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Show TAXING Ii;ilSOAL PHO-PEKT- V ' Uliog took out a policy of insur- York city is to be destroyed, either by Tabiekacli. The large congregation ance on the fair Louisa's life, and she the earthquake or the equally terrible at the Tabernacle, yesterday, was addressed by Prest. F. 1). Richards and did her level best to simulate illness The pestilence will follow the lidal-wav- A Very important decision was rendered last Monday by the Supreme Court of the United States. It fettles a rjuestiim thnt has caused confidence dispute and that involves immense pecuniary interest?. 'J he case under consideration was of Chibrought by the t cago against the Merchants National Rank. The collectot called on the Bank for the taxes due front all its fhareholders. The Ftating that the shares of Hunk declined, non-residen- ts were not taxable in that city. The case was decided in the Illinois courts in favor of the Hjuk, but on oppcal to the U. S. Suprame Court the detitsion was reversed. Under this ruling stocks and shares in corporate companies may be taxed at the place where the companies are located. The conimou-ladoctrine id that personal property is only tax able at the residence of the owner, and a harcho!der in a corporation at Salt Lake, residing in an Eatrn w city, might thus escape the payment of taxes on bis fcharcs. Hut under ths decision the property can be reached by the without regard to the residonce of the owners The' cororatiijn or company makes its profits in the State or Teiritory where its ousiuess is carried on, it there receives the protection of the law, and taxes can be collected on the bulk of the fcharea owned in it without regird to the plaoe of residenco of the refpectivo shareholders. tax-collect- or earth-quak- and death A physician named Dr. Kurtz was deceived wi h the belief that Louisa was in convulsions, while the fact was she was only distorting her limbs violently, and mouth working soap in her By painting her face no uncommon thing fjr ladies to do she made herself look ghastly, and lying rigid on her bed, with a sheet drawn up to her chin, she looked like An undertaker a veritable corpse. thv into taken plot to take in the wjs insurance company, and instead of burying Louisa, who was pronounced defunct, th certificate being signed by ' Dr." Uling, be "screwed down" nineteen bricks, which were followed to the grive by a decent company of mourners, who had seen Louisa, as i hey supposed, dead and cold before the coffin was fastened up. On app'icatioii for the 610,000, the suspicions of the insurance company were aroused that there had been foul play; detectives were sot to 'work up" tho case, the coffin was disinterred and the bricks brought up as nineteen dead but speaking witnesses against the swindlers. Uling was arrested a letter from his Louisa was found among h'a papers, and now Miss Germs and Uling, and Fink, the undertakcr,arc each in the Touibs, and are uuhappy. Louisa is still Germs, not having developed into Uling, but with the pre'tended doctor and dejected undertaker, will form the germs of a very neat case of conspiracy to defraud the Merchants' Life Insurance Company. Aud such is life in New York. quickly. . a modi:k jekeuiaii. suili:rsciiuyi.i:ii declines. - . ornel to mention Credit Mobilier, nor would we risk paiuing that mode! member of the Young Mcu's Christian Association by asking how he had made BuiHcient, while in office, tj retire into private life without the need aa well as the doture of renew. ing its responsibilities. Jxok at this noble example, ye riogitca" of Salt Lake! I'onder upon his impressive axiam - office-hungr- y impending coming season our crops will fail as completely as they hate failed iu India. I preuiot tout a famine wi t take place in the Uoiied States before the present year is oyer. Another panic will add to the distress. Our last panic was essentially a stock panic, the panic of next fill will atfect all values. Already the first symptoms of it are apparent in t he cleoliue of rail roads. We may shut our eyes to the future, but we cannot alter fact?, (amine nnd financial ruin are close at hand. These things are to punish us far our forgetfulness of God. We are, practically, a nation of disbelievers. No such nation has ever yet escaped punishment. Many of our reader? will mock at this assertion, cut they will find it to be true. We haye given ourselves wholly to Belf ish money making regardless whether wo make it lioncMly or not. We nhull be taught by hard experience the folly of our ways. I know whereof I speak. My authority 1 need not parade, but let your readers be warned in time. A great woe is denounced against us as a nation, I alreHd hear its awful footsteps ap- experience. proaching," "Jeiiemiaii." 'The truest happiness in life is in be"I wan ei this people through your ing out of office." Why then areje columns some weeks ego, that a finanso wretched and so anxious? Hearken cial panic and the fsilur of the crops end nuto Suiiler Schuyler, the Pecliner, was sure to come to pas befare the of the present year. And now 1 make and be eonteui as ye are if ye can. the further prophecy that pestilence and vast and terrible couvulmous of nature are at hand. It is give to me to see these things coxa Eit.us'" clearly; but I fear that lb people will SIM II A CY. not believe iu them till they have actual ly arrived, Aadyethow can they fail The'' latest attempt to ewlndlo a to read the signs of the times? Lok at life inuran;e company has just been the great temperance revival sweeping over the country. It means that there defeated in New York. A German, is something in the air that stimulates calling himnclf "Dr." ding, obtained men and women to a strange exaltation of the moral faculties. We Fee the same the affections of a young girl named thing intensified in North Carolina, in Lt.uisa Germs, also a German, nd, the region where the enrthqunke is shak-iastho country. History shows that although a married man, promised to these spiritual disturbances are closely marry the girl, if she would help in connected with the unknown force that produces the earthquake and the volcathe consummation of a little scheme, no. The earthquake is clt.se at hand, the germ of which were working iu aud it will far urpii?s that which tcrri- tied our peop.e iu loo. I he breaking bis German brain. Miss Germs con- of a volcano in North Carolina may pos tented, and expected to take tiling sibly avert to some extent the ruin that is otherwise impending: but, never he- nd $10,000 aa a reward for her Iocs, our whole Atlantic seaboard is to be rhaken to its foundation, and New deduced the from official or r 4 e. Defore the summer is over the cholera will stalk through the crumbling ruins of our seabo n d cities. It is com ing, and no precaution of quarantine will be able to stay its march. Though these tliin.'? are the punishment of a wicked notion, they will come The early through natural causes. ppring. followed by he late frost will cut olt all i he crops. Tlie subtle in the atmosphere of h s'ranj;e element connected with the earthquake will produce the religious txci ement. The poison let looee tiy the opening earth will breed the pestilence. 15ut let not the people fancy that there is not a power thnt control nature The nation that forgets (Jed will be chastened whether by war or famine or earthquake or pestilence. We have fought Him and we shall be made to mfler You scoff at me to d:iy as n religious iV I sumajon you t imwer me tix riuiic. months hence. You will not scolf then, t'utyou will comprehend the heavy buris laid upon the man wh den these calamities in the near future, and knows that no power can sUy them. I prcf-enu- e Elder John I. Hurt. We congratulate Prest. Richards on being eufficifintly recovered from his illns3 as to attend again to his ,ublic ministrations. There was a good house, Saturday night, and the prospects of the much the better Plank Sidewalk are lor it. Mr. Heme's rendition of "Rip" was a splendid piece of character actme, tint talented actor excelling himself on Theatre. ih;s occasion. Mrs. Wright's, 'Gertrude," and the other was natural and sustained well by the comparts were life-lik- e, pany. The farce of "A House to be Sold," was a huge "sell," perpetrated by Mr. Heme and duly appreciated by the audience. Messrs. F A. Shiells and Joseph Wright, who were in the audience, assisted materinlly in the "goak " and folks went home in that excess of good "Jebkmiah." humor which is always the result, with an American audience, of a successful "sell" on a large pcale. Most of the dialogue was impromptu, and was carried on with such an appearance of reFrom Monday Daily of April 20. ality, that the "sell" was perfect. Considerable annoyance was caued THE AMERICAN SARDINE CO's HON 9i' Sardine, r nuli-- Letter, auJ lo- - than during the evening by the barking of a r halftlie cust of import Sardine. dog. Mr. Heme very properly made th-i- t fore-Hue- s LOCAL ITEMS. blT-lj- remarks upon the impropriety of introducing the animal to a theatre, and after some dispute between the owner and the officers present, the animal was removed. It may be fun to some folks to hear a dog bark during a theatrical ' performance, but it is greatly annoying to others, and must be particularly so to the performers. Good taste would certainly suggest the propriety of leaving animals outside, but the some Rkamxo Koom The Ogden City Room be will Reading opened in the upper part of the premises occupied by G. W. Turner. Di:st Sprinkler. Salt Lake is using a dust sprinkler. Ogden had one this morning, "and it didn't cost a cent, nulher." The flukes only stayed a time, but settled the dust question for a seems most to blame in allowing them to few days at least. door-keep- Mixoo Killbd. We learn from parties who came ia from Cheyenne, that Mingo, who shot Kenney and was released from the just punishment for his crime, by Gov. Woods, without any explanation to the public of the reasons for such extraordinary clemency, was engaged in some conflict with a white man in & dauce-hous- e at that place, and was himself shot and killed, being per"Whoso fectly riddled with balls. sheddeth man's blood, etc." mm Condessatioss. From Saturday Xeics: evening's The juvenile jubilee is fixed for some time in June. The Weber County Sunday school children are invited to take part in it. There was a big blow at Bountiful last Friday, the stiffest breexe experienced there for several years. Bishop Gardner has contracted to build a caual for Carson and Buzzo, to be finished by June 20th, which, with Sidewalk. The contract for building machinery, will cost $35,000. the sidewalk has been assigned to Mr. Judge McKean has issued a writ of Richard Ballantyne, the lowest bidder, habeas corput te Warden Rockwood, datwho has accepted the contract, and has ed April Cth, to produce Jacob Arthurs, gone to Ogden Valley to get out the lum- confined for seduction, before His Honor ber. Fifty rods are to be completed with- on the 4th of May next. Why not fetch in tweuty-fiv- e days from the 18th inst. him up at once if he is unlawfully imNow send in your subscriptions and en prisoned ! From yesterday morning's Herald: able the committee to fiuisli the job. was at work street sprinkling-car- t in Salt Lake on Saturday. Mr. Daniel Shearer, an eld and well known citizen, died on Saturday, aged Si years. A little girl, while trying to liberate a dog whoso head was caught in a fence, was bitten through the cheek and nose, A Mr. Newton, while exploring in the mountains for the source of a hot spring, found signs of gold, and on washing out two panfuls obtained a very good show, which he showed to us. The gold is rather icoarse and in the shape of small nuggets ; it weighs about and has a very painful wound. three grains. Mr. Nowtoo thinks, with at Miss Annie Graham is a good head of water, it would pan out the Theatre, for three days. $23 a day. President Young and party wee exLake this (MonScnday School Usims. The adjourn- pected to arrive at Salt ed meeting of the Sunday School Union day) afternoon. is set for next Saturday, in the 2nd Ward Schoolhouse, at 11 a.m. All who are Sliootiiig. interested in Sunday School affairs in Mr. Editor. I have had some reflecthis county, are requested to be present. on the practice of pigeon shooting tions Measures will be taken to have a proper for sport, aud it seems to me to be rather representation of the Sunday Sehools a barbarous sport to shoot these innocent of Weber County, at the Juvenile J ubilee birds trying to escape to tbeir native homes. Nevertheless, let the world pur. in Salt Lake City. sue their sports; but those professing to be Saints, read the revelations in relation to such matters, found in the Book Tsavrl. Gen. Fremont, Josh kil of Doctrine and Covenants, and peruse lings, the humorist, and Mr. Shearman, the matter in their minds. A word to the well known Supt. of the Union Stock the wise, etc. Respectfully, Yards at Chicago, passed through our Jonathan Browmkg. California. for ea route city yesterday Ogden, April 20th, 1874. The passenger train arriving from the East, last night, brought about ninety passengers, many of whom stopped over Set to Slusie. oue train ( visit Salt Lake City. The Some one has got hold of the newstrain which arrived from the West this number of had on board a large morning paper bore and set him to music as passengers from New Zealand, who, iu follows: company with Mr. Hall, the travtiling "He drops info my easy chair, And asks about the news; agent for the Australasian and American Ho peers into my manuscript. Mail Steamship Co., remain over one And gives his candid views; day. Among thos9 who reached here He tells me where he likes the line, this morning and went directly through, And where he's ferced to grieve, we observed Mr. Gtrald Massey, the He takes the strangest liberties, But never takes his leave 1" celebrated lecturer. ri.ACKRDiGC.iKos. ligcon CW.PK,os1!Apri,20ll8:4Dear Siar-Per- mit - Ih columns ot the 'r ? General Plank .Si,JeHlk Com'S .I"" return our sincere thanks to Mr fl ' Womlmaiisee, for phi. ing at on'r his Theatre. f,ee of change. Z for the r give an cf the Plank Sidewalk. To Mr J as. A. Heme for ,s oiis Hcrviees ou the oeeut--i n ami pratuit. lor tbe i. unexcept ..in UJS diameter of "Kin Vun v,r,u.."(), V. which, t.y his vivid conception of , 'J nature, be moves the audience to tt r' .. ill Inn untltn in nnrl in laughter in the comic portion of fc1 eiitei-tumme- 1 1 . i 1 i - i il. play. Abo, to Mrs Anna Wright, who this occtis on far furpasged herself r Mrs Jost, Miss Taylor, May anj LaUr Bowling. Messrs G.J. Wright..!. Wri-- l, J. L. Dee, E. U. Reed, II. Mousleytnj J. Dale, for their gratuitous terviees,nj for the excellent support afford,-,- 0,,',, occasion, mid whom we would le p'eti!ed to notice further, but are j revenij i, our want of space. We nlso wish t' thank the Orchestra for their excellent and music, the for all free of charge. And i heir services, last but not least, Mr. C W. Penrose fw gratuitous ir,nling. And again, t0 Mr, Heme and Company for the decided good hit iu selling the house. We regret exceedingly ihe slight which occurred, to mar, forth in the moment, the interest maniles-teplay, and sheuld Mr. Heme ui on his return from Australia, v.e hope hi may not again be subject to a like annoyance. Iu conciusion we will state, for the benefit of the public, that the net proceeds of the entertainment amounted tt $130, which amount we have turned over to Mr Joseph Parry, Treasurer (if the Sidewalk Committee. ! door-keepe- J. Graham J. J Clayton F. "W. M. Cook A Co i er enter To gratify many of our subscribers who have requested us to publish the following, we have clipped them from Tbo Hon. Suiiler Colfax, not hav tho New York Graphic of March ing any more opportunities of resign 12th and March 24th: "I wish to warn tha people of this ing, has taken to declining. Several country, through jour paper, that frienda from different counties in In- - great disaster ia at band. We had no failure of the eotton have have diana urged upon the pious and crop since 18G9 and no general failure of uniling gentleman to accept tho nom- the gram crop since before the war. A complete failure of both these crops ination for Congress in bis old disis at hand.- The open Winter ought to trict. But he declines. Ho has warn us of tho calamity. The found, so ho says, that "tho truest 'happiuess in life is in being out of office and master of onn's own time and movement." Looking back upon hifl past official career he says, "I can see nothing in tho record of that public life which, dying,I would wish to blot." In this connection it would be e. "1 Special J Committee lean 1 cud. The Temps publishes a letter frou Bastia, datwd March 18, iu which it is stated: "Yesterday the ofiics of the local magistrate was the scene cf a fearful struggle. Two brother Oorti had summoned one Francis Cuinpona on account of an alleged tresspass, and the case was dulj beard. When the magistrate had retired, an angry altercation arose between the parties. Jean Antoine Corti drew a dagger and stabbed Francois Caniponu, while the other Corti fired a revolver at Cauipona'j brother, who was wounded in the chest. A relation of the Camponai, who interfered, was stabbed, atd a bystander was wounded by a bull froa Corti's revolver. The two Cord were allowed to retire without anj attempt being made to detain them. The it ud betwecu the parties is believed to have arisen out of eveuu which occurred many mouths ago. In August, 1872, a bailiff named Montotelli was ibuud murdered on the high road, and public rumor accused the Cortis' of having hired the assassin. Corti, the father, died whil but the iuvcstigatiou was procc-dinghis son Jean Autoine, and his daughter were tried for being accessory to the crime, but were acquitted. Twtr other men were convicted of baviDg been concerned in the murder, aud were sentenced to twenty years' imanprisonment. This judgment was nulled, and th;y were tried a secood time, but both were again, condemned, to the same penalty. Auiong th w'tnesses against them were Francois Cauipona aud a relative, who thus, it , beliYed, attracted the aniuiosi:? of the Corti family." is Estray Notice. T1 HAVE IN MY POSSESSION THB FULi.y 1XQ decrild niiBml, which, if not tMinK nnd UiKtm away, will be iold U the bigli sponsible biddr ou Tliur.day. April 2od, llriglmm City Strny l,iind,at 1 p. m. under-"-!- : Oue red two year old Meer, white er, wv lush of tail wliite, under croy ofl resembling J Y on right hip. A. MADSON, I l' r' llt ldntrict Brfgham City, April 13tii lVnuiTlifeixr. UU. NOTICE. XTTE, V THK CNDKRSWNKD.nATBTHM bJ utnI J cnnwnt, diwolved partner. SMITH. I'AKNKS City, vt1- Logu AprilSth,lS74. T 1 HAVK TIITS DAY BOUGnT TITE nd prmlsei formerly knwii twill rec.v. 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