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Show I 1374-1875. I Fur (.'( p-a-'-'ii '.r m.Gthi r we are jail prctrv w--:ir:.-.l wiiii the old I year, an rai-t-t'uiy bid it uJitu. Wii'.-ther we h.tvi. j;.i.ii..U or loit dur-ink' dur-ink' ibi trans:!, w- ur generally dU-podid dU-podid to rrjuii-e lh vt w-i have reaciied a turning point, whtru we can close iup ti.e bojk.-4, atnke a balance, and Luiiimeiice amrw t.ur various tnter-priaeu. tnter-priaeu. Wnat has the world, tiie nation, na-tion, our locality and ourselves individually indi-vidually gained during the year loi -1? An individuals, each one will have to answer lur liim or herself. As for I' tab, wo may r-jorL progress. There nahbeentiLeusu.il talk and bluiter on the part of ct-rUin people who by iccideiit have been tfiup'jrarily pl-ietd in puaitions ot pio!niiiein:c; but it has amounted to very liltln. Tho world u.is rnlli d on na nsa.il, despite of them. They may p-iiiaps faintly realize re-alize to day limt their mission is a ditli-'ult one, which perhaps may not no fully completed duifDg their ultt- ci.il lives. I'e.-haps our territory has . nut fallen much behind any other rtpot o ground in the country in i p,,int ot mural and m it, 'rial proresj. v'u have all gron i-io year o:der; i the uaial uuuil.'cr ol our citizens havo " gone to march with the great army ot the departed, and others have been born to till their plac.s and keep up the grand procession Irom tho cradio to tho grave. Of tho national progress there is very little to aay. The record of a great country like the United States is something too vast for current comprehension. We can only learn how wo are drifting from a study ol decades. The political revolution of 1874 is only a single step in a series of movement tending towards some future result whose importance we can only faintly estimate. Tho politicians poli-ticians may squirm and wriggle, hut they can have little influence upon the lido of events, Wo may confidently confi-dently hope that the incoming set ot rulers may be no worse than the present. The must notei European event of the year has been the struggle be-tweeu be-tweeu Bismarck and the . atholics of Germany. L itety England has been dragged into the conflict by tho Gladstone Glad-stone manifesto, and where it will all end can hardly be imagined. It may bo that Disraeli's famous prophecy of a great religious war will bo realized within the memory of living men, and the military footing upon whicli the European nations are now placed indicates in-dicates the prevalence of a re&tli-ss and uneasy state of feeling. At present pres-ent France is held to good buhavior by the neccfsity of national recuperation; recupera-tion; but it ia difficult to conceive a Franco that will not accept a war witii Germany whenever an opportunity oppor-tunity offers. If the news which came yesterday of the declaration of Prince Alfonso as King ot Spain shall provo true, it may lead to important events in the future of Europe. To fill in with we htve had the transit ot Venus, the Tilton-Beecher scandal, King Kalakaua, the southern south-ern difficulties, and plenty of incidents inci-dents showing that mankind has averaged about the s.ime in good and evil during the last as iu previous years. Tho third-term question is not yet settled; we have lost one governor gov-ernor of Utah and got another; Chiel Justice SIcKean (pious soul) is still fuming nnd scolding; congress has its hands full of subjects for investigation, investi-gation, and the country is getting ready for tho centennial anniversary of our independence, even England joining with good grace in commemorating commemo-rating that important event With all these things in view we wiBh our readers a Happy New Year, and peace, plenty, and ha ppiness durirg the year lS7o. |