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414 ALEXANDER D. MEBANE Nunda News, and has been confirmed by Mr. Colton, who is still alive, and who adds that the meteors were scen between broken clouds, and that he never heard of any stones’ being picked up. The Nunda News spoke of “startling reports told here of large meteoric stones that fell at Short Tract and Gainesville Sunday night,” but correspondence has not uncovered any confirmation of the tumor that meteorites fell. Between Nunda and Hornell, 30 miles farther to the southeast,...