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Show A Meteoric Explosion. We yesterday noticed briefly the meteor which was observable in this vicinity on Sunday morning last at six o'clock. The phenomenon seems to have been one of extraordinary character charac-ter something attended with results quite unusual in meteoric bodies. Wherever noticod it was accompanied by a low rumbling sound in the earth, and at Bennington people supposed that a repetition of Thursday's earth- 3uake had occurred. The ISuratugian escribes its appearance near the vtf-lage vtf-lage of Saratoga Springs thus : ''Something ''Some-thing is wrong 'down below.' Either the earth has got the colic or is going to have it. Friday's quake was a bad symptom, but the thing seems to be not ended yet. Here comes Jefferson Jeffer-son Kamsdell, who resides on the west shore of Saratoga lake, about three-quarters three-quarters of a mile below Moon's, and reports that early on Sunday morning, morn-ing, before the sun was up, he being out doors at the time, his attention was arrested hy a low, deep, rumbling sound, as if from the very bowels of the earth. 'ihe noise had hardly oeased when he saw an immense meteor, me-teor, appearing as large as a man's hand, shooting swiftly across the firmament fir-mament from north to south. Just as it reached the southern limit of vision it appeared to split up and divide di-vide into several parts. The noi-e and meteor was heard and seen by several sev-eral besides Mr. Kam.-dcll.'' But the mo-t remarkable phenomena connected with the meteor was seen at North Adams. Here the citizens were greatly alarmed, and MippriMj j fmm the mmliline and tremor of the earth that the glycerine work' at II .osac tunnel had been l.Lwn i,p. Jj n j( turned out fmm the inet -uric ob-erva-tion of numlers of prr-oiis tint tiie meteor burst in that vicinity, and that it was the cau-e of the cttuaiotwa. The explosion shxk tin: l.-iiij.nrs and earth lor miles aruuL Truly, with earthquakes and mete. r-. atei c.ite and oth'T phenomena. ),r year 7 one that cannot L-e sneezed at. Trmj Tint's. Oct. '1'. |