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The New York herald., 1879-07-05
A GREAT NEWSPAPER.
From the Jackson (Miss.) Comet. June .

From the Jackson MISSY Comet. June 2s.
We recognize greatness in the HERALD because
that paper not only commands q great income aud
has great run. but it is among the very few Jour
nails OF the United States that afford and dares to
occupy lofty plane Of patriotism and statesman
ship above parties and Independent Of them. It can
and docs. npon suitable occasions. condemn any
party or sustain any party without the loss Of
power. Its influence is immense. because it has the
world an audience and its views are not dwarfed
by the necessity of sustaining or condemning this
or that party. Instead OF being weathercock and
following the popular current. as many unthinking
men aegc It has the moral audacity to plant itself
in the very middle of the most turbulent current
and TO say to the angry element. Peacc be still"
II does not Follow but 1t leads public sentiment II
does not drift but It opens the channel for the
rent to run in. The HERALD is, therefore, q great
paper--grcat in resources Of mind and money great
in scope. great in power.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
The California Democrats.

The final upshot of the stormy State Con-
vention at Sacramento city indicates that
the democratic party of California will main
tain it's separate organization, but makes it
improbable that it will carry the State.
California is more nearly in a condition of
political chaos than any other State in the
Union. 1t is so bedevilled with Kearney-
ism and so split up into factions founded
on wild crotchets that outsiders can take
little interest in its confusing squabbles.
The election of members of Congress in
California is the only thing in the coming
contest which is of any particular concern to
the country at large. California is the only
State which was not represented in the
House at the late extra session. She
chooses her four Congressman in Septem-
Der. and if, as in the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, they should be equally divided be-
tween the two great parties, the result will
make no change in the democratic majority.
But the politics Of the State are in SO dis
tracted a condition that the two democratic
members of the last Congress are likely
enough to be replaced by nationals or men
OF some odd political stripe.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
The Theological Seminary Murder.

Few chronicles of the tragedies of life in
a great city go beyond the story told in the
HERALD to-day Of the murder of Mr.. Sey-
mour in the grounds of the Theological
Seminary on Twenty-frst street and Tenth
avenue. Startled by the murder of Mrs.
Hull in her own bed, people have scarcely
realized all the danger to life which that
drama implied when they are called upon
to consider strange drama of the night
equally fatal but marked evidently by
widely different circumstances of murder
Gus passion. On a summer night an old
gentleman makes the tour of the grounds
that surround the seminary to drive away
the tramps or other persons by whom the
place is apt to be peopled at that time.
Although these grounds are, in fact, in the
centre of densely populated district, they
are obscure and lonely. Lighted streets
are all about them and inhabited houses on
every side; but the dim, silent space, out Of
reach of the policeman on his beat, affords o
tempting place Of refuge for homeless cred-
lures of every sort, who swarm there to rest
or sleep. In that place the old gentleman
WuS hAlcQs UStWCSA eSA oAN OAOVSA az AAehe
apparently, by single pistol shot. BY
whom was it fired? Against all conceivable
possibility the police hold that it was fred
by the old gentleman himself LOCKERS on
believe it may have been an accidental shot
from the hand of some early celebrant of
the Fourth in neighboring window. But
the palmer probability is that he was killed
face to face by some intruder upon
whom he had come in his tour of
inspection. In the mere disturbance of a
tramp's repose there will naturally seem to
be not enough passion for murder, but that
cannot be declared positively, for the tramp
is apt to be irritable and to act with savage
readiness in such circumstances. But
beyond this it is possible that Mr.. Seymour
surprised some interlopers in circumstances
more likely to excite fury than the mere
disturbance Of repose. He was shot within
arms length of the sidewalk on public
street, but the police knew nothing about
it. They will have many clews, however,
in day or two, and one of the theories they
will form will be more diabolical than that
formed in the case Of DR.. Hull.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
How the Day Was Kept.

Five murders in the neighborhood are
reported this morning-two of which at
least grew directly out of the celebration
of Independence Day. Many persons,
though how many is not known, were
spilled into lake from the upper deck of
a careening excursion steamer. In short,
the list of casualties is large, varied and
remarkable. One of the elements OF an old
fashioned celebration of the Fourth
was always list of the killed and
wounded. In former days the City
Hospital always had couple of wards
filled with boys who had blown them
selves up in various ways, losing their
members with liberal mpartiality-some-
times only thumb or an ear, sometimes
respect due to the enforced abstinence
from pistol practice in the streets, though
tho enforcement was not very energetic.
But from the rural districts we hear of the
customary casualty to the men who
rammed an unserviceable cannon once too
often. One OF the features of the celebration
that abounded in promise turned out some.
what unpleasantly. This was the popular
trip to Coney Island. Everybody and his
wife went there with the babies. For eight
or ten hours every possible means Of con-
veyance to the island was crammed to the
utmost. Consequently not less than ten
hours would be required to return this
great mass of humanity to the city. But,
though people We're going down nearly all
day, everybody wanted to come home at
about the same hour. That was impossible,
''and what's impossible can't be, and never,
never comes to pass" 1t did not come
to pass yesterday and there was great trou-
BILE about the return trip. People who
wanted to come home at six were still
struggling for a seat in the cars at eight.
nine and ten, aud the pitiful wailing of the
babies melted the stoutest hearts. All over
the country the spouters spread the un-
plucked eagle of eloquence and Mr.. Hayes
went to Fortress Monroe.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
Edfson's Light.

One of the most notable chapters in a
future history of inventions will be that
which tells the story of Mr.. Edison's labors
in the perfection of his electric light. For
many years now it has boen mooted that
one of the uses of electricity would be to
supply the world with an artificial light but
little inferior for purposes of illumination
to the sunlight itself, and so far superior to
all other artificial lights that they would all
by common consent be abandoned when this
could be made accessible and cheap. But
the inventive spirit of the world slept upon
this hint, and the means Of making the
project practical were not found despite
many devices. Electricity, however, and
electrical machinery, through the demands
OF telegraphic companies. were studied
and manipulated to an extent never
known before, and the consequence
was to produce class of ingenious
men who thought electricity, just rs
other men think stocks, or law, or
medicine or railroads. Mr.. Edison is the
foremost of these, and a man who exhibits
as remarkable capacity to handle this
great imponderable iorce as other men to
handle the more ordinary forces familiar in
arts and industry. Upon him seemed to fall
the obligation of carrying the electric light
to completion, as it must have fallen upon
Michael Angelo in his time to make any
new temple in the Christian world. If the
achievement was within any mans reach in
the present state Of our knowledge it was
within his. In another column will be
found a statement Of the latest known de-
tails of his labor, by which it appears that
he has invented for his purpose q new gen.
orator Of electricity, new measurer, and
that he has discovered the existence in this
country of platinum to such an extent us
may reduce that scarce metal to the price
of silver
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
Western Torn ADDE'S.

Our kilograms from Minnesota and
Dakota recount the dreadful visitation of
those regions by q whirlwinj, or perhaps
two whirlwinds, for it does not seem to be
clear that the storm reported from one dis
trict as occurring on Wednesday night is
the same that ravaged another place on
Thursday. Perhaps there may be some
confusion of dates in the chronicle,
but if the dates are accurate the ap-
pearance of the same storm ut the
places named could scarcely havo been
separated by twonty-four hours. 1t
is notable that these storms--undoubted
tornadoes- though destructive, were far less
destructive than these perturbations gen.
orally are. Apparently this can only be at
tributed to the circumstance that the line
of advance only touched one town, and
that comparatively an inconsiderable place.
In tho absence of populous towns and fine
structures the best tornado in the world is
ut fault as to the havoc IL would make, for
the open prairie county takes little dam
age, and the atmosphere soon RECEIVERS its
equanimity. Doubtless the church and
orphanage destroyed ut vasa are severe
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
The wild Politician.

Another great reform is required In the
celebration of the GLORIOUS Fourth" We
have exploded the pestilent frecracker,
burst up the fifty cent brass pistol in the
hands Of the small boy and got rid of many
kindred denominations that made the ma
tional festival hideous but the hifalutin
politician still cracks and snaps, and fills
the air with unpleasant noises and odors
oil about US. He still infests the Fourth AS
the tick infests the pine woods of Virginia,
the trichina spiralis the meat of unhealthy
hogs, or the festive and eloquent bullfrogs
the muddy regions of every low lying dis
trict. Having crushed so many evils in the
Fourth, can we not also crush him? He is
exceedingly numerous this year. He brays
at Tammany Hall in the ordinary
forms of the mild idiocy which distin-
guishes that array Of Tipperary Indians,
he snorts exhausted rebellion in neigh
boring city OF a patriotic State and
twaddles sophomorical science illimitably
at the mutual admiration Sunday school
turnout which Mr.. Bowen annually gets
together in Connecticut. Some Of tho
things he says may be respectfully enough
said but it is untimely to crowd this sort
of superAuous ginger pop eloquence upon
O holiday. Did not the extra session give
chance for saying all that these fellows
know about State rights and the ''inestima-
BILE boon of a free country?" If all that is
to be gone over again nt miscellaneous fes-
tivities let US by al means have another
extra session and localize the evil.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

rapid travel but it is obsolete in
this age of railways. The seat of
government should be at the great
centre of commerce and exchanges and of
intelligence, culture. social refinement an
civilization; at the place where a vigilant
and powerful press can keep immediate
watch on the proceedings OF the govern
ment and where the rapid interchange of
ideas would enable our legislators to keep
abreast OF the most enlightened thought of
the age.
1t was never consistent with the common
sense OF the nation that the seat of govern
ment should be in a small provincial town.
The government was first organized and set
in operation in the city of New York it
was then transferred for ten years to Phila-
delphia. It's removal to a wilderness
on the Potomac was the consequence
of disgraceful intrigue. When the
scheme OF assuming the State debts
was agitated in the first Congress
the greedy spectators who had bought up
out Of the assumption found that they
could not pass the scheme without the aid
of Southern votes, and they bought the
needed votes by offering to Southern mem
bers the bribe of establishing the perma-
nent seat Of government on the Potomac
and creating new Southern city in ma
larious wilderness.
The only reason of any weight against
revising that absurd and corrupt decision
is the heavy expense which has been in
Cured in the erection Of public buildings
at Washington. we do not dispute the
force Of this objection, but it is less conclu-
sive than it seems on its face. The princi-
pal cost of the public buildings consisted in
quarrying and shaping the stones Of which
they are constructed. The mere putting
them together after they had been hewn and
prepared was minor part of the expense.
They could ali be taken down, transported
by water to New York and replaced in
structures of the same form and dimensions
for trifing part of the original cost.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
THE DOMINION OF CANADA.
ILLNESS OF SIR JOHN A. MACDoNALD--ToUR OF
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND HIS PARTY.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

OTTAWA, Ont July 4, 1879.
For some days past Sir ishn A. Macdonald has
been seriously indisposed. On Wednesday. il
was said that his immediate friends were
alarmed at his state his medical adviser hav-
ing declared him to be suffering from disease
which threatened fatal consequences some years
ago. which occasion he laid up for weeks in
o in the Parliament buildings. I learn
to-day that he is better. but still confined
to his room. He has been seriously i'll. and
is in weak state that it
is thoughts It will be time before he be able
to transact public business. His visit to England.
whittier Lady Macdonald has preceded him. ia OF
course indefinitely postponed. Messrs. Langevin and
Abbott did not embark yesterday at Liverpool.
expected Their passages were taken. but some
thing happened which has not transpired to prevent
their leaving London. As letters were sent to Mr..
Langevin yesterday from public departments here.
II does not look though his brother Ministers
template his speedy return.
TOUR OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL.
His Excellency the Governor General. his father,
the Duke of Argyll, and the ladies Of the party
rived at Gaspe Tuesday evening by the government
Druid They have visited all the principal fish
establishments enjoyed the fishing in Gaspe Bay.
turned to Gaspe Basin last night and will probably
leave for Campbelltown to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS
rushed TO Coney Island yesterday to escape
from the oppressive heat in New York and
brooklyn. At least one-third of these pleasure
seekers were caught in the rain storm and
drcnchcd TO the skin-a result wholly at vari-
ance with their expectations setting out.
Our reports of the scenes witnessed on this now
famous beach are as amusing they are inter-
estng. The unfortunates will no doubt rail
loudly at the lack of accommodation on the
island forgetting in their anger that it is essen
TALLY "A fair weather resort
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

It is announced that Mime. Theo. one Of the threo
leading of the Paris stage. viii retro and
open q confectioners shop in the Avenue de Opera.
The farewell performances OF the Rice Surprise
Party will occur this afternoon and evening. at the
Union square Theatre, 1t being the nfteth night of
their season. The burlcsque of Horrors" will be
tho attraction Miss Alice Atherton appearing for tho
nrst time as Prince Achmct, while Miss Lima Mer-
Vile assumes part written expressly for her-that
OF Captain Beauforall The Rice company open on
'Horrors."
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
CANADIAN INDIANS TROUBLESOME.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 4,

WINNIPEG, ManftobA, July 4, 1879.
Advices from Saskatchewan just received contain
no reference to the rumored raid BY Indians the
Lieutenant Governors residence. Only 100 Indians
are encamped at Battleford. 1he remainder are
moving to tho Plains. Great desttution has pre-
vailed owing to the scarcity OF buffalo. causing q
radical change in the and condition OF
the Indians who now must be fed.
The Saskatchewan Herald says the newly appointed
Indian agents should be at thoir posts at once.
timely action will whole season 70 work on tne
res
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Paradise was not city but garden.
On sundays q good many fish lines fall in pleasant
places.
senator Roscoe Conkling Ia at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
The Chinese never wear gloves. and yet they do
not go.
Tamsge passes in England for a theological drum
major.
The Boston 7ra.scrlpt speaks Of him as the Grand
Lamar.
The Auisn1sm, says that when lady novelist un-
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

THE 'DAY WE CELEBRATE" is called by one
OF our contemporaries our lone hundred and
third Fourth of July Now, the fact is that
yesterday hundred and fourth
Fourth of July. The year 1776 gave us our
first Fourth of July and the year 1876 our one
hundred and first Fourth, and our one hum
dredth anniversary Of first Fourth. 1t fol-
lows that 1870 gives hundred and
fourth tourth of July.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

TIE WEATuER.--The centre of the area of
low pressure which was over the lower lakes
yesterday has passed over the New England and
northern portion of the Middle States and is
going out into the ocean of the coast of New
1oundland Tie barometer in the Southern
States has fallen bat the pressure is still high,
especially on the Atlantic coast. The tenpera-
ture has risen very rapidly throughout the
northern portion OF the South Atlantic. the
Middle Atlantic and the New England States
and thesc districts experienced to-day the hottest
weather OF the season. over the lower lake
region and ihc central valleys the tenperi-
ture has fallen remarkably, but has slightly
risen in the Northwest. The weather has been
uniformly fair throughout all the section east
of the Rocky Mountains, but some very heavy
thunder storms and local rains passed over the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and they were
especially severe on the North Atlantic coast.
Brisk southwestcry winds prevailed from the
lower lakes eastward, west of them they were
fresh and mQderate with occasional heavy
squalls. The weather in New York and its
vicinity to-day will he fair, with falling tenn
pcrlturc and possibly light local showers. To
morrow il " al be iair and slightly warmer.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

be hoped, however, that the managers Of
this new structure will see to 1t that no
sudden panic can occur, to end only
III great loss of lie. This question
OF carefully guarding masses of pleasure
seekers from possible danger is one that
should not be lost sight of, for the ounce of
prevention is not only better than the
pound of cure, but far cheaper in the end.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

The RACES AT MONMOUTH PARK yesterday
we're witnessed by multitude Of spectators
and the days sport was promising opening to
n notable meeting The horses yet to run in
clude some famous names, and they are reported
To be in splendid condition. Today's card shows
six events and some excellent running is ex-
pectpd
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

THE SPORTING WORLD was in its element yes
terday, for there were important events in
racing rowing, running, rifle shooting, rackets,
baseball and other athletics. A proper en-
rouragement of these sports must improve the
American race in the present and future genera
tous
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

LIEUTENANT CAREY, who is charged with
leaving the Prince Imperial in the lurch among
the Zulus, is to be court martialled. Our Lon
don letter describes the Indignation felt against
the poor lieutenant. Why don't they court
martial Lord Chelmsford, in whose charge the
Prince was placed!
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

OvERBURDENED TAXPAYERS should go to
Cuba, where the rate of taxation is to be re
dueed from twenty-five to sixteen per cent.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

RoUGH WATER, Charley Courtney's bete nOire,
swamped eleven boats yesterday at the Harlem
regatta. fortunately without any loss of life,
some of the sunken boats subsequently winning
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

DID You Go TO CoNEY ISLAND yesterday and
get home with dry clothes
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

The KuEDIvE has a hard road to travel for
he arrested yesterday at Naples. The
cable omts to state for what cause, but it was
probably debt, he having army of creditors.
Quite "A sudden turn in the wheel of fortune.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

losses for small place, but the people
may upon the whole. consider that such
visitors are ordinarily more runous.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

THE LONDON Euston square murder mystery
is still msolved. Hannah Dobbs, who was ar
rested some eighteen months ago on charge of
numbering her mistress, has just been acquitted.
Here is II chance for the London reporters
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

The probabilities are that he aceatter in Nec
l0rk and us ricin'ty today ,rW be faT ~ih
J0lhng temperature and possibly light locat sho~-
e's Zo-morrow il cW be Jair md slightly
qru1nler.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

FOURTEEN VETERANS of the war of 1912 cele-
brated the glorious Fourth yesterday in this
city. Their ages ranged from ninety-two to
seventy-fve. the grand total being 1,179. The
old fellows enjoyed themselves amazingly.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05
w ITH SUPPLEM Ell T.
NEW YORK. SArURpAY. JULY 5. Is79

Adrertisers are respectfully requested 10 hand
in their advertisements prerions 10 eight o'clock
m DE eee3ng 10 insure proper classification.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

The GERMAN IRoN-CLAD GRossER KURFURsT,
which sunk i'll collision with her consort,
the Crown Prince, in the English Channel,
nearly two years ago. is to be raised from her
NNatery bed
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

OLD NEWPORT outdid herself yesterday in
welcoming the gallant Twenty-thrd from
Brooklyn. Our New York soldiers should be-
stir themselves and not let their comrades over
the river have all the fun.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

PENSIONERS will find some interesting in
formation in our Washington dispatches to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-07-05

qru1Der.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-07-31
Correspondence.
raped at his door we would be told that

raped at his door we would be told that
if we ever came again without being sent
for we should be put in the guard house.
1 have seen ''plebes" crawling around the
! room on all fours with cadets on their
backs. One day stood fer half an hour
With my nose against a tack driven in a
post in the clubhouse. We were not al
lowed to smoke or chew, but many and
many a time have I put a lighted cigar
cite in my pocket ora quid of tobacco
down my back in order to escape the CEN
sure of the officers,
On several occasions / resented the in
suits heaped upon me, and was at once
invited down to "Fort. Put" (where all
differences were settied to fight it out. I
ring the day were we thus brought up
all standing by some self-constltuted
never went. After weeks hard studyI
passed my "mental examination" 1
can't imagine how it was done, but the
notes on my cuffs, boots, and even finger
nails no doubt helped me through. In
fact am positive Of it.
After being uniformed and furnished
with all the paraphernalia of housekeep-
ing, such as beds, bedding, buckets,
brooms, etc, was cadet. Many and
many time have slept in another Ca
diets bed while he went down to 'Benny
Haven's, Oh," to have good time, and
when we wanted to go down "in bunch"
stuffed figures answered the same pur-
pose. Finally we went into camp. One
day Minnie, the colored cadet, was un-
fortunate enough to hit himself with
dipper. Shortly after that several Of us
left fer New York. The authorities said
something that we didn't like, and we re-
signed. They told us that they didn't
want us any more.