Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-17
NEW HAVEN. CONN. MORNING. sEPTENfBER l7,
of the country, are getting ready to avoid de- struction by abandoning the field.

of the country, are getting ready to avoid ds- struction by abandoning the field.
 Professor Lewis Boss of the Dudley observ- atory at Albany has completed calculations of the orbet of the new comet. It is twice as far away from the earth as the sun, or about 1S0, ,000, GOO miles, and is about 170,- GOO, 900 miles from the sun. It is moving towards the earth at the rate of about s, 3,000,- 900 miles day. Calculations indicate it's near Should it fall below this the comet will be s brilliant object in November.
 German steamers are crowding out British shipping at Nagssaki, Japan. German coast wise shipping is advancing by leaps and bounds. In 1880 210 British ships of 148.- 042 tons entered Nagasaki, against 24 Ger man vessels of 12,eS2 tons; during 1887 there were POT British vessels of 269, ,769 tons, and 217 German of 162, ,3S3 tons. The German steamers are smaller than the British, but they do more business, as they are better adapted to the trade.
 Some of the scientists are very scientific. An Italian physiolegist, Professor Masso, has, it is said, by means of large balance on which the human body may be poised horizontally, found ssthat one's thoughts may be literally weighed, and that even dreams or the effects of slight sound during slum- Der turn the blood to the brain sufH Hciently to sink the balance of the head. The changing pulse even told him when professional friend was reading Italian and when Greek, the greater effort of the latter duly affecting the blood flow"
 It is evident that Cleveland still believes that public office is public trust Charles E. Boyle of Pennsylvania, whom President Cleveland has nominated for chief justice of Washington territory, in violation of his promise and of the forgotten demand of his party, that territorial officers should be se~ lected from the citizenship of the territories the representative in congress of the 21st Pennsylvania district. Boyle was retired by his constituents because special committee of which he was chairman whitewashed the administration in it's report upon the Pan Electric scandal. Boyle knew that Attorney General Garland was a stockholder in the Pan-Electrio telephone company, and that he was mixed up in the disgrsosful business by which the attorney general was to use his power in the Federal courts to feather his own nest. President Cleveland was also aware of the whole transaction.
 There is about as much democratic har- mony just now in South Carolina as there is in Connecticut, and some of it came out in 8 confession made by Captain B. R. Tlllsman, of Edgefeld. In speech made on the steps of the city hall at Charleston theother night, he taunted the Charlestonians with their spiritless conduct in 1876. ''What did you dea" he said. "You sent 8 score of men over to your Cainhoy over there, and let them be shot down; and you never even killed nig- ger for it." He went on as follows, sccord- ing to the report in the Charleston News and Courier: He said he had organized com pany in 1876 at little town in Edgs6eld, where there were 200 white men and 500 nig- gers, ssodds," he added, stthat you never had down here" He described the militia riots, the Ned Tennant episode and other incidents, calling attention to the fact that in 1876 the box at Shaw's mill, in Edge6eld county, which had before that polAsd 1000 radical majority, went democratic. He next read editorials from the News and Courier con- demnlng the Hamburg killing as horrible crime. "As stand here," he said, "I be- ieve, before Almighty God, that but for that Hamburg riot Chamberlain would have been governor of South Carolina and the r. Ao E-- RIa Vermont or Massachusetts. I proclaim it aloud that was one of the Hamburg rioters who dared even the devil to save the state. :"