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Show rru - rushing river into r Hit Eddy Ma. , far his which he fell body away, leaving swept only his name, David llalloway, to .... Rvenine Times.! memorize his geuerou but reckless F rom ic iii.n '.' act. a resides At Fair Haven, Vt., The i '"v nan tinman named L tbo for twenty year, r. pa-t-h- nesti-uu- . Spiritualism, earnest believer faith in the aDd had implicit i an gen-uinnc- ss of the Eddy manifestations. Mr. West cot t Some six weeks ago of a man named secured th services had been a pupil of the ChapHn, who and finally Kddy's, as a medium, house upon opened an unoccupied held seances, aud charged his an farm, admission for visitors. On Wednesday evening last., three Haven attresolu'e men from Fair ended the seance for the purpose of time investigation. At the appointed comfor the all was in readiness The lights seance. the of mencing room renthe and dowu were turned The medered dark, or nearly with a tied was dium in the cabinet twists and rope in complicated knots, Quiet reigned in the room, turns. niotiouless. awaiting the all sat and of the spirits. manifestations first to wait, for soon They had not long the tones of a violin came floating through the room, and a number of small hells chimed in. Soon a tall, emerged from the stately cabinet, but almost Instantly disappeared having said nothing aud done nothing supernatunl or wonderful. In a short time a little dumpy "spirit" came and began to laopc about in the darkness, when one of the investigators made u spring and landed square on the back ol the sups posed . spirit. soirit did not vanish into thin air never more to be seeu by mortal eyes; but instead, a subdued grunt tscaped from him, and he made au effort to free himself from the grasp of the investigator. But it could not be done, and the other investigators instautly pioduced a light, which rendered the room as bright as noonday. The sham stood there in the grasp of his investigators, robed in white, and was found to be Chaplin. Finding that his race was ruu, The Chaplin uadc a bold trout, acknowl- edged that the whole thing was a humbug, and said he performed exThis exposure actly as the Eddys. convinced Mr. Westcott of the that had been played, aad in the Rutland Globe of yesterday he publishes a challenge, calling ou the Eddys to meet him at the town hall, Rutland, and allow him, Westcott, to prove them imposters and humbugs. The following is the modus operandi of the imposition at Chittenden, as described by Mr. Westcott: Their operating room is 19 by iO feet; cabinet 3 by 5 feet; stage G by 8 feet about 5 feet high, with a railing in front. The light consists of a small lamp, turned very low, with a frosted chimney placed some some thirty feet from the stage, with a drumhead between the lamp aud iui-jisstu- re the stage. the features jet I could not distinguish of an acquaintance six from me in ls ever the room. allowed upon their assistants. No one the stage, ex-cc- pt Brarcry. There is enough of heroism and "ttve in the way a Tennessee locomotive engineer met his death to temper with sympathy the judgment Jnich his foolhardiness deserves. was employed on the Georgia and East Tennessee and llailroad, s cautiously working his way orer tne track with a passenger train just ter the recent floods had subsided, j reached Sweetwater Creek, over which a temporary bridge had been Mowntto replace the one washed ilwa? by the swollen waters. It aBd lie lcared t0 ri? ,.lnsecure and . passengers in crowing it; 80) uncoupling the engine Irt'W us tender, and ordering the "reman to leave his post, that but hfc might be eudangered, he hedao full speed for the other ank These mere momeuts of weathless suspense, then a crash of "J. ,eu Ambers, an explosion, a cloud eam, and a wrecked eugiue. The laeer was geen no more; the f IlllilglllHtiOll. been aa Rousseau once wrote: ''If it were only necessary for you to hold out your thumb in order to cause the death of an immensely wealthy mandarin in China, whose heir you would be, are you sure that you would not extend your thumb V This paassage one day attracted the attention of Henri de Lacrois, a young Frenchman of excellent family, but whose brain had been a little affected by the loss of his fortuue. He thought, "If I could stretch out my thumb and that would be enough to kill my uncle and cousin, I should become verv rich " in a sort of hallucination he ex tended his arm towards the photographs of his relations and said ' Let them die, so that I may in f herit." Fifteen days later his uncle and cousiu were carried off by tVDhoid fever. Within the last six months remorse preyed upon Lacrois' enfei-ble- d intellect, ana he imagined that his fpell caused the death of his relatives. He heard voices from all sides of his room calling : "Thou hast killed us ! Thou hast killed us!" He delivered himself up to the police and asked to be executed, lie died a lew days ago in an insane asylum. One of the most couscietious sherrecord has turnea up in Iowa. A railroad was to be sold at sheriff's sile, and a friendly agreement was made by which this model official 8350 in w;8 to reeeive for his part in the transaction, which required two hours, perhaps, of his valuable time. But after tf e sale he happened to look at the statute which fixed his fees, when he found to his horror that he had been transgressing the laws of the State, which declared that he should receive no other fees than those legally assigned him. So he refused the liberal sum offered him, and said he'd take nothing but his lawful fees, which, in this instance, it seems, amounted to 11,000. The railroad meu endeavored to hold him to his bargain, but he was too conscientious to violate the laws he was appointed to uphold, and, the case goiug to the courts, his integrity was rewarded by a verdict in his favor. iffs on pay-me- ut McArthur of the Troy Budget says that while in Nashville recently he went into a barbershop, Cel. and that in auswer to an inquiry as to whether negroes were shaved there the colored proprietor said: No sah. 'Todder day one 'o dem famatic nig-gacame into dis shop, and he demand a sibbil rites shabe, an' I tole him to go right away, and not bodder me, for dat dis was a white man's shabbin shop, an' he hab de good Col. sense to leave mighty quick." McArthur adds that the negro barbers in the Southern cities are compelled to choose between refusing to shave black facts aud getting only black ones to shave,, and that in many instances they have published cards ai.nouncing their choice of the former alternative. hs The other day a New York lady went to py her respects to one of the latest arrivals on the list of babyhood, when the following colloquy took place between her the little sister of the new comer: "I have come for that bady now," said the lady. "You can't have it,'' was the reply. "But I must; I came over on purpose," urged the visitor. "We can't spare it all," peisisted the child; ' but I'll get a piece of paper, and you can cut out a pattern." four-year-ol- d Haifa dozen Harvard sophomores made a bet of a wine supper that they could pass entirely through the Fifth Ward of Boston on St. Patrick's Day witUorange ribbons in their buttonhole. When they were nearly through, a crowd pitched into them, but they ran in the direction they had started, and won the bet. which all the prophets of God, and those who held the everlasting priesthood had been engaged. Those men hal been te FORTY-FIFT- H ANNUAL CONFERENCE, t apart from before the foundations of the Thursday, April 8tb, 10 world to with the Almighty in His plans for the salvation of all His chddren. They were opposed by the world because the world did net under-- s a.m. Choir sang: "The happy day has rolled on The truth restored isnow aiadeknown" Prayer by Elder George Guddard. Choir snug: "See all creation join To praise the eternal God." and them, nor their mission, nor the spirit by which they were actuated. The speaker then went on to show that through the labors of this everlasting priesthood all nunkind would be event- ELDER JOHN TAYLOR Said there never was a man able to instruct mankind in the things of God un less inspired and guided by the spirit of revelation, and no people ever were nble (o comprehend those instructions unless also enlightened Wy Ihe same spirit. Our object in assembling in conference was to reflect upon the things of God, for the benefit of the saint?, their posterltv and their ancestors who had passed away ... Th iuc miuie m.uitj .. its luierusieu i in .iIU1S work if they could only understand it. We occupied a peculiar position, for we differed in a great many respects from all other people. We differed in our faith, our hopes, our prospects and the object of our lives. We were engaged in a work designed by ibe Almighty be tore the world was framed. Certain events had to transpire and to bring them about, certain doctrines and ideas had to b- - revealed, in order that we might operute in accordance with His de signs. 1 tie plan ot salvation was not so contracted as some persons imagined. God was the Father of the spirits of all flesh, and consequently He telt interest ed in the welfare of nil. no mailer of what age, color or clime. And the work in which we were engaged was designed for the henefit of those who now lived, those who would come after us. and those who had lived before up to the most remote ages. We were dependent upon Cod tor guidance and light in relation to this work, and in relation to all things with which we were concerned, for our guid ance, direction and support. We should all find out, sooner or later, that we, who now lived, formed only an integral part of one great family, and noved in a very limited sphere, and that God was over all, directing affairs according to His own plans and designs made before the foundation of the world. Man in the beginning was in the image of God be cause he was Ilis offspring a son of God. and the first commandment he re ceived was to increase and multiply. Why? In order that the spirits which were the offspring ef Deity might become mortal, that they might have tabernacles in which to dwell on earth, that by passing through the trials of the lower world they might rise to glory and exaltation, which they could not attain to in their first estate. Man was made ft little lower than the angels that be might God had never rise above the angels. swerved from His designs from the and had blessed the human family as far as he could, consistent with laws which lie could not violate any We were dependmore than we could. ent upon Him all the lime. We breathed the breath of life, day and night The blood flowed from the heart to the extremities of the body, the pulse continuing to beat. By what agency? In God we lived, in God we moved, in God we had our being, and let Him cause the pulse to stop, or that breath to case, and we should become helpless, inanimate and goto decay. God was watching over us and sustaining us' and the intelligence within us and the means of operating it came from God, and we and all the world were dependent upon Ilimfor all things. Man was a dual being, having a spirit and a body, and thus was related to heaven and earth, to time and eternity. And God had dealt with nations and peoples for their best good, considering their nature and destiny. Elder Taylor then traced the dealings of God with mankind in the different important periods of the world, down to our own day, showing that the men whom God called were endowed with the everlasting priesthood, which held the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, the same priesthood restored to Joseph Smith, by which the same great trutho were taught for the salva tion of man. He shewed the necessity of building temples that principles might be taught and orliuaaces admin' istered, pertaining to the law that govern the body, tha laws that govern the spirit, and things that relate to the living and the dead, that equal justice might be administered to all people wbo had ever dwelt on the earth. He showed how the people of succeeding ages were connected, and how coudeiunatio rested upon those generations when the gospel wjs revealed and temples were on the earth, if they rejected the truth revealed from heaven, because the effects of that rejection reached to their ancestors as We were all of the well as themselves. one brotherhood. and of God of family the of one to prophets, Elias According was to come and turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and of the children to the fathers, lest God should come and smite the earth with a eurse We had to build temples that the benefits of the gospel might be extended to those wb had lived in former generations, that the ordinances of salvation might be attended to in their behalf, that the samt privileges and blessings might be placed within the reach of all people in We should thank God from all ages. the bottom of our hearts that we to labor in this work, in I I :. wen-privilege- d ually redeemed in the highest glory or condition which they were fitted for, acHe traced cording to their own acts. the works of these who held this priest-hooin former times, and showed that they without us could not be made perfect. They were working in the heavens, and we upon the earth, for the same great object. It was a system of as high as the heavens and as wide as eternity. The organization under which we were working was deWho knew signed by the Almighty. the various about of quorums anything the Presidency, the Twelve, the High Priests, the Seventies, Bishops, Elders, Pried. Teachsrs, Deacons, &c? No one, till the Lord revealed it te Joseph Smith. The same organization existed in tbt heavens, the pattern was obtained from the Lord, and it would exist her and hereafter for ever, not only for us, but for all the human family until they are redeemed. Then the earth will te also redeemed and be restored to its former glory. We were all connected together in this great plan of salvation, and all responsible for their acts to the Eternal Father. In viow of this let every man and woman purify their hearts and grow in the knowledge and practice of the principles of truth, that they might be prepared to inherit the glory of God with all the sanctified. Choir sang the Solo and Chorus, "Come all ye Saints throughout the d earth, And join with one accord." Prayer by Elder Franklin D. Richards 2 p. m. Choir sang, "Come all ye Saints wbo dwell on earth. Your cheerful voices raise." Prayer by Elder George Q. Cannon. Choir sang, "Great God attend while Zion sings The joy that from thy piesence," etc. ILDSR GEO. Q. CANNON Said he appreciated the privilege of meeting with the Saints better than if he had been in their midst all Ibe time. He had enjoyed the blessings of God during bis abseuce, and had the satisfaction of knowing that the prospects of the cause of Z'on were bright and promising. He never saw grerter cause for rejoicing in He knew the cause of God than better thau he ever knew, that God was with His people. It was true there were influences operating against us which were new to us. But it bad been taught to us from the begiuning that Zion was to triumph, and become a great power in the earth. Ha did not know how this could be brought about unless Zion passed through ordeals and trials, by wucu it would prove itself superior to anything else upon earth. He knew years ago that our isolation conld not continue, but that we shou d be like "a city set upon a hill," and the world would bo attracted, and come trooping towards us. But in the ordeals which would test us and the system with which we were connected, would only prove more clearly to the satisfaction of all, the superiority of our faith, and bring us that distinction among the nations predicted by the prophets. It was necessary that we prepare ourselves so that when the trials which are inevitable should coine, we might be redy to meet and endure them. Up to the present time no power that bad arrayed itself against this work had been successful. Sometimes a temporary success bad been achieved, but one of the incidents nioit prominent in our history was, that what was intended for our evil always turned out a roagnifictut sucoess for ua. The lesson to be learned from this was, tlut God was in this work, and He overruled The martyrdom of all things for good. waa one of Ibe deadand Joseph llyruni liest blows, according to all human appearance, that was ever dealt against the Church, yet out of that trouble God had He had raised up a led us to victory. man, who, like Elisha, possessed a double portion of the spirit of his master, and who had led the people through the wilderness, and when it seemed that we must be destroyed, God had strengthened us and enriched us, and established ua, and out of that deadly blow against us He had brought blessings to us, and given us the supremacy throughout the length and breadth of this Territory which God had given us, notwithstanding the many efforts to wrest it from us. When we reflected upon the reamer in which the Lord delivered us from the many emergencies in which we had been placed, we must be filled with gratitude The last fivo yean and thanksgiving. had been fruitful in these manifestations Time aud time again it in our favor. seemed as though we were on the verge andof destruction, when God delivered us, those wLo lived in communion with Hi w could discern His hand in their behalf ia answer to their prayers. It seemed that God was determined te have a people on the earth who would be compelled Ono ofthe to put their trust ia Him. to-da- y. traths we had to teach lo the world win, that there waa such a thing as a living faith, and that God ceuld aocomplisu great woudtrs with a small people. Elder Cannou then weal on to show the fallacy and untruth of the accusation f disloyally and intolerance against Ibe Latter-da- y Saints, and said wekatdlho falsehoods te live down, and we should always act so that they would he. falsehoods, proving by eur lives that we were tolerant, loyal, faithful and liberal, a we had done in the past. The experience ir the recent past would shew to u. the value of a just man for a judge, and when we obtained power, as we certainly should, let us take care that. we acted justly, fairly aud righteously to all His- -, lory bad shown that those who bad fled from persecution, when they obtaiued power became persecutors in their torn, lie hoped that God would strip us of power if we became intolerant and oppressive in our disposition. It should be, whenever we obtained power, that any man residing among us might be free to worship the sun, or moon, or nothing at all. He believed we had measurably learned this lesson. He acknowledged the had of the Lord in our being kept iu t Territorial tutelage, and referring te Louisiana and Federal interference r there, he thought our condition far than the condition of that State, and would ask what benefit would accrue to us from a State government, if Federal interference could nullify the will of the people, particularly w.ien the opportuni ties for such interterence were so many, in our peculiar position. The comlitiou of the Southern States, as represented to hiui by Congressmen, had been depicted to him in 'such a dreadful light that he thought our condition ai a Territory an.-fto be preferred. The speaker referred lo the acts of tyranny exeroised towards us by Federal officials, and how we had borne them patiently. This wi.j one of the lessons we h id lo learn. But while we submitted to those things, we were not to cease peaking agaiu?t aud appealing from t em. There was no dis- ' loyalty in Ibis- It wnsthe right of every American citizen to. oriiioize the puhtiu acts of officials. He believed the country was drifiicg from the old constitutional landmarks, and that the time wan coming as had been predicted by the Prophet Joseph, when "he wbo would not lift up his sword against his neighbor must needs tJee to Zion for safety," ' and when the Latter-daSaints would be the only peop e who would stand up to redeem (he Constitutes from those ' who wished to destroy it. He diluted ' upoa Ihe lightly taxed condition of Utah, and inveighed against the spirit of official peculation so general throughout the country, from which we were free. II warned our public ' men against these abuses, and our young ' men against the evils of tbe world introduced into our midst. He h id proved ' that a man lost nothing by being true in. ' the principles of his religion, in every' place and in all sooiety. The inclination to be like other fulks was incorrect. We shout), as the people of God, be I acd not mere imitators. We' should maintain our faith everwLere and at all times, and he prayed that God, would help us to lo do. , bet-te- ar - -' y cm-parative- ly FKBST, PRIG . II AM TO UNO. Said we were the ebildrca of a diviaa personage, a living being, composed ot the various elements that Art aecewary to make up an immortal being. In tusk-- ; lag Ihe earth on whioh we lire, lie--, brought together elements which never were created, but had always cxuiled, aud organized them. By and by per- -, son apeared on tbe earth, and ihea another, so that there was pair, fritm whioh sprang Iha human family. Adaai,,. it is said, was created in the image of God; we are his children, and also in tha, image cf God. We believed in Hjm, in the Being who made ihe earth tad tel. bounds to the path oi tbe planets, and, arranged the times bad tbe seasons-Walso believed in His Soa Jesus Christ. How much better were we for, this? God and Christ said, if ye believe, roe, "if you levt me, keep lay commandments." The Christians who professed to believe in Jeeua Christ, denied him ia their aots every day of their, live. The. Chinese did not believe in Jesus, but 6!e of their ancient phileaophera taught many of ihe umt truths ila4. Jesuft taught, one of which it wouU be M fpr the whole world te follow, viz , "l)a, unto others as you would they should do, unto you." ArJd he would impress upuu all people the fact lhal wlieu God had e, kiogtoni established on the earih, Hi people would practice thai principle, and have no punishments for those who differed from them in their faith. He wanted all peo'ple to understand that tue. Latter-da- y Saiuta had received the ren velations of God through His Sen Jeua Christ, aud tbe minis) ration of angels, and the keys of tbe Holy Priesthood Tbey had the faith of our Lord Jesust The, Chrict, and the living oracles. Christian world had nothing to o3Vr to, the heathen world that was of any Lene-f- it to them. The whole of their ieligi9 might besuotineJ up in: "CometoJesuvl come to Jesus!" What had we t offer? This, "You that will obey the dociru e we f reach shall know for yourselves whether it is of God or not. You shaiL know it by the spirit of revelation, wui you shall have these gifts and blessings, and manifestations promised by Christ, to Hit diseiplcs, and ultimately eternal life," e . t |