The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-09-25
Prom the North casohnian.


The phenomenon.
From The North casohnian.
On the moralng 81 the lst Of Sepism.
b.r. vas IN nv easi piazza. about Is
minute. p,.I . o'c.ork, when | sw q
large meteor pas. with Ispidiiy over nv
huu.e. DID nj zee q rise, as NY bark
was n il, and The eres, CHI and h,s.i0e
,ouud esusrd me 10 face round. ] learn
iron several gehllemen. bnwrver, who
cav IL, that il rn.e IRON The h,rizan -
well =, they could Judge. in northeast
direction, emitting most vivid ! gh.. and
having q long Tail heh,nd IL. IRON which
there dropped 20 the earth along the whole
l.nsIh Of u. course. spr,nkllng Of blue
fame. apparently Of sulphur. which ai'er
reaching the gsound continued 10 blsze
up probably 10 tie height 81 IL inches.
whea sbnut two-ihirds of The say across
the 6tmsmeni, /, exploded and spfesd an
tamillluna ri lille Stars or spark.. There
we're three explosions, apparently. 90 hsa-
W thai hey .hnok ny house .. though u
would fall. causing a railing Of window
s,she.. and dishes in the panty. The
explosions we're followed BY long rum
bling sound, az of distant or receding
thunder. As nesr as | can ealrulsIs. u
must have exploded somewhere over the
upper pat OF the adjoining county OF
Robson. ~,
Those who saw il. vary 10 their state
menis rs to the Tine which expired be-
tween the ,i.lbls explosion and the M
pon which ,ll"wed. from 2 or 3 TO 10
mInu,es. | thought The lime or @ min
ules. but il was probably not 80 much. as
the light w,s no, quite ex.iagui.hed when
the report re rhel me.
A gentleman II the u. =. Arsenal told
me, that he plainly smc,t the fumes Of
bnms.one on hosting his window to lock
out. 5
Two gentlemen rom Randolph coun-
~. 20 miles wet of this place. told me
that tho shocks were fel, there. and the
sound heard. but they did not see the
light. a
The ball appeared to be Abou, the size
oil a ten gallon keg. Z.
From the Raleigh Star.
Ahou, two o'clock on the morning Of
The LIST instsnt nv attention was al,rac :
ted by the sudden illuminston Of the
southern part OF The heavens. The light
was brilliant and sufficient to cas-, shad-
ow IRAN chairs stan:llng in ,he room. The
tueaks OF clouds slong the sky appeared
Of align, orange. The heavens generally
white. and The n ,nr Of the toem Tedlsh.
The durnioa OF the Ugh: was shnn, three
seconds. | s.w no nctforic bill or globe,
but an Of opiaion one parsed about 6lty
degrees above the heavens, as the light
was more bullian, al forty degrees Than
lower, and the intensity Of the ligh, seem
60 10 diminish towards the horizon. My
position al fret was such that | could moi
see much over forty degrees above the
hof'zon. IL sneh globe or ball passed,
ns course mus, have been from Eas,
North Els, 10 West South West, OF
lnefeshou,s. About three minutes afiel
we light had passed oil, a sound { Ia ly
auoihle wa. heard in The East, which 10
''easeh N loudnsss snl violence for neal
ven seconds. when IL was 50 violent as T.
snake the house 10 its very basement
.oagll not as severely as | have known
"nhtle': there was similarity in iht
,'uaa 10 thunder. ltwas Filling, rum
Vnnp, swelling noise, but withoa, tht
I"s'P erackleg which accompanies sud
nsa bursts Of thunder. After the nois,
~" -. reached us acme. il decreased ersdu
Guy and slowly ill il died away alter ,h.
WI space Of minutes dur4t,on. Sount
passes a. The ,ae 81 100 e. per sec9, d
"ao lut one mile III i've second ); con. e
s's"''y the meteor, (,l my cslcuiauuib b