Show IMPORTANT gathe GATHERING nio MORMONS RM ONS BRIGHAM YOUNG AND RICHARDS ON POLYGAMY sunday april 7 was a great day with the london saints it being their thirty seventh anniversary which they celebrated at the music hall store stoie si sti bedford square brigham young jun was present with the latest news from home b he e having recently arrived fro from in utah there were in attendance also several beveral of the apostles who wha are shortly to leave our babylon for their holy abaly city the morning proceedings were chiefly confined to receiving reports from t he the elders eiders and teachers of the london districts in the afternoon the hall ball was full when mr lr brigham am young jun presided resided r surrounded by agodt forty apos apostles tj es and elders the chief speaker was apostle mr ORSON PRATT who asked the saints to sustain the s several everal off omm meers officers whom he mentioned he said their church was not vot of human invention but formed by direct revelation it was net not a succession of th the e priesthood bf tuf the church nor of any tilly Protes protestant tartt denomination mr joseph smith was first called to the important por tant lant office in 1830 on the oth of apr aar april 1 I 1 thirty seven years ago the reporter should have said the church was organized at that time the church then was only six in number but under his organization it grew from year to year when he was taken away brigham young was called by revelation by name to succeed him and he was still persevering in his mission though between sixty and seventy years of age he nir mr air pratt then asked tb the e saints if they were willing still to abide by mr brigham young youngs counsel and sustain him aa as their revelator president and prophet throughout the world this was answered by a fumei ous ops show of hands bands a asere the appointments pf af meeks hembie H C kimball and T D H wells as his first and second counsellors coun the twelve apostles were then sustained I 1 whose duty it is tp to preach the gospel gostol throughout the world mr air brigham young youg jun was elected as the president predent for europe s in the evening ig mr franr frank FRANKLIN MIN D who was fresh from the mountains spoke at some length in defence of polygamy he alluded to the condition of society generally in europe and america and said sald the whole fabrie fabric was melting aown down being rotten with vice and immorality in london alone there were abando abandoned ned females and in new york the bishops the clergy and the ministers of state were at a loss to meet what they pleased to call tall the social evil and pointed with scorn icorn to the latter day saints became because they had the audacity to believe in polygamy they did believe in it he contended polygamy was waa supported by scripture as well as by expediency but he was aware a man could nob not take a number of wives into his house laud and that home be a perfect li heaven eaven unless high and holy principles reigned there it was the duty of elders and te achors to warn the saints and teach them touching such matters matt ets first firsty they must get up from this babylon to their mountain home no olty city was so virtuous in the world there they were building up a kingdom based on lofty principle where virtue was admired and matrimony guarded he was waa many thousand miles from home and he left his wives and daughters behind who would be safer in no other city in the world for there was no other place PIRCO where the marriage vow was so revered he left them confidently as he could leave them nowhere else there the thib desecrator desecrater of virtue knew ile he would be followed by the arrow of death the judgment of god was after him but he was well aware polygamy could not exist where the people le were not prepared those w whose reo oie hearts hearts were not influenced by high and holy mr bouno YOUKO jun sai sal d it gave him great pleasure to be present to assist in building up the saints t 11 not that he was privileged more than 0 others might be if they would seek for 1 light it was said th eythe thedythe they the saints were an exclusive people to the condemnation of all others that was wrong they saw good in many sects in england as well as in america many ot whose members were liv living g up to the light that thae they had in the them m saints first saw the light guiding them Seeth see bee the epro progress they had bad made he arrived home in october last when he reached that peaceful place he found a people not to be equalled equal led on the earth who were living virtuous lives such as were commanded by the almighty it had been said that the gospel as it had bad been preach reach edin england for centuries was throwing tE rowing throwing a flood of light throughout the world bilt but lle ilc at great length denounced christianity in all its forms the question of polygamy was but little understood people talked about it as if it was the starting point with the saints it was the same as to put a boy at once to read cicero or to the middle of arithmetic instead of putting him to learn his alphabet many of the saints were strongly opposed to it when they first started in pursuit of truth tb thes they ey could not learn all things abonce at onee once polygamy was avasa a martof part of their system only suited to a mature understanding mr young concluded by thanking the ar saints for their mild kind support the proceedings then closed jet wey nev pey newspaper I 1 1 11 f extract of a speech of W wendell endla P irs in chicago EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN CUSTOMS A man can walk through the capitals of bf europe and learn much that he would not otherwise learn one thing that is noticeable inthe in the streets of europe is the greater independence or individuality of the people in america public opinion rules everything men here think before they speak and then speak in accordance accor dance danee with public sentiment in england one will find a degree of bluntness that will often be thought there is the same independence in dress in seven cases out of I 1 ten a mans occupation can at once be found from his attire in europe in this country it is not so in passing the guard at paris he had bad a cap on the guard told him he could not pass be cause none but servants wore caps and he only got admission after he had assured the man that be he had a hat at home there is in europe more frankness than in this country in america people desire to avoid what they calla calia call cali a seene scene 11 he had seen a father in boston in separating at the cars from his daughter refuse to kiss her when she asked him because the bystanders would see it but in paris he had seen whole crowds of people buried in kisses the second element that strikes an american is that as dickens says sass the cities talk in paris the windows are made of iron so that the houses house scan can in a moment be turned into fortresses forty years ago there were no sidewalks in ju paris because there was no democracy the patrici patricians ans ang rode in their carriages and the ians lans walked in the mud in genoa 1 if you ask for a cab you cannot have bave one for the streets are too narrow the reason is that genoa has been for ages I 1 a camp and not a city so every city in europe will tell its om own story in europe our americans would notice what they would call a lack of enterprise ter prise in this country we supply hands with brains A baby no sooner gets out of the cradle than he anve ats a new pattern and takes out a patent for it A frenchman was asked when wielding the sickle I 1 wh why he be did not get a scythe which would do three times as much work in the same time he replied that he had not three times as much work to do but in america men desire to make money and that stimulates enterprise inthe roman campagna thet the peasant plows with the same tools that virgil used buy wood in naples or vienna and you buy it by the pound you buy bread by the foot or erard yard and the man that saws the wood will not bring a saw horse but putting the saw against his chest he rubs the wood against it this is the low tide of brains as compared with work nigh high tide my moy be found in america when elevators load a vessel in six hours but the people of europe are not ignorant A man who does up shirts may perhaps know how to speak four different languages the masses in europe are more refined than americans they love beauty more A yankee wont look at a grape unless he can taste it in europe in the most splendid parks the people walk about without hindrance and none of them will pluck a single flower in europe the tho people are careful not to trample on each oth ers erts rights an american traveler in par pat paris I 1 s knocked a woman down in his hurry and she arose and asked his hia pardon for she supposed the man was in such a hurry burry because of some great emergency and she was sorry to be in his way he had seep a corpulent woman in boston try to get into an omnibus and fail fall and every one anwash agton street who saw her laughed ile he had seen seena a corpulent woman in paris on the contrary try to get into an opera box and the servant even tried to get her in by pushing her but there was no laughter in france forty years ago it would wohld have bave been impossible to get passage for four people in a coach there are not the means of tra traveling there that are found in america in europe there is more econom economy y than in america economy here is ls a skulking virtue in europe one finds himself in a nation of subjects here he is in a nation of sov in france the speaker had waited at an inn fifty five minutes because the driver had bad gope away and no one could tell him why he did not return but he bad seen in chicago men pass through h a car locking both doors when a yankee immediately arose gulled out a key and unlocked them be cause themen the men had not told why they did it in europe when men get into acanthe acar they seem to think the seats they occupy belong to themselves in europe the churches are always open the people dont need family prayers for they go to church and say their prayers there men and women passing a church go in and throw themselves down before a picture with great deference they do it earnestly and honestly the high and lowthert low there meet and kneel together the real devotion of these prayers is apparent in italy th tha worshipper wor shipper may hear near hear english talking in the cathedral but he is not diverted from his prayers let the italian meet the englishman on the street and he will be deferential to him for john bull bullies his way through europe treading down all that he does not buy up in the cathedral however the worshipper wor shipper may be in the midst of dukes but gut he heeds them not for he hd is in the presence greence of one who is greater hiag his god 0 pd I 1 in n europe woman does all kinds of work she is everywhere present in all kinds of scenes she does more than her share of work even he had not been able to find that this had done anything to demoralize or lower women it is said that the french have no home no word for home but in that country grandfather granato grandmother children child reh reb and grandchildren all live together and think it h a great calamity to ba separated in america the boy is anxious on a gala day dy to get out of bight sight of his mother it is is not so in france in america a man must have his pleasure boiled down and taken in half achour an hour bour but in europe europea a man will enjoy the smallest details of a landscape for half an ant hour on ion mount holyoke is a railroad running from the base to t the he top of the mountain up which people p le ride instead of climbing the mountain t as formerly the truth is the yankee skulks the primal cursed curse he desires to get his bread without the sweat of his I 1 brow the french journals speak with a kind of despal despair r of the rapid extension of absinthe drinking in france it amounts to an infatuation as the horrible results are well known absinthe is declared by the medical faculty to be a direct and powerful cause of apoplexy of affection of the heart lungs nervous system andr and stomach and especially of brain disorders the chances ure are that an synthA absinthe ab drinker will become either a maniac or an imbecile j ONE hundred printers are out of employment in chicago in pittsburg five thousand laborers are vainly seeking beeking for something to do A successful BRICK M MAKING maring kung MACHINE lir sif 4 jb it A among man nong t h e ahny av ent I 1 om of f YM I 1 ibis S s si s m K K N monel moneymaking a aa tg a a age agaj gt there anere A n ot jbv chic alch MU has achieved a more ar brilliant fill ant success than the gard patent brick machine it was wa perfected only in august last and yet since then it has attained a reputation worth millions having been put to practical test in the yard of I 1 I 1 the thid inventor who has manufactured several millions of bricks with it reaping a prophet of on the work of three machines between the middle of I 1 august and the close of the season the he practical value of the machine just ide ter mined h has become so widely known among brick makers that the fifty men employed at the works of mr gardano gard no ZNo 53 south jefferson street are so wholly unable to supply the demand that he has been compelled to secure the assistance of another large establishment which is 19 capable of turning out one I 1 machine per day and even this enor i 1 demand is on the increase the claim of the inventor that it will supersede all other brick machines now use may seem to be justified in the ther enormous demand the triumph is a great one especially when it is remembered that odd brick patents have been taken out in the united states showing the expenditure of a larger amount of money abd genius than in any other department except perhaps that of firearms fire arms the machine is beautiful in its simplicity city perfect in iti ibs its action it consists principally of an upright cylinder standing on a rev revolving olvin g disc all standing in a it ilce space beabout of about eight feet square and weighing but two and a half tons the top of me the cylinder is about breast high and into it is easily thrown the clay as dug from the bank barik except when too dry and alyd then it is simply watered there is no other preparation the machine does its oin oen own tempe tempering rink rind within the cylinder revolves an upright shaft furnished with blades set at all an angle which cut up and temper the clay at the same time pressing it downward into the brass moulds in tho the ra revolving disc as fast as they are brought round and ana is then tilted out a perfect brick in a few moments and lifted oss off ready for hackin hacking at a trial made yeste yesterday iday at which a representative of I 1 the was present the machine j turned out sixty five bricks brichs bricks per minute i or at the rate of per day and there was no apparent reason for not doub doubling lilik the speed of the machine if the bricks were removed fast enough nor did there seem to be any danger of clog clogging gln gin I 1 F 0 or 1 any chaffee chance rhe rho the machine worked very beautifully smoothly as a 4 steam engine noiselessly as a sewing maccine mae mac nine 1 it is the very perfection of mechanism with no apparent possibility of getting out of order and it is difficult to suggest an improvement in the bricks they are aie not mad efrom dry C clay ay as is the case with some machines T the h e clay clabia Is dry enough td give firmness and wet wed enough to secure solidity after burning ap the chief chiet features of the machine may be thus stated its weight is but pounds making it portable horse power works itta ItZa it easily turning out to bricks per pen er day any number of machines can ee be 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