The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-16
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. FEB. Ie, 1881.

County TREASURER. 1t would seem. from
present appearances, that we are to have con-
tested election for this office. We hope it will
be conducted fairly and temporarily, and in a
manner calculated to produce as little excite
ment as possible. Actuated by such feelings,
we have taken the liberty to soften the asperity
of some of the remarks in communication
which we publish to day. 1t will not be
expected of us that we should not have choice
in the candidates, and, situated as we are, it
would be puerile affectation 10 pretend indif.
erence TO the result. Ye', however strong our
Partially may be, personally, we have deter
mined, eGitorially, to be strictly neutral and TO
give the friends of all the candidates an equal
chance TO present their claims to the notice of
the public. We would admonish them, however,
of the importance of brevity, and Of the mag
nanmity of moderation. Ifany thing affecting
either oil the candidates, which from its charac-
ter, requires reply, is to be offered it should
be in season for the next paper; otherwise, we
shall feel under obligation to submit it TO the per-
son affected or TO his friends, before publication
in order to enable them TO reply TO it, if they
choose, in the same paper in which it appears.
THE ECLIPSE. Those who witnessed the great
eclipse of 1906, but mere particularly the young
people who had only heard that described, were
much disappointed on Saturday, when the sun was
most obscured, TINT much light should still re-
main This will not perhaps appear SO strange,
when it is considered how light it is Immediately
after sunset. when the direct rays of the are
entirely withdrawn, and when it is considered, al
so, the difference which must result from the eartrs
being covered with snow, which reflects, so strong
ly, any portion of the solar rays which fall upon it
When the face Of the a little more than
one third obscured, clouds arose which hid it from
view, entirely for most of the time till about the
time of its greatest observation, when they became
so thin as 20 renderit perfectly visible and yet su f.
fcienty dense to admit of its being viewed with
the naked eye, with impunity. Occasionally these
light clouds were broke SO as to leave it clear
The sky, near the middle of the eclipse, where it
was clear, was of an uncommonly deep azure hue
The following remarks from the Boston Evening
Gazette, are nearly equally applicable to other
places:
"The appulse ofthe disk Of the moon was upon
the lower limb of the sun upon the right. When
the dark body of the moon had covered that of the
sun about ten dgits, the atmosphere began to be
cOiOred, and to assume a yelIOwish green hue,
which gave every human countenance an unhealthy
appearance. There also an apparent tremu-
lousness in the pcculiarzed light, which cast a
quivering effect upon surrounding objects. Some
stars were visible at the moment Of the greatest OBJ
scuraton Certain prismatic clors were from time
to time observed to fringe the clouds with many
ryng hues, and occasionally glimpse of the sun
with the moons shadow passing away caught
The colored appearance of the atmosphere, was
not the least striking part of the eclipse t was of
the same hue bnt not so much defined noticed
in the total eclipse of 1906. At that period birds
went to roost and cows and other animals retired
to their homes as on the approach ofnight