The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-04-07
Wonderful sights in the Sky.
BY NOAH WERsTEH

The venerable American photographer
has thought il worth while to notice, in the
New Haven Herald, the use which appears
TO have been made in recent publications of
certain atmospheric phenomena, in reference
to the great change which, it is said, is to
come over the world this year. He says
"TO persons not accustomed TO see any
unusual phenomenon in the heavens, such
a fiery appearance Of the clouds must be
very terrific. have seen more wonderful
appearances in the clouds or heavens, and
was not in the least disturbed.
In the dark day, May 10, 1880, the hea-
vens were covered with dense cloud for
three or four hours; the Legislature was in
session at Hartford, and such was the dark
ness, that business could not be transacted
without candles. During this time the
clouds were tinged with yellow or faint
red for hours, for which no cause has been
assigned. | stood and viewed this pheuo-
menon with establishment, but had not any
fear that the world was coming to an end.
In the evening of March 90, 1888, an ex-
traordinary light spread over the whole
hemisphere from horizon TO horizon, north
and south, east and west. The light was of
yellowish cast and wavy. The waving of
the light was visible, and some persons
heard, or imagined they heard, light rust
/ ling sound.
then resided in Goshen, Orange county,
New York, and stood half an hour on a
bridge over the Wall Kill, 10 witness this ex.
traOrdinary phenomenon, bat saw no per.
son that was frightened at the sight.
In the year 1898, a great part of Europe
was for many weeks overspread with hazi
ness of atmosphere which caused great con
sternation. The churches were crowded
with supplicants, The astronomer Lalandt
attempted to allay the fright by endeavornG
to account for the appearance, which he as
lcribed to an uncommon exhaiatlon OF vas
particles from the great rain of the preceding
year. But at last the cause was asceTtaineC
to be smoke from the great eruption of thu
volcano Hecla, in Iceland, which cOverer
: more than three thousand square miles will
burning lava, in some places TO the depth o
forty feet. had this account from DOcto
Franklin, who was in Europe at the time.
In a late paper, published by the Miller
ties, | saw an article stating that the North
ern lights foretell something terrible. Tn
writer seems not to know that in the hig
northern ATTITUDES, in the 9th degree an
northward, northern lights are Of daily &C
currence, and so have been from time in
memorial. So illumined are the heaven
that persons may often see to read afte
, night.
These lights occasionally come so f;
t south as to illuminate the sky in our lat
tude. Sometimes they do not appear f
: many years. At the close of the 18th au
: beginning of the 18th century, those ligh
/ were not seen for a long period; and who
D they re-appeared, about the year 1917, OF
9 ancestors, who had not seen or heard
2 them, we're all alarmed, and actually suPp
E sed that the day Of judgment had come.
h During my life have been so much a
II cushioned to see northern lights, falling star
and fre-balls, that they have long sinc
a ceased to excite my curiosity.
O Nearly thirty years ago read an artic
d in Vermont paper, stating that the Mort
q ern light, on certain evening, was so 10
as to be visible between the spectator and
\ distant mountain"