| Show a AV y v atti rt 7 f 4 i VE 1 1311 CITY MORGAN COUNTY fa t june jane lith 70 editor deseret bews dear sin As many rumors dumois and exaggerated reports are in circulation respecting the small pox in this vicinity I 1 beg to state the facts in the case in order to allay any unnecessary apprehension in regard to the matter while we were maff i wife was vai waa lakerr tak err nery very lek iek lck a 61 w we e sup supposed p osea ai with a cald or feve rand hid bid a after gehad we mad had been keen home libbe a a few fe days ala zia she U roke broke out in spots and abd then we e discovered it was the smail pox in the meantime people had been coming tto too the house honse as usual and when we found that it was therall pox we were filled with acx acx lety lest iest it should have spread and infected the whole neighborhood we immediately took precautionary measures measure stopped our schools rny any and meet ings gsand ingmand in aind find the people kept away from my house fortunately last fall fali near ly all the children in the settlement and many of the grown people were vaccina vaccinated ted and none of those were affected with the disease and I 1 am happy to bay eay that only two cases have occurred outside of my own famil yand they are perfectly recovered my wife has baa also entirely recovered and the only case we have left is my son alma who was exposed to the infection previous to our knowing it was wag the smallpox and who was not vaccinated vaccina ted when the rest were we are taking all possible care of him keeping him at my house from his family that it may not spread further and he is rapidly recovering so there is no occasion for any great alarm to be scared seared to death is almost as bad as having the smallpox po k but our troubles do not end here the judge and county court caught the scare held a session and placed weber city in quarantine I 1 think they call it anyway they have established a blockade placed guards at the bridges to prevent ingress or egress and as we have no provisions only what we obtain from other places we are in a fair way of in starved to death if we from the smallpox mall small pox it seems that the cullom bill has ceased to cause comment and we have learned to look on the grasshoppers with contempt and disgust but if the people must have some excitement and some cannot live without it let them have it over minerals or moves rather than infectious diseases very respectfully C S PETERSON I 1 BT ST THOMAS ARIZONA may 29 1870 editor deseret mews news while the indications on our surrounding mountain tops cause us to believe that our northern brethren have scarcely escaped the spring frosts we are here in the full fall hurry of our wheat harvest the crop appears pretty good oar spring has been cool and late now we have the thermometer at 80 deg at sunrise and at deg in the shade at noon we are gradually learning to master some of our main difficulties and expect to see the time when we will realize the best expectations of the friends of this country and if ever the utah central or any other iron road bridges tu the sandy wastes that intervene between us and the rest of mankind we wa will gratify the palates of epicures epi eures cures with the noble fruits of this clime in exchange for the products of more northern regions in which we cannot excel if this privilege pr iv should ise lse DO denied us we will come as near as any others of our people in sustaining ourselves by producing the indispensable necessaries of life if those of our brethren who have been requested to cast their lot with ours had bad done what they certainly at the time must have deemed a duty whatever they considered it since we might by this time have been far enough advanced in prosperity to not only make the navigation of the colorado rado 0 a success but also to wield an influence in favor of the extension of the railroad to the head of navigation this is a broad wild country where a few hands must toll long and hard to accomplish com that which an adequate number would perform easily in a short time yet while deploring the tardiness of past progress all interested in reclaiming this land feel now that the permanence of our settlements is at last established and under this feeling there will grow up better improvements than heretofore and conveniences and comforts will soon supply the place of mere indispensable a yours respectfully D BONELLI h i JUNE I 1 ath th 1870 editor news I 1 perceive from your issue of the uit thab that item Is rather surprised that your locals has not nob interviewed distinguished visitors after a certain prescribed style am not local lL and do not even know who is still I 1 think I 1 can solve boive the problem I 1 take it for granted that local is a mormon 1 and has well studied his church creed which reads something as follows mind your own business and summer suffer yo your I 1 ar neighbor to ta do likewise local might observe the first part of this crerand creed and haye have a little let lel leisure surd sure perhaps to meddle with his neighbor neighbors ls business but you abu perc pert perceive elve eive that the latter clause prohibits him froin from doing so again he is bound by our mountain etiquette which teaches that it if is the hight bight of III ill manners to meddle with peoples e I 1 s family fIrs affairs af hence he must be quite shocked to know that well raised people anywhere should ask such questions as item refers to and I 1 presume the only reason he does not administer a rebuke to our inquisitive neighbors below is that he is aware that different countries have different customs and what would be extremely rude in one country would be considered refinement in au another other hence he can excuse those to us extreme violations of good breedi breedl breeding Dg after tl is explanation I 1 trust that item will not get nervous over the matter or feel aggrieved towards me for these friendly explanations especially since my object has been more to satisfy the curiosity of our inquisitive neighbors than that of item I 1 being themselves of an inquisitive turn they must necessarily wonder that we as a community are not the same way inclined should this catch their eye the problem will be solved and perhaps in future when we visit them they will extend to us the right to enjoy even among them our rude notions of politeness without being indicted for treason or undergoing a penal code of special legislation BUD HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES OP OF 0 washington DC D 0 june 6 70 elder george Q cannon cannom dear bro I 1 notice by the columns of the NEWS that yourself and others arg are In interested terestea as to the best beat means of destroying the grasshoppers a subject which is exciting a goo good deal of interest here a great many enquiries being made ofine of me daily if there be any means of effecting their destruction the subject of filling the country with birds has been frequently suggested to me and appears very plausible the enclosed article see last page of NEWS from the pen of horace greeley upon the importance of encouraging the breeding and protection of the insect destroying bird birds 8 appeared ap d ya in last saturdays tribune a and nelre its ts a arguments seem reasonable I 1 think that ifa if a united effort were made in our country to protect the birds no now w in our midst by legislation if necessary and a few thousand dollars spent in their importation and in facilitating the increase of the best known and most hardy of the insect destroying varieties it might in time prove of incalculable benefit in destroying the grasshopper er eggs and the young hoppers early in in the spring judging from appearances these pests are likely to trouble us year after year and to keep increasing and it seems to me that some big effort should be made to destroy them or counteract their ravages the more general breeding of poultry all over the country particularly turkeys turkeys and chickens would have a tendency to destroy great numbers of these insects besides affording very desirable articles of food without claiming to be particularly posted on this subject the interest I 1 feel in the preservation of our crops induces me to submit the subject of the breeding of birds and poultry to your consideration with kind regards to yourself and all friends in which brother caine calne joins as ever yours etc W H HOOPER SALT lame LAKE CITY june 13 70 ed deseret mews news the following passages from the book of nephi chapter ad 2 ad d and ad verses are to me very significant to our times and to the doings and aspirations of some somo men hereabouts known as disappointed merchants and essayists i respectfully A MILTON mllton MUSSER and it came to pass that there were many citina built anew and there were many old cities repaired and there were many high faya waya ca casl cast up and many any roads made which led from city 0 0 city and from land to land laud and from place to ta place and thus passed away the twenty and eighth year and the people had bad continual peace but it came to pass that in the twenty and ninth year there began to be some dis among the people and some were lifted up unto pride and because of their exceeding great riches liches yea even unto great persecutions for there were many merchants in the land and also many lawyers and many officers and the people began tegan to be distinguished by ranks according to their weir riches and their chances for learning yea some somo were ignorant because of their poverty and others did receive great learning because of their riches some were berei lifted up in pride and end others were exceedingly humble some did return railing for railing while others would receive railing and persecution and all manner of afflictions and would not turn and revile again but were humble and penitent before god and thus there became a great inequality in all the land now the cause of this iniquity odthe of the people was this satan had great power unto the stirring up of the people to do all manner of iniquity and to the puffing them up with pride tempting them to seek for power and authority and riches and the vain things of this world now they did not sin ignorantly for they knew the will of abd concerning them for it had bad been taught unto them therefore they did wilfully rebel against god farmington far FAB DA june 13 1870 dear bro cannon in your issue of the lith you have an item about a trough for watering purposes across the U ac 0 track in making a cut near farmington for the track a water ditch was destroyed and such is the shape of the ground that water cannot be made to reach the land requiring water in the immediate neighborhood of the cut out except by passing it over as described in your item or under the track in a hydraulic tube bro joseph A young the superintendent was requested to put in such an accommodation he advised a temporary arrangement of this kind until he had time and opportunity to put in one safe and suitable to the circumstances the engine that came along as reported did not whistle at farmington and consequently the boys not hearing it were not prepared JOHN W HESS SPRING CITY june lith 1870 to the deseret news we fe read that everything shall be shaken that can be shaken that that which cannot be shaken ma may y remain the locusts called grasshoppers in the danish bible by their ravages and devouring propensities cause some to be shaken in their faith and they think of leaving the territory can the appearance of the locusts alter the simple math mathematical ematt truth that two and two make four or can their ravages make our religion untrue which was true in our minds before they came shall not he who bendeth the good send the evil also and if we murmur not at the former shall we be justified in murmuring at the latter in vain may he be whom the lord by his provi dences designs to chasten at attempt to fly beyond the reach of hib his 1 afflicting hand for the good book if I 1 talethe take tako the wings fly to the uttermost parts of the earth behold he is there and if I 1 make my bed in hell lo 10 he is there also remember that job was greatly reduced and sorely afflicted though a good man and none like him yet after his sore trial loss and great affliction the lord abundantly restored to him and made him more than good for all his losses and suffering sand may not th eLord theford restore unto us the years that the locusts have eaten the caterpillar and the canker worm should not the visitations of these insects go materially to strengthen our faith rather than to shake it we rejoice in the fulfillment of prophecy when it does not involve or impair our interests and feel our faith batth much strengthened by the same and the visitation of these insects is equally in fulfillment fill ment of ancient prophesy and wh why should we not rejoice in this if all atje the prophecies favorable to our interests were fulfilled and none of those adverse to the same might we not have reason to doubt the correctness of our position what father has raised a family of children and never found it necessary to chastise or punish them Is he not their father oather as well when hen he punishes them ai as when he caresses da caresses them if bebe ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers par takers then thea are ye bastard bastards and sand not sons I 1 think that our selfishness love of the world pride fashion and costly attire have provoked the lord to send upon us our present scourges urges I 1 acknowledge his hand and feel to humble myself before him I 1 intend to reform and be a better man no matter how good I 1 may have been heretofore there is abundant reason for ma me tore to reform and the more that come to a simi lar conclusion the better all this I 1 should do for the iove love of righteousness and not for fear rear of punishment still 1 I do fear that if we do not reform more grievous things will happen antous unto us I 1 do not feel to do one thing to court the good will of the outside world nor to secure their respect nor yet the first thing to justly merit their censure I 1 am glad how however everi to hear that the men of the world are coming up to zion to see and hear for themselves and I 1 am thankful that god has ordained ability in our leaders at headquarters to illustrate and defend every branch of our holy religion and while apostates and the world ignore and curse as it were the priesthood of god on the earth I 1 feel in my heart to bless it and to say long may it live to shed a halo of light upon our otherwise dark path that leads back to our fathers house and when the sun moon and stars shall cease to shine may heavens priesthood be our light for evermore your brother in the gospel ORSON HYDE 1 I am afraid dear wife that while I 1 am gone absence will conquer love ambone gg oh h never fear dear husband the longer you stay away the better I 1 shall ishall like you where god loves he affords accords love lovo tokens and sueh such are only his hia soul ena en graces if our heart moves toe tor to ward him certainly his goeth out to ward us the shadow on the dial moves according to the sun in the heavens |
