Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-23

hundred and eighty feet from its former
position. In the evening Of the day The
neighbors focked ont by scores TO exam
inc the scene or 80 extraordinary prod
ICY. Where the stone had lain they
found but the deep dent connected by the
furrow which lay across TIE bay in the
line Of the hurricane, with the stone IT,
self, around the base Of which there still
projected "A thick cornice Of ice. IN this
new position the stone stiIl lies; and only
few yeara ago--mayhap, still-a wood
en- post which marked the point where
the two contiguous properties met, mark
ed also the spot from which, after rest
Of ages, II had set out on it's short voy-
age.
my other case Of boulder travelling
in some respects more curious case
than the one related-occurred early in
the present century, on the eastern coast
Of SutherlaudsIlire. Near the small
hamlet of Torribal, in the upper part OF
Lock Fleet, there stood, about fifty years
ago, rude obelisk Of undressed stone,
more generally regarded 3 Danish,
which, though more ancient than auiben-
tic history, or even tradition in The dis
trict, was less 80 than the old coast line
as it hnd been evidently erected subse-
quent to the last change Of level, on the
fat marginal strip which interveness be
tween the old line and the sen. 1t ros'
in the middle Of a swampy hollow, which
protracted rains sometimes converted int
a strip Of water, and which was some
times swept by the overAowings Of tn
neighboring river.
"On the eve Of the incident whic
proved the terminating one in its history
the hollow, previously filed with raj
water, had been frozen to the bottom b
a continued frost, which was, howeve
on the eve Of breaking up; and n dens
fog lay thick in the valley, when n b.
nighted Highlander, returning tipsy frol
, a market by the light of the moon, cam
staggering in the direction Of the stan'
ing stone, and in . drunken frolic set b
bonnet on the top of it and then. wan'
ering of into the mist, he lost sight
= both stone and bonnet, and, failing TO r
!, gain them, he had TO return bareheadC
- TO his home. The tbaw came the riv,
!, rose its banks the ice-cake around q
obclisk Aoated high above the lev,
+. wrenching up the obelisk along with
" ms the ice of the St. Lawrence wrenc
" ed up The stakes described by Sir Cbarl
~ Lyell;nnd both ice-cake and obelisk Aos
b" cd down the loch TO the sea. AS Il
morning broke--a fierce morning Of flo
" and tempest-they were seen passii
W. what some furty years ugo wus known
" the Little Ferry and the alarm we
'o abroad along the shores on both sid
VIC that there was u man standing in t
middle of the loeb on the floating i
I'd ard in course Of being swept out to t
les ocean.
ed Poor man he had been crossing I
in river, il was Inferred, when the ice bro
Rt up, aud though the enterprise was
aw somewhat perilous one, for the ice fir
tile ments were rushing furiously along
nck the wild tide Of the loch, maddened
the the inundation, a boat, double mann
Of shot out from the shore to the rescue,
in soon neared the drifting ice-Hoe. 1t '
in ultimately seen, however, that the s
, TO posed man was but Danish obel
rch bearing on its head a mysterious bont
site and bonnet and obelsk were left TO
hin ,heir way to the German Ocean, in wi
'am il is probable they now beth lie. TIL
,ay. modern instances of boulder trave
ued may serve to shw how huge stone, OF
the nally associated with the boulder C
the may have come TO rest on the arenact
the or gravelly deposits which overlie j
ious Through the second voyage of the
'und ty boulder il was deposited Oh a rece
sped formed bed of sand /; and and the Il
ing-stone of Torribal may now res
tide sea-shells that were living half cen
and ago"
rom ca Learn in childhood, if you
y that happiness is not outside, but in
the A good heart and clear consci
o"e bring happiness; no riches, and no
"'eu cumstances alone ever do. Alexa
Dick