The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-17

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per bbi., while wheat, though Quot, was
nrmer Corn and oats were moderately
active and nrmer. Pork in light demand but quite
| nrm Beef and lard were NOS materially changed.
| whiskey was dun and nominal Freiqhts were quiet
and weak Naval stores were unchanged, while petro-
lcum owing TO the unfsvorabc adyices from Antwerp,
was dull and fully 10. per gallon lower
Failing Stars, Hurricanes, Floods and Vol
canic Erapiions-What Nexte
The metcoric shower Of 1867 was delayed
until halfpast three on the morning Of Thurs
day, the l4th Of November BY that hour the
reporters Of all the city journals except the
HERALD had wearied Of watching for the event,
and after gravely recording their opinion that
il would not occur, that the meteoric shower
was meteorological myth, had gone to bed.
| But the HERALD Of the same morning duly
chronicled this fifly-ninth exhibition Of falling
stars since the beginning Of the Christian era,
and gave special kilograms from vigilant
astronomers at Washington and Albany. On
Friday morning we published In our special
| kilograms and correspondence full and minute
reports Of observations made at Greenwich, in
England, at Washington, Richmond, Albany,
Troy, Poughkeepsie, Chicago, Detroit. at vari-
Gus points in Pennsylvania, Delaware, South
| Carol ms, Louisiana in . word. from all parts
OF the Union. including Connecticut, the home
Of Professor Looms We published neat
| little report of the spectacle by Professor
LOOMS himself, who, it appears, had luckily
returned hons in time to see it. In the course
OF his report he modestly hints that he retracts
his foolish contradiction Of the testimony Of
the heavens and the HERALD to the meteoric
| display which he now admits was q seen in
Europe last November" The Professor has
evidently become wiser and less presump-
tuous man than he was "last November" when
he rashly and in vain resisted the united forces
Of the telegraph and the press. Professor
LOOMS mentions that the expected display OF
shooting stars attained It's greatest magni6-
cence ut halEpast four on Thursday morning,
and describes II, so far as numbers are con-
Europe last November and but little inferior
TO that seen In the United States in 1888.
The most important fact in connection
with this years exhibition is that the
very careful observations made by our
astronomers have confirmed already, and when
fully compared will probably establish, seve-
raj points which have hitherto been doubtful In
the theory OF meteoric bodies Our Washing
ton correspondent said, In his special telegram
Of the l4th inst, that one point which appears
TO have been determined by the observations
Of this morning Ia that the exact anniversary
OF these phenomena II not confined alone 10
the l4th Of November, ~ Il returns each time
at a later hour; nor is Il certain that the metz
oric phenomena must be limited 10 one display
in the same year. Indeed, the hypothesis
| seems now more probable than ever that these
shooting stars, which have sometimes appeared
in August a well as in November, and which
may have had similar origin TO the thirteen
small bodies revolving between Mars and
Jupiter. and, II Is conjectursd, having once
formed the mass Of now exploded planet,
belong to group revolving about the sun In
one hundred and cighty-two days, in an ellipti-
col orbit, and that In passing through the
aphclion In August and November they come
in contact with the esrth's atmosphere, ON
entering which with great velocity they
become iguIted and consumed. Mn. Somervills
adds 70 her statement Of this hypothesis that
IAN event 90 tremendous a. the explosion Of .
world 10 BY no means beyond the unlimited
power Of steam under intense pressure
Mctsors are supposed 10 be the debris Of
| comets, and, according to observations made
In order 10 determine the psrsllax, II has been
decided that the general body Of them Is from
sixty 10 one hundred miles above the earth
although some approach much ncarer--snd are
| occasionally 20 large that they are not fused
in their passage, but reach the earth and pene-
trats II. We have not yet heard that any Of
shower.
This "tempcst-dropping nre" called 70 mind
ehskspeare's description Of the portentous
storm ct Rome previous 10 sbc assassination 81
Jalius Cesar
.ishw there is . eva strife IN heaven
CT e,se The world. sss ssucy With the code
fscsnsss then 10 send dsswucuen.
| And when We turn nom signs In the heaven
70 signs on earth II must be conceded ,hss she
disciples Of Cumming and Miller are sppsr-
entity justified In their expectation that the end
Of the world " approaching. The same number
Of the HKaALD that chronicles The celestial pyro.
technics Of Thursdsy morning gives special
kilograms announcing on The same day On erup.
tioa Of Mount vesuvius, detailing the destrpc.
tion Of millions Of property and Eve hundred
lives st g. Thomas during ths recent gsles
sanouncing the loss OF svo hundred lives and
the dsstitxticn Of four thousand families by .
terrible hurricans ia tAe southern portion OF
Porto Rico. and The loss Of IN thousand lives
and incslculsbIe wealth BY The food the, sol-
lowed the great gale Of the TN inssssi snd en-.
sirely submerged for eight hours the hissd ~
Tortcls 10 We West Isdiss; sad. finally. an
nsune'as hat fearful gale swss' over sssls