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Show "ED BERNE" OF OGDEN AGAIN. EDITOR LEADER - Rain, mud, slush is the weather report for Ogden for the past week. It may snow before this letter is finished; however, the weather is so uncertain. Our city is lighted by the electric light now. You understand, of course, that the large tower was a failure, and now we have several small towers which are quite satisfactory in lighting the streets -- the moon helps wonderfully though. The writer saw a man going south from the City Hall the other night, to his home. The man was full. The tower north of him cast a shadow in front of him; the tower on the east side of the square cast a shadow on the west of him; the moon near the western horizon cast a shadow on the east of him. The man saw the shadows, and reasoned that there can be no effect without a cause. There must be a man on either side of him. He stretched forth his hand to greet the man on the right and came violently in contact with the wicked end of a pole, stuck in the fence; he tried the left and was immersed in the waters of a deep ditch. He had just crawled forth when a policeman, who was accidentally out that evening, found him sitting on the bank wringing his socks, and marveling over the wonders of the 19th century. The snow which fell to such a depth a week ago, is melted away and the ditches and creeks are full to overflowing. The Weber and Ogden rivers have also raised considerably for this season of the year. Business is not as lively as it was some time ago, but trade is very fair. The city promises to have many new buildings erected this season. The most important of these, as far as is now known, will be the mammoth hotel of Mr. Broom which will be erected on the corner of Main and Fifth Sts. To-day workmen are tearing down the old lumber structures, and parties who have occupied them are moving in different directions. A new building is also contemplated some distance west on Fifth St., and in a few years, we may look for that street to take the lead of all others as much as Fourth Street does now. The amusements in the Union Hall this season are very poor. We have not had over two or three entertainments by traveling troupes during the whole of the season that were worth the time spent in seeing them. Our home troupes have done what they could to make the theatre [theater] season tolerable, and they have succeeded quite well. The Temperance Club performs in the Union Hall this evening. They will present, "All that glitters is not Gold," and a farce. The Fourth Ward Thespian Association will soon be on with another piece. Princess Sarah Winnemucca was to have lectured here, but she could not get an audience. Haverly? will soon have a troupe pass through here. The report of the election committee in declaring Hon. [Honorable] Geo. [George] Q. Cannon not entitled to a seat in Congress, did not seem to create much excitement in Ogden, though the legislation that is pending in Congress is known to have a stilling effect on business, especially among those who are of the people and among eastern capitalists. People are cautious in investing when the prospects for their investments are limited and uncertain. ED. [EDWARD] BERNE. Ogden, Feb. 27th, 1882. |