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Show SALARIES OP, FOURTH. CLASS lOS I'M ASTEltS. From We are pleased to soe in the missage a recommendation from the Postmaster General that a adchange be made in the mode of justing the salaries of postmasters at fourth-clas- s Their salaries offices. ar now adjusted ob the basis of a omuiifsion on the sales of stamps and stamped envelopes, etc.; the Pres-ident'- u Thuridatft Daily of Dte. 7. Wbiit'a'flie Use Of buying imported trees of doubtful virtue, when you can get warranted ao climated Apple, Pear, um, Apricot well as all as and Shade Trees, Peach kinds of small fruits from 8. Fowler' and Co., cf Heoper, at low prices? Produce taken. e'J3-o- RusoLUTtflNS of respect to our late es- greater the sales, of course, the teemed fellow citizen, Wilgon A. Wright, Esq., are unavoidably crowded out of greater the cotnpeusation the secure for their services, aud this issue. Will be published to morrow. if the sales are very small, which is frequently the case at many post Alhol Krone post-manier- s the com- At "Auld Reekie's'' every evening. iB receive the dC5tf postmasters pensation ' of amount the let very inadequate uffijes in small settlements, "Still fne Comb "And now it labor they have to perform. JIany becomes our pleasing duty to congratufourth-clas- s offices postmasters at late Mr. and Mrs. Southwick upon the have more labor to perform than birth of th3 " of their cla&s aud offices, unioa. Joseph vmiles benignly when souio others at third "first-fruits- while tho latter are compensated by 0 as aud salary of from 81,000 to per annum for their servi cesy the former are entirely on the sales of postage stamps, envelopes, cards, and the ojlloction of postage on a few unpaid letters for remuneration for their eervioos, aud which, in mauy cases, is insufficient to pay for lueland the lights they have to furnish in their Some ef these respective offices. hardworked and poorly paid public servants, whose offices are situated on or near the lines of railroads, hate to Watch and wait through the uight and every Eight for the arrival and departure of trains, to receive aud $1,-"8J- dispatch nails. Their responsibilities' and risks too, are great They are governed by the tatue postal laws and regulations as the postmasters at lir&t class offices, whose salaries range from $:,U00 to $1,000 per auuuuj, with rent, fuel, light und clerk hire uliowed them, iu addition to their wages. ever the subjeot is mentioned, and is very proud o( tbe "young gentlemau." The boy weighs heavy, aud we wish the parents joy. May the little stranger live long, and prove a bright light, and To tboe a useful member of society. Dancing Parties Every Friday evening, at Auld Reekie Dancing Hall. Persons found under the influence of intoxicating liquors in d65 tf the roem, will be expelled. Soccicsd. When the Iron Works company fired up their furnace on Monday night, we hoped the experiment would be successful. We regret to say, however, th-- such is not the case The eoal will not produce sufficient heat, and as it settles down in the furnace it crumbles to small duat and chokes up the mouth of the blast pipe. They com nienced this morning to cool off the fire, and about twelve o'clock an explosion occurred, which cracked the chimney, causing sumo of it to fall. The Furnace 1, made a little smaller, will bo and coke instead, of coal will next be We hope the next used for firiug up experiment will be successful. - Don't re-li- rs decapitated. The Poitmaster General recommends that the compensation of postmasters of the above named class be based upon the business done at their respective offices of stamps canceled by them. The avrray. utuouut of canceliug done during the quarter is ascertained by keeping u rteurd of all such canecliug during the last week of any given quarter, ad for two years, during the six mouths next preceding' the time of udjustuicnt. celed 'will Every stamp thus can count three, six. or as the east may be, ten cent!, and will be credited ro the postmaster as e j much business done at his office. On the aggregate amount, the salary of the office will be adjusted. To our uiind this is much the fairer way, and we suggest and to all our reading postmasters they are legiiin -- to writo u their respective Congressmen aud requesting them to urge that the recommeudatious of the Post master Geueral may be carried into operation during tho present svssiou of !ontM. When thin change takes t!ect the above named public eerv ntrs will soon have hsi cause for complaint than they now have. JXile-gatt- s, A bac'ielor editor, sensitive iu relation to his rights, object to taking a wife through fear that if she should have a baby his cotemporaries. who habitually copy his best articles witV-tt credit, would refuse to give him vtdit for th babyv ; . o re- Bountiful, sidence, County The funeral Utah, December 2d, 187G. which was largely attended, took place on the 3d iut Deceased was boru at He Dorchester, Mass., June 6th, 1812 was married October 8d, 1833, to Mies Jaue Maria Baboock, of Unit field, Conn. Jin was baptised into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saiuts, iu IbiA, by Elder Geo. Clare, by whom he was also ordained an Elder. Cider Lincoln stifL-repersecution, and much affliction with the Saiuts in Missouri.aud iu 18oG he wa9 arrested on a charge but fal?cy -arson, and thrown into v. here he was piison, kept confined lor eleven months, without a trial, but at the end of this time, through the indefa-tigiblexertions of his faithful wife, he obtained a hearing, and was honorably acquitted. In 1357 he came to Dtah, moved to Bountiful, wuere he resided c'liefly until the time of his decease. Elder Lincoln was a devoted husband, a kiud father and a faithful friend. lie died as he had lived, in full faith of the Gospel, and in the hope of a u to ctcraal life. He leaves a famiiy un a large circle of friends tc Com mouru bis loss. Deieret News please copy, J e resur-recio- 1 The case of Bliman alluded to yesterday presents some particulars worthy of attention. No requisition from Wyoming has yet arrived, and when it is understood that the charge against Bliman, and the papers affecting the case were all arranged in this city, the general desire will be that the plot against him will fail of its object and that whatever opinion of the man may be generally entertained, he will not be kidnapped and carried away into another Territory, to defeat the ends of justice. About two years ago Bliman became intimately acquainted with a woman in Wyoming Territory, of whom he borrowed eome money, for which he gave bis note, bearing two per cent, interest This person subsequently t er month. followed Bliman to Ogdca where she now resides. It will be remembered that a most brutal attack wa9 made on Bliman, by one Freeman, in this city, for which the latter, after pleading iusanity was fined in the Justice's Court, but took an appeal to the Third District Court. Now comes the plot against Bliman to keep him from appearing against the who attacked him with a loaded cane, covering his head with wounds and his body with gore. The Attorney (?) who defended Freeman draws out the papers accusing Bliman of obtaining m,oney from the woman in question, under filse pretenses. These papers were sent to Wyoming nearly a month ago, and no legal steps have yet been takea in the case by the authorities of Wyoming. The Sheriff of this county was perfectly justified in detaining Bliman, under the instructions received frem our neighboring Territory Buttherc is really no case againBtBliman warranting his detention. No matter under what circumstances he obtained the money from the woman, he settled for it by note, and her only remedy is in a civil suit. She has admitted ac cepting the note, and .has offered to negotiate it in this city for a sewing machine. The effort, therefore, to remove Bli man from the Territory, is only part of a ooaspincy, which we hope and ex pect to see knocked into uncollected fragments. We profess no admiration for Bliman, nor any sympathy with Lis tricks or dodges. But we are opposed to such plots as the scheme resorted to iu this instance, and propose to fight them all the time, no matter wobm they affect on the one side or the ether. The assault on Bliman was inexcusable, ferocious and cowardly, and this conspiracy to remove him and damage his reputation and weaken his testimony. is all of apiece with tbeattackupon his person, and juU what might be expected of the individuals who are engaged in it. It will fail. semi-lunati- c contemplating matrimony we say, hurry up; Bee birth uotice, and govern your selves accordingly. Under the present mode of adjustment, some fair fourth class have beeu tempted to step Atbol Jlrose ouUide of their owu delivery, and to At Auld Reekie's" every evening, dtiotf offer pt stage stamps, etc., for sale. This is strictly forbidden in the ReObiluarjand some of the offenders gulations, Elder Geo. W. Lincoln died at his have been discovered and officially in Davis post-maste- , Iguatieir. Since the time of Lord Stratford 'le lledclifle, who for maoy years wie'ded great power in Constantinople as the British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, no foreigner has exerted in the Sultan's Cabinet so an influence as the present gr-aRussian Ambassador, Gen. Iguatieff. Bvtrn in 182(5, he (sprang from a race of petty nobles, and though his father r se high in the military service, his own career in the army was not very successful. At twenty six he was a brevet only captain, nnd attached to the staff of Gen. MouravieT. then Governor General of Eastern Siberia. His first prominent service was when Gen. Mouravicif sent him to Peking, when, as the English and Freuch arniios advanced to that city, he made a treaty with the Chinese government by which the great province of Manchoora, on the Amoor river, was ceded to lUssia. In 1805 he was selected by Prince Gorchakoffto fill the most difficult diplomatic positiou of Ambassador to Constantinople. In 1874, when there were rumors that the Russian Premier was about resigning his portfolio, it was believed that Gen. Iguatieff would be his successor; but that event being postponed, the Ambassador has retained his particularly imt Mrs. Sarah Drew of Halifax, Mass.. ninety-onyears old, killed a big snake that had entered her house wi ,h a fire (shovel."- - Springfield Republican. This txtraordinary with afire shovel" must bo the identical serpent crawled out of the (Jrden of Kdnn. Ho wautd Mrs. Sarah Drew badly, or he wwuld u ver have called for her with his portant pnpt. worthy i Lilies ou and his tools ab at kirn. It is a blessed thiug Ceo. Hhiu-heudMrs. Sarab Drew killed him that Boot nl Skoa SUp, eixt to the Utah Chicago Tribune. e tat AWFUL TRAGEDY. An Atrocious Conspiracy. LOCALJTEMS. g TJie Brooklyn Theatre takes fire Dminff a Performance, New York, 6. The Brooklyn theatre was burned last evening. The fire broke out during the performance of tbo .last scene of the "Two Orphans," in which Mies Claxton, who plays (be heroine, lies on the boat house fioor. In five minutes more the audience would have been dismissed and there would have been nothing more serious to record than the destruction of The house wus about two the property. tbiids full, and those below sitting well forward towards the stage, and for those in the family circle, dress circle and galleries, there was no way of escape oy Washington street. The panio stricken people rushed pell mell toward and down the stairways. Tue main exit became immediately choked up, and a KCeue of terror, confusion and distress ensued which beggars description. Just above the landing place of the stairway a woman, in the crush, had ber foot pushed between the bannisters and fell. The crowd behind, forced forward by the terrified people still further behind, tell over her and piled on top of each The police other, four and five deep troin the station bouse next door were promj tly at the scene, but owing to the mxnner in which the people were piled on top o' each other and massed together, could extricate comparatively few au l these were all bruised, bleeding and maimed. The firemen got to work on the ruins shortly after daylight this morning. Tbey suoseeded iu getting as far as the wall of the dress circle, when they found a great number of bodies, and immediately began the work of removal, and up till 11 o'clock sixty five bodies had been recovered, and what appeared to be twenty. five or thirty more were seen iu the basement, into which tbey bad been precipitated- - by the falling cf the burning floors. At the police station adjoining the burned theatre, the names of eighty six persons missing from their homes nave been registered. Kate Ciaxton, at the prelimiBary inquiry of the fire marshal, said; At the beginning of the last act, just as the curiam went up, 1 heard a rumbling noise ou the stage, and in two minutes after I saw flames. The fire seemed to be all over tbe stage. Mrs. Warren.myself, Mr. Studdy and Mr. Murdouk were .on the stage nt this time. We four remained there, and endeavored us beet we coull to quiet the audieuce aud preveut a panic. I ssid to the people: Be quiet; we are between you and the fire. The front door is open and the are clear Not cue of the audience jumped un the stage The tlaiuts were then 1 raa out and coming down ou us. jumped over several people. Mr li S. Murdoca, alter endeavoring to calm the tears of the people, went to his dressiug room to get nis clothing and must have beeu suffopa-sag- panio-stiicke- cated. Wagon loads of rough boxes are riving in front of the theatre, oorpse. a- -e placed in thsrn and covert with trapaulin and Cttrrie(1 'J Morgue. Men and women are crowd n! around the station house and the theatrf entrance, making inquiries for mi88iD! friends. In some instances whole fami lies have perished. The bodies present every form of contortion, just as stiflenod Ih the last agony when th! floor gave way and they plunged down in the blinding smoke and flames. Arms and le?s are bent and twisted in everv way; hands are clenched and reach out as if grasping for help. The Pen says: At 11 o'clock a horri ble discovery was made. In the middU ui wua.1 whs me loooy 01 me theatre, lay an immense pile of rubbish, smolderini beams, fragments of girders and other thiugs. Tnis heap was nearly opposite the principal entrance to the of the theatre, and beyond it wisauditory another heap, marking the place where the ptairs which led to the gallery fe!i UnJer the first mentioned a dead body was found, and the firemen diltigently prosecuted their search in this direction. With much labor some of the heaviest timber was removed and a horrible eight was revealed. Beneath that mound eorpses lay in rows, beeped one upoa another, packed together with fearful solidity, wMch told of the great pressure to which they had been ubj?cted. How many lay there, what their sex or age, no man could tell, and at noon on'y a guess could be made. Another actor Claude Burroughs, is now rep rted missing. Thus far only three corpses have been identified those of Hugb J. Dover Nicholas Ivtiley and John Woods. The Brooklyn Argus states th.it up to 1 o'clock niuety four bodies had been taken from the ruins and others were still visible, lying iu layers tour deep. The morgue is completely filled and tbe bodies are now carried to the old market building in Adams sireet. They cannot be recognized. Some persons assert that no one ia the upper gallery of the theatre escaped. Tbe last man that left tbe stairs before they fell says that behind him was a helpless, half suffocated crowd. A great crowd of persons is gathered in the neighborhood of the morgue u identify missing relatives aud friends, and their lameuiations aie pitiful. It requires a force of police to keep thein from crowding over each other. Tbe actors themselves had gr.at difficulty in effecting their escape. Going to tae back of the Klage their advance was cut off by flames that played around the usual place of egress. Campbell, shorthriud reporter on the Commerli&l Advertiser, is among tbe victims; aleo police otlicer Patrick Keon. 5 Two hundred and forty-fiv- e pm. bodies hrve beeu recovered from the ruins of the theatre up to this hour. Liieter'e restaurant adjoining the theatre, was destroyed, and the post office slightly damaged The theatre was owned by Kingsley and Keeney and others, and was reined to Shook Si Palmer, of tbe Union Square theatre, New York; loss about $250,000. Later. At 5 o'clock 220 bodies wen taken from the Park theatre, terribly burned, bruised and distorted. A look the pit at this time showed a considerable pile of corpses lying crosswise like stacks of wood, and there were apparently still fifty or tixty corpses reAs night approached, two maining calcium lights were placed in positiou and the work of removing the ghastly terms tf the dead was continued. They were under tbe galleries, but no estimate could be made of tbe charred remains of (be victims, who were taken out. in front of the theatre and rapidly loaded in boxes and placed upon undertakers' wagous. iUill the pile of bodies in the cellar did uot seem to diminish. Although ihe tire originated on the stage tbe loss of life among the theatrical company was uet extensive. Two l.ves were lost, two young men in tbe flower of their professional life Harry 8. Murdock and Claude Burroughs These two young men were playing re spectively Pierre, the cripple, and valet to Chavelier. At the moment the fire wa3 discovered Murdock was before the curtain playing with As soon as the Miss Kate Claxton. and a occurred, general rush was panic made to escape, Murdock and Burroughs ran to their dressing rooms to get clothes to wear in the street, their garments being very scanty in the play. Their dressing rooms were on the 6ftme side of ilio stairs and tbe right wiBg as viewed from the auditorium, and consequently farthest from tbe stage door, even had that beeu a means of exit, being locked by the panio 6tricken janitor. The dressing rooms were arranged in tiers, approached by a narrow stairway, which led up to tlio painters' bridge which spans me stage. Murdock'sroom was ou the sooond titr and Burroughs' oa the third. Before they emerged the staircase was one sheet of flames. So do its eagerly and so rapidly did the fire work that all cnances of retreat were cutoff, and the unfortunate men were driven back by tbe roaring flames step by step. The Brooklyn Eagle furnishes the following: The work of identifying the dead will be difficult, for most ot them are burnvd beyond recognition, 'jhe l only mode of identifying will be by property t'cuud uttached to th bodies. Thus far it is oniy evident that the flames made common havoo with men, women aud children. Suortly before 'J o'clock, Reverend Father lianly entered the theatre, aud among the bodies recognized the brotuer of llevereud Father Kylie. Faiher Kyhe was present and identified the body of his brother. TUe body was taken trow the ruius, charred aud blackened beIu the breast pocket yond recognition were a number of cards bearinz the name of Abraham Barneit. Bodies are constantly being removed from the ruius and arc takeu to the morgue as taet as possible, it is rumored that a number of attachoes of the theatre are also burned seems certain that Charles Lott aud his tou, who were stationed in the upper ga lery, are among the lost. The actors and actresses escaped from the stage in"o Johnsou sireet. J. Thorp, stage manager, states the fire occurred as lollows : A drop was ignited from a border light by some means inexplicable as oue was guarded from the other. He immediately direoted the Btage carpenter and two supernumeraries to endeav or to extinguish the Amies, but the difficulty was to reach the part on tire. The stage carpeuter essayed to effect the object by lowering tho drop, aud iu doing so added fuel to the flames. The scene embraced a ceiled apurtment, and the instaut the burning drop came in contact with the iiitlammuble ceiling, it tserved to spread the existing flames. In a flash lhe entire properties were ia a bluie The usual avenues of escape were thus closed at the rear, and an exit, if at all possible, bad to be made by way of the box rnlrance. All. excepting perhaps one or two, escaped that way. It i now believed that the number of dead will be about 125. Tbe courts adjourned this morning without tiabgacting any business There is iutense excitement iu the city, and busmen is partially suspended. The Ho inc. Park theatre has, been closed for a week r Now A meeting of the theatrical George Whitehead. profomoo Street. hat been called for Thursday to concert aad shoes aais shop on Maia meakurei t'er relief. ir-.t- per-soua- t. , IlctiimeU dl8-2iu-a!-- Pe-cur- |