Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-08-21
Gas. ULYssrs S. Grant. Warrington, D. ..

A PHENoMENoN IN lRELAND.--Rey Patrick
Malone, priest of BelmuIlet writes TO Dublin
paper about an extraordinary convulson Of na-
ture which occurred near that town recently:
"lhe side of mountain was raised from its
bed and suddenly breaking up into huge frag-
ments, proceeded down the inclined surface car
rying destruction in its course, until it spent its
fury IN the waters Of the Atlantic The portion
Of mountain which broke mp contained an area OF
about forty acres, and though the elevation was
not more than foot in fifteen, the great alti-
tute from which the subterranean current descend
ed accounts. he thinks for the irresistible force
which attended it. Hundreds OF large fragments,
some OF them measuring 2OOO cubic feet, are now,
Mr.. Malone says, to be seen thrown in on either
side and strewn upon the undisturbed plane, with
out the appearance of water having accompanied
them there. His explanation of tue phenomenon
Is that the great irouth Of the proceeding two
months created vacuum between the peat surface
aud its grayelly subsiratum. The heavy fall Of
rain being pfessed Tito the cavity produced the
eruption, Several families had narrow escape
OF their lives. some persons having been carried
forward a distance on the moving and breaking
ground. The bog debris is scattered over the
crops of several poor men, road is blocked by
the fragments, dale is closed up and a valley
created where nothing but mountain appeared
before.
TnE CASE or Rev. S. H. TYNG, in. - The
announcement that the commission appointed by
the standing committee to investigate charges PEN
ding against the Rev. S. IL. Tying ir would not
meet until September next, has embodened many
OF the most prominent OF the Low Church clergy
to challenge the tribunal appointed to inquire If
the complaint should be tried They are anxious,
IL is said, to have settled finally the question which
involves the right of an Episcopal minister to
speak OF otlicatc in the edihce of any evangelical
denomination, and they declare that in case the
proceedings against Mr.. Tying result in a trial,
they will present certain members OF the High
Church wing for utualstic practices. and demand
the judgment OF the rriennial Convention the
whole subject. The excitement created by the
case is as lively ever, and it is stated that the
standing committee of the diocese are divided up
on the eNpedieney of prosecuting the charge at
! the present time. Aud it is further said that one
of the members has notified Bishop Potter OF their
action, in order that he might stay the proceed
ings until his return from Europe.N. Y. Her
aid, mn.
REMARKABLE Discovery. "A few days ago,
while some worknen were eXcavatng a cellar in
Polk township, Monroe county Ind, the work
men struck what at first appeared TO be solid
/ ledge of rock, and, sitting down to rest, of
their number began idly TO pick at an apparent
iissure, when a block of stone nearly two feet
square, disappeared with a dull thump. The men
set eagerly at work and removed the bottom OF the
pit, disclosed chamber with six foot ceiling,
aud eighteen by twenty-five feet within the walls,
which of solid, neatly scanned stone work.
Ranging in rows, on rudely constructed platforms,
We're twelve skeletons, each with tomahawk and
arrowheads at their sides, edr-riugs and brace lets
Of solid silver lying where they dropped and piles
OF what appeared to have been iurs, in the center
Of the platform, each pile crumbling TO dust soon
as exposed TO light. number OF tools made of
copper and hardened equal to the best cast steel,
were also unearthed, and fresh discoveries
constantly being made.
/ The STATEMENTS OF SANFORD CoNoyER.-
+ The Washington Correspondent Of the New Y ork
Times says that the tales of Sanford Conover re-
garding Che alleged Ashley impeachment conspiri-
cy, printed on Saturday last, are considered
characteristic productions of that noled forger.
There is the best authority for stating that Judge
Riddle never received the letter attributed to MIR.
Ashley, and published as having been sent to hun.
! IL is also stated on excellent authority that Mr..
johnson promised to grant pardon to Conover,
independent ofhis long petition, which has been
printed, provided Mrs Durham Conoyer's wife,
obtained Recommendation from Judge Holt 20 that
effect, which she did; since which, the President
has taken no further notice Of the matter 1t is
also asserted that the statements embodied in the
letter of the Assistant Attorney general were
based on doubtful proof furnished by German
fellow prisoner Of Conover's who has been recent
I ly pardoned out of jail and whose pardon was un-
der consideration at the time the letter was IN
co urse OF preparation.
! John NJ, Langston the colored lawyer from
/ Ohio who is inspecting the colorcd schools OF the
South, reports to Gnn. Howard a very thorough
earnestness ON the part OF the white people Of
Mississippi TO see the freedmen properly educated,
and schools are being organized aud established
ia almost every part of the state. In some places
the whites haze given TO the freedmen land on
which to build school houses while in many places
as at Canton, Cornth jackson and Artesia, they
have aided the freedmen by contributions OF mon
ey for purchasing sites on which to build school
houses,
A psychologist says II your brain stumbles at a
hard problem, eat tipe liberally OF course, the
COW beng rumiaatiRg animal, this is the old