Show A TERRIFIC WHAT WAS ITS CAVE CAUSE doli A METEOR EXPLODE every body who was not in in profound slumber must have been startled this morning bo one 0 of f the most remarkable and thus far mysterious mccu occurrence arence that has luring during a long period 0 of f time transpired in in this section of country at about 7 while the sky was perfectly cloudless while hardly a brea breath I 1 of air was stirring while not a single indication prevailed of a natural commotion of any sort whatever there was a teri fic shocking deafening reports report accompanied apparently parent ly b by two sharp echoes it was as if the sound had come from the sky but there was no 10 clouds not a single Indi indication tation of the prevalence of electricity and that explanation could not be entertained the force of the cocus co cassion slon was so great that houses were shaken 5 that persons walking in the street felt the ground vibrate underneath der neath them that men N who ho bad just coin commenced work upon builds buildings instinctively dropped their tools and to looked it about to see what was the matter that little children were frightened and asked many strange questions of their parents john P ball esq Es county clerk cleric assures assure us its that the noise was the result of an explosion of a meteor in the sky mr air ball resides in pittstown Pitts town in in this county and is a perfectly perfectly honorable and reliable gentleman r ie ein informs forms us that lie he had just finished his breakfast aid ai d was as standing in his dooryard door yard when hen he observed a bright light in a southerly direction from his house over the town of gratton grafton and descending very rapidly to i the ground in in a northwesterly north westerly course this I 1 was vias abo abbit it 7 20 a m mr ball last sawn saw it when A hen about a halt half a mile above the earth when it disappeared abild and in a moment or more he heard beard the eap exp explosion ision etwas it was very ervi loud aarl an resembled thunder troy ar V Y 4 11 li l i |