The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-04

Some Reflections on Dampness--
At Embury Park Camp Meeting
Death of a Pioneer-Things We're
Proud Of.

Proud Of.
| Correspondence Of the Star.
DAYTON, o., Monday, Aug. 8.
1 take my pen in hand to inform you
that it is raining, and suppose these
few lines will find you enjoying the same
blessing. Showers, mist, arizzle, rain,
thunder, lightning, flood and "much
wetness," as Josh. B. hath it, abound.
Is history repeating itself? Are the
"forty days and forty nights" going to
bring US another food-time2 Isn't it
about time we were dotting down facts
about cubits and arks and thingsf And
don't you think, dear STAR, we'd be
thanked in future years if we left out
the grasshoppers, potato-bugs, lightning
rod fiends and other modern plagues'
l wrote you in my last letter Gin a
pretty, poetic way, you'll admit about
the proud Miami creeping UP to kiss the
feet of the levee trees, didn't 1? Well,
said, but have gobbled up trunk and all,
and now, when take peep from my
window, see tall, majestic sycamores
standing half-drowned in the rushing
waters, trembling in every limb, while
bangl crash! 60 heavy logs against the
stone piers, and "yi, HIP go seventeen
ragged boys on the river bank, in ex-
quisite enjoyment of it all. The river is
rising every hour, the rain is falling
every hour, and all day long the streets
and cutters 60 roaring and frothing
down to swell the fierce flood. All that
keeps the great Dayton heart up is faith
&ho otrnnfr launna and trllSf in Prnvi-
dence.
Babies read of how Cock-locky told
Henny-penny, Turkey-lurkey, ETC., that
the skies were falling, and peer out of
the window to find that cloud has fallen
in the side yard. of come shoes and
stockings and long line of Goosey-
poosies start for the big pond.
With preliminary ''ouchp' they wade
in on the soft grassy water-bed, and, in
a quarter of an hour after, come shiver-
ing in like 80 many half-fedged robins.
Then the piano is wheeled away from its
summer resting place in front of the big, !
'old-fashioned fireplace, the back log and
shorter stumps flung in on the bright
chairs TO where, in toasting row, babies
sit close together on the hearth, and
warm our rheumatic toes and revel in
the warm blaze, while we listen to the
singing of the wild birds without and
watch the festooned jasmine blossoms
beat SOFT tattoo against the window
panel
At this moment of writing frame
house has floated down and been stopped
by the bridge, while the river is reported
TO have risen half a foot during the last
hour, by actual measurement. The Day.
ton & Michigan railroad bridge is but
FL fnnf oh afnr In ha
railroad bridges are from five to eight
feet above the water level.
All through town people are clearing
their cellars, and at the A. q G. W.
round-house large force OF men are
busy repairing the levee. The canal has |
broken bounds in the heart Of town, and |
Wolf creek levee has cayed in, letting |
the water deluge Miami City. From my |
window see fully two hundred people |
standing on the pier and bridge over
looking the broken levee. The earth is |
washed away from the east side Of the
Main-street bridge, and excited prome-
naders are kept from passage across it
by a formidable rope and a policeman.
Or. J. S. Inskip, a thrilling reivalist at
the Urbana National Camp-meeting, is
said to have prayed for rain with good
ly allowance OF thunder and Lightning,
so that the young folks would be fright
ened in from their promenades to the
mercy seat. Old Probabilities must have
good ears.
Embury Park-well, If one cares to |
visit that place he must 70 by s.food
and field" balloon, or Captain Paul
Boyton's manner of transit, for torrent
RACES across the road between that place I
and this city. The services at Embury
Park were formally opened July 9th, at
z. NJ, Rev. j. w. Hopkins and w. Ii.
8. Ewell, OF Cincinnati, officiating.
Prot. Stevens, of your city, has the |
choir under his direction, his own man.
ner of leading being pronounced very ef- |
fective. The Park itself is fine grove of |
trees, under which is built quite little |
frame village, whose streets are known
by the Characteristic names of Sinners
Retreat, Penitents' Retreat, Saints (?) |
Rest, etc.
Those who live In gypsy style down on
the first elevation from the river, have /
struck tent and ''gone higher" since, it |
was reported, last Friday night lady |
occupying tent, awoke about midnight |
and found one Of her children floating |
dfer the floor.
Father Seymore Coleman declared that
he believed this great flood was judg-
ment upon this wicked country from the |
Lord, and an answer to the Crusaders'
! layer that tall grain from which intox-
Icants are produced be destroyed"
Father Coleman Ia certainly rraat