The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-20
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

w Wv '""''n Nv AhIol, ''j WHN tHc pTcStUc
of Lomar Griffin, the oldest man in America
aged NJ.
A little son of Eli Ellcrbe, Will play
ing in yard few days ago in Rockingham
| n, G., was attacked by a rooster, whicl
pccked the little fellows head so badly tina
it caused his death.
Larkin Turner, Of Mcrrwethcr count,
Ga, is one hundred and six years old an,
has possession of all his faculties. Mrs. Ro
bcrtson, of the same county is one hundred
and one years old,
The Virginia pcnitcntiary, on Thurs
| day last, received u youthful convict in III,
person of William Alexander, II lad twcly,
years of age, sentenced for three years il
Campbell county, for horse.steNling.
G. A. Kendrick, theBaptist minister
whose trial for the seduction of young
lady at Columbus, Georgia, took place III
that city last week, was found guilty Ct Sc
dnclon and sentenced to pay a fine Of $500
and costs The fine has hccn paid and Ken
drick released from imprisonment
Warren Ncan, agod fifteen, and Solo.
man Drcyfuss aged thirteen, were drowned
while bathing in the river at New Orleans
last week Nean first Jumped into the water
and began crying out, "Pm drowning, u
DrcyfuSS Jumped in to save his friend, but
they both went down together The bodies
were not recovered.
A fearful storm swept over a portion
OF Iowa ON the night Of the 9Th inst, carry.
ing death and destruction in its wake. Rain
commenced falling about ten o'clock, and
continued for three hours, with solid sheet
Of water accompanied with thunder and
Lightning, making the worst storm ever eX.
pericnced,
The village of Rockdalc, twcnty-Scvcn
miles from Dubuque, built in n ravinc on a
stream, was inundated at the dead hour Of
night, while the storm was raging and the
lightning flashing, hv the breaking away Of
mill dam some distance up the stream.
From the iuSh of water every building in
the place was swept away by the flood, cx.
cept the mill and their occupants carried
away and drowned
Later advices show that some twenty-five
persons were killed in Warren county alone;
that six or eight were killed in Madison
county; that probably one hundred and fifty
houses were completely destroyed, and ,s
many more badly injured, aud that the de-
struction Of crops, fences and animals is i'm.
mense. The names of the killed and
wounded cannot be obtained. They are
mostly the wivesand children of the farmers.
Some reports place the number Of killed in
Warren county alone as high AS forty.
From Red river to the coast, and from
the Sabine to the uttermost parts Of western
Texas, the crops are splendid. A gentleman
who has been making tour through eastern
and northern Texas says that everything in
the crop line looks luxuriant, and in middle
Texas he had seen field of oats that was cx.
pectcd to average hundred bushels to the
acre cslcTIl ltNHS SPEAKS VI HtfSCIl HS
being blessed with fine crop prospects, and
our coast counties, with the richest soil on
earth, are covered with cotton cane and
corn OF such appearance as to almost insure
an unusual yield.
Rockdale is small place of about two
hundred inhabitants built upon creek, and
contained postoilice, hotel, store and other
structures. The rain fell in solid body for
three hours, the creek rose to the size of a
river, and at about one o'clock, while the
lightning was flashing and the thunder roll.
ing, the residents were terror.Strcken with
the rush of mighty waters in and about them.
Every building in the place except the mill
was carried down stream or moved from its
foundation. A mil.dam some distance up
the stream broke away and let down the wa.
ter in body. After the storm had abated
search was made, and forty.two persons were
found to be missing. Of this number nine.
teen dead bodies of men, women and chill
dren were picked up along the stream.