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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO._ ANDERSON, S C., THURSD?TM"0MJ?KC~1?I?RUAKY"28, 1884. YOLUME XIX.---NO~OT~ Letter from Florida. MR. EDITOR : Lake City ia tho capital of Columbia County. It is located on the railroad running from Jacksonville in the EHst to Pensncola ?u the Went. It ia a beautiful little city, and much ad mired by strangers for its beautiful lukes and the gigantic water oaks that line the streets. It is ft town of ?onie 1,500 or 2,000 inhabitants, perhaps. It gets its name (rom the numerous clear water lakes that environ it on every side. Most of the residences are embowered amid orange trees, and when they nre io full bloom tho fragrance of the flowers is truly delightful, reminding ono of a tropical city. The lakes a (lb rd pleasure to thc many sportsmen, who with hooks and line never fail to draw many of the finny tribe out of tho clear, pure water. Not only is fishing a pleasure to the young people, but is a Bourco of consid erable revenue to thc sable sous ef Africa, many of whom make their living by sup plying the city market with delicious fish. The hah, mostly trout, weigh from four to ten pounds each. During the full seasou the most of the colored peo ple, not only boys, but many men also, engage in this business tts their only oc cupation. There being so many anglers, fish is necessarily very cheap. In thc I cool of the evening, particularly moon light nights, the young men and ladiet havo a delightful time gliding over the smooth surface of the lakes in row and sail boats. Youug people, above al! others, know how to appreciate this kine of amusement. The city is growing now perhaps more rapidly than at any othei time in ber history. A grand Agricul tural College is now being built. Th? brick aud lumber aro upon the ground and tho corner stone will be laid at at early day by the Masonic Iraternity The city and county together bought thi land (100 acres), and aro to build tin College structure, and the State, I think appropriates $10,000 annually to meet al expenses. Since it was known positively that the College would be located there property at onco begau lo increaso ii value. Not only is town property ad vancing, but lands all over the count; are becoming more valuable too. Th? railroad facilities are becoming bette also. One read now runs through th (centre, or near tho centre, from East ti Weat. Another road is running througl the Southwest portion of the county and another still bas been surveyed, an? work will commence about the 1st c March. This road will run North am South te interned the Florida Central a Lake City. It will run through the bee portion of tho county, both as regard agriculture and 6ne timber. This ron will start at Gainesville, nome thirt miles South of us, and run to Macot Ga., via Lake City. Georgia has give a charter from Macon to the Florid line. This last mentioned road is sur to Le built for some sixteen milos of i are already graded and ready for th iron. So we will he well supplied wit railroad facilities. From my house I ca now on a calm day hear the whistle < the locomotives of two different road the survey of the third runs in a hui dred yards of my dwelling. The country for three or four mile around Lake City is very poor ; the sane are deep and so white as almost to injui the eyesight, but soon the land improve aud continues to improve until the en of this and thc middle of the count South of us ie reached. Though th 1county was first settled near forty yea ago, yet there was no rapid increase < population till within tho last fiftee yea.-B. Since then the increase has bee S Mpid, Defers that period the buik < 9 travei and imm.^jation were centred i BB those counties that were more accessibl Bi South Florida was their objective poir ? because the St. John River could tran SB port them so easily. But railroads no traverse, or soon will traverse, this cou ty in every direction, and people will b that ono of tho beat counties of the Sta has been most entirely overlooked. The people who have filled up tl H country are almost to a mau Souther intensely Southern in their sympathi Bj and pol?tica. They welcome ail go ? citizens ;among them ; they truly gi Bj them the right hand of fellowship. H find that everybody I meet with is frc Bi Georgia or South Carolina. Those frc I Abbeville are familiar names, such B| Hawthorne, Hogan, Wilson, Lites ni I a host of others who are good men ai SB tru*i- From Spartanburg we have t I Whetstone, Means, (several families SS the Means), and from Anderson there g but a Email f?pf?wentation-Rev. D. 1 ma, Humphreys and myself are the only re j resentatives that I can uow recall. Frt jm Edgefield there ar? a great s^ny, acd ? ??r Georgia there is no end to th ci BB tbe>r name is simply legion. And it ? wonderful that among all these peo? I I see none but who are getting alo I well. They are good citizens and wc BB to ?o farmers. They came here wi S very limited means, but with energy a I economy they havo succeeded in muki ? their condition independent. Inde I some of them have grown rich. A I bad they have bad the forethought e H planted out orange, groves when. tl I first came here they might have been t I wealthiest people in the State. It 1 BB }f** only within tho last few years tl H ^ ey huve turned their attontion BB Offtogo culture, and almost overybc H now has a thrifty youug grove, and mi Sj of them deriving handsomo profita fr I them. BB Game is not plontiful In thia cour B The wild animals, like tho wild Indir Bi have gradually retreated before I ?arch of el?m*atlpn. While a few d H| and turkeys nra occasionally seen, yet ? would pay no man to hunt. But I BB 10,(1 by men who are familiar with. I pounds that there are pisces not y BM faron" ?hero game is abundant. So H of the count ?ea here ?.nvo extensivo ai of low, flat, swampy lands-immense jungle*, where tho wild animals will con tinue to roam to tito end of lime. For such places can not be inhabited by the white men ; und such places are often resorted to by hunters, and they invaria bly succeed in killing large quantities of deer, bears and turkeys. Those hunters, (luring thc hunting season, supply the town and country with game, and aro well rewarded for their trouble. Fish is plentiful in the rivers and lakes. But sometimes they are difficult ! to nilgie. They may hilo well to day, but will not approach the hook to mor row. This is a fact known to every fish erman ; it is singular but true. Many people think that especially in Florida I all they have to do is ta bait the hook j and cast il into the waters. Sometimes ; they take to it readily, at others they are as coy as a maiden. W. l). HATTOS. Aft. Tabor, Fla. A WOMAN BECOMES A MAN. Tho Great Virginia Seunutlon. Below wo give the details of a mo re markable occurrence. It sounds more like romance than fact, but we must re member that truth is frequently stranger than fiction. Nor eau the least doubt be entertained, because we have tho atrts rance of a well Luor. n citizen of Atlanta, that the facts stated in tba article cou corning Miss (beg pardon,) Mrs. (pardon us,) Mr. Rebecca Payne, aro absolutely true, ho having known her (him) and her (his) family from childhood. A special from Winchester, Va., says: Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, daughter ol the lat6 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, a man, and startled James P. Reiley, Clerk of the Couuty 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 such passion as to compel him to throw oil' the habit ol a lifetime and declare his sex is prepos sessing and forty years of age. The straogo affair baa caused a decided sensa tion in tho Shenandoah Valley and noth ing else is talked about. Pay no wot brought up an a girl. No one over ques tioned his sex, and h'm avowal that he waa a man took away the breath of the community. Elizabeth Rebecca Payne was one of a family of six daughters waa brought up as a woman, and was ad mitted into ino beat society in companj with other members of the family. H< was always regarded as a somewhat mas culine girl, but no one suspected he wai a man. He waa a most dashing anc graceful equestrienne, and always ebal jenged admiration as be frequently rodi into Winchester-with bia habit and some what long bair trailing in the wiud. Hi was one of the most widely know ladiei iu the valley. Ia addition to good birt! and inherited acres he developed remar kable business talent for a woman whet reverses in the family fortunes rentieret it necessary for 8orr.e'one to put a shoul der to the wheel. His sisters wero distinguished for thei culture and personal charms and nevera of them married prominent gentlemen Rebecca Payne dc-.oted himself to lb management cf a farm and to the super vision of a store which he bad establishet at Rest, where he also held the appoint ment of Postmistress. He also dealt ii cattle and horses and became an expel in that way. All his enterprises pros pered and be bas acquired considerabl wealth. Determining to marry he tbrev off hia dresses and applied for a licens from court at Winchester, but the aston iahed clerk, who, like everybody else knew bim as a woman, declined to issu a license for a woman to marry a womat The parents of Miss Hinton lives i Berkeley County, W. Va., adjoinin Frederick County, in which Miss Payn lives, BO the latter proceeded to Martini burg, the county seat of Berkeley Courj ty, aud procured a marriage license i tbc name of L. R. Payne, and the mai riage waa celebrated Thursday afternoor as above Hinted, the Rev. John Lane slreet, of the M. E. Church, Soutt Msrtiusburg, o?lciaiing. A large crew witnessed the marriage, the church bein thrown open to the public at theexpece of ihe groom. The groom, who put o male attire o ".ly a few days before th wedding, is good looking, tall and alia rather delicate looking, of fair cumple, ion and with long curls. Additional interesting details of tb groom ore given in the Baltimore Amer can in a letter from Stauntos, written b a former teacher of the girl-groom. SI speaks in the highest terms of praise < Rebecca. She made friends everywhei by ber gentleness of manner and opel ness of heart. She was a true Cbriatiai and circumspect in all her actions-ri ?pect?ui and uuunlive to her instructor ambitious to excel ; and that laudab ambition carried her up to the higbe round of the ladder of knowledge. SI was famed for ber muscular force sr was a leader in ali brave exploits, shadow of sadness, however, Beemed rest forever on her fixed and handsoo features, caused by some deep secret th marred her youthful happiness. Yea after her graduation a prosperous youi farmer fell in love with her and propost in this way : "Becky, I bave a far worth ?60,000, end would like to mar you ; but ? dou't want to marry all yo sisters. They can't live with us." She replied : "John, I have as good farm aa yours, but don't want you n your $60,000. I am already married my mother and sisters. We all ha enough to eat without my marrying." John went and* got married to anoth girl, and after awhile Becky bought 1 farm for about half its value and add it to the family estate. The sequel of this strange, event! hist try is told in the details given in t letter from Winchester. --??.??? J _A gentlemen in Galiforuia recent found in bis well, sixteen feet deep, mass of roots belonging to a eucalypt tree, standing some fifty feet dist* The roots bad gone through a brick wi and had then sent ont millions of fib? forming a large mass at the bottom the well. The roots or the elm and ? low will often go twice fifty feet tkrou moderately stiff soil in order to revel moist spot, or even water, and for t reason such trees should never be plan near wells or drains into which the ra can find access. . - The year 1900 will nat be a h year ali hough it is divisible by f< without a remainder. In order to nu a calendar and solar time agree,as nea as they can be got for many years come tbe Gregorian calendar drops th leap years out of every tour centur i and tLe?e omissions are upon such I I years as will not divide by 400 witbot : remainder, although they r*n be ?t? , divided by four. The year 1600 tvs: , leap year, bot 1700 and 1800 were i 'and 1900wiH not be. THE (J!UL'AT STORM. Alabama, CJoorgU and North Carolin?, In addition to South Carolina. Dcvagtnted by thc Cyilono-Sonic o? tho Details of the l i ai lui Wreck. MONTGOMERY, ALA., February 20. The cyclone sweeping yesterday over this section hu9 left worse traces within a : short distance from hero than immediate ' ly around Montgomery From Kellyton lo Wetumpka, in Coosa county, a" big hail and wind storm injured several, blowing down houses, barns, church steeples, carrying them into every direc liou. At Cross I'lains, eight persons , were killed, and others seriously injured, j At Rock Run and Amerson liio and , property were dedtroyed. Many other ; casualties from other sectious, but thc : wires are partly down. News comes in 1 meager. Marion, Alabama, had but ouo ' victim, but moen property was damaged. ? Montgomery had houses unroofed, 'rees, fences, bridges tom down, but no other casualties, the damage near here is considerable, but does not compare with tho havoc played in tho interior of itiis Stale. Tho steamer, Maggie Rurkc, got out of tho woods this morning, where the tornado bad sent her. Sho weot d"wn the Alabama.' Fire at Goodwator, Alubama, destroyed nearly the whole business porlion, in cluding telegraph office and instruments ; hence news meager. Hi KM i .va;n A M , ALA., February 20.-A correspondent of ihe Atlanta Constitu tion boarded the regular passenger train on thc Georgia Pacific t? 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 iden of the devasta lion 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 beavens were illuminated with a peculiar glow, never to be forgotten bj the terror stricken people. As it ap proached Leeds, tho black shafts darted from tho top of thc strange cloud toward the earth with almost lightning rapidity, At 1.30 o'clock it swept over the nen town of Leeds, a hundred yards E'.at ol the depot, leaving absolutely nothing in tho way of housed and trees in its pr.'h 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 minute; behind time, and escaped total destruc tiou. The East bound train was stopped by n tree blown across the road from tht main cyclone. Thus both trains wer< providentially saved. Before night 20( hands were put to work cleaning the roue! and by this time this morning the trains passed without trouble. The scent around Leeds beggars description liouBes just completed wcro blown away and not even a brick left where a house stood. Horses, mules and cows killed, and in some instances with fence raili driven clear through their bodies. A Dr. Wright's two horses were killed anc three blown away and never beard ftgm Ho was a contractor on the road and al his houses, twenty-three carts and tw< wagons wero utterly demolished. The most heartrending news was tba brought to the station by people giving account of the dead and wounded. The following is an additional list of dead st far as beard from around Leeds : Johi Poole, bis daughter Alice and son Jame? Tom Davis, ?tobert Davis, Mrs. Tame Wright, Dave Casper, Rebecca Cooper, J W. Wright, Jim Poole, Mrs. Carr, al white ; Hamet McCrea, Dave Cloud Burton Keith, Jeff Few, colored. Tb latter was blown three hundred yards When found not a vestige of clothinj was on bim. The heads of two negroe were crushed so that their brains ran out One bad nearly every bone in bis bod; broken. Tho following is the list of tb wounded, at least one-third fatally, th remainder all seriously : S. R. West, E L. Wilson, Bowdy, Mrs. Bass, Tom Lit tie, Louis Poole, Clark Batsou, bin wif and iwo children ; Mrs. White, Jim Hei ring, Mrs. Glass, Mrs. Davis, Jame Wright, Tom Wright, Joe Wright, Kati Wright, Jack Wright, Amanda Mc Laughlin, all white ; Pomp Jacksor Bill Brannon, Tom Miller, Jim Sadlei Mat Camp, George Talliaferro, Jobi Barnes, Henry Freeman, Charles Casbj Andy Stephen?, Tom-Little, colored. Mrs. Bass had a small rock, sn inc in ammeter, blown into ber back, and i bad to be cut out by a physician. She i not expected to live. At Poole's houri a trunk containing fifteen hundred do! lars was blown away and bas not bee heard from, also two bales of cot to were blown from this placo. By actual count twenty-seven dwellin house:! were utterly demolished, beside many barns and out houses. The wido Carra bouse was blown down, killie^ bc and immediately after the cyclone tb debris caught fire and burned. Many < the suffering and travellers who ba\ gathered at Leeds from the surroundio country have fearful experiences an narrow escapea to relate, sufficient lo fi every column in the Constitution. The citizens of Birmingham, aided t the excellent officers of the Georg Pacific Railroad, have acted nobly ' i sending prompt and substantial assis ance to the sufferers. Money and BU; El i ea in abundance have been sent ot y special trains, and everything poss ble ?done to relieve the distressed. 8! fihysicians of this city went out protaf y and are attending the wounded. 1 Brook's Gap, ten miles below here, tl cyclone was severe. Nine houses we blown down and fifteen persons injure Boing off the railroad, no definite infc mation can be had of the extent of tl damage there, though every leporSsnak matters worse. At Leed* the cyclo, was attended by severe bail, some Bton being as large as a man's fist. Fearful Work In Georgln. A volume of cloud, with a loud roi blina noise, was observed moving nort ward from the Alabama line, near I edge of Harris County. The skies ov< head assumed a duli leaden hue, wi thsl peculiar tint which denotes an ovi charge of the electric current. T great handle which marked the track the destructive funnel from the gulf hi split Uko the prongs of a fork, the e laking a Northeast direction, follow! the valley of the Chattahoochee, furtt up behind to the West, striking Ci Springs and Rome, across the count through Barlow. Cherokee, Pickens a other counties West, seeking out an ot let possibly in the vicinity of Norfo Virginia. The other prong took Eastern curve, careering tbrou Dougherty, Sumter, across to Col um! up to Elbert, and out tn the Atlantic Hatteras. Along the track of this fi of disaster the destruction of life a property, enough bas come into sh that two hundred lives at least must ht been lost; that five thousand hon must have been destroyed; and that t damage to property must -reach one xi lion dollars, The stories of suffer are incredible. The storm pursued: well known coure?, from the gulf to. Northeast. The story as told in the. Iterviows and telegrams following * ! give a good idea of thc extent ot tiie 1 destruction. j JOVESBOBO, February 20.--Colonel ; Doyal says he saw a meteoric display of , ball lightning last night, which lasted ! about one minute. At first be fell tho ! cold shivers run over him like Daniel ! when they put him in the lion's den, and ; aH soon as it passed away he got as hot as one of General Bragg s guns nt tho ' battle of Bucua Vista, ile said it wai j as impressive as a camp meeting, or an j old time militia muster, or thereabouts. . Thc balls wero about thc size of minnie balls, and fell thick und fast with a streak below them like a comet, und illumina 1 ted the whole atmosphere. He didn't j have timo to smell uny ozone ; never thought about it in time till the whole I thing was over, or ho would have snuffed : at it one time at least. ! JAS?'ER, Picken? County, February ' 20.-Yesterday at two o'clock a man ! stood on tho rear vurnnduh of tho hotel ; at this place looking quietly toward tho i summit of Grassy kuob, the highest , point of the. raugo of Long Swamp i mountains. It wan a dismal day to start ; with, um! a superabundance of rain had fallen. Quick as a flash the low rumble brok? ' into a loud roaring, and at once a wild I and furious cyclone hove in sight nt tho right baud or Southwestern end of the strip of country just described. Tho 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 iinin?' .?as seen to pass ulong to tl . South of Jasper, first rushing furiously toward tho ground, then darting wildly upward, boiling this way then that Uko a hugo pot of sneepheads, then whirling and whizzing and lashing each other, yet moving along with dignified grandeur toward tho summit of Grassy Kuob. Tho noise of the cyclone was like unto that made by tho flushing of a covey of quails, multiplied ten thousand times over. The windows rattled, and tho houses shook as the hugo whirlwind passed in sight of and within three miles of Jasper. The mass of boiling clouds, steadied a moment to wrench off tho na tivo forest that capped a hill top, dashed over like a huge bee to snatch a moun tain spur bald headed, then whizzed along over a level ridge, danced a few j fantastic jigs and with a sweep went over Grassy Knob 3,290 feet above the level of the sea aud 2,120 feet above the tallest spire in Atlanta. Tho cyclone bad come in sight seven miles to the right of Jasper. She went over tho .mountains and out of sight eight miles from Jasper. She was in sight perhaps five minute? and in ten tho track returned to its erstwhile quiet, tho devastated route being fron, half u mile to three miles across. Now let's see what it 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 aud two children, Mrs. Wyly, Mra. Lewis King and two children, John Nicholson, (reported.) Mrs. John Nicholson, Mrs. Nations, Kira. WatkinB, a child of Perry Pettitt, child of W. H. Collies, child of Hiram Walker. Making in all twenty deaths known aud accoun ted for yesterdny. The printed list above tells a sad story of sundered families, but it in cold and impotent when it comes to giving an idea of what thone deaths mean. The cyclone whisked ovoi the moun tains and into tho 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 the house of Levi Cogie. For a second it flew through tho air unobstructed, then it wrapped itself about the house, gave an angry jerk and literally tore the happy home into a million pieces. Not a shingle clung' to its fellow, and of the place and all its outhouses not one stick was left above auother. 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 the place held. Mr. Cagle was at the residence of his brother, just outside the fury of the storm, and when he saw the cyclone com ing be started toward his house. Before he reached there be was forced to cling to the underbrush to keep from blowing away, and as soon as the wind was gone he proceeded to where a moment before his house stood. A beartrendering spectacle met his 5;aze. His wife and two children were bund a hundred yards away dead. Fur ther on throe oflLor 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, . Kerran and Wright, sit dead, one with a huge tree across his body. At Tat es, or Cool Spring, as the town is called, the winds wiped the place from the face of the earth. The fallowing had houses blown down : Levi Darnell, Darnell & Tate, Cool Springs Church, Jack Goss, colored, Lina Griffin, Perry Pettit*, Betsy Chitwood, Mrs. D'joly, 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 aud Lake Woo?, were injured. All along the track of the storm houses, forests and fences were swept away, and many persons were killed or \- -?:]. A large number of auimais were also blown away and killed. The Marietta and North Georgia Road runs through the midst of it. On both side? where the track cresses tbs path of the cyclone the woods are strewn with fallen timbers. Tates looks like it had been sat on and squelched. Her houses, with one accord, were leveled to the ground. The trees are thrown first one way and then another; showing the circle in which the wind was blowing. In many places the face of the country has not a vestige of Umber left standing, and where two days sgo were dense for esta now barren hilltops atone are left. It is easy to see from the railroad, a dis tance of eight mil-38, where the cyclone went over Grassy Knob. Up the moun tain side tho rent abd torn trees make white dots that are; easily distinguished. Mr.. 8am. Tate, of Cool Springs, was in the storm. Said he : "I was passing by the Cool Springs Church and saw the storm. There- were two or three young men in the church writing a letter, and when I heard the church crack I called to them to come ont. They oame 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. Darnell's house blew down, and left his family standing unhurt on the floor." . At one place an eye witness affirms that the cyclone blew all the water out of the creek and carried ft up into thc body of the great air spout. MACON, February 20.-Accounts of tb? storm from Jone County aire beartrend lng. The work dono was fearful. Th? storm swept over a tract of country twe hundred yards wide, leaving devastator and death in its path. Numerous bouses were blown dowo, fences demolished, and ! cattle and human beings killed. Wm. Davidson, of Jones County, caine to Macon this morning to purchase twelve coffins for persons killed yesterday uftcmoou. Al half past four, cu thc ; place of Jack Miller, near BtounUville, ' u house blew down and Mrs. Miller and ber four children were ki ??ed. One child, a emull baby, has not yet been j found. It was carried away on the bo som of the wind. Gus Hunt and six negroes were also killed at the same limo 1 und place. Mr. Miller was absent from ' home at a neighbor's bouse and thus escaped death. Dr. Hilliard's house was a|so blown down. His wi le, two chil dren mid two negroes escaped unhurt, j Mrs. W. A. Julian and ber lillie son, , Lewis, ol .Macon, were visiting the house jot' Mr. Janies Hunt, of Jom-s County. ! Sbo was only a hundred yards from tho j track of tho storm. She and her son. i with twelve others, sought refuge in u hut, and tims escaped injury. Great trees were uprooted and large obstucles carried hundreds of feet. Thc people are all panic stricken. Passengers ulo-;g tho Macon und Au gusta Koa?] report great damage in thc counties contiguous lo the Hoad. All ot No. 12 station on the Central Railroad has been wept away. A Mr. Di vire, jjicll known in Macon, wus killed. Olio "victim of yesterday's storm at Davisboro is now very sick in Macon, nt the Brown I House, named Thomas E. Melville, Gen eral Agent of thc- Domestic Sewing Mu ehinc Company. He was badly hurt in ternally. Ho waa blowcd 200 yards away. MONTICELLO, GA., Feb. 20.-Yester day o venin;; our vicinity was visited by a severo hail sturm und cyclone. Tho ground was completely covered with bail stones, Boroo of them as large ns a gooso egg. The cyclone came from the South and West toward the North, ami was seen by a large number of our citizens os it passed within a mile of our town. The first wo bond of it was ut Colonel W. F. Jordan's plantation, where all of his bouses? except one or two were blown down und away. Mr. Wyly Goolsby and wife were (seriously injured. Passing or. through Mr*. Carter's place destroying houses and timbers us it eume in contact with them. At Mr. H. S. (.Mover's place it blew dowu a lurgc two story dwelling and ali of (lie out houses. The next place in its course was Mr?, Benton'oand Campbell, on Mr. Campbell';) place. It blew down a double log house to the ground. There were some uegro women m tho hou-e who barely escuped willi their lives. At Mr. Edward Elder'? place it blew down his residence, a large two-story building, his gin house, coUou preen uud every other house about tin. place, carrying the sides of tho bous*, lilly yards or more. Mr. E.der and hit wile, both eighty years old, with sonn et her relatives, were in the house ut tin time, all of whom were injured, but wi think not seriously. Tho next place Mr. C. D. Guolsby's, lost every house oi his place and only saved the lives of him self, lamily and lt. F. Ezell und daughte by going into a cave prepared for sud storms. At Mr. Joshua Hill's and S. C Charping'a place the destruction wai equally as great, not leaving a singh building standing. The tenants on tin places saved their lives by gelling inti gullies and holding to bushes. Tho dc st ruction is very great. The writer pass od over tho most of tho truck und write as an ave w-t:;css. At Mr. C. L. Cools hy's it blew down his gin house, diniDJ and stove room. Tho track was abeu one-half a mile wide. TEKMILLE, February 20.-A terribl cyclone and bail storm passed througl this County Inst uight, carrying deso?a tion and death in its track. It enterci the County crossing tho Oconee bolov No. 14 Central Railroad, and moved ii an Easterly direction, demolishing fence.1 houses and reaching the. town of Davin boro on the railroad. Every store aui house were blown dowu and the frag raeuts scattered in every direction. Ther is nothing left of the largo and subatan tial brick warehouse except the bar walls, and they are not over B?X feet bigl A part of the roof was blowu two mile: One store and two dwelling bouses ar all that surviver the wreck. Wm. Vt reen was killed by a flying piece of tin ber, and Mrs. J. W. Hudsou and Mn Cornelius Jordan, wcro badly hurt. Th former is not expected to live. Mr. Joi dan lost several mules. CAVE SPRINGS, GA., February 20. Mrs. B. C. Yancy was badly hurt by yei te rd ay's storm. Mr. Gaillard und negro boy were blown two hundred yard and were found nuder a Lg dead. A thur Ford'B family were all injured. H and his wife and daughter serious!, Miss Holt, who was staying with Mr Lapsley, was badly injured. Lapsley beautiful residence was destroyed. I H. Copeland end wife were" injure The latter, it is feared, fatally. Mi Tilley received severe injuries. Reporta from diff?rent portions of tl County re-garding yesterday's storm ind cate that outside of Cave Spring tl deamge is not BO great as at first su posed. The loss in aud about Rome wi not exceed $3,000, but the damage in tl country mainly on account of tho d struction of fences will bo much grcatc Aa far as cab bo ascertained there'was i loss of life in the County except at Ca Spring, and there also was largest inju lo property. The rise in the rivers b thus far amounted to very little, and a fears of a freshet at this place are ba pily dissipated. ATHENS, February 20.-The cycloi struck Mn. Jarrett's, near Jefferson, ai unroofed her house and killed one of h horses. Parties in Harmony Grove HI tho cyclone and say it looked like a fu se!, that it went up io the air so th they could Bee under it, and a elm coming from the Northwest carried below Harmony Grove, where it stru the Nash house, completely demolishii the house, killing one of the old ladi who bas been living in the house foi number of years and the other ono thought to be dying. Mrs. Carlisle Na? who was living with her two maid aunts, is badly mangled. FRANKLIN*, February 20.-A terril cyclone passed through a part of Hes county to-dsy. Tho result is not fu known at Franklin as yet, but it is c tain that one negro was killed and neve other negroes and whites have beeu bat wounded. Many bouses were hlo' down and tho tree? and fences have co pletely blockaded the roads. 8otne c tie are known to be killed, and a horses and mules are missing. One white family living on the ra of F. O. Moore, are all missing, and the buildings of every kind on the ph blown away. It is boped that the fam waa off visiting ned will yet come unhurt. This, however, is thought i to be probable. Parties have gone < to-night to assist in relieving the BUA log and will retnrn to-morrow when i resolta will be reported. In Qconee county it blew a great d of fencing down. Hail stones fell Harmony Grove aa large as a man's and would weigh soven ounces. 1 bail was not round, bat looked like la auantitiea had come together and fror lor Informant states that the atc munt bave been fearful about Apple Valley, in Jackson county, as be eaw it strike in that direction, and from its look* nothing could have been left stain!* ing. He nay* '.ho cloud from tho North weat must have broken the forco of the cyclone beforo it struck the Nash house. INDIAN SPRING, GA., February 20. The heaviest hail storm ever known here visited our community nt 3 p. m., yester day, and lasted half nu hour. Tho hail Moues f,.?| ag thick as rain drops until the ground was perfectly white with them. Kirai len minnies the hail was small, but continued to increase in sizo until they measured nine inches tn circumference by actual measurement. The sight was terrifying, but beautiful. The stones were in shapes of full-blown roses, dahlia? and crystals. Our oldest citizens ssy ihey have never seen anything like it before. The riantsgo ?%>UG tv as very great-many persons were injured by falling stones; tin roofs were knocked into holes ; limbs of trees torn off j glasses shattered and caused several runaway scrapes. The nows of the storm nt Mon ticello is appalling, indeed. Reports say the places <?f Mr. E. A. Elder, Glover, Oharping and Jordon's near Monticello, wert- ravaged by thc storms. Few bonnes on these places wero left standing. No los-, of lifo yet reported. Mr. Eldor had his arm broken when bis house was destroyed. No other casualties yet re ported. llcuth nuil nulli III Kurili Cnrollnn. ROCKINGHAM, N. C., February 20. About 10 o'clock last night s most ia\r fui und destructive storm swept over this section. For awhile thc scene was ter rific. Lightning Hashed lo 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 known here, as the wires are down, cutting us ol? from communi cation by telegraph. The breadth of the severest part was le*s than half a mile, which did not reach our town. Our information, thus far, extends only seven miles Southwest, where wo learn that houses, trees, fences and every mov able object were either damaged or torn away. Four miles from town, in tho sanie direction, tho dwelling of Mr. Daniel Watson was demolished, bis wife and one of ber brothers were killed out right, and Mr. Watson himself seriously it not fatally injured. Two miles East dom Rockingham wore tho mills and tenun houses-a dozen perhaps-ol'Mm. Eliza McDonald, and thc sight presented tn th? oye of tho beholder there this morning beggars description. Men, wo mei. and children, dead or seriously in jured, were lying here and there among tho debris of demolished houses, shat tered furniture and drenched bedding, while far on either hide wero scattered fragments of dwellings and remnants of clothing. Horses, cows, hogs, dogs and chickens shared tho terrible fate of their owners. The mills were swept away. The rocks in the grist mill were lifted from their bid and carried fully thirty feot. Of tho tenant houses not one sill or chimney remains in place. Three whites, nann.Iv, Richard Daw kins, Charlie Sanford and Henrietta Griffin, were killed outright, and a little son ol' Mr. Dawkins is expected to die at any moment. Ten colored noraonH were also killed outright. I find it im|>ossible lo get the number and names of all the injured. Mr. Asbury Ranford ?a serious ly injured, as is also Mrs Grant. The casualties will aggregate fifty or m >, of whom twenty at least are seriously in jured. About three miles from Mrs. McDonald'!!, in n Northeasterly direc ''JD, lived Mrs. Watson, tho mother of Messrs. J. S. and H. C. Watson, of Rock ingham. Not a house, chimney nor fence was left on tho premises. Strange to say no serious casualties occurred, a son and daughter of Mre. 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 ?lay, and the pall of death seems to have settled over the town and vicinage Tho dead and injured from Mrs. McDonald's placo were brought to town this morning, and the Courthouse waa converted into a temporary hospital and morgue, and tender hands ministered to the wants of the suffering and prepared tho 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 thc one last night was far more terrible. Not a house in Rockingham could have withetood the severpst part of tho storm had it struck fully. WILMINGTON, N. C., February 21. Special advices to the Mar give further particulars of tho cyclone. The centre of the storm struck tho outskirts of Rockingham and with such sudden fury that the peopie were unable to escape from their bouses. The buildings were blown into fragments. Some bodies were found under tho timbers and others were carried by the wind 100 to 200 yards. A woman was found clasping to her breast an infant scarcely a month old. Both were dead. The bodies of tho victims were terriblv bruised and cut. The forco of the wind was suca that two mill stones were moved one hundred feet. Chickens and birds were found picked clean, except the feathers on their heads. Tho hirgeut trees T;t.-:e uprooted, and smaller one-, bad al' the bark stripped from their trunke. The storm first made its appearance at 7:20 p. m. coining from a Southweste: ly direction from Hamlet, Richmond Coun ty, N. C. The Eastern sky wss 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 Weslwsrd. At midnight the sky was dazzling red and at 1 a. m. there was an unusually heavy fall of rain. Tho killed and wounded belong almost exclu sively to thc poorer class, and there will be suffering and destitution among the survivors. It is feared there was great loss of lifo and property in interior points in the track of the storm not yet heard from. Already thirty-three dead bodies have been found in Richmond County, near Rockingham and Hamlet. Tho Tornado In Tennessee. NASHVILLE TENN., February 21. Clarksville was visited on Tuesday by two destructive cyclones about two hoars apart. They swept through the central part of the city, leveling many houses and doing serious durango to hundreds of buildings. Two churches were nearly blown down, two towt is were taken oft tbe Court house, one erid was blown out of the Franklin HoV?\ and much other destruction was caused. Many persons were seriously injured. The roof of the Chronicle office, rafters and all, was lilted np 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 HOWLER'S RESURRECTION. A Sketch from Lifo lu tho Backwood?. Ehe j Hay in the Southern World. "Jim Dowler waa diuwned this morn iu' in lien Nickoll'a mill pond." So spake n rustic equestrian as lie tied his mulo to a hickory sapling before tbe carpenter's door at Johnson's Cross Roads, and drew from his pocket a slip of greasy paper on which were inscribed tho di mensions of a rude wooden collin. "What- how-drownded !" exclaimed a chorus of nasal voices, as thc inmates of tho tavern, tho Blore and tho black smith shop turned out en moue to hear the news. Even the carpenter forgot the prospect of a job and stood iu his door to listen. "Wall, ycr seo," continued the messen ger after a little pause, by way of assert ing his importance as first bearer of tbe ridings, "him nud Rob Simpson, they went in a washin', 'causo las' night, y'all knows, was a powerful hot one, nu' Bob soys, bo did, that Jim 'lowed 'less he could git cooled oil' a bit 'fore breakfast time, ho'd fritter up like a keg o' soap grease ou t' fire, an' 'lowed he was a awcatin' hisscf liko a hos*, so they j int stepped over to Bon Niekoll's pond, au' it mought bo about four o'clock in t' mornin', an' be say, he did, they hadn't been in I' water moro'n ten minuits when Jim says, says he, 'Bob, I'm took with thc cramps;' au' Bob says, ?.ays be : 'Belter swim out then, as quick as yor kin,' an' ho say 'fore I' words wa.-, woii outer his mouth. Jim had dono flopped over like a dean duck an' gone to I' bottom 'foro ho could so much ns teach a hand to bim, au' bc uiver seed bim no more tell he was fished up, a hour afterwards, as dead as a door nail. Tom Brinson an' Sam Wilkins, they holp fur tor fish bim out, an' Dr. McJunkm, he went down thar d'reckly arter breakfast, anr they all kin tell yer moro 'bout it 'n I kin." Bob and Sam, and Tom and the doc tor immediately became, the heroes of the hour. The storo-keeper, thc tavern keeper and tho blacksmith all shut up shop and went to bear each of the eve witnesses in turn give an account of tue tragedy, and theu hastened away, each | 1 to give his own. Tho nows aproad from mouth to mouth with a rapidity that would bailie tho telo gropb, and long before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, tbe hour appointed for the funeral, it bad reached the remotest cor- ( ner of tho Bear's Foot district, and peo- ' plo wero hurrying from every direction j to assist at tho ceremony. Tho women were as anxious to Bee how , Mrs. Howler would "take it," aa the mea ' were to hear particulars of the drowning, j A crowd of tbem had pervaded the house J ever since the first newB of the disaster got abroad-attracted by the morbid cu- ' riosity of tho vulgar concerning whatever j is horrible and bloodcurdling, by the lugu brious pleasure that old women alwayB j tako in funerals, and a little, let us hope, by the kindly sympathy for tho distressed 1 that lives in every female heart, no mat- '. ter how humble the garb that covers it. ; A sudden or violent death is always a . tempting theme to tho-rustic''moralist, and the fact that Jim Dowler was the . richest man in the settlement, and a dea con of llepzibah church, gave greater unction to the sage reflections that bis 1 death called forth. Mrs. Brinson grave ly declared that the ways of providence j wa* unaccountable. Miss Kitty Dsrden 1 took a fresh dip of snufT and said that abo couldn't seo why ho was took-no she couldn't I Here the widow broke in I with : ' "I wo di I bad went with him. I wosh 1 I had went with bim I" and the atten tion of the company was diverted for j awhile till they bad calmed ber with a big mop and u double supply of "Mac- 8 ca boy." "We must all die some day?" resumed Mrs. Tatom, by way cf consomiion, and 1 the women all sighed and nodded assent * to this original proposition. "But be was took BO suddent," moaned 1 the widow, and relieved her feelings by c discharging a volley of snuff upon tho \ hearth. ? "It was all along o' that mill pond," J' put in Mrs. Pringle, giving a fresh turn B to ber mop. "It waa a tempting Provi dent fur bira an* Bob Simpson to go in there an' they knowin' Sally Crane's Ut ile boy w?_s drownded thar a year ago, the Friday before tho next fuBt sunday * but one." "I don't see no good of all this washin' 8 of hisaef, no way," whispered cid Mrs. Perkins to Miss Kitty Darden, "hit's all notbin' but pride, an' the Scrip ture says, 'pride goeth afore a fall,' an' a drownin's the snme thing, fur hit's a fall in the water. I hain't gin myself a waahin' these twenty year an' more, an' | fl I don't see but I'm jls' na eooA as them that baa. Hit was pride, sister Darden,. depend upon it, an' Providence tuk him 1 ter put down his pride fur trying tor bo 11 clcancr'n other folks." Mrs. Perkin's remarks were cnt abort by the announcement that brother Duck- ' er, the minister, had arrived, and was ready to conduct the services. After 1 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 1 would bo preached at Hepzibah the next v "first Sunday," at the August meetin,' . and then proceeded to close the exercises 1 with an extemporaneous prayer : "Ob, Lord, now strange air thy ways and au ful air the dealings of thy Provi dence. T^ou h fist =?on fitteu to take away our good brother Dowler from 1 among us ; Thou hast cut him down like I the grass when he was green-no, Lord, I didn't mesn cut him down, but drown ded him ?ike a blind puppy. Thou host tooken him away-a good man, a useful man, a deacon in the church, and the best prayin' member we had, while ole Billy Taylor over yonder, that'a always drunk, anti no good to himself nor any body el so, and never give a dollar to the church in his life, he's left; yes. he's lc fi-a, and brother Dowler gone-a." [ Here the women ail blew their noses violently, while Billy Taylor himself was so overcome by the preacher's eloquence that he studed 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. Bister Dow* ler'a always been a good woman-good to the church-n, good to the poor-a, and f;ond to the preacher ; there's no woman n all Beera Foot dlstrick 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 abo won't starve, Lord, but abe'll need, Homebody to manage it for her, nn, oh. Lord, thou hos took away her prop ab' her stay an' there's nobody to control ber niggers for her till she gita another hus* band. But, Lord, though thy judge ments seems hard, we know that thoa doest not afflict willingly, and they mast all turo Out for good in the jong ruo. Thou hast afflicted our sister, hut Thou Will comfort bor agin : Thou will not leave the widder and the orphan disso lute. Thou hast took away one has-1 band, but thou canst givo buck another. There'-- Sam WilkiuB, which he lost his wife t' other day, ef he aint mos' too young fur her, au' ef he is there's brother Barker what's lont three wives already an' wants another, and John Ji merson with Iiis ten motherless children, and plenty of good brothers that'll all be ready to comfort the widdcr and take eire of her property, and ef uone o' the rest of 'em wants to do it, I'll do it my? eelf-a-" "Ding my hones cf yer do 1" suddenly resounded in awful tones from the collin; the lid, which had not yet been nailed down, was dashed violently to the floor, and Jim Dowler, spouting like a whale, rose and sat upright in his shroud. Ho 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 causo or other, ho regniucd consciousness and speech ut the same moment, and thus rudely interrupted his own funeral. Tho greatest consternation seized the assembly ; the women shrieked, the men bolted through doors and windows as if shot out hy an explosion of dynamite, while brothvr Ducker scrambled upon his bony mulo, and was not seen again in tho settlement for a twelve-month. Thc women of Bear's Foot had never dudicd tho polite art of fainting, so Mrs. Dowler expressed her fceliugs by falling upon tho floor and kicking and scream ing with all her might, ?ill Jim Dowler scrambled out of his cofliu and rn? ore he'd put her in st. ef she didn't slop her "tar nation racket." This admonition had a soothing effect, and quiet was restored once more to the Dowler household. Jim's good 1; H ?nor returned with tho dawn >f peace, and bestowing upon his aston ished and now docile spouse a hearty kiss, lie ordered the coffin taken away and de clared that "ef thor warnt nary fu'nel in that house tell ho gin one, it 'ud be a loug timo to wait, fur he meant to out live preacher Ducker and all them other ?hap:! what was so willin' to comfort his wife and take caro"o' tho property." Jim kept hui word, or rather Providence kept it ?br him, as he lived to assist at tho funeral of parson Ducker and several Jthers who had once thought to have a nun! in his. "Bun Along Now.? Tho ovoning was bitterly cold. Two children-a boy with a manly face, an ixpresBion of matured concern, as though tome one had ever been dependent on tim, and a pale-faced little girl-wan lered around tho streets of a Western rity. They bad been ?eft by an immi ;rant train, having fallon asleep in the jam-like waiting roora, and, owing to .bo hurry incident upon departure, no >no thought of them. They begged the dation keeper to allow them to remain >y the fire, but he discredited their story ' -declared that they had not been lett jy a train ; that they lived in the city, ind were only "hanging around" to steal tomcthing. Everybody hurried along. \To one had n kind look for the waits. They went into the warm corridor of a lotel but a man said : "Run along now. You dou't want lo )0 stopping here." "We are nearly frozen," the hoy re- . died, "and we want lo get warm." "Children ought to be at homo such vcather as th?B. Yass mother ought to enow belter than to send you out:" "Our mother is dead, sir. She died wo weeks ago, and wo came away with >eoplo that ure going South where it's vam), but the train has left us, and tho nan wont let us stay in tho depot." "Very good story, young fellow ; but un along now. Parents that would send heir children out to beg such weather is this should be punisned." "We aro uot begging." "Run along with you," and he opened he door aud they passed out iuto the ?utting wind. Tho, fierce blast seemed o blow the darkness close up to the amp; the tired teams seemed to blow hilling mists from their nostrils; and he heavy wagon wheols seemed to sink [eep into the darkness and pulverize the ;loom. The children went into a drug tore. "Run along there." They went into a restaurant. "Run along there." They went into a saloon whero merry evelera sang wild songs, and where the aaudlin man dropped a tear in bis ?lasa. "Run along there," said the bar-tender. This ts no place for children." "Let us warm ourselves," implored the . ioy, and be repeated bis story. ?4That's all very well, young man, but laven't I seen you around tho streets, legging many a time ?" RNo, sir." "I think I have. I'll bet you haven't aken no loss than $10 home to day, tun along." Again they were in the freezing gloom. "Oh, where wll> we wake in the moro ng T" came from the saloon and died on he cold air, as tho boy and bis sister urned a corner. "Don't cry my little pet.". "I'm so cold." "Yes ; hut we may find some place, jet us go back to the depot, and may be re can get on a train." They wandered around in the blind ng sleet. ''We are a long time getting there,' aid the girl. "I believe we are lost," the brothel ?piled, "Let us turn ia hers,'' and they rent into a narrow alley and crouched lown by a wall. Ab, Mr. Humanity, because youvjiave ?eeo a few times deceived ; because you iavo sometimes shown pity, and alter rards found that it was ill-bestowed, you lave hardened your heart. Ab, Mr. Churchman, whose knees >ress the soft velvet at the time of prayer : rou who eco Buffering with dry eyes, and ead, with moisture, tbe "simple ann?ht >f the poor," scratch from your Bibles he heart-warming sentence, "Suffer lit te children to come tinto me''-scratch t out, or you are a hypocrite. "If I could smell the dog-wood bios? oma by the porch I wouldn't be so cold," ?id the little girl. "It will be a long time before they doom again, roy pet." "Will this cold weather kill the tree?" "No, but it will be a long time before ummer comes." "Can people in beaven look down and ee people on the earth ?" "Yes. I think so." "I wish they couldn't" "Why, pet?" "Because, If mamma looks down and ec? ua, she wouldn't be happy any more." He drew her closer to him. Tho ueigh ?oring lights went out one by one. - The Icet seemed to ba conquering every hing. The dog that bad barked over om he bill was silent. , . : ? ? ? ' . ? .# * - A cheerless, freezing morning broke, n an alley eat two rigid? forms. The ioy waa in his shirt sleeves. He bad tut bis tattered jacket, around his little is ter.- Ihres Syiings. -: Thia lina filia out tho col ama.