Show ArET diet meteor EOR on friday last jast we noticed briefly the appearance of an extraordinary meteor on thursday evening sept lith at about a quarter past this phenomenon was observed observe rby yby by a number of persons all of whom were under the impression that it exploded and scattered its brilliant fragments immediately over the city accompanied with a lond loud noise not exactly resembling thunder nor the report of a piece of artillery but yet most distinct and productive of a singularly strange tion tio to those who observed it from our exchanges we observe that the same phenomenon was witnessed in an area of several hundred miles andio and to each beholder A apparently ip P oce occupying iz the same relative t lon ion though hi i alar of miles milea intervened be tween them this is of course accounted for from its distance in illimitable space which in this his case has proved singularly dece deceptive t re as at the same sime instant those who bebell beheld it i t inia inta imagined L ined that particles buried themselves in the earth in the neighborhood of san francisco nokel mokelumne hill and colus i the accounts which have reached us its taken to together ether are somewhat amusing and suggest a question as important as that of who struck billy pat terson namely where did the me teor beor eor por start and over which town did it explode we commence with a letter of a correspondent sw SAC union sep 20 1 colusa calusa ept 1856 editors union you are much mistaken in in regard to the starting and exploding points of the ae meteor of last night it started at an oak tree two miles southeast south bouth east from this place and exploded at a brick yard half a mile west from town yours coun cour the aita alta of saturday morning has information equally positive in that quarter it says on friday evening of course mr green who has a ranch near pacific beach saw a meteor as large as a fuli full moon etwas it was very beautiful in in appearance and while expressing his hia admiration of it the mysterious stranger concluded to stop and locate in one of his fields but jn coming in in contact with the earth its lamp of life went out wit and mr adir gr green eon con has since been trying L to find what he heard beard drop when the hiery fiery substance came down the talaveras calaveras Cala veras chronicle noticing the same appearance says after describing an arc of or at least 8 87 degrees it separated into several frair fragments ments and seemed to descend to the earth mr nir peasley ho was on the river at the time cline states that a portion fell with a heavy sound 1 within twenty yards yarda of him burying itself deep in the ground the ile ligat vas was ras most brilliant and drew many cf our citizens from their houses lo 10 watch its co course it was several seconds in traversing the placerville erville american gives it rather a terrific character it says one of the most beautiful beautifully ly brilliant meteors we behave ever seen been passed over this city last ast thursday evening in in a direction fro from in southeast to north horth wes that before passing out of sight exploded with a report so loud that the tile earth trembled as when heavy thunder occurs at marysville marksville Marys ville it was also seen and the express s elys lys a trembling of the earth was felt at parks bar the herald thus describes it thursday evening e ening about 81 a b brilliant ra V meteor rushed through the heavens fm arna south to north and exposed near the zenith throwing off luminous in every direction shortly afterward a low rumbling sound bound like distant thunder startled our citizens from their propriety ca causing 1 I ng hundred hundreds to run from their houses to ascertain asce irta in the cause of the rumpus the stockton argus thus thua notices the sim same phenomenon A beautiful meteor was as ceen ezen at S stocton aelon op n the evening of thursday last for an instant in stani stanl it illumined the sky with its brilliancy to s ich icci an extent as to cause cauce people to rush lito into tio i street to witness it it care came from a northward direction and lost itself in mid heaven resembling in appearance ah he e giro firc jets that at alc ale v scattered from the rocket in its Us descent descents the ile placer press printed at ab aubarn irn L giva iv s the follo fol foi loung in a description of it wo we were treated on thursday evening ids las I 1 to a most magnificent exhibition of natural fireworks fire works in the shape of 1 doable meteor its disappearance was iras fol foi followed lowid by a loo 9 der de r roll of heavy beavy thunder unlike any thi thing rig fig w we C have er er heard rd |