Show 18701880 There are few of us but can welcome wel-come the New Year this bright clear morning more cheerfully than we received t re-ceived 1S79 one year ago tcisy Then it MVJ with hope that we looked the coming year in the face now it is with confidence The twelve ccontbi juttend d have proven fiat the hopi was well ruunded for 1879 has been for America a year of peace plectj and prO 11Arityd year that wll mark an era in the social financial and industrial in-dustrial histories of the country The I confidence reposed in 1880 will net be misplaced unless some unforeseen and improbaMa event shall interfer to dittirb the natural order am course oJ things At ca ° h successive df alb of the old year wo naturally recall the scene evens arid incidents of the past twelvi months and more than at any other time think of ourselves and bow we have employed fie days and week going to make up the year While it i 13 a merry joyful season there is a i thoughtfulness inspired during the hours making the death of a year that adds a tinge of sentimentality if loOt real sorrow to the human heart One < may Lave been unhappy on each of the 365 day yet when night settles down ehrouding the world in darkness I dark-ness and telling of the approach of i tao minute when the year will be for over biiied be cannot help a feeling of regr t at the parting if he ha been prospered and happy he may look wi a cheerfulness and hope to the coming year whtl at heart rrojrmni for the dying Then there is the fac forced upon us ttat we are a yea older 11 year clo ° r to the end of mortality mor-tality On respective birthdays this fact 13 impressed upon individuals on New Years Day it comes to a Last night wis devoted tD reflections reflec-tions on the pntj ihis morning tt tonghts of the future It was the < business of yesterday to retrospectively glanco at our live during 1879 it is the custom of loday to mark out paths to be pursued in 1880 Is is the day for good resolutions and there are few who cannot and will not suggest to themselves some improvement improve-ment in social deportment ia business busi-ness conduct in personal habits or in all of these And Rto3 as mankind man-kind is generally there are few who cannot suggest sonic improvement to themseive While it may be that of the many good resolutions for the year formed today only a emailpercentage will be maintained during the twelvemonth twelve-month society is no worse for having made the better promises Tne year just closed has been one of events In the older world these have generally been of an unpleasant character Famine and want have visited paitj of Europe and Asia and thousand of human beings have perished thereby Disease has prevailed pre-vailed to a sad extent in portions of Europe and Asia There hava been wars Itrou1 and ditatrous on four of the five contineLtj and three of these wf ra are yet in progress while others are suspended only temporarily and there is imminent danger of new conflicts breakiug out It has been a bard yctr for al the world except North America The crops bave failed in many countries floods have deluged portions of Hungary Austria Russia und whole provinces of Spain sweeping away numerous town villages and cities impoverishing and making homeless thousands of people and carrying other thousands into ttsrnity Another unpleasant feature of the oo year picture is tae nuruber and puliDg character oi tie > disasters on land and sea one of the meat krnble occurring only three days ago in Scctand if to t crowd the year full of dire ratattrophea It has alto been an exciting year for certain European monarchs who have been kept busy dodging assassins assas-sins buliet warding off murderers daggers and stealing around loaded bombs und mines o dynamite The old woW from the sovereign on the throne to the bastborn illclad itarved peasant cannot wish for a repetition of 1879 w to its many eorzows and few pleasant features In ha United States there have been pence disturbed only by some minor incident 1 as the present political politi-cal muddle m Maine or the Ute Indian In-dian trouble such plenty that none have waLtid prosperity in every branch trade and industry j happi uese j ard there would have been con lentmett were it in the natures of the American people to be content After tons years of depression of Euflerinft for ttopoor andJoJS for the rich hCtuel wut for th > many and plenty for the few 1879 brought the glad change and wrought the great improvement that we see on all eidca in employment for tho workingman working-man in new bouse in bounteous crops iu plenty of money and in the i a general cneeriulneta of toe people The TJaued States can look with pleasure lOud ilmkfulnvta hack upon the old year Here in Utah the year has been eventful in many respects To the Mormons it opened with an important import-ant event in their history the decision Of the U ittdSi ted Sjpreme Cout the 6 h pronouncing on Janu ry antiro giray law constitutional th3 later This w w Juhwed us 10 by the imprisonment under sentence t of George Reynolds and by gorous eflorle to convict others ofviolation of that law In ono of these a moat damnable and ccwardly outrage was perpetrated by a federal judge in ending Gen D H Wells to jail on I May 3d On the 6th the people gave I a sovereign rebuke to tae Elarneful abuse of power and since then the judge guilty of the wroag has been despised by the masses and held the respect of the very few The Mormon church has chosen cho-sen a new apostls Moses Thatcher April thin place of Orson Hyde deceased It baa also been engaged ai one of t leading parties in au important lawsu t which was a disturbing element in the community com-munity and at times threatened to bring about serious troubles This wit also gave uarrowaiisded partisan judges oppcrtun es to strain the law moEt villainously end they tuck advantage of those chances on every occasion to the great shame of hg bench and the gross injury of in dVtduah > Death haa beenat work here during dur-ing the year carrying off Judge R H Robertson on January 4th Judge James B McKean on January 5th and his widow on the 24th of the same month Hon A P Rockwood in November and other less noted parsons par-sons during tho year Some changes have been made in the cops of federal officials Secretary Secre-tary Levi P Luckey resigned on the 29h of March and was succeeded by Arthur i Thomas confirmed by the denate on the 11th of April The President appointed a notorious carpetbagger car-petbagger D T Corbin for cbiei jaeticooui the Senateafter having the nomination belore it for three i monthr rejected it nhsn John A Hunter was nominated and confirmed on July 1st succeeding Chief Justice Schaefler lazy queer old Mike ol mixed pleasant and unpleasant memory The change was one that i so far has proven moat satisfactory to all We hope 1880 will eee two or three ethers that shall be as welcome Industrially the territory baa thrived wonderfully One hundred and twentynine miles of railroad have been built opening up new coal fields and extending to counties and mining districts heretofore isolated The harvest wan tho largest ever gathered here while the oatput of precious metals has been enormous though something of a falling off from previous pre-vious years is noted Utah can find smail cause for complaint com-plaint with the dead year and if 1879 has been prosperous 1880 promises much more tbaa its predecessor gave Of deep personal interett and of mere or lees interest to the general public is the fact that the HERALD has enjoyed one of its most prosperous prosper-ous year Its itadiiy increasing subscription list and its lirge advertising patronage are gratifying gra-tifying and convincing evidences to the publishers that their efiorts in behalf of the people are appreciated appre-ciated The paper is more solid today to-day tnan at any tme in its history for which wo take this t occasion for returning tbaaka to the many friends and patrons of the HEBALD As this ia the time for making promises we will pledge our eelvs to keep the HERALD the peoples paper and the peoples friend and in all controversies it will be found on their side it will continue free from party or polisical alliances an independent newspaper While welcoming 1S80 with its good and bad its pleasures and trials its successes and disappointments the HERALD heartily and sincerely wish al A HAPPY NEW YEAR |