A Monster Moonstone

From the Evaiwrillo ;lnd ] Courier, Aur. 1 In our issue of the lOth inst. we c:tlk attoution to the fact that on that day oc curred one of those periodical meteori showen which have alway boen th gouroe of inore or less tenor to the un learned, and the cause oí' which hüs oc casioned much discussion among the sa vans of all ages. Tho oveuing of th Klth, it will be remcmbpred, was cloudy and altogether unpropitious for obser ving the phenomonon, and, so f ir :ts w know, tho hoavons exhibited no unusua appearance in this vicinity, dipt. Rcotl who is cultivating several thous uil acre of the Fowler farm, in Bonton Oount} reports th fall, noar his resideuce, north east ef Oxford, of onn the most roroarka ble t l'tüs t!. at 1 as o er been sei n tn th Unitod States. Indeed it has no-.-tr been rivallfd, unless by the monster uioon stone weighing 1,636 pounds that fo] near the Ked Eiver, in Ai kansas, mr wh'uh is still preserved in tha oabinet o: Yalo College ; and it may not prove sec ond to that stee According to Capt Scott's account, he was rturning fron earap-meeting at ]D:30 r. i. Tiie eve ning was cloudy aud dark, with occasion ally a little rain, and it was with ditiicul tj that he could distinguish the roac leadiug auross the fields' which he was followine. Suddenly he was startlee with a bliuding glare of light that illuminatnd everything as far as the eye could reach with more than a noonday radi anco. Simultaneonsly ho heard a rushing sound, as he describes it, like a terrino gust of wind, and tho next instant siiw shooting vertically döwnwaïd a huge fiary ball, which strack the earth a few rods from where he was standing, with a deafening detonation and a shock like an learthqnako. Capt. Sott owns to being badly i'righténed, and for a few moiuents stood leutionloBfi, completely at a loss to account íor what lal asppened. In the meantime a hisíing noii cam; from the spot where the mysterieus object had fallen, acfiompaniod by a steam-like vapor ftnd a strong sulphurous odor. The blinding light continued for full fifteen minutes, and beforo it had entirely pubBided Captain Scott niustered up courage to make a closer investigation. The serolite was still smoking where it had fallen, and too hot to be removed ; but after considerable trouble a fragment of the swbstimae composing the interior wae pr.urod,. Mid uiay now be seen at the (iimrier otH(;. It has much the appearance of voléame rock, but is considrably Sghtcr, being scarcely heavicr than somc f the n ore solid woods.