Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-01-13

Events Of the Past Year.

The year has not been evantful
enough gu the c,.ntipent of E lrop-
t." .x-,te deep interest il "A rnerica.
The Nihlli-t agitation in Rus-i. is
Il new q. mnn -traiiDn Of The il. .e-
cu,itv and il efficiency of absolut-
I>m in this nge of the world. The
cn,u'iuafi. n IF tha great P,ws;>
TO ,-rce Tu key and ner neign--
t"n- i bit ~ new e.irinu uf An old
and ever recurring story.
A ,eview of oar owu history
lnriig the year secil s inanv top
les o! congratulations. The uhnrd
,nce # oar csnp-<sn~saaths steady
| q w of gold into the country have
q ,nk-ned trade and Industry an,,
.itfA-ed hope aud comfort tnroug.
| the country. Dmi.rttioa has
! never been So large { 'ns Of the
s",sst evidences Of prospeEi y,
aud the c-u,us taken this r-a
-how> that, next to RnssIa. we a,e
the most pnpdiuus nation on the
| gl. h., outside Of ASIA.
Although our presidential c,n-
va>s w,s bitter aud calImniuns.
the eltc ion was p-acetu', aud has
been folio we'd 10y universal acqni-
.scence III the resnit-a g,eat
blessing when we consider the di =
i-,ent state If things tour years
ago. The'e . has been DO important
governmental action Within
the year, unless an exception is
furnished in The new treaty with
emma, WHOSE contents are no, vet
divuIsed. 1t is supposed. Eowey-r.
:nat it will qniet the agita ion
which has SO long disturbed "nr
Pacific States. The fisheries diff.
entity is also in fair way to settle
meut.
In South America the war be-
tween Chill aud Peru has dragged
its slow length along. iu C.rada
the obly im .orraDt event is the ar
rangement with the new syndicate
for building the Canadian Pacific
Rail Dad.
There have been some notewor-
thy ID Dss in science, of which
Bells phot"phone is tie most
striking, and tho progress Of the
el c,,ic light in England and
Aune' lea tI. most Important. In
tereS,ing archaic holical discover
les have been made at olympia
aud Troy aud also in syria. Guar
may = discoveries of ancient Mexi>
eau cities are 40 important c,ntri-
bniion 10 oar knowledge OF the an
cient inhabitants of America. In
the A,ciic regions Professor No:-
den>kj lids successful Norths, u
voyage from the Ata"tic to the
Pacific ocean has ct ,bli-hed as 4
TACT the existence of an open pass
sage which bai before rested on
Theory. His otsercations and the
trnittnl explorations OF Lieut..
Schwaika among the e quimanx
aTe the contributions of tn. year to
our knowledge OF the ci,cumpolar
regious. There have been other
things Of scientific value, bnt We
Hlm to enumera'e only those ~hic b
have excited wide popular lnte, est.
The develop meEt of animal pow
e1s has q s-mi scientific side aud
-sclte- Il more general curl. sI'y
Than SCIENCE proper. S"me of the
things accompanied liz the -po t.
iug world a'eqni,e unexanpl@d.
M "a, b time ma. ever beiu,e heeD
| u.H., - n. r.,c., ...,o,o ., rnn-
ming the two-,ear old .Iir,.on &c
,mpIi-h-d IL mile i, ] A.. B ,ard
mtn ,ana mile IN l 4 ], B,r,ert
til. ee.tuu,.hs of Il mlie ln l II,
! F-,ija made four milo Eets lu
Z 23i. Iu tro.ting NJ !. Vln.ler-
,nii' Maut :. reduc. til. time to
-1Ox. So large Il part OF the pub
lie has taken lively interest iu
these wonderful impruvem-n's on
all former records that they are
worth recalling among graver
events. We way rs we'll add Dr..
Tanne,ss f.rty days fat as an
au,Lnetlc feat of phi, sical endur :
aucr, which dii not puthis name
into the neurology of the year,
where it would no. have been
worth reviviug-
The deaths of distinguished per-
sons have been numerous, bnt Of
fenbach and George Elliot are per
haps the only ones of such high
genius as reflects Iustre upon the
age in which we lived. But many
men of remarka rle ability and ac-
compIishments and great station
have been taken away. Lo"d
Strattord de Radcliffe made the
largest figure of any among them,
and, perhaps, Chief-Justice Cock
burn ranks next, although Jples
Fasre was more wiGcly kmowu on
the Continent. Sir Fitznry Kelly,
Chief b .ron of the Erchequer, has
also died within the year. Among
the men Of science were DIR. Paul
Broca. most eminent anthorpolo-
gist, Francis auckland, naturalist
of some note. With the addition