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Show LOCALISMS. COOLER to-day. BEAVER canyon lumber can be laid down in Logan for $23 per thousand. THE hunting season for certain wild fowl, including ducks and prairie chickens has begun. MATURE vegetables and ripe fruit, of home production, are much later this year than last. DO not fail to secure your tickets for Rial's Uncle Tom's Cabin performances next week, at an early day. See adv. THERE was a heavy fall of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning. THE building boom continues with unabated vigor. Masons and carpenters who are out of work are indeed hard to find. BEEF cattle are in good demand, A. Farr, Jr., Esq., disposed of a "small bunch" the other day for an even thousand dollars. THE plasterers working on the Temple are crowding the carpenters. A few more of the latter could be furnished with work. THERE is a great scarcity of teams for miscellaneous work in this city, and a great demand for them. There is plenty of work for both men and teams. SUPERVISOR Lewis has lately been collecting the cobbles on Third street and placing them where they will do the most good. His work is appreciated by the public. BISHOP Sardine of Clarkston, was in town to-day. He reports that the dry farms at that place have yielded better this season than was expected. The hay crop is also very heavy. SHERIFF Crookston is on the watch to prevent the introduction of small pox into our community. Two cases have passed over the U. & N. within a few days, going south from the Oregon Short Line. SEVERAL parties owning stores on Main street are putting a plank walk in front of them. If the block from Z. C. M. I. to Geo. Barber & Son's corner was all paved it would be a great convenience to the public, especially after nightfall. Jas. Rice, second son of Mr. James Rice of North Ogden, fell a victim to that dreadful malady, smallpox, at Bailey's camp near Arimo, I. T. There are nine patients now remaining in the pest house there. WHAT with the British lion, Russian bear, French cock, German eagle, and Turkey, they are having quite a menagerie in Europe, just now, and hair and feathers will be flying around, ere long.-Ogden Herald. THE advertisement of McAlister & Son, harness makers, appears in this issue. This is one of the oldest firms in this county, and the harness made by them has a first-class reputation. They carry full lines of saddlery goods, for the various kinds of which see their adv. ON Tuesday last a sudden, sharp and terrific clap of thunder greatly startled the citizens of Hyrum. Nervous ladies were much alarmed, and the inmates of several different residences in the town thought their houses must be struck. A single clap was all that was heard. APOSTLE F. M. Lyman and President C. O. Card will hold meeting in Mormon ward at 3 o'clock p. m. on the 15th inst.; at Oxford at 1 p. m. on the 15th; at Clifton at 10 a. m. and at Franklin at 5 p. m. on the 17th; at Richmond at 10 a. m. and at Smithfield at 1 p. m. on the 18th inst. A LOAD of lime was hauled to the Temple last Thursday evening and was not unloaded as no storm was apprehended. The sudden and heavy storm in the night, however, rapidly raised the temperature of that cargo, and two men had to use great exertion to get it unloaded before the rain could ruin it. THE Ogden Herald is credibly informed that the dread disease smallpox, has already laid two victims into an untimely grave at North Ogden. On Saturday, the 5th, Bryan Orson, a married man, father of three children, and Wm. Love, a young man, single succumbed to the dire affliction. They had contracted the malady while working on the Oregon Short Line. Their remains were interred on the evening of their demise. SOME of our correspondents whose favors, by the way, we sincerely appreciate-roll their MSS. Please don't. Fold your MSS. and enclose them in an envelope addressed to the editor. Handling MSS. that have been rolled up fosters profanity among typos and proof readers. Why? When you become a printer you'll know. In the meantime please bear in mind to fold, not roll the pages on which the scintillations of your genius shine forth. ON Tuesday evening last, as we learn from the Ogden Herald, a three year old daughter of Wm. White, of that city, met with an accident which resulted in the loss of the right leg. The child with others was playing at a coal yard. Some of her playmates placed her on a flat coal car from which she fell to the ground. At the same time a heavy end-gate of the car fell upon the child's right leg, breaking and mangling it in a dreadful manner, necessitating amputation. |