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Show A Shower op Scxpuer. Natchez had a shower of sulpher lately. It rained furiously, hailed some little, and the lightning and thunder were almost incessant. The most curious phenom-enon,however, phenom-enon,however, was a shower of sulpher, sufficient of which fell to make a thick coating upon the surface of the water which flowed from the shower into the cisterns. A citizen skimmed some of it from the water and set fire to it, and it burned readily with a blue flame and gave out suffocating fumes. |