Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-18
By Yesterday Evening" Mails.

DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM We have been
permitted to make tie following extract from
private letter received by a gentleman In
this city, from bis brother III Powhatan coun-
ty, written on Saturday evening last. =.
1--WE have bad this evening, the worst bail
storm | ever saw. The hail stones were
larger than partridge eggs and continued u
fall till the ground was white with them. Inc
clouds passed backwards ard forwards over
us three or four times, and when the hail
ceased falling, we had terrific blow and
the heaviest show er OF rain that | ever wit
nessed. The damage done by the storm 10
this immt date neighhorhood. Is very great.
The growing crops have been beaten down.
the wheat is Frustrated and nearly ruined,
and our gardens are literally torn TO pieces.
The hail stones ere so large that they broke
out the window glasses and almost stripped
the forest trees OF their green foliage"
10 Chesterfield County, we learn the storm
was equally, If not more severe, aud deetruc-
tive. Mr.. NJ. E. Gary exhibited to US last even
Jog han ikerchlet full Of haii-stoneS, which
he picked up in the road, where they lay two
or three feet in depth yesterday. lie inform.
ed US that it was especially severe between
Gregor,'s tavern aud Miles Chalkley's. vege-
tatcn being completely cut up, wheat destroy
ed, trees stripped of their leaves and win
dows broken. Large numbers Of fowls, and
even pigs, were killed The storm appear
ed to extend over a space about five miles 10
width. Persons residing in Chesterfield aver
that they saw hailstones as large rs hens
eggs; indeed, some o: those which We saw
last evening, twenty four hours subsequent to
the storm, we're nearly as large as partridge
eggs The utmost CONSERVATION prevails 10
the locality in consequence If this disastrous
visitation.
The Mail Train, from Petersburg, Satur-
day evening, came in contact with fallen
tree at Gregory's Cut. while terrible thun-
der storm was prevailing. The locomotive,
and the second class passenger car were bad
ly damaged. and the ladies' car was some
what injured; but fortunately no person was
burt. The passengers were much alarmed,
as matter Of course, but their fears were
soon auieted. IL was narrow escape from
more serious disaster. The accident was
one which could not DE avoided, the dark
ness and rain rendering it impossible tor the
engineer to zee the obstruction. Large limbs
were twisted from the trees at various points
along the line of the road.-Rich. Disp.
NJ. E. GENERAL CoSFERENCE-A letter
from Nashville TO the SJuth Side Democrat,
dated 10th instant, says:
The eloud is thickening about that unfortu-
nate North Carolina and Virginia difficulty.
wrote you that the paper from Danvlle Dis
trict had been husbed by reference TO Conn
mittee-and hoped the danger was over
To-day learn there is another paper to be pre-
sented, which can hardly oscar pc making STIR.
1t is memorial from minority OF the North
Carolina Conference, asserting that DR.. Deem
was not really tried at the Ptsborough Con-
ference in 1854, according to the iaw Of the
Church, as ne averred, and asks decision OF
the point by the General Conference and a
new trial TO be ordered it he were not tried.
1t recounts the entire history OF the Deems
case. DIR. Deems placed upon the desk OF each
Delegate this morning d card, In which
be AYERS that he can convict Rev. DR.. Lee
of speaking ipjIriously OF Bishop Early, AS
he stated 10 hls Book. This unfortunate
affair will, | am afraid, lead to trouble IL
does seem to ne, that after all the bitterness
of its past history, 1t Is very sau tnat 'he
shameful affair should come here to damage
the cause of God, and briog reproach upon
the Church, as it must inevitably do, 10 mat
ter who gains the poor victory OF persona
triumph.
youth named Joseph Weller, employed
in the Richmond Dispatch office, met with a
serious accident on Saturday. He was stand
ing in a crowd near the fredericksburg de-
pot, when be carelessly placed his finger 90
the trigger of a self cooking pistol which he
carried in his pocket, discharging the pistol
and lodging the ball in his thigh.
At the last term Of Southampton, Va,
County Court. young Forest, who has been in
prison for some time, charged with the muir
der of free boy OF color, was tried and CON
vieted. His punishment was affixed at IL
a. onths' i'm prisonment in the penitent iary.
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