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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
The Anti-lIormon Meeting mt Salt
Lake.


A bold and practical step has been taken
by the Gentiles at Salt Lake City to crush,
by legislative blow, the monster of
Mormonism in Utah Territory. Assembled
in public meeting the law respecting citi-
zens have passed resolutions in support of
an amendment of the act of organization Of
Utah, which, if adopted and passed by Con-
gress, will effectually destroy the most hid
eous institution that ever disgraced civil
lied country. 1t is proposed that any per-
sons practising polygamy or bigamy shall
be entirely DISTINGUISHED and cut off from
they shall not be eligible to vote or hold any
office OF trust or emoument under the
law, and shall be practically branded as
criminals by their fellow men. The unan-
imous vote by which these resolutions were
passed by the meeting shows how deeply
interested are the friends of law, order and
decency in uprooting Mormonism. The
fact that the attack has been made in the
very stronghold of Brigham Young gives
additional significance to the movement
and proves the sincerity of those making it.
The anti-Mormon residents of Utah know
that institution in all its revolving aspects.
They measure its influence for evil by the
unerring standard Of experience. They
recognize in it only rule of treachery,
blood and lust, unworthy of even the least
civilized races much less of men who claim
standing among the American people. We
81 vi IF pa
meeting at Salt Lake City as other than just
and legitimate in its aims and objects.
While tho world is thrilled with horror ut
the barbarism of the Turks, and an outcry
is raised for their expulsion from the assem-
blage OF civilized men, we cannot join our
voices in the demand SO long MS other na-
tions can point to Utah and the Mormons as
they do to Bulgaria and the bashi-bazouks
who revel in villages filed with the slaugh-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
The New York soldiers Home.

Twelve years have passed since the war
ended, yet New York has not provided home
for her infrm and disabled soldiers. Yet
nearly half million of men enlisted in the
army from this State, numbers of whom
returned as wrecks, having given to their
country almost everything but life. Five
hundred veteran soldiers now lie in our
county almshouses like paupers, obtaining
from public charity that subsistence which
they are entitled by their services to claim
as a right. Fifteen hundred others are scat
tered among the four national homes; but
not to single soldier has this great Com
monwealth paid its debt of.gratitude and
honor.
This discredit to New York should be
removed, and steps have been taken by q
number Of prominent citizens to build a
soldiers home during the present year. A
farm has been purchased at Bath, in Steuben
county, at cost of twenty thousand dollars,
and building large enough to accommo-
date about four hundred and fifty men will
be erected. To complete this work eighty
thousand dollars are needed, and there
should be no trouble in raising that
sum ut once, on any plan that may
be selected. A public meeting is to be held
at the Academy of Music on Tuesday even
ing. at which the Hon. Noah Davis will
preside, and addresses will be made by Gov
ernor Dix, the Hon. John r. Brady and
other gentlemen. The gathering will be q
brilliant one, as all of the professions will
be represented, and many OF the veterans of
the war will appear in full uniform. All
who are proud Of the record of New York
should not fail to give this meeting their
support and make the enterprise success.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

THE WEATHER.-The storm on the Carolina
coast has proved Of the most severe cx-
pcrienccd there for many years. The damage at
Charleston has been very great, partly due to
the violent gale that prevailed and partly TO the
inundation of the city and suburbs by the high
tides Fortunately no loss of life has taken
place on the land but fears are entertained chat
much destruction Of life and property may have
occurred ut sea. The storm centre has passed
into the Atlantic, southwark Of Cape Hatteras
and will probably move northcastwarrl along the
Gulf Stream toward Newfoundland, where it will
prove dangerous to ocean steamers and other
vessels. Timely notice, however, will prevent
disasters, ms the movement of the storm will be
somewhat slow. In the Northwest the depression
already announced in the HERALD presents n
decided baromctrc fall, with high marginal
winds and light rains. Tho highest pressure
stilI continues over the lake region, where
clear weather prevails. The temperature is
higher than on Friday in nearly oil the dis
fr;cts. having risen decidedly in the South
west. The pressure is low on tho Pacific coast
decreasing northward toward Oregon. Another
storm centre may therefore be expected from
that quarter. The Lower Mississippi has con-
timed to risc and is seven inches above the dan
~er line mt Cairo and only two feet below it Mt
vicksburr. The Lower Missouri has fallen. Tho
Savannah has risen twelve and half feet 10
A,,custa and the Red River twelve inches nj
shreveport. The weather in New York to-day
iii be partly cloudy or hazy and warmer.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
whole course Of indiscreet and unwise Dip

whole course OF indlscreet and unwise Dip
Iomacy
Turkey, it is said, counts upon discon-
tents within Russian dominions not upon
her own strength, but upon things likely to
weaken her enemy. Facts OF this nature
commonly thunder in the index" They
are never heard of after the declaration Of
war, for great military nation does not
tride with internal sources of danger.
Neither in the Caucasus nor in Poland, nor
elsewhere outside the Ottoman lines, is
there any help for Turkey, if it is not in
England; while in Persia, that the Turks
are said to count upon, there is, perhaps,
more hope for Russia than for any
one else, since the story of Captain Burnaby
as to Russian alliance is very likely to be
true. People imagine Turkish resources in
q vague way on paper but resources Of that
sort do not fight. Admiral Porter is re-
ported to count the Ottomans as forty
millions Of people. Half Of this number is
to be cut away at once for Egypt and the
other African States that will seize the occa-
sion to help, not the Sultan. but themselves !;
and Of the remaining moiety one-quarter at
least are Christian rayahs. All the imagined
resources Of the Empire will melt away in a
similar proportion.
1t cannot yet be said that England will be
condemned to the humiliating attitude Of
viewing helplessly tho destruction Of the
Power whose existence she has sustained at
such great moral sacrifice out of regard to
the supposed need of her material interests ;
yet it is not perceptible how England can
take part in the war unless it shall be-
come generalized throughout Europe and
that likelihood is not imminent England
has, it is true, intimated that she will fight
to prevent the fall Of Constantinople. But
if Russia moves two hundred thousand men
through Asia Minor to the shores of the
Bosphorus the possibilities of saving Con-
stantinople will have even in England o
very different aspect from what they now
present, while the slightest movement of
England at the present time will develop
the value of Russian fleet on this side the
ocaon
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

Our London and Paris Cable Letters.
The two capitals are so much absorbed in
the tremendous possibilities of the coming
war that. although our budgets of lighter
topics are well packed, they naturally recede
into the background. AS man, however, is
complex animal, and is seldom SO
much occupied with one thought
as to exclude access to others wholly differ
ent for any length of time, our readers,
after satisfying themselves that the Danube
is not on fire and that John Bull
is not goring Russia with Golden Horn,
will turn with pleasure to tho stories Of
operate, dramatic and artistic doings which
our letters furnish. Our statesmen may even
find consolation in the thought that members
Of the British House of Commons sometimes
forget themselves in and about the legisla-
tive halls. Our Irish fellow citizens may
drop tear over their brethren in British
dungeons. Ladies may look forward to
walking on Fifth avenue in dresses of
delightful tints made out Of spun glass
Should the daring statement in this
direction be verified, it is to be
hoped that our bellies, whose forms
are SO perfect, will not endanger their
proportions by being tempted into blue
glass bodices 10 our blue stockings,
however, this does not refer. Miss
Susan B. Anthony, for instance, might
fairly surprise her more adipose sisters if
she was to go about in the sunlight for a
week or two in blue glass petticoat.
Poor Gounod The Partisan critics have
pursued him with more scorching fires than
Anna Dickinson had to complain Of. He has,
itseems, captured his melodies from Mozart,
Mehul and others less known to fame. He
will be lucky if icing Mars" is let out
of Paris with enough musical habiliments
of his own to save him from arrest by the
police American beef, it seems, does not
go to England in quantities sufficient to
affect the price of meat in that country
to any great extent--a state of things which
our cattle people should at once remedy.
With other matters, too numerous to detail,
we commit the letters to our readers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
What Are You Going To DO Abou
1t!

If we are to believe the stories that are
told us by our public officials we are living
under one of the worst municipal sys-
TENS that ever could be devised for the mis-
government of city. Nobody is to blame
for anything that goes wrong, and it is no.
body's business to set anything right. Here
are our streets in most abominable condl-
ton Of filth, although we have department.
supposed to be clothed with power and GER
tainly supplied with money, to keep them
clean. But the Police Commissioners de-
clare that if they gather up the dirt and gar
bage they are not at liberty to get rid OF 1t ;
that their men arc arrested for dumping
here, there and elsewhere, and that their
appropriation is not sufficient for the work
they have to do. The Mayor cannot discover
what relief he can afford the people, al
though there is sort of romance in exist
ence to tho effect that it is his duty to see
all the laws properly enforced and admins
tered. The Comptroller. who is supposed
to be authorized to see that the city's money
is MI properly expended. is found to have
no power to see that the street cleaning
funds are used for the purpose of cleaning
the streets So we live on in disease breed
ing filth, and no one is to blame.
We insist that there must be incapacity
somewhere or this miserable state OF affairs
would not exist. If we had an active, cner-
getic, capable street cleaning department it
would soon invent some way of getting rid
of the garbage. But the Police Commission
ers hesitate and waver over every plan that
is proposed. Cremation affords the readiest,
cheapest and surest road out of the diff
Guilty. Furnaces. properly built and prop
erly located, would last for years and burn
up the foul garbage without creating null
sance or injuring the public health But
the Commissioners shake their heads like so
many old ladies and don't know about this
burning business Scows could be built
self-dumping and propelled by steam to
carry the refuse out to sea, but the Commits
sioners make an estimate of the cost and
start back in alarm. Now. what are they
going to do about it The garbage must be
got rid of, unless we want plague in the
city next summer. The people will abso-
lutely refuse to permit the department to
dump it in Little He'll Gate or anywhere
else where it will carry disease and death
into their families. The ashes and street
dirt can be used for filling anywhere with
profit and advantage, but the garbage posi-
lively must be disposed Of Householders
are compelled to separate the garbage from
the ashes. The authorities should not be
allowed to mix them together again in con-
PREVENTION Of the law. We repeat, Messrs.
Commissioners, you must display some en-.
ergy and brains and give us some safe plan,
by cremation or otherwise, of getting rid o.
the rotting, disease breeding garbage before
the hot weather comes on, or the people
will insist that every one of you be dumped
| into private life.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

Searles shows how every man is building
up character and future life for himself.
DR.. Fulton is terribly afraid that the nation $
trust--the freedmen--will be betrayed by
the Presidents Southern policy, and hence
he will sound the warning note to-day and
demonstrate that manly Christianity is the
only hope of the future. DR.. Talmage is
going into the housekeeping business, and
to-day will address housekeepers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

tered. Away. then. with this bestiai'
blasphemous and bloodstained congrega-
tion which insults God in the midst OF His
rrandest works and the noblest and grand
est feelings of man under the flag of our Re-
public. Let Mormonism be extirpated
from the land by the Samson of the law,
even if it's adherents should be buried be-
meath the ruins of its temples.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was fairly active and prices were as rule
lower. The chief decline was i'll the stocks OF
the Western Union Delaware and Lackawanna
and the Rock Island companies. Gold opened
at 1901, and closed at 1O634, this strength
being caused by the warlike news from Europe.
Government bonds were little higher. Money
OH call loaned at per cent, and closed at pig
per cent on call.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.


ACADEMY or MUsIC-DoS CARLOS
EAGLE THEATRE RowS or TnoRsa
GRAND OPERA HOUSEHOLDS MICHEL
BOwERY THEATRE-suIL GAR
PARK THEATRE--OUR BOARDING HOUSE,
wALLACK'S THEATRE-Mr AWFUL DAD
OLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
UNION SQUARE THEArRE-TuE DAscuxrrs
HELLERs -PRrsrrplcirArIos
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-TmK PRINCESS ROYAL
BOOTHS THEATRE-sPARrAcUs.
STEINwAY HALL-CoscKRT.
EIBLo's GARDEN-THn MAS FROM AMERICA
LEXINGTON Av. OPERA HousE-uscLR Tox's CABIN
BROOKLYN ACADEMY or MusIC-snArcnauS
LyCEUM THEATRE-CAsiILr.
TIvOLI THEATRE-vARiErY
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELs.
EGYPTIAN HALL-vARrEry.
NEW YORK AQUARIuM-QurHn FISHES
PARTISAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
COLUMBIA OPERA HoUsE-yARIKrr.
THEATRE CoMIQUE-vAniErY
GILMoRE's GARDEN-MusKuM CIRCUS.
TONY PASTORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NEW AMERICAN observation-disclosures
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

THE PECULIAR LOGICAL ASPECT of the case of
Rev. Emory j. Haynes, who went from the
Mcthodists over to the Baptists and was reor-
dained by the latter, is ably presented in our
columns to-day. If the methods followed in Mr.
Haynes case arc to become precedents the ques-
ton "Who shall marry us" will become rs puz-
cling as that other timely one, where shall we
insureg,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

In THE CASE or the infamous fellow, Cara
baldi,' sent to the Pententiary some months
ago for keeping one of the vilest of dcns, the
Court of Appeals shows mercy to those who most
need and deserve t-namcly, the people of New
York. The ruflian will continue to reside upon
Blackwell's Island during the full term of his
aentpucc.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

As THE PREPARATIONS for the Tweed dis
closures progress there is a marked improve
mcnt in the demand for guide books and steam
ship tickets,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

DELIGHTFUL though the profits Of the Nicol-
son pavement contracts were there seems not
to have been money enough for everybody con-
cerncd, and the legal proceedings alluded to in
another column promise to explain where some
of the receipts went.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

THE SCANLoN TRAGEDY is still n mystery
and promises to remain so, for the Italians who
were suspected and too quickly discharged have
shaken the dust of New York from their feet.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

FROM OtR ARTICLE OK DISEASE" it appears
that the favorable mortality reports which we
have had Of late are especially due to the kind
ness OF Heaven, and not at all to our expensive
and lcisurely Health Board.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

THE OysrERMEN complain of the dumping Of
garbage near the oyster beds at the upper end
of the East River. But think Of what the oysters
themselves must suffer!
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

TAMMANYs CALL TO HER BRAVES reads a
great deal like a compilation from last falls
transparencies and banners
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

From Our reports Ibis morning The probabilities
are that the weather in Ncr York today riN be
partly cloudy or hay and md,mcr.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE DIME NOVEL has
been unearthed in New York, and his recital Of
experiences will lessen the demand for class of
literature which never finds its way into the
Sunday school library.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

TIE LIQUOR WAR cannot be avoided or post
poned. Both sides have selected ground for
opening dcmonstrations-the temperance men Mt
a church and the liquor dealers at Albany. The
preponderance Of metal is in favor of the latter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15

Nor ALL SPRING SHOOTS ARE GREEN. See
report Of the spring opening at Creedmoor.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
OUINTUPLE SHE I
NEW YORK. SUNDAY. APRIL Is. 1877.
NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper
tram the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections,
leaving Jersey city AT qnarerpas ionr A NJ daily and
the edition OF the HERALD rs lar
West ii arisburg and South Washington. reaching
Philadelphia At quaterpast six A. NJ and ashington AZ
y. NJ.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-08-03

Edison, ~ well as the name Of Edwards,
under which alias Edison declared that
he travelled. The Wilkesbarre telegraph
operator, also, showed the original Of
the telegram sent 10 Edison by ar. q
Hill.' and the receipt Of the one sent
BY Edison In reply, the signature being
IN each case identical with that on the
hotel register. Edison also stated that
Scott and Dunlap, after the robbery,
drove from Now York to Springfield In
a double team, 10 secure the plumber,
and that Corners, hearing Of the vigil
lance ~ the bank officers, went on 10
warn them against attempting its re-
moyal, but that they saw the account Of
the vigilance in Northampton in a
Springfield paper, and returned To New
York before Corners reached them.
The Clerk Of the Rockingham House, an
obscure Springfield hotel, confirms this
BY stating that on the day designated by
Edison, Scott and Dunlap, whom he
afterwards positively identified, came 10
that hostelry in "A double team, but soon
went away again, and that. after their
departure, a man answering TO Conners's
utoCii ptIon cdiitu iOf tucIl. but Ipuuu
that they had lett for New York.
Edson's testimony in regard TO the
keys and combinations Is also strikingly
confirmed by the fact that the burglars
visited no others o: the bank officers
a Y Mr.. Whittlesey, thus showing that
In some way they were aware Of the
fact that he was the sole possessor Of
the secrets Of the bank. so, too, in one
piece of mistaken information which Ed
son gave 10 the burglars. He became
possessed Of the idea that the key 10 the
outside door Of the bank was a large
one, and 20 informed Dunlap and Scott,
who, when Mr.. Whittlesey gave them "A
small key as fitting this door, declared
at once and without trial of it that it
was not the correct one, and by various
tortures tried in vain to make him sur
render a larger one Edison also stated
that the gang engaged in the robbery
consisted Of five persons in all, and re-
NAMED two days in Springfield, facts
which are corroborated by the Paymas-
ter Of the Boston and Albany Railroad,
who met Scott and Dunlap on two con-
secutive days Immediately before the
robbery, and saw them talking with
three other men whom he has never
seen since. Many other bits Of cor
roborative evidence, though slight in
themselves, strongly unite 70 support
EdsOn's strange story.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-08-03

The Consul Of the United States Of
Colombia in the Department Of Loreto
(Peru) has written from Yurimaguas to
President Prado, informing him that in
the woods adjacent TO the City Of Moyo-
banda exists a tree called by the natives
Tamia-caspi Grain tree), which possesses
some remarkable qualities. 1t Is a tree
Of about fifteen meters (about fifty feet)
high, when at maturity, and Of about
one meter in diameter at the base, and
has the property Of absorbing an i'm
mense quantity Of humidity from the at
mosphere, which it concentrates and
subsequently pours forth from its leaves
and branches in a shower, and in such
abundance that in many cases the
ground in its neighborhood is converted
into a perfect bog. 1t possesses this
curious property in its greatest degree
in the summer, precisely when the rivers
are 1t their lowest, and water most
scarce; and the writer proposes that il
should be planted in the more arid
regions Of Peru, for the benefit of agri-
culturists. -Panama Star and Herald.