The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-09-17

their roosts as they do only at nightfall,
and, after cackling for while over the
mystery of so short day, became still.
Cocks crowed as is their custom at nightly
intervals and the early breaking of day.
Frogs piped their evening concert, and
dogs whined or howled and ran away as
on the approach of an earthquake. The
herds of cattle on New England's thou
sands hills, sought the shelter of the shed
OF barnyard, lowing as they came to the gate,
and sheep huddled around the CIRCLE with
their heads inward-the jnvariable token
of apprehended danger
On the human family the effect was still
more curious and terrifying. The mechan-
ic left his tools in his shop, the farmer his
plow in the furrow, and each moved in
silent and maveliug mood toward the barn
OR dwelling. On the home threshold they
were met by pale and anxious woman,
who tremblingly inquired, What is COM
ing P' The alarmed traveller, seeking the
sympathy of his fellow man as one i'm
pressed with a sence of impending peril,
put up at the nearest house, and mingled
his anxious questions and forebodings with
those of the family. Strong men met and
spoke with surprise on their countenances
and little children peered timidly into the
deepening gloom, and then sought the
sheltering parental arms. Schools broke
UP in alright, and the wondering pupils
hf,, ,o,Ix I,
sions of childish fear. The inevitable
candle shone out Of The windows Of all
dwellin9s-eveiy countenance gathered
blackness-all hearts were filed with fear
of an approaching, unparalleled storm, or the
occurrence of a terrestrial convulsion; but
it was not the blackuess of the storm cloud
such as sometimes, with fiShtful agitation,
breaks over a single city; it was the silent
spreading of the pall-cloth over the earth
by STRONG invisible hands. Many anecdotes
of terror are related. In Boston, from she
bours of II or till o'clock, business was
generally suspended and shops were closed.
At Groton, q court was in session in a
meeting house full of large windows, as
was the old style of worship; at but half
past eleven all faces began to wear sombre
hue, whereupon magistrate and people
began to follow suit with New England,
and called Tor lighted candies Connecticut
went totally under the cloud. The jour-
nal of her House of Representatives puts
on re, old the fact thai None could see to
ttai ;,,4 4ha nt n
window, or distinguish pe.son at a short
distance, or perceive any distinction Of
dress, &C., in the circles of attendants,
Therefore, at eleven o'clock, adjourned the
House till two o'clock, in the afternoon"
Amid the deepening gloom that raped
! about the city, darkened the rooms of the
State House, and set the lawgivers tremb-
ling with the apprehension that the day Of
judgement was at hand, when the motion
for adjournment was made. Colonel Abra
ham Davenport, afterwards Judge of STAN
ford, Conn, and State Councillor in the
Legislative Chamber at Hartford, said; 81
am against the adjournment. Either the
Day of Judgemen is at hand or it is not
If it is not, there is no cause for adjourn
ment. lfit is, l want to be found in tn,
line of my tduty. l wish candles to bt
brought" e"'.-i .tlt
The darkness of the day having beer
succeeded an hour or two before evening
by a partially clear sky, and the shining o
the sun, still obscuned by the black ant
vapory mist this interval was followed by
reaarn of the observation with great den
sity, that rendered the first part of TIN
night hideously dark beyond all former ex
perience of probably million of peopl
who saw it.