The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-04-18
Some Current Curivsitie-.

Part of the ChattOoga Mountain round
about the Devils Pulpit, = in the county
of HabeeSham, Georgia, was in labor
last Thursday night and brought forth
A muss bv no means ridiculous. The
Chattooga lifts its summit 1,2OO feet
above the ChattOOga river, to the mp OF
which it slopes at a point four miles
northeast of the town of Tallulah. About
two O'Clock on Friday morning the in
habitants of the region under and just
beyond the shadOw-range of the mountain
felt the earth quake and heard rumble
after rumble Sharp bolts of lightning
ZigzaCged around the sky and the gods
PLAYED thunder on their big base drums.
In the morning it was found that the
northeast side of the mountain had sunk.
More than forty acres of solid rock had
settled down a distance of sixteen feet.
There was a huge split from the peak
down and numerous assures, the whole
vast side of the mountain apparently be-
ing rent. In some places trees were
standing with their tops downward. The
Devils Pulpit was, however, intact.
The current numbero of the TOccO Herald
is brimful of the phenomenon.
Many curious discoveries have been
I made in the belt that stretches from the
Pacific to the Great American Desert,
but what follows appears to be new in
the anthrOpology of the county y resi-
dent Of Richmond, Grant county, New
Mexico. recently had occasion to dig a
cellar. Just below the surface he came
upon the ruins of an adobe structure,
and six feet further down uneaTthed two
skeletons. one that of child and the
other that Of a fullgrown person. The
remarkable thingabOut the adult skeleton
was a protuberance, larger than hen 5
egg. though more OblOng in shape, which
was fastened like a horn to the back part
of the skull. On the child's skull was a
similar. but smaller, growth. Bothskel-
etOnS were taken from inches in stone
wall. The Grant county Herald IS in
clined tOthink thatthe whole prehistoric
race to which the specimens belong had
the prOtuberance, a sort of rear nose
done up in bone. The mOraliSt Will OBJ
serve that a hind nose nowadays would
he of infinite benefit to the average Con
gressiOnal committee or the Brooklyn
PreSbytery.
\ number of strange occurrences
grouped Joseph Walker. of Three
Rivers. Mich, shot himself fatally on
Friday because the town election went
against the Greenback party, for which
he had worked hard. One of the small
seeds of a grape caused the death of a
San Francisco man the other day 10y
lodging in the ntestines and forming an
abceSS. Mrs. Annie Armstrong and Mrs.
Mary Burns We're arrested in Detroit on
Thursday for borrowing one anOther'S
children in order to make their faHlffies
appear larger when the overSeers of tht
poor were making the rounds. 4 fight
between cat, a crow and dog is re-
ported from Mount Holly, just over il
jersey, the Herald. Of that place. being
responsible. \ white couple were mar.
Tied in Shelby county. Tenn, on Marcel
20, by a cOlOred divine.
In the little village Of Brandon, State
. Of Texas, there now dwells James b.
Brandon, man of means and a fanciel
of pet pups. Some time ago Mr.. Brandon
! observed that the smallest of his small
dogs had become the butt of his fellows
of the kennel, so the little one was given
a bed in the chicken house When a
month had passed it was noticed that
the baniShed dog would not bark any
more, but evinced a desire to crow. 4
week later the dog actually did crow and
now joins the chanticlecr chorus every
morning. His crow is a perfect imitation
Of that of full-spurr1d roOster.-PbiIa-
p delphi1 Times.