Show CUSIL hirai self luff of tie ike fater lor from a balloon STANDARD TS A P I 1 NEW YORK NOT nov ID 19 an account which recently appe appeared ired in in the il 1 emya of a balloon voyage froni from bt st petersburg to a point not far ar beyond ladoga cadoga convoys corn eye a striking picture of the benighted condition of tho the russian ene peasantry even within a few hundred miles ralles ot of the capital the balloon in question con cona alining col and count bovanko Co vanko descended at a place called tol in the government of otO fetz berata verata from St eburg and this is what hat followed there was a general panic peas ants thought the anticipated christ was descending from the eky sky and the end ot of the world was come women screamed reamed ec children cried and all the peasants were well nigh out of their wits with fear boon soon from tho the wood came women who bad had ideen gathering mushrooms running its a fast as their legs could carry them A house they cried baa has coma come down from the tik oky with wonderful strangers rangers Bt in it thy the peasants thereupon hid themselves in in the village as best they c could uld with the exception ot of a few old fellows who took their hatchets and cudgels and proceeded cautiously to the forest it was long bea before ore these thess latter who assisted to convey the apparatus to the villa vil lago co could u ld prevail upon their fellow follow villagers 11 gor 11 to come out of their biding places the knauts pent spent the night in the village and in tho the morning marched back the balloon being packed on a sledge because there was not a wheeled vehicle in in the place |