Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

mentS, ON the oaDDaIn, Is nlSnly detrl-
mental to the public morals. But they
have PASSED into permanent institutions,
which ought to have been nipped in their
buds 1t was as much of an oversight
in the city authorities in allowing them
to have an existence at first, as for them
not to have reserved ground for public
Parks, which could have been had for
hundreds, but now would cost as many
thousands of dollars for the same prop
erty. On Fourth street lots are worth
twelve hundred dollars per front foot
Honesty-This noble virtue was ex-
emplifed the other day in my boarding
house, in the person of Mary Finn, Ga
Catholic girl,) who found ffty-seven
dollars under a mattress, where it had
been lost three months. She returned
it to Vanfosson, who gave her five dol
lars, for her integrity. She observed
when the young clerk gave the five to her,
that her greatest and best reward con-
sisted in the consciousness of having
done her duty. Truly this was. noble
example for a poor servant girl to set for
imitation.
pIcdW UClIlC0 u1iuC UuClE uESG appear
ance in market on the Sd of May, and
sold for one dollar per quart; now they
are down to fifteen cents for the same
measure. About the same time, green
peas, new potatoes, beans, cherries, cur
rants, and other summer fruits. and veg
etables appeared, and owing to the cold
weather at that time they looked as if
Al hoI Loor ioI- a.
ague for weeks.
MONDAY, 4 0 clock p MA destructive
tornado swept over the city this after
noon, occasioning the loss of many lives,
unroofng buildings, demolishing others,
uprooting shade tress, and tearing avn
ings into doll rags, and making objects
fly like chaff before the wind. The vio-
lence of the gale lasted about fifteen
minutes. During that time immense
damage was done-its amount is not yet
ascertained, nor the number of deaths and
manned known. The roof of the new five
story brick building at the corner of
Race and Fourth streets, owned and oc-
cupied by the proprietors of the Conn.,
mercial, daily paper, was unroofed and the
roof carried like the top of an umbrella
over other tall buildings, and fragments of
its cornice flew more than two squares, do
ing damage to other buildings in their
flight. 1t is thought by judges that the
cost to repair the Commercial building
will not be less than five thousand dol
lars. The Virginia Home was wrecked,
lying at the wharf, and her fragments
foated down the river. [ hear three
men were drowned who were on her at
the time Of the gale. There can be but lit
tie doubt that steamboats, were dam
aged on the river above and below here.
Many Churches and other public build
ings were unroofed and otherwise dam
aged. The loss done to buildings in
this city cannot be less than half mil
lion of dollars. The hurricane was not
wholly confined to this city, for it ex-
tended its ravages to the monumental city
Of the lamented dead, six miles from Gin
cinnati. Much of the shrubbery in
Spring Grove Cemetery was wholly
ruined, and large number OF trees
were prostrated by the demon wind.-
Numbers of monuments were broken
by the falling trees. The damage
done to that beautiful city of the
dead, and the future home of thou
sands yet unborn cannot be repaired
at once. 1t will take years for the
ornamental shrubbery and trees to grow
to their sizes when destroyed by
the gale on Monday. The fore part of
the day, up to 3 clock P NJ, had been
beautiful, which had filled the princi-
pal thoroughfares with gaily dressed la
dies, enjoying the -balmy breezes of
May. But suddenly the heavens were
overcast with threatening black clouds,
which burst upon the city and filled it
with wild confusion. During the gale,
rain and hail fell as if the bottom had
fallen out of the upper region. Several
days must elapse before the amount of
damage done to property in the city and
country, and the number of killed and
MANNED are fully known. While stroll
ing through the market the other morn
ing, observed poor blind woman with
an infant in her arms, selling open
worked baskets, made by herself of c7oOes,
with small aoire 1'uniag longitudinaly
through each Glove, and they were as
ingeniously made and shaped as if they
had been wrought by one with open
eyes. She truly is an object of charity,
and doesreceive many dimes from benevo
lent persons. Her basket seemed only
to answer the purpose of signs, and to
excite sympathy in the breasts ofpassers;
for they gave her money without taking
her wares. She sits down and rises up
in darkness. The splendor of the noon
Fday sun and midnight darkness are both
the same to her If she could only
open her eyes upon the objects Of nature
and art which surround her continually,
[ have no doubt but what she would be
intoxicated with pleasure. The weather
is becoming warm and the city monoto-
nous to me, wherefore, shall steam up
the river next week, to the region Of
salt and coal, where [ shall miss a
nephew, and acquaintance who have
been numbered among the lamented
dead, during eight months absence. Be
pleased to send my next Telegraph to
Middleport, Ohio. R. B.
Northern Paper Burned in Virginia.