Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-31
WASHINGTON.
keIlogg's Impressions of the "Bear
Garden'-A Reformed Rake-The
Coming Solar Eclipse PIeasant's
Berth.

heIlogSs Impressions of the ssReaT
Garden"-A Reformed Rake-The
Coming Solar Eclipse - Pleasant :
Berth.
AsHINGToS, Jan. Ex-senator kellogg. OF
Louisiana, talking to-day said: II have lust
been over to the House. You know am to be
a member of that body. It's so different from
the Senate. There they were fighting and
everybody was talking at once. What a con-
trast 1t is compared with the dignity and
decorum of the Senate! 1t is more
IKE hair-pulling match than
ahythlng not hair-pulling match that 1
nave ever seen. | am determined not to take
any part IN It's rows and squabbIes when l
take my seat. will not mix up with them
but just sit still and go away when I get
tired"
You will see that Kellogg is really very hard
on the House. But don't condemn that body
forever on this account Members of the
House would doubtless, if asked about it, ex-
press press more iorclDly their opinion of having to
endure Kellogg for two years than kellogg
the House.
DO you see that MANI" asked a friend last
ngnt. We were in the billiard room at Will
iard's. The man to whom he referred stood
IN one OF the doorways. He was somewhat
clerlcai looking. He wore a silk hat, but it
neatly dressed. His face bore the look of n man
who once steamed" it. but who was now
anu an v no mas been Tor long time temperate in
an an 'nilnss' SAID that saw him. ''It's curl
Gus ABOUT that man" " said my friend ~ will
tel you. His name is Lamison. He is from
ONO ana served two terms in the House of
representatives. He was in the Forty second
fjIoos anu -thlrd Congress. Those were the
Times When money was as plentiful here as the
ulrt upon the street. Everybody had doodle
All manner of jobs went through and anv
Dody who wanted any of the sWag was let in
m ghaI- -aIe
the bottle, lie drank heavily He was as
ulsslpated as any man who ever occupied
a seat IN the House, and that is saying a good
deal. He drank all his money away and
drank himself out of Congress- He continued
TO drink, and came very near drinking him
self out OF this world. A few wears ago he
was caught by the temperance wave. He re-
formed. He Travelled around with TEMPER
ance combinations as an awful example. He
got food, clothes and a little money In a
short time he mastered the whole business
He started out for himself. He is a good
speaker, and can depict yividly He has Suc
ceeded. He now delivers temperance lee
lures, ana makes an excellent living. If rum
don't catch him again, he will die worth
money. am going to REFORM"
On the 9th day of May next there will be
total eclipse of the sun. 1t will only be yisi-
bic along track in the Southern Pacific
ocean. The track of its totality will extend
five thousand miles. In that whole number of
miles there are but two points of land from
winch observations can be taken with advan-
ldSe. 1nefe are TWO small islands on the
treme eastern edge of what are known
as the South Sea Islands. One is
Caroline Island andN the other Flint
Island. They are situated in 10 degrees
south latitude and $50 degrees west longitude;
they are about one hundred miles apart The
total eclipse can be seen upon them for about
six minutes. 1t will be for the purpose of
science the most valuable eclipse that has oc-
CURED IN century, from the fact that the
duration of its totality is twice as long as any
other. The National Academy of Science is
preparing an expedition to go to Caroline and
Flint Islands to make observations of it. The
party will be composed of Professor Pierce
Astronomer of the Coast Survey, Professor
Holden, of the Wisconsin Observatory,
Mr. MI. Rockwell, of Tarrytown, New
York, one or two naval officers and
others. There are three principal objects of
the expedition. One is to make spectre
scopic study of the outlying chromo-sphere
corona of the sun-the physical constitution of
which is mOoted question. Another object
Is to search for planet between the sun and
Mercury, the existence of which can only be
ascertained under such favorable circilm-
stances as the eclipse of MAY 9th will present.
The other object is to take photographs
OF the physical aspect of the
region just around the sun. The expedition
Will leave San Francisco or Panama in a gov
ernment vessel about the lst of March next,
and return by way of San Francisco just as
soon as its work is accomplished.
The people here who are looking after the
Collectorship at Sayannah--that is, the VIM
berly side of the fght-persist in saying that
Secretary Chandler is trying to work in Blaine
men in Georgia, in order to start a Blaine
boom down there, They say that Chandler
listens to all Bryant tells him, and comedies
with Bryant, and that he is trying
to induce the President to do as
he and Bryant would have done. | put
this down in black and white simply because
it has been hurled at me so often. But really
cannot see that there is any ground for such
a statement. Chandler is cunning enough for
anything, but L do not believe that even he
would venture, member of President Ar
thurs Cabinet,tO try and foist the shadow of a
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