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Show SOUTHKUX COt'SPY UATiEUS. Editor SttU Lake Herald: Salt Lake City, Juno 10, 1s7j. On tho tl; h inat.X left this city to at-tond at-tond I lie Uaeho Counly EJueational oi:iventinn, to be held at Logan. By good luck. I mado connection with the , Central Pacific .md Utah Northern railroads, and with Mr. Hyben at Hrighnm city, who had kindly volunteered volun-teered to take mo there to tho convention. conven-tion. A few grasshoppers on Brigham city site wcro tho tirst of tho Grylltda family I hud Been this flooson. : As.-cending tho divide between Boi I Kideraud Cacho counties there were ; myriads of caterpillars in their ohrysal-idic ohrysal-idic state. Tho air in tho canyon waf redolent of hawtho:no, choke cherry and red willow (Kinnekinoiok ) blossom, and us we dcocoded into Cacho the limped Btream hightened the beauty of a scene the pleasure of which ,-eeaied to bo monopolized by the mourning dovo, tho only inhabitant with aulheicnt tomority 10 be seen hy tho tnivclor. Thanks to railway facilities I made Frovidenco early in the day, and with comparatively little effort. J ho adjourood meeting of the Cache County educational convention oame oil' at Lognn on tho 7th, superintendent superintend-ent Roskolloy presiding. Although tho good people of Cacho aro "up to their elbows' ' in railway contracts, a few of tho trustees and teachers found time to attend, and tbo gist of the businoss roaohed will bo found in the following preamble and rosolutioep, which were psesod unanimously : Whereas, Xhe teachersinCaehe county, coun-ty, having mot in convention to forward for-ward tho educational interests of tho county in pursuance of Baid object, offer of-fer tho following : RcaolvetU That wo endorse the wisdom wis-dom of tho Territorial legislature in allowing tho counties to ascs? ono quarter of ouo per cent, additional for county purpose?, and that wo respect -I fully petition tho county court of Cacho i county to lino for furthering tho cduca-i cduca-i t onal interests of tho county so much i of this fund as in their wisdom may bo ' necessary for this purposo. I Resolved, That wo heartily ondorso tho senttmentfl advanced in relation to tho establishment of a normal institution, institu-tion, either in connection with the l)es-crot l)es-crot University or as a separate institution, insti-tution, as tho board of regents of the University of Doscrct may determine; and that wo consider it a necessary step in the educational progress of tho I Territory that a woll appointed normal ; collcgo should bo established at as early a day as is compatible with tho fioan-! fioan-! eial interests of tho counties. fit solved. That thero bo held in Cacho county a toaehors' institute, to continue one week, lo which every teacher throughout tho county bo in-vitcd in-vitcd to attend, and that thoso who do so suffer uo deduction of pay, and dui-iiij? dui-iiij? which the schools of tho county shall be closed at such timo aa tbo Territorial Ter-ritorial superintendent and tho Caebo i county superintendent mar agree upon, and that educators i'rom Salt Lake and other counties be invited to attend. The excreU"s to consist of addresses from school authorities, an csolmnsro ! of ideas amoug teachers, j Mantra-ions : of the beat methods of imparting primary instruction, with lectures iu the evcning,wben convenient, on chi-i chi-i cation and kindred topic?. ; lifsohtd, That the trustees throuih- out the county, in districts where seli'iols ere i:ot ruu by taxation, bo .-'ohcited to make arrangements whereby where-by teachers enn bo paid mnnih'y. AV-;'m, That wc view the etab ii.-liujciit of a school teaehors' librury a an indispensable requisite in every eouuty, and that we pledge our?p!ve? to eoutinuo our efforts aud contributions contribu-tions iu this direction until tho Cache county school teachers' library i as complete as may be desirable. At tbo adjournment of the couven-i!!i couven-i!!i I aeoep;ed a lide Jrom bishop il.itch of Franklin in his carriage to lie end of the C II B. track. Wc drove that evening to Mendoa and :-t'Miped with bishop Hughes. On tho xh wo drove over tho divido north of Mendon, wending our way towards liear river at Ben. Hampton's bridge, tho only bridge on the Bear river available avail-able at preaeut in consequence of high water. Most of tho bridges in Cache wcro gone or rendered useless. En route tor 11 amp ton's wo encountered on the divide tho Brigham city cheese tactory, where 115 cows are milked, and where we found in the hugo trough lsOgalioas of milk, to which rennet hsd just been applied, lor each cow cd an average a pound of cheese U tnaue daily; a few cows also raise their filve? And several of the cows belonged be-longed to that divisioo of the bovine geuus denominated in our familiar ' mountain vernacular, scrubs The I cheese house was nearly filled and the i most ditneult part of the business, we (earned, was taking care of the cheese ' atur tr-y wera mado; the handling : they have to be tw ieeted to tor ! preservanon, bcinjj jtfCst aDj most oimcuit item in their manntcture, : As we proceeded we learned trom Mr hamptoo's own lip4,ti)ai his bridge over Bear nvcr waa Ul O. K il- though tho lii ptoa-n io U trom the west was hub ikx-pui places. N.-nrim; tho end Ot tbe milroad trk. ihi; Duy ggS of rilroad worker from ' :ch.e count v, were pSeasiDtf bight. 1 a me bishop IWuo who rode vnh 1 to tha end ot the truck, it Pewtfy s, about fifteen miles north of Brigham city. Haifa mile of track had been laid that morning, and upwards oi three-quarters of a mile the d;iy prt-coidiug. prt-coidiug. Soon ths neat liulo locomotive locomo-tive appeard in sight with its cargo ol mils, fire pen ic. John W. i'ouair president of the tine, on board, wb made arrnnftneut- with "bi-hop Preston Pres-ton and Hatch to ri io north e'i?ht or ten uii1'!" and corwik with Mr. Hump-ton Hump-ton on the nio-t feaiblo sire for the latter tf . n et bis hou-f of aecommoda j tion punifwhere O'-ar his pnvseot loca t on but clohe to t he lino of the U. N . K . wbencf! probably the Montana and Idaho tn-ightcrM will geek B cmporary dfpot uuiil the lino of rail- j ioad guts further north. j Ki'BVRT L. f'AMPDELL. |