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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. THE MORTALITY of Salt Lake City; which of late has been so alarming, is now decreasing. For three days of the past week, eight deaths had occurred. THE DESERET News of Aug. 13th says: The Central Pacific passenger train, due at Ogden about 6:30 p. m., was so much behind time last evening that the Utah Central did not wait for her arrival. The cause of the delay is said to have been occasioned by a collision between a Central Pacific emigrant and the regular passenger train due at Ogden on Friday morning. It is reported that considerable damage has been done to the engines, but luckily, so far as has been ascertained, no lives appear to have been lost in the smash. THE DESERET News of Aug. 10th, contains an account of a sad accident which occurred at West Jordan, on Tuesday afternoon, and by which a little two year-old son of Solon and Henriette Richardson, residing at West Jordan, was accidentally drowned. The parents of the little fellow lived near the race which carries the water to the Jordan, and on Tuesday afternoon, while the father was in the hay field, and the mother was occupied in the rear of the house, he disappeared and was afterwards found in the ditch. He was only out of the mother's sight a very few minutes. IN A FEW days, says the Salt Lake Herald, Mr. David James, the enterprising West Temple street plumber, ?? and proprietor of the gas and water fixture establishment, will begin improvements on his new store, just below the Herald office. This building has been purchased by Mr. James, and while already much larger than the one he occupies at present, is still inadequate to his rapidly increasing business, in consequence of which he is forced to make quite an extensive addition which he will shortly commence. This addition will be forty feet in depth, about twenty-five feet wide and two stories high. Mr. James will continue the old branches of his business as heretofore, but is introducing some new ones. He has secured the agency for that celebrated and most excellent heater, the Fire on the Hearth, which not only warms a room, but warms all parts alike; by it the temperature of a room can be kept constantly even; and it is one of the best, most healthful and thorough ventilators ever invented. The prices range from $60 to $70, and as Mr. James has just received a car load, he is prepared to supply the public demand. As a number of these stoves are already in use, there is no question whatever about their great merit. |