The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-11


FRITlAY MORNING, AUGUST II. lsss.
csrrsspondssee Of the Dispesch.
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM.
ExAH BoYproN, Ang. 8, 1854.
E>rroxs DurArcH:--I hasten to give you the
,.rticul.rs Of most terrific and destructive hail
Storm that occurred In this neighborhood yesterday
evening. | shall best accomplish my object by d..
scribinr what saw ! happened to be sf tho resi
deuce Of Peter Puryear, four miles north Of Boyd
ton. the county seat Of Mecklenburg. The hall
commenced falling at o'clock, and conhnueo
about 80 minutes. have seen no person. VINO hss
ever before seen hail stones 90 large. Many Of
them were fully a. large hen egg, and perhaps
the meet of them were a. large 40 guinea egg
During the storm, such was the incessant rat
tie Of the hail, the crash of glass; &c., that h seem
ed 40 II a regiment were assaul.ing the house with
stones. The tobacco Is completely ruined, every
plan. 10 literally torn into tatters. Farmers, are
cutting the stalks with the view Of turning on
suckers 40 the only chance of making anything 81
is 90 stript Of s blades snd s beaten and bruis
ed that the crop 10 given up a. lost. In spot ia
vorable TO its accumulation, found the hail fully
inches deep. The glass of every exposed win
house lost GO panes. o: poultry, which had beer
driven from their shelter by the rage Of the tenn
pest. some were killed, others crippled. Thf
yard Is thicky strewn with leaves a. after FROST
10 autumn.
noticed that the hail stones were not gene
orally rlobular. but most Of them were entirely
amorphous, exhibiting every variety of figure
This may have resulted from very sudden congela
ton. The storm over, Nature put on her gayes
look and seemed to emile upon the ruin she hat
wrought The atmosphere was chilled TO a mos
agreeable temperature and one might have enjoy
ed q delightful hour but for the sad evidence O.
caIamities around him, reminding him that the
long Iabors OF the year bad been vain. b. p.
Love, SUICIDE AND MARRIAGE.-On Monday we
gave hrief account Of an attempt at self-oesrruc
ton with pistol at Ypsilaati by young lady who
arrived from Chicaro 10 search of young man who
had been trif!ns with her affections, TO break an
honest promise in love-" The young lady was not
one of that kind who,
'Never told her love.
But let concealme at. like worm i the bud,
Feed on the damask cheek;
AID with green and yellow melancholy,
Sat like Patience on a monument
Smiling at grief"
She sailed out in search of her truant lover who
things On her arrival, 'the girl he left behind"
him. found he was absent at Adrian, and she tried to
shoot herself to assuags her grief The mother OF
the young supposing he had been playing falsely
with the fair one, Immediately sent her off in charge
OF another son-givpg him hundred dollars to pay
6xpen0S9-tO
explanation. and h.ye full justice melted out, JUS
That she loved him 1.-THE one at Adrisu) she gave
sufficient evidepce after her arrival at Ypsilanti in
the attempt to "shuffle off her mortal coP' by the
of villainous salt petre" in which she failed
In the o or taxing s t ~ds s easily
the road as far as SalInaa distance of nine miles
from where, the next day, the mother very unex-
after looking the subject ell he had concluded
the whole to marry the girl himsey-that the job
dr dc, dollars sp'- avn '' -4N ~
After making the acquaintance of the brother, she
.'Now my love is thaw'd,
Which like q waxed image 'ganst fire
Bears n impression of the thing it was
towards the tother brother at Adrian Under the cir
cumstances inssmuch it was all in the family"
concluded to take the one she could make sure Of
Surely, the tide of true love never did run smooth
Detroit AdU., Friday.
PROSPECT OF BoNAPARTE PoPE.-Louis Napo
Icons cousin, Prince Lucian Bonaparte, second
ofths Prince de Canine, has tax ORDERS and donned
priesty vestments. On this subject the Glasgow
Commonwealth remarks:
1.-THE present Pope 10 in very bad state of health
o"sny un fs such porons Of his po aasds e
ties as involve much physical fatigue. No wond-r
then, that in the present extraordinary state of Eu-
rope, when 30 mucn depends on the man who may
chance to occupy the papal chair various parties are
looking forward anxiousy to the time when the de-
cease of the present Pope will occasion a new cleo
ton. Among these parties Louis Napoleon is natu,
rally of the most interested. His position in Europe
and at all events his designs Italy will be mate.
rally fected by the situation of the papacy during
Ronaparte (Canino) have the double Qualification of
being Bonapertes and naturalzed Italians it is prs.
bable from it that Bonaparte candidate for the "a.
pacy would be most easily procured. The Prince OF
Canine is, we should suppose, old himself to en-
ter on the ecclesiastical career but of his
would be OF about the proper age to answer all re-
quired purposes. This offer but az a guess-the
Iumor, we have heard it, simply being that Loui.
Napoleon is about to start of his relatives on
tunes of the family last mightead in the end to the
papacvn