The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-07-02
NEWS EPITOME.
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East and Middle.
DURING the absence of It's mother II

DUETSG the absence Of its mother FIVE
months'-old baby in Philadelphia ras killed
BY rats
GIgzoEE, the conquersr Of Luke Black
--bgrf, ,1ssfestedS Parole .. The Coney Island
-racek-E@aing the best tirds On record at a
5lree7quarterz.
- a aervsiew 81 the nevly-tliseovered come.
was sissAssed in sew York Tde other day, and
frons<sEssSsus otfler parts Of the country come
i-reposss cshcerning the brilliant appearance Of
1.-THE ksSs3iIed risitor to the heavens. There
--is quite dispute 10 who first saw the comet,
several ss;EoEoa.ers claiming that honor.
-- THRr.raains ~of Mrs Henry Hatterman Of
Tnrs.city, s1ho died recently of consunp-
<~tions ~e~es crelnated in Lemoyne furnace, at
washington, Pa.
-~ SII.ssC. HERRING, 3 weli-knorn inventor
.<and ssfsaanufacturer died few days ago at
his -. in Piainaeld, \. J., aged seventy
seyesgssrz-
HyysT STAyBEgY, atsorney-general Of the
UaisI States during part Of President John
son's administration, died few days ago in
'>.,'ew York, aged seventy years
49, PRESIDENT GARFIELD and General Grant
l-Iaet the other day IN Long Branch al an in
formal reception held By the former.
WALTER FISE, thirty years Of age, while
walking in Philadelphia with young Lady,
was shot and instantly killed By George Hitler,
tRenty-seyen years old Jealousy was the
cause Of the crime.
HUsDRgDs OF passengers are leaving daily on
the ocean steamers from New York for Europe
The Columbia college eight-oar crew was
defeated by the Harvard college crew il the
orr la Na-y Ton
SPEAKTSG Of the new comet the New York
papers say: Estimates Of the length of the
tai vary greatly according TO the situation OF
the observer. In the city, where the eye i
confused with the glare Of many lights, and
The air Is dimmed BY smoke, few persons can
see the tail 70 greater distance than ten OF
fifteen degrees from The head A. some Of the
observatories situated in the country, however,
the tail is reported to be visible TO distance
OF forty degrees, which would give an actual
length Of some %, 000, 600 miles. The comets
apparent speed is diminishing 1t l.
yet approaching the north star, but much
more slowly than at first, and It will renaain
visible for some weeks yet. Professor Boss, u
the Dudley observatory, Albany, reports tina. OF
Sunday night he could see tso branches Of the
tail, one perfectly straight and some frty
degrees long, and the other shorter fainter,
and curved westward. Mr.. Parkhurs. relates
that he has detected bright DOT or condensa-
ton near the nucleus which suggests the
probability that this comet may be about to
split In two, did Biela's comet many years
ago. Dr.. Peters the veteran asteroid hunter,
says he can see the shadow Of the nucleus pro-
jected like dark beam into the tail. Professor
Draper is pushing his Photographic work.
Professor Young is flying the spectroscope, and
other astronomers all over the United States and
Europe are as busy IS bees trying to solve the
question that for hundreds Of years has been
their toughest riddle-what are comets made
of? The identity Of the come. has not yet been
determined but the weight Of opinion seems to
be that it is neither the comet of 1907 nor that
Of 1872. There seems, however, to be no longer
any doubt that it is the same comet that Dr.
Gould cav in South America month ago.
JOIN GYUMBER, the sleeping Hungarian at
the Allentown Pa.) poorhouse, spoke several
times the other night, after silence Of 1876
days. He said he belonged to the Sclavonic
race and could speak Hungarian His mind
was still wandering, but his condition was
slowly improving.