Show croaro pail poll tle ile lire ST THOMAS may 9 1869 editor deseret mews news we are having pleasant beasant weather with cool breezes par ticul arly ariy at night our wheat crop looks promising I 1 regret to say very little cotton will be raised in the settlement this season owing to the lack of water the grasshoppers were seen in myriads a few days ago in the air they were all on a mission flying east our people in this settlement are cheerful and happy living their religion and feeling well on their mission parti cu barly since the emigration of tho the wild ducks and geese north our town is spreading out on the right hand a and nd on the left houses are going up and trees and shrubbery are seen in every direction the soil soll is gradually becoming subdued and blessed BO so that it now produces vegetables that could not or were not prod produced a couple of years ago we finished our six mile ditch a about out five or six weeks ago it works well this brings into use a very lar large go body of land some of it very choice it may be interesting to some of your readers to know that brother joseph asa and myself have found a tolerably fair road to junction city through the mountains without having to cross the virgen river biver A little labor would make it a good road st thomas is emphatically a very healthy prosperous place and immigration of the right kind plenteous the wife of our dear friend andy gibbons made him a present of twins both girls on the fourth of this month and there are new arrivals every few days our school is A lff iff 1 and is well attended and under the management of an I 1 A lir 1 teacher it is astonish astonishing to hear th the e lial answers ansWer sot of the children to bible bibie and historical questions I 1 do not believe they can be beaten ten 15 EDWIN OGDEN ciry crry may alay 23 1869 editor news A line from this point may not be devoid of interest to your many readers throughout the country choto a greater or leas extent have nead read read or become personally cognizant of the rapid change transpiring in the immediate vicinity of the heretofore quiet city of ogden leaving salt lake city at pm by the wells fargo cos gos line of stages 1 I found myself very unceremoniously dumped out at taylors mills in a crowd of about the hardest looking specimens of humanity that it has been my fortune to meet with rilling R kii Kil ning illing sloppy and a general admixture of mud combined to render the prospect anything but enlivening under the circumstances and I 1 had about figured out in my mind that the pro gramme for we night would be a pretty rough one and that the chances were good for almos any kind of a dark deed that would be duly chronicled and set off on with original wood cuts in the police gazette when bro george J taylor ever ready to perform a good if he does hang fire on the matrimonial question came to my relief and offered me shelter and protection the following morning I 1 got a look at one of pullmans sleeping cars and found it all that it had been represented A hack driver for fifty cents will finish up wells fargo cos gos contract to land you in ogden and on arrival you find a thriving stirring railway town without the usual ac compani ments to be met with in such places houses being built and tents filled with wares standing on the principal thoroughfare rough fare of the city rents at fabulous price prices sand and a general argeneral hurly burly that would seem to indicate that ogden is rapidly rushing ahead the cooperative co operative wholesale der char chare charge e of D H parry is in full alast and alyd doing a good business the branch store of the ad district is in operation and others rapidly perfecting their arrangements for business alto get herthe operative cooperative co affairs of ogden are in a flourishing condition and promise much in the future and as there appears to be a general willingness on the part of the people to su sustain stain and uphold the movement there is is no good reason why operation cooperation co should gotab not absorb the entire mercantile interest of this place and surrounding country ogden boasts of th three ee sunday schools all in flourishing condition and doing very much toward training the youth here who so much need a protection thrown around them situated as they are the daily telegraph appears to be bein in itself luto into the good graces of the people hereabout and judging from the appearances of the office aud and eon POO posing room they are maki a success of their praiseworthy undertaking I 1 I 1 I 1 meet many familiar faces that were wont aront in the past to illuminate salt lake city business houses with thir their genial presence respectfully J MORGAN moro ian tAN SALT laile LAKE CITY may E editor aitor deseret evening bews news dea deo sir some time ago I 1 read an account in theNiE the NEWS ws of an accident by running teams by bro hale and others of grantsville Grants ville which I 1 thought ought to be e a lasting lesson to all who saw or eard heard of it but although not approving ng of such conduct in drivers approve I 1 ba have v e lately indulged therein myself the circumstances I 1 propose to write that some may pron profit it by what others suffer if they will wiil last sunday evening I 1 was driving down the state road with a light wagon having with me three ladies when just across the big slough I 1 overtook horse a team with two men and two boys in the wagon they were driving slowly along and I 1 being in a hurry having a long distance to travel that night turned to go past them when the driver whipped up and I 1 fell in behind and be again drove slow I 1 turned out again to go past but again he whip whipped ped up and I 1 came in behind for the second time when he reined up his team again thus I 1 tried several times to pass and each time I 1 fell behind he drove slower now I 1 hold it my duty never to take an off omm offense ense until it is intended as such but becoming be comno convinced that they were bent on imposing on me I 1 concluded to drive past so I 1 let my h horbes horses gibout out 11 I 1 took the offside blide tilde and th they le first turned to the left and th then en suz sul suddenly turned short to the right with the intention as I 1 thought to turn me into the bank I 1 saw the move and slackened a little and suddenly turned to the left and thus I 1 gained the road while they th ey running too near the bank turned to the left too short and turned their wagon over bottom side up throwing them out more than that the team turned over too and thus beca became me unable to runaway run away I 1 stopped as soon as I 1 could to see if any of them were hurt but seeing all of them get up and my team being excited I 1 drove on I 1 trust the driver received a lasting lesson that will teach him to act more like a man in such matters in the future and never again aggravate any one by tantalizing motions and gestures even if he does have such an advant advantage awe aae as he then had I 1 know not who helas he was but I 1 hope neither men nor horses were hurt yours respectfully WHEELER 0 moscow SANFORD co ala may 1869 george Q cannon dear brother thinking that it may maybe be interesting to some of the many readers of conr paper to hear from us and to learn something of the prospects that seem to present themselves to us I 1 consider them good and have no hesitancy in saying that it is only a question of time as to the progress of the work and the development of the truth in the hearts of many in this land laud of dixie some few have obeyed the truth and there is quite a number that will obey it soon most of my relatives who are quite numerous I 1 flatter myself will receive the gospel gospel they have manifested a good spirit and kind feeling towards us ever since our arrival in this land they furnished us with good horses to travel on till plow plowing ing 1 commenced and tell us as soon as the crops are laid by we shall have horses to ride they say men that have left all that nature as rendered dear to them and traveled 2500 miles and borne their own expenses to preach the gospel to them are worthy of all the friendship and hospitality that they can bestow there are many noble spirits in this land all that is necessary for them to become strong advocates for the truth is time and proper teachings teaching let this take place and I 1 hesitate not in saying we will be able to turn out some valiant soldiers for the truth some would not come out to hear us at first on the ground that if the gospel we preach should prove to be true all the sons and daughters of adam would be judged by it we bear our testimony that such will be if they did not hear it they would not come under condemnation for not obeying it and that they might be justified by faith but when they began to understand that they would summer suffer loss for not hearing it when they had the opportunity they have some sonie of th in come to the conclusion to hear it and if I 1 am a I 1 r r ahll id it has caused them to think mink seriously seri serl asly I 1 think there is more reading of the bible done now than there h has ps been for the last twenty years in this country the priests at a dist distance ance crying fie false flo prophet false teachers beware of those mormons cormons or they will deceive you and take you to salt lake and compel you to remain there all the days of your lives to work for twelve and a half cents per day but men that are not nott so blinded with falsehood though they may bo be uttered by a rev have have lave said to the pious ploua priests why dont 0 t you meet the dior Alor mormons cormons mons with the bible bibie and prove to us from that that these theae men are preaching a false doctrin doctrine 0 and let us all see and hear bear you prove this we have been liberal with you in the way of means we have paid you preachers III ili high gh salaries so that you could take time and study the scriptures and thereby be able to condemn error now inasmuch inai much as these strangers are willing and ready to meet you on fair grounds that is with the bible we claim it at your hands that you meet them in debate and that you may not lose anything we will pay you for your time and trouble this we will pa pay y you ou over and above your salary on their refusing to comply with the terms offered the co conclusion Is that something is wrong or a screw loose in some place and so there is and they dont want us to tighten it for them on the first sunday of this month one of the reverends preached what some of his members were pleased to style my funeral sermon judge the great surprise of my friends on seeing me several days after riding through the country looking well and heartland heart yand as fresh as the morning rose I 1 could not tell my friends that th the resurrection had come but that the gentleman in his great zeal to do me good had preached my f funeral sermon some fifty years too soon and that I 1 was sorry that he should labor under such mistakes as he did when he told the people that christ was the last true prophet on the earth and that all prophets phe t s after him were false and it if be he was so incredulous as to disbelieve johns revelations and rank him with the false prophets and award him his portion in the lake of fire I 1 might consider my case a lost one as I 1 here testified that joseph smith was a prophet of the lord sent and called to usher in the dispensation of the fullness of times our school boys in utah 10 years old can tell that john wrote his revelations about 63 years after christ all christendom receives them as being genuine and true yet this gentleman in his blind and I 1 ignorant zeal to con eon condemn damn the prophet joseph timith bsmith and all his followers would refuse to receive johns johnb revelations from the fact that he was after christ I 1 was present and heard him but had no chance to make a reply the spring is very backward but few of the planters have finished planting in Inconsequence consequence of there having been so much rain the cotton that is up looks very small and weakly and is dying so that the crop will stand thin on I 1 the he ground if it should cease to die from this time some farmers falkof talk taik of plowing the cotton cotto n up and planting corn instead the corn looks as if it would make a crop if the rain would cease and the weather turn warm it keeps so cold that vegetation grows but slowly the peach crop is almost an entire failure the apple crop will be light the wheat crop will be short judging from present appearances it is almost a uhl uni universal versal cry with the farmers that the crops will be light this season money is scarce taxes high the people seem to have lost confidence in each other I 1 have talked with several men on this subject and they say there is a great lack of confidence in the peo people pie to what th there e re was formerly you may see this lack of conf cont confide considene idene nc among all classes there seems to be a fearful looking for something ahead they cannot tell what As one of old times said their hearts pearls are failing them for fear andhor and for looking after the things that are coming on the earth we are all well brother matthews joins 1 1 8 in love to yourself president va young 0 1 1 ug george A daniel baniel H and all the twelve I 1 remain your brother in the gospel J D HOLLADAY SALT laile LAKE CITY may blay 1869 editor evening news alews the subject of cold water bathing is one which ought to be studied by our people and the practice of it often indulged in some people evince a degree of timidity in regard to it and would not hesitate to inform you that the practice of it would be likely to send you to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns but I 1 would say that if you wish to indulge in the luxury as indeed it is proceed first by washing in water that has stood in the bathtub bath tub all night and afterwards with water fresh drawn it requires a certain amount of courage to acquire the habit but when once acquired it will be found pleasant and health giving there may be some in this community with whom my remarks will have little weight aa as I 1 do not purpose introducing quotations with large al D s attached to the signatures showing the opinions of wise men but merely tr pres present ent a few arguments in favor oi 01 this subject of which so huoh has been said and written first I 1 consider it necessary to health and cleanliness especially in hot weather v nd more particularly for those who earn their bread if b by y the sweat of their bow to have the he body washed all over oftener than once a week this can be done early in the morning and the loss of time will not be felt second it is a well known fact that the body is furnished with millions of pores which if kept open in a healthy condition have not only the power to exude but also to absorb in proof of this there are many who can testify to having had their thirst quenched by simply washing or bathing in water there are also instances recorded of men suffering with thirst at sea experiencing relief by bathing in salt water and I 1 believe it is better and less injurious ous to the system especially if the water is of an inferior quality to quench at least a portion of the thirst in this way than to take into the stomach such excessive quantities aa as men are apt to do whose labors require them to be exposed to the scorching rays of the sun third daily ablutions when thor ough 1 y and judiciously performed are an ex excellent elle elie ut preventative against colds and other diseases they help the appetite etite promote digestion prevent constipation s pt sti of the bowels cause the blood to circulate and act as a tonic to the stomach lungs liver bowels spine etc in fact they refresh enliven ana aut ald aud strengthen the whole system and u like other tonics and stimulants tha tha lose their |