Show from the st louis of may METEORIC PHENOMENA on the I 1 a wonderful meteoric phenomenon was witt ed at belvidere illinois as we learn by to the alton telegraph tale raph it consisted consi ball of fire or p phosphoric hosp ho ric li light g lit of cansio size moving through the atmosphere th T I 1 I 1 lena advertiser of the ath has the foll tolis 11 which we presume refers to the same pi i menon last friday evening a little before 8 tbt a singular phenomenon was bitne witnessed seed bif b J persons who were sitting on the c guards J ft steamer war eagle ft cansis consisted of mense hall ball of light which suddenly and ei ap aphea I 1 the heavens at an an angle of ab about t 45 d and fell from thence to the horizon le deavil I 1 hind it not a firey tail as is usual with i phenomena but a track of dense white t w which aich kept its perpendicular in the t I 1 I 1 about three minutes and then slowly c self up like a huge serpent and in a all minutes vanished I 1 the alton telegraph of monday V this remarkable meteoric I 1 was observed by a large number of citi that place during the rain storm on fri and week 1 jn I 1 dl all directions th the atmo atmosphere phere I 1 with illa bated balls resembling embling ras fire which I 1 floated through the air only a short distance ns tance 1 above the earth they varied in size from that 1 of a mans double fist to that of a marble they were not extinguished b by y the rain but were brightest dright aright eat est and most numerous when the storm was the severest their appearance in the mack black midnight is represented to have been exceedingly beautiful we presume they were electrical balls but how gente generated rated or occasioned we do not pretend to explain the st paul min times says saya the same merion was witnessed in that territory |