Litchfield enquirer., 1834-11-27
From sA. Au.r;cua Aimanoek JSr lsSA

I6S4, VIII naNpenS IS tHc ECupSc Vt WC Su"' on Sunday, the SOth of November. This IS the third of the very uncommon series Of hVe large eclpses, visible to us, in the short term Of seven years; the fourth of this series will take place 18th May, 1886, aud the last, Sept. l8, 1888.
 The eclipse of the present year will dOUb:- less receive great attention throughout our country. In those places where its magni- tnde will not exceed l digits, much diminu- ton of the light is not to he expected, even at the time of the greatest OhscuratiOn perhaps, however, it may be sufficient tO render visible the planet Veuus, then above so deg. E.. 5. E. of the Sun, and much nearer to the earth than usual; nor will the O6scuratiOn be very great where the eclipse is almost total since it has been observed on former occasions, that the uneclipsed part even when reduced to a mere point, sheds sufficient light t" render small objects visible, and invisible the bright est of the stars. Indeed, on account of the refracton of the suns rays by the atmos- phere of the earth, the darkness can hardly with strictness be considered total, even when the sun is completely shut out from the sight Ia the great and remaI kable eclipse of June l6lh, lR06, wheh the sun was totally 0hscured at Boston for five minutes, as much light re- l mained as is given by tue moon when tu''' and greater darkness will not probably be experienced, in any place, on the present oc- casiOn.
 Throughout the United States, however, a greater depression of the thermometer, if pia- ced in the sun, will probably be noticed; and for some minutes before and after the mo- ment of greatest obscuratiOn the power of a lens to produce combustion, by condensing the solar rays, will be nearly, if not entirely, destroyed. At the time of the anDOlar e. z TNoR>n,, nNooP rad by the editor, that the thermometer in the sun, fell from 7S to 29, and that during the continuance of the ring, no sensible effect was produced by placing its blackenrd bulb in the focus Ofa powerful burning glass.
 This eclipse, as will be seen on tracing the path ofthe centre, will be total in a small part of the Territory of Arkansas, and of the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. The principal places, in which the obscurity will probably be com plete, are Charleston, Beaufort, South Caro- lina, Savannah, MiIledgeville, Tuscaloosa. and Little Rock. The greatest duration Of total darkness in any place will be at Tuscaloosa and Braufort-these places lying very near the central path. Al Charleston and Savan- nah, the duratiun wiil be considerably less, the former keing situate about forty miles DOr;h of this path, the latter, about thirty south. 1Ue WIutU Ot lnc ilJc OI LOlOI in it's passage across the earth. hut in the United States will be about one hundred miles. Those of the Atlantic States, who desire 10 behold this rare spectacle-the most magnificent and sublime of the phenomena of Nature, compared with, even Niagara sinks into mediocrity-wiIl find Beaufort the most eligible place in which to make their Observa' tions, and they wilt not neglect this Opp"rtu- nity when they reflect that the Moons shad Ow will not again, for the space of thirty i've years. pass over any part of the inhabiable portions ofthc United States, or uptil August 1 7th, 1860. ... ... .,
 As, at the time of the eclipse of February, 1881, much inconvenience and even injury was sustained from want ofcare in looking at l the sun without any protection for the eye. or through glass not sufficiently cOlOred, it l may be proper to remark, that should the sky during the continuance of the eclipse he clear l one of the very darkest green OF red glasses of a sextant. and in defaul; of this, a piece of common window glass. free from veins and rendered quite black by the smoke of lamp. onl, can be used with safety. If the Iuster "t the Sun should be diminished by inte ryening clouds, lighter shade will be sufficient. | Curious Fdct.-A gentleman brought up
 with him from Old Point last evening she'll
 drake with its bill enclosed between the shells
 of an oyster, which had been picked mp as it
 was drifting to the shore by the toll keeper
 of the awbridge. at the mouth of Mill Creek.
 The shell drake being great diver, it is sup
 posed iO one of hts submarine visits, tO have
 found the oyster resting on the sandy bottom
 with its valves distended, and presenting too great temptation for hungry duck to with stand, he without ceremony thrust iD his long 1 narrow bill to extract the delicious mOrseI 1; when the oyster. not approving Ofsuch famiI- iarities, suddenly collapsed the portal of its little citadel. and held the intruder's head
 under water iill it s6ffocatrd him while, un- able or unwilling tO let go his hold. both Oys-
 ter and duck were borne 10 the shore by the tide.-Nortolk Herald.
 4 chance Passenger.-The steamboat Erie on her trip down the Hudson yesterday, in- creased the number of her passengers without the inconvenience of going ashore for them {; the wife of MT. Bennett, one Of the passen- gers, having given birth to fine boy. who was 1 by general consent named Gilbert Erie Ben nett. And purse of 6fteen or twenty dol
 lars was made up for the benefit Ofthe extem-
 poraneous vOyager. The mother and child
 are doing we'll, and we hope the little chance
 way farer may live to turn out a hero worthy
 the name he bears.-N. Y.> C0Wr.
 Horrible Depravity.--Two sons of Dr..
 Bayne. of Prince Georges County, Md. se- N SA