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Show Western Whispers WESTERN WHISPERS. <br><br> UTAH. <br><br> Travel over the railroads is increasing. <br><br> Some of Ogden's people have solved the "15 Puzzle." <br><br> The Junction with commendable enterprise is crowding the Ogden waterworks boom. <br><br> The News says that Jesse Ewing, the murderer of a man named Robinson, at Brown's Hole, Uintah County, a few weeks since, was brought to the city on Wednesday by the Sheriff of Summit Co. He waived an examination and was taken to the Penitentiary. <br><br> The Deseret News extends congratulations to Mr. George T. Wilson, of Spring Lake, whose wife, Mrs. Ann Eliza Wilson, presented him on the 23d inst., with a son and two daughters. The mother and the three babes were doing well at last accounts. <br><br> The News says that a young man, named Joseph Corrao, a native of Sicily, recently arrived in Utah, met with a severe accident one day last week. He is a workman at the Church Quarry, in Little Cottonwood, and while engaged at his occupation at that place, a large mass of rock accidentally feel from above and passed over his left leg, breaking it below the knee. He was brought down to the city by the superintendent of the Quarry and placed under the treatment of the Drs. Richards. <br><br> The Inquirer says that on Monday night last a party of young men who had been hunting a mile or two west of the railroad track and near this city, while on their return home, found a large number of rocks systematically placed along the track running through what is known as Stubb's field, for the evident purpose of throwing at the night train. Our informant was sure that they had been put there by grown persons for a dastardly purpose and was not the work of children. This matter is deserving of thorough investigation, and if possible the guilty ones should be ferreted out and justly punished. <br><br> We learn from the Herald that Dr. J. M. Benedict recently performed a very critical surgical operation at St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake. On Friday last, Mr. J. Toms, the gunsmith, was laid up with what's termed strangulated hernia, the result of a rupture. He grew so very bad that he was examined and the operation found to be absolutely necessary. An incision about six inches long was made from the groin to the abdomen, and the intestine was taken out and found to be mortified and gangrenous. Two inches of the intestine had to be cut off, the sound part being left protruding through, and was sewed to the tips of the wounds; making an artificial anus. IT is said the case was so peculiar that it might not be seen again in a life time. Mr. Toms is a respected citizen of Salt Lake. His chance of recovery is only one in a thousand. <br><br> Later, we learn that the patient, James Toms, is dead. He was a man highly respected in the community. <br><br> The Ogden Junction says "It will be remembered that about the end of January last there appeared in the Evening Dispatch, of this city, a very violent attack upon the character and conduct of Mr. John Reeve, the local agent here of the Utah Central Railroad Company. We understand that Mr. Reeve, immediately after the publication of the article demanded of the [unreadable line] script written by the Rev. Mr. Gillogly, and his name were surrendered. On Thursday of last week Mr. Reeve commenced a libel suit in the District Court against Mr. Gillogly, laying the damages at $30,000. <br><br> It will doubtless be determined, judiciously, in this suit, whether a man has the right in a matter in which he has no personal interests, to publish his neighbor as "a mean man," "bloodthirsty bull dog," "unmerciful tyrant," etc., and it will be a matter of public interest to know what the courts hold in such matters. <br><br> Mr. Reeve has not been hasty in bringing this suit, as he desired the Rev. gentleman to have ample opportunity to repair the wrong done, before appealing to the courts for legal redress." |