The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-11-23

h r. Meyers are also unsettled and |.
~n.t be closed up. We are driven to /
.ading bills to all, irrespective of per-
m. and we hope that we will not be /
anelIed to resort 10 any thing more I
.rincent. But we must hare Our 6oohs
.,ored nip. and a word to the wise is
aficient.
B } ; b
THE l[ETEORs.-Some of our young
4ands have got excited over the Me-
-r question and thus deliver them
ages;
With curiosity, like many of my
-..hbors, l spent thenightof the 18th |
morning of the 18th inst, watch
b, the appearance Of the rhetoric |
sarer, which astronomers said would .
IKE place at that time. Patiently the /
-Hnight vigil was kept, sincerely ho- |
that we could see the meteors; F; for |
,hav fell only once in 80 years we |
anxious to witness them. But |
watching was in vain. Either !
a.e was a wrong calculation or they |
z-e hindered in their course by the |
Tering Alieghanies, or something
50. All day Of the 18th, numbers of /
spy individuals were seen, showing
-heirhalf-closed eyes, that they, too,
spenta night in weary star-gazing.
gny of Us intending to make up our
rest, retired early to bed, to dream
right meteors shooting across the
gens bat at an early hour, we were
useued by theringing of bells. The
se thought was fire; the second
-rr are our engines? the third and
rat thought, surely now the showers
coming, and kind considerate in
IHals are calling the good people
Bedford up to witness them. We
,,ed those who were willing to lose
p that they might awaken US to
uess the grand meteoric shower.
king at our watch the time was a
uarter Of three. Hastily dressing,
appeared on the street, looked ca
vup to the quiet sky, but our gaze
DO bright meteors with their trail
re. Weconcluded we were sold"
wishing to see how goOd-humored-
ur neighbOrs would take the sell,
,9ok a station on the highway, as
bells continued to ring. Lights
--seen in almost every house, win
T- were heard opening, then doors,
,1nn on the streets numb of cit
q, hastily gathered, shivering with
gazed long and often, old men
i --h spectacles looked, then removed
.r glasses, wiped them. thinking
sm dusty, then put them on again,
1T saw no meteorS; others came to the
ors in their stocking feet, asking with
lyiety and interest, whats the
.tter?" One youth who, as he ran,
,weredmusicalIyand c0mically, with
rice halffull Of laughter, "Meteors.' /
lie questioner gazed a moment into
ky, then closed the door with a
m, eXclaiming as ne crawled into
j l. "Sold!" The excitement became
geatthat the chief baiIiff ffappeared,
ering the groups to disperse, but /
At was one man among so many ex- (
d staT-gaZers? He was told to wait, .
when the falling meteors lighted I.
,he murky night, he could see clear
Tie road TO drive struggling swine, /
We're locked out, to the town
nd, and thus pecuniarily benefit
self, The baiiif waited not, but I
in disgust. After watching in /
for the metcors, we returned to F.
a eoncIading astronomers had made /
a.,.ake, and the last sound heard f.
the early morning air, was Me /
>.' Gam any one inform us when /.
nare5ric shower will really take .
p? If some body will do it, it will /
1~tdered a great favor 10y many /
los, much sleep watching for them. +
ONE WHO GAZED,
BUT GAZED IN VAIN. 4
i:AND ILLUMINATION IN BED |
l-.N. EGt0r:-I suppose you /
heard Of "them stars" which /
omuch attraction on the morn 7
" o, the 18th and l4th inst. Al 7
every house from "TeXas" to I
'.',1Wn," from the banks Of the .
10 the Southern suburbs of ''ye
D, city" were iilumined by lights I
..'-mast, Notwithstanding the Bur /!
'a1 Council had made ample pro-
"l' 'onotify the people in caseof the /
/ .s''' by appointing a squad of /
-'Zaas to act as an alarm force. |
aug the early part Of the night the !
We're made quite lively by the |
us promenading gazers, a good |
'..'''er Of which were fair ones. At I
.''k, owing to the incIemency Of |