Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS FROM TUESDAYS DAILY CHANGE OF TIME ON OX THE UTAH CENTRAL R K R on and after thursday may 19 the regular trains will leave lesve this city for ogden at 5 am and pm the accommodation train will leavo leave ogden at 5 am and salt lako lake city at pm for further particulars see seo advertisement in to dayt days dass issue t iv v FIGHTING THEM A grasshopper war Is is being vigorously carried on in many of the wards of the city the residents ot of thai thoi oth ward are making an onslaught today to day there is ample room for the display of inventive genius in the invention of an efficient plan to destroy the destructive pests PETTY peti Y STEALING we have heard lately of a number of cases of petty theft in the upper wards of the city there is now a prospect of its being checked several boys were this morning brought before batore justice clinton on a charge of stealing chickens pigeons and sundry other things A confession from the boys revealed the fact that others were implicated the police are going for them and the tho case is not yet disposed of or STOP IT the reprehensible practice of turning cattle out to run at large in the meadow land laud known as the seventh ward pasture is still indulged in by cometo the great injury of the land there thero which is s oft sott and easily crt cut up those persons guilty of this offense are generally such as own no land there or owning land oppose every measure adopted to improve it there is feed to be had in other parts without in injury lury jury to any one and a due regard to tho the rights of others would prompt a man to turn out his stock in such parts and not to let them trespass on private rights if this practice be persisted in we see no other course for those to take who are intruded upon in this manner than to seize and impound the cattle and let them be held for the damage done there are some people whose ideas of honesty are very va vague ue when there is no penalty inflicted for t trespass res such sometimes h have persons ave a whole wholesome wholesome some dread of punishment and when they thoy think it will follow they never transcend proper bounds but if they could turn the stock into a pasture at night an and d get them out the tho next morning without being discovered they would do so every night through the summer CONCERTS IN THE settlements magnus olsen and troupe well known as the best quadrille band in salt lako lake city start on wednesday next on a tour through the northern counties of the territory with the intention of giving concerts in the principal settlements we can assure our country friends that they will get their moneys worth in listening to magnus and his band CALL AND GET IT there is a message at the deseret telegraph office for john scott acott from logan PLEASING local took a ride through west jordan cottonwood cott Colt onwood and mill creek wards yesterday and remarked with surprise rise and pleasure the great amount of rand land which has been brought under cultivation and the extensive improvements that have been made in those Tarts since he last visited them if the same progress is made in the next two or three years salt lake valley from north to south and west to the sand ridge will appear one vast garden at present for beautiful romantic scenery those wards are hard to surpass it is only marred by the presence of the grasshoppers which in some places are quite humorous numerous INDIANS IN ix TOWN tabby the sun and to quer oner black fox with some of their men came in yesterday on a visit to col ur superintendent of indian affairs for the territory Terri territory tor they talk and feel first rate they say they are not going to steal and that their men have gone to the settlements to get cup bread thirty lodges under anterro an ter ro ve yea hoo have gone to fight the sioux and twenty lodges have gone to wash i kie kle to trade they report that the navajos cavajos or pah witches are a good deal deai disaffected f but as soon as they tabby and to quer oner return they say they will send a delegation of their men to invite the nav ajos abos to come in and trade stop stealing and befriends be friends with the mormons cormons Mor mons the they also report that hawes a soldier discharged discharge from bridger who was killed last winter 9 at the junction of white and green rivers met mot his death at the hands of elk mountain indians brom FROM brom wednesdays DAILY I 1 colloms birl blin by refer reference erace to our dispatches it will bo seen that an evening session is or deed in the senate to morrow to hear agins cramins Cr philosophy on affairs SILIL bro samuel cornaby of spanish fork in march last sent samples of silk made by worms that had been fed two successive eive elve years on osage usage orange leaves to mr muller nevada city cal requesting him to test the ine inequality quality of the silk in reply mn mr maher mahen M aher uber says 1 I have beelel the cocoons you enclosed in your letter and W which aich yo yon you u say 1 eky you have raised on osage orange lih the 1 ilk silk is to all appearance strong and of excellent quality I 1 shall try an experiment this year with some on osage orange please let me know if it is a certain species of worms which feed on osage orange or whether any species will a accept j it as food we ve are pleased to note the progress the matter of silk cultura culture is making in our territory we have a country and climate well adapted to the raisin g cof of silk and it is a subject that should receive our attention in the absence of anything better we believe any species of worms 9 will feed and do well upon the osage orange NEWS t F bom ROM tue THE settlements by letter from geo H crosby of hebron washington co we learn that the health of the people enthat in that settlement is generally generall y good and everything flourishing the eople people are adopting the operative cooperative co principle of caring for their stock establishing butter and cheese factories etc R K R llewellyn llowellyn of F fountain green co writes under date of may that the grasshoppers are very bad in that settlement having already nearly cleared the fields of thear the growing 0 wing crop crops the people have struggled manfully to destroy une ibo pests pesta and save their crops and still have hopes of raising something by watering their fields and causing their grain to start anew the rhe other settlements of the county have suffered in a similar manner mannor wo we also learn by bv letter from bro samuel ha that tha the grasshoppers shoppers are doing much javage damage there W K R Tee mee pIes ples os or holden in a letter dated may says the health of the people here is very good go odthe the crops look well and no hoppers have havo as yet made their appearance we have a fair prospect of raising a good crop under the co operative system of farming adopted here ik OLDEST YET A payson correspondent bro I 1 M coombs writes bro jacob hatch an old resident of this place and a member of the church foi for very many years wishes me to inform you that he was ninety eight years yeara old last month and that he has never yet seen a railroad nor heard the snort of ora ofa a steam horse he is very active for a man of his age and talks of visiting your city before long aad and taking a ride in the cars if the superintendent of the line will give the oldest man in the mountains a free ride to omaha he wants to go and see his friends and come home in the fall if yon you can find any one older than he in these valleys who has not yet seen a locomotive bro hatch would like to see his name in the papers accidentally KILLED by letter from roc rockville aville we learn that on the of april nathan and wm riley terry sons of jacob E terry who is now on a mission to the states while engaged in cutting timber in in spring valley iron co fell a tree which accidental accidentally tv struck and killed one of hem wm vm riley he was a young man ut eighteen 0 years of age SALT LAKE lare CITY cirr may 18 1870 EDITOR deseret E evening venino NEWS allow me to correct an error in reference to a match game of baso bayo ball published in your pa er of the too toe alert club did not win a game from the eureka first nine inasmuch as but three of the nine played and further it was decided by the eureka club that the game played was null and void for in claying playing the game an important rule of base ball was violated respectfully H HUBY HUEY ji sedy secy seey E B B club CALLED elder N H felt just arrived from his bis mission to the eastern states called yesterday among other things he informs us that wherever he traveled he heard a universal expression in all respect tadie tanie classes of society condemnatory of the cullom ballom bill as not only an outrage upon this community but as destructive to the constitutional and religious 0 liberty of all other communities bro felt says hov he hev would ouid not feal feel justified did he omit to express an acknowledgment through the NEWS for the kindness and many courtesies extended to him by friends and in the east one occasion to which be he referred ret rel erred was a visit in company with elder B young jr and gen R T burton burlon to gen H K 0 oliver liver ilver of S salem salom kaiel m mass who among other courtesies ly gave them introductory letters to influent influential idi idl manufacturers of or lowell owell and lawrence that greatly facilitated their thein obtaining valuable aiso also the hon astl Asti aei ael Hunting huntington ton tou and abner goodle esq and ana others for valuable assistance iff tracing the rene gene genealogy alog y of the smith family etc in relation to 0 o religion in the east bro F says be he found the people generally too rauth absorbed in money making aking and spiritual speculations to be inclined inclined to devote their attention to the much less popular truths of or the everlasting gospel yet he be thinks the missionaries have done much good in correcting the public sentiment regarding this people FROM THUM trum thursdays DAYS DAILY dally IN ix TOWN we were much pleased this morning to receive a call from irom james Ga gamble tuble eq esq E q general pacific division ot thi western union tele tole graph company who Is out from san francisco on a tour of inspection and has taken the opportunity of visiting revisiting re this city mr gamble gambie is favorably known to our people with whom he has had business relations in tho the past and they will be gratified to learn that he enjoys excellent health weighing considerably more than he did when last here when the news of his brothers death reached here it cassun posed cosed by many that it was mr james gainie ble bie who had passed off the same impression prevailed in some places east and anah li received several papers containing his obituary A man can form some idea from such notices what estimate is placed upon him mr gamble leaves town by this afternoons train HOSEA HOSEAL SMITH if hosea smith formerly of michigan but said to now reside in this territory will communicate with george reynolds at the office of president brigham young he will hear of something that may prove to his advantage |