Show oi KEW alie confirm alloa 0 atma to be rote juile 0 weber county was agreed upon by the senate yesterday alie eengle ananis li be congratulated upon alie new honor to the duties connecter connect el with which we aro sure he will bring the bame fairness fair nees and integrity which baie characterized ills course since he liaa been in the community the retiring judge lion L W shurtliff is merely holding over the term or which he was baat august just prior to which date as will le remembered the president appointed to the various judges of probate the territory by alie power conferred upon anni ay alio edmunds tucker law it is probable aliat jude brods will at once file liis official bond and enter upon liis new duties jn their performance THE wishes libin pleasure and abundant success SIMON THE CRUSADER alie simon pure or pure simon or simple simon who on friday entreated elect to begin a bioly war against is a nice kind of a crusader to ask for the persecution of anybody simon belongs to a race w hose cradle to grave hai been and is and in some portions of lie world is likely to be persecution and indignity of the grossest kind his co religionists were bindues gone by a hiss and a byword among all mankind later they were plundered and murdered in england which land led alie civilization of the age only recently they had neither property rights nor moral which the people and government of many felt bound to respect and today no one over hears of any prosecution or punishment of those who commit the roost cruel outrages upon the devoted race in austria and cussia the recollection of these things ought to have a softening edt ct upon the iron heart of this radical israelite lie ought to have charity for those who are in error he ought to want to convert people instead of ruining them that himself and liis people are not under the ban as they once were shows the progress of reason and the advance of true civilization yet he asks fora holy war a crusade going back centuries for a precedent against people with whom he does business every day aad who never wished harm much less advocated it against him or his put what does this modern walter the penniless want general II arrison to do he beeaks as if the practice he abhors as in triumphant career and et he must know if he has ees and earsl hat what is defined as the crime tit polygamy is of rare occurrence the U S commissioners marshals and judges have ample power to push any legal crusade if that will satisfy mr simon and aliey have not in the past been accused of any lack of tion to bring offenders to justice on the contrary they have been always vigilant and often times vindictive enough to please the most impatient reformer sir simon probably wants more notoriety than his narrow surroundings in salt lake afford him we suspect that this more than anything else caused his visit to indianapolis once there and confronted by the president elect he had to say something and not having any oilier bonnets aind feathers in his mind be thought lie would in no way GO easily avoid any ednag as by giving the mor mons a rap after alie stereotyped fashion ENORMOUS POSTAL BUSINESS the americans are too apt to of themselves BB doing bilings on a larger scale than any oilier nation under sheeun the alou ing clipped at random from pa per that at least in one react rec ct christmas greetings through alie mail we have of how thoroughly our friends understand making alie postal earn their money dur iak the holiday season the postmaster of manchester estimates that from alie to the of december about four and a liala millions ot letters were dealt with at the office in spring gardens being about double the number passing through the at ordinary times and considerably in excess of alie quantity sent through in jie same period last year on eva alone the numbers approached pro ached efto millions or more thau four times as many letters as are dealt with on an ordinary monday notwithstanding alio llio notices issued on the subject of early posting the letters received at an unusually late hour and the pressure between midnight and six on morning was unprecedented the number of panela dealt with reached 1 i or about more than n alie same period last year and two and a liala times aa many as on ordinary occasions atio jestal re reined valuable aid from alio acle and largely employed to assist in alie work of arrangement and distribution A lare of extra vans were in the mail service and the delivery of letters THE rie batena and the pie makers of texi coast are la a frenzy over a newspaper article which quotes the doctors as condemning alie great american institution on alio score of health one cook swears that ho can hakea pie after partaking of which not a physician on tho coast will utter a word of disapproval this has restored peace the men of medicine are afraid to take up tho banter THEY RENT a man to the aay lum in ban francisco a few days 00 for in alie following man ncr alie question as to his vocation A mind reader told me I 1 was a thinker but I 1 think he was a liar I 1 waff in the army once and alien 1 thought there was going lobe a war I 1 quit we think the unfortunate was more than tool hr II 11 of colorado now mentioned as secretary of alie interior in the new cabinet would bo an able representative of the growing west |