Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-07

| in 4 few seeopd the. lint. coaAsct waal
seen 0tGke ph ;. Noshing Of special I
interest vas destloped until the appeay-
ance Of Venus, IND later 81 Mercury
which WIS todd seen fof the first time
by hundreds cfbeople. As the totality
approached, each was made by par
ties NOT interestld in watching the cor
ona for g End ke's comet, which
was calculated to be above the
horizon. The Mountains on the edge
Of the moon WIRE very plainly visible
about half an hour after the first con-
tact. Madame Gretner,. a spiritualist
swent last night y the sun in spirit, TO
I find the pOsitidh Of Vulcan. So far,
seen by the eye bf science.
| The Vassar college scientists, directed
by Professor Maria Mitchell, OBJ
served from the Sisters Hospital Hill,
the highest prominence northwest
OF the city. This distinguished in
structress was aided by four cory
phees, all alumn@ of the college, and
the manner III which three Of them
warmed as many excellent glasses,
while fourth took rapid sketches in
oils of the great phenomenon was an
attraction to the gaping, yet respect
fully distant, multitude of masculines.
almost as absorbing rs the eclipse.
Prof. Mitchell herself, as with iron-gray
curls futtering under brOad-brim-
med Leshorn, she swept the hea-
vens with four-inch telescope, or d.
rected with native majesty and grace
the operations of her assistant nymphs,
was figure, and perfectly command
ing. No one on seeing her unsparing
exertions, which insured the signal sue
cess Of the observations, would have
imagined her physical strength equal
to the mastery lecture delivered by
the lady in the evening before
a theorizing audience, upon the astron-
omer Herschel. The party was success
fulin fixins the time Of the beginning
and end of the observation, and also
, with great nicely, the exact dura-
ton Of totality, on which point
the labors of the Chicago obser-
vatory explorers were not so salts
factory. Three planets discovered their
beauties to the ladies-Mercury, Venus,
and Mars-and perfect myriad of stars.
The great result of this eclipse cannot be
fully known until the professors can
compare notes, but all express satisfac-
ton. Many very perfect photographs
were taken of the crescent and corona,
and the spectroscopic observations were
specially successful. t','A4g .l.y
Professor Colbert reports that his OBJ
servations tend to show that the moons
4 path in the heavens lay little farther
to the southwark than indicated by the
lunar tables, or else that the esti-
mate of the moons diameter is too
large. .s-,-sH
Perhaps the measures made by Mr..
yesterday indicated that the corona ex-
tended out on an average about twenty
six minutes of an arc corresponding to
distance of fully seven hundred thous
aud miles all around the sun. 1t was
} strongly striated, and in the dircc
J. ton of the ecliptic the rays
were nearly straight, while above and
below that line they were markedly
spiral in their character, and some Of
the lines ut the base formed an angle of
not less than thirty degrees with pro.
longation Of the sums rays.
HORRIBLE CRIME.
4 A New York dispatch of July 28th
says the Times of to-day adds to
J the criminal record an account of per
haps the most audacious crime ever
; perpetrated in this country. Itappears
that come months since married lady
I fof Boston, of great refinement and
beauty and occupying q prominent
social position, had been visitmgfriends
!, in the interior of this state and when
y leaving took a drawiug-roOm car on
II the New York Central road for Albany
where her husband awaited her. Two
> villains followed her into the car
; probably attracted by the noticeable
jewelry she wore, and when the
}, conductor approached the lady for
ticket they informed him that they
} were her friends, and that she was de-
ranged and they had unfortunately been
selected to convey her to the Utica asy-
lum. In spite OF her protestations and
appeals for protection, the scoundrels
succeeded in convincing the conductor
and passengers of the truth of their
story, and removed tie lady from the
! cars Mt Utica, she swconing as the train
, moved away. She was then lifted into
a coach, chloroformed and taken to 3
house of i'll repute, outraged and rob
bed of her jewelry and clothing. The
: husband learned of mis- wifc's alleged
insanity when the train arrived at AL
; bany, and procuring \ special engine,
, Co. vFifh