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Show Stii i. at It Our readois will pardon par-don us fur bringing auain before them the name of Dr. Newman. lie left here alter an ..'xliibi'ion'that we were grieved to :-ee made by any man ealiimr hiniself a seiVant of the God of truth. He wit- expected on the bank.' of Bear lliver: be was invited tc make nood his boast of a di-cus.-ion in the daily papers pa-pers here of bavins the columns of the Ht'.l'.AI.D i ublie!y offered to him; hut ho FoU-il hi.,- tent- like tb': A run An.t ;i .-'I'.'utly .-lole away. And the next we hear of him be nuslu Califirnia. He has been lei luring there and on Polyga'.ny! A n:an with 1 an ordinary amount of -ensitivencs : I would have closed his mo.uh f;r evV ' on the suljec', alter the painful di--! p'ay of his weakne.-s givt.-n here so lamentable in its failure that the crazies; and most inveterate of scribi h rs known as "D mgW and ottiet!i!ies as O. L . Ilollister, has had to supplement it w.th ati attempt at rescuing him ftoin disgrace. dis-grace. I)r. Newman's lecture on IV- g:tuy in San. Francisco, delivered! ou last Thursday night, Must haei been exceedingly classical and c-le-1 gant. when the Alt '. says its . plain terms was a marked feature, ''the assembly being a mixed-one." Rather suggestive of the "bull'' logic that was j greeted with ''applause" by an audience audi-ence in Salt Lake, anions whom were prominent the hero of a divorce story j that will not bear investigation, and the knight of the tilthy bath-house exploit. ex-ploit. But Dr. Newman said Washington, Wash-ington, D. (.'., is a heaven of virtue as compared with Salt Lake. Whether he meant by this that Washington is an infinitely purer place thau it is usu-ally usu-ally represented to be, or that it was the lowest place iu'the moral and social scale in Christendom that he could think of with which to compare Salt Lake, we are not informed. But as he feels wrathy over his. defeat, and must, clergyman though he be, say foul and bad things about this city, we are inclined to the latter view ; and if Washington is only half a? bad as itc best friends say it D, L'r. Newman has great reason to extend his labors to San Francisco if he de:.re.i to inerease prostitution and immorality there. |