his induced young Scriven, who had never -before heard of 
meteoric falls, at once to examine the fence against which the 
ball -had struck. The fence was eight feet high, and formed of 
long strips of horizontally disposed boards. It was near the 
extremity of an uppermost board, that had been detached and 
nt around so as to present its flat side uppermost, that the 
body had been seen to fa eset And here it was, that he dis- 
- 
scribed, and shown a mere pinch of the matter that had been 
detached from the fence,—the principal portion of it having un- 
fortunately been given to a young man of the neighborhood, an 
_-€ngineer at the depot of the Northwestern railroad, who wished 
__. to exhibit it to his friends. 
Dr. Pettigrew immediately called to acquaint me of the case; 
but not finding me at home, we did not meet until the forenoon 
of the 20th, when he presented me the specimen gathered by 
Scriven, and took me to the spot. 
ined the grass and soil on both sides 
‘ the fence, without finding anything beyond little fragments 
of chaicoal, ‘which are oe a most places about the 
Piet 
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