SHOWER OF FLESH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 35, 1 June 1876, Page 3

SHOWER OF FLESH.

I V special despatch to the "Louisville iuriuf Journal." front Mount Sterling. |lM tm'ky, F.S., conveyed the intelligence |lt ~a March Hth a uioak wonderful pheiiifiiou transpired in i"fin,r. section. The says that during the sunj m . and clear sky there fell from tin: I|V i : iijt cquivering flesh, which came down : ;i ,wc quantities and covered many acres! flu: territory. Hogs and chickens o-i-Jy devoured the flesh, specimens of ii:|i'wore sent to- New York for scientific miinattoii. A late telegram says that lf tin; publication of Professor J. Lawirt; Smith's analysis of the flesh which in. Bath C'otmty, other scientists adieii tlm plausibility of his theory, but ijncd to differ, basing their objections tin: belief that Batraohian spawn conIM n o blood, traces- of which were obv,:il "» shrubs and fences after the phemiiii'ti. To-day, Professor Smith, ittaumnew,says, " If. the remarks f previously i| i; tn the Associate*. Tress agent I nlil have said that a critical examinai was made for blood corpuscles, but the slightest evidence of anything of kind- was found. The matter obtained ■a the specimens waasitupty unorganised I :;c!atinous. The mere brown or red- |, cnlmir is no evidence of blood, as st all i-figt-uali matter in a desiccated t,. when iu contact with air assumes; a iv »<• less brown colour. The matter mined- was simply gelatinous, and as it from- the heavens we must seek among ,:elafciuous products for its origin, and bin is to be found in the spawn of cer- [ reptiles,, and; as the spawn of the I>aihiiia- species has been known to have ii transported, as in this case, I see no im for altering my original opinion." i llesli fall continues to excite the ■tier of people not only of Kentucky, ■ iiiest everywhere. Hundreds of fetters Mnquiry were received from all parts of li:iHUltl'y.