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Show WESTERN WHISPERS. Utah. On July 29th Salt Lake had a hundred dollar fire. Mrs. Barratt's barn was burned. Cause, ?? smoking in a hay loft.<br><br> REV. T. DE WITT Talmage, the celebrated orator and divine of Brooklyn, will lecture on "Big Blunders," in Salt Lake, August 4th.<br><br> THE "LIBERALS" of Beaver thought they were going to carry the election. But they didn't. The people's ticket was elected by a good majority.<br><br> THE HERALD says: Work on the Utah Eastern progresses finely, the grading to Kimball's to be completed about the 1st of August, and to Park City about the 10th.<br><br> CLIPPED FROM the News: A little after noon of the 27th ult., writes our correspondent at Moroni, the above locality was visited by a severe wind storm, which, before it had spent its force managed to unroof several houses and knock about wagons and things considerably. Fortunately no injury to life is reported.<br><br> THE NEWS learns from a Provo correspondent that there is a rumor abroad to the effect that Jay Gould is to purchase the Pleasant Valley Railroad and and coal mines. It comes from authority that makes it something more than a rumor. Gould's policy will be to buy the road and coal beds and then shut down on them entirely so as to keep his Union Pacific coal on the market to the exclusion of others.<br><br> THE FOLLOWING telegram dated Springville, July 30th, is from the News: A fatal accident occurred here last night, terminating in death. About half-past 9 o'clock, James Oakley, Jr., was returning home when from some unaccountable cause of alarm he drew a pistol from his pocket, and in doing so the weapon was discharged, the ball entering the abdomen in the left side, and remaining in the body. Dr. Pike of Provo, was summoned, but assistance was unavailing. The young man died this morning at 2 o'clock.<br><br> AN ALPINE, Utah county, correspondent of the News writes: This city and vicinity was visited on Tuesday, the 27th, with the most violent hail and rain storm that has ever been witnessed in this locality.<br><br> About noon on Tuesday, a thick dark cloud was seen traveling over the mountains a little northwest of this city, accompanied with occasional thundering. In a short time hail and rain were pouring down in torrents. The hail continued about 30 minutes, and the rain about one hour longer, during which time the streets and creeks almost resembled rivers.<br><br> After the storm was over everybody wanted to know to what extent the crops were injured. A visit to the north field showed little damage done; to the east there was considerable damage to crops. The field known as the west field, and the bench under the north hills was beyond description, some men losing all they had in the shape of grain.<br><br> Oats were threshed out and then washed away, the wheat that was not ripe sufficient to thrash, was beaten down and cut off. Corn is stripped of almost all its leaves, the stalks are yet standing, but are badly cut up as if rabbits had been eating them. Peas are beaten down and the shells look as if an army of chickens had [line unreadable] and the peas [section unreadable] tract of grain, over 50 acres, much would have compared very favorably with any in the county before the storm, it is now impossible to find even a bundle of straw; the hail beat it down, loosened up the roots, and the flood of water was so great that it washed all entirely away. There is also a large amount of grain belonging to residents of Lehi City, who have been farming on this same bench, which is all destroyed.<br><br> A large amount of this water ran into the canal leading to Lehi City, and must have done considerable damage to them. American Fork also shared a little in this storm, but to what extent I do not know. The damage done to residents of Alpine will amount to about $5,000.<br><br> A MAN named Lewis, living in Ogden, lately beat his little boy, aged ten years, so severely that some of the neighbors interfered, and a sensation was the result. The Junction published a full account of the affair, and applied some strong language and epithets to Lewis. The latter prints, in last Monday's Junction, an article, which, to say the least, is very undignified in tone and language, refuting the account of the affair, first published by the Junction, and threatening to sue that paper for libel.<br><br> The trial of Lewis on a charge of inhumanly beating his boy, commenced on Tuesday last, and from the evidence on the part of the prosecution, it would appear that Lewis is a most inhuman wretch. His little boy was found by the neighbors, who rushed into the house on hearing what was going on, the majority of whom appear to have been ladies, lying upon the floor naked, his body gashed from his neck to his ankles, with wounds made by an apple tree limb with which his father had whipped him. The blood was oozing from these wounds when some of the ladies picked him up and cared for him.<br><br> While further evidence may possibly mitigate the impressions thus far created in respect to Lewis, it is hardly possible that he can come out of the affair with any other reputation than that of a brute, utterly unworthy of offspring. |