Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-01-22

piteousiy.
Color, which you know depends
upon the light of the sun, filled
many with establishment by its I'M.
usual appearance, Tor the clouds
were in some places of light red,
yellow and brown; the leaves
on the trees and the grass in
the meadows were of the deepest
green, verging on indigo. the bright.
est silver seemed furnished, and
everything that is white in the sun.
light bore a deep yellow hue.
The shadows, which before noon
fall To the westward and after noon
to the eastward, were observed du.
ring the darkness TO fall in every
direction.
Titr rain. also, was unlike any
other rain, aud ii set all the people
to wondering as they dipped it from
tubs and barrels: tor "A scum formed
on it resembling burnt leaves. emit
ting Sooty smell, aud this same
substance was seen on streams and
rivers. especially on the Mcrrimac.
where it lay four or five inches
thick, for many miles along its
shore.
Another peculiarly WAS the va.
per: in many localities il descended
To the earth from high in the at.
moSphrrr; hut at one point gen.
tlcman saw the vaporS. nj o o'clock.
rising from the springs and low.
lands; column he particularly no,
e. ticcd rapidly ascending far above
the highest hills, then it spread
into a large white cloud and sailed
of to the westward. Il second cloud
formed III the same way from the
same springs, but did not rise rs
high as the first. and Il third formed
fifteen minutes aitcrward. At IA
quarter OF ten the nppcrmoSt cloud
was OF rcliSh hue, the second
was green, indigo and blue, and the
third was almuS; white.
So unwhoicSumr was this VapOr
that small birds were Sutlocatrd in
it. and many of them so frightened
and stupciicd that they flew into
the houses, adding to the fears of
ignorant people. who considered il
n bad sign for Il bird TO enter Il
dwelling.
The commencement of the dark
ness WAS between ten and eleven in
the forenoon when the men were
busy in the fields and offices and
work >hopS, the women spinning,
weaving and preparing dinner, and
the childIena' school,a r helping their
fathers and mothers AT homc), and il
continued until the middle of the
following night: but the degree OF
T. darkness varied; in some places the
disk oi the sun WIS seen when the
darkness WAS most dense.
Lights were seen burning in al
the houses. and the people passing
ont OF lGurS carried torches and
lanterns, which were curiouSly re-
= ilcctcd on the ovcrhanging clouds.
Thousands of people were snrt
Il that the end of the world had come
many dropped their work and tel
on their knees TO pray, others con
ftS>rd Ia their fellows the wrong,
they had done and cudcavorcd I,
make restitution.
The meeting houses were crowd
ed. and ncighbolhood prayer meet
ingS were formed. and the ministers
and old church members brave,
long prayers. mentioning the na
tlunS aud Individuals of Bible time
who had been destroyed on accoun
of their sins. and begging that Il
God had spared the great city q
c. Nincveh when it rrlented. 81 II
would forgive them, cheer thci
again by The light of the sun an
give victory To their armies.
Ii is said that the Connccticu
Legislature being in session, rh
members became frightened whc
=, they could not see each other
~ faces. and motion was made
It adjourn. when Mr.. Davenport ARCS
~ and said:
49, "Mr. Speaker, il is either the da
~. of Judgment, or it is not. If II /
!, | desire Ia he found doing my dnt.
n II il is not, there is no need of ~
,n jonrning. move that candles |
brought, and that We proceed
,h business
We All the Shivering, frightened pc
in pie began now To look forward
nd evening. hoping that as the moe
nal rose full at nine O'Clock, her lig'
rs. would penetrate the gloom; but /
~. the children who were coaXed
he sit up and see her. grew We
he sleepy, their strained eyes were II
he rewarded by her beautiful beam
DIX for nj eight in the evening the dar