Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-07

Charlestown Free Press, and Spirit of JET:
tersom. Truly the old Valley is looking up
again from the depth of her avoiceless woe"
Richmond Enquirer. &
Stone Falls from the Sky.
MI. James Lumley, an old Rocky Noun
tain trapper who has been stopping at the
Everett Honss for several days, makes
most remarkable Statement to us, and one
which If authenticated, will produce the
greatest excitement in the scientific world.
Mr.. Lumley states that about the middle
of last September, he was engaged ia trap.
ping in the mountains, about seventy-6ve
or one hundred miles above the great falls
of the Upper Missouri, and in the neigh
borhood of what is known as Cadotte's Pass
Just after sunset ope evening, he beheld .
bright luminous body in the heavens, which
was moving with great rapidity in an East
erly direction. It was plainly visible for at
least FIVE seconds, when it suddenly sepa
rated into particles, resembling, as Mr.. L..
describes it, the bursting of q sky. rocket in
the air.. a few minutes later, he heard a
heavy explosion, which Jared the earth.
very perceptibly, and this was shortly after
followed bya rushing sound, like tornado
sweeping through the forest. A strong
wind sprung up about the same time, but
assuddsnly snbsided. The air was also GIL.
ed with a peculiar odor of sulphurous
character
These incidents would have made but
slight impression on the mind of Mr.. Lum-
ley, but for the fact that on the ensuing day
he discovered, at a distance of about two
miles from bis camping place, that, as far as
he could see in either direction. path had
been cut through the forest, several rods
wide-giant trees uprooted or broken off
near the ground-the tops of hills shaved
of, and fhe earth plowed up in many places.
Great and widespread havoc was every
where visible. Following up this track of
desolation, be soon ascertained the cause Of
it in the shape of an immense stone that bad
been driven into the side Of mountain:
But now comes the most remarkable part of
the story. An examination of this stone,
or SO much OF IL as was visible, showed that
it had been divided into compartments, and
that, in various places it was carved with
curious hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr..
Lumley also discovered fragments Of a sub.
stance resembling glass, and here and there
dark stains, as though caused by liquid.
He is confident that the hieroglyphics we're
the work Of human hands, and that the
stone itself, although but fragment Of an
immense body, must have been used for
some purpose by animated beings
Strange as this story appears, Mr.. Lum-
ley relates it with SO much sincerity that We:
are forced to accept it as true. It is evident
that the stone which he discovered was
fragment of the meteor which was visible
in this section in September last. 1t will be
remembered that it was seen IN Leaven.
worth, in Gelens, and in this city by COL
Bonneville. At Leavenworth, it was seen
to separate in PARTICLES or explode. -.
j Astronomers have long held chat it is
probable that the heavenly bodies are in-
hsbited--eye6 the comets -and it may be
that the meteors are used as o means Of oon.s
veyauce by the inhabitants of other planets.
in exploring space, and it may be that here
after some future Columbus, from Mercury
or Uranus, may land on this planet by
means of meteoric conveyance, and take
full possession thereof-as did the Spanish
nayiga tors of the new worldin 1892, and
eventually drive what is known as theahu.
man race" into condition of the most ab-'
jsot sersitude 1t has always been favo.
rite theory with many that there must be
race superior to US, and this may at some
future time be demonstrated in the manner
we have indicated. Louis Democrat
AN ARABIAN LAUGHING PLANT.-For
the first time I met with a narcotic plant,
-, MN "a rtbo or Sonth and gifted with