Show i LOCAL 6 C il i AND N other R M mailers MATTERS mai MAT ATT lers lebs E R S 1 NEWS ENGLAND by courtesy of president george A smith we are permitted to peruse a letter dated at liverpool april from eide elmerjohn elder Elde john rJohn jacques and from which we extract the following bro eldredge and sister E returned home from their continental trip in good health and apparently much improved therein though a little tanned by exposure to the weather brother earr farr has haa also returned to london bros alma eldredge and A P shumway started this evening for ireland dublin thence to belfast thence to glasgow for conference there may newcastle conference the following sunday sanday president eldredge also expects to attend these two conferences presidente dentE has frequently expressed himself ta spending another winter in england bui bul I 1 never heard him hira say that he could not endure the summer the foggy daml damp weather of winter tells upon his lungs anu and and ana throat unfavorably the work appears to be reviving in several conferences the elders eiders reporting ba baptisms and a spirit of enquiry I 1 might mention swansea bristol nottingham newcastle nez Nei castle castie glasgow and london conferences moving a littie tittle in this way but as general thing scepticism appears to ba b much more prevalent than thad it I 1 was years ago therease there Ther eare are no if istance instances of very numerous baptisms anywhere nowadays now a days though there is no particular disposition ta to persecute manifested as a general thing mormonism has stood so sa long it seems to hav have come to be considered or be tacitly allowed to have a right to stand as long lone as it iha ina may 4 elder jose joseph h par parry expects to return home early leaving ig liverpool may loth the saints generally and some of the elders are getting alive to the hope ore more or less leas of them soon A LAKE MONSTER IN california blue lake in california has a monster if seemingly some relation to that of bear lake e w whose ose ex existence s ence has hag as long iong on been een asserted ser sen by the indians and is now no attested by several whites who have been heen een eye wit ness the russian river flag odthe of the lith dinst says A private letter received here orom from blue lakes lake county states that that fabulous monster of those waters has been seen again and so plainly as to establish himself in the minds of those who saw him as i a reality A party or picnickers from frow ukiah stopped on the shore of the lake and the brass band began to play when the ish fish f or whatever he is came to the top to of the water near shore and was plainly seen by y all present A member of the ukiah brass rass band who was in Heralds burg on last ast monday confirms the report the indians have always asserted the existence of this large nish fish and they regard it with superstitious awe believing it to be something edme supernatural while the most moat of white men excepting the few who claim to have seen it have thought if it too big ble a fish to swallow but bat it has hail been a actually tully seen too often lately by respectable tr truth ful fal persons for the existence of the extraordinary creature to be longer doubted FATAL ACCIDENT AT rew NEW HARMONY numerous as have been veen fatai fatal accidents through the careless use of loaded weapons they still occasionally occur causin causing 9 sudden distress and irreparable loss in the family circle A very painful instance of thel the kind happened at new harmony kane co in this territory on the 3rd ard I 1 dinst us t an account of which has been forwarded for publication in the NEWS by 4 a correspondent residing at that place the victim in this melan cholly affair was a little boy aged 7 years 6 months and 4 days named oharles charlea sc sz george son of josepn joseph L and mary B heywood the circumstances are as follows t mr heywood having been sick for several days left home that morning for a ride to Ka Ra narra during his absence one of bf his sons named james bell neil belli a lad 13 years of age took from the holster a horse pistol which had been loaded more than a year before during the navajo excitement there was wag no cap pap on the weapon and the boy having no idea that etwas it was loaded snapped it twice he then in a playful I 1 manner mariner presented it at his hw little brother and snapped it a third time when the piece went off a heavy slug passing passin through gh the childs head and instantly kil kii killing ing him stich such an occurrence is IA highly deplorable let iet and should prove an everlasting lesson to alif allf who read it never to leave under any circumstances circum stances a loaded pistol ls tolor or firearms of any kind within the reach of children r the same correspondent bay says r Farraf farming mig fig is progressing rapidly wheat 14 looks well the grasshoppers are very plentiful fruit plenty range excellent stock looking well many of the citizens of harmony are going to Pang to settle others are going to hamilton on shirts creek ani and a few to long valle vaile valley vailey y thus we are being thinned out the spirits of the people ara are good with some desire for mineral wealth but we have neither miners nor pros prospectors Rectors the brethren have just returned from conference at st george report good feelings with an abundance of ibo iko good spirit of god goa and everybody doing well feeling wel well and very happy they report the 1 prospects for wheat in dixie most flattering 1 IT i r i 1 i CT ivr ive bishop david J james ames 0 of paradise cache C co informs us that the hoppers are there in immense numbers agn and ana that up to th the time he left tuesday last they had destroyed not less ithan than fifty acres of wheat scarcely any effort had been put t forth to fight the insects it being deemed e pu useless to make the attempt on account of the scattered situation of 09 the fields there bishop james is of the opinion that the props crops at paradise wil be bet destroyed which has been the case for the past t four or five years A la large 11 number of fruit fruit trees were plante planted dout out in the settlement in the spring and the prospects are that nearly all of them will be k killed 1 ned nod by the pests A DE Z ot 0 the chicago times I 1 writing from milan ohio furnishes furi fari bishes the lovers of the marvelous marve loua with the latest s sensation e lop iop in a their line our readers may remember seeing occasional pot notices ices lees some months agda aej about bou t spirit photographing in ew yo york r k and even eyen nearer home than that these notices were strongly tinctured with the marvelous marve loua and ie the sensation element but the ohe correspondence of the he times timea pus pup anything of this kind heretofore tolore heard of completely into info the shade for while it is its claimed that ehat photographs to of the de departed alfed have been taken yet it has ben by human ag agency en cy but the method bas has been improved pr oved probably patented ao so that terrestrial help is now dispensed with at the date of writing the uit the correspondent says that for the thel two months previous milan fiad had been the centre of a good deal of sensational talk taik owing to the fact that upon the win windows dows of several beveral buildings in the city pictures of or human faces had appeared which resembled daguerreotypes taken when aheart the art waty was in ats its infancy these portraits are not perfect to begin with but are gradually developed when they amt first appear the glass is of a a stony steel interspersed with a lull dull asnen ashen color in others there Is the appearance on the surface of the glass lass as of water with tar or crude cruda oil mixed with it in TEL this stage there is lq ho no clearly defined ou outline iline but gradually day after day human faces become more and more distinct until finally there is the appearance as of persons looking out olit of the room through the window klif ilif dow into the street if parties go into the room and look through the panes thus decorated there is nothing whatever to be seen the glass ap rearing perfectly clear most of but not all the rooms are vacant in which the windows are thus adorned and the origin of or agency by which these appearances pe arances are produced is a mystery which the savan savana of the place are vainly trying to solve one ohe of these thead pictures is baid bald to be the face faco of general washington at any rate nate it is 18 the face of a man in a military three cornered hat bat another is the portrait of a marsh a soldier of df the late war who died at milan boon soon after aften the close of the war another of the pictures is a female figure bearing the reclining form of a man A A window in the store stoie ashley a deacon in the presbyterian church has been operated upon lapon and slid has hag caused the deacon considerable annoyance annoyance the he picture in hi this instance fil til is that of a Il egress egrest ne gresa the border korder of hel hei her cap ap being plainly visible the deacon though a republican and a good glod member of the church did old not not dot like this and he did nei wei ils lis best with soap and water to td obliterate ate the appearance but falli failing ilk with theae these he put on a thick coat of paint and tind fet let iet it remain on a num number berot berof of weeks in hopes of gettins getting nid rid of bf it but when the paint was waa cleaned oft ther there 1 was the old oid ne gresi gresl aa as plain as eilef ever BO so the deacon beacon has concluded to let herst her stay v in jin peace the correspondent pa ays esthese ys these are tife the facts the pictures araw draw wondering sightseers abight seers beers from ali all palts parts of that section of country many pt of whom have a theory of some bome kind to account for this new method of photographing but the I 1 origin of or agency by jy which they are produced isa is a mystery to all ail taye THE st louis sun deema it an evidence of the folly of the age for oon people to pay the sums of money they do to hear famous singers nilsson Nil nii saon the great sorl soil gatress had bad just sang sank at st louis she goes through four or crave nye rye pieces of an au evening and for the pleasure of listening four dollars is dem demanded from each individual lii this the sun think altogether too high it says these singers make hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and the buttons they wear are sparkling diamonds while many of their listeners have borrowed the money which paid for thein their ticket |