Show I 1 UNE AN banea afta J we hatm oe oc mound builder disinterred la in while digging a well near sand spring ky recently a number of human bones were disinterred together with a quantity of weapons spear heads arrows and axes of copper obsidian and very good brass the axes especially showing very fair workmanship the bones all belonged to male skeletons with the exception of ono one of the best preserved which was that of a woman about whize skull was bound a crown or sort of diadem of silver set with an opal cut with skill andoe and of extraordinary size and luster from the appearance ot of these remains says the philadelphia times it is is i probable that this was an ancient battle ground on which the slain w were cre buried as they fell local archaeologists who have examined the skulls declare that they are not those of I 1 indians n but of a people of superior i intelligence n telli gence some of the skeletons skeleton sare are asevez seven feet in height one measuring eight feet four inches this lat lattera breast breastbone bone is shattered by a copper knife which was waa still sticking in the severed bone the presence of the comans womans re remains mains is not to be accounted for except that t she may have been the queen of the tribe and in person led her host to battle sharing their lot and being interred with them among the relles relies E is I 1 is a lamp provided with a wick which has hardened almost to a stone and on the body of which h runs a curious inscription cut into the brass the lettering resembles that of egyptian monuments there is also an engraving on it of an insect strangely like the scara WIra bei of that country another reminder of ancient history is found in the fact that one odthe of the skeletons has seized another by the heel and his teeth are still to be seen fixed in it crunching the bone in his grasp that these people were identical with the mound builders is more than probable for it is known that that vanished race was particularly numerous about hero |