Show STRAFE PHENOMENA A METEORIC SHOWER IN ALABAMA under date of may george georgae Geor get gaT T salle balle communicates the following to the mobile moble tribune this day a fortnight ago the meteoric stones began to fall and have fallen every day since including today with increasing interest with the exception of heat no 0 hot on ones es have fallen that lam iam I 1 am aware of one day last week the young au man that waits in my house remarked aed ned tome to me that them things keit kert kept falling at EIsell nes house that an 0 old oid d bone and a piece of wood had bad had fallen I 1 walked to her fier house and found her in the yard with a bone that was apparently onee once a soup bone and the knee of the shinbone shin bone and a piece of perfectly seasoned basket white oak which was clean elean and entirely free from dirt and looked as if it had come from some gome workshop I 1 showed both the places of wood and bone toa to a neighbor who had come for the express purpose of ratifying his curiosity we were both of the opinion that te tile bone had been exposed to the weather some 10 or 12 years they both fell together and at the same time in the yard As I 1 approached with within in 10 steps of her fence one stone not sill i clous cious came rattling down through one oneff of the trees and almost in the same instant another fell in four or five feet right before my eyes whilst conversing with her she stepped to a chicken coop which was lying there and pres presented entea me MO with a lump of clayey clasey looking stuff stumm about the hal bal hardness baldness of a half burnt brick she said tom her husband had plowed it up some days before they be gan an to fall as it were in showers and 6 brought it to the house but thit that that she had llad forgotten to show it to me this thit lump would weigh ap i the estimation of the gentleman above a alluded to at least six pounds it fell in plowed plo pio faed where the thu corn was wag knee high one onit fell last night at a late hour on my house with g great reat vl violence olence during durings a storm of wind rain thunder and lightning for want of a ladder I 1 ain am unable to get jt t as it is lodged in the gutter I 1 learn today fiday that they have fallen likewise at mr sullivans six miles from me 1 who ilk lik lives likes es at what has ion lon long iong 9 leen been called jordans ferry forry creek I 1 was in con conversation a week ago with one of the most intelligent ladies ladles of our county who informed moe toe that the like ph L bonema occurred several years ago in mississippi n and continued to fall a whole year confined there just as here to one locality that he the neighbors philosophically phili Phill supposed it was some mischievous person and incontinently incontinent mustered al all ali I 1 the dogs an and scoured the whole country without making any discovery sa thattie thing remains a mystery to this day As I 1 have no of forwarding this at ercse present t I 1 will ile lle nere here fe once for illi all ail quote all that Stio elder eider in iu his noot boot of nature says on the tile subject page he says native iron occurs rarely in layers or veins of inconsiderable thi thickness ekness or in grains of lamina the tho most remarkable variety is the meteoric iron imn 1 consisting of masse masses of native iron which have fallen from the tild atmosphere and which weigh from 1171 to or even pounds mention may be made here of the meteoric stones which contain with few exceptions native iron beslaer besides other earthy constituents such as hornblende horn blend olk olivine vine ac native iron supposed to be of terrestrial terr estial origin has been observed at canaan cannan cla Cia naan conn where it occurs in a vein two inches thick last evening at 6 0 we had the tife most violent storm which we have ever witness witnessed pd except on one occasion this spring durins which some meteoric stones atones fell felt with grent great force on my house N fortunately for me I 1 istook up vol I 1 of malte bruns brans universal geography graphy and 4 the atmosphere ha has s at all times contributed to augment the number of the solid substances of the globe the showers of stones described as prodigies les ies by many greek and roman noman historians r glans gians bacany have ave been finally placed beyond the reach of doubt by the enlightened observations of blot biot cialdini Ch aldini and other philosophers hilo all these substances thrown thrown down upon the earth from the clouds contain the same elements of silex iron and nickel they seem to be only the nuclei or kernels of those balls of fire which we often see traversing 13 the atmosphere with a dazzling bl brightness rightness and aria disappearing in the twinkling of an eye thus the tho balides bolides bo lides or atmospheric stones should be eions formed by the elementary gasses and perhaps by an efrece of electricity but they are also aiso regarded as so many satellites or diminutive moons which re revolving round our planet terminate their course by uniting themselves to it when causes that are unknown but easy to be conceived have deprived them of a part of their centrifugal force was dr franklin wrong in thinking 8 9 that there may have been a tim time ewhen it rained stones as its it now does water manufactures IN connecticut among the man manufacturing centres bentres of connecticut new havear stands first finst firstin in the amount of capital having having baving invested in manufactures employing 4 males and 3 females and producing goods gooda valued at annually waterbury has invested 2 employs 1662 males and females and produces annually goods worth bridge or lias has 1 I invested 2150 2160 males maies ts and 1119 1 ilg females temmes employed and produces I 1 1 worth of goods VA hartford r has invested 2275 males and 1760 fern fera females ales aies employed and its product are valued at JS has invested 9 employs 1674 males and 1399 females and produces 2 8 worth of goods annually new london has invested employs 1670 males and females and produces worth of goods 4 NATIONAL cemeteries two more national cemeteries have been p prepared r epa r ed by the corps of workmen engaged u under de r the direction of lieutenant colo coio colonel nel nei moore A Q lyl ISI one is called the city point cemetery 11 and is situated one mile filin from city poff point va near the banks af pf pathe the river on the farm of E cormer corner and contains four t acres the other is known as eort fort harrison cemetery and is established ona knoll lia lla half lf a mile east of fort harnis harris on on the nine mine miles mile from flom riehmond richmond va and about thre threes miles emiles from kirana landing on james river niver this cemetery contains one and three quarter acres and is on the farm owned by the heirs of john jqhn du auttin atin the city point cemetery will contain all the dead that were buried burled on the lefkof left of the Jeru jenu jerusalem galem plank road and around city points hort fort harrison cemetery will 6 contain etain all the remains buried at deep bottom dutch gap and of those men who fell in the charge on fo eort fort rt harrison marino MAKINO STO NEIn company with several gentlemen wo we paid a visit to the room of duval fc norris morris in n union st who have just opened a ten temporary establishment for forsaking making stone it is a novel yet simple simpie simple simpie operation based on the most scientific principles and may b be e regarded as one odthe of the greatest inventions of the age the mode model of diakin making it is mainly as follows a quantity of sand sard is placed in a mixing mileto mill to which is added a small smail quantity of pulverized quartz aud and a proper proportion of a solution ot or silicate of soda which lids has very much the appearance of hivo hive syrup and then mixed in A very gli gil manner mannel on taking it t from the mill to the touch it feels like ilke putty though it ift looks locksa a little coarser it is then put into moulds of the shape desired when it is well packed down with a common pestle from the mould it Is placed upon a marble slab when a solution of chloride of calcium is poured over it and in the space of a few minutes it ift becomes as hard as stone and in twenty four hours sufficiently solid for building purposes it has been tested by scientific men who plon pron pronounce ounce it as solid as real stone and alid give the epili opinion that it is formed in the same sam way esray a as is done by nature its cost of production is so small that it is infinitely cheaper than to quarry ledges and ship rough blocks to market it ift has been submitted to meny severe tests and has withstood all to tho the satisfaction of ex p vo lif lit indian register neim daven haven if avon conti |