The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1874, Page 5

THE FARADAY DISASTER. Reported Wreck of the Cable Steamer Dented. The Merchants’ Excbange has a@ despatch from Pictou, N. &, which says:—‘There ts no founda- tion here or at Halifax Jor the reported loss of the Faraday.” The Statement of the Informant. TORONTO, Ont,, July 2, 2874, ‘The following derpatch, signed “G, Johnson," has been received by the Associated Press Agent at Toronto:— SPAIN. The Concentration for Another Battle Near Estella, ‘Concha’s Funeral an Imposing Pageant. Hawirax, July 2, 1874 Had an tnterview witn the gentleman who first published the report of the Faraday disaster. He says that he got the information from st. Pierre, are epee and declares his informant to be & highly reliable man. He 1s positive it is correct. There is @ confdent belief that something has gone wrong with the steamer—that she ts either short of coal or otherwise disabled. ‘THE CARLIST MASSACRE DENIED. MaoprID, July 2, 1874. ‘The Carlist force at Estella numbers 38,000 men. General Zavala nas 103 canno) , and hopes of his | Speedy victory are increasing. | The republican troops are fortifying the line that was planned by the late Marshal Concha to Confine the Carlists in a smull district of country destitute of resources. CONCHA BURIED WITH NATIONAL HONORS. The funerai of General Manuel Concha took ‘place to-day. The ceremonies were very imposing and the crowd of spectators on the line of the | Procession immense, Marshal Serrano and aii the ‘Cabinet Ministers followed the coffin. AN UNKNOWN SUICIDE. The Body Recovered at Long Branch— Statement Found on tho Person of the Deceased. Lona Branon, N. J., July 2, 1874. The body ofan unknown man came ashore with the tide last night near Seabright, It had evi- | dently been in the water for some time, as it is much decomposed. The deceased was probably aged about thirty-five years. The clothing is light cassimere pants and vest, dark coat, pair of boots, white linen shirt and undershirt. In tne pockets of the clothing were found a pocketbook contain- “GARLIST REPUDIATION OF A SERIOUS ACCUSATION. | ing seventy-five cents, a half rate message sent by ; th Y ve ‘The Carists energetically deny the charge of the | cad Sec tate Aedelan 9 Sousay aiser Massacre and mutilation of the wounded and | &! # hotel in Westchester, and sigued J. F. Gein, Fighty-cighth street and First avenue, and a piece prisoners, as charged against them. of paper with the iollowing written on it in ENGLAND. pencul:— 1 am tirod of this life ; no one to blame but myselt. ‘The body isin charge of J. U. Newings, Uoroner, at Long Branch, to whom any inquiry should be addressed. Mr. J. F. Gein has been telegraphed to and il he fails to identily the deceased the body Will be interred this alvernoon, CONGRESSIONAL SCANDAL. Alleged Attempt to Blackmail Mr. Fernando Wood. WASHINGTON, July 2, 1874, Two indictments were found against Samuel B. | Murdock to-day, one charging him with assault | and intent to kill the Hon, Fernando Wood, on the 19th of June, and the other with writing a threatening letter to him and demanding a large sum as satisfaction for alleged wrong to a woinan whom Murdock represented to be ithe wile, The | affair is regarded as a bold but weakly conceived attempt at biackmail. The Irish Home Rule Motion Re- jected by Parliament. An Disraeli Prophesies a World- Wide Crisis. Lonpon, July 8, 1874. In the House of Commons last night the discus- | “sion of Dr. Butt’s home rule motion was resumed. | Mr. Daniel O'Donoghue, member for Tralee, said the home rule movement was a miserable com- promise, conducted by those who did not dare to | face the penalties of Fenianism. He acknow- | ledged the desire of England to conciliate ireland, ‘and said thav perseverance in this agitation wonld | 4 ‘tsrrinie raiiroad accident occurred bere this be in defiance of gratitude, justice and common mornin Mr. Ge D: A eae gense. He said that the ultimate object of the | ag. Mr.) George? Dentelsy while, riding, (86s leaders of the movement was to incite Irish- | companied by bis wile and little grandson, son of | T. L. Livermore, of Boston, was run into by the HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACOLDENT. A Woman Killed and Others Sovercly Injured. Mi.rorp, N. H., July 2, 1874. D z | a Sapa alesd roneey ae bgt | morning milk train, completely demolishing the Jana ii vil is d ! horse and carriage and killing Mrs. Daniels us ctvil, «= War an anuul the | instantly, her brains veing strewn upon the recent progress in that country. He | track. r. Danieis was hurt badly about the head | said e1 and right side. There 18 some hope of his recovery. further, that ifEngland continued to remove | Tho Child 19 unconscious, being myured Bbout tie | every pretext for the plea of misgovernment in | head, the right arm broken and otherwise hurt. Treiand the result would be the disgracetul failure | There is but little hope of his recovery. The acci- ofthe movement. He firmly believed its success dent is supposed to have happened by Mr. Daniels | attempting to cross the track a Jew rods in iront plea ruin to the interests of every manin | ofthe cars, and bad not the horse, which wzs ireland. afraid of the cars, stopped on the track they would Mr. Robert Lowe, member for the University of ; Probably have crossed in salety, London, eis = lon, said the establishment of a local Inst THE STURTEVANT MUBDER Parliament would involve the necessity of similar bodies in Scotiand and England, and the result | Opening Argument of Counsel for the ‘would be constant disputes and difficulties, Defence. Mr. Disraeli was unable to agree that Ireland | PLymouru, Mags., July 2, 1874, ‘had a right to a greater amount of self-govern- | In the Sturtevant murder trial to-day the guv- ment than Scotiand or England. He demonstrated | erument closed its evidence, and counsel for the | the groundiessness of the complaint that prisoner opened the case lor the defence, He said Irishmen were not appointed to high | the prisoner did not shrink from an investigation, | offices of the government and denied that | and that they should explain how blood came on , Ireland wae treated as a conquered country. He Baid that two separate Parliaments would be con- stantly in collision. The minority in the Irish | the prisoner's clothing, the impossibility of dis- | tinguisning dried human blood from animal blood, | the whereabouts of the prisoner on the night and NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDA | nent. Parliament would be always appealing to the Imperial Parliament. He opposed the ‘Motion because it was injurious to both countries. At the great crisis of the world, which was nearer | than some supposed, he wished the people to be anited, To accept this motion would produce dis- integration in Engiand and might result in the day of the murder, so that it would have been im- possible jor him to commit the crime. They would also explain where he obtained the money found 1n his possession; that it did hot come irom the Sturtevant nouse ; that the currency of the descrip- tion 18 now in circulation, and the impossibility of the 10otsteps being made by the prisoner, Evidence was introduced to corroborate this line of detence, alter which the prisoner's counsel stated they were contented to rest the case with- destruction of the Empire. Messrs. McCarthy, Mitchell, the O’Connor Don ‘and others spoke in support of the motion. Ata late hour the House divided, and Dr. Butt’s | tesolve was rejected by a vote of 61 yeas to 458 out the appearance of the prisoner's wile, who was too ill to be present. The Court adjourned till | Friday, when the closing arguments will be ma:te. THE WEATHER IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY. aya, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-iour hours, A New Metropolitan Thoroughfere [jy cowparison with the corresponding day of last Opened. eat, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Lonpon, July 2, 1874. | Poarmacy, HERALD Building:— Letcester aquare was to-day formally opened to | .. a oat min ae tthe public. Great crowds were present. Business | § 4° M ah a I. 76 in the neighborhood of the square was entircly ce in - 80 if 4 ry ie 3 suspended, and houses were decorated with fags | 12M....... 8 2 P.M. 2 “ Average temperature yesterday. eee TAH | sand In the evening tiluminaced. ‘Averane temperature for corresponding Riel last year.. seve 81% FRANCE, THERMOMETRIOAL RECORDS, New York, July 2, 1874. To Tne EpiTor or THE HERALD:— Will you please publish the following explana- | tion concerning the thermometer trom which is aAn Editorial Corps Acquittsd of a Grave Charge. Paris, July 2, 1874, daily published the record of changes in the tem- M. Paul de Cassagnac and his co-editors of | perature. This instrument is not affected by the | Je Pays have been acquitted of the charge of in- direct rays of the sun at any period oi the da; It | iting citizens 10 muiual natred. is placed in the centre of a box or shield, and so arranged as to allow a free current of air to pass around tt, The bulb hangs entirely free from the | infvence of any metailic substance, aud 18 sur- | rounded by latrice work, Wiich enabies the air to circulate ireely around it, and also prevents it from being affected by reflected heat from the sidewalk or bulding. It is obvious that the gene- | ral public icc 20 interest in the temperature of any secluded vault or cellar, They desire to know the exact shade temperature of tue surrounuing atmosphere in which they a be sojourning. ‘Tat is the exact record which this thermometer gives, HUDNUT, Herald Buuding. MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, Miss Clara Louise Keliogg has apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. ‘Lhe Boston Theatre will open its summer season on Monday, with “Aladdin.” The Schumann Combination Company have met with great success at Boston. Little Bijou Heron achieved great success at Chicago, The public were astonished by the fin- ished and sympathetic acting of one so young. Mrs. F. S. Chantrau, one of the most highly esteemed of our American artists, will open the season at McCullough’s California Theatre, on Sep- tember next, Frank 8, Chanfrau, who ranks among the most popular and wealthy of American actors, com- mences is next starring season at the Boston Theatre in September. GERMANY AND SPAIN. BERLIN, July 2, 1874. It is stated that a German squadron wiil be im- «mediately despatched to Spanish ports, CUBA. HAVANA, July 2, 1874, Funeral honors were pald to General Manuel | oncha to-day by fring ti/teen minute guns from the flagship of the Spanish feet in the harbor and from the forts, tolling the church bes and flags fying at half-mast on all public edifices and foreign consulates, To-morrow the reHgious ceremonies will be held in the Cathedral, at which Captain and General Concha will assist. After the religious services | the entire military force in Havana will march | past the Cathedral, and later a reception will be | ineid at the Palace. Havana Exchange. Havana, July 2, 1874. Exchange frm; on United States, sixty days’ | currency, 146 4 148 per cent premium; do. snort | weight currency, 150 a 162 premium; do. sixty days’ | $0 id, 171 @ 173 premium; do. snort sight gold, 177 a | 79 premium. On London, 208 a 210 premium. On 176 & 177 premium, Spanish gold, 283 u 284, OPPOSITION TO RECIPROCITY. {Resolution of the Philadelphia Book Trade Association. PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, July 2, 1874. Ata mecting of the Book Trade Association, held “WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT.” Ata quarter past eight o’clock last evening an | altercation occurred between James Harris, James Norris, Theodore Brown and Edward Froher at No, 162 Elizabeth street, about the diviston of the spoils of a recent predatory raid made by the party upon some store or warehouse. Harris ae \nere to-day, the following resolution was adopted :—~ | Resolved, That persons connected with American in- dustry are earnestly requested to waich careiully the proposed Reciprocity Treacy with the Dominion of Can- | ada, so that it may not receive the sancuon ot the senate Of the United states. and to Urue upon their senavors, ‘when the questio jeution shall come before them; to defeat a measure so fraught witu evils w the country, THE ABKANSAS ELEOTION. Litr.z Rock, July 2, 1874, Pulaski and Jefferson counties elect the Brooks | ticket. Jefferson is the only county heard from which has given any considerable majority agaist the constitution. Retarns from twenty-five coun- ties give a majority of about 24,000 for it, THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN SEIZURE. The Perpetrators Indicted for Highway | Robbery. NeW ORLEANS, July 2, 1874, ‘The Grand Jury to-day found true bills against | Goulitan, a citizen, and Lynch and Bechtel, polices men, tor Ldap Badger, Chie!, and Flannagan, Captain of Police, a8 accessories bejore the wct, in the matter ol the fecent Midnighy seizure af the Bulletin iorms, robbery, and against A, S, | manded $40 as his share, and not getting it a fight ensued, the result of which was that Harris got mashed across the head with a large glass lamp and shot in the head with @ pistol fired by Froher. ‘The pistol wound does not amount to much, but the e done by the lamp ts of @ more serious nature. Harris had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital and Froher was locked up in a cell at the Fourteenth precinct station house, THE wept ate REGIMENT, NATIONAL @ Communications have been received from Major Laing apd Adjutant Hughes, of the Seventy-ninth regiment, National Guard, The former genuleman states that he had no knowledge whatever of tne | existence of a double set of firing ticketa, and the latter explains how tt came to pass that when the sia were about to fire he could not find the cards and handed Quartermaster Sergeant Giiuly (who had Kept the score) new ones upon which vo record the totals at 500 yards, and that these must have got mixed With the others received from the | companies | | Major Laing also explains that there are two ) | Sergeants Molloy (Who are brotheys) in D com- Pany oi the Seyenty-uiath, | they are very near the sun, and THE COMET BEFOGGED. Great Disappointment Over the City. A Royal Salute from Heaven’s Artillery. CURIOUS THEORIES ABOUT COMETS. Difference Between a Cow’s Tail and a Comet’s. Scientific Opinions on the | Jometary Question. The limited number of people who happened to see in the unciouded azure of the night before last the Coggia comet, with its brillant nucleus, bear- ing down towards us from its northwestern ele- vation, carrying its tail bebind tt like the Irish- man’s pig, were fortunate in the extreme, Last hight the azure was hidden from view, and so was the comet; but a very singular thing occurred | with a significance that few will tail to appreciate, By some oversight there had been no official an- nouncement of the approach of the comet, and, ag if to make up for this, a celestial Consultation was held, the curtain drawn down and heaven's artillery thundered salvo after salvo and the pyro- technic display was duzzling in the extreme, This was aait should be, Before midnight the curtain went partly up again, but tue great exhibition was postponed till this evening, Old Probabilities being determined to do his best. vespite rain, cloud and thunder thousands prepared to see the comet, and their talk was all cometary and their views were ofthe most elevated character. If the American peopie appreciate anything foreign tt 18 that which exhibits sympathy for the independence of which the Fourth of July is the loud expo- The fact that her erratic majesty now Jooking down upon the Empire City from above the heights of Weehawken has come ail the way from coquetting with bla oid Sol and stern old Jupiter to attend our national festival is a high honor indeed, APPEARANCE OF THE COMET. The appearance of the comet night before last ag seen through an eight foot acbromatic tele- scope is that of a bright opal in a setting of dia- monds, The head o} the comet is a nucleus of In- tnitesimal stars, but the ceniral cluster seems to blend into one star, and the combination bringing together @ variety of tints Makes the resemblance | to an opal. ODD THEORIES ABOUT COMETS, Varlous theories have been offered as to the purpose for which comets were created aud sent flying about through illimitable space. By some it is thought they may be the scavengers of the uni- verse sweeping up the impurities that accumulate from the countless worlds of an jufinite creation, They have been regularly appearing in our solar system as long as astronomy can recoilect, and mayhap if they did not put in an appearance at intervals some dreadiul explosion of electricity might occur that might blow our globe to pieces. vhey come to remind man of bis contemptible hcip- lessness, of the little account ne could possibly be in the struggle with the tall of a comet, and to drive the ruinous and sinful passions of pride, avarice and ambition from bis heart. Again, there are those wno believe that comets may act as a balance wheel in the vast machinery of the uni- verse. No serious thought can be given the notion that comets are rebels who bave declined to sub- mit to established authority and broken loose trom their allegiance. Nor will it do to contend tuat they are sent around the universe to inspect the condition of the regular old stagers, such as we happen to have in our solar s)sicm. Certain itis, they are the mystery of the skies, and when We think we know most we kuow perhaps least about tiem. ASTRONOMY IN A FOG. bir Isaac Newton gave some attention to the subject, and the conclusion be reached was tuat the course of a comet was 4s regular as the course of our own planet. He contended that the orbit | Of the comet was an ellipse, but since bis day tne idea appears to be taking possession of the minds of astronomers that the comet describes an | eccentric parabola so intricate as to baile calcu- lation. aby comets have come aud gone and Dave never been heard of since, though, according to astronomical calculations, they should have turuved up long since and obliged the observatories. Donati’s comet was said to have visired tuis earth | avout 3,000 years before its discovery by Donati, | and that it would come 3,000 \ears kence on au- other visit, When Douati and all of us are dead and buried. it 18 clear that astronomy has uot yet reached that periection of calculation which can furnish the precise travels of a comet. comes [rom the depths Of space, as it has been said, and retarus thereto, tie journey ts not ende She must keep forever on the move to {nifll her evident destiny, and she cannot stop here or there for reireshments, cannot turn down a lane to see @ iriend, but must hold ou to an aliotted track as evenly as a locomotive. A BRUSSELS LACE TAIL, Now, as to the tatl of the present comet, it streams, according to Prolessor Parkhurst, 8,000,000 miles across space like au enormous man- tle of Brusseis lace. It resembles the Milky Way, with more milk in it—that 1s to say, it 18 more condensed, Lt spreads like a tan, and in that re- spect resembles the comet of 1811. DIFFRKENT FROM A COW'S TAIL. People ignorant of astronomy and little given to the study of the heavens, except when they want | to flna out When it is avout to rain, have an iuca that the tail of a comet is like the tail of a cow, whisking around im Warm Weather when comiug Father close t0 the sun, moon and earth, and hang- ing down straight and quickly When passing turough the Milky Way. had anything like the solidity of a cow’s tail and were tO whisk around ever 80 playiully at this moment it would take the top of the North Pole, the Bunker ifill Monument and relieve the God- | Gess of Liberty from duty on the summit of the Capitol at Washington. ANOTHER ERRONEOUS IDEA, that must be corrected, is that comets are a sort of ceiestial mauiacs or fanatical reformers, buck- ing against the established order of the universe and racing around space to Jrignhten conservatism aud earn & cheap notoriety. ‘A CELESTIAL COBBLESTONE PAVEMENT. Professor Chapman says that a comet 1s merely ® collection of small particies of matter, avout the size of meteorites, from an ounce to a pound in weignt. His reason for this statement is that you can see tie stars through the matter radiating from the comet, even close to the nncieus, He even thinks you might see the star through the nucleus only that the light of the nucieus destroys it. It would be curious to observe an enormous cobble stone pavement a | million miles long hung up in the sky ever so high and science leveling the spectroscope on tne singular phenomenon. The tall of tne comet, according to the Professor, 1s little more than this, and pernaps he is right, for is there not ‘a path- way of light through the sky? as the poets ex- press it. NOT THE BOSS METEOR. ‘This will hardly prove as beautiful or as large a comet as many that have preceded it, The one of 1811 was esteemed by astronomers as a most mag- nidcent comet. [ts nucleus was 400 and its tead 112,000 miles in diameter. Its tall was a beautiful Jan shape, extending 112,000,000 miles, it is right to say that among the Dumerous comets observed up to the present time, eituer with the naked eye or by means of telescopes, the majority are dis- tinguished by @ nebulositv surrounaing the nocieus, and a great number, especially of the most briliant ones, possess @ luminous train or THE DIVERSITY OF ASPECT will perliaps some day enable astronomers to class comets {nto genera, species and varieties, and Will doubtiess facilitate the periection ot the theory of the phenomena which these bodies pre- sent, and which 18 still so obscure, According to Professor Spoor, of Rochester, comets are controlled by the same speciiic law Whici governs planets of the solar system, sanas of millions of mies away irom the sun they move very siow in the arc of an ellipse almost immeasurabdie, The sun be- ing positive and they deeply negative, it begins to exert @ controlling influence over them as that at- traction increases continually in proportion as the squares of the distance decrease they move swilter and swilter untiias they approach the sun tney sometimes dy More than $00,000 miles per nour, AT THEIR PERTHELION tail. become highiy positive, anu hence are propelled back again into fleids of space with the samme lightning speed they were attracted towards the great fountain of all motion. The reason comets pass out of sight so rapidly alter passing their perihelion is because , they move around the sun in orbits much more | elongated than that of the earth, and when they cross the plane of the orbit of the earth on their hight to regions of space they are then moving tn one direction and the earth in an- otuer, and Aa buG earth VER AL the Tale 9 Those of a religious turn will have it that | It acomet | IC the tail of this comet | When tu their orbits thon. | Y, JULY 3, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. “ spacial ecient ON von aa eRe SSS | 68,000 miles an hour and the comets at the rate of 1,000,000 miles ub four, they seem to move much jasier, as they soon disappear, while their motion is siower and siower til they arrive at their aphelion point. THE USE OF THE SPECTROSCOPE. Professor Chapian believes that there was an | attempt to use tie spectroscope upon Donati’s comet, and the lines were beiteved to indicate car. | bon, But the use of the instrument was uot very Well understuod in those days. However, with the experience we have since gained not only in regard to the magnificent development of the iu- strument itseli, but also in regard to the lines of | | the various chemical e.ements, we are man tm- mensely better position tor observations—that is, | 4 the comet shines by a light of its own. It it merely reflects the light of tie sun we aiall get @ Continuous spectrum without lines at all. THE MILLERITE EXCITEMENT. In 4 recent interview Projessor Parkhurst said, in reference to the comet of 1844, that in thet year ‘the Millerites were in @ state of great excitement, as one Of their prophets liad predicted that the end of the world Was at hand, ana the appearance Of the great comet in that year seemed to justily | all that they had said, and a great many gooa and sensible peopie who Were nol Millerites began to | be seriousiy alarmed. The comet of 1845 Was & most brillant one and was perfectly visible in the ; daytime. You had onty to hoid up your hand to sileid Off the sun and the comet could pe plainly seen, Some of ty friends who teit a lithe uncasy about these matters came tome, Knowing that | was a bit of an astronomer, to ask me | whether Lthouznht the comet was ly gong to atiik the earth and destroy it, Twas then serv- ing my apprenticesuip to a jewelicr in Portland, Me, I wens out of doors nnd mace an onservation of the motion of the comet, Ldid not ooserve tt more than fiiteen minutes and { had no imscrus | ments, but what I saw convinced me that the | comet would not Come near the earth, So | told | my iniends that they need feei no more anxiety on | that accounr, Jor whatever else might destroy the | earth it certainly would not be the comet, | THE SCENE TO-NIGH To-nignt the rush to the housetops, if the weather rove fine, will be tremendous, aud tue Central Park will of course be crowded. | ma | CHARACTER OF THE COMET. | | | | | Views of Professors Eastman, of the Na- tional Observatory, and Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution—A auneless Gaseous Ball Without Influence Upon the Earth or Its Atmosphore. WASHINGTON, July 2, 18° In a visit to the National Observatory this morn- | ing in reierencs to the comet, your correspond. ent, aiter introducing himseli to Admiral Davis, was turned over to Professor Eastman with the remark that— | “Tae Professor will cheerfully give you all the information on the subject in his possession."” He did 80, first, in the toliowing siatement:— | “This is Known as Coggia’s comet Of 1874. it was discovered at Marseilles by M. Cozgia on the 1ith of April last. At that time the nacicus was rather | faint, but there wore evidences of an appendaser | which has since developed into a well marked tan. ‘The nucleus has steadily increased in brightness | and now presents the appearance of a patch of PURE WHITE LIGHT of about the size of astar of the second magni- | tude, Tais is surroanded with a nebulous haze of about twenty-five seconds of an arc, which disap- | pears wheu the fleld of tue telescope is illumi- nated. Outside of this is what is known as the tail, rection trom the sun, «The comet will reach that point (its perihelion), | in tts path nearest the sun, about the 8th of Juiy, | but will be nearest the earth and brightest about | the 20th of July. Its least distance from the earth will be about that of Venus.”” SUPERSTITIOUS ALARMS, The reports about the disasters which will occur | should the comet’s tail come in contact with the earth are purely sensational, since it is well kuown that stars as smali as the ninth magnitude have ' been distinctly observed through the densest por- | tion of the nucieus of comets, No influence what- ever on the weather, the climate or the Health of the inhabitants of our planet (rom comets has ever ) peen determined. RELATION OF COMETS TO THK SUN. Next in the course of the conversation Were the following questions and auswers :— “Gan you give the distance ol this comet from which he is travelling reduced to miles ?”* ot exactly. We have not yet undertaken the calculations required to determine the: points, | and you know that 1 the progress of comets tow- ‘ards the sun their speed isso rapidly it aged | and to such an astonishing velocity in turning the | sun that in determining their movements trom day | to day nightly calculations are necessary, We take our observations now and make our calculations | more ¢eliberately.”” A MARMLESS TALL. possibly brush the earth or our moon and cause thereby important atmospheric changes?” “On, no! | can induige in such absurdities. | that this comet, for instance, in iis nearest ap | proach to the earth, will have as much eflect upon its atmosphere, tn any quarter, as @ cyclone or | thunder shower on our Atlantic coast has upoa the atmosphere over San Francisco.” | | 4 “How much longer to us wiil this comet be visi- | ble? | “To the Atlantic States it will begin to be pretty | well down to the horizon at twilight about the 120h of this month. On the Pacitic Siope, particularly down towards Mazatlan. 1t will ve visible for some | days longer, and a month hence they will provabiy | be able to see it in Australia, But a month hence | this comet will have swept over muilions of miles | 1n its reuurement or repuiston trom the sun.’? THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN, “But how is it that tese comets are drawn to | the sun from such inconceivable distances outside | our solar system, and then, When rushing as if to | plunge into nis flery iurnace, how is it that they are swept round him, and often so near that the | ) heat in which they are enveloped would be suill- | cient to reduce our giobe to gas, and how is it that, emerging from this tremendous leat unharmed, | these comets are repelled {rom the sun into the | vacuum beyond our soiar system to return again | | in their ctreutts of five, ten, fliteen, fiity or a hun- dred years?” | | 1 do not believe “{ must reter you to Professor Proctor’s lectures | forthe answer which I would give you to these questions, But how such au attenuated gaseous body a8 @ comet can pass ‘within the heat of tie | | gun, as you suggest, without being consumed, Is & most interesting problem still unsettled.” | ATTENUATION OF TIE GAS. | “And are conlets never anything but attenuated | gas | Never anything more, so far as they have been careiully observed. Through the nucieus of the cotuet Of 1861 [saw stars Of The ninth magnitude, and the nucleus of this appears quite as trans- parent. Inaeed, this ts but a 1ourta class comet, at best, and its ‘nucleus is so attenuated that, if | | reduced toa ballor solid matter, you could prob- | ably uold it in the palm of your hand.” | PROVESSOR HENRY’S VIEWS. Professor Josep) Henry, Secretary of the Smit! | gonian Instivution, says he has not yet made obser- vations of the Goggia comet, and does not be leve it will be visible long enough to astronomers, in | this country ar least, to make any extended ovser- | | vations. Its rapid movement toward the earth, | | ne says, can be compared to the approach o1 an | engine wit @ head light. But nothing can be seen of whe train. \ USE OF THE SPECTROSCOPE. | That whieh is likely to be most valuable to the | | selentifie world is the use of the spectroscope, to ascertain the composition of the cometary neoule. This instrument, of recent invention, | has cover been tested upon a comet, and it is ex- | | pected that there will now be given to scientists | au opportunity of applying it to this luminous | stranger—the Oogyia comet, | THE STORM PREVENTS OBSERVATIONS. From the Observatory there are to-night indications all around the sky of neighboring thunder storms, and the heavens are gloomily overs | | cast. All astronomical observations are rendered Mnpossible, as the Comet cannot be seen through | the dense clouds. The party of scientists and | journalists left the ovservatory at hall-past nine | o'clock. | What the Yale Protessors Say Concern- ing the Comet. New Haven, July 2, 1874. | Considering the great interest felt at the present | time in everything pertaining to the comet your correspondent called yesterday on Professor New- ton and Professor Lyman, of Yale College, to get their views as scientists, Tue comet has been the subject of much speculation for several weeks past among the college projessora, and the pro- fessors above named give their views in saccinct | form in the following statements :— PROFESSOR NEWTON'S VIEWS. This comet, so far as he can yndge, is going to travel directly south, away irom the North star. It will grow in brightness for some ten days. Alter ' . | The sky ts clondy to-night and observatio: that the nucieus will get sa aear the sun as prob. | taken only through the rifts of vapor. ably to be It will pass invisible in the strong twilight. | almost directly between us ‘and the sun, about the wth or 20th of | uuly. At that time the tail, if long enough, | may stretch out across our teavens, though tf | short of too diffuse it may not be at all visible. Ie | | is larly Within the possibilities that the earth wht surike through the tail, but the result would be to- | tally Mappreciavle either in whe sight or im any etiect on Our weather. Alter passing the sun the comet can be seen by persous ouly tu the Southern Hemisphere, it will be nearest to us about the 2ist of July, being then 26,000,000 of miles from us, | This motion and these distances are obtained from | computations made by Dr. Tietjen, of Berlin | possible that the observations which Dr. Tiewen A.Waa able lo yao Were Bok sAMalqpt (9 eiyo aM | Cogga’s comet has been Jor a month past com- | Comer, as to the extent of th which stretches away from the nucieus in the di- | exact orbit. The comet was then coming almost | directly toward us, and very slight errors | im the observations which he used would | make large dillerences in the computed path of the | Comet When it turns from comme toward us to go | round the sun. ‘The comet ius’ might (Wednesday) | Was more brilliant than herevolore, because of the | absence of moonlight. It has a bright, siar-ike | nucleus, looking like a star through a speck of log. | | Tue comet's nead extenus two minutes toward the Sun, the tail ang head sharing into exch otber in- | sensibly. Fora week at least the comet will be | growing in brilliancy ii we have clear weatuer. PROFESSOR LYMAN’S STATEMEN™. ing. For two weeks past it has been visible to the naked eye. Now it has so jvcreased in brilliancy Uiat 16 1s visiple th moonlight. Ut is goiug for ten or fifteen days to increase in vriilancy. Its apparent ath now is toward the sun—vhat is, it strikes in etween usand thesup. The probability is tuat the tail will be quite @ conspicuous object. Much de- pends, however, on the amount of mutter in we tat, The buclvus of the comet will, probably, be so near the sun (I cannot speak exactly without looking at refer- ences), that the Jead will be invisible—that is, that it will disaypear below the northwestern Lortzon— 45 It is going so near the sua, Toe pearest tt will approacu the earth wiil leave it about the same distance from us as Yenns, Wuen at imerior ¢ juneta no. After tt hemisphere it wilt be ispaere, its motion from the Pole star, Appears irom (we Lorciern sible in tie soutuern hen- sing nearly directly south As to vhe tal reaching us, Lh is More than probable tual W Ali not perceive the visiior, although, of course, no one can at tue present time say whecier the sweep Of the tat shall touca the earth or not. Even it | the tail did touch the earth, the touch would likely be so diliuse as to be scarcely perceptibie, | The shooting stars are associated with comets, | aid are probabiy the débpris of comets, a8 was ¢ peeilly meteoric shower of Nove showers were simply portions of Bela’s comet. | Professor Wrignt, 0: our college, has started an idea that the metcors are flaked of from the coluet by the Sub, pretty much as li a .ump of coal Were thrown into the {irnace and pi ces suapped | ot, The study o: this comet will be hkely to | | throw @ good deal of lirht upon the theory of the | constitution of comets, just as Donati’s comet m } 1858 did much toward ‘atiractiug tue attention of { the world to the subject then and indeed since, illustrated with Lela’s comet and the | se ber 27, 1872. Cometary Curiesity in Philadelphia— | The Excitement on Wednesday Night and the Disappointment Last Night, PHILADELPHIA, July 2, 1874. 1t 18 not possible to know how many thousands to-night imagined they saw tue comet who did not behold it; but there were $0 many looking for it that it is not to be wondered at that, as & modest comet, it remained vetied behind the dark ciouds | vhat flliea the sky and relused to meet tae inquist- | tive gaze of so great a muititude, Last night it was amusing to witness the motley throng assembled ut every street coruer earnestly and patientiy scanning the heavens. It was only necessary for a pedestrian to pause, point his finger towards the sky and exclaim with the proper emphasis, “There she is! in order to gather about nim crowds representing every sphere and condition of life, who, upon their part, | would anxiously question, | | “WHERE I3 SIE?” Before nine. o'clock tuts simple act became a Joke, and every wag who happened to be out was | Coustantly gathering crowds upon the street cor- | ners, to Which, a8 soon as tueir curiosity was | aroused, he would say something about Tom Col- | ) lus aud desert tuem quite speedily. | ANOLHUERK “SELL,"” Some fellow, taxing a long, empty black bottle, | gravely stepped out of w beer sulvou, aud, pro- ceeding to the centre of the street, began to in- tentiy look ut the stars. Lvery uoW and then he would pull the bottle irom his ‘eye, rub its bottom \ carefully with lis haudkerehiet and then continue | | mis search. Pedestrians hurrying along, suppos- | ing the bottle im the dim indunlignt to be a spy- | glass, would stop and eagerly watch him. be Kept the bortle partially coucealed by constantly lowering and apparently adjusung it until tue | street usar Lim became really full of people. deuly, aiter this crowd bad became quite large, te dasheu the whiskey bottle upun the stones, stuashe ing it into a thousand pieces, exclaimin, “Coniound sucd a telescope as tuat, anyhow.’? Of course, the peopie saw tat they were sold, | laughed heartily and went away, no doubt, to | play the same trick in some other porwon oi the | city. Near the Continental, the St. Cloud, the Girard, the Bingham aud other of tue principal hotels, | numerous parties were seen scanning the heavens | with opera glasses, while a housctop here and there was graced by many a young couple, all de- the earth at the present thme and Lhe speed at | termined to find une comet ahd all finally sausied | | that tueir search had not been rewarded, | SMALL HUMANITY, | by which 1s meant those littie chaps who never seem to be at home, but who, day and vighi, are to | be found upon the street, ready to do you 4 tavor | or ask you a question, take no jess interest in tue bud | 5 United States astronomers in their observa. po of the transit of Venus in China, Japan au@ Siberia, They go direct by rail to San Francisco, where the material wi!l be placed on bvard of one of tue Pacific Matl steamers. ‘Thia ia the last Of the observing parties which wili be sent out by this goverament. Projessor liall, of the United States Naval Observatory, wio will have charge of the Siberia station: Professor Watson, of Ann Arbor Observatory, wo will go to China, and the prolessor Who goes Lo Japan will sturt with their attaches for their posts some time next week, Tie Engiish party, divided into three expedi- tions, carry over 700 tons of bargage 45 against ‘200 tons for ail the American parties. TERRIGLE TRAGEDY IN BOSTON. sa ecielaibienlinid Mysterious Murder of a Young New Yorke Woman in a Lodging House—The Crime Committed Witle the Victim Slept. Boston, July 2, 1874. One of tho-e shocking tragedies which causes a& involuntary snudder of horror and indignation throughout the community has just been com- mitted in this city. ‘ihe victim was a young woman named Mary Tyman, sometimes known as Eten shannon, and the deed was committed in her sleeping rooim at the lodging house No 34 Oxiord street, near the corner oj Beach, CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MULDER. Tue lust that is known of aay oue seeing Mis¢ Tyman was at avout seven o’ciock, or haif-past, on Tuesday evening, When she culled tor some- thing with whtch to break some ice, A young voy, sou Of Mrs. Dunnels, with whom she lodgea, care | Tied her a sheath knife, and she expressed here seif as satistied and he ieft her. He says that ie encountered a woman whom he did not recognize as he entered the room, who went out at tne trons door, Miss Tyman must have goue to No. t Hud son street directiy from here, as Mrs. Thorrion, who lives there, thinks she was there at hal-past seven o'clock li the evening. She returned to her room about half past nine o’clock, never to leave is by her own erfort. ‘The discov of the dying woman was made by a young man named Colby, He cal.ed ut te house al ubout two o'clock yesterday afternoon, aud om | Knocking at bliss ‘Tyman’s door received ne answer. Finding that he could uot euter the Tooin Or gel ab answer he asked Mrs. Dunnels tor a key, aud learning that sie had none ne told her the door was locked and he could not get in, and | the two then went to the door, and, locking through the Kerhole, saw a key in the lock inside. | Alter some delay ol entrance was ellected ana be- } fore vhem Jay the scarred and bloodstained view | tum, unconscious, ‘Tne pillows, sheets and mat~ 1 were thoroughly saturated with blooa, and the victim, hali naked, her tace, neck and a:ing | stamed red, her clotted hair sweepiug avout ber | pallid tempies, ali formed a scene to drive the ine | vaders from the apartment, ‘The wouuds were all upon the left side of the head, and at least three of them necessarily ftal. ‘There were provably nine blows struck, five ot Which caused punctures of the skuil, The most prominent wound 18 just avove the ear, & ite jorward, the skuli being literaily broken im. Tha’ tue wouian L.ved to be discovered was a surprise to the Coroner. One wound is as far forward as | the temple. and from this they extend to the back | the Lead, very near to the centre, Alter teine porary assistance was rendered the unconscious woman she was sent to the City Hospital by order 01 the Coroner. itis provable that the murderer periormed the bloowy Work at avout mlamght or a little betor wich tme corresponds with the state Miss Fietche! nere 1s no doubt that the woman was lu bed at the ume the assassin entered het | room, and that the murder was commitied while she lay there. This conclusion is drawn |rom tue fact that the room Was in order, or as early so a8 | @ room would uaturally be alter the occupant hud reured. Her clotning was placed about tae room | man orderly way, and nowhere Way were tie remotest evidence of haste or contusion. TILE YOUNG WOMAN'S HISTORY, Miss Tyman, the victim of the terrible tragedy, | Was about twenty-two years old, ol mediuu | height, (air complexion, dark brown’ hai, ana wad rather good looking belore the murderer's haod wrougit tts mark Of death. Something jess tham | three’ years ago she leit Ne rk, where, it id | said, she lived with an uncle on twenty-seventh | street, and went rtha’s Vineyard, where she resided until abo years a20, when she came to this city, where she has been mostly engaged as a waiting girlin oue of more eating ‘uouses, and, like many uniortunate girls who strive for them seives ulltil lie becomes a burden, she turned to the pad. Itts said she was married to the young { man Coiby, wid, with Mrs, Dunueis, frst made vue discovery oi tue murder as stated. ATTEMPT AT POISONING, | “You have no idea that the tail of this comet can | lt is surprising that intelligent men | A Horribie Scheme to Obtain $20,000 on @ Life Insurance Policy. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 2, 1874. Some time ago four young men, engaged in bush ness in this city, entered into an arrangement among themseives to get their lives insured for une sum of $20,000 each, each to contribute to the | approaching luminary than older and more cu- tured neads. “Say, Mister,” says one of them, “how many | pungas of miles loug is the comet's tail a-goin’ to | ber’ “Say, Mister, is a comet like a kite, [ | Wonder. n’t fy without a tail? Bh.” Or sull again: “Where did it start from, how | Jong has it been on the road and Where is it going | tor Itis safe to say that there is heeds t'd any one residing in the Quaker City, young or old, wuo has not heard about Coggia’s Comet, and itis equally safe to say that to-uignt all who had heard ot 16 were upob street corners, balconies and house- tops to catch a glimpse ot its size and orightness, bur, less fortunate tuan last night, they were sadly disappotnted, Cometary Partiality. [Philadelptua Evening Bulletin.) In an article upon the comet the New Yore HERA begins a paragraph with a conjecture as to the “effect of the close approach of the comet to New York.” The prevailing impression in that York; that it is visivie to nobody but the people of New York, and that {fit touches the earth, Man- hattan island will be the only point of contiguity. ‘There may be a iew persons over there with iceble faith and no fixed principles who are haunted with the idea that the solar sysiem displays its beauty ana reveals its light to the uniortuuate human beings who grope avout it in the barbarism which exists outside 01 that city; but the prevail- ing impression seems to be that it New York shoulu sndaenly be consumed by the fiery tail ot a comet or be swallowed up during @ convulsion of the earth, the sun and tie lustrous moon and all the orbs which shine in the celestial vault would have no furtuer reason to be and to roll on and siutne, and, consequently, that they would be Withdrawn. A thing that is pertectly asinine may yet be sublime; and there is an indisputable su- bumity in the conceit which induces these people to brag so continually and absurdly avout vhem- seives and their city. Visible for Ten Minutes at Albany. ALBANY, N. Y., July 2, 1874. Up to ten o'clock to-night no observations could be taken from tne observatory here. On account either of the clouds or bright moonlight the comet for more than ten minutes, 1ts tuli, when visibie, was half @ degree long and onesixth of @ degree broad, No change is moved in its ap- pearance. Professor Swift's Observations—The First and Last Appearance of Coggia— The Tail of the Comot Sprouting and Sub-Dividing. Rocusstsr, N. Y., July 2, 1874. Professor Swift, Who was \he first in this coun- try to discover the comet known as Coggia’s, differs widely with other astronomers who have published articles on the subject. He says there 18 no probability of the tail of the comet enveloping the earth or moon, The elements of this comet do not resembie those of any comet that has appeared during the last 2,000 years. Its orbit is no doubt parabolic and it 1s Visiting us tor the first and last time, In the next two weeks more will be learned of the physical nature of comets by the spectroscope than has been learned in 4,000 years. | _ Indications divisions of the tail. last night and to-night are of sub- The comet 1s large and 80 1s | stellar. Should the tail increase in width as weil as in city seems to be that the erratic body in question | | was constructed for the special beueflt of New has not been seen this week, except on Tuesday, | What Is Expected of the Spectroscope— | the bucious, Wita & disc more planetary than | payment of tve premiums of the four, @ direct understanding being made that ip case of the | death of either the sum of $20,000 was to be | diviaed equally among the three remaining. The insurances on this basis were effected and pay- ments regularly made, aud the jourrested in saus- faction as to the prospects. Meantiine, as te alleged, two of the party suffered trom embarrass ment in business, and were in tribulation as to what method should be pursued to raise themselves te @ point of self-sustenunce again, A week since @ boy, supposed to be of German parentage, hastily entered a store on Main street, wich a box of tine strawberries in his hand, and inquired jor a man who was employed taere, saying Wat a person Lad met lim ov the street and requested Mim to carry the berries to him. He was paid for the errand, but could not say Who the person was that had sent the fiesta bo The man thought the circum stance a little strange, but accepted the berries | and took them home. On his arrival he told the | story of his obtaining them of some kind iricud | unknown to him, and his mother and fatnlly tasted | of one or two of the berries, The FLAVOR BRING DISAGRERABLE, they ejected them from their mouths. A closer in- spection of the berries showed that they were rinkled with @ strange subsiance, which Was jound to be phosphorus. Some of the particies were large as peas, A chemist was immediately | applied to, who, alter trying one or two expert | ments in analyzing the substance, said there was | enough in the strawberry basket to kill a dozen Men U tt had been swallowed. No special effort to | find the author of this attempt at a terrible crime | Was made till Saturday morning Last, when the aid of Chiet o: Police Marsh was called in, It was soon ascertained that a former business partner ot tu man referred to had a day or two previously in- quired at one of our drug stores for pnospiorus, Dut as they happened to be out of the article ob- it at another piace SN a ENO CONNROTING LONE So eeu en the purchasing of the phosphorus an: | Fecelpe of ind strawberries by the intended vic- tum has yet been discovered, nor has the boy who brought tuem to him been found, speckled Babies are no longer to be found in the nursery, their deadly enemies, he bedbugs and fleas, having ‘received their e from “KNOWL&S’ AMBRICAN IN-ECT Dis- SIRGYRK KNOWLES PATENT POWDER GUN 2 cents. 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