The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-08-08
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Seribnor tor June contains paper eu-
tilled Lying as Fine Art and Ac
Claims Of the Rev samuel Peters as an
Artist, By W. L. Kingsley, editor of The
New Highlander According TO Mr.
Kingsley, Peters History Of Connecticut,
published Ia 1881, Is in a great measure
the source OF The famous Abels on Con.
neetieat IN Tho matter Ct tie Blue Laws
How worthy ibis author Is Of belief may
30 Inferred from he following stories
told ia the History Us sober truth
One night in Jnly 1865, TIE frogs Of au
artificial pond three miles square and
about 1--WE from Windham, finding the
water dried up, left the place in body,
aud msrehed--or rather hopped
Wlnnomantio River, They were under
the necessity Of taking the road aud GO
Ing through the town, which they entered
abou. midnight. The bull.ifogs were
leaders, aud the pipers followed without
number. They filed the road forty yards
wide for four miles ia length, and were,
for several hours IN passing through the
town, unusual clamrous. The inhabitants
were equally perplexed and frightened;
some expected TO find an army OF French
and Indians, and others feared an earth
quake and dissolution OF nature. The
CONSERVATION was universal. Old and
young, male and female, fled naked from
their beds with worse shrekings than
those of the frogs The event was fatal
10 several women. The men, after q
flight Of half mile, IN which they met
with many broken shins, finding no enc.
mics in pursuit Of them, made a halt and
summoned resolution enough TO venture
back 10 their wives and childreR, when
they distinctly heard from the enemys
camp these words; Wight, IIilderkin,
Dyer, Tete. This last they thought
meant treaty; and, plucking up courage,
they sent trinmvirate to capitulate with
the supposed French and Indians. These
three men approached in their shirts and
begged to speak with the general; but it
being dark aud no answer given they
were sorely agitated for some time be-
twixt hope and fear; at length however,
they discovered that the dreaded inimical
army was an army of thirsty frogs, going
TO the river for little water,
These stories are thrown into the shade
by the famous account OF Bellows Falls,
in the Connecticut River.
Two hundred miles from Long Island
Sound is narrow of five yards only,
formed by two shelving mountains Of
solid rock, whose tops intercept the
clouds, Through this chasm are COM
PEELED to pass all the waters which, in the
time of the floods, bury the northern
country. AT the upper cohoes the river
spreads twenty-four miles wide, and for
five or six weeks ships of war might sal
over land that afterwards produce the
greatest crop Of hay aud grain in all
America. People who can bear the
sight, the groans, the tremblings, and
surly motions Of waters, trees and ice,
through this awful passage, view with
astonishment one Of the greatest phenom-
eDa in nature. Here water is consolidated
without frost, by pressure, by swiftness,
between the pinching, sturdy rocks TO
such a degree of induration that an iron
crow cannot be forced into it. Here iron,
load, and cork have one common weight;
and here, steady as time and harder than
marble the stream passes, irresistible, il
not swift as lightning. The electric fire
rends trees in pieces with no greater ease
than does this mighty water. The pas
sage ia about 400 yards in length, and OF
zigzag form, with obtuse corners.