Two churches were nearly blown down, two toweis were taken off the Court house, one end was blown out of the Franklin Hotel and much other destruction was caused. Many persons were seriously injured. The roof of the Chronicle office, rafters and all, was lifted up and carried over Elder's Opera House and driven through another bouse two blocks beyond. The damage will be very large. Every telephone and tele? graph wire was prostrated and trains were delayed. JIM DOWLER'S RESURRECTION. A Sketch from Life in tlio HackwoiHls. Elzey Hay in Ihc Southern World. ! "Jim Dowler was drowned this morn [ in' in Ben Nickoll's mill pond." So spake a rustic equestrian as he tied his muie to a hickory sapling before the carpenter's doorat Johnson's Cross Roads, and drew from his pocket a slip of greasy paper on which were inscribed the di? mensions of a rude wooden coffin. "What?how?drownded !" exclaimed a chorus of nasal voices, as the inmates of the tavern, the store and the black? smith shop turned out en masse to hear the news. Even the carpenter forgot the prospect of a job and stood in his door to listen. "Wall, yer see," continued the messen? ger after a little pause, by way of assert? ing his importance as first bearer of the tidings, "him and Bob Simpson, they went in a wasbiu', 'cause las' night, y'all knows, was a powerful hot one, an' Bob says, be did, that Jim 'lowed 'less he could git cooled off a bit 'fore breakfast time, he'd fritter up like a keg o' soap grease on t' fire, an' 'lowed he was a sweatin' hissef like a hoss, so they jist stepped over to Ben Nickoll's pond, an' it mought be about four o'clock in t' mornin', an' he say, be did, they hadn't been in I' water more'n ten min nits when Jim says, Bays he, 'Bob, I'm took with the cramps;' an' Bob says, says be: 'Better swim out then, as quick as yer kin,' an' he say 'fore t' words was well outer his mouth, Jim had done flopped over like a dead duck an' gone to t' bottom 'fore he could so much as reach a hand to bim, an' he niver seed him no more tell he was fished up, a hour afterwards, as dead as a door nail. Tom Brinson an' Sam Wilkins, they holp fur ter fish bim out, an' Dr. McJunkin, he went down thar d'reckly arter breakfast, an* they all kin tell yer more 'bout it 'n I kin." Bob and Sam, and Tom and tbe doc? tor immediately became the heroes of the hour. The store-keeper, the tavern keeper and the blacksmith all shut up shop and went to bear each of the eye witnesses in turn give an account of the tragedy, and then hastened away, each to give his own. The news spread from mouth to mouth with a rapidity that would baffle the tele? graph, and long before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the hour appointed for the funeral, it had reached the remotest cor? ner of the Bear's Foot district, and peo? ple were hurrying from every direction to assist at the ceremony. The women were as anxious to see how Mrs. Dowler would "tak 3 it," as tbe men were to bear particulars of the drowning. A crowd of them had pervaded the bouse ever since tbe first news of tbe disaster got abroad?attracted by the morbid cu? riosity of the vulgar concerning whatever is horrible and bloodcurdling, by the lugu? brious pleasure that old women always take in funerals, and a little, let us hope, by the kindly sympathy for-the distressed that lives in every female heart, no mat? ter how humble tbe garb that covers it. A sudden or violent death is always a tempting theme to the .rustic'moralist, and tbe fact that Jim Dowler was the richest man in the settlement, and a dea? con of Hepzibah church, gave greater unction to the sage reflections that his death called forth. Mrs. Brinson grave? ly declared that the ways of providence was unaccountable. Miss Kitty Darden took a fresh dip of snuff and said that she couldn't seo why he was took?no she couldn't! Here the widow broke in with: "I wosh I had went with him. I wosh I had went with bim!" and the atten? tion of the company was diverted for awhile till they had calmed her with a big mop and a double supply of "Mac caboy." "We must all die some day," resumed Mrs. Tatom, by way of consolation, and tbe women all sighed and nodded assent to this original proposition. "But he was took so suddent," moaned the widow, and relieved her feelings by discharging a volley of snuff" upon the hearth. "It was all along o' that mill pond," put in Mrs. Pringle, giving a fresh turn to her mop. "It was a tempting Provi? dence fur him an' Bob Simpson to go in there an' they knowin' Sally Crane's lit? tle boy was drownded thar a year ago, the Friday before the next fust Sunday but one." "I don't see no good of all this washia' of hissef, no way," whispered old Mrs. Perkins to Miss Kitty Darden, "hit's all nothin' but pride, an' tbe Scrip? ture says, 'pride goeth afore a fall,' an' a drownin's the same thing, fur hit's a fall in the water. I hain't gin myself a washin' these twenty year an' more, an' I don't see but I'm jis' as good as them that h?S. Hit was pride, sister Darden, depend upon it, an' Providence tuk bim ter put down his pride fur trying ter be cleaner'n other folks." Mrs. Perkin's remarks were cut abort by the announcement that brother Duck er, the minister, had arrived, and was ready to conduct the services. After giving out a hymn and spelling his way laboriously through the xivth chapter of Job, brother Ducker announced that the funeral sermon of their "diseased" brother would be preached at Hepzibah the next "first Sunday," at the August meetin,' and then proceeded to close the exercises with en extemporaneous prayer: "Oh, Lord, how strange air thy ways and auful air the dealings of thy Provi? dence. Thou hast seen fit ten to take away our good brother Dowler from among us; Thou hast cut him down like the grass when he was green?no, Lord, I didn't mean cut him down, but drown? ded him like a blind puppy. Thou hast tookeu him away?a good man. a useful man, a deacon in tbe church, and the best prayin' member we had, while olo Billy Taylor over yonder, that's always drunk, and no good to himself nor any? body else, and never give a dollar to the church in his life, he's left; yes, he's left-a, and brother Dowler gone-a." Here the women all blew their noses violently, while Billy Taylor himself was so overcome by the preacher's eloquence that he stuffed both fists in his eyes to restrain his tears. Brother Ducker gave a little snort that was meant for a sob and then went on with his prayer. "And, oh, Lord, there air the widder and the fatherless children. Sister Dow ler's always been a good woman?good to the church-a, good to tbe poor-a, and good to the preacher; there's no woman in all Bear's Fjot dislrick can make sich pumpkin pies and blackberry wine as hern. Oh, Lord, why hast thou so afflicted her, while the wicked flourish as a green bay tree? It's true, brother Dowler left a pretty little property and she won't starve, Lord, but she'll need somebody to manage it for her, an, oh, Lord, thou has took away her prop an' her stay an' there's nobody to control her niggers for her till she gits another hus? band. But, Lord, though thy judge? ments seems hard, we know that thou doest not afflict willingly, and they must all turn out for good in the long run. Thou hast afflicted our sister, but Thou will comfort her agin; Thou wilt not leave the widder and the orphan disso? lute. Thou hast took away one hus band, but thou canst give back another. There's Sam Wi'kius, which he lost his wife t' other day, ef he aint mos' too young fur her, an' ef he is there's brother Barker what's lost three wives already an' wants another, and John Jimcrson with his ten motherless children, and plenty of good brothers that'll all be ready to com for', the widdcr and take care of her property, and ef uone o' the rest of 'cm wants to do it, I'll do it my self-a-" "Ding my bones ef yer do !" suddenly resounded in awful tones from the coflin; the lid, which had not yet been nailed down, was dashed violently to the floor, and Jim Dowler, spouting like a whale, ro3e and sat upright in his shroud. He had never really been dead, but the press? ure of the water that had entered his lungs, suspended animation for a time, till suddenly vomiting it forth, from some cause or other, he regained consciousness and speech at the same moment, and thus rudely interrupted his own funeral. The greatest consternation seized the assembly; the women shrieked, the men bolted through doors and windows as if shot out by an explosion of dynamite, while brother Ducker scrambled upon his bony mule, and was not seen again in the settlement for a twelve-month. The women of Bear's Foot had never studied the polite art of fainting, so Mre. Dowler expressed her feelings by falling upon the floor and kicking and scream? ing with all her might, till Jim Dowler scrambled out of his coflin and swore he'd put her in it, ef she didn't stop her "tar? nation racket." This admonition had a soothing effect, and quiet was restored once more to the Dowler household. Jim's good humor returned with tbe dawn of peace, and bestowing upon his aston? ished and now docile spouse a h. ..ay kiss, he ordered the coffin taken away and de? clared that "ef ther warnt nary fu'nel in that house tell he gin one, it 'ud be a long time to wait, fur he meant to out? live preacher Ducker and all them other chaps what was so willin' to comfort his wife and take care'o' the property." Jim kept his word, or rather Providence kept it for him, as he lived to assist at the funeral of parson Ducker and several others who had once thought to have a band in his. "Run Along Now." The evening was bitterly cold. Two children?a boy with a manly face, an expression of matured concern, as though some one had ever been dependent on him, and a pale-faced little girl?wan? dered around tbe streets of a Western city. They had been left by an immi? grant train, having fallen asleep in the barn-like waiting room, and, owing to the hurry incident upon departure, no one thought of them. They begged the station keeper to allow them to remain by the fire, but he discredited their story ?declared that they bad not been left by a train; that they lived in the city, and were only "hanging around" to steal something. Everybody hurried along. No one had a kind look for the waif's. They went into the warm corridor of a hotel but a man said : "Run along now. You don't want to be stopping here." "We are nearly frozen," the boy re? plied, "and we want to get warm." "Children ought to be at home such weather as this. Your mother ought to know better than to send you out." "Our mother is dead, sir. She died two weeks ago, and we came away with people that are going South where it's warm, but the train has left us, and the man wont let us stay in the depot." "Very good story, young fellow; hut run along now. Parents that would send their children out to beg such weather as this should be punisned." "We are not begging." "Run along with you," and he opened the door and they passed out into the cutting wind. The fierce blast seemed to blow the darkness close up to the*"*' lamp; the tired teams seemed to blow chilling mists from their nostrils; and tbe heavy wagon wheels seemed to sink deep into tbe darkness and pulverize the gloom. The children went into a drug store. "Run along there." They went into a restaurant. "Run along there." They went into a saloon where merry revelers sang wild songs, and where the maudlin man dropped a tear in his glass. "Run along there," said the bar-tender. "This is no place for children." "Let us warm ourselves," implored the boy, and he repeated his story. "That's all very well, young man, but haven't I seen you around the streets, begging many a tim6?" "No, sir." "I think I have. I'll bet you haven't taken no less than $10 home to-day. Run along.''* Again they were in.the freezing gloom. "Ob, where will? we wake in the morn? ing?" came from the saloon and died on the cold air, as the boy and bis sister turned a corner. "Don't cry my little pet." "I'm so cold." "Yes; bnt we may find some place. Let us go hack to the depot, and may be we can get on a train." They wandered arouud in the blind? ing sleet. "We are a long time getting there/ said the girl. "I believe we are lost," the brothei replied. "Let us tura in here," and they went into a narrow alley and crouched down by a wall. Ah, Mr. Humanity, because yotkbave been a few times deceived ; because you have sometimes shown pity, and after? wards found that it was ill-Bestowed, you have hardeucd your heart. Ah, Mr. Churchman, whose knees press the soft velvet at the time of prayer; you who see suffering with dry eyes, and read, with moisture, the "simple annals of the poor," scratch from your Bibles the heart-warming sentence, "Suffer lit? tle children to come uuto me"?scratch it out, or you are a hypocrite. "If I could smell the dog-wood blos? soms by the porch I wouldn't be so cold," said the little girl. "It will be a long time before they bloom again, my pet." "Will this cold weather kill the tree?" "No, but it will be a long time before summer comes." "Cau people in heaven look down and see people on the earth?" "Yes, I think so." "I wish they couldn't." "Why, pet?" "Because, if mamma looks down and sees us, she wouldn't be happy any more." He drew her closer to him. The neigh? boring lights went out one by one. Tbe sleet seemed to be conquering every? thing. The dog that had barked over on the hill was silent. * * * # * * A cheerless, freezing morning broke. In an alley sat two rigid forms. The boy was in his shirt sleeves. Ho had put his tattered jacket around his little sister.? 7\:ras Si/tings. ? This line fills out the column.