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was totally destroyed, no one hurt Two tenant houses on Thomas Dick son's place were swept away. On Col T.J. Pickens' place the main hous was not seriously damaged. Two chim neys were partly blown down, and th kitchen. (lestroyed. A negro boy In th kitchen was hurt, and Col. Picken was struck on the head with somethini as lie opened the door to render assist :ince to the boy. Two tenant house onl Maj. Simpson's place were destroy ed, bit no one hurt. On G. B. Whit ten's place all the outbuildings wer, blown (own. On Willian Watkin' place two tenant houses were deStroy ed. The Passmiore brldgre on 3 and 2 ereek was torn up by the storm, oul: the sills being left. Samuel lix lvi his house unroofed and outhouses dc stroyed. Osborne Watkins' house wa blown down. IHe anld his wife wer absent at the time. 0 and 20 ehurel was destroyed. James Mullikin's hous, vas uiroofed. George Muilikin's kitch en was blown down. Richard Mull kin's house was blown down. Ther< were 12 people in the house. two o whom. Mrs. Louisa Mullikin and Mis Mary Campbell, were slightly injured A negro iouse was blown down am btrneld. The following people in Wil limston township suffered more o less from the storm: Mrs. Seawrigh Mrs. Spearman and Dr. John Richard son. One says that htuge trees am rocks were hurled through the air lik< iitl. Clothing. furniture, am pro visionIs were scattered Over the coluint for miles. The people of the countitr' for miles around are flocking to thei nearest point of the Cyclone and at busy repairing an( rebtilding house; for the suifferers. Mr. James Miulligan's (welling am tentant houses were all blown down Mr. Mulligan's family were all in th iouses, bit no one was hutrt. On Mr D. A. Mulligan's place all the house blew ( down. Iwo ladies were pain fully hurt. Mr. T. E. James, who live in Brushy Creek Township, Anderson count.ty, has a Spanish silver coin o 1802, which was picked Ill) oil Tuesdai just after the Cyclone passel by Mrs Willie Merritt, in a pistuire. It i! bright and clean, and had evidentli been carefully, securely kept for a lon Htime. The sul)ppositiont is that it is - waif from the storm, blown from some body's horise. If anybody Call give in formation as to where it came from o who owns it, Mr. James would be glat to hear. from them at Brushy Creel Post Ofilce. Tios. Mutirphy's place wai visiftedI and Is ouitbulildinlgs-delstr-oyedO(, and the piazza and chimneys blowi from his d welling. Mr. B. F. Russell informs the MEs HENGER'I that he paid a visit to the plaC4 of Col. J. Jamnisont on T1huursday aftel the cyclone, and there met an appall ing sight, one never to be forgotten Thelu dIwellinig and~ 18 other' buildings ot the place were literally (dest royedl, t hi chimneys even being thrown to th< g~routnd antd the~ sills of the house being~ moved for somre dlistanCe. T1he yart( ani l suirroundintg gro:undls arc a mass o: rutbbish, Furniture, beds, bedding (clot hing, &c , all torn to piees and car ried away by the storm,except one fea ther' bed. One of his horses were crip pled and his flie cows all more or les inljuredl, one of them losing one horn Mr. .Jameson was absent at the time and whenu the family saw the cyclom4 ap~proachting, they rushted out into th<~ yard and brought in some boxes am barr'1els th-it were sitting by, placing hem in one cornetr of the (dining-roon just in time for them to htliddle aroumt~t ithem, as the gable end( andt rOof soo1 fellI in, covering' them up, the boxe: and barrels holding the mass oll' fron all butt Mrs. Jamison andl one of be datugh ters, wvho were soon1 released b.: the O ohers,. vho1 hadIcrawledi out, TIhea wvere not tmch injured. Chickens, tur keCys, &c., were killed andl lying ail around thme yard andl~ the feathers evet were blown fi-om thenm. A lar'ge tree standoing in the :yard .was pierced by fece)C rail, the end going clear through andl shivng on ta oppoien sid. n of the plates from the house, 6 inches a - square, was carried 300 yards and 8tove < in the ground to the depth of four feet. < e His wagon was torn to pieces, one of < - the wheels beingearried entirely away. % D Ils .buggy Is also a total wreck. In I e fact. hi lland is about all that Is left S s him. Ils loss will not fall short of m - $3000. Mr. Russell also says that Fred Ow- t s ens, who lives near Mr. Jamison, suif- t fored from the cyclone pretty much in < the same manner on his place. There A cx were seven women in the house at the t s time, on1e of whom had in her arms a t - five weeks old child, which was twisted 2 D from her arms and thrown ito the i V yard and covered with the debris, but i 1 strange to say was not even scratched. I Mrs. Owens received a slight scratch s over one eye, and her little (daughter I Le received a blow on the back of her 8 a head, which gave her nmuch pain, calls- i e ihg her to be delirious all day Thursday, t bit is not considered dlangerous. Noie t - of the rest were hurt, but fearfully % B friglitenied. There was a large force v f of men at each place helping to clear i away the inbbish and rebuilding. The t . Six-and-Twenty Baptist Churcl was i .1 taken bodily up 20 feet into the air be- i - fore going to pieces, and was an entire s r wreek. Mr. Russell lives 6 miles North t t. of the storm track, and says that on his i - place fell fraginetts of fodder, fence I rails. boards. shingles,plan k. scantling. pine twigs, oak leaves, &c. [From the Seneca Free Press.] A cyclone passed through the town ships of Center and Seneca in our county about 5 oulock on last Tuesday afternoon . It made it first d(cenat. so far as we can learn, na r Earle's Mills, inl our1 coluitty, and from this point proceeded in a niorthasterly di rection, passing t hrough t h farmi of John Gibson, Dr. Yarborohrl, Parker Whittield, J. W. LiVings.ton, Princet Riley, Moses Lewis, John)I Maxwell anid o0n thiougli the Phillips place and the old North place to the Seaborn planta tion below Pendleton. Upon tile Gib s0 farm, dwelling houses and all the outbuildings were blown down, bit no persons seriously injured. Old Provi detnce Chur ch , which h1as been used as C a school-house, was blown down and - the dlaughter of Mr. flezekialh Bruce I was killed and the dauiglter' of Mr. Cole C Seriously iujilre(l. uponi tht Yarbor- - ouigh plantation several tenant houses I were (estroyed. The dwellilg house of Parker Whitflelid was unroofe(, but. his family escaped uninjured. Oh the Liv- I ingston plantation the large dwelling a houise and1l 14 othe r houses were swept t away. Mr. John Patterson, with his wife and his wife's mother, Ms. McCra- t ry, andl ten of his childreni were in thme I large plantitation house, which had 8 -roomas besidles three piamzzas, andl none 1 were injured except Mrs. McCrary, 1 who haid ani armU broken. How they (< escaped is miost wonder'ful. Mr. TVhos.1 aPatterson living on this plantation. lost ai ins hiorse by au piece of weather-board ing~ going through its head. After the ' storm, thme anaimnal camne tup from the lot i I to Mr. Patterson with the boarding, I I which was about 4 feet long, remain ing in its head. The boalrd was pulledl 1 - out andI tige hiorse walked about breath- 1. -ig t broughl tile opening made by the (1 - plan) , unttil Wednesday evening wheni he shot it. On thme farm of Coesar Sing letonl, coloredl, all thme housies were a blown (down. is wife was seriously t inljuredC anud a child so severely cut a-< bout its head that the p~hysicians think I it will lose one of its eyes. Prince Ri- I e ley, colored, had all the houses upon01 t a his 1place swept aw4ay. The tenanit 1 i hlouses on1 the planitution of Dr. .J. HI.: a Maxwell. occupied by G. B. Whitten, I a Ilollis Whit'ena, Moses Lewis and Char a lie Regular andl all the ouatbuildings i r. were. swept away. Mrs. Whitteni was e .severely bruised. The wife of Char- I ,e lie Reguilar was seriously,. if' not fatal - 1rly i injred by a tree falling upon har, 1 1 and her little baby tow~o weeks old, hid I i its thigh broken. ilolils W hitten,' liv- 1 ing on the same plantation, frad all his 1 hou ses torna (lownv andi two 61 his 'cows ikilled. On the Phillips amta the ol I 3 North plauitat ions not a houne a left Ii dwelling. At Newton, Catawbacoun ty, a Methodist Church was swept e away and a colored settlement obliter ated. A family of six persons is re ported killed at Lenoir, but there was 1 no other. loss of life. A house wis lifted up bodily and put across the I track of the Atlantic, Tennemqce and - Ohio road. Vast damage was done by - eyclones in Kentucky, Indiana, amd I Ohio, many buildings being demolish ed and a number of jersons killed. THOMAS' Smoothing HARROW, AS A 1 , and is especially adapted f'or rcultivating Corn, Cotton 1 an1d Small grain crops. 1 Thousands of them are beingr sold every yeart. Let every farmer save t time and MONEY by pur chasing one. HUDGENS & HUDGEN8, Easey, S. C. Agents for Pickens C o Mar 28--9in TILE SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, AND DISSOLVED BONE Acid - PHLOSPH[ATE, SO)LDJ]]Y 1SAAC0 WILLiAMS - A'asley, S. c. (NIVEime a call, and get prices. I w ilI lease to ser*ve all t tt old friend1s of the Pacific (Guano .and~ of the Acid Phosphiate. See me at~ the Warehouse on East end( of the Dep)ot. f Feb 22---tf J. G. DLAVK, Main St.., Greenville, S. C. 3Yrd fi)oor .'Thore Coffee S. (7ENUINE Wmn. Rogers (Cutlery, . J Set of Knives and F'orks $8.50O. Generald assortmnent of good .Jewehty carefully selected. Best family Sa specialty, arnd at close figures. Repairing wattche.s and jewelry r1 lpromptly (done. feb 2'- -Smu tanding. Jim Reed, colorad, livii in the former lost an ox. The trael of the cyclone was about one-qtuartei If a mile inl width. In it large rocki velghing several imudred poinds wer orm(d which had plotghed up the earti is if fired from a cannotn. Large treei md small bushes had the bark peele< off and torn from t I -ir roots or twist Ad off above the groundI(l. At Johui Pat erson's. on the TLivilngston place, ok iaks which had been standing "tim Yihereof the memory of man1 runneti tot to the contrary" and which meas tred 4 feet in diameter were. torn ui mdrl carried some 10 or 15 feet fron vhere they were standing. Plank md shingles were found drivan int he stuips of the trees left standint Lnd a wooden pin which no doubt cam I romi the house in which Mr. Patter oil was living. was foun1d d(1riven two uches into a tree which stood abos ell feet from the dwelling. Mr. Pat erson h:td about 30 chickens whiel %-ere not only killed but had the feath rs pickedl otr. Several rabbits wen ouid with the hair torn off and leg >roken. A large bird was also picke< Ip with its wings broken. A colorel nan who Was sta (nding on a hill aiu aw it pass through this plaltation say hat the cyclone was shaped like a fim il and had a blieish black appearanc nd carried- before it a cloud of mu Mu wath and bralncheiS of trees. I1 ays that it wotld move for a m1om1en vith great rapidity and then whirl a o11nd. Ilis staIteient is confirmed bi 01r. .I'atterson. wIo says he saw I oming in this wa and thatl he c011 asily have geui to a place of saf(ety i Itch could have been fouid, In th< rack at intervals the trees were lyin( ole with their tops inl one dirlectiol nd others with their tops inl a diflei ut (irection. ,Thie peojle living alon he track of the cyclone both white am olored turned out in full force on Wed lesday to render such assistance a hey could to the sufferers' Ghester Bulle tin : A cyclone passe< little Nort ii of here Tuesday evenini bauit 6 o'clock. Soue of Walker Bin is's houses were blown down. Mos if Joshua L. Abell's houses were de troyed. All of V. II. Abell's houses acludinug Ik dwelling, were demolish d. Mr. Abell, his wife, father, E,. 11 thell and a nurse, vwre serio'usly in tired. Wade Dunlap's house was tori lown and their child lost or swep .way. These are the tidings that hav (ached us from th-, track of the storn .t its nearest point. It is to be suippose< hat it was just. as bad at other places The Yorkville Enquirer says : Thi rack of t he storm was north-east front 1. If. McCorkle's, 0one mile and1 a hal uorth of town. On this place it wa lestructive t~o timber. It passed north v'est, blowing down much timber ini it ourse, to the residence of Dr. J. H1 Vitherspoonu, where it was quite de tructive. Ihis stables were torn dlown~ auch of his fodder carriedl away, tree vere upjrootedl, fowls killed, stock crip led and other damage done). Mis ouisa Robinson also sufferedl. lie welling was destroyed and she wa ~adly hurt. and1 much (damage to tim or in her neighborhood. James Got oni's place suitferedl severely. The res lence of Mrs. Caroline Thomtasson Lear Gordon's place, was pairtly uni oofed, and a portion of the chtimne; or'n down. The track of the storn ontinued north-east of her place. Thi esidenice of R. L. Simons, on Generat aw's plac, about 2& miles north o own, was badly damaged, the r'oo ilown entirely off, the chiminey (lown .nd the house movedl about 10 fce rom its oiginal foundation. A bugg ai the yard w-is torn to pieces. T iuildinlgs on J. fleury Wallace's lacu vere inljuredl. S. J1. Harvey also sul ed~ in dlamiage to his builings. From. North Carolina cyclones ar ep)ortedl 'in Mecklenburg, Iredell, Cai awba and Cald well, the last strikin muildilngs were destroyed and1( vast quar it;Ies of tiinber blowin (down. Rober lay, of Meeklenburg, was badly in tired by timbers of his demolishe