360 Effects of a Stroke of Lightning. 
A _ sulphurous smoke arose from the spot, and filled the 
hou 
. Mrs. Marsh was in the closet, with the door shut, and but 
a foot distant from the course of the lightning. The s ound 
was dreadful, like cannon at her ears, and the heat inexpressi- 
ly great, as if she was in the midst of flames; she spoke at 
first of intense light, but all consciousness of that has since 
passed from her mind. In this terrific and awful situation, 
e was preserved unhurt, came out immediately, closed the 
door, and went down stairs, expecting to find her family dead. 
They were in the western part of the house, and received no 
harm. Mrs. Marsh was clothed in cotton, and a roll of car- 
peting stood between her and the umbrella. Fire-boards 
were thrown down, and =~ rooms filled with the smell of 
sulphur and cove red with s 
The electrical fluid ae four closets adjoining the song 
ney in the lower story; ran around china cups, plates 
raised and dissolved the gilding, and leaving a dark Such 
. path, next to a nail, where it splintered the partition, and esca- 
ped through the back of the door.to a hinge. Ina closet, 
without paint, it Ritaicared the wood three inches in width, 
broke four dishes, and drove out nine nails, four of them from 
“ahinge. In a third, it left an aperture as large as a bullet 
hole in the ceiling, split the floor three feet, and tore up four 
inches about aninch wide. In a fourth, it overturned, tossed 
out, and broke large vials of medicines, pill boxes, wafer box- 
es, &c. Kc. drove four nails partly out of the hinges, and rent 
off a piece of the casement. On the top shelf, lay several iron 
articles. It pierced the ceiling in the back room, came down 
in two branc and Na al dissipated four cents* 
which lay upon a nail in the moulding, marking the sur- 
rounding; spot with black. In the chamber, eight feet from 
the chimney, it came out over the corner of a looking-glass 
in three © places, the armen like a ee ; split the back- 
off at an opposite corner, in one so place and nine 
small ones, through the wall, to a window in the room be- 
neath; splintered the casement, by a nail, into five or six 
small pieces, and killed a rose-bush, which was tied to a nail, 
onthe outside of the house. 
* Foreign readers tid observe that the cent r coin, of the 
i he of gut 165 gra meth ent is a coppe in, 
