Show AMERICAN F bonic oric june 1873 editor deseret news mews A caucus was held at american frk fork june 21 1873 for the purpose of electing county off officers leers the object of the meeting was stated byar by mr W dusenberry john B milner esq was called to the chair C D E evans vans wm greenwood and isaiah M coombs were elected secretaries of the meeting on motion the following committee of nine were elected to select names for nomination L john nuttall IN N dusenbery john brown thomas child thomas Thoma s iJ 1 mccullough wm win H winn james W N preston thomas E edaniels daniels and george W wilkins appropriate speeches were mad made 0 by the following speakers J B milner esq hons L E harrington and A 0 smoot the committee on nomination returned und and presented the following report to the chairman and gentlemen of the caucus awe we your committee respectfully report the following named persons from utah county to be put in nomination at the election to be held august 1873 to fill the following offices councilors councillors Counci lors to the legislative assembly abraham 0 smoot leonard E harrington representatives to the legislative assembly albert K thurber william B pace and george halliday selectman myron tanner surveyor john B milner su superintendent p erin of common schools warren N dusenberry sen berry respectfully L JIIN JOHN NUTTALL Chair chairman inam inah the th report of the tiie committee was unanimously accepted and the foregoing off omm meers officers were elected by unanimous vote adjourned sine die C D EVANS 1 I INI lyt COOMBS WM GREENA GREENWOOD AmE AMERICAN americas rican nicAN FORK forr june 1873 1673 editor deseret JN alews cwg two days meetings were held in the spacious bowery nowery june and and FIRST DAY in the morning elder george wilkins spoke on the importance of the tsai rial saints rits cultivating the influences ot the holy spirit and of their beet beek seeking ing the happiness of each other ether bishop mccullough said th that at the carelessness of some bome in regard to their duties was to him perfectly astonishing the disposition to accumulate wealth to the neglect of our spiritual duties was always attended with results detrimental to the growth and development of tile the saints he censured the course of those who sold their wool out of the territory and the folly which induces us to import large quantities of pork when we possess the material to feed it at homa home spoke of the blessing of paying tithing as a means to build temples and of its importance to the up building of the kingdom of god elder john G coltin colvill spoke on the dreadful die adful effects of intemperance and felt to regret that some men of age among Us were becoming ensnared by its deadly influence president AO Smoot said sald that the all absorbing subject in the mind of every saint salk was the building up of the kingdom of god which embraced the gathering of the saints from all nations he spoke on the necessity of the saints seeking wisdon at the hands of the lors lord and contrasted their condition with that of the ancient saints remarking that when ancient ephraim was fat lie he kicked and regretted that this was the case with some of regretted us the folly which had reduced some to a condition of servitude to our enemies instead ofaf of applying their labors to the kingdom cr of god compared our present prosperous condition with the poverty that prevailed on kurfirst our first location irr these mountains and asked if the hand of god had not wrought this cautioned the saints against the introduction of those vanities in dress which are the bane of the civilized world in the afternoon elder thomas child exhort exhorted edthe the saints to duty and diligence elder ilder isaiah 11 coombs congratulated the saints on the prosperity everywhere visible but a few years ago wo we founded this colony it was then a desert today to day the evidences of the finger of god are apparent to the most in the wonderful fertility of or the soil the speaker encouraged the saints to still further develop the educational interests of tile the territory elder W Duen dusenberry berry berny compared the revival meetings of the world with the meetings of the saints and the difference between the enthusiasm thusia sm they manifested and the sound doctrines and principles propounded by tile the elders and advocated the necessity of unwearied attention to the subject of education tio bishop tanner of provo said sald it was necessary that we should purify ourselves and divest ourselves of selfishness in order to be fully prepared for this labor he spoke of the misery and anguish of spirit consequent upon apostasy apo stacy from the truth and also argued the utility of still further unity in burco our co opera tive concerns elder john johne E booth spoke of the neglect of many in regard to the education of their children he believed that boys could be educated to become honest lawyers and such lawyers were a necessity to the SECOND DAY in tho the morning elder A INI musser spoke of the great labors resting upon the servants of god in the building up of zion and the I 1 indifference n difre renco rence manifested by some he cautioned the saints against imitating the vile practices they witnessed around them and said he feared there was a growing disposition on the part of some of the elders to indulge in the use of strong drinks bishop bringhurst spoke on the necessity of having the holy spirit in ift all the actions of life in the afternoon prest A 0 smoot said the latter day saints had hid much to learn and many pro gres sive steps yet to take in order to place the kingdom of god on a self supporting and enduring basis that harmony and peace existing in the beginning must again be restored and those principles inculcated which alone could blend into one universal brotherhood the thousands of the saints and indeed without a temporal union no permanent spiritual unity can ever be i established he congratulated the people of american fork on their excellent tannery and on the superior article of boots and shoes they manufactured and stated that there were those among us who were prepared to use their their influence against every effort put forth by us to become self such would by ana by lose tile the spirit unless they repented the two speaker alluded to a wholesale stealing of cattle from thenan theran genow now going unsaid that ninety head had bad already been recovered from the thieves he exhorted the saints to take care of both the cattle and the thieves and thus protect themselves from wholesale plunder elder john B milner said sald there was no time for the saints to waste in building up babylon but their energies should be directed to the kingdom of god it was the duty of the to aid the authorities in establishing zion they were not wise servants who waited to have their duties always pointed out to them cautioned the saints against the deceitfulness of riches elder Z coltrin advise advised d the saints to seek diligently the holy spirit as without it man was wa s as sounding brass advised the young to apply themselves diligently to obtaining a knowledge of the gospel remarked on the tho impossibility of the saints ever becoming one without strict obedience to the authority of god elder geo halliday spoke of the necessity of improvement among the saints and also of a still further development in our operative cooperative co affairs C D EANS EVANS Ie reporter leporter porter late liate dates from J japan a I 1 n picture piea pica affairs there as in any tl thing ng but a favorable condition the japanese financial ministers mini have resigned and published a letter in which they state the indebtedness of the empire to be bd one ono hundred and four millions of dollars the tiie pe people le are excessively tax taxed edland and the debt is increasing yearly owing to the tile new schemes of the government breakneck break neck gymnastics SHOT INTO ME THE AIR BY MACHINERY the means by which the acrobat lulu at nibles garden is shot into the air has been the subject of much speculation the prevailing impression is that the power which sends her aloft in so startling away avay a way is compressed air an inspection us of the apparatus shows lio llo however r that the principle on which it is constructed is similar to that of tb the e schoolboys bean shooter under the stage is a wrought iron framework frame work like a gigantic office stool the four legs logs are eight feet high and two inches square three sets of iron crossbars run from limb to limb one at the top one at the middle and one near the bottom at the top and middle also crossbars run from each corner to a point in the centre control where they sup bup support ort a small cylinder through t these 9 ese two cylinders the one at the top the other at the middle of th the e framework an iron piston about seven even feet long and two inches diameter runs the upper end of this piston is covered with rubber and is attached to the bottom of the small trap in the stage on which lulu stands when about to be sent aloft about half way down the piston it has around it a barrel shaped expansion about one foot in diameter and a foot long which is fastened to it and makes part of it round bound the top and bottom of this barrel as it may be termed are iron hooks similar hooks are fixed to the lower side of the crossbars at the top and to the upper part of the crossbars at the bottom of the iron framework five strong rubber straps side by side each an inch square and let into an iron socket with a thimble at each end next come into use of these quintuple rubber straps which are about eight inches long there are about fifty the thimble at one end is just slipped over the hooks attached to the lower side of the crossbars at the top odthe of the framework when every hook has a rubber strap thus suspended from atthe piston is lifted by leverage and the remaining thimble of each strap is slipped over the hook which corresponds to it on the top of the barrel another set of rubber straps pre to those already described only more powerful are then attached by one end to the hooks on the bottom bottorof of the barrel the other end is left dangling until it is time to set the tai tal tap when that time comes powerful leverage forces down the barrel until the straps which connect it with the crossbars at the top of the framework are distended to their utmost then the lower thimbles of the rubber straps which dangle from the bottom of the barrel are slipped over the hooks fastened to the crossbars near the bottom of the framework the trap is then ready for use one set of pow powerful er fu ul rubbers is hauling up the piston toward the trap and another set of f more powerful rubbers is hauling it down to such purpose as to keep the upper set of rubbers at tile the greatest possible tension when theotime the time for lulu to make the ascent arrives an electric battery is used A wire is so brought to bear on the thim thimbles bles bleg of the lower set of rubbers attached to the look on the bottom crossbars cross bars that oue one application of electric force instantaneously dislodges all the thimbles the rubber straps at the top of the band thereupon contract with enormous power the trap is shot up three feet beyond the stage and lulu over twenty feet beyond that A number of rubbers lubbers of suitable strength are attached to the lower end of the piston previous to the discharge of the trap and when the discharge is complete these instantly draw down the piston and restore the trap to the level of the stage lulu wears under her dress steel mechanism of a novel description by one motion of her shoulder she cail can protect ever ery joint of her limbs and make her form perfectly rigid those who watch her ber ner closely when she takes her stand on the trap may observe her throw the mechanism into gear by a motion of her arms just before she is 18 shot into the air to enable her to do this at the right moment a small PI plug ug I 1 is is removed from a hole I 1 in n i t the tile Os stage age go through which she can n be see e every ver ery cry y motion of the tha men in change charge arg ang of th t the h e apparatus nem new york sun an ancient chris chrls ah c ur c I 1 has been discoverer A th the interior of japan amusing the babies my lily baby not three years old is supremely happy if allowed a piece of newspaper spread over a cane seat chair and an ivory ivora knitting needle with which she punches holes in the paper to correspond with those in the chair for an older child a piece of printed paper a cushion and a pin with directions to pierce pieree every llo 0 o for instance or any other letter chosen will amuse for a long time A forfeit for every loll 1011 0 omitted or a reward if there be KO ro mistake adds veny very much to the I 1 interest of the occasion I 1 have seena child of four years amuse itself many hours a day for weeks with a quantity of pasteboard a number of clean round st straws aws cut into short even lengths and a quart of beans of various sizes and colors the pasteboard was cut and folded by the child without assistance into houses chicken coops dog do kennels ete etc the straws were used for fence bars supported by paste beald posts while the beans with four pins stuck through to form the legs of the larger animals were supposed suppo sed to be do dos dogs s horses cows and sheep sometimes the house and its attendant outbuildings buildings out were placed upon books which represented hills while the flocks and the herds were restrained in the valley otherwise the floor by the straw fences sometimes a hurricane being a breeze from a large fan would bring destruction upon all and then the patient inhabitants a tiny china doll or two would have to relocate re locate and establish themselves these are only a few of many simple ways in which girls and boys too may entertain the wee ones 1 hearth and the cholera SENSIBLE ADVICE GENERAL AND individual cleanliness THE ONLY SAFEGUARD it is no longer a question of probabilities abilities the cholera cholena which gave fair warning of its approach through its presence successively at new orleans 1 memphis nashville and louisville has made its appearance in our city the cases are not numerous and may not be greatly multiplied in the future the result will turn very much upon the i sanitary precautions which are instituted while the canal is suffered to fester in putrid emptiness while our streets are dirty andelt and citizens take little pains to cleanse their premises there will be abundant food for the pestilence if however a NI vigorous g orous and general disinfecting infecting dis p policy ol 01 lcy ley is adopted we can h hope 0 p fr from 0 M the favorable results of former efforts in the same way that the visitation will be light it maybe may be comforting to call the attacks which have thus far occurred sporadic and on the strength of this th s high sounding adjective await what is coming in supine indifference but it certainly is not sensible in 1866 sporadic cases which were as fatal as the epidemic ones that speedily followed broke out in a lager beer sellers bamily family on the east side of sycamore street just j above fifth and we know no reason why the present droppings may not be beginnings of as deadly a storm as that which swept over our city seven years ago there is abundant cause for action and if speedy and efficient action is taken there will be small grounds for alarm fear kills hills about as many persons as disease and there is no better preventive of panic than the conviction on the part of the community that every possible precaution is being taken all that then remains for the private citizen to do is to see that his own premises are in good order that his its food is well chosen and that his habits are cleanly I 1 i and prudent cincinnati gazette 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