Show part of manuscript discovered in a sealed hollow stone maimed to have been found by a farmer while digging in his potato field near dongola Don pola III instructions from joseph S nith carved on the face of the stone carbondale dec 13 marshall penrod who lives on a farm close to the village of dongola in union county while digging a black oak stump out of a field close to his residence found a scone a toot long and eight inches in diameter the peculiar shape of the stone which resembled a pocketbook attracted his attention and upon close examination he found carved on its face an fn the english language the following words athla stone contains the original manuscript of the book of mormon JOSEPH SMITH the stone Is hollow with a bhole drilled entirely through it and at both anda red cedar have been driven when removing one of the plugs several sheets of paper containing writing in that could not be deciphered were found the characters are very peculiar following no known line of ancient writing at the bottom of the last page was found written in english the finders of this manuscript will deliver the same to the elders of he mormon church the stone still remains with arpen rod and already communication has been made the salt lake church giving the incidents of the find |