The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-20
Reported as Having Been Discovered
by Observers in Colorado, is
Observed by Washington
Astronomers.
The Indications Are that 1t Is Ap-
preaching the Earth With
Planetary Velocity.
Is Easily Seen by the Naked Eye, Has
Il Short Tail, and Il Large,
Bright Head.
Regarded by Astronomers as n Most
Extraordinary Comet,
Having the Appearance of n Bird With
Outstretched Wings.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Having the Appearance of n Bird With
0utstretched Wings.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
WASHINGTON Mntters

" HNAA"''AVN, - W bNpltIlutl lN.-I ne
following has been furnished by the treas
ury department for publication; In the
new Sper cents, the system of numbering
made necessary by law, precludes the
treasury department from splitting up
large bonds into small bonds when they
are sent in for transfer, and in order that
parties ordering bonds might act under.
standingly in specifying the denominations
desired, Secretary Folger announced the
above fact at the beginning of the exchange
now going on. Notwithstanding this, the
department to-day is in receipt of letters
showpg that parties expect to be allowed
hereafter to break up large bonds
Of The new loan into small ones, as they ARE
now allowed to do in all other loans. No
such transaction can be affected, and the
loan bonds sent in for transfer will be re-
issued IN exactly the same denominations as
received. The denomination of bonds of
this loan must, therefore, always stand Ms
they are now being issued, and IL would be
well for parties in ordering bonds to ask
for such denominations as will save them
from Inconvenience in the future.
THE GREAT COMET
reported this morning as having
been discovered by observers in Col.
orado was observed at the naval
observatory this evening. 1t. was
found in right ascension, IL hours, o min.
utes and 80 seconds, and declension north
Odogrees and 10 minutes. The comet was
easily seen with the naked eye, and exhib.
tied short tail with n bright head of con-
siderable extent. In the telescope the
neuclus showed rs confused mass of
bright light, indicating large comet, with
plenty of loose material extending on both
sides. When seen, bright arcs of light ap-
peared, presenting the appearance Of
bird with outstrctchcd wings.
This afternoon Il dispatch was received
from the Paris observatory to the following
effect:
THELLow's COMET WAS OBSERVED
at Nice about noon, September 18th, three
! degrees west of the sun. The nucleus
! gives continuous spectrum, very brilliant
aud very much toward violet. Both tail
and nucleus give y sodium extremely brill
| liant, very sharply, divided and character.
istc. They seem displaced towards red
SpectroscopiC arc of extraordinary interest
! They indicate that this is the second comet
J that has shown sodium in the spectrum
I The first was that discovered this year BY
! Wells at the Dudley observatory at Albany
and observed at that institution in full day
| light. A reported displacement OF the
sodium lines toward the red end of the
spectrum is of the highest interest since il
/ indicates that the comet is now
MOVING TOWARDS THE EARTH
| with planetary velocity, Such an obserya-
/ ton has never been made in the case
of any comet.
From the position given IN the above
/ dispatch, the comet il moving westward
d TrAn hn mn NJ In rotA Of t.... -.
degrees daily, 1t is almost certain that tho
comet has passed its perihelion,
! or the point where it was
nearest the sun. Astronomers will now be
anxious to learn If this comet is identical
with the one recently discovered in south
/ America. lfthis identity is proved it will
follow that it has approached very
NEAR THE SUN,
probably rs close as did the great comet of
/ 1850, the comet which had the smallest
perihelion distance on record. Several
orbit can be calculated by the
astronomers and this question be
definitely settled. The comet to-day
at 3 o'clock was nine degrees west of the
sun and 1t will probably have increased
this distance by sunrise on the 26th to
twelve or thirteen degrees. II will there
fore rise some time before the sun, but
owing TO the fact that 1t is also further
south than the sun, it will readily
be seen before sunrise in few
days. However, with ITS present rate and
direction of motion, IL should become a
brilliant object In the morning sky. on
the whole, this may be regarded as one Of
| the most
EXTRAORDINARY COMETS
of modern times. The only one which re-
/ ScmblCs IL in its special features of interest
was the great comet of 1913, which like
/ full sunlight, Bernard's comet, recently
discovered at Nashville, was also observed
at the naval observatory this morning at
| four O'Clock by Professor Frisbee. Its
| right ascension was hours 81 minutes, and
its declination - degrees and II minutes
north. II presented the usual appearance
ofa telescope comet with q slight central
condensation. An observation OF the same
comet was taken at Table Mountain station
Colorado,
The national board of health has received
| the following dispatch from Pensacola :
/ Yesterday twenty.seven new cases and one
death. Total TO date, III cases and -
deaths. [Signed ! WHITING, Secretary.
A dispatch from Bayou Sara, Louisiana
says The regular republican congressional
convention of the sixth district at Red
! River Landing, to-day nominated by nc.
clamation Louis Trager, Of West Feliciana.
! Trager was formerly United States consul
/ to Boulogne, and is now one Of the Wost ex.
tensive cotton planters in louisiana
War Notes.
hoNpoN, September lo.-Thc Times, in
its second edition, published a dispatch