Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1837-07-21
Dreadful TornndnI


permitted to make the following extract from letter
ceived yesterday from Jas s. Kemper his father H.
Kemper, of Cottage Farm, dated
SouTH HANovER, July 9th, 1887.
81 set down in haste TO give you some account of
scene the most terrific and appalling have ever wit
messed! Our village that yesterday peaceful and
cheerful is in ruins. Yesterday evening about six
o'clock the heavens the appearance of a coming
storm, and in hour most fearful tornado burst upon
us, sweeping village in devastation, Though
praised be a mercul God, not in death) The
terrific beyond my powers of description The boarding
house here has the whole of gable end torn Mr.
Youngs store, substantial brick building, is heap of
ruins-Dr Matthews house is taken off at the eves-the
house in which Mr. Bishop lived HILL is torn to
fragmentsone end of Colonel Morrows house torn to-
the ground-Mr Chever's house is torn pieces-the
College roofs riddled and the wing level e,a-a With
the ground hnd about fourth of the easesn wall of
the main building lying scattered the earth-Pro-
fessor Niles house is torn up from its very foundation
the very floors and stills carried awaya the furni
ture and the professors library totally lost Mr. But
Ter occupied the house, fortunately there none of
them at home. The steam mill is destroyed.
These but of the principal losses some ten or
fifteen other buildings dwellings, out-houses shops &c
destroyed Trees of all sizes and kinds are torn up
and dashed to atoms There but few buildings in the
place, especially in the northern and central parts of it,
where all the important buildings are that are not
racked and seriously injured. The streets covered
with fragments This was the work Of certainly less
than five mnutes-yet wonderful it appears, amidst
the crash of falling buildings, the fury of the bursting
tempest the peals of thunder and the vd glare of light
ming, not soul in Hanover its vicinity was either
killed seriously injured "-Cincinnati Ga@ette.
A FRIoHrruL CRIME-The Mercer L.uminary of the
9th inst records instance of precocious depravty al
most too revolving to bceve and yet the editor states
that it is well authenticated.
zone day, few weeks since, n family in Venango
county, the Mercer county line absent from
home leaving behind but small boys one sew
and the other only five years of age On their return
in the evening" they found the eldest boy in the house.
and his brother being absent they inquired for him. but
received satisfactory their Undergraduates
They then commenced search and after time found
his dead body short distance from the house, covered
over with brush After this discovery, the elder boy
confessed that he had purposey shot his brother with
gun which left loaded in the house. dragged him to
the place where he was fonnd, and covered him with
brush He then returned to the house. wiped the blood
of the floor, and waited the of his parents Hor
rbe this picture is to contemplate what is still
strange the boy shows signs of remorse for the
mission of the bloody deed; but the contrary when
demonstrated with for his unnatural conduct by his
mother he threatened her life and added that he would
be the death Of her some day."
DREADFrL AccIDEsr.-On Monday afternoon at about
O'clock the steamboat Union which had lust com
menced running II ferry boat between Alexandria, D.
c. and the Maryland shore while about from the
opposite side of the river burst her boiler with
duus explosion. The A"ysnart- s@~,t.- ~. -',urec
m wciS kill upon the spot, Mrs Green, the wife of
the engineer, am Il black man and black woman.
het " persons drcadfuly scaded and cut but
we hope other lives will be lost. The Boat
ming gratis all day, and numbers of persons were
doubt be inquired into by competent persons and further
particulars given III our next"
Another Steamboat bloon up THE Alton Qlinois)
Spectator, of the 18th ult, contains postscript stating
that the steamboat b. J. Gilman, blown up the
morning of the 21h about 80 miles above the mouth of
the Ohio, ON her way from Alton to Cincinnati The
tent of damage and loss Of lives ascerained but
EN- badly scalded, among whom Captain McGraw
who acting mate
Also, the steamboat Roanoke struck snag few miles
above Cincinnati about the 25th and sunk.
MuRDER-THE EFFECTS OF lETEMPERANcE We learn
that considerable excitement has existed for few days
past in the towns of Toland and Granville Mass in
sequence of the murder of "a Mr. Fuller of the former
place, by "a named Jesse Hall Ii appears that Full
Hall Sunday the I'd inst. in state of intoxication-
that quarrel there which resulted in the murder
of Fuller, and the secretion of his body pond BY
where il has since been found Immediately after the re-
covery of the body, Hall absconded. He was however
arrested about ten miles distant in the north part of
Bandford, where he attempted to cut his throat with
pen knife but succeeded only in bleeding himself pretty
thoroughly Hail. with his three associates,
examined before three Justices in West Granville Sat
urday last No evidence appearing that these associates
had any thing to do with the quarrel between Fuller and
Hail. they were liberated, and Hall committed to the
Jail in Springfield, to await further trial
wholesale Counterfeiter arrested Saturday.
at Burlington, Vt He had in his possession a wallet
containing sl947 in counterfeit bills fresh from the
mint upon the following Banks Eagle Bank, Boston,
So; Bank of Baltimore sl0i Amherst Bank Mass. So /;
farmers Bank, of Reading, Pa So; Bank of Pennsyva
MIA, $40; Charles River Bank, 50 Bank of Ithaca SIS
Lansingburgh Bank, IS.
The fellow gave the of Stephen Mack, and said
he resided at Springfield Mass He confessed that the
counterfeit and affirmed that it his first
Experiment upon the currency. ys1
BRIGHTON MARKET Monday July II.