Astionomers estimate that in eii;lit
years from this date another transit
will take place. After that there will
be a lapse of one hundred and twenty
two years before the next transit. The
objects of tbe civilized governments iu
fitting out expeditious to observe the
transit is to pet an accurate measure
ment of the distance to the sun, and
other distances, such as to fixed stars,
&e., all very important to civilized
people.
TrMPKEscs people have already com
menced to realize that in all probability the
Local Option Law will be repealed by the
incoming Legislature this winter. Repub
licans in that body are under no political
obligation whatever to oppose its repeal.
Whatever iefi.ilatiou has been extended to
the temperance cauj hu been extenled by
Republican legislators. They did not view
the temperance question in a political as
pect; they viewed it as a moral question,
and as such they gave it ail the aid they
could consistent with the spirit of the times.
