Show TERRITORIAL TOPICS y V Breezy letters From Our Special Correspondents THE FARMINGTON COURT HOUSE St George SaladChester ChtpsGlenwood GleanlnsKaysvllle KinksAnother Alleged Colonizer St George Salad The wcather during the past two or three weeks has been unprecedented the history of Washington county Rain has fallen ala st incessantly and has resulted in the most disastrous floods ever experienced experi-enced since the settlement of Dixie Not adam a-dam or canal on the Rio Virgen remains intact in-tact and in many instances they have been entirely swept away The heaviest losers are the Washington Field Canal company Their expensive pile dam completed two years ago is gone and also a largo portion of their canal which was built near the bank of the river It will cost from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars to replace the property lost The people of Price have also lost heav onr af da1 J toe ili h os ily their dam and canal are damaged to the amount of several thousand dollars A fine bridge across the Rio Virgen constructed by the county was swept away This is 1 the second bridge that has been carried 9 away the loss of which is not less than ten thousand dollars The last bridge was a fine structure planned by luettlng and was thought to be safe The volume of water was so great that it swept entirely over the bridge and the weight with the driftwood which it carried was too great I to be withstood The bridge was landed far down the river right side up and almost al-most intact A W L ST GEORGE Utah Dec 1818S9 Chester Chips I was amused to find myself among the colonizers as published in the Tribune of Sunday December 11860 as follows Description De-scription Candland 23 5 feet 9 inches light marriedfamilj and nome at Chester The fact is that I am the only J Candland aged seventy height five feet five inches ilv niter dark married home and family in Chester Ches-ter have lived here fifteen years and have never left to colonize any place up to date I believe myself to be the only person by that name this side of the Atlantic or in this territory Were it necessary I could end you many names of colonizers whose names are sent by some busy body who sends names of persons wh leaving town for any point are reported as colonizers Saturday morning at about 3 oclock I was awakened by a violent shock of earthquake earth-quake I was violently shaken in my bed The seat of the occurrence seemed to be in the west mountains I attended the funeral fun-eral of a child Johanna Amelia Jensen and the family told me so violent was the shock Wtnat it broke the glass in the coffin lid Their home is about seven miles from where I deemed the location of the earthquake V earth-quake Most of the towns around not only heard the report but in their houses felt the shock Beneficient providence giving us great quantities of rain thus thoroughly saturating satur-ating the soil and piling and packing huge deposits of snow thus from the present 1gl li0 i ili indications of the coming fertility and the reported railroad to come through this county we expect a modest sized boom We hear it reported that one company is loaded to the guards with British gold that Is pleased to find a safe investment for its abundance of idle cash Here in this and adjoining valleys lie opportunities of quick and speedy returns and an abundance of idle muscularity in men and teams It is capital we need and I do not think any antagonism will be provoked CHESTER Utah Dec 7 1859 D C Glenwood Gleanings Thinking a few lines from this part ol the territory would be interesting to some of your numerous readers I will say that THE HERALD is having a fine run in the Sevier valley Among the new institutions I will mention men-tion the Bean hotel in Richfield I cannot can-not say that the conventional Boston baked I beans are served up at this house but I I can assure the public that the Richfield beans are way up The Wright house is doing a fair business busi-ness though the host is absent in the Southern states on a mission learning the value of corn bread and fat bacon as diet articles yetMrs Wright caters to the satisfaction sat-isfaction of the traveling public TThe Richfield house has made several additions lately one in particular is a fine brick sample room for drummers use Mrs Celia Wall Francom was taken before be-fore the court at Richfield and underwent a medical examination us to her sanity She had become very troublesome to her neighbors and they made complaint that their families were not safe while she was allowed to run at large The court adjudged ad-judged her insane and sho was ordered to be removed to the territorial asylum where she will be taken about the 16th inst Munroe is the town of tine brick houses surpassing all others in this style of buildings build-ings We have had a good share of the wet weather in this country though iUs known as a dry affair and the farmers are now A plowing on their dry farms seeing a prospect for plenty of water next spring as it has been piling up snow in the mountains moun-tains while the rain came down in the valley Stock and sheep are in fine condition this tall as the weather has been remarkably fine since the cold wave we had in the early fall Everyone is looking with much Interest for the result of the coming cection n Sa t Lake city next February and the absurd ruling of Judge Anderson in the naturalization natural-ization business One would suppose that we had whirled back two or three hundred years into the dark ages The decision of the supreme court in relation to the Idaho test oath is looked for with interest also Railroading is looming up in the distance AOEXT GLEXWOOD Utah Dec 1218S9 bL Farmincton Flashes The new court houso at Farmin1 = ton Davis county is progressing nicely It is up to the second story and is of bright redbrick red-brick It is thirtyseven feet from tho ground to the square four feet cf which is stone work Looking over tho plans of the structure it certainly will Jo credit to the pretty lake view of Fanningtou as well as the architect Mr William Allen of Rays ville The building is sixtyone feet east and west and fifty two feet north and south fronting to the north The extreme height is eighty feet and the tower is expected ex-pected to have a clock eventually The ventilator in the centre of the deck will be twelve feet high and to the top of the flagpole flag-pole will be twentyeight feet which adds to the appearance of the court house very much Tho walls arc about twentyone inches thick tied with about two tons of iron straps A cavity in the walls will afford good ventilation The roof will bo oaobalf pitch to the deck with iron cresting The first story will be 4 14 feetO inches high with rolling partition The second story is to be 14 feet 1 Inch in height with square ceiling Erastus R > se Is catering for the carpenter work Tbo building is situated in the south part of Farmingtonand will add to its appearance and be a credit to Davis county The population of Farmington is 1250 and most of its oldest settlers have passed I away into the unknown land from whence I vfery few return to report progress E T I Crbric 3 one of the oldest settlers plowed the flrst furrow in June 1849 Daniel Miller Mil-ler Lott Smith Allen Burk Thomas Grover Thomas S Smith James Harrison and Joseph L Robinson who was the first bishop were among the first settlers of Farmington In 1819 Hector C Height became be-came also an early settler after settling Heights grove a short distance northwest of this town in the year 1S47 One more feature of the improvements of Farmington is the Davis county stake academy only a little west of the court house on the opposite side of tho street It is two stories high and the east wing of the structure is 38x50 feet and has a cupalo with bellfry and a commendable bell It is built of brick and has an imposing appearance It l kat hl nPPJ t cost about eight thousand dollars At present 292 scholars attend the academy which is divided into grades The principal princi-pal is Joshua Greenwood assisted by home talent graduates of the Brigham Young academy and Salt Lake city university The prospects on the Sand Ridge dry farming is most excellent with broad acres seeded this season S FARMINOTOX Dec 1818SO Eajsville Kinks The students of the Central school of the Eighth school district are preparing a programme which will be rendered next Tuesday Parents and friends are cordially cor-dially invited People living on the street between the Coop and the depot would do well to see that their gates arc kept ilosed these dark nights as those opening on the outside are very dangerous and passersby may meet with severe injuries by coming in contact with them The persons who have the coming concert con-cert for the benefit of the academy in hand are laboring very energetically to make it a success The present indications are that it will be the greatest musical treat we ever had and those who are willing to spend their time in so good a cause should have the hearty support and patronage of the whole community Messrs Arthur Stayner Elias Morris and others of the Utah Sugar company held a meeting here on Thursday in the interest of the sugar business Kaysvllls has the best soil and the best facilities for growing the sugar beet as proven by the analysis of the beets raised by Mr Joseph ling of the Second ward of any place in the territory and It Is very probable the sugar industry will be established in our midst I Tte question has been asked Is the course pursued by our city council in refusing re-fusing to grant license for a saloon to parties par-ties who have applied a wise one 1 The above question is a very difficult one to comment on but is worthy the consideration considera-tion of each individual A short time ago we were entirely free from influences of this kind but today it is not so We have a saloon on the south of us we are threatened threat-ened with one on the north of us and right in our immediate neighborhood we have a nonlicensed establishment where such drinks as ginger brandy bitters of all kinds which inebriate corrupt and destroy de-stroy are sold and drank as freely as wines liquors etc in a licensed liquor saloon While we do not wish to see a place of this kind in our midst still we do not approve ap-prove of seeing its glaring lights saying to the unwary passers by do drop in without with-out some revenue and some benefit for the whole We admire the course that has been pursued by our city council In refusing refus-ing to grant a liquor license but when we see patent medicines used as liquors and individuals intoxicated through imbibing too freely of the same it is time a course be pursued that will meet the emergency If the time has arrived when a saloon in Kaysville has become a necessary evil we would favor a high licensed one so that the revenue may be used for the improvement im-provement of our streets and highways If the parties should refuse to pay a high license but continue in the sale of patent Intoxicating medicines then some measure should be adopted to stop the traffic in thesedrugsand if wemust have a drinking saloon let the proprietors pay as sl other saloon keepers pay the license that is required re-quired by law It is better to see a saloon in our midst that is paying a legitimate license than to see a patent medicine agency wHere men and boys can go and drink and then exhibit themselves on the streets as good walking advertisements for a patent medicine firmA firm-A shocking accident occurred last Sunday Sun-day to Mrs Terry wife to Abraham Terry It appears the unfortunate lady had gone out to milk her cow and as she entered the shed it gave way one of the beams I falling across her neck and crushing her to the gronnd A little girl who was staying with her hearing the noise came to her assistance as-sistance but finding she was unable to release her ran and procured the assistance assist-ance of two men who happened to be nearby near-by and they with difficulty raised the beam high enough to get the poor lady from under it She was found to be dead when released from her awful position her neck having been broken by the falling of the beam across it She was a young woman and leaves one child ten months old Her remains were taken to Ogden for buriaL K KAYSVILLE December 20 I |