The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-06

H Pursuant tonotices published in
the papers Of the District . com
petitive examination of applicants
for the vacant Cadetship at West
Point was held st the Public School
Building In, this place, on Wednes-
day and Thursday last.
Prot. Will " hite, of Dublin, and
Prof. ]. r.. Hall and DIR. johnson,
of this place, were the examining
board
The ex animation was quite thor
ough and extended through both
days. At the commencement there
were Eve candidates, two of whom
withdrew at the close of the first
day. ssg
On Monday the committee made
their decision recommending for
the appointment, VIM. E. Adam
son, of Economy. Mr.. Adamson is
y native Of this county, where he
has always resided, is 10 years of
age. is farmer, the son of private
soldier, sustained himself we'll in
the examination, and is highly re-
spected by all who know him.
The examination of candidates
for the appointment to the United
States Naval Academy takes place
here on Wednesday, the 9Th day of
May. The requisite qualifications
VIII be found in Judge Wilson's
card in our issue of March 26th-
Cambridge City Tribune.
"a Professor DEERE.
The Ashville { N. c. Expositor
of the 23d asserts that the commo-
ton at Bald and Stone mountains
on the previous Friday was more
violent than in February. Many
of the newspapers it says. ''tseat
Ell this disturbance as a myth and
humbug; but the recent tremen
dous movement of this mountain
has assumed character too serious
for ridiculc. We do not pretend to
be able to say what may be the
result of this wonderful phenomc-
non, but the facts are strictly true;
and the people feel impressed with
the solemn premonitions of some
terrible movement in this noun
tain
Tho Enquirer has detailed ac-
counts of the shaking, verified by
responsible parties, and describes
the terror SO great even twenty
four miles from the mountain that
many settlers are preparing to
abandon their homes.
There seems after all to be little
doubt that the shaking of the
mountain is traceble to volcanic
influences. Professor DePre, &c
ologist of Woford College, South
Carolina, in his official report, takes
this view. After describing his
visit to the scene of the disturbance,
he says: ..s
All the testimony which we col
lected from the people while passing
along the eastern and western side
of this mountain, covering dis
lance of eighteen miles. concurred
in the following summary That
there were certain days marked by
loud reports and severe shakes;
that from fifty to seventy-fve shocks
have been felt since the 10th of
February;. that the noise begins
with an explosion like n blast,
followed by a rumbling sound,
lasting only a few seconds; that the
shocks are simultaneous, or almost
SO with the reports, and seemed to
follow the direction of the UNI bling
sound, with this. exception, that
those near the top of the mountain
assert they appear to be under and
all around them; that the reports all
came from Stone and Bald Noun
tain ridge, those living on the east
side pointing to the west, and those
on the west pointing to the east
for the direction of sounds; that
these reports occur as often during
the night as the day, in fair weather
as in foul; that the effects are felt
five miles on each side of the noun
thin ridge, and extend from Broad
river on the southwest to Catawba
on the north-a distance of twenty
five miles; that houses shake, trees
with their dead leavs tremblc, glass
es and crockery ratified. shavings in
their workshops shake and s'quiver,"
as one expressedit. This testimony
was collected from thirty or forty
men and women of different degrees
of intelligence, and their remarkable
In the above statement
places the facts bayond the posi-
bility of doubt.
school Law Decision.
The Attorney General has rem
dered an important decision, in re-
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