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 *rors. All business was interrupted or set aside, farm labors were neglected, cultivation was forgotten. "It seemed," said the historian, "to strike an entire summer out of the year."

All contemplated improvements were given up; farms and homesteads were sold out or abandoned; and the terrified people, shocked at what had taken place, and still more in terror of what was yet to come—dreading where the bolt might strike next—hastened to quit the doomed neighborhood.