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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 9.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Most of the items of news in this number were in type last week, but were left over for want of room.

Extraordinary Phenomenon.

THE HAGERSTOWN (Md.) Mail says:—
On Tuesday last, between the hours of 11 o’clock in the morning and 11 o’clock at night, the most extraordinary sounds were heard in that portion of our valley which is bounded by the Conococheague on the west and the base of South Mountain on the east, and, as we learn, at Mechanics-town, in Frederick County. Within this range it was heard in Hagerstown, Funkstown, and Beaver Creek, where persons ran out to see what was the matter with the excited cattle and dogs. It was heard at Smithsburg, Ridgeville and all through that region; also, at the same time, at Middlekauff’s, Downey’s, Hardscrabble, Zeller’s, and Kershner’s.
The sound in all those places is similarly described as the distressed cry of some wild beast. It everywhere created the greatest alarm among cattle and dogs. It was heard at many places at the same time, they being remote from each other. What caused it no one can surmise, but it is supposed to have been produced from some atmospherical cause.