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Show LOCAL LINES. Have you registered? Snow balls are the popular parties now. Orders for the best styles of job work taken at this office. 273 cases of tea were received by Z. C. M. I., in this city on Tuesday. Read the notice from J. B. Grosbeck?, M. D., published in another column. The City Assessor and Collector is very busy making registrations of voters. Call at the Leader officer and have orders for posters, business and visiting cards, ball tickets, &c. Our representatives and councilors have gone to attend the session of the Legislature in the capital city. Spencer Clawson, Esq., of Z. C. M. I., Salt Lake, called at our office yesterday. He is in good health. Jos. [Joseph] A. West, Esq., the enterprising Business Manager of the Junction Printing Association was in Logan on Monday last. Doctor Norcross has been quite ill for several days, owing to inflammation having set in the old gunshot wounds received in the war. The pluck and energy displayed by railroad officials, conductors, and all trainmen on the U. & N. R. R. [Utah & Northern Railroad], during the recent storms, entitle them to the greatest praise. Several snow and wild storms during the past week have seriously delayed the trains on the U. & N. R. R. [Utah & Northern Railroad], but all are running regularly, at the time of writing. Doctor J. M. Benedict and his father, returned to Salt Lake on Monday morning, after having spent a few days very pleasantly here as the guests of Doctor Ormsby. We have recently received several communications, which we have not deemed it proper to publish, because the names of the writers did not accompany the articles. Mr. L. H. Russell has departed for Omaha. Contrary to a statement made in our last issue, no estimate of the ? south of the Snake was possible on account of heavy falls of snow. We are indebted to our gentlemanly correspondent, Scotia?, at Mendon for a communication in relation to the recent accident. On account of its having arrived too late, however, the letter is not used. Phil. [Philip] Margetts and the Providence Dramatic Company will play Under the Gaslight, and Lancashire Lass at the Providence Theatre, on Friday and Saturday evenings, January ? and ?. jan16-2t? J. H. Martineau, Esq., with his corps of civil engineers has commenced work on the survey of the Logan & Smithfield Canal. A description of this stupendous work was given in a previous issue of the Leader and is well worthy of a perusal. A dispatch sent to Salt Lake from the City of Mexico says: A Mormon agent, from Salt Lake City, is at the capital negotiating for permission to establish a Mormon settlement in Mexico, under a guarantee of religious liberty. The agent expects to succeed. The eclipse on Sunday last was one-sixteenth of a success as observed from Logan. Just as the moon had commenced her work of obscuring the sun's rays, a dark bank of clouds arose from the western mountains and hid both Luna and Sol from the sight of anxious watchers. Wm.. [William] ? the watchmaker was robbed? a few nights since of a watch, an overcoat, a ring, and a small sum of money. He had given a worthless fellow, who was hanging around town, the privilege of sleeping in his shop; and his kindness was repaid by the loss of his valuables. Yesterday morning's passenger train from the north struck and probably killed four horses that were on the track, at a point this side of Swan Lake. The animals were hidden behind a fence, in a lane where the track makes a heavy curve, and therefore they were not seen by the engineer in time to avoid their death. Evidently? at Blackfoot, 20 freight cars were blown off the U. & N. [Utah & Northern] track by the severe wind storm. A peculiar and providential circumstance is that the box car, in which Mrs. Sackett (the lady who lately gave birth to twins in the same car, at the terminus) was lying with her little children, was the only car which was not capsized. On Saturday, Doctor Ormsby, assisted by Doctor Benedict of Salt Lake performed an operation for complicated hair lip on a child of Brother Carlisle of this place. The case was exactly similar to one brought from Smithfield some four months ago for the care of Doctor Ormsby and Benedict; and the operation, as in the first case, was entirely successful. On Tuesday night the U. & N. [Utah & Northern] passenger train from the north was detained by drifting snow, for one hour between Market Lane and Eagle Rock. The officials, fearing that some delay would be experienced by the northern bound passenger train, ordered the snow plow to come down and clear the track. Owing, however, to drifts and a peculiar, fine sand that mixes with the snow and forms a heavy coating like concrete over the rails, the buggy truck of the engine pushing the snow plow was broken and a delay of six hours was caused. Pride goes before a fall, and so does impudence. A crowd of youths were out sleighing a few days since with a span of wild colts; and made themselves very conspicuous by racing, and by shouting at people whom they passed. While gliding by our office with the usual startling wit of some of the Logan boys they screamed, Stick it in the Leader; we're having a runaway! Before they had reached the next corner, the colts became frightened at their demoniac yells and began kicking and plunging at a glorious rate. In a few seconds the harness was completely demoralized, and the boys were screaming with fear and jumping from the box as if a tiger had been loosed among them. It took just one hour for 20? of the bravest youths to calm the horses; and innumerable pieces of small rope to repair the harness. Finally they succeeded in getting started in their way sadder yet wiser young ? |