Richmond Enquirer

EXTRAORDINARY HAIL.—Among all the accounts of hail storms, we have seen none which could come up to one described by a correspondent of the Alton (Ill.) Telegraph. He says:—"In the afternoon of Saturday the 25th ult., the village of New Greenfield and the vicinity were visited by a hail storm of the most appalling character. The reader will hardly believe that, such was the extraordinary size of the hail stones, which fell on that occasion, that six of them weighed no less than seven pounds three ounces; that many of them was at least double the size of goose eggs'; and that one actually measured seventeen inches in circumference. Pigs, sheep, and other animals, were killed by the enormous missiles, and a woman, who happened to be out of doors at the time, was seriously injured by one of them, but is on the recovery." The Editor of the Telegraph has full belief in the account, and he says he knows his informant to be a man of strict veracity.