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The New York herald., 1879-07-07
China on the Aggressive.

The despatch which we print this morn
ing regarding the progress of the Chinese
conquest Of Kashgar possesses several
elements of interest. 1t is certainly to
be regretted that the details are so
meagre The mention of the fortress
of the city would indicate that it is the
capital Of Kashgaria which is referred to.
The reoapture of that city by the Chinese
would be an event of the highest importance
in Asiatic affairs The mention of Kuldja
in connection with the event, would, how
ever, lead to the belief that the subjugation
of the insurrection in Khotan (or IllitsD,
one of the four provinces of Kashgaria, is
what is referred to, and that the people of
the capital of that district, Khotan, have been
given to the sword. In the latter case the
reconquest Of the disaffected territory
brings China into dangerous proximity to
the Russian territory of Kuldja, the claim
to which has been disputed recently with
great emphasis by China. The embroil-
ment of the Mongolian Empire in war
with Russia would awaken such an interest
in Central Asian affairs as TO make it the
news centre of the Eastern world for many
months to come. China would become q
new factor i'll the Anglo-Russian problem
as regards India.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
Risking Human Life.

From the account published elsewhere
in to-day's HERALD it seems singular that
some fatal accident has not already hap
pened on the steam launches which are
allowed to carry passengers between High
Bridge and Harlem Bridge on the Harlem
River. These little boats are capable of
holding with safety from forty to sixty pas.
sengers each, and they are permitted to
make their trips with from one hundred to
one hundred and seventy-fve passengers
crowded on their decks and packed so
closely as scarcely to afford room for
moving. Yesterday these death traps-for
they are nothing more-met with two mis-
haps, either of which might have led to q
disaster. In one case the crowded shell,
owing to the had management oil those in
charge, ran into the mud near High Bridge.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
All the persons who handled these firearms

All the persons who handled these firearms
knew they were loaded, and knew even
that they had bullets in them yet they
fired from their windows or fired in the
streets pistols with bullets in them as
nonchalantly or indifferently as they might
light so many recrackers--utterly with
out regard to the safety of the person who
might be opposite the muzzle of the pistol
at the time. In every one of these chron-
icles reported on the 5th the perpetrators
Of the evil ''ran away" and we believe
none of them have yet been found. Police
and everybody seem to regard this as
little patriotic eccentricity of no moment.
This use OF dangerous weapons in absolute
indifferen to necessary consequences is
an unprecedented spectacle, and, if itgrows
upon the public, will simply turn the
Fourth of July into an annual festival of
st. bartholomew. Some visitation Of PEN
alties might have good effect. We doubt
if the law could infict for this offence any
punishment that would be at all adequate
to the evil, but it ought to be tried.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
Privileges Of the Police.

A short time ago Policeman Tully, hav-
ing been found drinking at the door of a
saloon which was open in violation Of the
law at two o'clock in the morning, set upon
the roundsman who detected him and beat
him numerically with his murderous club,
breaking his arm and splitting open his
SKULL The defence of the policeman
was that the roundsman had struck
him blow with his fist. This was
not at all probable story from the very
nature Of the case; but, if true, it formed
no justification for the felonious assault
that followed and which might have had a
fatal termination bat for the fortunate inter-
ference of two citizens. The rufian was tried
last week, convicted and sentenced to three
months imprisonment in the Penitentiary--
a punishment scandalously disproportion-
ate to the offence.
But light as the sentence was it has not
only not yet been enforced, but the con-
victed officer has been enjoying his holi-
day in the city, practically free man. A
stay Of the enforcement of the sentence
having been granted by Supreme Court
judge Mr.. Tully was on Thursday last taken
out of the hands of the Warden Of the
Tombs Prison by an order OF the Sheriff.
placed nominally in the custody" Of q
deputy sheriff and practically allowed mis-
liberty. With the companion kindly fur
nished him by the Sheriff the clubbing
policeman has been enjoying his Fourth of
July holiday just as convivially as if he
had not murderously assaulted a fellow
officer and been sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for three months.
When tho disabled roundsman was car
ried into the station house on the morning
of the felonious assault one OF the force
assured HERALD reporter that Tully
scared nothing about it," and would not
attempt to escape, as he had enough
political influence to ''get him out OF the
scrape." This prediction appears to have
been correct. Mr.. Tully's friend, the Sher-
i'll, has granted him privileges that would
not be extended to any person desti-
tute of "political influence" and we may
next expect to see the name of Tully re-
ported by the Police Commissioners tor
promotion
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
Up Goes Grain.

Grain will not be so high this year, we
trust, as to make it's price oppressive to the
needs of our own people, but it will GER
tainly be sufficient TO make producers and
carriers reasonably happy. One hundred
million dollars worth will be wanted in
France, rs the Ministry already declares,
because of bad year in that country; and
one of the explanations given in the British
House OF Commons OF the distress in Eng
land now felt is that the year has been q
very bad one with the farmers. Through
out Europe there has been all summer un-
favorable weather, and as this is the real
source OF the trouble in England and
France, the same trouble, deficient har-
vest, though we do not now actually learn
the fact, will perhaps be found to have been
experienced as widely rs the common
cause has prevailed. Our year, on the con-
trary, will be an extremely good one; and
as the greatest part OF the deficiency in
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

ment in industrial processes. The iron
trade of England has been for several years
in state of extreme depression in conse-
auence of the cheap methods which have
been discovered for the production of steel.
Steel rails or any article in steel will
last three or four times as long as the
same article in iron; and now that steel
can be produced at trfie above the
cost of iron there is necessarily an immense
falling off in the amount of that metal
required for the annual consumption OF
the world. large proportion of the in
dustry employed in mining and smelling
iron will be released, and that industry is
so vast that there is more distress than
usually attends the success of great inven-
tions. But surely free trade is not charge
able with the incidental loss of employment
which results from the march Of improve
ment in the industrial arts.
Nor is free trade to be held responsible
for the strikes, the labor disturbances, the
frequent Interruptions to production in
great establishments and the consequent
increase in the cost of articles which have
afflicted British trade and industry during
the last few years. A return to the ex-
ploded policy of protection would have no
tendency to remove the evil OF which the
mutinous workmen complain duty
on imported grain would raise the
price of food and render their low
wages still more inadequate. A duty
on imported manufactures would amount
to nothing, because the home market can
take but small part OF the products OF
the colossal English establishments and the
exclusion OF foreign goods would be a
bagatelle. The home market would be
broken down by glut of goods without a
large outlet to foreign consumers, and for
eign markets can be commanded only by
cheap production. 1t is absurd to fancy
that the wages of British laborers could be
raised by u protective tariff. The simple
consequence would be a glut of the
home market and the ruin of British indus
try. The commercial supremacy of Eng
land will end when she cannot undersell
rivals in other markets than her own. Her
after she adopted free trade in goods her
tonnage doubled within twenty years after
she adopted free trade in ships and if her
immense industries are going into de-
cline it is owing to quite other causes than
the commercial freedom which put her SO
far in advance OF all other nations in
wealth, power and prosperity.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
Reckless Use Of Firearms.

Shooters who didn't know it was
loaded" make up an extremely large class
of the careless people who kill others without
homicidal intent; but even their poor plea
implies that if they had known it was
loaded, or had possessed intelligence
enough to reflect on the point, they might
not have used firearms in way to wnntonly
destroy life. There are, therefore, few
more aggravated degrees of recklessness
than theirs, and these degrees are exhibited
in the report of the numbers of persons in-
jured accidentally" on the Fourth by
missiles from various sorts Of firearms.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
London Goes Mad.

Vulgar desire to see notorieties" is what
the British critic would have called it if the
people of an American city had so COM
pletely gone mad over company of play
ers as London has gone mad over the French
company, or rather over Sarah Bernhardt.
The enthusiastic and very "fresh" exuber-
ance of our welcome to Dickens, and a
somewhat similar weakness on our part
toward q host of people from the other
side more or less worthy of attention. has
procured for us no end of satirical consid-
Grafton on the part of our British cousins,
very happy at an opportunity to point out
a snobbish disposition to admire distin-
guished men and women. But all London
is crazy now, and not over art, as it fancies
not over the masterpieces Of the French
stage, and not over the grand performances
of those masterpieces by the great actors Of
the Theatre Francois. but all the fripperies
and accidents and vanities and whims
of an actress John Bull. even at his best.
fenced round with all his dignity and re-
a mere gobemouche, and hunts down
Jewish lady, who, aside from her career on
the stage, is very commonplace person.
Out OF this visit to London we apprehend
that the actors of the Theatre Francois
will be losers on the moral side. They are
made part of an expedition which is mere
Barnumizing, and that must hurt. They
are the tail to Sarah Bernhardts specula-
tive kite. Her shows of sculpture and
painting gathers money for her, and all
the rest is used to advertise it. Now the
sculpture of Sarah Bernhardt is of precisely
the same class with the sculpture exhibited
at the Philadelphia Centennial where
clever woman used to make a statue out of
butter People admired and wondered
and gazed, not because the statue was
beautiful, but because it was made out of
butter; and London runs mad over the
Bernhardt exhibition for reasons Just as
little related to art. We are sorry to see
company for which every lover of art has
reason to feel the highest respect compro-
missed by such relations to O mere humbug
show
The New York herald., 1879-07-07
American Preaching FOR Europe.

England must admit that America has
have taken her championship belt, under
sold her butchers, distanced her fast horses,
vanquished her best oarsman, and yester-
day one of our preachers own Tai
mage-drew two great congregations, each
of twenty thousand people. Clergymen
differ from sporting characters in some
particulars, but the sense of being beaten
is one of those touches of nature that makes
the world akin; SO when the native occu-
pants of the various English pulpits hear
of the wonderful success which our special
cable despatch shows the Brooklyn Boan-
erges to have achieved there is sure to be o
great deal of feeling which men of any other
class would express in language most vigor-
ously ScripturaI. We do not know what the
preacher said but no one can doubt that it
was something that England had never
heard before, and that it was emphasized by
BILE within conventional pulpit robes.
We are glad that London has at last found
q preacher after her own heart, Tor she
needs religious teaching as badly us any
place in the world except Washington, or
perhaps Albany. One thing Mr. lalmage's
London success will certainly demonstrate,
and that is that the big organ and the cor
net have not, as some ill-natured people
have said, been the principal attractions
which have heretofore drawn great crowds
to the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

TIE WEATHER.-Thc barometer is high over
all the Atlantic coast districts. the centre of
highest pressure being over the ocean oil the
throughout the lake regions and the central
valleys, owing to the advance of the disturb
nnce that was over the Northern Missouri Val
ley on Saturday. As predicted in yesterdays
HERALD, the disturbance Is developing more
energy as it moves eastward, and the present
indications point to its organizing severe storm
centre as il approaches the lower lake regions
Heavy and continued rains fell in the northern
lake regions and the Northwest. and light
showers arc reported to have fallen on the New
England and Gulf coasts The weather was
generally fair throughout the South, Middle
Atlantic States and the central valley districts
and partly cloudy in the other sections of the
country. The winds have been brisk in the
Northwest. fresh on the Middle Atlantic aud
New England coast and generally light else
where. A decided rise occurred in tenn
perature in all the districts east of the Rocky
Mountains. particularly in the Lower Missouri
Valley and the central valley districts. Flee
trical disturbances and tornadoes will probably
bc developed in the central valley districts
during the next iorty-cight hours. The weather
over the British Islands is unsettled, and there
are indications of the movement OF depression
over the northern districts. The weather in
New York and its vicinity to-day will bc warmer
and faif in the morning, followed by increasing
cloudness and possibly rains toward night.
Tomorrow it will be warm and partly cloudy,
with showers-
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

In ANOTHER COLUMN under ''Will Some One
Explain" prominent Hebrew asks why his
people, in land where they enjoy the fullest
freedom, are less faithful to their written law
than their iorefathers were when subjected to
annoyance aud even tortured The answer will
be awaited with general interest, for similar
questions have been asked about the descend
ants of the Purtans, the Covenanters and other
stout-hcarted worshippers.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

The JUSTIFICATION of Sunday trains on the
Metropolitan road was afforded yesterday by
the quantity of travel to and from Central Park.
The only great breathing place in the city
should be made accessible as possible, and
it's benefits retained by speedy and comfort
able return trip.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

WALL STREET ADMINISTRATIONS whose
memories of closing quotations and fractions
generally have been dimmed by the long holl-
day and the celebration of 1.-THE Fourth" Will
find facts and figures in financial columns
to cover every point.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

Our SPECIAL DESPATCH from the Indian Ter
ritory describes grand aboriginal powwow in
which the formation Of Territorial government
was warmly advocated. 1t would be interesting
to know how many railroad men, and from what
particular companies were behind the affair, for
better beginning to general railroad grab ut
the Indian lands could not be devised.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

Western Europe will certainly be made up
from this side we shall be able to send to
the people beyond the sea all they need
without such a drain upon our resources as
to make grain dear for our own people.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE was somewhat
discouragng to excursonists who have not yet
learned that in the woods and on the shore such
days are more delightful than any others.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

THE CAUSE of Brooklyn's poisoned milk
should be sought carefully as the worst mur-
derer, for something very like murder-and by
wholesale-seems to have been at the bottom
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

STREET PREACHING has begun again. 1t has
its merits the air of the sanctuary in which
such sermons are given is to he good. so
that the hearers are not compelled to 90 to
sleep, and there is not much inducement for the
worshippers to study each others clothes and
carriages.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

The probabilities are that Me redtter in Ne,o
York and its rici,taty today wiH be wd'ner
and fair IN The morning, Jollowed By increasing
cloudiaess aud possibly rains topard night. To-
p,osTow it wia be parm and partly cloudy, with
ebo,re,e
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

AN INTERESTING LETTER from Liberia shows
that if the United States is ever going to help
the African Republic which American money and
men founded now is the time. England has
still fondness for playing ogre
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

HURRAH FOR HARVARD! One of her students
has knocked down and punished Coney Island
policeman for clubbing lady detachment
of such boys could find plenty to do in New
York during vacation.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

among the Sioux were many severe tortures.
selfintlicted, Of the young braves Would that
all redskins--and white men-would operate
upon themselves when the rage for blood comes
upon them. They would never hurt the wrong
person then
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

A TEMPERANCE LECTURER said yesterday that
the sregshops have called poetry, music and
painting to aid them in allurng men, just as if
temperance societies might not do likewise.
But such things cost money, the drinking
man is offered only talk, which is cheap.
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

CHAsTINE Cox sends, through clergyman,
some advice to young men, and it is Of excellent
quality
The New York herald., 1879-07-07

THE VENERABLE PETER COOPER, whose
name has always been prominent in efforts for
the public good, has devised plan for doing
away with the noise, smoke and dirt of the ele-
waited roads, and explains the same in the
HERALD of to-day
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-08
THE MILL OF ETRETAT.
A Legend Of Normandy.

Etretat was not always the pretty and
coquettish little Nook it is now, where
folk battle and dance, the piano tinkles
and voices sing day and night. There
was time when bathers did not prone
made the beach in oilskin caps and harle-
quin suits. Indeed, it is barely thirty
years since the shore knew no other fire.
quenters than stout, hoarse sailors, fish
ermen and their wives and little ones,
tanned by the sun and salty air and
coarsely clad.
Before that-so long ago that the mem
DRY of that time survives but as a faint
tradition-Etretat had no need of city
and fashionables, the strangers who
yearly 60 there 10 barter their money for
fresh air. They bring water to the
mill" the local proverO hath it, and
water is precisely what Etretat stands
sorely in need of. There folk must
drink the water precisely as they find it,
Sometimes turbid, sometimes brackish,
and put their dependence mainly in the
rains, when with infinite trouble the
farmers fill their Cisterns. Indeed, so
scarce is water there that a majority of
the country folk have entirely renounced
its use, and instead Stake their thirst
with particularly fine cider, or a par
ticularly vigorous brandy.
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II

Once upon a time there was no search
ty of water at Etretat.
Then in the midst Of the lOwland
between poplars, willows and fair apple
trees, ran a charming brook that DrawIed
and murmured over its pebbles and
among its crosses, and at last sought the
sea near the spot where Mother Hatville
now serves up very excellent dish of
fresh fish with q cream sauce which is
marvellous.
There was then at Etretat a poor wo-
man, Coquin by name, a widow, with
two children. Her husband, Ludwig,
man-at-arms in the service of the Lord
of Criquet0t, was so handsome, so re-
spiendent, 50 proud ia casque and cui-
rass, that his companions called him
Ludwig lie Cog, name changed to Lud-
wig Coquin, and Of which the wearer
was deservedly proud
But Ludwig Coquin, who had follow
ed his lord to the second crusade, after
performing prodigies Of valor and send
ing scores of infdels down to the shades,
had at last fallen in the Holy Land upon
the body of his master, the Lord OF
Criquetot, aud nothing had ever been
heard of him, and his poor wife, CIotil-
ds, lived with her two little ones in ex-
IRENE poverty, awaiting the return Of
him who was never to come back.
Upon the brink of the bro0klet, hard
by the cot she owed to the generosity of
the Lord of Criquetot, was a mean shed
in which was a heavy milestone, to crush
the corn from which the peasants made
their black bread but the stone had to
be turned with the same painful labor
applied to the fishers capstan on the
bench. This was of little consequence
when the stout Ludwig was there to ap-
ply his broad breast to the bar, but since
his departure and since the boat of
Clotilda's father had gone down at sea
with all its crew, the task had been
found well nigh too arduous for the
poor woman, although her eldest son,
young Ludwig, brought willingly to her
assistance the strength Of his small arms.
Only with the utmost difficulty could
she obtain by her labor enough to sat
isfy her daily wants; nevertheless she
endured her hardships with patience,
awaiting hopefully the return Of her be-
loved husband and the growing in
strength of her boys.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-08
A visase Ksyall.ug in Ye,Iowness


That OF " heather ChInee. if belonging 10
one Of our race. can scarcely be deserted as
attractive. But worse than this. it is the index
of disordered liver. OF a liver that needs
srousing and regulating. The remedy Is at
hand prompt, efficacious. course Of Hos
letters stomach Bltters viii expel the misdi-
rected bile fro the blood, and divert it into
the proper channel, open the b.wels. remove
thedyspeptic symptoms which invariably accom-
pany bi5iousuess, ard counteracts the rapidly
Developing tendency 10 dangerous congestion
Of the liver which must always exist when the
skin and whites Of the eyes assume this ye!-
low hue. The pains through the right lower
RIBS, side and shoulder blade, the nausea.
furrei state OF the tongue, and unpleasant
breath which indicate liver complaint. in short
all It's dlsagreeable concomitants, are soon
reIaedIed by this sovereign corrective, which
III addition to It's regulating properties. is su-
perb iuyigorant, and . pure and agreeable
medicinal stimulant, appetizer and nerYine.