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Show Thunderbolt at Flati.and When the shower ye-terday was at its greatest fury, some passengers on one of the Coney Island cars, which pa-s through Fl.itlaud, observed at a short distance a vivid flisi' of lightning, and immediately following came u terrific Clash of tliunder. The lightniiia ap pearedli-e a bright, elongated flame or thunderbolt, which, on uearing the earth, parted into three piece-, the main bolt la inu a direct course and piercing a heap of green hav in the tkid id Mr. Pe er Lut, only a few rods troiu the car. and the other sha'ts flying fly-ing off at different tngles. doing no injurv. To tne inmates of the house tiear by.it seemed as if the bui ding would "fail, so gteat was the shock; and in the stables the hor-es were stricken down with terror. After the shower was over, some superstitious people went to view the spot, in order to find tne thunderbolt; but Vulcan had left no tricks nehind him. The heap of hay, though green aud wet, was as thorough' consumed as if it nad be-;n but dry straw. The ashes were thoroughly raked, but no thunderbolt thunder-bolt could be found, nor even a ho'e where it might haye entered the ground. Brk. J:'ijc |