The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-28 00:00:00

REPORTED SHOWER OF MUTTON IN
AMERICA.
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The foilowing is from the—kr; York Herald of the
13th instant :—Loulsvlils, March 10.—On Friday last
a wonderful phenomenon occurred at a point in Bath
County, By., two miles from Mudlick Springs. At the
time, two p.m., the heavens were bright, the sun was
shining, and only a few floating clouds were visible.
Suddenly there appeared a light cloud over the farm of
Mr. Crouch, which seemed descending upon the earth.
It hung overhead • few brief moments, and then
flakes of something white fell to the earth. The fall
continued ten minutes. Men and women then went
out and examined the flakes, and discovered them to be
flesh, resembling mutton. When picked up they
quiveraL A ewe 200 by 100 yards in extent was
covered, and • number of trees, fences, lks, were also
full of the strange substance. Stains like those I
produced by blood in it. secondary condition marked
spots where the flakes had touched. Droves of
chickens and hogs 'warmed around the place, and ate
the flesh with great gist°. The inhabitants for miles
around came for several days after and collected speci-
mens. Hundreds are willing to testify by affidavit to
the truth of the entire matter. Captain Bent, a well-
known retired attorney of Mount Sterling, gave the
Courier Jouraal reporter some flakes to-night and the
latter placed them an charge of Professor J. Lawrence
Smith, a scientist, who will examine them to-morrow.
He says the substance is of an animal nature. When
the flakes fell they were from the she of a pea to that
of a human finger, and an eighth of an inch in thick-
ness, and the colour of flesh. They have since assumed
a dull red and white hue, and are somewhat withered.
A hatcher ate one flake, and pronounced it very
palatable, but was unable to say what kind of an
animal the flash came from. The inhabitants of the
locality where the phenomenon occurred approached
the flesh with su_psmthiots awe, and at first would not
touch it. Mr. H. Gill, of Mudlick Springs, secured •
number of specimens, and preserved them for scientific
examination. Mount Starling, Hy., March 8: One of
the most singular and wonderful phenomena that have
ever occurred in the modern world took place in Bath
county, on Mudlick Creek, about seventeen miles east
M this piece, and a abort distance from Gill's Sulphur
SPringe, and near the house of Mr. Crouch, about two
o'clock on the afternoon of Friday list, the Jul of
mar& A shower of fifth fell from a clear sky,
covering • space of one acre wide and two sores long
with little strips of flesh from one inch to two inches
wide, and from an inch to three inches long, and half
to three-fourths of an inch in thickness. From Friday
till Monday evening the flesh "till remained on the
mid hogs and chickens picked it up and ate it.
hrmulta ddr,'•,as p:ri visaed the locally from Friday
till Tommd,,,y, were Mill_ going. Your correspon-
dial talked -with several relishie gentlemen who had
seen a number of persons who had seen the
sight, and hundreds of memo are willing togt=
affidavit to the above fac‘ The country for miles is
filled with reports of this wonder.

The skeletons of six savages were recently unhearthed
sear Gosport, Indiana One of the skeletons was lit.
king.
A widow named Rebecca scott. hsa just died In the
Stockport Arorkhouse at se. iv 01 106 70Ara• SU had
been married twice, and was the 'mother of if children.
Had slm tired until Saturday next, she would hare omn-
plated her 107 years.
marvellime child-pianists will make her debut at •
conoset to be given at the Albert Hell, London, on the
Oltk of next month. Wes Morena Crease, aged 12 the
debutante in le the desighter of • gentleman
living at Slas and although she be. only been
under asnioal titian for three yam. she &Auks the
=selssaii apaparws se Ham% Haadd. (begin.
a.
mot hem ad& aulasiddag gloom

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&Mid CLIG3 of brutal kicking and wounding were
heard at Durham on Saturday. One prosecutor whose
eye was cut for two inches. presented a most shocking
appearance. Another man had been kicked until his
ribs were broken, and he had to be removed to the hos-
pital, where be still remains. A third prosecutor wee all
stitched about the face, which had been severely kicked,
and a police-sergeant had been off duty one month, hav-
ing been brutally kicked, and his had wounded with a
loaded stick.

DISAPPEARANCE OF A LOCAL PREACHER.
Within the pest few days much surprise, and not •
little indignation, bas been excited in a certain part of
Sheffield owing to the sudden disappearance of • trades-
man in one of the principal thoroughfare*, who was at
the same time one of the leading " lights" of a very
earnest Dissenting body. The gentleman in question
appears to have made it • leading principle to borrow
money from his neighbours and friends, and with singular
unanimity has omitted to repay his loans. In one cue
the loan amounted to over £lOO, in two or three others
to about £lOO, and in numerous others smaller amounts
are outstanding. So ardently attached to his acquaint-
ances was the absentee that he actually called on one
gentleman, in the same line of business as himself, when
on his wav to the railway station, and not only borrowed
all the gold the lender had, but also benevolently cleared
the till of every silver coin it contained. The defaulter
was an official of • chapel in the outskirts of the town,
and its affairs have since been ascertained to be in by no
means so clear s condition as could be desired.