The lowa State- Reyister of the 7th
says: “ The lower part of Clinton
county was on Saturday last visited
by one of the most violent tornadoes
ever known in lowa, following
nearly the same path marked out in
that county by the terrible Caman
che tornado in the year 1860. Noth
ing was able to withstand its pro
gress. Fences were swept away like
chail'. Trees were wrenched out by
the roots; cattle, bogs and poultry
were taken up into the air, carried a
great distance and killed. But the
greatest scene of ruin and desolation
was wrought at Molone, a small sta
tion on tin- Northwestern Railroad.
Nearly every house in the village
was leveled to the ground, and one
woman killed,’while several others
were wounded. The damage to
property is estimated at several thou
sand dollars. The tornado spent its
force this side of the river, ns no ac
count of its ravages lias come to us
from Illinois.”
The life of a lady in a New York
town was saved the other day by
her chignon. A horse kicked her
twice, but striking his foot on that
capital appendage injured her not
at all. __________
—The man appears in his
last issue, to bail over with indignant
rage at what ho considers our puny
attempt at a description of the great
Democratic pow-wow at McDaniel’s,
on Friday night last. We know that
the gentlemen whose names we used
in connection with the speechifying,
have too much good sense to become
offended, hence we reported nothing
the man said, who in his pa.
