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Show THE GREAT METEORIC SHOWER SHOW-ER IN OHIO. X stone trr.ir.iH.vo riKTV-ose Polxps rAf.tr " ISO TO THE EAKtll. j " TK Washington TnUUigtnttr publishes4 the. following letter ent to Professor Hen-1 ry,.of the Smithsonian 1 nstitution, descrip- j ; tivo of tho recent meteoric phenomena iu j Ohio:- 1 j HEKDnysnrfto, Ohio, May 9, I860. You will doubtless eeo in tlie papers an account of a shower of meteoric stones wblcb fell, ott1J,fct;Tiist,":near -tlie Viildgb of Concbrd hi M-itskingum. county,. Ohio.; jticst you. shPuUl ;think Jt 'ft ihghx, bp at laasi, afl incorrect "statement; T:bn'yo .taken such pqlns. as- circtiulapces ould permit1 to obtain, ns,,acar;aposslbiiU tbd;facts. and! eireumstances1 conncctcdiwiib it. :-, , -Tiip shower; pokfplacq bctwVcri twl'b'' ;atidl bno o'clqcS pim'he daj. Was nnufenally cold fqr tho ' casori-' of-',ttip. ycar,andftlib sliy abbiitttvo.ihirds;oc'r. cast ''.w.itb clbwlsw' Simnltaticbiistywitii. Ifip.ffail ' of'iltpjtes,, a, tremciHlons.explo-' 'sibif bc,wrrcd',ia'ith.ft,i;amosph tbbsPiuparbyjIftsemblcdaa severe clap, ot thunder in sound; butw.ns accompanied by. a jarring , scrisatioii;" vbiclr; -tbgether5 (vitb .tbftriptse', Vfas fell niid heard tit a mucbVgrpalpr ;dis'tnhcpfttlian ttbC effciji of . thunder l.t.was qkscrvc iind rctilatkcd l as? something' 'ptculifar -iby: .pcrs'bns'fifty" mihVdff; X T?as, at tlk ttmp about 'thirty .iuilesojlist.nnt;'aud"Ea, xtraqr.dinaryjwas; tiic dctonntiou andjarrhig seiisatibirtuat thsit'lboug!itfit1-ainiiUghq pccnrTcHcp'in. ibis; .rcgibuV.ttU:VWquak'p shoekih fiict suVb. as.Uie, general oplijr ioii of.-iJI who beard it4. 'TO- tbosoincar whcrc,;.tlid stonc'atcll ;vcrab.Jdistiti rc pqjftSiWcrp' lieardai;cbHrijl yary'frgh six.' tq' twclyetbcyipVein.rapid ucjc.essibn, perhaps hbt'dvefn second of time botween them ,Sbstrungpfw'ns tlie scnsatletf.thatj cattle la tlk: fields, raii,, startlei. n"l'it,j ,Fpur stones! weretsecntp foU and have: bten-?rccovcrcdrbiititiid..probabilittes;are that many tlicrs cll? ''TivbvbichreU wiUiin.abont ix, bu'mtrtd jardstofVacb; oU)cr,,wcre''sicii by'a cbriple.of incnw)iq Vi'cro laboring in n field, "Hearing-tfip1 rc-p6rts? rc-p6rts? one of the tnculpokcd ', up and'saw; a largc body faUintb-a.ipcld cldsdbythp5 other, looking iu another direction, saw another" which fell upou a fence; ' Within. abonst twenty minutes; tliey approached and dug out, the one, wh'icU had fallcij in ,.tbe field, wberft it had buried Jtscff tq tho depth, of about tiventy inches in a stiff limestone soil. It wfig 'Blill spbot that It could scarcely bo held in the hands. Eroni ;the direction in wlqcbit entered the carth its full appfcared..to be verticitl' its weight Wnsfifty-pue. pounds, and its shape lrrc gnhiTj. long aid. flattened. It entered the ground point foremost. The other, which fell upon 'tliP fence, weighed forty-two pounds. In ila' dcscent it-cut through the tTjIof fi$iictttaul. tittticd. iUtf. jiv thp. earth, having; direction ajiparcutjy frorn" :thp. iigrtbeast; About one and. a naif "miles; front, wjierp these two stones fellf it youngnbittplougb ftt afield henrda strange vjijzzlwg. oit'nd overhead, and Iqpkiilg.'np.saw' S&W' lilou'di? in a Sstfauge tatc off cqmmMipn. T.ha same with regard re-gard to the-' agitation of the clouds was .obsch'iedc-by,.btberS;) -'Tliiiiking 'thiitbc fienrd'SQnielhjiig.jfull; iipo'n s'crfrcbing bo fbnndi'a fetbno1 vvcjgbiiJg.,tbSHy-sl; pounds, which had fuileu-upon pnd.embcddedifscll In a decayed logf HB8 8upposI that tt had in its full n dircctipu from tbc southeast. Jienr Cfiiysvjlle;' abqiit six miles, distant, twogeutlcincn Vnlkihg out lieard the explosion, and very :'s6oninf'c'r-warjls :'s6oninf'c'r-warjls n itoup weighing four pounds? fell near them, striking thegroundjso obliquely oblique-ly as to ricochet. The direction of tins appeared to be from the nortbf The four stones above mentioned were all that were seen to fall- another, however, was found which had fallen in the woods and lodged in the earth among a thick cluster of roots surrounding a beech tree. It weighed about "thirty pounds, and appeared to have fallen vertically. All of the stones were irregular iu figure, and bad the same general ge-neral appearance, having a blackened, smooth, vitrified $urfnge. The exterior : coating waa.liowcrer, very .thju-r-not over oucjifticth of an iuch in thickness. With-in With-in the stones had au. ashy color, and contained con-tained the; particles of pome shining substance, sub-stance, probably nativenickel. Johk Q. TMtt . liieutcnant UnitedStatcs Army. |