The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-12-05
BALTIMORE FOR TAKB.
Protection Needed For the
American Minister.
DENBY MAE 90 To TIEN.TsIN.

1880 = ~ " - --hSe@fs
Rear Admiral Carpenter Arranges the De
tails AID Marines WIN Go From the
Asiatic Squadron Our Naval Forces ON
the Chinese Coast to BE Augmented.
Latest From NagasaIi.
NAeAsAK1, Dec. IA cablegram was
sent Monday by Rear Admiral Carpen-
Herbert, at Washington. announcing
the departure of the flagship Baltimore
for Taku, 90 provide marines to protect
the American legation at Pel1in and
Tien-Tsin
The departure of the Baltimore from
Nagasad is direct result of the per-
enptory orders cabled to Rear Admiral
Carpenter, and for an immediate aug
nientation OF the naval forces on the
Chinese coast, where trouble Is threat
ened.
Rear Admiral Carpenter does not
state in his cable just what his plans
are in regard to providing the men nee
essnry TO carry out the department.
orders. AS commander-in-chief of the
Asiatic squadron, he expected to ar
range the details himself. He has ar
ranged to fall in with other vessels of
his squadron, and collected from each
the necessary number of men to mako
up proper guards for the legation at
Pelin and the consulate at Tien-Tsin.
Taku, the objective point of the Balti-
more, is situated at the mouth of Peiho
river. The Baltimore can not proceed
further than Taku, as her draught is
too great to allow her to cross the bar
of this river. From that point the
marines will have to be sent by small
boats or by rail.
To Tfen-Tsin.
The vessels of the Asiatic squadron
have force of altogether 103 marines.
To secure the number necessary for the
protection of Minister DENLY and other
Americans detachments will have to be
taken from several of the vessels of the
squadron The Baltimore, being the
flagship, has 48 marines, and the ma
jority of these will be drafted for duty
at Pekin and Tien-Tsin. Others will
probably come from Petrol and Charles
town.
Should developments of the next few
days make it necessary Minister DENLY
and his staff will be ordered to transfer
their quarters from Pelkin to Tien-Tsin,
where, under the guns OF the men-of-
war, they Will have secure protection.
Pekin is inland, close to the great wall,
while Tien-Tsin is on the coast of the
Gulf of Pechih. The danger to the
bility of an uprising of the populace
against the government, in which case
foreigners would have no show for their
lives.
OUT OF SIGHT FOR FIFTY YEARS.
The Edward Swift Comet May Turn Out to
Be Devices.
Los ANGELES, Dec. 4.-Recent OBJ
servations at the Mount Lowe obserya-
tory indicate that the Edward Swift
comet discovered by the son of Professor
Swift at that observatory on Tuesday
evening, Nov. 20, may turn out to be
the most famous lost comet discovered
by Device at Rome Aug. %, 1874, just
half century ago.
The orbit of Devico's comet was COM
pleted by Bruno and found to be within
that of Jupiter, its aphelion closely APP
preaching the orbit of the giant planet,
and its perihelion lying just within the
orbit of the earth. Its period was
trifle less than five and half 5,459)
years, and it should have reappeared
nine times since it's discovery, but it did
not return as predicted, or if it has re-
turned it was never seen.
The researches of NJ Leverrier, indi-
Gated that it was identical with the
comet observed by Lahiere at Paris in
1878, though it was not detected at any
one of the many returns to Perihelion
which must have taken place in the in
term.
There was one rather peculiar feature
about Devil o's comet. Its orbit was di-
rect and it was inclined only degrees,
81 minutes and 90 seconds to the eclip-
tic, the inclination being less than that
OF the planet, Venus, and far less than
that of any other comet discovered in
the present century.
Now, the inclination of the Edward
Swift comet is about degrees. or only
six minutes greater than Devices and
DIR. Barnard of the Lick observatory,
who has been studying it through his
great 36-inC h refractor, suggests that it
is identical with the long lost comet of
Device, VIII n would be just about due
at this time. being its ninth periodical
return since 1874. The difference in in
clination might be accounted for by
perturberation arising from being
slightly swerved from its true course by
the powerful attraction of some of the
planets it has approached on its mighty
journeyings through space.
Ii it proves to be the long lost comet
astronomers will be keenly interested
in its caree., and if it were not SO faint
they would be observing it Ia all parts
of the word. Professor Barnard can
scarcely discern it with his 12.inch
glass, and eastern astronomers have
not been abe to detect it as yet.
1t is Probi. Die that the comet is reced-
ing from tLs sun and earth, and DIR.
Swift estimated that it is now about
130, 000, 900 miles away or three times
the distance of the planet Mars in Oc-
tober.
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