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Show OUR OGDEN LETTER. <br><br> Editor Leader-The article of Hon. Geo. [George] Q. Cannon in the North American Review for May entitled, "Utah and its people," completely overthrows the shallow ?? tales that Judge C. C. Goodwin, with some pretension to originality, palmed off on the people of the United States in the March number of that magazine. It will doubly repay any lover of the welfare of Utah for any time or money spent to read Brother Cannon's article and not one among the young of this people should fail to carefully study the sentiment, therein expressed. <br><br> THE FIRE in this city a few evenings since which entirely destroyed the Utah Vinegar Works, was the largest that has been witnessed here for a long time, and the loss sustained by Mr. Frank Rother amounts to a large sum. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. <br><br> THE Milford Sentinel asks: "Has our correspondents gone to sleep we do not here from them of late, let us hear what the People are doing?" We guess they have objected to the spelling and other peculiarities of that journal. Send them some cash, and see if that will not waken them to the discharge of their duties. <br><br> WE ARE credibly informed that the first number of the Ogden Herald will be issued on Monday evening, May 26, 1881.<br><br> A SEVERE frost during the last two nights caused a fear in the minds of some that the fruit would be injured, but up to this date nothing has been destroyed. <br><br> MESSAGES by telephone from Salt Lake are now received in this city; one has to talk a little louder than when speaking shorter distances, but the words are transmitted instantly, as when conversing with any house in town. <br><br> ABOUT 5 o'clock to day, a young man, aged about 18 years named L. Cunningham, tried to commit suicide by shooting himself. Happily the bullet did not take the effect intended but only tore the flesh across his breast, so that it is thought he will survive. The act was done in a saloon on Main st., from which place the young man was taken home in a carriage. Ed. Berne. Ogden, April 26th, 1881.<br><br> |