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Year: 1878

In the recent history of Europe there is
no record of failure so remarkable as that
Of the Austrian Occupation" of Bosnia.
Philippovich's campaign makes bad ex-
hbition for his government in military
sense. Twelve years ago the Austrian army
encountered great enemy, and was so ter
ribly handled that one collision of the main
bodies forced o precipitate peace in order
to save the Empire. But that was not
thought to prove the worthlessness Of the
army. 1t was recognized that the fault then
was in great degree at headquarters and
it was conceded that this, with the tremen-
dous efficiency Of the Prussian army, with
It's breech-loaders, sufficiently explained the
startling inequality in military power New
erheless the catastrophe Of Sadowa proved
to Austria as later catastrophes proved to
France, that while she had slept in
security on historical triumphs and nursed
the tradition of her greatness an energetic
neighbor had left her behind in the struggle
for supremacy. Military reform became
the watchword Of all ministries and all
parties, and the organization OF the army,
it's supply, it's equipment, every detail,
was gone over, that all might be put on
level with the severest requirement OF the
age, and the campaign in Bosnia shows the
result. The great Austrian Empire, tried
in a conflict with a little mountain State
sloughed off in the decay Of the Ottoman
power. is found unequal to the OCCASION
Austria's first army is sent forward
A.
sisted desperately at every step. but
fights its way onward until it reaches
q point at which it can hold on, but
reaches it in such Il condition that it
must be speedily reinforced and supported.
But the whole Austrian Empire, the whole
machinery of mobilization, is not equal to
the requirement of putting supporting
force in the field by the time it is needed.
By the order for mobilization it is shown
that they understand what is needed, and
by the want Of capacity to supply 1t it is
shown that the Austrian military system is
In the light Of this revelation it cannot be
wondered that the glory of Count Schouva-
loft has paled at st. Petersburg, and
that the star of Gortschakoff is once
more in the ascendant. Schouvaloff
wrought for the policy of placating Eng-
land, on the theory that contrary course
would have made an Anglo-Austrian alliance
inevitable. aud that Austria's army coop
Grating with England's fleet would be
troublesome to the army of the Gear. Now
it is shown that Austria was utterly unpre-
pared for any great military enterprise
and would hsve been unequal to it, and
consequently that all the argument for
peace drawn from that consideration was
delusive. Consequently the man who op-
posed that policy, protested against it and
was Enthusiastically chagrined when it was
adopted against:his judgment, is honored as
the perspicacious statesman. Fancy q war
against the Russians by England's seven
thousand Hindoos and the Austrian army
that the Bosnians have beaten.
Year: 1878

From our notes upon new buildings and
those soon to be erected in New York 1t will
be seen that in numbers and value the new
houses Of the year will exceed those of any
other year since 1871. This is as it should
be- All of our suburban cities and towns
are bidding vigorously for the attention Of
New Workers, and it is to the interest of the
city and State that local inducements should
exceed any that are offered from elsewhere.
Besides, there is not likely to occur an
other opportunity for obtaining land, ma
terals and labor @s cheaply rs now. One
good feature of thn work is the proposed
erection of many small residences for the
benefit of those persons of moderate means
who prefer entire houses to FLATS" Mean
while the builders of apartment houses
seem to have prudited by the experience of
others, and are erecting handsomer and
more convenient houses than of old.
Year: 1878

fractions named above, and the many to
which we have lately made frequent allu-
sion, that New York is to lack neither guam
tity nor quality of amusement this season,
and that nothing but possible mistakes is
likely to prevent any manager from reaping
the reward of his labors.
Year: 1878

II any stranger were to 60 about the city
to-day and peep inside every church door
during the delivery of the sermon he would
behold many an audience Of which q por-
ton would be abstracted or asleep and the
remainder terribly bored. And why?
Certainly not because religious truth is
distasteful. The multitudes that throng to
listen to whatever is said by DIR. Bellows,
Mr.. Beecher, DR.. McGlynn, DR.. John Hall,
Father Preston, DIR. Morgan Dix and others
whose names will readily suggest them
selves to the reader, show that religion is
popular, and the more earnestly it is
preached the more i. is enjoyed. But n
IN m,jority of pastors seem to imagine that
the first requisite of sermon is quantity.
This would be well enough if the quality
justified it, but the quantity consists too
frequently of mere words and of repe-
titions Of what the speaker has been saying
ever since he began to speak, and these
things are not equivalents for the pastors
salary nor for the time of the hearers
either. If a minister has very little to say
common sense should suggest that he use
only o little time to say 1T in. Sum
day is a day for physical and mental
relaxation, and no one. least of all relig-
ions teacher, is excusable for making it an
occasion for annoyance. Spiritual eleva-
ton cannot be induced by hammering peo-
pie with artificial congomerates Of diction-
ary and theological encyclopedias; nobody
ever uplifted anything with a pile-driver.
Farther, sermon should be no longer
than its material justifies, and should end
when it has reached its mark. The bullet
that hits the bulls eye is the one that is
going at full speed, but the spent ball
never hits anything but the ground. And
the sermon should be distinct as well as
short. large portion of every congrega-
ton consists Of children, and no one can
realize how much Of the irreligion of youth
which preachers depore is due to the
Year: 1878

ALL THE BASSock INDIANS who lett their
reservation last spring have disappeared from
the field with the exception of five men, two
squaws and boy who have Just surrendered.
When by and by these again 20 on the war
path it will probably take hall million dollars
nr so to apain c:lpiurc them
Year: 1878

GENERAL BUTLER, il will bc seen from the i'll
tervicw elsewhere printed is not in the least
frightened at the action OF the Democratic State
Central Committee in endeavoring to keep his
delegates out Of the coming Convention. He
does not, he says, know whether he ought to be
more amused ut their Stiffness or their AFRO
gance. There are very lively times ahead in
the old BDy State.
Year: 1878

OUR READERS will DC glad to learn that the
correspondent of the HERALD who was stricken
down ut Grenada by the fever week ago is
again able to send the news of the sutierin.
little community whose ranks have been so
thinncd by death.
Year: 1878

Is THE BILLINGS MURDER TRIAL yesterday
the principal witness was the confidential clerk
Of the accused, who it seems, was engaged to
The daughter of his employer His testimony
shows that it was, to say the least, very siG
pular family. vf
Year: 1878

The STEAMSHIP COMPANIES do not seem to
be very enthusiastic over the proposed barge
office at the Battery. In fact. they are opposed
to its erection, and think the present system is
preferable to the proposed one. An entirely
different view of the matter is taken by
the government officers. That the building
will be the means OF saving money to the
Treasury and be very great convenience to
European passengers there can be no doubt


The WEATmER.-The pressure is increasing
very rapidly in the Middle Atlantic and New
England districts, the storm centre having
passed on the Nova Scotia coast. The barom-
eter is highest over the Central Valley districts
and the Gulf coast. There IL an area of low
barometer moving over the Northern Missouri
Valley districts, but the pressure is not remark
ably low. There is probability, however that
steep gradients will bc formed in the Missouri
and Northern Missie tippi valleys. and brisk
winds may consequently he expected in
those regions But very little rain has fallen
during The past twcnty-four hours. mainly
ia the lake region and on the New England
coast The weather has been generally clear
throughout all the districts except in the North
west aud in some sections ot the lower lake
glons Morning fogs have prevailed in the
Ohio Valley and the New England coast. The
winds continue from ireshro brisk in the lake
regions. on the Middle Atlantic aud New Eng
land coasts and in the Northwest. In the Central
Valley districts, the South Atlantic coast and
the Gulf States they have been light. Tempera-
lures have risen in the lake regions and the
Central Valley districts. Elsewhere there has
been a general fall. Further details have been
received from the districts in which Fri
days storm was most destructive. Reports
Of loss of life and destruction of property
are coming in from all parts Of the
country, and il is feared that the mortality list
will be larger than was first expected Some of
the railroads in the North have had to suspend
traffic on account OF the damage done along tho
lines. The weather in New York and its vicinity
to-day will be cool and fair. Tomorrow it
promises to be cool and fair in the early part of
the day, followed by gradually increasing tcm-
oerature and cloudiness
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session. All
the members present, and President Bell in
the chair


The Markley Farm was rented to W. II. Markley
until March. 1879, for 5000.


Permission was granted the Storrs & Sedamsville
Street Railroad Company to lay two cross switches
on West Eighth street


The Engineer was directed to prepare plan and
estimate of costs for the improvement of Hopple
street from Spring Grove avenue to Coerain ay-
enuc


The Engineer was directed to put in a catch
basin in the main sewer on Liberty street and
Dalton avenue.
Year: 1878

Quarter5-prs7ided that it is Of the
honest and induDtgious class. No
want capital, muscle and brains
capital to be invested in our lands
and used IN developing our mineral
resources; muscle TO fell our vast
forests and till our fertile fields, and
brains to direct, energi2o and utilize
both capital and labor. We further
declare that we know no North, no
South, no East and no West in the
matter Of immigration, provided it
comes 10 build Up our State and ad
vance its material prosperity.


q. That it is the sense of this
convention that the coloTed popula-
ton Of the State of Arkansas is
identified in interest with the great
Democratic party Of the State, and,
fully recognizing the importance Of
more harmonious feeling between
them, embrace this opportunity Of
inviting them-the colored people
Of the State-to an active co-opera-
ton with Us III nrthering our com
mon interests.
Year: 1878

1fessrs. Editors: As the Common Coun-
ell is to meet on Monday, it is to be hoped
that some member will prepare resolution
and secure vote on it to repeal or modify
the existing ordinance which authorizes
(illegally, pye no doubD the city to lay a
penalty OF thirty-one per cent. on tax
payers who, having been compelled to take
their small earnings to buy bread for their
families, were unable to pay their heavy
taxes for 1877. 1t is bad enough that we
should have our property-much OF which
is unproductive or owned by men now out
OF mployment-assessed at from % to 30
per cent. more than it would bring now or
at any time within three years past, but in
addition to have to pay this 81 per cent.
penalty is simply intolerable.


The fact is that our city authorities have
never yet come to the realization OF the fact
that the times are exceedingly hard. They
must lessen our burdens really, not noml.
nally, or the prosperity OF the city will
be seriously impaired. SENTINEL.
Year: 1878

THE TELEPHONE IN JAPAN.-The Japan


Herald says that the telephone was no
sooner brought under the notice OF the
Japanese Government by the agent for
China and Japan of Bell's telephone than
experiments were ut once ordered by MIR.


Ito, the Minister OF Public Works. to be


made under the direction OF b1r. Gilbert,


the superintendent OF teiegraphs. The hrst


essay was made along wire stretched from


the Office Of the Great Northern Telegraph


Company In Yokohama to the telegraph


station in Honcho Dori, and subsequently
conversation was head between this


place and Toxic along the ordinary line
wire. The experiments having proved to
be entirely successful number OF instrii-
ments we're purchased; and the polico-staa-
tions in the metropolis, the Emperor's pal-


ace, and the Government departments are,
or soon will be, in telephone communica-
ton with each other. On the Public Works


Department being put into connection with
the palace the Emperor and Empress were
present, and expressed their surprise at the
result. 1t may be expected, as soon as the
requisite number OF instruments can be
procured from the inventor, that the tele-
phone will be brought into general use
throughout Japan wherever the telegraph
wiSes reach. s..
Year: 1878

The WHITE SULPHUR Major b. +.
Eakle. chief clerk of the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, just returned from a short
visit TO this famous summer resort, we learn
that everything there is looking lovely.
Vegetation is much farther advanced than
he has ever known it at this season Of the
wear. The proprietors are receiving many,
letters from prominent people in oil parts OF
the country. Several have already engaged
cottages, and the indications are that the
coming season will be an early one.
Year: 1878

TIE BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS. During the
month Of April TWENTY-FIVE persons i'll this
district have taken advantage of the benefits
of the bankruptcy act. Three filed their
petitions yesterday.


1t may be of interest to persons contem-
plating going into bankruptcy to state that
the provision OF the bankrupt law which
requires that "no discharge shall be granted
to q debtor whose assets shall not be equal
to thirty per centum OF the claims proved
against his estate upon which he shall be
liable as principal debtor, without the as
sent OF at least one fourth OF his creditors
in number and one third in value" only
applies TO those debts from which the bank
rilpt seeks Il discharge which were contract
ed subsequent to the 1st day Of January,
1860.
Year: 1878

In treatise on silver mines Fuller
says: "Wherever in any part of the
world silver mines haye been worked,
they are worked now, unless from
war, inyasions of Indians, SC. We
know of no silver mining regions in
the world that have given out. Mexi.
can mines worked by the Aztecs be
fore the conquest by Cortez, are still
worked as profitably as ever; the old
Spanish mines, opened long before
Hannibal's time, are still worked With
enormous profits F.; the South American
mines have constantly yielded their
wealth far more than three hundred
years, and are as productive as ever
mines in Hungary that were worked
by the Romans before the Saviors time
still yield abundance of ore the silver
mines of Freiburg, opened in the
eleventh century and worked constant
ly ever since, yield steady increase.
So in Norway, Sweden and Russia,
and indeed everywhere silver mines
have been opened, we believe without
exception, they continue to be worked
at the present day, and are generally
more productive than at any time in
their past history"
Year: 1878

When the mists have rolled in splendOr
From the beauty of the hills,
And the sunshine. warm and tender,
Falls in splendOr on the rills.
We may read loves shining letter
In the rainbow of the spray;
We shall know each other better,
When the mists have cleared away.


We shall know as we are known,


Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
IL we err in human blindness,
And forget that we are dust.
If we miss the law of kindness
When we struggle to be jnst.
Snowy wings of peace shall cover
All the pain that clouds our way.
When the weary watch is over,
Ard the mists have cleared away,


We shall know as we are known.


Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
When the silvery mis- Is have veiled us
From the faces ef our own,
Oft we deem their love has failed us,
And we treal our path alone;
We should see them near and truly.
We should trust them day by day.
Neither love nor blame unduly.
II the mists were Gle red away.


We shall know as we are known,


Never more to walk alone.
In the dawning Oi the morning,
When the mist. have cleared away.
When the mists have risen above us,
As our Father knows His own,
Face to face with those that love us,


We shall know as we are known,


Never more to walk alone,
When the day of light is dawning.
And the mists have cleared away.
Year: 1878

On the top of the Royal exchange, in
London, is curious weather-vane, not
like any other in England, or perhaps
in the world. It is huge grasshop-
per, and the following account shows
how it came to be put up there:


About $50 years ago, a woman, with
little baby in her arms, was trudging
along country lane. Presently, after
looking to see that no one was watch
ing her, she climbed over the gate into
a field, and wrapping the baby in it's
little shawl, she laid it down in the
grass, so gently as not to wake it, and
then, never even looking behind her.
she climbed over the gate again into
the lane, on her journey.


The baby soon woke, and began to
cry, and it cried for long, long time.
And at last, tired and hungry, and hot
with the sun, for it was fine summers
day, it was wearied out and dropped
off to sleep again. "But God had heard
the voice of the lad"


By-and-by down the lane came a
oSAOOAOOys AAC was AWAY ,
as happy as ever could be; he had come
out of school and was going home. He
lived at the farmhouse a little way
further up the lane. Now he gather
ed few primroses, now he had a shy
at a bird; but just as he came to the
gate over which the woman had climb
ed, he heard q grasshopper chirping
away so loudly that he sprang over the
gate to catch him-and there was the
baby, fast asleep! Far more pleased
than if he had caught a hundred grass
hoppers, the boy took up the little fel-
low and ran home with his prize. The
kind farmers wife, although she had
many children of her own, at once de-
termined to keep the little orphan who
had been saved from death by a grass
hopper.


Years passed away, and the baby be-
came a strong boy, the boy grew to be
q man he went to London and be-
came merchant. God blessed all he
man in the city. Queen Elizabeth was
then on the throne, and often did she
send for Sir Thomas Gresham-fOr the
little deserted boy had become a knight
to consult hlm on the great affairs of
state.


About three hundred years ago, Sir
Thomas Gresham founded the Ex-
change. The queen came to dine with
him and laid the first stone. And
there, upon the topmost pinnacle, Sir
Thomas placed grasshopper; and
there it is to-day, to tell the busy, toll
ing city that Almighty God can hear
the infants cry, and can save a valu-
able life by even such little thing as
a grasshOpper,-[N. Y. Observer.


TENDER LINEs.-The following is a
touching tribute to maternal worth,
which will bring to memory the asso-
Citations of youth:


How dear to my heart


Are the scenes of my childhood


AS fond recollection


Presents them 10 view;


There's one thing, however,


We yet hold grudge 'gainst-


And that is the sole


OF the old lady's shoe.
Year: 1878

One of the results Of the recent election,
calculated to make Maine man hold his
head in shame, is the defeat OF Eugene
Hale, in the Fifth District, and the cleo
ton of one Murch, an ignorant, mischief
making tramp fitting companion for
DR.. Ladd, chosen in the Fourth District
MIR. Hale is the acknowledged leader OF
the republican party in the house of repre-
sentatives. Murch's qualifications for a
seat in Congress consist in his entire lack OF
education. his inability to acquire proper
ty. and that he is unable t) make speech.
In speaking of the defeat of Mr.. Hale.
the Boston Advertiser says: The loss
will be serious one to the republican
side OF the house. He is a man of excel
lent natural ability, ready, clear and
forcible speaker. especially effective in
the sharp colloquial debates constantly
occurring on the aoor of Congress. To
natural aptitude for legislative business
and discussion are joined the large advan-
tages OF ten years experience In Congress,
and this is an item OF great Importance.
During the present Congress he was rec
ognized by both sides as leading man.
and his efficiency was never found want
ing in any exigency. The loss of mem
Der occupying such position of respect
and usefulness will be felt. Indeed,
under present circumstances, the loss of
any prominent republican member who
combines sound principles, strong talents,
thorough acquaintance with the business
of Congress and trained parliamentary
tact, Is one not to be Immediately RENE
died. A good part of the success of the
minority In this Congress in battling the
schemes of the majority was owing to the
superior parliamentary training of few
old members. Few who have not closely
watched the course of business in Con-
gress have any adequate apprehension Of
the vast advantages the older members
have over the rest. II this were more
generally recognized there would be few
er unnecessary changes. Mr.. Hale, how
ever, If he has lost his reelection, may
congratulate himself on the testimony to
his valuable service which record of
five successive elections and the nomina-
tion by his party for a sixth term have
given. This is unusual constancy iu these
tickle times. And it is certain. we sup
pose, that no republican could have polled
larger vote than he did. Twice during
Mr.. Hale's term ofiservice he has declined
q proffered seat in the Cabinet. He is vet
q young man. and it is not unlikely that
the public service will make further de-
mands upon him."