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EAST AND SOUTHEAST. The destruction reported at Atlanta, Ga., by the tornado was greatly exaggerated. The Episcopal Church blown down was a little wooden chapel that cost but $1,200. There were but eight persons present when the storm burst upon them, and no one was seriously hurt. The Democrats of Rhode Island have nominated Isaae Lawrence for Governor. Joseph and Edgar Hall and John C. Thorp, white, and Gordon Rollins and Burkie Thomas, colored, were killed by the explosion of a saw-mill boiler about eight miles from Richmond, Va., on the 22d. Several others were injured. Samuel Chambers and George Collins, colored, Were hanged at Newcastle, Del., on the 22d, for the crime of rape. The National Bank of Tarrytown, N. Y., suspended on the 22d. The Liberian schooner Azar was consecrated at Charleston, S. C., on the 21st, by Bishop Brown of the African M. E. Church in the presence of 5,000 colored people. The South Carolina General Assembly have adopted a conciliatory resolution, favoring an abandonment of all prosecutions growing out of developments made in the investigation of former State officials. Five men were drowned while attempting to cross the James River from Albermarle County, Va., in a small skiff, on the 20th. The Bank of Chemung, N. Y., has suspended. It was a private institution and had about $280,000 in deposits. Assets and liabilities not stated. Blasius Pistorius, formerly a priest in Germany, has been convicted of murdering Isaac Jacquette in Montgomery County, Pa. The Common Council of Jacksonville, Fla., have asked Capt. Eads to examine St. John's bar and report a plan for its improvement, and have backed the request with an appropriation of $1,000. Hon. J. Glancy Jones died at his home in Reading, Pa., on the 24th, aged 66. He served in Congress with only a brief interruption from 1850 to 1858, and was for two years Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. He was also Minister to Austria, during President Buchanan's administration. The United States sloop-ef-war Wyoming, which sailed from New York on the 16th with goods for the Paris Exhibition, when 500 miles out sprang a leak and was forced to return for repairs. By an explosion of a steam-pipe on board the Hudson River steamer Magenta, just below Sing Sing, on the 23d, four men were instantly killed and several others severely scalded. The aerophone is the latest wonderful development of Edison's "phonograph. The vibrating diaphragm, instead of registering sounds on a cylinder or tin-foil, as in the phonograph proper, is SO arranged as to open and shut valves in a steam whistle, and Mr. Edison says that before long he shall have the thing SO nearly perfected that one of his machines will utter words distinctly enough to be heard miles away. At Cicero, Onondago County, N. Y., on the 23d, Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman, aged 80, was murdered by her daughter, a married woman aged 46. She stabbed her at a dinner-table with a knife. The quarrel was the result of an old feud. Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully and Peter McHugh, three notorious members of the Mollie Maguire organization, were hanged at Bloomsburg, Pa., on the 25th, for the murder of Alexander W. Rea, a colliery boss, in 1868. A severe snow-storm occurred along the Atlantic coast on the 24th, extending from Canada as far south as Baltimore. In Maine and Vermont 15 inches of snow fell. A shocking murder was discovered at Andover, Mass., on the 24th, the victim being Miss Mary Ann Jones, a weak and crippled maiden lady, and the murderer Mrs. Phobe Atkinson, an elder sister of the murdered woman, with whom the latter lived. The inhuman sister beat her victim about the head and body with a bottle, and with a heavy umbrellastick until the unfortunate woman fell insensible upon the floor. There she was allowed to lie for two days, bruised, bleeding and helpless; and when it was apparent that she was dying, the murderess suddenly left town. The sisters owned a little property in common, and it is supposed that that was the cause of the murder. A fire at Philadelphia, on the night of the to 24th, destroyed the business houses Nos. 109 to 132 North Fourth Street, and a numher of buildings on Cherry North Third and
