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The following io tiii extract oi q letter to the Editor, from a gentleman in lnde- pendence county, dated

 BafesrliIe, .Niop. 18th, 1888.

 A very singular phenomenon was wit- messed last Wednesday, before daylight, by several of the citizens of independence and Izard counties. The whole visible Heavens were for several hours grandly H. lunlnated with thousands of fiery meteors, or shooting stars, in continual motion, de- clining downward, initiating flakes of snow driven by the wind. One of these largest meteors remained stationary, but changed its appearance from that of star to fig ure resembling the letter z, or as some suppose, the figure 1. Its position was a little east of south, and in height about 45 degrees. This phenomenon has alarmed a great number of persons; they think that they perceive in this sublime and singular exhibition of nature, one of those predict ed signs of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the account of one ofthese sions. t is said-the stars of Heaven shall fail, as fig tree casts her untlmely figs"

 By reference to Humbold.'s travels in South America, the reader will discover that this phenomenon is no meao thing; that it has been displayed to a far more illu1ni- hating extent on the Andes.