| Show S local and OTHER C FROM FRIDAYS DAILY 1 PRESIDENT YOU yoo youko AND PARTY by by telegram from franklin cache co per deseret telegraph line we learn that president young and party stayed at clarkston last night and will stay at oxford tonight to night tomorrow to morrow be will reach soda springs where he will probably stay two or three days OBITUARY janet thane died in the lat ward of this city june fth at 2 am she was born in 1792 in aldersley Eld ersley scotland was baptized in canada west in 1835 and emigrated to these valleys in 1861 she died in full fall faith of or the gospel in the year of her age the funeral service took place in the ath ward school house on the ath Ct hinst dinst mii mil mar Star plea piea please so copy com cou coal NEW 13 BRIDGE RIDGE by IBY letter from henry roper of oak creek millard county we learn that a new bridge has been built across the sevier river near that place and a good road made to accommodate the southern travel this new route will materially teri ally shorten the distance of travel trav el between this city and our southern counties besides being beina better supplied with feed for animals coming from the south the traveler will leave the old road at holden or cedar springs and taking to the left pass through oak creek settlement cross crosa the new bridge and thence on north through Par vant gintic tintic and cedar valleys and come out on the old road again near rehi lehi the road is good all the way at oak creek there is a prospect of raising a good crop the present year as the spring grain looks very well as also does the corn cane ete etc the Tho grasshoppers have not visited them yet the health of the people is genera generally liy lly good and peace prevails throughout the little settlement FOURTH OF juliy july the committee appointed to make arrangements for the celebration of the coming fourth i e W jennings jos A young theodore mckean H S beatie beatle john clark L S hills I 1 groo and thos taylor bad had a meeting appointed for last evening to get out the pro gramme but several ov of the above named gentlemen not being present the meeting was adjourned until monday alunday evening next at seven pm at hooper eldredge dredge EI acos cos bank OBITUARY elder elden samuel gould one of the members of the mormon battalion died at parowan carowan Pa rowan iron county the of december 1869 he was wag born in litchfield county tt august 1778 in aletter a ietter letter published in the millennial Mil lenial star of may loth written by president george A smith at To kerville kane county tn in relation to president brigham youngs visit to kanab we find the following notice of this veteran pioneer I 1 we then visited the brethren at virgen alt city where we preached on wednesday an and IT on thursday started for the indian mission to kanab visiting on our route several ranches which had been abandoned temporarily in consequence of the hostility odthe of the navajo and other indians the first of these was the ranch occupied by elder samuel gould about eight miles from this and about tha same from virgin city about 2000 feet above either place it offers good grass rass and water for stock and sufficient to irrigate to fifteen I 1 acres the old gentleman above eighty years of age ago did not scruple to move his bis wife and a family of small children to this isolated locality where he built a house walled in a field put it into cultivation and herded his own stock and that of any others who dare entrust it to his care for all knew know he could not protect it from the indians if they had a mind to take it his friends remonstrated against bis his taking his family to such an exposed position but all in in vain his wife was fearful but what did he fear who had braved three wars in defence of his coun arys ilag flag he had fought against tho cor of arbary barbary JB for three years he had served in the army in the late war with great britain as a volunteer he had served one year in the war with mexico he had smelt powder and seen smoke and blood in many a hard fought battle and why should he fear a few half naked naked indians he laughed at all but after the killing of dr whitmore and brother mcintyre mcintyne by the navajos cavajos at the pipe springs and of robert berry his wife and brother at short creek by about 30 mrs gould utterly refused to live at the ranch any longer the disappointment annoyance and worry of abandoning the ranch told heavily upon the old hero who stuck to the ground some time after his h is family had left but the infirmity of old age which will come sometime compelled him to follow his family to parowan carowan Pa rowan where ho he became paralyzed and after lingering some time he e died last winter in the year of his age EUROPEAN MISSION by the perusal ef of letters from president albert barring ton to his bis family we learn that he has just been making a tour of the continent and has had bad a very agreeable time at the time ot of writing the last letter dated copenhagen may he had been absent from irom liverpool nearly five week weeks a and had traveled by y land and water miles he was accompanied panted by elders jesse N smith and X L shurtliff the weather had been exceedingly cee ceo fino fine during the whole of their journey and they were not affect affected od by sea 1 sickness as t hey they usually usual were when traveling in by sea brother carrington seems to be i in high spirits and excellent health and speaks in warm terms of the reception extended to him by the saints among whom i he has traveled he has found them feeling well generally general ly though the poverty of many will prevent them from emigrating i this year 1 NEW ZEALAND wo have been favored with the perusal of a letter from elder robert beauchamp to president brigham young written april 28 1870 isto from new zealand where he is at present laboring as a missionary though he has met with some opposition he has generally lybeer been listened to attentively and his impression is that a good work will yet be done in that land he has succeeded succo eded in converting and baptizing quite a number and has organized several branches he feels quire quite encouraged with his success and says that I 1 many have come como to the meetings to put down mormonism but have gone away convinced of the truth ot of the preaching all have gone from our meetings more inore or less impressed with the fact thab that mormonism is not the sill silly y thing that they thought it was FROM SATURDAYS DAILY kf PRESIDENT youna YOUNG AND PARTY by telegram from president young we ie learn r that he and party left oxford at 6 a m yesterday morning for soda S springs ings the members of the party were MY all ail well and the weather was pleasant communication brother cannon I 1 notice in the herald that the editor is censuring myself and the U P R R about a case of small pox the truth of the case could have been obtained if he had applied to the proper source JEAMES M D B S L city june 11 1874 0 hoy hop ho rou FOR laue LAKE at tt about a quarter to nine mine this thia morning it a very respectable I 1 spec table company was assembled at the depot of the tho utah eutah central to take advantage of the opportunity presented for an excursion to lake side at ten minutes and a few seconds past nine the train started all on board seeming jubilant atthe prospect of such a pleasant jaunt in about twelve minutes the train came to a halt at goods woods cross eight and a half miles from this city where a delay of five or six minutes took place having been switched on to a side track to give way for the regular down train from ogden As soon boon as it had passed awa away v went the excursionists and at about ten minutes to ten the destination of the party about one or two miles beyond farmington was reached the run of awen ty two or three miles having been m i n about thirty five minutes the inauguration of summer excursion parties down to the shores of salt lake barties by y the utah central is most excellent and and is bound to meet with the patronage it deserves heretofore the want of facilities for excursion parties has bits been badly felt here A ride rido to salt lake and back was a good days work with a good team and an excursion there and back in a day to have anything like pleasure or fun was out of the question but now when the journey there and back can be made in a couple of hours we have no doubt that thousands of people from this city will avail themselves through the summer of an opportunity to visit the shores of the dead sea of utah territory smithfield bro E homer writing from smithfield cache co says all is well at that place at present and the crops look uncommonly promising COTSWOLD WO we have received from the publishers a pamphlet statement prepared by H F buckley fc brother merced stock farm hopeton cal importers and breeders bleeders bre eders of thoroughbred cotswold Cots wold sheep giving experiments in the breeding of Cots wolds anci and their grades anything tending to improvement in the breed of our sheep is of interest to our people from the statistics presented in the pamphlet we have little reasor to doubt that the cots wold sheep might be imported to this country and crossed with our sheep to advantage the matter is worthy the attention of our sheep raisers the above named firm does an extensive business in importing and breeding DESPERADO KILLED we wo have received per deseret Desere fc telegraph line th the 0 following lowing fol lol account of the sudden ending of a horse honse thief and would be murderers career t which ought to be a warning to others gunnison gun Oun nison V U T 10 william brown deputy sheriff from weber county has just arrived here he left ogden june ath 9 with a writ to arrest peter smith who had bad stolen etolen a S span an of mules belonging to 0 W thornton of ogden he succeeded in arresting gSmith smith at marysville marksville Marys ville near the sevier mines on wednesday smith resisted but was finally taken and secured without injury the deputy sheriff started with him to ogdon ogden the tho next morning on arriving at glenwood a vacated settlement of sevier county the sheriff placed his gun by a stone wall hn and d told thornton to guard the prisoner whilo while he hp got the handcuffs hand hana cuffs for him while doing so smith grasped the sheriffs gun and attempted to shoot thornton but found it was unloaded as the sheriff had taken the cartridge from the gun previous to leaving it smith then grasped the muzzle of the gun and struck at thornton as he did so he brought himself in front of the sheriff who snot shot him through the forehead thornton also fired a bullet taking effect in his left breast there was a jury summoned from among some campers near by and an inquest held the body was buried burled there AN EASTERN EDITORS VIEWS we have been favored with the perusal of a letter to bro edward stevenson of this city from the editor of one of the principal papers in the chief city of one odthe of the eastern states in that letter our brother of the quil quit while admitting his belief that the pr practice I 1 of plural marriage in utah must go down says 1 I believe the cullom bill to be the device of a parcel of rascals who do not care a fig about polygamy but who do want a war or a row orsome sort with which they can make money by fleeming fleecing flee cing the government in contracts for food clothing arms ammunition kec klc fec 11 the same gentleman says 1 I have just received fitzhugh ludlowe Lud lows book ook b in the heart of the continent in 1 i I which he makes you out a desperately wicked and cutthroat cut ahyou throat roat set living under a frightful despotism and all that but it if you are a specimen mormon I 1 think I 1 could trust myself in your keeping for a licett lifetime m e I 1 and bo be as safe as among my ray gentile neighbors to say the least it is my purpose some day to risk a visit v is it to salt lake at any rate and you need not fear that I 1 will abuse your hospitality WARM by deseret telegraph line we learn abathe thermo thermometer mete r ranges from degrees upwards every day at st george FROM MONDAYS DAILY SABBATH MEETINGS yesterday the congregation at the tabernacle in the morning was addressed by elder joseph F smith the service being closed by president geo A smith sinith in the afternoon in the new tabernacle elder george Q cannon delivered an interesting te discourse and was followed by president george A smith who spoke for a few minutes taking asa text the passage in the chapter of ecclesiastes which reads and the grasshoppers shall be a burden Pres president smith reminded the congre congregation that on two occasions since the set settlement tia tit of these valleys the people have been reduced to the necessity of short rations on account of the ravages of grasshoppers and crickets the members of families being reduced red rod d in many instances to I 1 less ess than half haifa a pound of bread per day he hoped never to see such scenes repeated and though the I 1 grasshoppers during the present season have committed a great amount of destruction perhaps as much as three fourths of all the grain sown he urged the necessity and importance of planting as long as there was any hopes of crops ripening for the encouragement of the people he stated that corn of the king phillip Phi hilp flip white flint and other varle Tarle varieties ties would ripen if planted two weeks hence and also urged the planting of buckwheat and peas if the seed could be procured so that the want of bread or tha the necessity of being gain again reduced to rations might be avoided if possible DROWNED we are sorry to have to chron chronicle icle lele the death by drowning of a boy named john alien allen son of brother alien allen of the loth ward of this city it seems he was allowed to go down to the river yesterday to fish his father charging him strictly not to go into the water in the afternoon his clothes were brought homo home by a companion who went with him with the sad intelli browned ence that he had gone in bathing and got browned this news was a heavy blaw to the parents who had bad on former occasions refused to let lot him go to the river fearing some such accident as this ile he was drowned in the jordan about half a mile above the sixth ward bridge and though search has been made for the body it has not been found he is reported to be about thirteen years of age ago this boys untimely death should prove e a warning to others who are in n the habit ha bit of going down to fish and bathe parents cannot be too careful of their children in a this respect the parents have our sympathy in their great bereavement LITTLE cottonwood anne lith 1870 editor deseret bews yews dear sir I 1 am one of your subscribers for the tho he to give you an idea as to how the mall mail is carried to south cottonwood I 1 need only state that on an average I 1 only get let your valued paper about once a week the other su bribers here hero are laboring un der the same grievance as myself A remedy is desirable respectfully 0 B ATWOOD we havo have lately received several complaints with regard to the cottonwood mail i some time since a gentleman brought to this office a package of NEWS which he ahad had picked up a few miles south of this city on tho the state road rather a novel for the delivery of mail datterl drillon DRILL drillon on saturday afternoon company B ad regiment N L capt jessie west met and had a first rato rate time in practising practicing the skirmish drill over thirty members of or the company were present DIED diel in t orthis of this city june lith of rheumatic fe fever v er richard bichard siddon iddon aged fifty seven years f discontinued the U 0 R R ace accod om mo dation train run on sundays between this city and ogden will he hereafter be discontinued and only the regular train will 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