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About Dry Times

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dear Editor : As there are but few now living tkat remember tlie drouth of 1838, I will givo you. a brief account of it. I wa.s then living in what is now Pulton county, Ohio, It was the se"verest known in tho United States dvjrimfi this century. It -was proceded by n. eevere storm in June, by wMch ;i mammoth building in Maumoe City Kvas blown down. and Mr. Otas. Cool; iwas in it when ifc fdl, but the tinïbers protected Mm eo that he wa-s not serio usl.v Jiurt. I -vas ibcn living In what is now Fulton county. Th,ere was aiot rahi enough to start tii e strea.ms till the followins yea.r. Yc vr&ce 20 miles trom1 a postcifice. IXo raili-oads, telegraph lines, or pewspapers. so we li.-nl no idea of thfi cxtent of the dronth. I wout to Toledo in July, and altJiough tlicy lind ï'ivcr. the effects oí the drouth v, ere Irnore terrible tlinu in the woods. AVild k'uiimals of all lands collected on Ihe 'bank of the rivei" to quench their ■Ihirsl, and frogs, from the dried ip. ciccks, hopped through tlie streetá to ïeacli the irlver. But the inivcrsal feieness that folklowed this scorchinjr of the Irind was s-nch as had never been known. The idea prevailed that Toledc could aiot jwospet". Fifty-five yeare jiave clapscd simce that memorabl drouth. Them Toleild was a. eickly liamlet ; it is now a prosperousctfcy of cmc hundicd thousand people. i ! I -was bom July 3d. 1814, (instead of the Ithi eo I have seen all-the .serieus drouUrs of this century. I lived through ome in England, where "fchere was aio rain from April to September, 1824. ïhere was not a drop of water in the parih where I liveil but what had beeu carried tliiee miles. Horses and cattle trave)ed that distance every day to (jUcncli (their thirst, ünid the sheep had iiciliimg but the dew. It had the süme effect on the people of Bnglandj that it did here. Ague becaine epidemie, IJiat bad not been known by1 experience before.

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