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Show PROVO ITEMS. A fcBTVERE ACCIDENT. On Wtdneoday eveuiog laFt, about 7 o'clock, it being very dark i,c snowing slightly, Mr. David Jjhuabi Pruvo was going to b:a dwelling in ihr astern part of the town, and hd a turn to go north, near the corner o: Weal Maid itreet and (Xnlre. Then-are Then-are Lb re- foundations lor stores, with cellars some seven feet deep, w'jich have been so for years, the walls ol which are about two feet above the level of the itreet, and le the southern and eastern boundaries of the streets, aud are open and dangerous to pedtts trims" Supposing himself to be far (-.nougb and on Main atreet, he turned ctutiual t go northerly, when he walked through a low cellar grating opening and Ml ou a heap ot ugly rock on the cellar fljor. Mr. Johns received several severe injuries oDe ranking a large hole in hie right leg, which tore bis pants; a severs cut in ti;s chin; hie left hand was cut and arm scratched badly. It was provi-dtntial provi-dtntial that he was not killed or had a limb broken. On reaching his home he was bleeding profusely, and suQered from the heavy fall. The place in which the accident occurred seems a huge trap for pedestrian on dark nights, and certainly should not be allowed to be so open and exposed. A lew months ago, as some boys ware playing on tbe foundation walla, a little hen of Mr. Kirk wood (ell into the cellar with a large stone, and had bis arm broken. If the ownera of the property were informed ol the danger to the public by the open cellars they would certainly enclose them bo as to protect pasiers-by. SUCCE5dFUL TKICKSTEH3, "Profeaaor" Phillips, alias Blitz and Cora Leotard, alias Anderson, who bilked tbe gulliblts in the Intitule, Inti-tule, on Moodily night last in Salt Lake city, fled to Provo, and in due time issued their bills to appear at the Academy hall, ou Wednesday night. Tuey pro ruined fortunes and precioua presents to holders of tickets, and all who would look at the tricks played them. Despite the warning given iu tbe Herald and other papers on Wednesday morning, quite a number of our easy going, ! fortune-hunting citizens went to see , the triclcs and be tricked, which was done 6uccf8mlly. Great dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion prevailed, and the bilk preetid-igitateur preetid-igitateur and gift keeper was threat ened with a baptiam iu tne mill-race. Next morning he was arreated on a charge of fraud, dto., Ac , and ordered or-dered to appear on Friday mor-niDg mor-niDg at 10 o'clock. He left with the officer us security for appear ance a watch, chain and locket with two faces very significant and teu dollars. Time came and passed, the court convened, the victims, vic-tims, and curious gazers with fun in their blinkers haugmg around, but the bilk wus nun est, and played the city another trick, leaving his valuables valu-ables (?) to undergo the sentence of tbe law. "Where he ii, or bow ho fures, Noboiy knows and nobody caroj. The city was alive with the sensation, sensa-tion, but the spectators were spectacles spec-tacles of disappointment. He played your great city tricks, but be could not do them ao suceasfully on Provo-iles. Provo-iles. Ob, no 1 borne say he was afraid ot being fleeced by the city authorities mid ducked by the boys, so he thought "the hotter part of valor its discretion." Is it not singular singu-lar that the public will go to be gn'lpd, after being warned by Ihe r i iing papTij. Some say tbey did . .'t 6eo tin- pupera. Well, they should see luem, nu every citizen ought to take the Herald, or be content con-tent to suffer. |