Show PUBLIC LANDS the recent instructions issued irom the general land office department of the interior to the registers and receivers ol 01 united states land offices throughout the united states dimett ing them to withdraw wih draw all lands to be benefited by reason of alie national reservoir system is vague and to an extent ui certain and withal suggestive of complications that mast to a treat degree retard settlement on the government domain what object the department may have in view in the ith drapal of these lands from the operation of the preemption pre emption homestead and timber culture acts is difficult to understand unless it be that the next congress hilll pass a law increasing the price or value of the lands to such an extent as will practically pay the expense of the reservoir system at all events the instructions from the department are not such as to inspire the settler with any great degree of admiration for the methods used by the government in the reclamation cf the public domain we are informed eliat the register of the land office at salt lake city while obedient to instructions has no precedent on which to predicate bis action tor withdrawal nor can he have until by the governments anthor zed surveyors ac official plat of the lands coming under the immediate or remote supply of these reservoirs is furnished him As matters now look the instructions are likely to be withdrawn or materially modified faai SOUTH cornea the news of the most extraordinary freak of conscience on record A negro who wag living with another mans wife imagined that it would bo a good idea to join the church she suggested that owing to their relations with each other it was not likely the church would accept them as members that can be easily corrected lie answered and he immediately slew her ilia indignation v hen the church detill demurred led him to make A full confession of the crime and the motive WB HAVE our weaknesses and faults like the rest of mankind but nothing we think so heinous that we should have to endure punishment like that here appended we rise in our might and demand that the cease A d ude who as touring in luli raft ned a w ath that turned out to be pea laih but the kliott ed mettle alien called on to settle by draw ing an ugly alx A aw york AFTER HER late cold debower baah bairey gamp thus alra her maiden wit all the cobabe in athla district it church are willing to loin in a boycott oatho united marshal atud hll di ja L if any human being can discover either troth or humor in the fore boing be will please send hia dame and photograph we have bean look log lor jost each a a long time THE ensign 0 little chicago known to tho vulgar as nephi reada as follows ieter hanan h now pure water or culinary sra hauled boiu springs to the of xepha at be rate 0 2 a day or looper those di difan frn lew alian 3 gallong per day can get it at rate only liy to the tank each morning with their buckau |