Show ST DAVIDS PAY saint DAVIDS day is being celebrated in salt lake city with high delight by the welsh people of the territory many have gone from the remotest suburbs and hamlets of utah to join choir national friends in commemorating the name and day of the patron saint of wales DEWI ST DAVID according to tradition was the son of the prince of cretia and was burn about the end of the fifth or beginning of the sixth century having resolved on a religious life he spent as was customary in those days 0 probationary period m solitude after which he began preaching to his countrymen he built a chapel at glastonbury Glaston bury and founded twelve monasteries the chief of which was benevia Me nevia in the vale of boss at the synch of breay in held in ST DAVID showed him 1 f self a strong opponent ap of the pela girin heresy subsequently he became archbishop of apon ask usk but afterwards transferred his see toM enovia now called st davids where he died about the year st DAVID was celebrated for hip eloquence and success in conversion several works have been ascribed to him but those ore no longer extant his life was written by arica bishop of st DAVIDS the st davids by CAMB BENSIS written about 1175 and published in whartons Wh artons anglica sacra is little more than an work so further than this little can b said of st DAVID except by tradition and the outgrowth of the celebrating st DAVIDS day by the sires end sons of wales WHEN tho mckinley tariff bill pa house an important clause referring to tobacco was left out by the engrossing clerk and the copy which the president signed had this important omission now comes the news that on account of tho same a learned judge in chicago thinks the law is invalid ano case came before audgo upon an ap peal by FIELD co from the board of general appraisers in new york judge affirmed the decision of the appraisers but he thought the argument of the appellants pel lants regarding the law being invalid was very strong so he granted an appeal to the united stares sc preme court heaner of ca r corniaa forni aa man well known in the west died in washington last saturday senator evening was a child of the frontier and tho wild west he was bom in missouri in 1820 and worked on a tar until 1850 when be caught the gold fever and to california for several years he was a prospector and finally got of a valuable location teen his wealth commenced k and ita is sa J ne employed at one time so less t t V f V s fy WR p i than 2000 men while hadj profits ware aday at the time L his was thought to be worth senator geo though cot a learned man had many friends especially among mining men i THAT was a spirited move in the part of the B y academy students last friday when aly adopted resolutions condemi dg the old building in which they are compelled to meet and askine that something ba immediately done towards the erection of the new building As tho say in their resolutions a new belld aug is a posa tive necessity the coming year there is no good reason why an institution with the deputa tion the academy has should be compelled to be other schools of the territory in the way of building and general t |