The Van Buren press., 1872-10-08
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
Special Dispatch to the Republican,
GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC BY OVER
$4,000 MAJORITY.
Fifty-onc Counties are Reported rs
Giving smith, Democrat. a.
III MujOrity---The Vote
by Counties.

ATLANTA, October g.
Returns received at the office of the
Atlanta Constitutionalst give majorites
/ for Smith, Democrat, in the following
,ennties Talifer 9009, Wilkes 1911,
Muscogec 700, Hancock 200 Pulaski
40, Richmond 40, Whtcfcld $50.
Dougherty 32l, Dckalb 30S, Morgan l79,
Wilkinson 500, Schlcg 20i, Coffee $40,
Sumptcl 300, Troup 1850, Coweta $50.
Brooks PIG, Randolph 2j5. Quitman ~,
Campbell $50, Macon 900, Baldwin 900,
Butts PAP, Burke 600, Floyd 800, Jones
so, Clark 5l2, Newton l73, Gordon $50,
Mitchell 3l2, Terrell 80, Talbot 33i,
Murray POS, Clayton 420, Fulton 1850
Cobb 800, Houston 81, Bibb 800. Lee
l75, Warren 300. Monroe 700, Barlow
923, Clay so, Chatham 2,040, Rupon 636,
Ilenry l3i, Taylor 100, Pike 595, Stew
art $50, Forty nine counties gives
Smith 27,s27 majority. Walker, R,pub
lican, has a majority in Mcintosh coun-
ty of 45i and Thomas of 256-making a
total in both counties of 10. In fifty
one counties Smith has majority OF 81,
III
AUGuST,, October 3.
The official count gives the Democrats
the following majoritics in the counties
Morgan $50, Muscogee 700 The state
will give over 80, 600 Democratic MAORI
ty Some Of the strongest Radical coun-
ties have been heard from; only one SO
far gives Walker, Radical, majority Of
45G.
TOWN OF OSCEOLA, ARK ALMOST TOTALLY
DEsTRoYrD-A TsRRIBLE AND DE
sTRUCTyE TORNADO.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 80.
The steamer Julia that came down last
night, reports terrific tornado rs hav-
ing occurred ninety miles above here,
Yesterday afternoon, at Osceola, Ark
! The storm struck the town, containing
perhaps three hundred houses, about
one o'clock, coming from the southwest
aud before the citizens could realize its
extent, or before they could even get to
their doors, it had burst upon them with
unprecedented fury and violence, sweep.
! inc before it houses, trees, cattle, fences,
nj everything movable. Trees were
Garlic d by the wind like straws, cattle,
! horses and mul is were blown about the
sire t, and becoming wild with fright, ran
helter- skcltor in all directions, and the
air was literally thick with fragments Of
eyesv imaginable thing, The cotton.
fields were completely rldlcd the stalks
torn up by the roots, and the lint blown
from the bolls Fences were torn into
kindIing wood, houses taken up and car
ricd entirely from the foundations. and
! roofs and parts of roofs were whirIing in
the air like autumn leaves, and in less
time than it has taken to write it, the
town, once a beautiful place, was n mass
Of ruins Three churches and six school
holscs were blown down in a moment,
and many OF the heaviest timbers carried
entirely away, and nearly every dwelling
house in Osccola and its immediate vi
cinity was either blown down are unroof-
ed. In all, eighteen persons were killed
or ally wounded Three, two men and
a woman, are know to have been killed
outright, and others will die of their in
Ijurics.
| THE TOWN or AsiPoRT, ARK DEVASTATED.
MEMrHIs, Sept. 30.
Several Of those wounded by falling
houses and timbers at Ashport, Ark, on
Saturday, arrived here to-day and report
the tornado there one Of the most fear.
fu ever Witnessed, and lasting full half
an hour Thirty six houses were either
unrOofed or blown down upon their oc-
cupants, and tifty-two persons were in
jured and one negro woman killed. Trees
were torn up by the roots and sent high
in the air. Corn and cotton fields were
! devastated, and every manner Of injury
done The track of the gale WAS nearly
400 yard. wide, and not a house. barn
nor fence is left standing where II pass
ed After leaving Ashport It's course
was ny stream for ten miles, where it
struck off in uortheaStorly direction,
leaving barren waste to mark its course.
The steamer Ada Holman, coming down
was caught in portion of i, and 1t was
with the greatest difficulty she was kept
from being swAmped Mills. woodsheds,
/ barns, and everything else in its course,
were swept away. aud hardly vcstige OF
shrnbbcry j. even left. Thirteen stores
and residences at Osceula were destroy
ed. and fifteen or twenty persons wound
ed there, and number of houses on Isl
and Trinity were blown nearly to the wa
tcr's edge.
Amnesty