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Show The House, of Sprasuc. ' of the N. Y. ' A correspondent Jlcrall writes from Providence: The steamship that landed you here from New York and the street caru that conveyed you through the the control of the city acknowledged Thiir vast print works Fprairucs. their cotton mills that nt Cranston, aud their iron works belt Providence within the city give employment, directly and indirectly, to 50,000 errors of the Spragues were not the result of any evil impulses. n it. ..1 me nopragues are compara ioin lively young men. Amasa is about thirty-fivand William thirty-eigAmasa's skill was in conducting the print works, and William's in specu lation. it the conservative instincts of the former had prevailed, the dis asters that overtook the firm might have been avoided. . e The pny roll exceeded $160,000 a week, and in the course of one year they put more money in circulation than did the national Government o. They lived in grand fifty years off from all vuland fenced houses The residence of gar attachments. the mother of Amassa aud William Sprague looks large enough for a palace. It is a great, broad massive brick structure, five stories high with a liberal sweep of land around mi . . . . t You've often heard of Shakespeare Rustic "Ees. Be you he 1" !" FKOM THE IVOlfcTII mere is . now a certain prospect that the great raft which has been an obstruction in the lied River, Louis iana, ever since the advent of white men in this couutry, will soon be re moved, and that navigation will be "Fat's this I hear ye're rfiun to dee Jcanie?" said an Aberdeen lass to an other young woman. "Weel, Maggie lass. I'm just gaitu to marry that farm ower bv there and live wi' the bit nian- nie on't." opened for steamers from Shrevcport, John raul says that when a man La., to Jefferson, lexas. The histo ot walks the and to the ry raft, squarely up to the clergyman attempts remove it, is exceedingly interesting who married him three years before In 1805, the obstruction of logs lakes him by the hand cordially ,and, reacnea one nunureu nine.?, since without a word of reproach, inquires that time rafts have formed at vari- after his health, it is useless- for auy it, carefully cultivated. The street ous points iu the river near Shreve one to maintain that Christian for in front was made for the use of the of these was removed by giveness is a thing of the past, and It is closed port. One Spragues exclusively. in 1830, by the help does not enter largely into that man's Shreve at either end by iron gates, and no Captain ot a Congressional appropriation. character, or that the heroic virtues carriage dare euter on it without and between 1840 aud 1844, have all disappeared from earth. another permission from the people in the under a Government contract, by vurison grande. Facing this street Jennison, the Kansas jayhawiter, is on Y ilhamsou. Ueneral In 1854, the trial at Leavenworth, for to and having a combined frontage of raft region extended only twelve defraud the Inited States attempting Treasury out about 1,000 feet are the dwellings of and at that time Capt. Fuller of $3o,000. Jtnnison was commander the Sprngucs. Here all that wealth miles, aided by a Congressional appropria of a frontier Union regiment, and sack. and taste could devise was brought Independence about fours years ago of tion $150,000, attempted to re ei The owners of n hardware store in that together to make body and soul re-- j move it. At the end ot twu years, town bribed Jeunison to make affidavit lice The site was a fitting one for the appropriation had been that when he plundered Independence, however, the greatest family of the State, high and nothing accomplish-ep- , he carried off $3o,000 worth of hard exhausted above the town and looking over the work being abandoned, ware from their establishment for the the and, heads of even the other great rival use of the Union forces. The claim was obstruction the began to increase. found to bo fraudulent, and Jennison family, the Browns. Now that the The present ratt region extends thir was indicted. great firm of Spragues is threatened e miles, from a point forty miles with extinction it may be well to A dispatch from New Orleans, above Shreveport to the Arkansas jrlancc for a momeut at the niagui-tud- e tells of a sad ending of a foolish wa of their investments, so as to State line, and contained, before the work commenced, nearly fifty ger. Cloud, who started from Plula realize what an enormous property present ot a mile to i delphia to row to New Orleans, on from has been overthrown in a few days. rafts, mile in length, and occupying the en a bctjof $5,000, by way of the canals Toe house of Sprague was started tire width of the river, navigation and the Mississippi aud Ohio rivers, sixty years age by the establishment the perished on Thursday not fifty miles in a small way of print works at only being accomplished through from the coal of his endeavors. After the as around these raft, but, These works grew from bayous Cranston. available were only at high water, traversing nearly the whole of his year to year in size and importance, was insignificant. In 1871 long journey he fell sick and was and under the management of the navigatiou the attention of the Engineering De- found in his boat sick and dyin elder Amassa and William Sprague hours afterwards he was directed to this work, and twenty-fou- r they were brought to a high state of partment and an appropriation of 10,000 hav took his leave of life. There is perfection, so that the Sprague brand been made by Congress, the work something tragic in the idea of the of calico became known from end to ing of preliminary surveying was intrust solitary man float' ng down the broad end of the country. The elder ed to Lieut. Woodruff, who comple expanse of the Mississippi with dis Spragues died and left the property ted it in 1872, and submitted plans ease terminating his task and deci to Amassa and William the younger. and specifications for the removal of ding the issue against him. He had The print works yielded an immense the raft, whereupon an appropriation been at least two months afloat, and revenue, ana it "."as lag auiDition ot was made. The plans the long trial seems to have broken William to devote all the surplus of $150,000 were accepted, and Lieut. Woodruff down his constitution and made him earnings to the extention of the reached the raft an easy victim for one of the plagues region in January name and enterprise of the family common to the river. last with a snag-boatwo crane-boat- s Iu this purpose of life he branched all the requisite machinery for tnd out into the manufacture of horse his work. The following description shoes and horse shoe nails, of plows, shows the difficulties to be overof caloric engines and various induscome : tries that added greatly to the repuLogs, roots and snags of every de tation of the house for enterprise and scription had been crowded and jam also to the prosperity of the State. med into a tangled mass, becoming To get an idea of how immense a more compact each year as the presproperty the two brothers controlled, sure from above increased. Annual we have only to look at the estimate freshets had brought down mud and ot their real estate alone, in Maine Only 50 Cents per Bottle. deposited it in and over this mass they owned 400,000 acres of the best beitself had the raft in places, timber land. In Kansas and in Texas until, It promotes the GROWTH", PRESERVES come entirely covered with earth, the COLOR, and Increases tha Vigor . laud claimed of vast tracts they also, small and BEAUTY of the HAIR. thus "br islands, and in South Carolina an extensive these formed. Upon fhmt TTTTTiTT VAS AGO T,TO'f KATtttniOIV a being purchase was macta for a mill-sit- e FOR TKX Hair vu tint placed in tho market by were trees, usually Professor K. Thomas Lyon, a graduate of Princeton few years At Cranston, which willows, threegrowing ago. The nnme is aenou from wis ones. feet and more in cir- Jolletro. is a KATHJUV'signifyttifr to elermtt, smrgV.rmsmaO. village that in the course of time cumference. or rtninrr. Tlio fnvor it has receired, and ths popuwill be larity it has obtained, is unprecedented and incred- part and parcel of this prosbli. It increases the GROWTH and Beauty of tho In addition to the removals of the 'UlS. It is delightful dressing. It eradicates perous town of Provideuee, they trur. and cutting, blasting-powde- r Dandruff. It prevents the Hair from turning sawing by logs H owned 1,784 acres, which, of itself, keeps the head cool, and rives the hair a rich, soft. was used, but it did not prove Klossr appearance. It is the bamk in gcAHTiTY ttas a fortune not to bo despised ; in and Quality as it was over a Quartkr of a was then tried, and Counuse. of Ago, and is sold b ail Dynamite any the adjacent village of Johnson 839 but failed, refusing to explode even try Stores at ouly Fifty C'eul per Bottle. acres, aud in Warwick' 728 acres. with an electrical exploder. At last This land not Woman's Glory is Her Hair, many years hence will nitroglycerine was brought into use, be sold at so much per foot, and its and it never failed to do its work value is, therefore, simply incalculaAll that remains to be m S UM H WI ble, Iu the town of Providence their thoroughly. done now, is the blowing out of some property was scattered in all direcand improving certain s tions. They had six iron manufactpoints in the channel, which will be ories, they controlled five banks, accomplished in a few weeks. The they owned the immense Baltic obstruction of centuries will then Mills, with 7G.O0O swindles: the been removed by the skill and Satick Mills, with 42,000 spindles,! have perseverance of Lieutenant Wood we Augusta, Maine, Mills, with ruff. The saddest part ot ttie record SCIEXTIFICAJiDBOMANTlC. Quidniek Mills, the of this great work is that Lieutenant Al'ctic Mills, the United States Flax Woodruff has not lived to finish it, .Tucljjo ov G u Manufacturing Company, with havin" died cf yellow fever at lies; and, indeed, to enumerOct. 1. Chicago Trt- ate the different investments' into Shreveport, brnc. 'hieh the GENT FOR TUK.FOtLOWlNO POPCLAR, capital of this powerful interiMtinzaud reliable books, solicit, pub house mads its tediWould be . :th of lev way lic patronage: A morning paper speaks ous. A mofniifwont pictorial Polyglot Family Wble be which in the may outskirts," tbe bent for the prire. The Srimrrijoa liil lvmp for Rhode in" interpreted, "picking ladies pock F. ChunihrrUin' Commercial Law anij Form land. Book, sitxpted to tbs wnnU ufall. They furnished widespread ets." employment. They were liberal with l)r. George IT. Xphey' Laws of Life an4 Health, Might I ask you, miss fur males and female. their Young Gent I money in the cause of charity but Miss "Very sorry, sir, Dio Lewis on direction, a 8cint!Ae work. and religion- and if they nexer excit- am engaged fpr the next three dances." Pilgrim Prnjrresd, illiiitracd by John Utinyon. ed The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. any sympathy before,, they pro-- a Young Gent "It is not dancing ah it are miss, Jon, you Terms Liberal. Look nt Samples, class ;a it3 par the your deal from beg now good sK-Ion my tat." ' people who can the sitting that perceive THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE VISITING SALT LAKE CITT, "Is the Colonel here ?" shouted man, sticking his head into a Kansas City street car. "He is," answered thirteen men, as they rose up. Employerjto nef clerk; "Well, Sniffles, have you posted the ledger: isew clerk Yeth, thir, I've posted the ledger; but lor, thir, it wath to big for the letter hodlh, and I had to take it intbidt the pothofflth!" GRAIN WANTED. PEOPLE ht The Itcil River Raft. people .. Enthusiastic pedestrian "Am l en the right road for Stratford Shake speare s toim, you know, my man, COULD NOT DO BETTER Given, REST IN FURNITURE, AND EXAMINE CALL AT DINWOODEY'S Immense Stock and rhanpest stock of FURN'ITA ThetMMt R LU. THE SUPERB Of FURNITURE ! "ESTEY" ItCAN LARGEST FACTOR! IN THE world: BY FAR THE For Ho is Determined to Sell Tbs Most Popular Instmoieut in uss. Cheap. 31 East Temple Street, Street, antl Elegnuc Cbenpntaa f Combined. ni-t- SALi:S 10,800 Per Annum! C. W, STATNER, Agent, Jlnln St., Knit Lnk C'Uy, Near Nut iige'ft Gallery. s7'tf 57. P. O. Address, Box WILSON Cloth for Wool! Sewing Machine EXCELSIOIt MILLS, CELEBRATED MACHIKK as good and THIS which is just Twenty Dollars Cheaper than s Machine any other first-clas- in the market, ty-fiv- h BOYLE fitO'HARNETT'S. Muln Street, Ogden. north of ttlt - one-eight- AND THE ONE FOURTH IN CASH TUAN TO 0IE3T NEAR Is CITY, for tlis Slitnufacture of Superior Cloth, Blank cis, Ynrn, Kattiiig, Klc, Etc. HAS JUST TAKEN THE PEIZE! AT TBI AS DBC - See O. t35- Family Sewing Machine In tlOLG "77"oxlclAGENTS, d299-t- W. TURNER, ' GEORGE (Lata C. B. McCrefor Fifth Street. A Co.), - -- Ogdcn Books, Periodicals, Mag- azines, Pictures, Albums, Stationery, Ogdcn. it. Cail and sec 2- -l - BOYLE & O'HARNETT, t, hi (oh Tl Advertisement. JPricc, $80. With Cover, $58. ITIaiii St., & CO, A, RANDALL, SON sC2-3- BEST Hi AND KKCKIVB Onr Goods tn Return nt Advantageous Hates. Vienna Exposition, T Bring on Yonr Woo' at Once l CIOAU.V AXI TOBACCO. Finio ll Wall Pnpers of the Best Patterns. taken fur all the Papers of the day, Loral, Eastern and Western. 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Ho-t- The world ' COMPANY, in Which has swh n Pevuipd through tke Territory, cannot for Kifcuty and hxtWli-nc- , o; eves? ets: Tm SASTA CLAI1S Tsaa mof Store e f tbe tott, ,' BELIGIOTJS, - 1 EASIEST TO SELL! . 3,-i- rH BECia BEST TO U3EI CHEAPEST TO BUY Tli!M J rover, tliiUnb Utah. all Climates, Y ft full i Chilin rrvlnjt ftir HLAIV Candiil Cantor i i vit :. 'r It Oil. is delicioiiif, e!Ttn-ti- harmlm1. The r piilivt- - tatte and hiusT of ilie Cii'tor Oil is eu ; frone. tircly an-- ! 1 25 O. IVT J OgfSen, Utah. . d2S' aitfMiwers) X- - net imrwfJrou. lvire u tetti. , McLain'a Vermifun I.oubon. r'i)l.l Vwu, Are eWptKit and aecive, Tli7 llnnl.oiih Li'i't in oiifVfti"DeiV hliolM. t'liihlttui und try for t)ein. Prire 2ft cU. per love thi-r- J or Sale by Z. da led all nLr legists, t. Jl. J. Uv. |