| Show government TO BUY TELEGRAPH LINES by yesterdays dispatches we learn that it was stated on monday in the british house of commons that it was the intention of the british government to purchase the telegraph lines of great britain and that a plan effecting that change would be submitted to the house within a week from our eastern exchanges we learn that parties were in washington two weeks ago endeavoring to induce our government to purchase the telegraph lines of the western union telegraph company compan Y the object in offering to sell to the government is to give th the e nation the control of telegraphic lines in the same manner that it has now the monopoly of the postal business we understand the proposition for the government to have such control is received with favor and will it is said at some future day be adopted the price at which the western union company is reported to have offered to sell out sixty millions of dollars is looked upon as exorbitant as the amount of nominal stock barely reaches forty millions while its actual value is said to be much less even than the last named amount The action of the english government may influence our government to take steps in relation to this matter complaints are arc made of the present high rates of telegraphing and the construction of new lines by opposition companies is chronicled with apparent pleasure by the eastern press who feel feet that there has been too much monopoly konopol y in lri i the business of telegraphing whether the purchase by the english government of the tre lines in great britain is likely to bo be attended by any reduction in the cost of telegraphing or whether it is hoped that any such result will follow the purchase of the lines in the united states by our government is not stated but judging by the tone in which it is is treated we conclude that such a result is anticipated A GOOD STOBY STORY SPOILED F for fon or some weeks past a story has been going the rounds of the papers headed gg thrilling incident romance in real life copied from the cleveland ohio Plain dealer about the capture of a boy by the name of john pringle by the indians some years ago while himself and parents and friends were en route for this city and his recognition by his brother william pringle one of the pillars of the mormon church 11 when he was passing through cleveland on his way to england as a missionary the story as told is quite sensational but it is lacking in one essential particular ti and we a almost elmost regret it for we dislike to see a good story spoiled it is not true in the boston statesman and meekly weekly post we find the following humorous summary of the story A A iong ion long lost glo brother romance has just occurred cur redin in cleveland the chap with the strawberry mark on his left arm was stolen from a mormon emigrant party more than twenty years ago by the indians he escaped a few years ago served in the confederate army and at last turned up at cleveland 0 hia hla brother who had meantime grown up into a mormon elder and was on east in search of converts met him in a drinking saloon and immediately recognizing him by his nice taste for whiskey fell into his arms embraced him and straightway carried him off to utah t A QUESTION ox editor of the evening news to leave off drinking tea and coffee in order to keep the word of wisdom and then to pour down hot coco cocoa by the quart is it not whipping the devil around the stump if we have a correct understanding of what is meant by whipping the around the stump we should answer our correspondents question in the affirmative hot drinks I 1 we are told are not forthe for the belly hot rot cocoa hot soups and other hot fluids are al all ail certainly included in what are aro ter termed e d hot drinks battea but nut tea and coff commee coffee bree free ar are e substances expressly referred to in the word of wisdom being in and of themselves injurious to the body thou though gh we have understood that a number of persons have found that they had stron strong symptoms of canker since they heard heard an eminent authority state that it is a good medicine for that disease SALT SAIT LAKE AS prom FROM ca CAA A correspondent from provo bro A H noon forwards us a clipping from a gouth south african paper which states that the latest advices advises from here show that the mormons cormons are undoubtedly demoralized 11 the community has split on the heresy of anti polygamy I 1 to show how completely brigham young has lost his authority the editor relates an incident of a young man rising u up P 1 in the body of the crowded temple I 1 I 1 and pronouncing his statements faue false and that thereupon president young ordered the young mans house to be torn down which was not donol donel this and other othel incidents have so affected the Preil president dent that he is thinking of moving to the new newly y discovered mines of new mexico our correspondent says the clipping I 1 Is s interesting as it shows how how bow quick lying and garbled statements of any small matter transpiring here are carried to the uttermost ends enda of the earth it also shows how interested many people even in the most remote parts of the earth are in everything which affects what they call mormonism the old proverb is a very true one at least we as a people have found it to feo that a lie will travel h a league while truth is putting on its boots plagiarism we have not the slightest objection to having our articles appear in other papers in fact we ve are rather pleased to see them than otherwise but we do think that we are at least entitled to the credit of them thern newspaper courtesy would certainly accord us that much sometimes a credit may be withheld from a paper through inadvertence but when articles are copied from the NEWS and our paper is is systematically ignored with all our charity we can not attribute such actions entirely to inadvertence we have seen a number of instances of this kind and thought we should allude to the the subject at some time but this morning we picked up an exchange and in examining the editorials we saw a an n article the language of which seemed familiar to us upon looking at it atmore more closely we found that it IV had ad been boen clipped from one of our leaders and put in without the least alteration the part that would have betray betrayed cd its paternity on account of it containing some views peculiar to the people of utah had been carefully omitted the article was full leaded and appeared in every respect as the otil other er editorials of the paper and in contradistinction to the selected matter |
