Show WHO IS biff DEAD MM MIN hk loton ott IV ili 11 1 I lit 11 liisi Ing near w cistand during the recent heavy showers some email small piece of coal were carried down to tho W D livington living ton homo at crystal springs and mr nir langston and sons eons went up the mom mountain itata friday afternoon thinking the torm storm might havo have uncovered a efin of coal says friday a e 1 messenger at less than a mile distant they came cama to what ie fit known as tut sleepy hollow christened by mr air living boye boys some time ago while reading rip van winkle the hollow bollow having rather a wierd uncanny appearance pe Pear arance anoe aril being inhabited principally by owls ou oi 01 e aide side of the hollow Is 1 a bluff of rocks livingston was making his way up this cliff when he saw a skull exposed in a rather narrow deep fissure in the rocks lie announced his discovery and the tile crowd went to digging and uncovered many of the larger bonet bones of the skeleton with it they found socie some pieces of what bad apparently been burlap and canvas with a couple of pieces of leather strap suggesting gestIng that the body had been wrapped in a horse horae or some thing of that sort when deposited 1 in the crevice to all appearance appe aranco it lind find been covered by a layer of fine leases off a oed ir tre dirt and a flat stone the water running down between the rocks had washed tho the dirt oft opposing the skull jt it la Is hard to estimate how long the skeleton hod had been bre ong owing to its exposure to 0 t e 0 air and at A running through it lt bone gotie expressed the belief ehst it had been there as long as twenty years while othera others placed tie tle time all the way from ten to twenty five years |