, 1880-01-01

AkAc1Ao DlAk9 @ih4ECkA1k
hnve been crushed out, temporarily at lcast;
Il atrong protective thrift has been passed;
many of the railroads h1,d insurance coln-
panfes llnya passed. under the control of tho
Government; MI alliance has been formed
will, Austria, ostenstbly ngatnst Russian ag-
grrssion; anl stops have been taken towards
tho formation Ut great Zoflvorcin unlt-
Ing tlio Teutonto races. The only a1-
ttitfotlal feature of interest In Austria llns
been the extension OF hcr territory to Novi-
Dazar, Indicating It's future extension 10 Sn-
lonfca, on the lEgenn Sea, for tho purposes
Of n commercial outlet. 1sussin Inns been
kept iii turmoil tho whole year with Mill
fstic illccndtnrIsn, nsasinntions, md plots
whlcl, have twice been mined at tho life OF
tic Car himself. Meanwhile the peoplo lsnvc
suffered untold misery, md, though tho'l-
snrtls have bcen ex[!cl to Siberia and many
executed tic conspiracy against tic t;oycri,-
lnent has gsltned sucll llenttway tint at lust
the Car Is contemplating resigning thu COLI
troll Of home aEairs to the Cz0rowItch, who Is
very liberal a,ml rcporte.l to be III flyor OF II
representative fortn Of government. Turkey
has gOno from batl h worsu; IL completely
bankrupt, anil OIL the verge Of .1lslnctnber-
nle,t. The KEletltyc 1T Egypt lIas l,ccn t1e-
posesl, md tho administration of nifnirs IL In
tic llantls Of his son, TewHk 1'asn, Under
tho Immediate supervision Of England anil
Frnncc. Italy has been quiet. a new Min
Istry Inns been formed In Spatn upon tic
question Of reforms, alul q bill for the gradual
abolition OF slavery Is now pending in the
Curtcs.
Death has been busy during tile ycar, and
many of tlle prominent workers Ut tho world
hnvc dropped out Of tlle1r various fields Of
labor. The Church has lost, among mary
Utllors, sucll men rs john Weiss, Bishop To-
ley, bishop Ames OF A1nryland, Bishop Ot1en-
lteImer of New Jersey, Kotln II. Ncale OF
Boston, Jnmcs Do koyen OF Wisconsin, Dr.
Burlington Ut New York, md Bishop
Whittinghnm Of Maryland. Scicncu Is called
Mpo,, to 1Mour,i tho ioss of GeryaIs, Tho grcat
naturalist; Etihu Durritt, the I.car,led Black
smith; Rowland Ifill, tho inventor Of tho
English pcnny-post system; DIVE, the Ger
1na,, incteorologst; NJ. Cleynlier md Henry
Carey, the political economists. Among
prominent Editors who l,ayo died are
Morton McMiel,ael OF the Philatlel-
phia North +tmcrlc'1,, Horace L.
uytto of the st. Louis Republican,
G. A. Wright Of tho Richmond (Vu.) En-
qufrcr, Dc Vil|cmessant of tho Paris Figure,
William Mckee Of the ST. Louis G|obc- Dem
ocrt.t, and John r. Delane, cx-etiitor of tho
Lont1on Times. There rnye been tnkcn ont
of business circles Henry Goodyear, Eber-
hard Faber, George W. Taylor, John SllillIto,
Daniel Drew, Solomon A. Smith, md Erus-
tus Dtgelow. Tho fire arts hayo lost Violet
10 Due, Meyorheim, Couture, Wilitnm Hunt,
"C'nn," the Paris caricnturist Sr|lussvle,
IIubner, Noble, and Powell, III music, Procl,,
jensen. Henselt, Richter, Smart, Grobe, and
Eckert are at rest, anil tho curtn1n hi,s for
ever been rtlng ttown upon tho actors Curk,
1sousby, Lef'1ngwelI, Palmer, Fccl,ter, and
Blackstone. 14lternture only loses a,llong It's
prominent nanes 1IIliiartl, Dana, Hewitt,
Reynolds, nnd Abbott. Our own army
loses five famous na,ncs,-T. W. Sher-
man, sully, Davis, Hooker, and Shields.
In tho political wnrll Caieb Cushing;
Plerro AIagne, TIC famous French
tinancIer; stantcu!fcl anil Won Dnlow, tho
German statesmen; John a. Dix, William
Lloyd Garrison, ex-Goy. Allen of Ohio, md
Zach Chandler, have dropped out. In tho
verdi Of Royalty, Prince Henry OF tho Meth
er1anls, Sllero All, Wi'Iu,n Prince Of Grunge,
md Prince Louis Napoleon are no more.
| 1t only rcnultns for THE TRIBUNE to advise
its readers not to make any resolutions to
thy unless they arc going to keep them, to
enter upon tho Nnw Year with renewed falttl
In man alMl God, to ~ conduct themselves
tint they viii bo better md more useful n,cl
and women n year from to-lay, and to wlsl,
tholn NIL n Happy Now Y car.
TIE BUSINESS AND p0LITICAL YEAR.
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