The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-08

should the desperate ut my side begin To
realize his threats, that should not by
any means be passive in the struggle;
but his weapons and his strength lett
little hope of q satisfactory ending t.
such q contest
There's something wrong with th'
valves, SAID my companion roughly, an
hour later; the gas, diable! is coming
down, and we are sinking. It's for you,
aeronaut to ascend The netting and stop
the escape of gas
was very reluctant TO obey. To
climb the netting Of balloon, when at
a great height above the earth, is never a
very pleasant task; but to do so and leave
behind me rufiian who might at any
moment pistol or stab me as l descended,
thus relieving himself of an lnconven'
tent witness, was indeed irksome. How
ever, Risque son-cou evinced such vehe'
ment pertinscity, and swore so many
grsly oaths, that ut last | complied; and
having adjusted the valve, crePt back to
the car, sick and glddy, bat unhurt.
The moon had faded away. There
were pale crimson streaks in what | took
to be the eastern sky, and below lay piled
up gloomy masses ofblack cloud, through
which cleaned at intervals something
whiteaud lustrou,, like the marble pima
cles of the cathedral ut Milan.
"Were steering straight Fatality,
for once. bcirienCs me- exclaimed the
desperate sharer of my journey, ''tor
mile bombesl these are the peaks of the
Eastern Pyrences Chuck over ballast,
bow. don't let us ground on them
We were, in reality, floating amongst
the scrrated SUBMITS of the Snow-clad
mountain tops Of the huge chain OF
mountains that forms n natural barrier
between Gaul aud Spain. Below, the
sul.en cloui-banks meuacoi elemental
war, ard already low muttering growIs
of thunder rcvcrberated among the SIERRA
ted ridges beneath ".
Throw over more ballast, command
ed my rutliluiy compn"ion.
dang out. with some misgiyings the
remainder of my last bag of sand and
small pebbles, but the Defiance did
not rise with il, former bouyancy.
Much .as had been lost. The once
smooth surface of the silk, painted IN
gaudv stripes of pink and blue, was
wrinkled now, and Auttcrcd loosely in
IRREGULAR testoon>. More than once 1t
seemed as though We must BE- dashed
against some one OF the towering peaks
above which the balloon slowly revoIyed.
Crash after crash, peel upon peel,
rang out the deep diapason OF the thun-
der echoed from glen to glen, and from
ridge TO to ridge, while lar and wide the
LIGHTNING sent its flaming arrows across
the dlrkcning sky. How strange 1t was
to see beneath u those torked shafts OF
dazzling light, to hear from beneath Us
those awful rolls of heavens own terrIbI"
artillery, and to float lac .pirssIy above the
raging tempest.
Day hal broken; the sun had risen.
red and angry in the stormy eastern sky,
and It, II current of MT waited the balloon
RAPIDLY forward, | could dimIy dl-tln.
gu sn forest and meadow, aud spurs %;
wooa-.lothcu hill, lying t. tie eastward
of u. The snowy peaks rosy -pInN IN the
mo,nng radiance, were beng gradually
lett behind u.
"uurrah. is YOU say, you other lslnnt
crs cried out the galley slave trum-
phuntlv. As he too scanned the landscape.
.Vlve la ioie! We're well across the
frontier now. and Pierre Paul Grinch"HA
Is As safe rs any other Frenchmnn from
the ol.uus summons 60 trUdGc back totHr
chain gang and the rattan OF the gardr-
chiourmc. Thank your stars, Eag.lsh-
man -
A stunning peel of thunder cut short
his boust'ul discourse; and as 1t d d 50 the
Defiance hccled over, and was driven like
"A dead leaf before the gale, by sudden
rush of = mighty wind, that bore usa.-
most to the surface of the ground, and
hurried Us along with headiong rapid
ity. Fields, woodlands, houses seemed 70
pu.- Us bv in irycclsn haste, and stu!
we sweep. onwarls, 80 near n"w to the
earth that momrntariiy expected TINT
We should become entansIrd among The
trees that doomed So near u.
VIVA, Was that like 81 river Of glancinG
water. ON tie duty high road
beneath. Is the yellow road
Ike rlpU"h "'iH'h
rocks and.thicket,? Troops on the mar'n'
no doubt, the sunlight shnt'nS Oh 'h''r
bnyone;S. c"oIa see I'aI Ms W. up
preached they came coht",'dIy u hH'''
again, hurrah. shouted the S"''ry
slave. "A cherr, h"o'e "P"'''"' ~
for your guest Pierre raul nc" sale
iy--
a. he spoke saw the 'ar.h very near
Us, "a" IAt S"'t'''s u'' ~ 'lS III "''' ~
rs though to clear the way Tor our pa
sage, and then win SICK,
rnlrg crash the balloon ana
the ear seemed 10 strike AGAIN. "
roc" ana l'i,'''"''' 'i'''' ~ W '''' ~ 50
When | returned to consciousness !
heard the CHEEKY voice Ola surgeon say
inc All Is OUIv couple OF RIBS the
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