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killed, on the asth ult.--two of which while in front of a wagon, and the other while un- der tree in field, under which they had sOughtshelter from the storm.

 In the town of NOrwalk, Conn. the light ming struck the dwelling house of Mir. James s. Kellogg, and shattered the building. The dwelling house of Mir. John Brown, in Will ton, was struck at the same time.

 In WatertOwn on the night of the gath ult. was one of the most violent thunder storm ever known there. The Freeman states that that the rain fell in torrents, accompanied with heavy thunder and vivid and almost in cessant lightning, the wind blowing hurri- cane. Although it lasted but few minutes, it did considerable damage to fruit trees, and fences, &c. Overturning every thing in its cOurse-The Presbyterian meeting house in the village of Adams was struck by lightning, and considerably iuiured. The electric flu i'd passed down the lightning-rOd about half way; 10 bend in the rod, here it broke and entered the church in several places. There was meeting in the church at the time, and the cOngre gatiOn were in the act of singing, and although there were 70 or 80 people in the house none were materially injured. All, however received violent shock, and sever al were prostrated. It passed out at one corner shattered it considerably, and killed several hogs that stood near it.-Loss esti- mated at about $500. A paint shop belong ing to B. c. Colby in the village of Brown vile. was also struck and considerably dam aged.-N r. Spec.

 The town of Danbury was visited on the afternoon of the 4th inst. with one of the mast severe hail storms we ever saw. Near the close of the celebration, two dark and threatning clouds from the east and west ap- peared to unite immediately over the borough. and after some heavy thunder poured out, as from the windows of heaven, floods of rain, accompanied with hail-stones of the largest size which in the course of few minutes, deluged the streets, the hail doing much in jury to gardens and to crops of grain, and brea king many hundred pains of glass. In one building more than hundred pains were broken, and we observed several fields of corn almost wholly cut down. The stones were many of them, three inches round, and the next morning the ground was covered with them in many places to the depth of several inches.-Nor,calk Gar.