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Show pf f The Grrfssbopper. f ?. v Polygamy Sanctioned. ;i t The" following letter) with larjre Brigham lYouue. in the hands of has been others called of the United States Marshal and liable numbers as': able di for (ssor!Thoiy Prof five hundered dollars a -- month trot by of the cussion on subject finding alimony to any one of his numerous the grasshopper wives who should be some relief from enterprising which appear in a recewt enough to emulate Ann Eliza, may plague, number of the Inter Ocean. It;ives appear to have reached the end of his which Western farmers polygamic lethcr arid to be caught ajuscesticra in a trap of his own setting. But heed4. should i; , Iowa, Oct. 22, 1875. Thomas, State E'jtomolo C Prof. ' gist: Dear Sik: I have read with interest your article on "The Grasshop- of last week. the chief remeI am fully persuaded not thera'is inoian's dy against but in (rod's provision the small birds, aud I think it .a duty in; cumbent upoii those' whose position the per" in Inter-Ocea- n imfve weight to their opinions to necesresidents the press upon prairie' of preserving them. I think sity the rethey should also impress upon the importance spective Legislatures of introducing S 'me of the principal insectivorous',, European birds,, notaBut I am bly the House Sparrow. write this not to to induced but. opinions, my you give read few a years ago having an article in a London newspa-pcrt-- I thiuk th Daily Telegraph. 1 toot a very- - condensed epitome of lTinv it,, which I copy fur you iulinswer was sent says the Grackle to prayer to Jupiter to to devour the ' locusts. It is a migratory bird; from whence it comes or whither it goes, It eats the eggs as no one can tell. well as the insects, and follows the . flights of the locust.' The starling, desparrow, swallow, and other birds tarvre stroy both the insects and the The recent devastations in Africa are taid to have been caused by the "destruction of the birds for the French the grackle " I need hardly tell you that tin? the Coarinent of Europe small birds are much esteemed far the table, and the cumber seen in the country is small from constant destruction. In Eng-- i market, especially ' land they have never been eo valued, but farmers have kept up a war against thein, because when Uhe grajn is nearly or quite ripe, they do vour some along the fences, forgetting the abundant crops they, have received wheu the insects t were' destroyed.' But within a very 'xecent period protective laws have" been " You will no passed by Parliament ionbt know the grackle. I am, etc., I. T. S. mum pcoDle1 if, in the course of time J and after having exhausted all the law's delays Brigham shall pay his fine, pension his Ann1 Eltta andt recog nize the justice of ihe court which has punished him with his own laws he may find that the Davment is the, best investmVnt' he has ever 'made, since it will entitle him to claim athe protection of the Uuited States Courts in all his polygamic practice. ihe decision whi2h commits him for contempt of court, is merely the inevitable!' enforcement of a strange decision of Judge McKean, who pro posed to crush out polygamy; by .recognizing a polygamous marriage as valid and legal. Looked at in this light, the alimony which 'the, Mormon prophet is sentenced to pay i3 not so much a blow struck at his pe culiar institution as it is a firnr foundation placed under it to 'uphold it. Alimony is granted only to wives, aad wives are only those whose mar riage is legal and binding. If a poly- gauious marriage is illegal, the wo man who contracts it la not a wife; she has no standine in court, no claim on the man whom, she calls her husband. If the mVrnage is legal, then the authority which sanctions it, the proceedings which accompany it, everything connected with it, is legal, is in accordance with the Con stitution ( of "the country u and is en titled to the protection of the the law under notice do ... But the decision nounccs polygamy as a crime' in 'the same breath in which it recognizes a J polygamous marriage as' a ' valid claim fur alimony; it sanctions p6ly gam y as far as it suits its purpose all when its purposes is to is something prove that no law can sanction; it makes justice rest upon oppression, it makes illegality the, foundation of the law, denies that our jurieprudeicehasany known and recognized principle un deriving it, aud it takes heed neither of the past nor . of the future In its eagerness- to wrest the law to a preWe beg to nay conceived purpose. that this is not th'e way in which the case. Peculiar Accident. STOCKoff BHY l.LGROCEEIES, under a wagon loaded with meat As tear as Wfrcan ascertain Mr. Beckman had been hunting, and had killed five elk, which he was hauling in. When at point six miles southwest from Rawlins his wagon upset, he tailing under it- - He was held 89 firmly to the ground by the heavy weight ef the agon aud game that he was unable to free himself, and was obliged to lit there during four days and nights fcposed to the weather. It will be MUiembered that snovr storm on Thursday night extended over: the and the" poor, imprisoned sufferings "inust have3 .been great. Air 11. W.'Baxtcr'a son first discovered him,and at once came in "uu j;avo me aiarm,' wueu a putty started to his relict" tJWnen they a rived atthe scene of the accident .Beckman was lying' with his", face; partly buried in the sand, and' was supposed to be dead, until he turned iia head and spoke .to his rescuers. He was at once extricated from his painful position and was brought jn, and although terribly.' bruised, and weak from hunger, i exposure; aad bodily suffering, is still living...; He had endeavored to dig himself out with his hunting knife, bdt.on ac count of pain and weakness was compelled to abandon tho attempt, and life would soon have been extinct assistance not reached him. Hisi horses stood hitched' to the", wagon ud were so weak that they could walk to Laramie town. the scarcely Sua. country, Man's -- . I BOOTS AND , SHOES, HATS, ETC. Which they offer for sale at their Store In Logan f t ' r. , ' at .'.rock: PRICES ! ,BED 4. - . PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS j Hides arid Furs taken in exchange Oakland Transcript. "0 heart-broke- Vibrator Thresher . ! 4 ; that-polyga- akh -- GENEKAL MEROiluNBiSE... , - . . u 'f .BAltLEY .WANTHD. 10,000 of justice, and in our haste to worry the polyganists, to concede to" then! the very point they have hitherto claimed in vain that their polyga mous marriages were lawful. J. While the enemies of Mormonism (who are all the inhabitants of the United States), have the shame and reproach of knowing that they: dare not deal fairly with this question which is offered for their solution', the Mormons may, if it please Ihem', travel throughout the land with theif for multitudinous wives, and cla them just what recognition and which the law extends to the wivs of other citizens., Elder Cannon nuy bring bothjof his .wire3 to -- I pro;-tectio- j ; Tbe Fine Arts. OGIIEN it Machine. So wing U. i P. BREWERY, - ed UTAH 8 83 tf wearisome condition of humanity." How many wretched homes In our invaland! How many lids! 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J Uiiv'Ot v;Ut.i 1 judicial authority of the United Adviser," in which over fifty pages' ii thoxe consideration devoted tothe States is to be misused, nor are these ' be the methods or purposes which! diseases peculiar to women.' Itforwill 50 SI poBt paid, to any address, should mark its administration In sent, Addresa IC- V, Pierce, M." D , World's a contest carried on in this way it is DisDenaarv. Buffalo. N. Y. Azenti want TWO'UOW ED at e wanted no matter which side wins, justice is ed to seU this valuable work. Birley bound to lose; and it is better to tolerate polygamy until an authori- Wc learn from a gentleman who tame down from Kawlins last night that a man named Bcckman was tative decision can be arrived atyand brought into that town yesterday a final remedy devised, than it is to morning who had been laying crush- perscoute polygamy at the expense liace Wednesday last.- - - - Have just received from the East a full and complete - A. vmuu LOGAN, CACHE CO., in . , manVCod assume that it is right for. Brigham to pay fancy alimony for the support of the wife who is traveling about the coun trv Ifsturincr about him. ,In spite of all...the reasoning to the contrary, . we fail to see now a c?u:t can ugaiiy divorce a woman from a man to whom 9he was never married. If in our own State, for iustance,a womau were to go through the marrtaga ceremony with a man who already had a wire, th proceeding couia have no "nossible effect,, except to send tho man to the penitentiary for The second wife,' s to bigamy. not be a wife in the would speak, eyes of the Iawf nor could sne obtain alimony by sueing for a divorce. Ann Eliza has no peculiar equity on her side, for when she' joined Brigham's family, she knew that he already had a dozen and a nalt ot wives, ine kind of law tbev are usinc in Utah would not be regarded as sound anywhere else, and we do not believe, in twisting aa unnatural meaning out of a law, in order to ut some particular A J UTAU, 1 1 tf of fine Oil ChromM. 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'Brigham xYcung in thacusi y tody of the Marshal or placidly payj fn'g Ann Eliza's lawyers their alimony his hl every month, as a- proof tba E EY ' wives were legal wives; that the gis of the United States. Cofirt protected ' deemthem, and that though it was TM BEST MADS AND tl ed necessary to, crush out , polygamy, STRCMiNT MANCfACTtRED. the first step in the process, which is ''Agent for Northern Utah,5 ". all ' that has been reached as yet. is ;j that polvgamy is a lawful institution. JOHN FOWLER, OGDEN. Nov. 2. St. Louis tlf-tUtu-g 83-- - i to-$1- l Soda SfrincS . m - . t ST Operative , celebratw place ofrisort. ORGAN. :"::":J.r:- rtniii z. c. m.i ..11 ...A.enAnl tt f!onaprt1 rt. Ko- .. Merchandise, ineludiag Dry Goods, - PVREST-TOM- D " Termt Eaty ' llattt ReatonalU. 1 49-3- Look'down upon genius and he Orders by letter promptly attended te. will rise to a giant attempt to crush BO Instructions givea by tha quarter, i him, and he will soar to a god. . '. A. (,i -- to., W... 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