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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. <br><br> Macon, Miss. [Mississippi], April 7. - Last night at half past 9 o'clock a most fearful cyclone struck the northern part of this place, resulting in a ??????, and the wholesale destruction of property. The day had been ???? sultry. At the hour stated two terrible currents of air, one from the northeast, the other from the southwest, bearing clouds charged with electricity, were hurled together right at the fated locality. It was a war of storms. Besides the incessant lightning, balls of fire were seen whirling across the clouds, varying in size from a chestnut to that of a man's hand. Through a beating rain, against pitiless winds, citizens rushed to the scene to aid the sufferers. Throughout the night squads of men combined and went to work to remove the debris and gather up the wounded, dying and dead that were scattered everywhere. The scene beggars all human attempts at description. <br><br> Mr. Horton found a head a quarter of mile from the scene of destruction. One house, near the center of the storm was whirled around and its front changed in an exactly opposite direction. A negro woman was found dead in a field west of the depot, literally stripped of all clothing. Charnel wagons, bearing the dead and wounded from the scene of destruction are to be seen on every side. It rained nearly all the morning and most of the afternoon [unreadable] of women are doing all that human hands can do, to administer to the wounded and dying. A portion of the only two houses remaining intact are lined with dead and wounded. The faces of the dead and the groans from the mangled and dying make up a sad picture. The railroad shops, round houses, and all the railing stock? on the side tracks are completely wrecked. <br><br> San Francisco, April 18, -- The inquest in the De Young case was concluded last evening. All the evidence taken is substantially the same as heretofore telegraphed with one exception. A man giving his name as John Clemetshaw testified that at the time of the shooting he was looking through the window of the Chronicle counting room and saw Kalloch and De Young facing each other, the latter leaning against the counter. Directly De Young straightened himself, drew a pistol from his overcoat pocket and fired at Kalloch. The latter then drew and began firing when De Young ran. <br><br> France, April 19 -- H??? leaves today for Washington. He takes three boats, two of wood, one of paper. <br><br> St. Petersberg, April 19. - Today is the sixty second anniversary of the Czar and six thousand persons will be released from imprisonment or delivered from police supervision. <br><br> New York, April 19. - Six ocean steamers arrived today at New York, bringing immigrants from all parts of Europe. The total number of arrivals in April is 46,118, the largest ever realized? in one month. <br><br> Baltimore, April ?. - From tomorrow until Nov. [November] 1st vessels [except from in the United States, north of Cape Henry,] will be required to stop at quarantine until examined. <br><br> San Francisco, April 31. - The supreme court has ordered a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Denis Kearney, returnable before the supreme court on May 11th. <br><br> London, May 1. - John William Oakden, 19 years of age, champion 600 yards shot of England, challenges any man in the world to ??? shots, the distance 500 yards, at a target four feet in diameter with eight inch bull's eye, or he will give eight points of eighty shots for £250 a side and 100 guineas for the challenge cup. He will give or take £50 for expenses to any part in the world. <br><br> GALVASTON, May 4. - On Saturday, two men were found hanging to a tree, near the line of Denton county; they are supposed to have been horse thieves lynched by unknown parties. <br><br> RICHMOND, May 4. - Martha Jones (colored), who lived with her five children in the neighborhood of Christiansburg, securely barred the doors, set fire to the house, and herself and children were burned to death. <br><br> Cincinnati, May 4. - A desperate affray took place in Wayne county, Ky. [Kentucky] on Thursday last. A man named Powell, who was a witness to the killing last fall of Hutchinson, by Phillips, has been begged and threatened by Phillips in order to keep him from testifying. Powell refused to leave the country or accept a bribe. On Thursday night a party of six or seven masked men attacked Powell's house, broke in the door with a rail, when Mr. Powel struck three of them down with an axe. Mrs. Powell was shot in the arm. The masked men then retreated but again returned when Powell fired and killed their leader, who proved to be John Will Smith. The others ran off. Mrs. Powell pulled a handkerchief off the face of one of the men and says it was Phillips. Powell has obtained warrants for the arrest of three of the men, who are now in jail. <br><br> Panama, April 4. - The Chilian blockading fleet announced its presence in Callao by sending before daylight a torpedo launch against the Peruvian corvette Union, anchored well in shore, but exploded harmlessly against the floating palisade protecting that vessel. The Chilian launch was carelessly or clumsily managed, and dangerously near the United States streamer Alaska and the Italian frigate Garibaldi, and just escaped a warm reception from those vessels. The approach of the launch was perceived on board the Union before the explosion took place, and a heavy fire of musketry and Gatling guns caused the launch to retire. <br><br> At the request of foreign consuls, notice of the blockade to begin was extended from eight to fifteen days. |