Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-10-26

y FOSSIL CrIANT-SINGULAR DISCOVERY
NEAR SYRACCSE.-A remarkable discoy-
cry has been made in the town of Latay-
cite, in this county, human form Of huge
proportions, entirely pctrihed, was found
under the following circumstances About
- miles south of Syracuse. near Cardiff
lives a farmer named VIM. Newell Yes
terday afternoon, in company with 4 hired
man, he began to dig well in a meadow
in the rear of his barn. About = feet be-
low the surface they struck upon what APP
peared to be a large stone, and Mr. y. went
for a crow bar to remove it. Before here
turned, however, his man had uncovered
two large stony feet and legs. Continuing
their digging, they brought to light the
perfect figure of a man OF more than giant
size, and as solid as though chiseled out of
the rocks Of OnOndaga. Some concep-
ton Of the sensation it has produced
here may be formed when | give you few
of the actual measurements. The total
length from the top of the head to the low
cr surface of the instep is 10 feet , ., inches
across the Shoulders the width is feet
across the palm Of the hand, inches; the
large finger is inches long; the thigh is
u inches, and the leg below the knee o.
inches in thi ckness. The figure was found
lying on the light side, one hand placed
upon the abdomen, the other upon the back,
and the left leg thrown across the right
The resemblance is complete. Everything
is there-the wrinkles about the eyes, the
Adams apple in the neck, the full veins,
the prominent muscles and bones, the nat
ural swell Of each rib, and the clearly de-
fined nails, both Of the hands and feet
The face and features were decidedly eau
casian. May it not be a statue? The de-
cided opinion of nearly every person who
has seen it-and it has been visited today
by some Of the most highly educated and
intelligent people of this city-is that it Is
perfection, the material of which it is COM
posed, and the place in which it was found,
are against this hypothesis. 1t seems to be
composed of Il soft grayish limestone, with
which this region abounds. As may be
supposed, spectators are already On hand,
sums reaching into the tens Of thousands
have been offered for the figure.
Since writing the above, learn that DR..
}. F. Boynton, the well-known geOlogist,
and lecturer Of this city, has visited the
spot, and inchnes to the opinion that the
gigantic figure is a statue. This theory,
however, leaves the matter in almost as
great a mystery as the other.
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THE PARAGUAYAN Wharf.-The latest
mail advices from South America report
Lopez, the president Of Paraguay,as strong
| " intrenched in the mountains. The An
glo- Brazilian Times of September 10Th,
thinks it will be still harder and more ex-
pensiye to carry on the war against Lopez
as he is now situated than it has BEEN
The Times further speaks in regard to the
Pecuniary condition of the Brazilian Gov
ernment and its inability to carry on a wal
longer as follows:f
''The provisional government also brings
with it a heavy cost and every man, woman
and child Of the pauperized and starving
refugees who have collected around the
capital have to be supported at the alice
cost, for other resources there is none, NJ
industry existing, and no crops being pos
sibe for many months. As over 100, 00t
such helpless persons threw themselves il
August alone, according to official state
ments, upon the allied humanity, abou
100000 a day has to be distributed in IA,
tions, and thus the monthly war expendi-
ture of Brazil has reached Il SOC, 900 How
this great outlay is to be met no one cal
say The treasury has long been in achron
ic state Of exhaustion, and for some timt
all the gold and exchange taken by tn
government has been purchased with treas
ury bills, until the mass of these in circu
lation has already risen to the enormou
sum of S8S,00O, coo. No one, it is said
views the financial difficulties of the coun
try with more alarm than the minister c
finance himself, who, the tears standing il
his eyes laments among his colleagues tn
impossibiiity of amelioration, while thi
exhaustive war continues. And, we ma
ask. what is to be the end if Lopez is to b
driven, each time at the cost Of millions
from each of the multitude of mountai
I, and forest dens the nature of the countr
and the apparently inexhaustible devotio
of the people facilitate to him? Even ha
the minister of finance only to deal wit
the closing of the accounts of terminate
war he might well shrink from the hercl
lean task; what sthen is to be the case
this spending Of four times the annui
revenue is still to so on for unprOftabb
nay, ruinous war