The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-30
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HISTORY OF PHENOMENAL RAINS.

Referring to tho incredulity with W hich
the account Of the rain Of flesh, which was
reported to have occurred recently in
Kentucky, was generally received, the N
Z. Herald cites the following cases Of
phenomiual rains, many Of which are his
torical.
On the 9th and 9th Of November, 472,
there was great fall of black dust in the
neighborhood Of Constantinople, and the
atmosphere seemed to be on FIRE. Pro-
copius and Marcellus ascribed It 10 Vesu-
vius.
In 652 red dust rained at Constantine
pie.
In 1863 red rain fell for three hours in
the vicinity Of Brixen, in the Austrian
Tyrol.
In 929, at Bagdad, there was great
redness in the atmosphere and red sand
fell.
In 1856 there was a fall of red snow in
Armania.
In lilo, in the province of Vaspour-
again in Armenia, on o dark night in
winter, faIniag body fell into Lake Van.
The water became of the color of blood
and the earth cracked open in several d.
rections.
In 1919 or 1922 red rain fell in Bo.
hemia. About this time there was a fall
Of stone and mass like coaguiated blood,
with fiery meteor.
In Thuringia, on the 9th Of November,
154S, ball of fire fell with great noise,
and redish substance, like coagulated
blood, was afterward found on the ground.
In Pomerania, in 1857, there fell large
fakes of substance resembling coagulat-
ed blood.
On the oath Of December, 1860, at
Lillebonne, in Lower Seine, France, there
fell meteor, followed shortly after by red
rain.
At the close of a terrific tempest on the
9th of July, 1882, there fell in Rockhau-
sen, in Prussia, quantity of 6brous mat
ter resembling human hair.
At Verden, 10 Hanover, on the Sd of
December, 1886, there fell large quanti-
ties of matter, partly red and partly black
accompanied by lightnings and thunder
and fiery meteor, which burst with loud
noise.
In August, 1918, meteor fell in Sty-
ria, accompanied by shower of stone and
rain of blood.
At Tournay, in Belgium, in 1888,
red rain fell.
In January, 1643, bloody rain fell at
Vachigen, and at Weinsberg, in the King
dom Of Wurtemberg.
During the month of May, 1862, imme-
diately following brilliant meteor, WIS.,
cid mass fell.
On the 18th Of March, 1853, there fell,
near Laucha, Prussia, shower Of fbrous
substance like blue silk.
On the 3lst Of January, 1856, there
fell, simultaneously in Norway and in
parts Of Pomerania, great quantity Of
membranous substance friable and black
ish, somewhat like halfburned paper. The
Baron Theodore Gotthus analysed por-
tion of the substance, which has been
preserved in cabinet Of natural history,
and found in it silex, iron, lime, carbon,
magnesia, trace Of chrome and Of sui
phur, but not particle Of nickel, always
present in arolites.
On the 24th of March, 1716, on the
Island Of Lethy, in India, there fell ball
of fire containing gelatinous matter.
On the 18th Of October, 1775, food
Of rain descended at Locarno, Switzerland,
during which nine inches of rain fell, and
the red matter that was deposited during
the shower was found to be, by actual
measurement, an inch deep.
The same storm reached Swabia, on the
Alps, and on these high mountains it
changed into reddish snow, which fell to
depth of nine feet.
On the 9Th of March, 1876, yiscid
and resinous substance fell near Bautzen,
in Upper Lausatia, composed of carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen, Chiadin Guyton de
Morvean and Blumenbach had specimens
Of il. 1t resembled in smell and color the
dried gum Of juniper.
In July, 1911, there fell near Heidel-
berg, in the Grand Duchy Of Baden,
gelatinous substance following the explo-
sion OF meteor.
On August 13, 1919, mass of gela-
tinous and very fetid matter fell at Am
herst, in Massachusetts.
On September 5, 1919, at Studein,
Moravia, between eleven A. NJ. and noon
the atmosphere being serene and TRANQUIL.
there was fall of little pieces of earth
from small cloud, isolated and very
bright.
In 1s41, accounts were published of two
showers Of flesh and blood-one in Massa.
chusetts, the other in Tennessee.
In 1S43, singular phenomenon oc-
CURED in South Carolina. A man named
Ingolow and his two sons were picking
cotton on his plantation Gin Laurena's dis,
trict, near Eurole river, and about two
miles below Musgrove's Mill;) the younger
son called to the others, who we're a little |
distance from him, to listen, for he heard |
something falling near him. They thought
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