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Show The Senate in session to Utah did say : "Oh! will you, oh! will you, oh! will you Just stop your darned fooling and start in to pay That bill-o, that bill-o, that bUl-o? . It's over a quarter of a million, you know, And in part you should paid it a long time ago. ; ... '. .. j So we'll keep back your wages until you can show Receipts for that bill-o, that bill-o!" Then the solons assembled in Utah did say: "It's hell-o, it's hell-o, it's hell-o, To shut off our salaries unless we will pay That bill-o, that bill-o, that bill-o! But instructions we've got from our chiefs hid away, - " " And nary a cent they'll agree we shall pay; So we'll grin and we'll bear it, and only can say It's hell-o, its hell-o, its hell-o!" Jim Ah Faw Faw, who has been for some time in the employ of the Alta Club, has left for home. Before leaving he stated to the management that $47, two bottles of water and four loaves of bread would land him in the Flowery Kingdom. There are no more shrewd and exact calculators than these same Chinamen; hence it is plain that, if two bottles of water and four loaves of bread will take a Celestial to Hongkong, one bottle of water and two loaves of bread will-put will-put a Saint in Honolulu. This makes clear the destination of the gentleman who recently re-cently fell (?) from the train near Promontory. Promon-tory. i The Mormon elders who have been making converts in northern Alabama, says the New York Sun, have been firmly invited to leave the State. They very unwisely de cline to go. The Alabama farmers will not make martyrs of them, but their chances of getting stripes and even tar and feathers are excellent. The South is still an old-fashioned country, and it has a prejudice against polygamy. The Mormon preachers should yield to this prejudice before it takes the form of hickory switches or something worse. Delegate Caine on Monday last introduced intro-duced a bill "relating to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, and providing for the establishment of judicial districts therein," which was read for the first and second times, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered printed. |