Show THE case recently partially investigated in the police court in this city in which a miss aliss nancy brimhall was complainant and a mr E W pratt defendant is causing we have been led to believe considerable talk among the people residing in this city and vicinity we have refrained from giving givin publicity to the full statement of the facts alleged against pratt expecting thai that further farther developments would give both sides aides of the story as he be has left the territory however and the further investigation resti vesti gation gatlon of the subject is not at all likely we publish the following communication muni rauni catlon cation from a totally disinterested party which WG we are assured contains the whole of the facts in relation to the charge against pratt as developed in the police court SALT take LAKE CITY aug editor deseret mews news when a man has bas a disposition to do right himself and to bring up his family in the fear of god and to teach his children good morals and industrious habits and continually works for their spiritual and mat material erial ezial happiness it very naturally fills him with resentment to see bee such a temper insulted and abused if this be the natural disposition of an individual it maybe may be equally applicable to a comi domi 4 t large when we read the accounts of prevalent evils abroad how young men are led astray and how bow young women are beguiled and led to ruin by y sensual men j of if beastly habits whose influence is as contagious in the intercourse with inexperienced and unsuspecting minds as the most fearful disease to healthy bodies our own experience tells us whether we ought to invite and encourage such an intercourse with the rising 31 generation in our midst when we see i young people err we feel thankful if our oar own homes are blest with loving obedient children who are willing to listen to t the counsel of their parents ali ail all are willing to admit this is oneff one of the most exalted blessings and calculated to remain enjoy a joy forever but howmann sere there are who neglect to keep a sufficient guard around their treasures low sow unwilling we are to suspect that a vile venomous serpent is building its abst aest in the very bosom of our beloved ones coiling itself up ready to strike and with one foul fatal blow destroy and ind eradicate that which has cost us learson lear year sot the most intense anxiety and labor to implant when aware of our danger would not our own feelings tell ns us at what moment it would be treachery to ourselves not to wipe it cut out of existence would we nourish this hydra in jn our own bosom until its heads be come even more numerous than those on the one of which we read in the I 1 hable fable b le the name of this modern hydra u adulte adultery the marshes in which it thrives and flourishes and from which it t stretches forth its venomous heads xe ire the overcrowded over oven crowded cities of modern a civilization but the hercules who is les ies tined to slay it is an infant thatis eing ang nursed in the midst of the rocky fountains fountains the above reflections have been called mtv borth orth chiefly by a case which was mentioned in your issue of yesterday ild ind about which I 1 propose to furnish a e ew w add additional facts i one of the proprietors of the revere bevere house kouse ouse mr r E W pratt a appears to have hade bade the acquaintance of mies nancy brimhall rim hail ball at the house of one mr where she lived the result of hat acquaintance appears best from the allowing affidavit i territory r of utah II 11 jait I 1 t lake county coun tn y j ss be it remembered that on this loth jay isy of august 1869 before me jeter minton clinton a justice of the peace pence within md for the county of salt lake pd nd territory of utah personally ap eared nancy Brim brimhall hall ball who was by he sworn in due clue form of law and who n her oath did say that one E W tatt at t on the day of july 1869 at migration lg ration Kanyo kanyon nin in the county of lit sit it lake and territory of utah felo busly did assault her the said nancy ri and then and there felonious forcibly and against her will did S t wish aish her she the said nancy brim w dl 91 I 1 then and the there re being a female over ie age of ten years lm signed NANCY BRIMHALL subscribed and sworn to before me i lib ite day and year first above written JETER CLINTON K justice of the peace d aa As stated in yesterdays issue of the DESERET NEWS miss brimhall did not appear in the court at 3 pm on the lith which very naturally gave reason to the belief that there must be a skunk somewhere our police officers ever vigilant laut lant and alive to the welfare of the commonwealth soon instituted a search and a chase in which they succeeded in overtaking said miss Brim liall unil at union fort fifteen miles distant from this city the officer in charge asked her the reason why she had gone away without appearing in c court ourt she bhe answered that mr pratt had given her for going away and had hired mr brewer to furnish conveyance ve yance she produced the the amount of the bribe to the officer as testimony of the truth of her statement at the reassembling of the court yesterday yeste iday morning defendants attorney mr B R N baskin a appeared p eared and declared that mr pratt had left town and would not appear in the court consequently his bonds I 1 to tile the amount of were declared forfeited miss nancy Brim brimhall liall was examined by the court and stated in substance as follows the reason that she did not appear in the court at 3 on the lith was that mr pratt had sent men to bribe her to stay away A man by the name nam e of jerry mann had come to her in the morning and tried to persuade her to leave town and offered her loo for that purpose she refused to accept the money and go afterwards mr munday manday and another man whose name she did not know but who is the proprietor of the revere house came to her and told her that she ought to go away from town that it would be a far greater disgrace to her to appear in court in such a case than to mr pratt himself that she need not stay away more than a week or so in the meantime mr pratt would leave the country and she could come back and no nobody body would think any more about it they told her that they were sent from mr pratt and that he would give her Sh she still estill refused then mr munday said I 1 then go to hell and be damned I 1 if f you wont listen to counsel they also told her that the court could do her no injury because she went away at last she was persuaded to accept the and left in mr brewers conveyance which was procured for the occasion 11 the above case is plain enough without comment it needs no arguing the names of the men who are mentioned above are familiar to the public mr sundays Mun days name is familiar to all those who are acquainted with the obrien murder case being one of the most moat prominent witnesses for the prosecution mr brewer is well knowd to all who enjoy themselves in a ride for pleasure or sport in his elegant city hack mr jerry mann is in the wood business at camp douglas the fourth person will be recognized aa as mine host of the I 1 only gentile hotel in salt bait lake luke city ADoL ADOLPHUS tic tir to the president of the pullman palace car company chicago illinois promontory POINT aug 14 jog 69 DEAR dean SIR we vve the undersigned undersigner under signed passengers on the through route from omaha to promontory point on the and instas inclusive take this opportunity of expressing to you yon and the company you represent the sincere pleasure afforded to us by the wise selection you have made in the appointment of james marsh esq as conductor of the 1 I colorado alid and platte valley 11 cars whilst enjoying the conveniences of these magnificent homes on wheels we were much impressed with the gentlemanly deportment affable manners and unremitting attentions orthis of this prin prince e of good fellows upon each and all of us has he bestowed innumerable kindnesses by anticipating our wants and seeking our individual comforts thus greatly relieving the monotony of a long journey although this communication maybe may be unusual it is none the less a just tribute to the ennie effle efficiency lency lencs of a faithful officer and we cannot too highly highl y express the approbation wh which ch his praiseworthy conduct has called forth it t is to men of his stamp that you are indebted to a great degree for the popularity of your enterprise disclaiming all interested and pe personal r motives we subscribe ourselves respectfully youre W GRAY alliance ohio len IEL J BERTOLETT bertole wooster Wo oster oater ohio W W philada Phi laPa SS S irnia alliance 0 S fr ae HENRY C austi AUSTIN washington DC H crittenden san francisco cal M helena ma H K KIMBALL cal HENRY SCHAEFFER washington BC DAVID P DAY new hampshire B 8 To TOMPSON urson upsoN fort wayne indiana E R BENEDICT chicago WM TODD W G DRURY boek bock island B fa GOLDSTEIN washington D C JOHN H CASWELL CASWEL ij new york A D HODGES jun boston clias CHAS WHITNEY san francisco CHAS A ELDREDGE wisconsin FRED H E EBSTEIN U in f MOUNT PLEASANT PHEASANT SANPETE CO august ath 1869 editor evening news sir here amid the unusual luxuriance of earthly products I 1 sit down to write to you the crops of this region are excellent I 1 inde indeed ed the 0 of f the present season seems to have given to this coun couns s ty a rich reward for the past of wars rumors of wars but the demand for laborers is very great notwithstanding the many and 31 mowers and the great question is how shall we preserve what a merciful F ather father has blessed us with what an immense stretch of the imagination agi nation is required to conceive the difference in the circumstances and condition of this territory today to day when corn compared spared with the time yours truly came to this county then land was scarce water scarcer people scarcest now s settlement ett lement I 1 is joined to settlement by a continuous line of fence encircling rich alluvial soil waiting only the plow I 1 am forcibly Impress impressed ea with the idea that if the many who languish an in your city could but bee see these chances for independence these opportunities port unities unimproved tiley they would leave an uncertain and precarious for a bu substantial and certain way to live it would be gratifying to you to see the beautiful and lind resurrected town of ephraim and its Gabriel Bp peterson who dry bones of ephraim have lived again all the people have again partaken partaker par taken of the vivifying vilifying vivify ing influence of operation cooperation co and all are alive to the importance of sustaining themselves in the several towns wisely and correctly they attribute cheap goods to operation cooperation co and correctly the children have learned that they should sustain the parent and buy only of her who gave cheap merchandise I 1 believe the people are learning that the question of dividends are not all that is meant by the terms operate cooperate co though of course desirable and just to expect them but they begin to discern that the question of the unification the concentrating of scattered energies the driving of the hoops for the preservation of the contents of the barrel was a feces sit yand that the wisdom of the children of light must be made apparent that as we had been wise above our fellows in the spiritual annaira affairs of lifeson we must exceed the world in the temporal policy of life an oversight perhaps in n ta the e past but now by experience we have learned that our union is a necessity one noticeable feature of improvement here is the great increase of fruit trees mr ed cliff of this town has a small but beautiful nursery it would do yo you U goo good d to see the growth and luxuriance of his little eden as also the prolific early ripening rose bose potato mr A lund has invested his small means in a nursery of 10 acres and the town ever liberal in the march progressive gres sive sivo sive sivo has donated on its southern line ample space for mr cliff to plant prune an and d rear a city nursery A case occurs once in a while of smallpox small smail pox here precautionary steps have been taken houses erected outside of town and proper care together with vaccination have ablhad all nil had a due share of attention I 1 thought as I 1 rode up the avenue from the rim to this town what a fine chance for trees and luscious shade on each side of the city fathers would say exemption from tax so much for every shade tree planted on each side of its two and a half mile avenue how cheap how easy and how practicable the r result ITEM |