Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-02-10
WONDERFUL SIGHTS IN THE
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AIR.
The venerable American lexieoRfaN
pher has thought it worth while 10 ho~
lice, in The New Haven Herald, the use
which appears TO have been made 10 re'
ceot publications Of certain atrosp aeFlc
pbenbmeua, 10 reference TO the greaS
change which, it is said, is 10 come over
the world this year. He Says
ITO persons not accustomed 70 seo
any unusual phenomenon 10 the heavens
such fiery APPEARANCE Of the CLOUDS
must be very terrific. Ignorance IN
such cases is a calamity had seen
more wouderfu appearance IN the c'ouus
or heavens, and was cot 10 The least ols'
lurbed. -
"In the dark day, May 49, l70o' tne
heavens were covered with dense c'ouo
for three or four hours; the Legislature
was in session al Hartford, and such was
the darkness that business coS'd not 20
transacted without candles. During
this time tho clouds wore tinged with
yellow or faint red for houts, tor "nfcn
no cause has been assigned. ! stood "
viewed this phenomenon withsaston'sh'
men,, but had not aEy fear that the
world was coming TO an cod,
In the evening Of March 2Oth, 1882
an extraordinary light spread over tho
whole hemisphere from horizon 10 horI-
zon, north and south, east and west ---
The light was oil a yeIlowish cast ana
wavy. The waving Of The light was
visible, and some person. heard or i'm
agined tha, they heard, slight rus'slng
sound. | then resided in Goshen, Or
ange county, New York, and stood hall
an hour on a bridge over the Wall Kill
to witness this extraordinary phenom-
enon, but saw no person that was !rlgh'
tened at the sight.
In the year 1853, great part Of Ebs
rope vas for weeks ovefspread with q
hair of atmosphere which caused
great CONSERVATION. The churches
we're crowded with supplcanis. The
astronomer LaIande attempted TO ailAy
the alright by endeavoriBg TO account
| for the appearance, which he SscEibed
10 an uncommon exhalalion Of waiery
particles from the grea! rala OF the pre-
ceding year. But at last the cause was
ascertaiDed 10 be smoke from the great
eruption OF the volcano HecIa, 10 Ice land,
which covered more than three thousand
square miles with burning lava, in some
places 10 The depth OF forty Ieet. had
this account from Doctor franklin who
was IN Europe at the limes
In a late paper published by the Mill
Ierltes. saw an article stating that the
northern lights foreteI something ter
rblp. The writer seems not TO know
'hat in the high northern attitudes, in
the sixteenth degree and northward,
northern lights are Of daily occurrence.
and so have been from lime lmmemorial.
So illuminated are the heavens that per-
sons may often see to read in the night.
These lights occasionally come so far
South as to illuminate the sky in our
latitude. Sometimes they do not appear
for many years, At the close ofthe sev.
enteenth and the beginning of the eigh.
teenth century these lights were nos
seen for long period, and when they
reappeared about the yesr 1917. our an.
cestors, who mad not seen or heard Of
them. were all alarmed actually suppo-
sed the day of Judgment had come.
During my life have been so much
accustomed to see northern lights, fall.
ing stars, go called, and fire balls, that
they have long since ceased TO excite my
+. curiosity.
Nearly thirty years ago | read an ar
3 ticIe in a Vermont paper, stating that
the northern light on a certain evening
7 was so low as 10 be visible between the
spectator and a distant mountain.
4 N. WEBSTER.