The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-10-07
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aomeucn which i said 10 have recently oc
CURED 20 Wilson county, aad Of ihe truth
q Which none Gao doubt, aud az many en-
quit'es have been made whether such a
! strange fact has ever bpture Leca observed
or recorded, am Induced 10 offer you fcl
Publication lie following extract from Oh,
!! several essays " Mr.. Esp, 5ld.sheC
some Years 40 IN the Journal Of tue
tranhlu Institute. A. the phenomena
meauaned by Mr.. Esay are addJced as vel
established facts, merely to illustrate aut
prove his Theory Of foia, haii storms, &c
tie reference 10 ihe,G is Of course Luel.
hir. Espy says
I'aere are many sell suheuiica,ed ac
counts Of showers Of dust, aud bi,gdy, Or
les imagine, reddish rain, have fallen, arc
aiso Of haIl, with earthly or story muller
cg4.aiEed 10 the stones, and some with
green leaves Of forest trees; all these facts
are mcro coroliaries from the theory
psol Ilaermaun oualy ed The sedineut Of
some rcd rain shich fell 90 the 81 az May,
1921, n9ar Gg!sycn, and found /, 10 contain
cromo, oxide O! iron, sicx, lime, carbon,
and race q uagnosia, but 80 uickel.-
90 TIE l3Aol August, 1924, ~ the CITY
II Menu y, Il Bueaos AyTes, dust leI
rom Z bl4ch cloud, uuJ al The sane time.
70 aoe,lal place distant forty leagues, the
,9ue pheHoWeuaa occurred.
u Persia, near Mount ATaral there fe,l,
q the month Of April 1872, saa~cr Of
cf1S, vhllh, 10 some places, covered the
earth to lie depth Of siA inches. The
sheep ate of It, and men made tocrabe
bread of IL The French ambassador in
Rlssia obtained some specimens Of this
gran, and sent ihem 10 Paris, where they
were paaiea.l and examined IS NJ. NJ.
DesfuuJaios end 1henard, aud determined
10 Sc Erlens o. tie genus Lec,dya.n
These accounts are taken by air Espv
from NJ Poutiict, distinguish French
wtler 90 aaicorology, and taer truth, we
presume, cannot be doubted. ihatclore,
i will De seen, thai something similar to
ihe wilson county phenomenon has occur
red before. II IS 10 be hoped that Prof.
froo-, may Obtain enough Of lie matter
deposited to ascertain lis true nature by
analyzalioa. Should lie mol 10 so toru.
uale, IL may sill be well coujactured to be
no, very Unlike the sediment Of the bloody
rain eualyzsd By Prof Xlmermaru in Ger
many, allh ;he addition Of some o'her nat
ieIs, % 10 dill proportions, Or bo,b.--
II IS barely conceivable that i should be
really oE;g7l mailer which has been IA.
ken 90 ard deposited ia the manner repre-
senicd Bot IL Is not inlposible yet It IS
iar more probable thar the combination,
whatever analogy ii may bear, or even
ldentuy i may possess wllh Gesh and blood
vas NJ, lhe result Of the living principle,
bat was effected If matters taken from tao
eur.ace. Of already IN the atmospheric, ar
both, by some other process ct natures
s5ea, iabotaioty.
I'd late account Of Aeroi,cs, CID lie
following extracts, winch Is further corfr
maiory l.lt tie phenomenYn IS loi without
pFce aea'.
f" Aeroites ard Naicaf,c iron are not the
7., products Of Neleors which haye falen
eFao tho earth after explosions Namar
ass instances are mentioned Of black and
rel t'1si which has covered great tracts u;
lard Ara Il IS remarkable that such du~
has generally been fou1d 10 contain small
hld angular grains resembling augite.--
There have also been cases Of the fab o'
soA rnaljuaus matter Of red color Ike
co8rp'ctcl b'e,T, which have given rise 10
the stories at lie sky having roioed b.ond
Such Appearances have not uHffequenty
accompanied the fall OF stones On the
ia,a November, 1888, ram Of red color
fell aronad I'm and tho lake Of Constance
and Ga the Sane day IN Russia and Sweden.
The red water was Of an acid taste, ptoba
bly from the presence Of sulnhurlc acid
and tho p-ccipi,atc, which was 1aky Ike
STOW, when du-d was attracted by the
maguer 10 lbe eight Of lhe 9Th OF March,
1888, a req dnsl, 10 some p'acce aceompan,
ird BY ram, Gel, IN different parts Of Italy,
Ia Apuha, there was first very high wind
with nuch noise, and then a reddish b'ack
cloud appeared coming from the 5. East,
from which there fell ye,ioNIsh.fed ram,
and Afterwards quantity Of red dust, 1t
tta whole Of the following DAY
acd pnri o. The succeeding the dnst was
cyan,ccj and WIS found rot TO be volcanic
rlahron,. in the Anales de Chunio,
LAAAlIi, srys. that near Arezzo, in
March, 1913, the ground beng then cover.
Cd with snow, there was a shower Of fresh
snow of red color, which continued for
many hours, accompanied the whole time
With a sound like that Of the Violent dashng
Of the waves at distance the greatest fall
vas accompanied with Two or three eYpio
soas of thunder. The red snow beng mel
ted, preciptate was obtained OF a nankecn
coIar which yielded silica, lime, alamina,
iron and maganese.' /.
SOME Of these cases are pretty nearly IN
poiui W.
alt is true" as poor Richard says,
:, there is much to be done and perhaps
Won arc wraklanded but stick 10 il stead