Remarkable Phenomenon

The Nashville Banner states that "a shower of animal matter, like flesh and blood, had fallen in Wilson county, Tennessee. Gentlemen of high character state that the space covered by this extraordinary shower, is half a mile in length, and about seventy-five yards in width."

The editor says he has seen a specimen of this singular out pouring, and remarks that it has an odor like putrid flesh.

A letter from a physician near the scene to Prof. Troost, who has received an invoice of the new article, states that the writer gathered it with his own hands. He observes-

"The regular manner it exhibited on some green Tobacco leaves, leaves very little or no doubt of its having fallen like a shower of rain, and it is stated on the authority of some negroes only, to have fallen from a small red cloud, no other clouds visible in the heavens at the time. It took place on Friday last between 11 and 12 o'clock, about five miles N. E. of Lebanon. I have sent what I think to be a drop of blood, the other particles composed of muscle and fat, although the proportions of the shower appeared to be a much larger quantity of blood than of other properties.