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The New York herald., 1879-11-16

The Commissioners of Pilots constitute
board in authority over the pilots and
pilotage interests of the port, not precisely
as the Fire Commissioners and Police Com
missioners are in authority over their re-
spective departments since the pilots are
not salaried iunctionaries; but their author
ity is substantially the same to care for Tho
public interests and control the acts of in
dividual pilots. 1t is their duty to license
pilots, and without their license it is q mis-
demeanor to act as pilot; and they have
the power to revoke the license for cause--
certain substantial causes being specified
in the law. They may revoke and annul
the license of any person licensed by them
to act rs pilot who shall not be attached
to q boat approved of by the Board;" and it
is their duty to prevent, by the coercion of
fines, .'any Of the pilots licensed by them
from combining injuriously with each other
or with other persons. The legal validity
of these two points Of their authority Is, it
appears, 10 be tested in the case of the
steamer Hercules. 1t is alleged that this
steamer is put in commission as q
pilot beat in virtue Of a combina-
ton between certain pilots and GER
tain employers of pilots, the intention
of which can only be carried out to the
detrimcnt of all pilots not in the combina-
ton. 1t is, therefore, contrary to the law,
and an offence punishable by considerable
fine, unless that part of the law is void for
uncertainty. But ii pilot boards ship
from the Hercules the Board can annul his
license, and If he boards another ship with
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
Two Original Sermons n Day.

Good reading is better than poor talking.
We suppose nobody will dispute the truth
of this when concisely expressed, and yet
a majority of the Protestant congregations
still insist upon their clergymen preaching
two original sermons every Sunday. Signs
are multiplying. however, of the decay of
the practice. In some quarters it is argued
that the sermon has become too prominent
feature of public worship and ought to
be modified in it's relation to the other cere-
monies without regard to the capacity of
the minister. In other quarters the strain
upon him is the chief argument Tor modi-
fication. The substitution of CONVERSE
tional Bible classes Tor the customary after
noon service has been proposed by some,
and others recommend the occasional read
ing of sermons or edifying essays not of
the minister's own composition, selecting
them from the published works of approved
diyines
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

in the Supreme Court are put in the DILL
and perhaps even arguments in the Court
of Appeals! If Mr.. Evarts, Mr. OConor
and two or three besides of our great
lawyers should have to be heard on case
of this kind it is evident that Commodore
Vanderbilt himself could not afford to be
buried. while the heirs of Mr.. Stewart
would have new reasons to hesi-
tate before purchasing his remains
from predatory enemies of the grave.
1t is equally oppressive whether these bills
have to be paid out of the estate of the de-
ceased or out of the profits of the sale of
graves, as it will be if the burden Of ex-
pense falls upon the cemetery companies.
In the latter case it would be more dis
tributed, as each particular grave would
have to be sold for higher price. In order
that such difficulties may be avoided in
the future it would be we'll if the trus.
tees of cemeteries should at the outset
economize a little on the pay of landscape
gardeners and fee good lawyer to put
their papers in the right shape. If copy
of the bylaws or rules of Calvary Cemetery
had been included in the deed of his lot
furnished to the late Denis Coppers, and
been alleged as conditions of the sale, that
citizens lawyers would never have taken
his case into court and he would have been
quietly and reasonably buried in some
other equally excellent graveyard.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
RurInl Dlnculfies.

Funeral expenses will be sadly increased
If it is to require, in addition to the ordi-
nary undertakers and grave diggers, half a
dozen lawyers and a judge of the Supreme
Court to get man satisfactorily placed In
his chosen plot or vault. Now and then
public opinion gets up in spirit Of
vigorous protest against the tendency Of
those who organize funerals to make
them dlscouragingly dear; and 1t is
even possible that this disposition must be
held responsible for some part of that ac-
tivity In contrivances to avoid and nullify
the whole practice of burying people which
brought out such projects as that for crema-
tion or for artificial petrifaction, in virtue
of which every man was to be converted
into piece of statuary and stood up in a
corner of his own hallway. But If the price
of ordinary sorrow forces the contrivance
of such escapes from the mere UNDER
taker and his satellites. how dreadful
will be the luxury of woe when arguments
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

THE WEATHER.-The centre Of disturbance
that was referred to in yesterdays HERALD as
moving toward the St. Lawrence Valley is now
passing over that region. its eastern margin
being over the New England coast 1t is at
tended by heavy rains and fresh Winds Another
and larger centre is moving eastward from the
regions of Dakota and Minnesota, but ii is yet
unattended by any precipitation. The pressure
Is highest and increasing steadily over the South
Atlantic and Gulf States Rain fell in the lake re-
gions central valley districts, the Middle Atlantic
and New England States, and snow showers
are reported in the Northwest. The weather in
the western and southwestern sections Of the
country has been clear; elsewhere it was partly
cloudy. The temperature has remained nearly
stationary in all the districts, except the West
and Northwest, where decided fall occurred.
The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the
South Atlantic States and generally light else
where Local disturbances of considerable
severity were developed in the lake regions,
while the eastern centre Of low pressure was
moving over on Friday. The weather in New
York and its vicinity to-day will bc cooler and
fair Tomorrow it promises to be cold and
clear.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
The End OF the World.

There was no wreck Of matter and crash
of worlds on Friday, according to predic-
tion. Evidently some one had blundered.
spects, a consummation devoutly to be
wished it would have settled the Eastern
question and allowed the combating di-
plomatists to meet on the only common
ground they are ever likely to find I;
it would have effectually terminated
tagging canvasses of the State vote
and prevented the whistling of "Pina-
fore" in the public streets. 1t would
have saved thousands of pedestrians from
slipping at pasty street crossings, for those
who went to walk the golden streets would
find everything as it should be, while emi-
grants to the other place would be sure of an
atmosphere that is ruinous to moisture under
foot or anywhere else. The probable price
of winter coal would have ceased 10 excite
the public mind in the presence of other
burning interests, and many pulpit warn
ings that will be sounded to-day
would have been entirely unnecessary.
Then-oh, rapturous thought !--our hard
worked, self-sacrifcing politicians would
not be compelled to provide President in
1880 and consume valuable newspaper col
umns that are sorely needed for the news
of the day. All the greenbacks would
have been burned up, without the weari-
some preliminary of Congressional
squabble. The Denis Coppers case would
havo reached n court of final appeal, in
which Denis shimselfmight have expressed his
views about matter 80 intimately concern
ing himself No more poisoning cases
would occur, the republican machine
would be put where IL would do most
good, the breach in the city democracy
would be permanently closed and the
braves could have reunion that in warmth
would beat anything on record. Finally,
the community could get rid OF the
policemans club and the Street Cleaning
Bureau, for the former would quickly be
burned, even If smuggled into the next
world, while the latter might meet ideal
retribution for their misdeeds by being
everlastingly surrounded by ashes, with no
water at hand to dump them into.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
England's Motive in Constantinople

England's Motive i'm COnstantinOple.
Gossip from Constantinople states Eng
lands present diplomatic activity, with
some accuracy apparently, to be due to ga
grave suspicion" on England's part that
there ssis an understanding between Rus
sia and Turkey" From the statement of
the case it must be judged that Eng
land looks upon it rs high crime
and misdemeanor on the part of Tur-
key to have an understanding with
any other Power but England, while
the perversity, villany and wickedness
of Russia in presuming to have an under
standing with Turkey is conceived to be
such as to justify all the evil which British
orators can say Of the Muscovite. Eng
lands suspicion-it might be said her dis
covery-that other than British influences
are in favor at the Porte is sufficient
ground for her quasi hostile atti-
tude if we admit that her usual
mode of proceeding in matters OF this
nature is good one /; but if she herself
deems that mode good and moral one
why do her statesmen put forth a pretext
rather than the real reason in explaining
what is on foot in Constantinople? Why
trump up the ancient and stale pretence of
those reforms in Asia Minor and put it all
on them? The place where England
wants reform is in Constantinople,
and the precise reform she wants
is to get Mahmoud Nedim Pacha
out of office and Midhat Pacha in
his place. That is the whole of it, and Sir
Austen Layard's demands about Asia would
be heard of no more if that change were
made tomorrow, and the pretended use of
the fleet-the ordering of hostile forces into
Turkish waters-is simply intended to bully
the Sultan and force him to concession. II
the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople
should suddenly assume o hostile attitude,
and Russia should threaten invasion as a
means of forcing the game of o change of
Ministry, how England would declare her
virtuous indignation at the unjustifable
methods and restless. troublesome spirit of
Russia! But Russia could not coerce Turkey
to such an end without the violation of
treaties. Is not England equally bound in
the same way?
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

out license he becomes amenable to the
law. If judicial decision is justly reached
ON the proper point-namely. what is the
limit of the authority of the Commissioners
to approve or disapprove of the style OF
boats to be used by the pilots-the dispute
may not be altogether improbable.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

THERE Is NOTHING new under the sun. Even
Arctic expeditions, which modern science
claims fondly for her own, were devised by the
ancients, and it is not impossible that relics
centuries older than those of the Franklin ex-
petition may yet be found above the Arctic
Circle. We publish to-day partial exhibit of
what men did and thought about the Pole he
fore the days of steam and the magnetic needle.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

PRINCETON BEAT HARVARD yesterday in "a
glorious game of football and is to meet Yale
at the game next week. But why should such
exercise be enjoyed only by students match
between Wall street bulls and bears or
preachers and doctors, would delight the public
and the PLAYERS
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

A COOKING SCHOOL is to be started in Boston
rs religious enterprise II it does nothing
more than start people to church after break
fasts that will not muddle the meaning of the
service it will be worthy of its name.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

and we take i. that nobody apprehends any
such interference-there is no excuse for
discord or acrimony, and scarcely any for
debate, touching this whole subject II
any parent prefers to rear his child exclu-
sively in q private or parochial school
which, with or without doctrinal religious
teaching, educates him sufficiently in those
elements of knowledge that are necessary
to the intelligent discharge of the
political duties of citizenship. the State
now interposes no obstacle. and there
is no danger that it ever will. 1t
merely holds fast to the right of inde-
pendence of the Church in providing free
public facilities for political purpose.
In conclusion, the HERALD protests against
any misconstruction Of its opinions or its
words into an undervaluation of earnest
religious education. So far from that we
yield to no journal and no person in
appreciation of its need for the welfare of
the people and the country. But it
must supplement, not supplant, the free
public education administered by the State.
Neither is necessarily antagonistic to the
other, and those who would make them so
fail to comprehend the nature of demo-
cratic government in the American Union,
the most resplendent glory of American in
stitutions the absolute disassociation OF
Church and State. We cannot live without
both of them but both OF them inde-
pendent of one another. We
Heed not the sceptic's puny hands
While near the school the church spire stands,
Nor fear the blinded bigots rule
While near the church spire stands the school.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

CARELEssNEss killed two men ut a Williams
burg ferry house yesterday. A piece of timber
that had already broken once was used again by
the same party; fortunately enough of the men
are alive to determine where the blame belongs
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
0 U | N L u PIE SHEET.
NEW YoRK. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER I6. 1879.

The probabilities are that the heather ia Nc,o
York aud its rici'aiy today acW be cool and fair.
Tomorrow ii promises TO be cold and clear.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

reading in bed "a most reprenensiblo practice. We
would suggest to hm,, ho may get as much light ~
possible. both from the real flame and the re-
hected flame q. To solve this problem. which per-
haps might az readily have been dealt with expert
mentally. he invoked the aid Of the diferential
calculus. after method which we by no means In
tend to describe.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-There was un-
diminished activity in stocks and prices ad-
vanced Money on call was plentiful and ruled
at 6 per cent The bank statement was favora-
BILE, showing an increase of $6,676, 800 in the
reserve. Bonds generally were in fair demand
and steady Exchange was dull and unchanged
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

THOSE ABUSES to use mild word, which
have been demonstrated by IN evening contcm-
porary to exist in the Lunatic Asylum on Black
wells Island have been apparent enough to the
Advisory Board of Physicians to induce prop
osition for the reorganization of the institutions
on the Island
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

country, who has found
I'm the adjustment OF the
gas burner in his bed
room . problem in the
diTerential calculus.
The figure represents
tho professors bed
room--B b, his bed;
A q. the gas tube; NJ. q
mirror, and q the ro-
Aocted image of the gas
flame. What the pro-
fessor wanted was to
set A q so that when
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

AMONG the many distinguished beings that
time has belttled is the once famous 2:4O
horse. Note our long list of horses who this
year have beaten 2:3O with many seconds to
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

ABOUT two and quarter millions of dollars
in gold left France yesterday to help fight the
greenback here, if any Congressman has sense
enough to see that battle opens.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

WHEN is the city going to begin to collect the
penalty of ten dollars per day upon every telc-
graph pole not inscribed with the name of the
company owning it = The aggregate sum would
make matters great deal easier for taxpayers
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

OUR ABSTRACT of the report of Princeton's
scientific expedition to Utah and Colorado en-
larges upon some points that miners and Indian
agents do not give us about our great West
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

ITALIA THEATRE-DER sEEcADEr
ACADEMY OF MUSIC-FAUsr
NIBLOs GARDEN-EScHANTNKKT
HAyERLY's THEATRE-THE OcroRoox
BROADWAY OPERA HoUsE-PNAroRK.
ABERLE's THEATRE-OLp sLEurH
NEW YORK ACCOMPLISHMENTS
WALLACK'S-OuR GIRLS.
LENTs NEW YORK CIRCUS.
AMERICAN INsTITUTE-ExnIBIrroy
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-FRENcH FLATS
STANDARD THEATRE-FArNirzA
GERMANIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ABBEYs PARK THEArRE-FRIrz IN IRELAND.
DALY'S THEATRE-WWEs
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-HAMLEr.
THEATRE COMIQUE-MULLIcAN GUARD CuowDzR
AMERICAN DINE observation-disclosures.
ROSTER 4 BIAL's CONCERT HALL
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-vARIErY.
SEVENTH REGIMENT FAIR.
CHICKERING HALL-PRocroR's LECTURES
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE-ouR BACHELORS.
HAvERLY's BROOKLYN THEATRE-GALLEY SLAVE.
NOVELTY THEATRE, w'MsBURG-MARBLE HEART.
JERSEY CITY ACADENY-DwoRcE.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

STILL ANOTHER loaded pistol has been left
within reach Of children, and ten-year-old boy
made himself motheress with it,
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

IT Is SAID the Pilot Commissioners will at
once try Pilot Cisco for going about his business
by steam. The present is the proper time for
settling the question.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

The CIRCULAR of the proposed American
Horse Exchange will be read with great salts
faction by every one who wishes-to buy or sell
horses ION the square,"
The New York herald., 1879-11-16

PICTURES. plays and some old acquaintance
fill our London letter very pleasantly to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-11-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Poetic sefor Castelar, is called the Minstrcl Of
the Left.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that America
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHURCH or ST. SALvADoR.-Servi-
ees on Sunday next, at 1880 A. NJ. @s.-
Sunday School at p P. M. Vespers at
8 p NJ. ST.. -
CHURCH OF Our STRENGTHENING
prayer with gospel sermon on the first
and third Monday of each month at 1880
II. Holy Communion on Tuesday
morning after each first service for month.
REV. HERBERT Roof, Rector.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Cor
ner of Chestnut and Fourth streets.
Services are held every Sabbath morn
ing at IL o'clock. Seats are free, and
citizens and strangers are cordially invi-
ted to attend. Sabbath school immedi.
ately after morning service. Thursday
evening meeting at 8 O'Clock.
D. w. ,RosEVKRANs, Pastor.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
Mission Work in Minnesota.
BY REV. GEORGE G. MOVES, D. D.

From the Chicago Interior.
ssBut what if I do not find at the
depot the man who is to meet me?"
"Then go at once to the church,
where he will have number Of his
workers gathered together in conven~
ton" This conversation occurred
between Mr.. Ensign, the general sup~
erintendent of the Sunday>school Un>
ion for the Northwest and myself, just
as I was setting forth from Chicago
for few days. work in Minnesota in
the service Of that society. 1 was
more solicitous about the matter,
because I could not find the place to
which I was directed on any map nor
in any railroad Guide Book. But the
words quoted treasured me. I set
forth and, after travelling 500 miles,
left the cars at Belleview on the St..
Paul and Pacific R. r. about 100 miles
north Of st. Paul. Mr.. D. II. Mason,
the Sunday>school Missionary who was
to meet me, was not at the station.
Gle had missed his road and was a
little belated.) I looked around for
the church. Save two buildings, the
depot and one dwelling house, I could
see nothing but oak barrens which on
that "cloudy and dark day." With a
bitterly cold wind blowing, did not look
hospitable. I began to wonder what I
had come out into the wilderness to
see. There was 10 village there, and
no church or village within ten miles.
Mr.. Ensign, who had never visited the
place, knew Of the gathering Of workers
from correspondence, and inferred
from that the existence Of a village
and at least one church edifice for the
meeting. But At a schoo]house in the
woods eight, miles from there, across
the. Mississippi, aatemperance meeting
was to be held that night; and thither
Mr.. Mason, Who soon appeared. at the
lonely station, had come to take me.
He drove ift>footed span Of little
black ponies, With shaggy. name. I am
particular to mention, for a reason that
will appear, that the buggy seemed
large enough TO carry only two. We
made several calls on the way, aud
spoke with al whom We met Of over
took On the road, inviting them TO the
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

Yesterday forenoon s. H. Muncey
was driving his horses, which were
h:tched to wagon, near John Dem
ney's farm in Green Prairie, when
they ran away. leaving MIR. Muncey
behind. They were caught at Little
Elk mile, after having run FIVE miles.
Damages slight. ~.s ~...
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

Don't you love her still 2" asked
the judge to a man who wanted a di>
vorce. "Certainly I d." said he;
Il love her better still than any other
way,but the trouble is she never will be
still" The judge, who is married
ried man himself, takes the case un>
der advisement.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
, Railroad Meeting.

.se A Railroad Meeting will be held at
the Vasaly House on Saturday evening
the 18th inst. for the purpose Of TAX
ing some action With regard to sending
delegates to represent Morrison county
at the r. r. Convention called to meet
at Sank Centre on the 23d inst.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
factions Of all good people.

""oVAO"s "a "A' 6oOu FSoPl0' ~'-'
I Mr.. Mason, during seven years SER
service as missionary in Minnesota
has organized 225 schools in which
900 teachers and 6,75c scholars are
engaged in the study of the Bible.
Nearly OF. quite all these schools have
lived and proosperea.: Many Of them
have grown into churches, and many
others have wrought a moral transfor-
nation Of the eighborhoods where
they are planted. Mr.. Mason is doing
a good work, aud as to Minnesota, any
one who goes to do missionary work
in it the last of October will be likely
10 remember, as I shall !, the warm
hearts and cold winds of that youth
full, but already giant State.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
VIM. Sloan IL ianperonslv III -.

.8 4. VIM. Sloan is dangerously i'll. DE-.
Summons visited him on Tuesday and
found Mrs. Sloan moving briskly about
the house attending to the wants Of her
afflicted spouse, although her; baby
was not quite twenty>four hours old
and was quietly sleeping in = basket
in one corner Of the room. Mrs:
Sloan seemed to be 10 her usual health,
and such remarkable vigor can be &C.
counted for only by the fact that she
and her husband are half Chippewa.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

Robert G. Masters, deputy County
Surveyor in Morrison county. will
give prompt attention to calls to sur
vey for cash, at 81 per day. Salts
faction guaranteed in all cases. APP
ply at Moses Lafond's store. ~o.r-.-->
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

L, Worthington & Go. want some
money, and all persons knowing them
selves to be indebted to them will
please call and settle by the first Of
February. We sold you the goods on
short time. The time was long since
up, and we want our money. All &C.
counts not settled by the 6rst of Feb
ruary will be placed in an attorneys
hand for collection.
L.G. WoRrH1NGroN & Co.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16

From the Pioneer Press,
A letter was received yesterday from
a citizen of Oxford, Ohio, giving an
incident of last weeks cold snap in
that place. The mercury fell to %
below zero, and a lady sitting near her
own stove and wearing hood, had one
ear frozen. Oxford is only forty miles
from Cincinnati. Had that occurred
in Minnesota, the incident would
have been started out on a very long
Journey. .~