Show LETTER from N biggins to president young manti april 9 1854 BR BF YOUNG dear sir yours of the ath alt was thankfully received pr lost last mail the indians around this place appear perfectly friendly quite a number of tile the have lately visited us A few are here now tho the most of them have loft left aa as they came in for some provisions saying that their friends were hungry and so soona as s they could procure a few pounds of flour to carry to their suffering friends they were off some two or three came in a few days ago go saying that a small party were encamped on salt creek in the sevier valley who were on oil the point of starvation I 1 immediately dispatched one of them to the camp with some hour flour the brethren who went to cottonwood to build a fort have completed the wall which is twelve and a half by sixteen and a half rods two feet thick and seven feet high they are now building rooms inside of the fort placing a stick of timber on the top of the wall to support ort the roof of the rooms abich makes the fort wall about eight feet high some some of them h have ave remo removed v ed their families in the remainder will have their families there soon many of them are now putting in their crops ind and I 1 think from three to five hundred acres of land will be tilled there this season I 1 bishops lowry and allred have had the management again ent of the collecting the amount due captain stevens command and bishop lowry has promised me to report to you forthwith he has collected about one hur hundred ared and thirty bushels of wheat on oil those claims we are building a new fort of stone and ado bies enclosing about fifty nine acres of land the temple block in the centre alsol also enclosing the old stone fort and grist mill the wall of this fort is three feet thick at the foundation and eight I 1 feet eight high the easT basir walls are nearly completed and considerable work done on the other three lines should we be blessed with and heath I 1 think we will celebrate the ath of july on the temple block with a good wall around us your your brother in the gospel MANTI fell feb 1854 1654 MR EDITOR I 1 dear sir feeling that your numerous readers would be glad to hear how bow things are progressing in hi san pete valley I 1 will give you a sketch of things in general on the ath dinst the new grist mill owned by isaac morley coriey co made its first effort at grinding I 1 and you would jump for joy too if you had have I 1 j been forced to eat bread made out oi of wheat crack j ed a d on a hand mill as long as many of our citizens have tills this mill is constructed upon a different principle from any other that I 1 ever saw as the spindle that drives tile the stones is above them in place of below them I 1 on the ath dinst amigo alias elick the chief of I 1 the san pitch tribe that ass alsted sted in killing bros nelson luke read and dark clark sent san one of his band with two other warriors into this place to make peace the pipe of peace was smoked and they returned to their camp at new denmark and on saturday last amigo with the principal part of his tribe came in an and since that time lime they have been dropping in one at a time un til I 1 should thier t there here wis was fifteen or twenty warriors he here rebut but it if is almost impossible to tell how i many of them there are as they are going the 1 j rounds all the time the cry being shet cup they 1 1 make every every demonstration of peace amigo says i i that he be had a dream and in that dream the lord i told hin not to fight the tha mormons cormons but to make peace with them and he ha shows a ring that he made on his arm that he might remember his dream their story is that walker and agrapine will be in in iii the spring and that they will brin bring 9 back the horses that they have stolen and that th they wish to make peace aur our fort wall 1 is progress progressing ill rapidly it is three feet thick at the bottom it is ft 1 be 22 0 inches at the top and eight feet high to bo be built of limestone I 1 the snow on the mountains is very deep from all appearances but we have had bad but little in this valley only enough to make good sleighing which has aided us very much in hauling stone for the fort wall there has not been to exceed four jays days but what the brethren could go about the work that they had to do either out or indoors we are much in want of a good saw mill but bros higgins and chose chase are one which will most likely run by 1st ast of may next fifty families intend moving from this place to pine creek 6 miles distant in the spring they are now building a fort there as for dimensions I 1 have not learned much stock has been driven out there lately by those to work there as the range is better belter there than here and feed is remarkably scarce here this winter wheat is very seare scarce here but I 1 think we will have enough to bread us wheat speculators will have to egypt some place else next spring to buy wheat to speculate on oil as san pete valley will have but very little if any to spare but let not this deter oily any person from coming to san pete to live for if he is a good saint he will not eo growl w I 1 to live as his brethren do and the b brethren here r will see no one suffer as long as they have I 1 have extended this letter further than I 1 intended to I 1 am yours A L SILER N B I 1 forgot to state that amigo has brought it in some of the articles taken from the brethren at the head of the valley when they killed them A L S report of the Q aarum MR EDITOR agreeably to the instructions of nathan B baldwin balda n and alonzo le baron I 1 have se sent you a 1 report as far as my knowledge extends wa a request that you will publish the same in the next of the deseret news Pre presidents nathan B bald baldwin win fillmore city alonzo le baron payson U T james jaines beek beck great salt lake city one of the other presidents is dead and the remainder acosta sized according to information received members I 1 oriendo F mead samuel burgess ephraim hanks orrion day farlin robert crookston great suit salt lake city cita I 1 thomas steed north cottonwood beverly C boven alley D boven coleman I 1 borge it provo city thomas charlesworth Char lebworth orson tyler isaiah huntsman Fil fillmore lynore city william price green river david le baron council bluff city john gallaher st louis sidney A hanks on oil a mission to the islands john wyche horace turner charles merril edwin vace nathan wixom I 1 robert cliff william green john mccloughlin levia levi B wilder nathan lewis james artly heman G tupper henderson con henry G griggs i aggs george W bratton john wright joseph mardis wiley B corbit benjamin A powers charles Cli arles mcintosh jefferson dimick peter mes seeks perry owen joseph jackson elijah allen alien john A merrill wheeler hautz an darson elisha wilcox david T young robert walker stephen haddock walter smith david frederick john dutson john M freeman residence and standing unknown 7 dad 6 apostatized 2 removed into the high pr priests bests quorum all who claim any standing in the file quorum of seventies must write immediately imme immediately diatel y to orlando F mead clerk of the quorum orum great salt lake city letters post paid giving their place of residence geneale genealogies 9 ies ac without delay or their places will be filled lip by active members as it is the determination of the first presidents to regulate all the quorums aud and prune off the dead branches in order that the body may receive fresh lifland life and vigor and be more fitly prepared to magnify and accomplish tile great and glorious work which is before them the quorum meets the first and third sunday in every month at 6 pm at tile the house of orlando F mead in the ward first block alock north of the tabernacle JAMES BE BECK K one of the presidents of the quorum quorum report of the quorum slit SIR you are requested to publish the following report of tile quorum of seventies for the I 1 benefit of those members of said quorum whose I 1 residence is unknown to the Pre presidency sideney and all those whose place of residence is marked unknown in the following list II st are hereby requested to report themselves immediately to the under I 1 signed at G S L city U T if this call is not responded to in a reasonable length of time they will be considered dead or in some other way removed front from the quorum and the vacancy so occasioned filled by others presidents david cluff sen provo city david elliot melvin wilber alexander wright alexander mcrae G S L city andrew henry fillmore city jonathan jr G S libity L city members Mem Hem beis robert bixton benj F pendleton charles Cli arles kennedy george wardle jno mellon mellan thomas naylor evans erans A williams henry lewis francis milner william mcgranor Mc Gragor great salt lake city eckells truly ogden city juo jno G smith bi big C cottonwood 0 tt 0 1 1 wood alvin demons clemens manti gant i city C i t y jno W hess north cottonwood charles A foster on a mission to denland england james bavly lorenzo mecham gron Grants grantsville aville ville geo W bankhead little cottonwood thomas matthews jno D hollady archibald sullivan william J cox jno R heath san bernardino israel hoyt nephi city Tela rogers north cottonwood david cluff cluffer jr moses cluff provo city william ff duel thomas weir juo mckee davis county samuel bennion west jordan george foster joseph clemens oliver foster jno mcdonald thomas dutton william nelson samuel L payne john thornton elisha Mi malory llory mark A combs john C baum robert I 1 johnson alexander 1 linday henry J young joel edmonds charles J raymond samuel me hough john W stoker henry french henry booth turner H moore nathan thomas J john 0 lin S bryant robert T thomas israel bowen residence and stand standing hig unknown the quorum meets on oil the first sunday in m each month at 3 pm p m at the house of jonathan jr in the ath ward at the corner of west temple and emigration streets G S L city those members of the quorum who live in in and near the city are expected to meet with the quorum Qi Q orum or furnish a good reason leason for their nonattendance a hint to the wise we expect will be sufficient ALEXANDER mcrae clerk report of the quorum the following is is a list of presidency and members of he file quorum of seventies and their present residences as far as is known the quorum was organized in nauvoo october 26 1845 presidents wilber J earl carl utah county george C riber on oil a mission to germany lysander gee G S L city daniel davis fort supply john weinel davis Couil county ty george woodard G S L city members james fife thomas ralphs wm win frost ebenezer brice john F bellows peter debecker Ne becker alma S smith george reid james frodsham wm douglas joseph E taylor edward brain wm win freligh jerome N remington james miller frederick frorer robert forester wm fife frederick weight wm win miles great salt lake city wm win greenwood wm win R terry shadrach holdaway henry devonish utah county S sanford an f or d porter jr davis county J james ames hawkins on a mission to the sandwich islands alexander on business to new york richard rolphs ralphs san bernardino Bernard mo cal Bouja benjamin Hen hencricks kricks nathan 11 jenull jennings lewis C Zabris kv Za chanah martin maitin wm win T L dunerman Du nervan seth C childs robt johnson I 1 johnson jonathan fisher alden hall levi lightfoot divid david jones moses jones wm win H tripp daniel russell joseph J hall othe wells wesley B horton wm win moore isaac S brown conrad staley winthrop groves wm dykes jonathan campbell Camp dell john H john johng G hardy E M wetzel henry brizze henry snyder peter H goodwin richmond lowder risi residence dence and standing unknown the quorum meets regularly the sunday in each month immediately after the dismissal of the afternoon meeting at the tabernacle Tabei nacle at the house of george woodard Woo daid m it the ath ward thomp who live in the city or the valleys valle s of the mountains are requested to be punctual in meeting with us and those whose residences are not known are aie requested to report themselves and give their genealogies immediately to tile the under I 1 s signed glied least they should be dropped and others taken to fill their places EDWARD BRAIN clerk ECLIPSES FOR THE YEAR in the year 1854 there will be two eclipses for the sun and two of the moon I 1 L the moon will be partially eclipsed on the th of may be gning at loh a m consequently invisible to us 2 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun on the of may 1 visible as follows beginning Beg ining at ah greatest obscuration 4 and ah 34 pm eclipse begins degrees 52 minutes from vertex to the right digits eclipsed 10 on the northern lamb camb the line of central and annular eclipse passes through a portion of the northern part of the united states and southern portion of british america this will be the largest eclipse visible bl in the united states until the year 1900 when the sun will be totally eclipsed the I 1 I 1 centre passing near washington ton 3 A partial eclipse ot of the moon will wm occur on the ath of in november x vember at ab pm invisible the moon will rise with a slight shade on its northern limb 4 the sun will be totally eclipsed on the of november the middle occurring at ab am this eclipse will be een central and total in the southern part art of africa southern america and the bouthern Nou southern thern ocean na N 0 courier W in good hope fayette county ohio they have had a most extraordinary hailstorm stor in it was war preceded by the most violent thundering for f or the space s ace of one hour the hail commenced fa falling ling about the size of quails eggs in a short t time they reached the size of walnuts and continued to increase in in size size and quantity until they were of ahe size of a goose egg the largest hailstones were not round but partially flattened with a great quantity of the roofs of houses were staved in window glass broken chickens birds and turkeys killed aud and a great many men crippled there was hail bail on the ground in soine some places four inches thick A REMEDY FOR THE VINE DISEASE the vineyards of southern E europe drope and the madeiras have recen recently tty been blighted by a microscopic cro the Tuc keri 1 and the price of wines raisins etc has been considerably raised in consequence ce it has however bo wever been ascherin ascertained airlee that the use of manures rich in iodine enable the vine to resist these destroyers in certain districts sea weeds are ordinarily used as manure in those parts in in which chic h the amount of iodine inthe soil may average the vines have entirely escaped ed CENEN CEMENT T FOR BELTING C phelps of sa lemM lemmess siss states in the scientific american that he has had bad in constant use for eight years a six inch belt which is jointed with biars russian assian isinglass as a substitute for rivets the isinglass for this purpose is applied in the same manner that glue is applied to join pieces pieces of wood together the end of 0 the belt elt to be thus cemented should be f for or about six inches lengthwise then a strong solution of isinglass applied and the surfaces so treated brought brou alit together to zether and held fast by joiners screws screws until they are perfectly dry it might be well 15 says mr phelps to ro put a row of small tacks along the thin edge of the scarf and clinch them firm firmly V 3 we would state although we have ne never ver used asin isinglass lass for ceni cementing enting belting we have oftentimes used it for cementing celentino leather for various purposes and have found it to answer well |