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Show LOCAL LINES Considerable sickness of late. Alternate snow and sunshine Swinging on gates is not popular. A fair prospect for a glorious winter. Balls and parties are now the rage. The cold, chilly winds of December. People are preparing for Christmas. Snow is four feet deep in Logan Canyon. Unfortunate is he who has not a sleigh. We have had a snow storm every day for a week. As we write, snow is falling swiftly and silently. Men are bringing wood from the mountains on sleds. Diphtheria begins to rage even in this favored locality. Doctor Ormsby went to Salt Lake on business yesterday. Time is money, and industry is the mint where it is coined. Hon. Lorin Farr, of Ogden, was in this city last week. Handsome visiting and Christmas and New Year cards. Leave orders at the Leader office. A ball will be given by the Logan choir in Logan Hall on Christmas eve. A splendid time is anticipated. The Logan merchants have a full supply of holiday goods. No person need go or send elsewhere to make his purchases. The cold weather has had a very serious effect upon animals that have been left out on the range to hunt their own feed. Alma D. Chambers, Esq., foreman of the Ogden Junction is spending a few days in Logan. He makes the Leader office his headquarters. Logan has had a fire; and, as misfortunes and news items never come singly, look out for a runaway some time within the month. Mr. Charles Kimball, representing the clothing house of Goldberg & Co., Salt Lake city, is traveling in the north. He was in Logan yesterday. Just received at Ormsbys drugstore, the great remedies, Shilohs Consumption Cure, System Vitalizer, Catarrah Remedy, and belladonna Plaster; and the delightful performe Hackmetack. Nov20-lt Young ladies, whose parents have not provided them with the new patented, padded, self-heating, self-closing beauty-boosting, rocker-swinging gates, ought to invite their young gentlemen into the parlor. We understand that one or two of Logans stalwart youths and one or two of her fair maids have gone to Utah capital, for a purpose which is most honorable and commendatory. Long life to the newly married couples. Our readers will be astonished to learn that Dan Roberts, the highly esteemed and popular conductor on the U. & N. R. R. has been indicted by an Idaho Grand Jury. This looks as if some parties were determined to crowd Mr. Roberts pretty hard. Trains over the U. & N. R. R. have been slightly delayed at intervals during several days past, because of the heavy snows on the road. Had it not been for the skillful management we might have had something more serious to record than the delay of a few hours. Young Gyllenskogg, who was recently severely hurt while working in Smithfield canyon, submitted to an operation on Tuesday last, by which a large abscess that had formed in the region of the injury was removed by Doctor Norcross. The patient is progressed as well as could be expected. Prest. Geo. I. Farrell returned on Wednesday from a trip to the north. He is looking well and as if the trip agreed with him; but he reports considerable sickness in many of the settlements which he visited. Diptheria is the most serious affliction, and that frightful disease is committing dreadful havoc. The boiler of the monster engine sent from here last week by the U. O. M & B. Co. to their mill in Logan Canyon was unfortunately capsized in a snow bank, about 18 miles east of here. No blame attaches to the drivers of the horses or to the powerful enough to batter down a stone wall of comparative thickness. The one great point of superiority in its construction is that instead of throwing the snow where it is men in charge; and but little damage was done. The boiler was lifted from the snow, and placed upon sleighs to be transferred the remainder of the distance. A magnificient snow plow has just been completed at the U. & N. R. R. shops in the city for use on the road. It is built upon a new and improved plan, is almost unbreakable; and is liable again to clog the track, it casts the obstruction to a considerable distance. |