Show BI OUE BIG CANNON A fire at mt pleasant which republican ers help to extinguish ENQUIRES correspondence 1 on monday evening the people of this city were treated to as rich a polin feist aa it is seldom any town receives we were visited by messia frank J cannon geo mr lains and john james A large and attentive audience greeted the speakers of the evening geo sutherland after an opening song by the glee dab took the plat form and offered in behalf of mr cau non a beautiful beati ful eulogy on that gento man which all present heartily en tie also touched on the tariff mr james gava a few of life amod the laboring classes in america and england which were of course in favor of protection against free trade the gentleman spoke from ha had had experience in bogli countries mr cannon was greeted with a burst of applause and in a clear winning logical and speech won the hearts of his hearers he blew the assertions of democratic speakers akern into as only eur cannon can frank J bancon cancon as delegate is sure of a majority here the speeches were interspersed with campaign songs which were received with vociferous applause and encores after all the songs one circumstance connected with the coming delegate will never be forgotten by some of our people here just as the train came into mf pleasant a spark from a freight engine standing on a bide track set fire to a small straw stack and but for timely assistance would have burned up considerable hay but the visitors no sooner saw the fire than they all made a rush for it and to see each one of them at work carrying water in large brass bucket would convince any one that they were used to something elbe beside studying and reading law books a fifteen minute a the fire was controlled oled tuesday morning the gentlemen went over to spring city and there held an enthusiastic meeting considering the time of day 10 a m a large audience greated them spring city too ii all right the gentlemen speak in manti tonight have had another excursion to castilla where the mt pleasant and prove bands had a contest mt pleasant coming out bast prof giles of provo gave our boys good encouragement and spoke highly of them there is also come talk of a contest between our boys and ephraim for part of which is staked ANON MT sept as |