Show JUXCTIOX CITY NEWS Fire JIartii Scriiccs at lire Tabernacle Taber-nacle Court Xctts Elf i About litnighll t muglutOgdens citizens Were aroused by the loud ringing of the fire alarms A fire had broken out in the upper rooms of a lodging house over the Switch saloon on Twentyfourth Street Atone At-one time it was feared that the fire would end and devour the saloon but by great exertion and prompt action It was got under and did where not itoriglnntuli spread beyond the room I On Sunday afternoon Frederick W Chmamberssvho Had Jut returned from a miHots id the Southern States addressed tho congregation in the Tabernacle lie described the condition of things in Tennessee in a very interesting manner Shortly after his arrival a branch of tlie Km Klux ordered him and all the Xndcra t loc the country just They before did notcomply going I to bed n min came m-in breathe haste t inform him that a mob intended t surround srrunt the bout that night The brethren therefore retired t the woods where they remained all night They frequently slept in the Woods hotel as they learned to C11t KlderChambersduring Ills minion was frequently without a ff wlbout t companion cmpn ion By fasting and prayer lie was guided and sustained in a providential providen-tial manner He wasahvaysdlrected to friends and it plo of I safety when needed On sfct 1le one occasion occa-sion when a meeting of more than a hundred persons had assembled a number of men marched In headed by a desperado with i a pistol in his l hand This man presented his gun and ordered them to flop which they refused to o But tile women Ion screaming and na a consequence conse-quence the place SeaS soon cdlplied They afterwards ascertained that the man with the pistol was a murderer mur-derer who had been hiding from the officers On anothei accasJon ifx > n calling at tho house eta person who had been friendly and whose wife has joined tlie Church the man opened the door with a rifle epne hand and demanded t kiroW who the KUer was who bat baptized his wife A young Elder said instantly I did sir The man rated his gun and shouted trot said KIdrr l Cham hers We did trot n = Epcedly as we could We heard the man working with lilt gun but we were a hundred hun-dred yards from him before I went I ofi nnt no one I m was hit I after I M urus meL inis man aim asxeu mm what we hat done to deserve such treatment He said we had lone nothing only some bne had told him hU wifcttould go to Plait but that he must not go with her n when his coffin he got and there compel they him would to sit bring on it and cut Ills own throat and he believed this monstrous le I asked him did he intend t mur iler mc lie said lit did but that he was rtnich with blindness and could not IInJ the trigger until we were too far away I reasoned with him and left him friendly Brother Chambers concluded by saying that notwithstanding the dangers through which he had passed his experience wiui very precious and worth inoro In him than all the riches of this life I In the district court on Saturday I there was sonic lively sjiarring ic l lucen Messrs Varian and Itolapp over the Cal of Antoino ii I Scliaucliy charged ssfliu unlawful I cohabitation Mr Varian insisted on the full penalty Schanchy had pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months imprisonment and nOm n-Om with coil amounting to SI2 liynim Peterson who had been tried before but the jury disagreed was found guilty of fornication Those who heN the evidence could have no doubt of his guilt Sentence Sen-tence was deferred Charles Frank who pleaded guilty to an indictment for adultery with II f hisjplural I wiftwaseentercrd to imprisonment im-prisonment for ono year Thomas Slirland pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation Sentence was deferred until January 20tli 1S9U There will be a fancy fair held in the Fifth Ward Meeting House on Dec 23rd and 24th An effort is Der nnt lacing put forth to raise S410 with which t ip ofT the debt on the meeting house Four building lots > ortli about 1209 have been donated and promisesof goods and toot nnt Irmisof gos money to a considerable amount tl have been received by the committee I commit-tee |