EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF

 ADiPoCERE.
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 By the courtesy of Mr. Frederick Friend, No. AS Ludlow street, we yesterday had an opportunity of examing wha; vt and many others much better yersed in such matters, 1, do no, hesitate to pronounce the most ex- traordinary case of adipocerealion, or con- version of the bodies of the dead into solid, uncorruptcd substance, on record. it was the case of the late Mrs Friend. mother ol Mr. F. Friend, who was about the middle ol February last disiniered tt the old burying ground at the corner of Broadway and Twelfth streets--the conversion of which ground to the purposes of speculation and .simproseinen,' has caused so much excite meDl litigation, and remoas,raucc amoags, those having relatives and friends buried there.

 Mrs. Friend and ller husbad, who, we be- heve. were born and brought up in the city, were leading members of the Nassau street congregation which purchased that spot for burial ground, and from their own means. and the contributions they personally cb. tained, paid one entire half of the cost of tic two lots purchased for that purpose There

 

 above and around d,em were inferred sever al Of their children and other near relatives only 10 be r,i,hlessly torn up and scattered years afterwards, that scheiaing specuIators might add to the contents of their already oycrburihenet cofiers,

 1 Mrs. Friend died in February. 1880. very suddenly, having retired to rest almost iu her usual health, and was llfeless before o'clock the next morning. She was hale hearty old lady, 6S years Of age, almes, au- acqusinied with disease, and though in cir cuinssanees 10 enable her 10 give Up entirely tho cares and labors of her household, was one of these old fashioned womeu who lov- ed moi idleness, but delighted in activity and the performances of household duties.

 On ;Ae sAssacca preceding her death she was engaged in locking efer the condition of the piekled meats of the family stores, and in so doing. had her arms to the elbows i'm. mersed for some time in cold brine. Soon afles she complained of chilling nsssbaess in her arms, which m the coarss of the even ing extended 10 her shoulders, and caused | sensation of sickness. She retired to bed oat bo Coukiooec ID kfOV worse It'll eftei midnight. when one If her daughters, by the advice of her physician, gaze her small dose of salts, which shortly operated as an emelic; and when in the act of vomiting she died ia the arms of her daughter.

 :. She was buried, as above stated, and sub seansnay her husband vas buried close hy her side, though not % deep by perhaps si. inches. ChiIdrsn and other relatives bsys since been consigned to the same few squsrs yards of earth, spd two or three of her chil. drsn, we believe, were buried over ihsir par. ents.

 There they remained until few wesk, since, when the new order of things thai hax arisen m relation 10 the property of the vsss 1 rendered t necessary that they shouid b, removed -Nn F. having occupied what sl, bad supyosed would have bssn her last re. ting aa,sce i'll the sounding of the lass .ramr jsss ssssn,ssn yssrs, lacking few s,.v' 0n ths removal of the remains of the ehiI dfsn, nothing ent q sAs ssasl sonsse of \, tars wss diaeessshiG aud the corn of st lsshsr, too, had returned se mnshsr es,sl 'sdnss ,o. dust" The eelks cf Mrs r .,