Smyrna times., 1858-05-20
Summary of News.


! VIOLENT TORNADOEs AT THE WEsT.-A VIC
lent tornado blew the passenger train of the
Chicago, Alton and st. Louis Railroad off the
track ut Lexington, Missouri, on Thursday
night, and several persons were seriously in
jured. The towns OF Lexington and Peoria, al
the junction of TOwanda, also suffered severely,
half the houses in them being Frustrated. Al
T0wanda three men were killed.
On Saturday another storm of like character
passed over the region between Bloomington
and Springfield, doing much damage. A large
number of houses in Elkton and WiIliansyille
were demolished, one of them falling in and
crushing family of five persons to death.
or The extent o. territory, and variety of
climate ofthe UniGel States, may be realized
in the fact that in certain parts of Texas the
wheat crop is now ready for the scythe, while
at the North it is just beginning to grow.
OF A terrible hail storm occurred in Ches.
terheld county, Va, last Sunday. Some of the
stones were Of the size of hens egg. Vege-
tation was destroyed the ground strewn with
leaves and branches OF trees, and great many
windows broken. The hail was from two to
three feet deep in some places in the roads.
0~~- Travel to Europe continues 10 increase.
The Ariel, for Southampton and Bremen, on
Saturday, took out 2lS passengers, and the Bo-
russia for Hamburg, 333.
0+1- The damage to the sugar crop Of Louisi-
ana, by the Bell crevasse alone, is estimated at
not less than 93,009,000. Probably the La
branch crevasse will cause not less.
APPEALs.-We understand that Major Jones
intends to appeal from the decision ofthe Court
at Elkton which awards him $S0O-23 for his
claim of $4,000 against the Pennsylvania,
Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad company.
GcF During the month of April the following
market stuff was received in Philadelphia, by
way of the Delaware Railroad, viz: LII
bushels of potatoes, 72.200 dozen eggs, 8,703
pounds poultry, and II ,2G3 pounds of fresh fish.
0-F Among the latest counterfeits are los
on the Union Bank, Dover, Del, altered from
| Is. The vignette is an eagle with banners, &c.
AS there is no such bank they may be easily
detected.
0[1T Bishop Scott will start for California
this week. He will preside at the Oregon
Conference which meets in June, and after
wards at the California Conference. We un-
derstand that he will be absent some three or
four mouths.
| " The weather continues so wet that many
of our farmers are srll unable TO plant their
particularly those in the Neck and Low.
lands. For the last twenty days the weather
has been unsettled, rain more or less falling
most every day.
THE New PARTY.-A Mass Convention o
the people, to form a new Party for the State Of
Delaware, will be held at Dover, on Thursday
10th day of June next.
LIBERAL-A. Butler, Esq, of New Castle
has kindly given the Methodist Episcopal So.
ciety one acre of land at Clark's Corner, upon
which they intend soon to erect suitable par
sonage.
OF The Democratic Party will hold It's
County Meeting at Middletown on the 29th o.
May.
OF Our relations with Mexico, it will BE-
seen by our special dispatches from Washing
ton, are beginning to put on features of pecu
liar Importance. The United States steame
Fulton appears to be undeing the wrongs Gen
eral Cara has been wantOnly inlicting upor
Americans and American commerce, at Tampi
CO, while General Robles, leading minister o
the Central Government, gives US every assur
ance that the outrages perpetrated there will
surely be punished. These assurances, how
ever, are not worth mudh, we fear, as the powe
to punish or prevent can hardly be said to ex
list.
ora man, named George F. l.. Goodwin
Thursday committed suicide in Franklin Square
Philadelphia, under exciting circumsta nces.-
He was talking to female, with whom he ha
been consorting for several years as his wife
though he had legal wife and family in Bos
ton, where he formerly resided. Finding tina
his paramour refused to live with him again, h
drew a revolver, shot at her and then shot him
self dead. The ball aimed ut the woma
struck whalebone in her dress, and, glancing
passed into her chest. She has since recovered
OF See interesting proceedings Of Stat
Temperance Convention.