The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer.

Extraordinary Incident. — A gentleman in the neighborhood of this city, in riding across his farm a few days since, was suddenly surprised and alarmed to find his horse gradually sinking into the earth. He instantly leaped from the animal, and by so doing his own life was providentially saved. The horse continued to sink lower and lower into the earth, until he had descended one hundred and fifty feet. At this point he became wedged between two masses of rock, and was crushed to death. The chasm or fissure, we are told, appears to have been formed by the separation of the earth and rock in some convulsion of nature. The width of the fissure at the surface, we have not learned, but it was covered with a thin soil, which commenced giving way as soon as the weight of the gentleman and his horse was added to it.