Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1869 — Human Bedies Turned to Stone. [ARTICLE]

Human Bedies Turned to Stone.

To the Editor of the Now York Sun : Bin: The recent- atirfMtion of Professor H. A. Ward, of.the Rbchester (N. Y.) “ U»Mi Micro;te no .single instance on reCbfQ r of fossil or petrified flesh-,V is Strangely subversive of the truth in authenticated cases, recorded in the newspaper presses, and well reinembircd to tliW hundreds of the most intelligent and reputably citizens resident where the discovery bf these phenomena took place. The instant* rwentjy, .totaished you from Canastota; 1 N. Yof 1W petrifaction of oL Captain Cady, "janoldand well-known resident Of the town*of Stilß-van/’-Bevivßa andrccdothen with ail 1 the fresimaM. l andt vigor of a yesterday’s i»qidenvtne' exhumation' of 'the' body of 1 Mts. WiUlB Cowling fqtfrtinUermentln the new jusV erected and. completed in the etty of ‘Richmond, Vai,' thirty-five yeaHazfi. t r'Tg—ytTn i' - The deceased Udy, the wife of one of the Targbst ’manufacturers, of that city, and a man of: fiaocharttattr and large wealth, was buried in the grounds attached to the Mclfib'dist Episcopal Church; After the lapse of several years, Ms. Cowling in the interim having married again, and the second wife dying, determined to bury both wives side by feMe jm-the new cemetery, and had the body of the first wife exhalped, *'Tbb upuhhal .weight qf the coffin, exacting tbe< force and power of seveerafifidn tb remove H.’hnd the extraordinarggiressiWim jot tMhlw4ai.;of .which phenomena, andwith ttat sole object In view opened the coffin, when, to the utter amazement of every beholder, the body was found to Sts daguerreotyping hot only tne general conjinipg qach every friend frWent, SKaafeiSttSf -r.• ■' > ~i i ■»1.., -Ip the towns Smithfield, UtackStone arid Bellingham, R. 1, then are seventeen cotton and tight woolen mills, which ,employ 5,550 bands, run 4,00 H- m», and annually ust 15,905,OOQtfflttWisSf ooMon, ¥o<n<Jailcfl» an to ran IWOO »plnfllw.