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Show CUEIOUS CHINESE GTOBIES. otory or There is a well known Greek a a penniless many who, going out wltn found rope in bis hands to han himself, induced him a purse of money, which the a fhmw fhft rone awav. whereas to owner of the purse, coming back look for his nronertv. and finding only the rone instead, straightway hanged him self. A still more curious tale of a sim ilar kind is. told by .the China papers. In the native city of Shanghae, tho parents of a young lady lately married, distressed circum having fallen into stances, applied to tier lor assistance, and her husband allowed her to give them a coat for the purpose, of being pawned. The daughter, however.being anxious to render runner aia, witnouc six her husband's knowledge secretedcoat. teen dollars in the pocket of; tne -- JLXXKS U1U AJUU1A U1U UUV UiS W MUM part of the great Inlensity. " In'another down, town of Hull a ropery was blown slightly-inworkmen the three of fid inrnd A uoatbbv from the Wynnstay aciiuuiu note J, au Jjiauiyiuu, wua no:camo to with his empty chaise, wnen a tiny a part of the road whore,", usually rivulet crosses. ; This had I suddenly swollen into a river, and the man and horse were swept away by the tide and called the Main perished. At a farm the floods carried near IilansaintfTraid, away; two men who were crossing a field, and their bodies have not been traced. In Merionethshire the tempest was extremely violent. The valley of the Ueet from uorwen to ljiangonen. of ono vast f)resehted the appearance and on some of the farms almost the whole of the sheep have been destroyed. A violent storm swept over JRochdalo, damaged. property to a considerable Extent, caused loss of life, and1 injured persons seriously A portion of the top of Mr. E. Leach's foundry chimney, in Holroyd street,: which xwas about thirty down, and it yards high; was blown'house rented by struck the gable end of a Edmund Grindrod,a working man. Mrs; Grindrod at the timewas; engaged wash-ing the ground floor, "and tliree of her children were hear her. Theroof, the bedroom floor, and the end of the house were completely driven inland the in mates .buried amongst, the bricks and timber. It was with considerable difficulty they wero got out. and it was found that the youngest child, about dead, and the eighteen months old. was mother and the other two children seriously injured. iZjmoW's Newspaper. ' r"17 i J, ' ' X il l -J . 1 . 1.,. J : t ' f , - ; " - - ' . f : r ' T . ' t " .y .ill" ,i .fAi? f mem. ' " r ,',.,. ,,' AT . ' , i. . - - . ; t . wi -- 1 -- ' ' f I- - ; . 1 . ,tt -'- .""' : " f , -- 1 I ffiAp$& sis?d "1 j ."., ; i r THE0. F. TRACY, Agenti : - TH)escret u i express LETTERS at all points on our romls For particulars apply at office ' T!aU Ti"l Te?le T Street, Salt Lake City. ? r-.f- Vn-ssl-?' .THE COMPANY RUX AN oyERLAisrr) , - took it to the pawnbroker, who',noticing a the money on unfolding the garment, his council, and quietly advanced kepttwo dollars. the Soon after, . the husband idiscovered that tho wife had given the sixteen dol lars to her father, and made so muchnoise about it that thei young lady dlsposed or nerseir;Dy nangmg. ; in mis way the news of the robbery committed known to by the pawnbroker becamo the parents ; and the old . mother, took rr.iVVt ni v.t::fa oi vnT.v,: ;.rtc: the matter so mucn to ncarc tnat sue poisoned herself with opium. Lastly, the pawnbroker, getting alarmed on that his dishonesty haa already MSuUdisigs. Exchange hearing caused two deaths, drowned himself in a well. This story is very characteristic i of Chinese feeling in regard to life, and similar incidents not unfrequently, oc; 1 cur. : V MAKRIAGE OB CEIiIBACY. SomeT years ago. for instance, an accomplished young lady at Canton, who THE DISUSE OF MARRIAGE IN THE UP- onIX had been unfortunately married to a vbr Franks op English society. coarse and brutal husband, was bewailof sisters and feing her fate to a party A .writer in the North British Review male cousins, and declared her inten- enumerates some startling facts in retion of committing suicide. On this, the ference to what he terms "the disuse of other young ladies declared that, since marriage'1 in the upper ranks of that P such was married life, they would dl$ nation.. ? V and draws- somo conclusions. - v. tooj and so the whole bevy of them join- from those facts which assuredly are ed hands together, and walking to a fish grave enough, and deserve to be carepond, deliberately - drowned themselves. fully pondered. facts are these; Again, three men,- imprisoned in Hong and every one, weHis AND reference imagine, by on a of Kong jail charge piracy, to the last cenaus and the annual report kill! themselves rather than of the registrar general, can verify them! . ; a bother the of trial. undergo or correct them for himself. The mere At some height in the cell where they figures, ft we believe, unim--j however, are, were imprisoned was a small window ' number The of women! peachable. two iron the and guarded by prob- of maturo years.' I. e.. above the acre of. 'fu bars, lem which theso worthies had to solve 20, who must remain single, in conse--! was fiow the three of them were to be of the annual, disproportion of hanged upon two.bars. From the posi-- 1 quence sexes in England and la be-- ! Walea; tion in which they were .found in the the ' rvrvn lmr- - OAA AAA f mt i bncuu ouu,uuu uuuJ iuu,wuu. JLiio Hum--, IB K TP IP ILrlE morning, it would seem that thethlrd ber women are of adult who actually man' had assisted the two others in single is 1,637,000, of whom 1,230,000 themselves by their tails from are between 20 and 40 ' hanging years of age. the bars ; that then be cut one of them AT v. down by gnawing through the tail 'with ui aii aauic women nve per cent, (he1 would naturally and voluntarily his teeth ; and using the dead body as a argues) oe as a ract twenty-seve- n per spinsters stool, to be afterwards kicked over, he cent.' aro ofwomen mar 'so.'Of had contrived to suspend himself. All ages, ,!, o. between twenty lancl this, too, was done so quietly as not to rying in, England, fifty-eigper cent. attract the notice of a sentry .who was' forty, married,-thirty-nm- e are per cent.! are pacing outsSde beneath the bars. and three per cent, are widspinsters, ows. In a word two adult women ont THE LATE TERRIFIC GALE IN of every five are single. " It would an- pear, moreover, that a , disproportionate1 ENGLAND. number of these "in voluntary celibates" J : arid to e the upper-middlAt Sheffield, besides .many minor belong higher casualties, a! druggist named Bingham ranKs, marriage, ana even pretty early and his wife, living in Arundel street J marriage'being the rule anion g the 16 w-and middle classes withall iwhb are were bothr killed, the former instantain domestic service. The Vriter neously, by the falling of their dwelling; not - in crease traces the cause a.verv riokettyold structure, in in t 1 m II n. I V U M voluntary spinstertood to the spreading Churches and chapels, nnd'dther public luxury of the ageand the too prevalent lit ft and private buildings in the same town" sentiment on the partbf tho indolent and its surrounding districts, have been and in; youngs men in "so.hi:. are there that considerably damaged. By the heavy ciety" fmany oth,er luxu mucn more andries raia ainicuit to 'forego than consequent Hooding of f;the Yorkshire and other rivers (large quan- WQ luxury oi a wue ana nome, tities of farm stock and agriculturalpro-duce-hav- e been destroyed. Alittle boy r named Benjamin Storey, who lived at . ' 'i' ''' rml,ey l near Leeds,- was blown into Some.. years cgoiwaen Macready was the river Aire, at Green bridge, near, the performing he was unfortuwoollen:milla oOkTeaara. Gott, and was nate enoughintoChicago, one of the actorn. offend : drowned. At Scarborough, a working a native : American of Western - fors 4hbtypo. plasterer n amed Henry Moor was killed This person who was castpart .... by the. fall of a stack of of ; Claudius chimneys upon in to rccolved a house, and .three or four oMiia fellow pay-- on- - tno - star-Hamlet,". - for- many supposed workmen were severely injured;-- ; The offenses. So in tho i last econo aa feixn-l- et mostserious: destrupion of .property; at stabbed tho ; usurper, tho 'moncrch ; of - British reeled Hull was t at the tworka the and after a most obis-modforward, st GaUghtmjoan-AbouthalfVphhimcolf out preon clock ? Saturday afternoon weeb, cisely in tho ilaco Hamlet requirea for r No a otructurd. his own death. Macready, much anwas iiPnieter, bfowri bodily very 'over .largo il r: J ; AT by thevforca of noyed, whispered: the. wlnd the nurroundins pillars and cV'JDio forthcrlirxth'o aESoJBlr! T.Iiir: atonowork being also vcrjrriinchbrolrcxx Tho monarch lay inconsiblo. Upon whlch,ciif a otill Ioudervoico; Hamlet a r r t TTT"p rconcumr; tion. Tho growled: 'Dio further tho oir!" titom, up eu over;upbn ivpllo of iron HorouppnJCloudlusl.xdtting-.un:- : huge holder -pipes; and was instantly broken to irior.nli) cbiun'A. .tlcITK.V G irjj vi i bc-- uii pieced Scarcely bad tho to 'I bqlicva dio eacapo when tho whoo took whore cn mci Ip!czcp.,,, .caa .muiz flameraged for aWhalf anhou? with nBo the ar tragedy cbncluded; . OMAJHA. and the CENTRAL PACIPTn0 0! ROAD of iLl from OMAHA to DENVER ?eH4ckeS A TJ8TIN; VIRGINIA; Nevada IcnM Cal.f and intermediate points ih UAMeo; Stages leave SALT LAKE - ,; I DAIIiYfiTAQEB toPACIFIcVlStt tv. : ss- , mail ... f t : r : - Go, ,.oyaiiun t V,,' t T ; & go iiVfr 'it: - v iiiiiii liiiioiiii: t '-- ?j-;1ffr- . A, ' urscvy. CHOICE Selection of TREES For reasonable terms, consisting of AtmiP? cer5p.Goosrries tcS?'18' MalberrJes,, Black alnnt. Black. Enellsh Box Elder. White and Balm Gilead. Roots Elms, Lilacs, Poplars, or & Asparagus utC, (BtC. Rhubarb, Strawberry Plants. ' 1 a Limited Supply of GARDEN (ForCash) warranted Fresh and Genuine. ' AJI kinds of available pay taken in exchange -- 4SEEDS, I ; t for Norsery Stock. JCS3 RESIDENCE: 13th Ward, Salt Lake City opposite W. S. Godbe's Octagon House. . 1 . JOHN BEADING. d86:35s&2m- - - C0:JIS5I0' FUBCHASING 1868. Blfj - 1 GEO. CROWYW & Co. NNOUNCE to the PubUc that Mr. FRED T. PERRIS, of the Arm, will again start East, early this Spring, to renew our Stock of Goods an cr Purchase on Commission deter-mined.- to A A -- K - A Machinery of every description. Agricultural Implements, Stores, uuu.ucut'rut ruiuiiy nuppues. I ll f Information and Circulars, given on applicor mailed, to any address.' Labor Speciar attention given toto procuring Savins Machinery adapted , the uses of the .L ation : : : Sole Agents in Utah Territory for r. Blandy's Steam Saw Mills and Engl nes. 'NovAa Tmnrnvpd Tnrhlne wheels. Jnhn Portable Grist Mills, French 6urrs. r Wood.s Prize Medal Mowers and Reapers. A CO-- wooa wording Macamer, fay MendenhaU j -- 4 I ht & " ' Iiooms, Blackwood & Wilson's Hand Spinning Mach 1867, spins ordinary ine, patented September 21,the common wheei, Rolls six times faster than - ! ! etc.fetc. !Oor: TTnvrt-ororf- rd59&sl03-3-m . I - 4 n mpj. ... - , SHEMSj- , 1 i V i - -- - d ' 1 BassetfceV Roberts 'ifd5d&sios-t- f - "- Assisoiis Omcfi; Iotebkai. .Bkvesct cl ben h j'Jo March 13th, dsw. Ann, m iii!tt Llevenutf to support tna- - uu ernmeni and to pay interest on in P" " a h of -approved Juno so, ifcKH.a3 ameouw xnalro appeal, (wfclcumustbein rA ircriAa rm'IIiriLcrM rh TXIT- 1 S ... ft J v S? ."WlJSty. list and . ed: i " i . i 1 vTTOTICB is Hereby clven to persons IX cornea, mat tho assessment, Tan memtion anorincQmo list Xor.the JWstrlct oi tn t ob-norv- tS:ifASSESS0R'S OlfFICE. .Ul -- 4 WILL BEv ALLOWED date. to F6ir:frorrl ! -- ALIi 3IOUNTING to One Dollar or over raeo1 ic ffK0'?01 4 ' ON -.- fininh-ntrotcke- ; 4 - 1 rtoreKr J A -- enquire. 1 i oelf-induldg- ent Gash and AS i20 PER CENT .r f M .. , uruc-ctics- t of-thi- s -- arlll ANY'ADVESTISED., er ed t ury uooas, htA 'r.lnsod out for stocK-o- r TERMS Produce, on as ADVANTAGEOUS Call and -- ill-adapt- . present Art i - cl Hccocr'fl Corner, in ft l - A A ?.?l)lstrlct of UWh |