* Astronomy

On Friday evening, November 27, 1868, about five o'clock, Mr. T. F. Freeman, of Danville (about lat. 340 30' and long. 87~ W. Greenwich), on stepping from his house, was startled by a loud report, so much like. artillery that for the moment its origin was attributed to the firing of a small piece of artillery kept in the village; but on inquiry it was ascertained that no firing had taken place there, but that the sound was heard at the village, and attributed to very heavy artillery at Decatur, Trinity, Hillsboro, or some other point to the northward of Danville. During the war artillery had been often heard in the valley of the Tennessee, and various speculations were indulged in as to what was meant by this cannonade at such a time of day and in such a direction.
The following day Mr. Winm. Brown, living three miles west of Danville, brought to the village a piece of rock, which he said fell near him and some labourers who were picking cotton. He dug it up at a depth of about one and a half to two feet. It weighed about four and a half pounds, and had the characteristic aspects of a meteoric stone. But it was broken by the party obtaining it, and all but half a pound, now in my possession, has been scattered, and probably lost or thrown away.
Several other stones fell in the same vicinity. Some negroes working in a cotton-field on the plantation of Capt. McDaniel, half a mile from Danville, heard a body fall with a whizzing, humming sound, and strike the ground near them with tremendous force; but they were alarmed, and did not approach...
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