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Show FROM. ST. GEORGE. The Tabernacle Temple Court House Winter Departing Balmy Bal-my Spring Making its Appearance. Appear-ance. St. George, Utah, Feb. It; 167-A. , Editors Herald: ! To-day there was a Priesthood meeting, largely attended by men from all the surrounding pettlements, in the main hall of the Tabernacle. The main part of tlie hall is as yet unpewed, temporary scats having been improvised. The pulpit is finished, fin-ished, and is a splendid pice of workmanship; work-manship; and the galleries are properly pro-perly seated. Presidents Young and Smith occupied the most of the time upon the interesting subject of concentrated con-centrated interests, building of the Temple,and the best road to advancement. advance-ment. The hall was nearly filled, and earnest attention was given. Adjourned Ad-journed till to-morrow at 10 a.m. It has been rainy and wet lorscveral days, and still the moisture quietly descends, de-scends, permeating the soil thoroughly. thorough-ly. The roads northward, as far as we can learn, arefcarlullv muddv and I dirty. Snow has gone in Iron Co. Whooping cough is troubling them up there. The walls of tho Temple are about complete so far as tlie black rock is concerned, which does not finish the basement wall entire. It is to be carried up now with bright red sandstone, sand-stone, hundreds of cords of which are on the ground. We have just learned that near a hundred horses perished nearKanara , in the deep snows of January, having been "snowed in," and starved to death, the people having tried in vain to save them. There were sixty died iu one band, the carcases lying toge ther in one place. Those ot our citizens citi-zens who got caught in the storm working a road to the coal mine, lost fifteen out of twenty-four in the same way. The snow was so deep they could not get them out to teed. The walls of the main hall and eomc of the side rooms of the Court House are ready, and awaiting the ; finishing touches of the paperhanger. ! Our people aro gardening and planting out trees and vines, grading lots and walling terraces, when it doesn't rain. Willows begin to show bursting verdure, and bees show the golden balls ot pollen from the cotton woods as they come home to their hives. J. |