Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-06

the 18th, and conveyed to7the astls of lrla-
ma. ". N. Compacete and Gsbarri, chiefs
Of the battaIions Guias and Lealtad, with se-
|veral officers of these corps. were also ia
ken into custody on the latte day. and inn
| prisoned. Tbs affair will soon be brought
totrial. The elections were going on, aud
seemed to excite the greatest enthusiasm.
| Most Of tie old members Of the cortes would
| be re elected.
Extract ofa letter from a genslenct; IN Prince
ton, IN. ]. to TIE editors Of the Fsesmds's
| Journc9, dated .juae 80, 1890.
! June a5th--About half past five o'clock,
P. M. whist a thunder gust from the S. w.
| was passing over Princeton. the kitchen Of a
dwelling house was struck by lightning
There are number OF trees, near the build
ing, and some other elevated objects, over
which the lightning seems to have passed be-
| fore il struck. and this is the more remarEa-
BILE, as they must have been wet by the rain
which had been falling for some time pre-
vious. The lightning entered the chimney
about three feet from the top; passing some
teet downthe funnell, it forced hole about
foot in diameter through the bricks on the
opposite side, two feet from toe roof OF the
house-fom this place the charge seems to
have divided, part of it passing down the
outside of the building, and bursting of
the boards in its descent-the other part
continued down the chimney, until it came
to an iron hook suspended from a sort Of
crane; this was melted and fell on the hearth
here the lightning was dispersed in several
directions, some OF it passed over the top OF
cooking stove, and melted the edge in a
very curious manner. and some flashed be-
tween the andirons, where cat happened
to be at the time, and was killed.-Ihe
kitchen was filed With kind Of smoke and
dust, and the glass in the windows were bro
xen.--The noise which accompanied this
fash of ightning, and which was noticed by
number OF persons, vas very pecullar--to
me it rcsembled the sounds which precede
the discharge at large electrical battery,
differing only in its vast inteEsity-but the
most remarkable creumstanee.was, that the
lightning appeared to proceed for about SO
yards, in horizontal direction, before it
struck; this might, however, have been an
optical deception, though the fact of its en-.
tering the chimney, as first stated, not at the
top, but few feet below it, seems to favor
this opinion ] am informed by friend,
that he knew an instance in which the light
ming struck number of trees in an orchard,
and passed in horizontal line over The bark
some feet from the ground
As the season is approaching, when thun.
der storms usually occur, it may be useful to
state, that cases of suspended animation
sometimes take place by strokes Of lightning
and individuals we have no doubt, have
been considered and treated as dead, when
a judicious application Of remedies have re-
vived them--A person supposed to have
been killed by lightning, was recovered by
blowing into bis mouth and Initiating his
lungs, with common bellows. The same
means which are resorted 70 in cases of sus-
pended animation by drowning, would no
doubt be efhcacious in accidents from light
ming.