| Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS FROM FRIDAYS DAILY FOULING THE WATER baten DITCHES A lady correspondent complains with great justice of the bad habit which some people have of washing their carriages in the public water ditches and sweeping the from their stables into the streets where is liable to be blown by the wind into water which she as well as many others have to drink we think with her such a thoughtless course of conduct is an outrage on decency and that the ordinance passed by the city council to maintain the purit purity of or our water courses should be enforced forcel we hope that those who are engaged in this business will have the good sense to remedy this evil before they are compelled to doso boso do so by the law lair THE INDIANS IN NEW MEXICO A correspondent of the new mexican writing irom from la masilla says that a stage has j just test come in from tucson the first one for six weeks near san pedro kanyon the driver saw forty indians who had evidently been lying in wait for the stage but had been frightened by the opportune appearance appearance cavalry escorting a government train at san pedro crossing the indians killed a soldier whilst guarding a farmer who was plowing the night sight previous they stole the clothes of the soldier soldiery which had just been hung out to dry at the tho san pedro picket it is reported that the cow sp spring r kg station has been burned by indians his is party brought to la masilla the remains one oner of the murdered mailmen mail men of a previous trip and found the body of another man at soldiers farewell burned almost to a cinder brow BROWNS Is GAZETTEER we wo are in receipt of a copy of browns gazetteer Gaze Gazo teer of the achl chicago ica and northwestern Northwest ern brn railway and branch asand of the union pacific railroad it purports to be a guide and business directory to the towns along the line of theu thou P RR and south of it to salt lake city also to the tho cities of colorado giving their products in in gold 0 s silver sliver ver copper and iron mines coal beds e s e etc ste with the process of working the them an and ana contains much other valuable information lor lon atlon and statistics regarding this western country the ector editor and publisher whose name is wella known here mr 0 dexera brown is at present in this city on business connected with the sale of his work NOTHING TO WRITE wo have all heard board of the unhappy miss flora whose misery consisted in having nothing to wear and of the tho still more unfortunate ep ciure who having exhausted the skill of all the cooks ot of paris palis and the rest of the world had bad nothing to eat but the most unfortunate being is the local reporter of a dail dall daily dally 01 paper in in a i 6 city where nothing but go good order exists where peace abounds where there thero are no free nights fights f no sensational murders no horrid tragedies no alarming rumors no mysterious disappearances pe arances no political excitements excite ments where every body minds his own business and lets that of others alone such a one is to be bo pitied for he has nothing to write and yet the great bublic jublle ever on the qui ewe vwe bige for news newa gru I 1 e if there 19 nothing in the papers no wonder especially in the dog days when hen flies abound whose affectionate and persistent attacks are aro enough to raise the iro that occasional attacks upon the people of utah appear in the columns of some of the newspapers or that reports of crimes that were never committed of accidents that never occurred of outrages that were never perpetrated of wars and rumors of wars that exist but in the imagination of the writers should occasionally be seen to this cause we sometimes in charity ascribe the fire eating tirades that have of late disgraced the columns of several of our exchanges wo we hope that no baser motive than to fill up their papers or give vent to a little petulance of temper has been the cause of much of the folly that has been written the last few months on the mormon question toun TOUR IN ix utan UTAH COUNTY bro edward stevenson called this morningto morning mornin and gave us a short account of a tour in utah gt ah county from which ho he and president joseph young have just returned they left the cl city it yesterday week and since then tilen h have a h held hela eed eda meetings with the tho schools of the P prophets rie bets and saints at payson springville Spring ville provo provo american fork battlo battle creek lehi and spanish fork at spanish fork the hoppers have done more mischief this season than for th the ethree three seasons past bad as their ravages have been however it is calculated that the tho people of that city have raised enough breadstuff the present season semon to last them for three years to come cemo bro cornaby of that place has had bad good success with his havin navin having haying raised r ai s e d about ton ten pounds of cocoons an and I 1 ha half 1 I 1 f a pound of eggs bro george myers of th the same place has raised 2000 pounds of grapes in his vineyard and has a much larger vineyard coming on containing almost even every ry variety of grape at springville Spring ville the locusts have done a good deal of damage to the corn fruit and vegetables et ables they were traveling northward in and had reached provo by the time elders voun youn young and stevenson there i battle battie creek american folk fork and lehi were free from the plague lehi has been so during the whole season in consequence of orthis this the crops were uncommonly promising in lehi some land yielded this season as much as 80 bushels 0 of f wheat to the acre while in battle creek one man thrashed twenty dozen sheaves of wheat which yielded twenty four faur bushels of grain FROM SATURDAYS DAILY PRESIDENT vou YOU YOUNGS Gs Dis DISCOURSE course counsE in issue appears a ast sunday morning by president brigham young it should bo be read by the ladies everywhere every where but especially by those in the kingdom of god being devoted chiefly to 0 showing the extent of the influence they possess assess and the direction in which it sho should uld ee bo exercised i A G C 11 or Bm BRIGHAM GilAr CITY our thanks are due to oar correspondent A 0 11 of brigham city for his letter dated AI august gust loth in relation to toy the election for county officers at that notorious burg corinne neing being a matte f so utterly void vold of significance we do not wish to attach a seeming importance to it by publishing it t in the NEWS FROM MO MONDAYS DAILY SABBATH MEETINGS r in the morning eider elder george Q cannon addressed the con congregation gregat ion fon upon the first principles of the gospel A full fuli report of his discourse will appear in tho the xu NEWS ws inn ina in a few days in the tho afternoon rev bev B F whittemore Whitte more moro member of Con congress gresA gress from south carolina and a minister of the methodist Metho motho dist diat addressed tho the arthe congregation taking as tha basis for his hia remarks the chapter of the first epistle to the corinthians his discourse was intended to show tho the great necessity on the part of all professing to be followers of christ to cultivate charity that being the tho greatest and most essential of all tho the graces which adorn the character of a true christian elder W woodruff followed in a short address showing from the new testament that tho true church of jesus ever it has been on the earth has contained apostles prophets evangelists evanger ats pastors teachers and the various gifts such as healing tongues interpretation of f tongues dis discerning cernin g of spirits etc and that whatever I 1 other ther claims alaina s a aurell church may have unless it have hayo these officers and gifts and bo be guided by direct revelation from heaven it cannot be the church of god PALE ALE ac those who are babul bously inclined mayfied may mad nind find Tennon Tennen ts X al stout Tennen ts pale palo ale bridges porter and hibberts pale palo ale for sale by joe joel simmons at tho the revero revere house saloon second south street these celebrated beverages have gained wido reputation and the patrons of the revero house saloon may depend upon being supplied with the genuine article MAIL facilities WANTED A correspondent pon dent dept residing at Bi Ri verdale requests us to forward his papers to ogden city as the mail mall to that place is ia is 14 no longer carried carried some one hundred families ho he says nys have now to travel from three to eight miles for their mail mall matter or go without it ho he adds that if something can be done to give us our mail again again to this office it would oblige many interested from prom what we have seen and heard of col special mail agent for all ah this rocky mountain Motin tain region regio nho no pains will be spared by him in correct correcting ingall all ali mistakes and in i extending the requisite mail facilities as far as he consistently can P MRS sr ST CI CLAIR alb nib AT SAN F from an esteemed correspondent wo we leam learn that mrs st clair who delivered several lectures in this city is now in san francisco and on the evening of the lith instant gave a lecture on mormon wives etc the subject is one of great interest to many people outside of our territory and possibly there may have been some persons attended her lecture who saw the subject in a new now light and obtained a more correct idea of the condition of society here bore than they could from much of the newspaper correspondence which has treated largely on our peculiarities we understand the subject was well handled and the lecture was a very fair one and would have been acceptable to an audience in this city MORE mone ABOUT THE POTATOE Dis DISEASE EAsia ono one of the gardeners in this city informs us ua that he recently dug some potatoes in which the disease was waa just beginning to manifest itself they were the fruit afim ported seed ho he suggests tsin in order to avoid as far as possible all risk of of raising disca diseased sed sea potatoes that all gardeners and others in this city who may need seed potatoes another spring should procuro procure from the country settlements seed known to bo be thoroughly reliable and to have been raised from home raised potatoes he als ais bests as a further preventive that ground grodum upon which potatoes have been raised frequently quent ly be allowed to rest or bo plant planted lA with a different crop GET youn voun TICKETS dor FOR the une ming 1 tomorrow to morrow morion morning mornings the box office at the theatre will will be open for mhd sale of tickets for the mini performances commencing on oni wednesday evening this promises to be bb the greatest musical treah treat the people of this ahn city have yet had ancl anci all ali i who love first rate songs and music and good jokes and desire to have a few evenings raie rare enjoyment should embrace the chance now presented for now is their time |
