The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-15
ADAEK DAY.
The strange cloud Tint settled Down
over New England.

over New England,
Boston Special to Phiisdelphis Times.
All of New England and a large section OF
New York state yesterday bad strange at
mospheric experience. 1t wss anotseT ozark
day." and in macy respects tho phenomsn a
we're similar TO those observed on May II,
1870 In come sections the day began with
a allow gathering of fog from oil the water
courses. The thin clouds that covered the
sky at midnight seemed TO crowd together
aud descead upon tho earth, and by sunrise
the atmosphere was dense with vapor, which
limited vision TO very short distances and
made .hoss distances i,usory. As the sun
arose tho vspors became thick, brsssy can
opy, through which 4 strange yellow light
perVaded the cir snd produced the most
peculiar effects on the surface of the earth,
This color and darkness laNed mill about
O'clock Ia the af.erEoon, once in q while
Tightening aud then again deepening, so IhSt
during n large part OF the time nothing could
DO done conveniently indoors without arii-
fetal light The unusual complexion of tho
air wearied and panied the eyes. The grsss
assumed II singular blush brightness, US If
tipped With light. Yellow blossoms turned
pale aud gray, aud row Of sunAowers looks
ing ghastly, orange rasturtlums
hghlened, pink rOsoS famed lilac
buld phlox grew pink and
blue flowers wOro transformed into red
Luxursht morning glorie5 that have been
blossoming in deep bluo during TIA season
now were dressed 10 splendid magentsi rich
blue clemAtus donned an equally rich MS
room; fringed gsntisns were crimson In the
| kelda. There wssR singular luminousneas
on every feneo and root-Fidge and tba trees
seemed 70 be- ready to fly into iiro.
The light was mystoficu5lY devoid Of re-
fraction. Cne sitting with his back to win.
dow could not road the newspaper if bis
shadow fell upon il; he weS Obliged to turn
the paper aside 20 the light. Though the
darkness was not AZ all like that of tho night
tha birds kept still. When in tho afternoon
the sun began 10 he Visible through the
strange mjsta it was lika q pink ball amidst
| yellow cushions. II was not till bstVeen five
md ak o'clock that the tun hsS sufficiently
| disiph,ed the mists 10 resume lie usual clear
gold, and the earth returned TO its everyday
aspect, tho grass re,igning it's unnatural brill
lisnoy aud the purple daisies no longer
fainting into pink. The temperature
throughout was very close and oppressive,
and the physical effect was one of hoavness
and depression. Not breath of air was
stirring, the smoke from the engine when-
ever IL WAS stopped AZ station ascending
perpendicularly. The sun, in usual form ~
II round body, was utterly Invisible, and no
particular brightness in any particular part
of the heavens indicated its locality.
Gas WAS ueed in this city until b o'clock.
The gas iots, which ordinarily show yellow.
ish light, burned with white briliancy that
made them look like electric lights. Tele-
grams from Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, Rhode Island and Connecticut indi-
cate thai almost the Same phenomena de-
scribed above were witnessed there. A Rut-
land dispatch says: The whole earth and
sky seemed developed in on or oge.colored
pail. AT Albany, Troy, U..-a and other
points in eastern and central New
| York the sky assumed the
same hue. Schools were dismissed
in various places, rs indeed study wss per-
force suspended in those which kept up
their sessions, and many factories also lei
out their hands when their facilities for
lighting were insufficient. Superstitious peo-
Pile were filed with all sorts of dire, forebo~
dinss, and many watched anxiously for the
phenomenon to disappear. Some thought the
earth WAS passing through the comets tail,
others ascribed the darkness to smoke and
hsze, a few expected an approaching milen.
mum, and some ofthe more credulOus sid
that il WAS bad sign for tho removal of the
president.