Year: 1877

United States doesn't petition Con-
gress to take the telegraph lines and
operate them as it does the mail sys-
tenn service, they will deserves all the
swindles that can be imposed upon
them. And, by the way, while they
are about it, they ought to take dig at
the express business. There is no
reason under Heaven why small par
GELS should not be carried through
the mails, at Il very low rate of postage.
The express business is as miserable
a monopoly as the telegraph, and
needs reforming as much. To get a
dress from Boston to Omaha costs
almost as much as the dress, and to
some points a great deal more. There
is no reason why the mails should not
be used for the transportation of GER
tain matter; if the people are wise
they will pay some attention to these
this matter this winter.


There is no longer any question
there is an improvement in business.
The enormous crops of this year are
burdening tie lines of transportation
both by water and land, money is be-
ing sent out of the city by the million
to move the crop, and that money,
distributed at once, is putting life
into trade, and very vigorous life. It
is Il fact that the wheat crop of the
year will average more than twenty
five bushels TO the acre, taking the
country together, which is something
never known before, and the corn
crop will be equally large; and this
enormous yield comes when the eoun-
try is bare of grain, and when great
war in Europe takes away all the
competition we have always had in
supplying breadstuffs, keeping the
price up TO a good round figure. Add
to this the fact of an absolute settle
ment of our internal troubles by the
wise policy of President Hayes, the
fact that we have got back almost to
a gold basis, and that the depreciation
has gone on until we have struck bot
tom, and he must be croaker indeed
who can not see better times very
closely ahead. The effect is now per-
ceptible in this city. The merchants
from the interior are here in force,
with pleasant faces, and those who
came to buy $4,000 worth are, under
advices from home since they left,
bnying ten thousand. One publishing
firm in Boston has sold $4,000 copies
of new book in the first three weeks
of it's publication, something unheard
of since 1873, and other intimations
of returning prosperity are not want
ing. Aud this is going to be perma-
nent. Our exports are now largely
III excess of our imports, the flood of
gold instead of going abroad is setting
this way, and Europe is contributing
to us instead of our contributing to
Europe. We are exporting goods to
Europe, and so good reputation have
our goods that in China, Japan and
South America the English are label
ling their fabrics American" in order
to sell them. 1t is true that Jay Gould
made four millions of dollars by his
shrewd manipulation of Western
Union, and the subsequent consolids-
tiqn. The weather is very hot, and
the death rate among children is fear
full. The coaching folly is about played
out. The young bloods have got tired
of playing English coachmen. and
now that the novelty is worn off, the
young ladies have discovered that the
family carriage is ever SO much more
comfortable. And besides, it affords
an equally good chance to show their
clothes, which is the main object of a
New York girls life. The people are
coming back from the summer resorts
and the city is looking trifie more
gay. The avenues and park drives
are filing up again with the family
instead of the coachman and cook.


PIETRO.


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