Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-07-26

eternal truth and right, and carries
to the hearts and con-
sciences of his hearers, and leaves a
lasting impression upon the minds of
an audience. He might not unworth-
lily be called the successor of the late
lamented John B. Cough, though he
has not the dramatic, impulslve en-
thusiasm of that inimitable orator.
These two men are earnest in the re-
forms of the day and promise to he
efficient agents in furthering revolu-
tion that shall mitigate, if not remove
the indescribable and inconceivable
woes that doom to desolation and
death many happy household.
WATERFALLS AND BLOWING
CAVERNS
We first reached the Blowing cave
in Decatur county, Ca, which is sit
uated in large plantation on hill,
surrounded by broad valley, with
the exception of the east, which is
little higher than the rim of the cave
and ten miles from Pelham, says a
correspondent. The rim of the cave
is thirty feet east and west, and
twenty feet north and south, funnel
shaped, about twelve feet from sur
face of rim, and has two openings or
mouths, through which it breathes.
It's suction is in the forenoon and it
blows out in the afternoon, and the
draught is sufficient in the morning
to suck in leaves, pocket handker-
chiefs, or anything of light weight.
In the afternoon it blows out with
equal strength. | placed my head
to one of its mouths and heard a
noise like the roaring of distant wind.
This cave must have immediate con-
nection with the Gulf of Mexico,
which one would reasonably conclude
is the cause of the respirations. This
cave is the property of Thorn. A.
Barrows, and he says that he often
goes to its mouth on ho: evenings in
summer and gets refreshing breeze,
for if the weather marks ninety-ive
degrees. put the thermometer to the
mouth Of the cave and it will fall to
seventy-tive degrees, which shows
it has no connection with the dread
ed place, and then the breeze is pure
and healthy.
South of this cave, about a mile,
is a beautiful waterfall, the rim of
which is about two hundred and for
ty feet in circumference, funnel
shaped, and is the funnel that re-
celves a stream of water which ap-
proaches through narrow channel
at the depth of twenty feet from the
surface of the land, and pours over a
rock into the funnel about forty feet.
The bottom of this funnel is twenty
| five feet across, and there have been
seen in it an alligator and a rattle
snake. The water is conveyed from
the funnel by subterranean pas
sage.
Next l visited the great lime slnk,
about six miles from Pelham, which
belongs to L. 0. Jackson, of Balm
bridge. The sink is the receptacle
of large creek, and the bottom is
about two hundred feet below the
surrounding country. There is a
grist mill on its verge, and the natu-
raj water power would run a vast
amount of machinery. The fall of
water into the sink, which is the ap-
proach to great cavern is over one
hundred feet under ground.
On my return to Pelham, Mr..
Hand proposed to take me to anoth-
er cave, two miles from Pelham.
This one is OH a beautiful large
plantation. and is a funnel-shaped
cave, about two hundred and twenty
five feet deep, and has two mouths
to breathe through, and it was blow
ing out strong while we were there.
Like the other cave, it sucks the air
in the morning and blows it out in
the evening and the air is cool and
pleasant.-Atlanta (Ga. Neacs.