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Show if. nranan?ir r- - TIIE UTAH COUNTY TIMES. TncnsDAt Evening, Dec. ROBERT G. SIEITER 17, 1S74. Editor. THE JIDICUL SCENE. that the DisJudicial Third the Judge trict Court has been having anWe regret to learn of is not. Ifllis Honor thinks by these little hcenes that the mouth of the press will he gagged, or if he thinks that he can suppress them by such folly be is much mistaken, and is a greater fool than we took him to be. Courts may not be intimidated, nor Juries influenced, but they may be taught their duties as well as other official-when they transcend them; and the press shall not be gagged or coerced by any man in office no matter how important he may feel hinielf to be. We go in for fair play. , other scene in court. lie permitted a lawyer to read an article from the JVeics on the duties of Judges and Juries, That lawyer, as we conceive, had no more right to read the article in court than LIUirMMlAKK. ho had to introduce the language of a man uttered in the street. It That King is being lionized in had nothing whatever to do with Washington. Th B,mk of England added the case in court, was irrelevant 60,000 to its bullion on Tuesday. to the subject, and immaterial to ca-The e of Wm. M. Tweed will tho matter before Jt.' It was in Ik heard on a habeas corpus on the bad taste to bring if there, and 17th inst. The fit. C'h,.rh-fnrsomething more than tin arguwas burned ment actuated the lawyer. It $25,000. was evidently an effort to create a lu, sensation for some particular is The losi by tin estimated at effect, or it was designed to nub and $150,000. and censure the imaginary lawThe Mexican Congress has deyer tho supposed author of the creed the suppression of the Sisarticle, or it was designed to in- ters of Charity. timidate the press. Thejudge, of Fire at Bangor destroyed nine stores and a hotel. Lo.-$70,01)0; course, allowed the reading of $30, insured, the article because it was in the A British collier hi been lost Deseret News, that he might have in tin hay of and' eight of the opjK)rtunity to utter ids feel- her crew drnw ned. Two hundred and fifteen tlnu-- J ings. Thejudge, ten, took opor-lunit- y to- - make charges which sand dollars in specie w ere slopped could not be substantiated by any from New York on the 15th. Tin Pacific Mail business begin evidence before him in the ca-- e to assume a serious Irwin or in the court: lie traveled out is dangerously ill from nervous of the records, to belch out his prostration. A steamship which ran aground feelings against the press which he said occurred years ago. He in New York bay Sunday, threw had nothing to do with what was ovcrlwnrd fifty tons of beet sugar to lighten her off. said to have taken place with his Great frauds discovered in the predecessors years ago they Charlestown navy yard, and a could protect themselves at the suspected official ha leon suspend time, and it was and is none of cd pending investigation. Tho hank of California Is g his business, unless it conics gold in large quantities to him legally. He likewise New York, and its operations are charged, indirectly, several mem- closely watched in Wall street. bers of the bar, who are no doubt, Tho argument on tho Beeeher-Tilto- n ills peers In ability, with writing hill of particulars will take the article alluded to, as well as place on Saturday next, fy F.varts others hesuspocted. At the Mine for Beecher and Beach for Tilton. A number of buildings belongtime the charge was false, the arto the iron company of A usaing ticles being written by the editors ble forks, N. Y., were burned of tho Sews. Monday morning. Loss, $125,000; The Judge thinks criticism is partly insured. Tho Methodist missionary hoard motoljectionable; hut we suspect, he likes the criticism to come as have made large appropriations for the relief of .the grasshopper it would please him. lie may sufferers, and for an increase of depend it will never come as he salaries in Home, Italy. desires, but ns the writers list. The House jKxstal committee Criticism to flatter is very desir- yesterday agreed to recommend able, and such would not receive the passage of the hill introduced last February, fixing an annual n word of censure from him, nor, for post masters. salary the unwise lawyer who occasionThe President has appointed ed the scene no doubt, however, James Brown, widelv known ns d it was all arranged in rehearsal Brown, to tie agent Now, we have to say, that the fur the roving hands of Indians in with axillary of $2,WiU.--Yeira had a right to utter any sen- Oregmtr The President and Cabinet, totiments it conceived bn the duties with King Kalakaua, atgether of Judges or juries. The press can tended the centennial tea party not be restricted to what he or last night, In t ho rotunda of the A large crowd were they think Is right to say. To Capitol. of the duties aforesaid is present. not to censure or condemn judge The Pacific Mail subsidy invescommittee want to know or jury; and the Court has no tigating what Parsons of Ohio meant when right, as we see in justice, to talk he said in the houe that he reabout fining for contempt. Per- ceived some of the money used to furnish the subsidy, but used none haps the Judge thinks that he is of it corruptly. all powerful because he occupies Congressman Page, ofCnlifornia, the seatof Justice, but he is mis- was heard by the House committaken. Others have rights as tee on foreign relation yesterday, well as he. It reminds us of an on the necessity of prohibiting coolie Importation under servile ignorant Justice of the peace contracts and Chinese women for whom a man met in the street, Immoral purposes. .and spoke some plain words to Fires supposed to ho of an incen. the limb of the law which rather diary origin raged in Boston and Charlestown Mondav night and touched his dignity. The jud morning, The principal roared out, sir I fine you for con-- 5 Tuesday fire started in Warham street, But the man Boston, tempt efeoert. extending to Pembroke, replied, yon re not In court. Plympton and Malden streets, Ill let you knew, was the re destroying manufactories, lumber and a large number of Joinder, that the court Is always yards, wooden buildings. At one time open. Monday night all that t Wo say that the press should during track of land between Albany and always reepect the courts of Jus- Water streets was a sea of flames, estimated loss is over half a tice, and should never attempt to The million. The weather was very intimidate the Judge or jijry, cold, and many of the fireman "though it may criticize freely aud had their hands and feet frozen. fully. And we further, say that Nearly 500 men are thrown out of Some of the shipping Judges or courts shall not intimi- employ. was damaged, and vessels cut date or threaten the press. The adrift collided with Charlestown jprssis often tho voice of the bridge, carrying away a large porpeople, the judge, in thisinstance. tion of it LATEST king. On the approach of his te Terrible Fire. Memphis, 10. Dispatches from Forest City, Ark., say all of the town south of the railroad was hurried this morning. The telegraph offiees were burned, and it to ascertain parlhu-- I is impo--i!- l irs. Since the recent fire, whi-- h burned the portin'! north of the railroad, mercantile tuiine lias been confined to the south side. Ilnlf n y, trnns-ferin- ro One-arme- - " 0. j !). 1h-fo- Fire. Tho losses by Plympton and Wareham streets Are aggregate $50), 000, Insurance ns far as known, $141,000. The losses by the Charlestown lire $115,fHK); insurance 10. $60,-00- j si il lion t'onllngrntlou. Hartford, Conn., 13. A large mill in Warehouse Point, occupied by the Leonard silk company and the Chapin & Barber silk comp my, burned this evening. The loss is prolrablv over half a million. It is Ixdicved the fire was incendiary. The gas work of t he fictorv supplied the village also, and the fire left t lie inhabitants in d irknos. Two hundred hands are thrown out of employ. - - barley lion. Philadelphia, 15. The followwa received here ing thi evening: New York, 15. To Jones, chief of jKilice, Philadelphia Walter Ross identifies inith of the dead men, positively. The other witness is one of them sure. Signed, W. R. Heines, captain of detective police, Philadelphia. The witness mentioned is Peter Caltehan, Aho was employed in the resilience adjoining I j di-pat- ch Mr. Rosss. It will he remember- ed that lie saw one of the kidnappers in the neighborhood of the noise before the abduction took place. About 2 a. m. a party'of nlxut 150 armed men disguised and with their faces blackened went to the Jail when Charley Howard, who vn yesterday convicted of the murder of John Johnson in a house of ill fame in this city some months ago, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life, was confined, took him out and hanged him to a pot. Ilis wife was with liim and clung shrieking to him until forced away hy the mob. So far no arrests have been made. 15. Rfruilnt Admission to Blacks. New Orleans, Id The returning hoard received another protest from the conservatives and ucut into executive session. The pupils of the hoys high refused to allow school, colored Inn's to enter. The superintendent, in reply to a committee who waited upon him, said the whole matter was in the hands of the school board. He the general school law made no race distinction, but this board might be able, if necessary, toeatahlish a branch school in order to obviate the difficulty. to-da- y, to-da- y, te-liev- od Important La a I question. Washington 16. There is now pending before the general land department the very Important question whether lands that had been withdrawn as presumptively mineral lands are subject to such settlement as agricultural as will enable the original settler to claim priority of rights over all others when the tract is proved to be The precedents under the homestead claims are In the negative, but prohably they will now he reversed, and where settlers make on application to file these withdrawn lands a trial will he allowed for determining the character of the land, and if pre-empti- non-minera- l. pre-empti- the settlers applying priority. non-miner- vanced from the threshold of the mansion, when the secretary of state anti Col. Crunt, the latter personally representing his father, went to the carriage, received the king as he alighted, and accompanying him on either side, crossed the platform to the entrance of the White house, where the president cordially extended his hand, received and welcomed the king. The other mourners of tho cabinet, standing itehind the president upto the time that he turned with the king, then entered the room. The secretary of state then introduced the president to Governor Dom-ini- s and Gov. lvitpena. He then presented the king to the mein-ix-r- sk of the cabinet, General Grant and Mr. Colonel and the The president Luckey. on shortly seated them-elva -- ora, and the other gentlemen moved at pleasure ulout the room and entered into conversation with one another, and gradually advancing to where the president and king were seated, a general conversation then ensued. After aixmt twenty minutes the king arose, the president accompanied him to the door, tho secretary of state and Colonel Grant handed him into the carriage, and the ceremony ended. Bab-crx'- es CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, 15. Wright submitted a joint resolution proposing certain amendments to the constitution. It provides for the and by a direct vote of the people, fixing their term at six years, and makes tiie president A maineligible for and cast in votes of elects, jority cae there is no choice a.new election must le held, at which only the two candidates receiving the largest number of votes at the previous election shall be voted lor. The returns are to be canvassed by the supreme court of the United .States which shall issue certificates of election. The subjudiciary committee, Butler, Poland and White, reporty ed to tiie full committee in favor of amending the civil right hills so as to omit the mixed schools provision, and require merely that equally good educational facilities .shall be provided for Ixith races; that the penalty $500 fine tx omitted, leaving t lie violapcuniary punishment for bill to tion of any provision of the consist of liabilities in $500 damages at the suit of any individual denied equality of accommodations, etc. There was a general discussion of the subject, but no definite action, there being a wide difference of views. The senate then went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened, Spencer, from the committee on military affair, reported favorably the senate bill for the relief of sufferers from the ravages of In t tie western frontier states. Placed on the calender. It authory izes the president to isue disfood of and supplies used army clothing to such sufferers, ami appropriates $100,000 for that purpose. Adjourned. 'Washington, Dec. 16. Mr. Davis called up the resolution requesting information as to the names of officers owing the Government money, the amount due, names of Sureties, etc. Pending discussion, the morning hour expired and the resoluas tion went over till unfinished business. The bill for tho better government of the District of Columbia came up, and Mr. Morrill, of Main, explained it at length. Mr. Bay a nj moved the bill be laid over till January 10th. Mr. Thurman moved to substitute the word commissioners for regents, wherever the latter in the bill. The bill was then laid over until The Chair presented a communication from W.L. McMillan, claiming to be a Senator from, Ixmisiana, and asking sneedy action in his case. Referred. On motion of Mr. Chandler the Senate took up the steamboat bill, and after being partially read it was laid over. The Senate wentinto executive session and afterwards adjourned. election of president vice-preside- nt will be accorded Formal Preventatlan of King Kala-kan- o gra.-shop-p- er tem-jKsrar- oc-cur- es to the Prsltlcni. Washington, 15. King KalaHOUSE. kaua was formally presented to the president this afternoon. The Washington, December 15. members of the cabinet. Col. Dawes, from the committee of Grant, Gen. Babcock, and Mr. ways and means, reported a con- - 111. I. COll) KM. 5th. Adopted, 128 to 123. There was a struggle over the vote, and many votes were changed, Garfield changing his to the affirmative and moving a reconsideration. Randall moved to table the refused to lay motion. The hou.-5the motion no the table, yeas 12U, nays 128, and then at the suggestion of Dawes the subject was postponed till Monday next. House went intocominittceof the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. In connection with the bills for stationery and newspapers for the e aked Garfield if the statement made by the latter at the end of last session that the ap- propriations for the year were millions than less by twenty-fiv- e for the previous year was correct. Yes. Cox There is Garfield no mistake alxut it? Garfield There is no Xo, sir. Cox tit difference of ten or fifteen Garfield millions dollar-No, lit-kin- zioieps g ? Cox That will he developed in the Course of time. Garfield Gentlemen will find t hat my remark on that occasion has been borno out and more fully than I then hoped. After disposing pf sixteen out CO-OPERATI- VE ir. of the seventv-tfire- e pages of hills the committee rose, and the speaker announced as the committee to visit Vicksburg, Conger, Ilurlhut, Williams, of W is., Speer and O.Brien; and as a select committee on the condition of Louisiana and the southern state, G. F. Hoar, Wheeler, of- New York, Fre, Foster, of Ohio, Phelps, of New Jersey, Robinson, of Illinois, jtnd Potter. Adjourned. Washington, Dec. 16. The judiciary committee y agreed on a supplementary civil rights bill, taking that which lat year passed the Senate as a bais for.it. The only alterations made are the omisrdon of cemeteries and the insertion of a provision for separate schools for white and black, with equipments and provisions for instruction, .in ail respects equaljthe appropriation for school funds to te pro rata letween the races. An alteration is also made in the matter of punishment for violation of the law; instead of tiie penalties being cumulative, the committee makes them either civil or criminal. The chairman of the committee is authorized to to rejwirt this bill as a supplement. The amendment indicated by Mr. Wheeler last Monday, reducing tiie expenses of the national asylum for the disabled volunteer oldier, was adopted. Mr. Wheeler congratulated the committee on thus having saved a hundred thousand dollars for the next fiscal year. Mr. Maynard, from the banking committee, reported back adversely the bill to nmend the internal revenue laws. The House went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. - SENATE. to-da- Hanged. Desmoinea, la., ad- executive Territory. The ItiMtou ma-- ; jestys carriage the president I'tali. 15. Tho President Washington, has nominated H. It. Axtell to he Governor of Utah Territory; Geo. A. Black, to be .Secretary of Utah Boston, Z. C. as- - Luckey, private secretary, current resolution for Christiftas TELEC1UPH, embled in full dress to receive the recess from Dec. 23d to January New Governor for -j Bi-ca- 11 Y to-da- - Tho NOTICE. meeting of tho Stockholder of the Ulah County Stock Association will be held Jo Uiclta&e-meof the Provo Meeting House nt 1 oclock p.m.. on Saturday, the l!Uh day of semi-annu- nt December, S7I. JOHN It TWELVES, Socy. 112-- EXTRAORDINARY SALT LAICIC CITY. The attention of our patrons is called to the following Departments of the Institution and the class of goods dealt in by each. WHOLE ALP DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT. Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Wall Paper, Curtain Materials and Carpets. WHOLES A LE GROCERY AND HARDWARE DEPARTMENT. Groceries, Hardware, Glass and Queensware, Wooden Ware, Powder, Fuse, Agricultural Implements, Dye Stuffs, Paints, and Oils. DRUG DEPARTMENT. Drugs, Medicines, Liguors, icals. Perfumeries, Paints, and Dye Stuffs. Chem- Oils, CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Men's and Boys' Clothing, Under-- . t rear, and Gentleman's Furnishing Goods. BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT. Men, Women and Children's Boots and Shoes, Sole and Upper leather and Shoe Findings of every description. ! ! WAGON AND COMMISSION EASY AND CHEAP DEPARTMENT. Wav of getting a FIRST-CLASS OCTAVE DOE RLE- - HEEDED, STOPPED UPRIGHT, WALNUT CASED S Gr A Mercantile Institution, 3NT. WITH ALL THE Studehaker Wagons, all kinds of Agricultural Machinery, Wagon Timber , Steam Engines, Turbine Water Wheels, dc., de. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS, HANEFACTTrED BT THE Orders to insttre prompt attenSTATE ORGAY C0MPAXY, tion should be addressed to the SuB. SIIOMXGER & CO. perintendent or Secretary. and OTHERS, for BAY OISTLIT Moathly for prices. 12 month: $13.50 a piano atool and organ Including method. or smaller Sire at proportionate Sixteen style to select from. PI1N0S ON w. H: hooper; aplS Supt: F.IONTHLY PAYMENTS. 0 - allowed or highfst pricer TS& DRIED FRUIT DA DI.EY. OA LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH. As an evidence or the of our popularity organ business, we will sav that since last hv 14 ORGANS, amounting to SIXTY-EIGH- T $11,722.00. CALDER & CARELESS, WhelMtl Static Dealer, HALT LAKE CITY. M17-3e- a j- j - ; "T - - r j |