Show EDITORIAL NOTES the first company of 14 mormon emigrants 1 from europe arrived yesterday at blew new york per steamship nevada they maybe mayhe may be expected to arrive in this eity city about the end ena of next week californians are discussing the propriety or or otherwise of cf having god in m their new constitution asefi As evidence of the profanity prevalent in the state St lute itte one of df the che chi chief chiet ef arguments adduced in favor of t the proposition is gravely in this thia wise why we need god to swear by extracting sugar and oil from watermelons water melons la one of the project started in california it ia is cl claimed a aimed that 10 per cent of sugar ca ean can n be obtained from the juice julee and awen ty five per cent of oil suitable for table use from the seed and that alcohol can dodl be distilled tilled from the rind and pulp according to the helena helenn ande pendent that montana town was treated on the uit to a of angleworm angle angie worms 3 As that species of wiggling reP reptile tIler ia is not known as a native of the rocky mountains the place of their origin forms a question of interest and it seems as though their aerial journey must have been long aa as well iii as unusual the oid old old oid folks excursion will take ulace place next tuesday tue the arrange ments menta made by thel the committee cam be learned fram their final notice tle tie aci to be found ia irl another column we hope tho the subscriptions wil will be numerous n and handsome and aad that no aged person who desires to participate in the trip will be left out through neglect or any other cause help the committee and glye give the aged ja a treat froude the historian says the of gravitation ia is only bulj looked upon now as a hypothesis by byall all ail careful minds minda science ia 14 moro more dogmatic than the theology it opposes but it frequently ia is corn belted pelted to chail change go its conclusions and arid discard its established principles Gravila gravitation tion has been viewed aa a a truth cowic now it ia 19 only a a hypothesis it is beah beat both for prea preachers chri and philosophers toiba tabe positive the we things which they do know boston is trying to organize a new church IV it la is to be n non uon 0 w ude de nomi national all the members are ta have perfect liberty of belie fand rev W H H murray is la at the the movement subscriptions are wanted to the snug amount of As it 1 is to be raised itsuma in sums of it is not to be a 1 spoor poor church by any means whose church will it be As ag like aa as not note call it christ church although he had nothing to ta ho do with it by subscription or otherwise i thero there is talk oi of trouble troubie with the indians in idaho Strai stratigo ige igo tuai the government does not learn a lesson from el tl investigation and a small outlay would probably have aved saved ayed human we iiri and ps hundreds oc of thousands of 0 dollars for the expense of killing re red dinen men who have been wrone wrong eti eil into taking savage revenge the Bioux sioux war cost the country 2321 Blac hills could have been purchased nor for 50 0 t baving caving of over two millions aud a i quarter to 0 say bay nothing of th of currer cui r and I 1 til ill t eph liers sacrificed d 0 on alej th IN 1114 or ebyn fofiu bud and hud 4 1 i t arufe brufe force kate southern who was condemned i d to death for the murder of sis fowler and whose sentence was commuted to ten tea years yearb imprisonment has received considerable assistance in money from ahw ng people veople and as the laws of jeorgia permit the farming out of prisoners she is to be sent service under captain jack smith where her ber sister Ama rolli is serving out her two years as accomplice a abd tid fid where she ear can have the society of her husband and child A pretty easy essy way of serving out a sentence of imprisonment it is believed she will yet rec receive eiven elven a full pardon the comans womans exponent for june fat tot lot commences the seventh volume of that excellent paper the exponent ably represents the ladies of utah and asI their oiin ovin own special organ should receive reci elve alve their hearty and continued support mrs emmeline B yelle the editor has baa con ducted the paper with talent taste and judgement jud Ud gement and we hope that she la encouraged by a large subscription script 1 ion lon list as well as the expressed approbation of those for whom she ahe labors for a torr few sincere words of commendation are full tuli fully tully y appreciated by those who write for the goodal good of the thu public the editor announces bounces her desire deesire to make improvements prove ments in the paper which she is 19 at present unable to effect in consequence of delinquencies in payment we hope this will be remedied and that by the time volume seven of the exponent fv ia is completed such changes as are contemplated tem em plated may be found easy of accomplishment we wish the ex continued and permanent success US minister bingham has ob from a japan avant ervant some stati stath tics bics concerning earthquakes during the past fifteen centuries efrom from these it appears that the number humber of destructive earthquakes recorded is the ninth century was Most moat prolific in these reaching 18 in the fifteenth century there were 15 the same in the seventeenth 13 in the and 16 in the present century tho the average is one great every ten years but the century gives one every five years CT high temperature and strange atmospheric changes have been aten noticed as precursors of great convulsions espe especially in the earthquake which desolated the city of yeddo in 1855 11 seeing that the present century is only two thirds past it ia is ahead of all the lra 15 uese thee disturbance disturbances 3 this lain with prophetic utterances concer concerning D the latter days and aud the immediately preceding nhe the coming in of the son you 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