The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-30
Terrible Tornado.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PRoPERrY-Loss of
Life.-We learn from the Shelby tKy.) News, of
the 2lst inst that terrible storm passed over that
county on the night of the Doth, about Is minutes
before 10 o'clock. The duration of the storm was
not more than from one to two minutes, and yet,
in that brief period, immense damage was done to
the town. Mr.. O'Neill's rope-walk and hemp.
house are considerably injured, and horses leg
broken. The house belonging to the heirs of Henry
Crttenden, deceased, occupied by Mr.. O'Niell, had
the gable end blown in and the kitchen partly de-
moished. Mr.. I. divers house was slightly in
jured Mr.. Coot's shop very much injured; the
blacksmith-shop of Messrs. Willis and McCamp-
bell RACED to the ground. Mrs. Marshall's kitchen
was demolished MIR. Stanford's front brick dwell
ing perfectly demolished also frame house i'm
mediately opposite, as also another a short dis
lance above. Miss Abby Mls's dwelling, Mr.. A.
Smiths, and those occupied by Mi. Rosebury, Mr..
Demaree, Mr. J. w. Hickman, Mr. J. F. Chinn,
and Mr.. w. McCampbell, were greatly damaged.
A number of stables, chimneys and fences are
blown down. Cellar doors were blown open and
torn from their hinges, and much minor injury done
to property, which, in the general wreck, is not
garded. No one was seriously injured. Mr.. J. F.
Chinn and one of his children, and a daughter of
Mr.. Demaree, were severely cut by bricks.
In the neighborhood of Bardstown the storm was
very destructive. The house of Mr.. Newbolt,
about three miles north of Bardstown, near the
Shepherdsville road was blown down Mrs. New
bolt was killed, and one or two of the children
badly injured. The roof of Thos. Aud's dwelling
house, near Bardstown, was blown off-his kitchen
razed to the ground, and three negroes badly in
Jnred. Anderson's workshop, in the same neigh
borhood, was scattered to the four winds. Stables,
barns and fences were scattered in every direction.
The neighborho6d of TaylonviIls suffered prob.
ably as much as the country around Shelbyvie
ana bardstown. The storm is said to have ragged
with great fury in portions of Mercer and Anderson.
HE TELEGRAPH IN GERMANY-Two great
telegraphlc lines which were begun last year, are
now about to be completed one of these lines goes
from Berlin, by Magdeburg, Hanover and Minden;
to Cologne, and from there to the frontier of Bel
GUM. The other extends from Berlin, by Coethen,
Halee, Eisenach and Cassel, to Frankfort ON the
Main The establishment Of three other telegraph
lines will be begun shortly, viz: One from Berlin
to Siettin, one from Berlin to Hamburg, and one
from Berlin, through Bresau, to the Austrian line
RIor AT LITTLE FALLs.-The telegraph reports
great riot at Little Falls, ~ ", on the nth inst,
with lrishmen. There was great excitement, etc.
Canal hands, to the number q 200 or 800, collected
around the officers. One man, having pistol,
was arrested when about to fire.
LARGE STEAMBOAT SALE.-Mr. Eli Kelly, re.
ceiver of the Peoples Line of North River steam
boats, at New York, is to sell at public auction in
lew days, the whole of that immense property to
the highest bidder. The company owns the steam
en- Isaac Newton, Oregon, South America, North
America, Rochester, Columbia, New Jersey, John
Mason, and. one-half of the Empire, and Troy. !
% A liberal and moral system Of free education
has inst been ndopaed bv thu Hsvtian oovarnumant