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Show Fervent Lightning. Quite a strange freak of lightning was witnessed nt tho homo of Mr. William Henry Morton iu Athens. During the rainstorm that came up alwnt noon a flash of lightningstrtick the rod over the house, melting it instantly. The current cur-rent was not content with this, but leaped to tho tin gutter and melted it all around the bouse, pouring the molten metal in heavy streams to the ground below. The lightning then flashed through one corner corn-er of the house, paid a visit to the people in the room below, ran out along an iron pipe to a tin basin on the back piazza and melted it completely, nnd followed an iron pipe to the well, fully fifty feet from the house. The damage to tho woodwork wood-work of the house was very slight, but all of the metal with which it came in contact was melted. Atlanta Coustitu-tiou. |