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Show " 1" oii tf bicT k Proioite Hears ths Great Stanley. And Listen to Him Wh!3o He Tells of His Travels In Africa. He Also Relates th3 fleeting of Himself and the Immortal Dr. Livingstone. Salt Lake City, March 10, 1891. Special Correspondence to The Dispatch. Dis-patch. Mud! Mud! is the all prevailing pre-vailing compound element of the streets in '"Zion", and the street cars are reaping a harvest of nickles, from tlift people's disinclination to 'wade in." The Wagner Opera, which for the first time were produced here last week, wvi;t out in ablaze of glory Saturday niht. 'The Flying-Dutchman1" "being the 'title of -the final, produced by the Emma Juch troupe, who took $4,000 away from the music-loving Salt L'.ik-ers. L'.ik-ers. I presume it takes a good deal of training for a woman to sing like a pi-ant pi-ant ; but it is very doubtful if the masses who thronged Thalia's temple, night after night,really appreciated the performance. To be sure there was applause; ap-plause; but soma of it came in under situations in the play, where it must have grated harshly on the nerves ol the actors. The scenic effects however were grand, and realistic in a degree which can only be produced in a first-class first-class theatre. It reflects great credit to the sagacity of Brigham Young,that this institution, built in the early days of tke settlement of this Territory, when many of the materials used in its construction had to be hauled over the plains by teams, was built on such a scale that it fulfills the requirements of the Salt Lake City of to-day. The Sunday services in the great Tabernacle were attended by an audience aud-ience who tilled the huge auditorium, and a good portion of the galleries. Prest. Geo. (. Cannon presided. Dr. Talmage delivered an eloquent and lucid address en the absurdity of the' scientific'. infidelity which disbelieve in an Aliwise and Almighty Almigh-ty Creator. The speaker made im of ths argument of design, illustrating it with several happy comparisons. Xh 13 was the first meeting held in the Tabernacle since the re-arrangement of the seats on the platform for the choir. The speaker's stand has beu'ii advanced six feet further out in the hall, and tle oid circular pulpits have given way for email stands of an oblong square form, covered with pur-p'e pur-p'e velvet, the same material which covers the upholstering of the seats for the first Presidency and the Twelve. Ths space between the organ and stand for the first presidency is filled with fine opera chairs for the choir, which form a large half-circle facing the audience. au-dience. There are seven rows right in trout of the organ, and flanking on each side are twelve other rows, giving a seating capacity for three hundred singers. The scats are raised so that each succeeding tier overlooks those in their front, causing the singer voices no obstruction from spreading in the hull. These elegant upholstered seats cost OTer 81,500. The vt-ry faded floral decorations hav8 bee-; removed from the huge arched coiling, which has b-'en kalsa mined. Salt Lake City, March 10, 1S91. Mr. Stanley and wif -vere the guests at lion. John W. Yon;;.; atTempleton to-day. In the form n tho party were taken on a Utah ' Vitral train to Buffalo Park and G.v fM, where they inspected the briny ii juid and admired the view from the pailion. Later in the afternoon they --ore tendered a reception at th -loil.. The great explo.er was report--1 somewhat indisposed, indis-posed, and not abh- to !t- present. His amiable wife the:,fore received the attention which si:e oiii rvise would have shared with h-r h 'sband. The hotel parlors were lavishly deco rated wit h flowers ;;;:J c-v rgreens, and fr m an adjoining r on: were heard the strains of sweet rendered by our local artists a:d iVeihe, Kro-ise and the string qu,-ittte. The lecturer at the theatre must -av.- !iad an audi-e audi-e ;ce of 2000 poo; 1c. in spite of the st irmy weather --id advanced prices. Across the st -igs as suspended a large map of Aa ;.-1 . .m which a young negro poin!j ! ; i.. various localities local-ities referred to 1 y the lecturer. At li.'teen minutes just y o'clock Mr. Stanley and Ji i:y Z.-iii.- made their e: trance on the s-. ue. in introducing SUnley. Judge '..: r:,I!ed him the greatest explorer f !!i:':.nt or modern ti.nes, and said he wa man who had dealt with the fuvac-i of Africa on the assumption l'...t r.;h and justice was best for them wt-l: as for civilized civi-lized men. Wl-.r-.i V ; o :n iastries, arta and sciences shV! rear their heads in Africa, when -.-.vh-.: shall climb and ascend her m -j -st ic r'vers, wiien civilized men slinl" ten I tla-ir flocks on a thnusanl hills. whe:i her mighty cities and states ;;il -,v -.yet a united, happy and free peoo'c - li, ir posterity will look back it maj- I e to some distant dis-tant ages, and am..?;.' thrt benefactors of men, will point t ti o great traveler, discoverer and ex;' m - r who is with us to-night. I A stupendous .cico.iie arose as Stanley advanced to the f:onl. He is a man that shows tjioie hnn his 49 yens, though lie s!o! has a firm carriage carri-age and semi miliijMv bearing, ilis hair is more than gey an l his moustache mous-tache almost whit- peaks dis-ii dis-ii ct'y and in a very pi, -ant. conversational conver-sational UKinnrr, and wb he has to tell is of -i natut- : a vo ihl ch.arm the attention if it were e erso poorly delivered. The lecturer told haw he was sent to Abyssinia as v;ar correspondent corres-pondent of the New York Herald, in 1SGS. From there he went to Creta, where a rebellion was raging, and later to Spain and Algeria. From the latter he was called by telegram to Paris, where tiie proprietor of the Herald, (James Gordon Bennett) told him to "Go and find Livingstone." After he had performed several minor missions, such as a trip to Egypt to attend the opening of the Suez canal, and also a tiip up the Xile to visit General Baker, he visited Jerusalem to explore the underground retreats discovered there. Th Crimean was next visited where he furuished articles for his journal, taking the famous battles of Inkerman and Balaklava for subjects. He next went to the Persian gulf, from where he staited on his search for the lost Livingstone, who was then supposed sup-posed to be in the very heart of Africa. The explorer then related how his caravan of over 2.000 men were assailed by the natives and routed with a loss of 500 killed; how he himself very near became a "'lost discoverer." lie then related how he found Mr. Livingstone, and how they for a time united their labors. Thru the death of the missionary Livingstone after more than 32 of years of labor in the dark continent, then the voyage of discovery dis-covery to explore Victoria Xyanza; the adventures by land and sea; the escapes from savages and "hippos." Then came the most breathless part of the story, the tale of the massacre of Gordon, the fall of Khartoum, the abandonment of Etnin Pasha in the interior of the Soudan, and the wail of help he sent forth to . the civilized orld. He told how a company of rich Englishmen and Scotchmen railed the fund and how the Egyptian government govern-ment raised 'a similar fund and put it in his hands for the relief of Emin Pasha; how they started on their journey; how their numbers were decimated de-cimated by onslaughts and sickness; how the rear column was left behind; how after six months' severe marching and breasting their way through forests and undergrowths of centuries development, they reached the shores cf Tanganyika; how Emin Pasha was there found living in indifference of the at tempts that he knew were bein made to succor him; how the weary return re-turn to the rear columu was made, and Jephson left with Emin Pasha; how, after weary months' of travel, they came to the desolute Bonny and heard with sickening hearts his report of the fate of the rear column, Bartellot dead and only 102 men left out of 271. Stanley hurried past tin's part of his t ile and said it was sometiung that would not bear repetition. lie then retailed re-tailed the return again to Emin Pasha, and told how he found him and Jephson in the hands of the rebellious natives; how Jephson escaped, and how Emin tarried, waited, complained com-plained and was in all so irresolute ir-resolute that Stanley had to send him something like a peremptory summons before he would consent to be rescued at all.-- The founding of the free Cemro state and the exploraion of Victoria Xyanza, the fixing "of the vari-i vari-i ous boundries that separated the various vari-ous possessions of the European nations where all dwelt upon, and he concluded by describing the wonderful alterations aud progress now being made in the shape of railroads, steamers plying on the rivers and lakes, missionary societies societ-ies extending everywhere, and he did not doubt but that there were children in this city who would live to read of great black nations in Africa who were summoned to worship by the sound of church bells, and who would sing as we sang "Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men." 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