THE STAR SHOWER OF NOV. 14.
The star shower predicted for the 14th of last month, it seems was such, in many places, as to attract considerable attention. An unusual number of shooting stars were visible in this place, but not enough to make the occasion worthy of special note. The great sign in this respect we consider was fulfilled in 1833. And although a similar scene occurring now would be no less a sign, yet the very fact that it had been predicted, and was expected, would tend to prevent its making any remarkable impression upon the people as an unusual phenomenon, and especially as a prophetic event. Observations have been reported through various papers taken in Philadelphia, New Haven, Chicago, Des Moines, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Louisville, Richmond (Va.), New York, Leavenworth, (Kansas), &c. From some accounts it appears, also, there was a display in Europe, more or less brilliant, on the 13th ult. Most of these are reported merely as scientific observations, some few connect the occurrence with that event of which it is one of the signs, the coming of the Son of man, and the end of this dispensation. Says the Louisville Democrat: “Though not so grand as the famous display of 1833, yet it was a spectacle of wonderful, and to us of unexampled splendor,—the rehearsal of that awful scene when the systems of suns and satellites shall be dissolved and the fearful heavens be rolled up like a scroll.” Under the head of “Falling Stars, Hurricanes, Floods, and Volcanic Eruptions,” with accounts of which the papers of late have been so full, the N. Y. Herald asks, “What next?” and then says: “When we turn from signs in the heavens to signs on earth, it must be conceded that the disciples of Cumming and Miller are apparently justified in their expectation that the end of the world is approaching.” The Boston Journal of Nov. 28 says: “The meteors fell in such profusion in Leavenworth on the 14th, that the deck hands on board the steamer Hensley became frightened, and, falling upon their knees, called upon God for mercy, satisfied, as they were, that the day of judgment was at hand.”