Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-28
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In his observation Of the new comet taken
at the Naval Observatory at p. m. Oh Tues
day, Prof. Frisby determined it's position in
right ascension II hours, - minutes, 30 sec
onds declination north no degrees 8 minutes
and 80 seconds. Prof. Frisby also observed
it before sunrise and again at six o'clock next
morning. 1t was very prominent object.
rising about Il half hour before the sun, and
to the southwark of it about ten or twelve de-
grees The tail of about one degree in length
was very plainly visible The nucleus is very
condensed and stellar in character, and hav-
ing wings which curve outward and down.
ward, the whole presenting the appearance of
a bird in flight. The nucleus is surrounded 10y
an envelope of light of much less intensity.
The comet was very plainly seen with the
naked eye after sunrise. When Prof Frisby
made the second observation of the position,
about a. NJ, it was very easily followed
with telescope. Two more observations of
position we're made by Professors Skinner,
Boss and Flint during the forenoon, thus fur
nishing a knowledge of the direction and the
rate of it's apparant motion. These Observa-
tions enabled the astronomers to estimate its
position with an accuracy unattanable by
other methods. From these data the comet
was observed with the transit circle on the
meridian by Professor Winlock, thus giving
the position with an accuracy unattainable by
any other methods. An observation of a COM
ct in broad daylight with a meridian instru-
ment is unique. This is perhaps the third in
stance in more than hundred years of its
having been done. Wells comet was thus OBJ
served few months since at the Dudley obser-
vatory. The position from the transit cir
Gle observation is right ascension 1lh. lam.
S.94s., declinatiOn south 0 deg 34m. 2s.5.
The daily motion of the comet is in right as
50 M: hnd 45s.
Prof. Boss, of the Duley Observatory, at
Albany, N. Y, who is now in Washington,
says that he believes this is a return of the
great comet discovered by DR.. Gould in South
America on the 9Th of February, 1880, and
that it is also identical with the comet of lS43.
He thinks that the orbit will be found clip
tical with period of less than three years.
The orbit of the comet carries it so close to
the sun that it must be impeded by the solar
atmosphere, and probably before the end OF
the century it will fall into the sun.
Further calculations Of the orbit of the
comet tend to confirm the theory that it is
identical with the comet of 1943 and 1880.
Prof. Boss suggests that it may have made
several revolutions between these two periods
without being seen. If, however, there has
been sudden reduction of the periodic time
from thirty-seven to little more than two
years and half, it follows also that the next
reduction may beproportionately great. Prof.
Boss says: " The comet may crash into the
sun next year. What the results of that crash
,may be is a problem yet to be solved. 1t must
Jo dad k,fo hnc cn1i
cleus. The nucleus of the Wells comet was
distinctly seen in an observation at the Dudley
Observatory, on June 18th, last, and was esti-
mated to be not less than 400 miles in diane
ter. The nucleus of the present comet is prob
ably much greater, and when we remember
that this comet will rush into the sun with a
velocity of four hundred miles per second, no
one can venture an adequate or accurate estl-
mate of the possible consequences
THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY IN
DANGER Republican policy in South Car
olina, for the present campaign, is now devel-
oped. 1t is shrewdly conceived and will be
boldly carried out. For the first time since
their overthrow in 1916, the party leaders turn
to the best account the political subserviency of
the negro and the unwillingness of the white
man to submit, for long together, to any sort
of political constrant.
There are probably twenty thousand more
colOred voters in South Carolina than white
voters. The difference in the vote does not
exceed this, although large numbers of whites
as we'll as of colOred people have abstaned
from registering and consequently cannot vote
at the approaching election. In two-thirds
of the counties, we Judge, there is colored
On the color line, which happily
is not as broad and sharp as formerly, the Re-
pubicans can command a powerful vote, and
the whole of this vote, organized by race, color
and deep-dyed prejudice, they offer to any op-
ponents Of the Democracy who will consent to
receive it. They expect to find among Dem
Ocratic malcontents, whether styled 1ndepend-
ents or Greenbackers, the qualities which they
do not possess themselves. To divide the
Democracy they can afford to surrender nomi-
nally the political offices until the next elec
tiOn.
This is the explanation of the endorsement
Of the Greenback candidates for State offices
by the Republican Convention, and of the
steadfast refusal to nominate any straightOut
Republican candidates for Congress, except in
the Black District, where the Democrats will
make no nominations. In themselves, the
count for little or nothing. 1t
is their endorsement by the Republican Con-
vention which gives them Importance and
strength, while econcealing from the Democracy
the magnitude of the danger. When Repub-
licans are pitted squarely against Democrats
there is no doubt of the result. But there are
no Republicans in the field, as such in South
Carolina this year, and the Democrats behave
as though they expected to have walk-over
in November. The plain truth is that it will
take hard work until the polls close OH election
day to prevent the political miscegenationists
from electing three or four Congressman, and,
perhaps, a majority of the members OF the
Legislature.
The Democratic candidates for State offices
will he elected, we think, beyond doubt,
but there is no certainty that the Democracy
will accomplish much more than this. DEM
ocratic supremacy will not be maintained, if
The magnitude Of the opposition be underrated
in the bliSSful fashion of the times.-NenS md
Courier.
eT a queer sort of lawsuit is going on in a
Michigan town, the plaintiff being a gentle
man who combines in himself the two profess
,ions of clergyman and physician. The de-
sendant is man who WAS sick. and under the
care. The difference between these
;wo men is in regard to pay for the plaintiffs
professional visits. While defendant was sick
plaintiff visited him both for the purpose of
lealing his diseases and for the administering
If spiritual counsel. In these visits there was
great mixing Of godly advice with medical
Sometimes the minister-dOctor
rave pills and other remedies, and sometimes
le only prayed and talked The defendant
vas greatly astOnished on recovering and
,eing presented with the professional mans
,ill, to find that the religious visits were
charged for, all the same as the medical ones
lis idea was in accordance with that of most
,eople, that the minister who makes calls for
he purpose of giving religious counsel does
t free of expense to the persons called upon.