Show E 6 ks iab iad v N S 7 i bh L A n 0 NJ 06 h 6 Tl thombs thomas omas was co convicted ed at new york city at of murdering walter waiter johnson another negro his counsel has been beell exerting himself to obtain a failed when themes of the failure was com communicated to thom thomas as I 1 he thanked thank tl td glod clod iod lod sod was fully prepared to meet him and added 1 I want to watch an dra draland yand and sid sing sing g but JC I want to be doull with the thip thing of ifil this q world let meae merise up aplet 10 me 1 go 7 0 t ta q the heaven of ir bearens be srena arena pass through the region of the starry firmament like a sigh and enter inta all the them joys that are there before me inet t cannot speak upon anything elbe eibe else 1086 than the ehg come 11 7 1 H b blood to 04 me 66 call calf themselves ministers of 0 dign ro hive have to answer for through ugh propagating views buch euch A as this W r ka of a murderer e entertains in regard to the bliss which awaits him after death about the surest passport a vil lain iain of the deepest dye can obtain to heaven according 16 tc their thein teaching teachings 4 is is lamur murder KL der some bome innocent person themore atrocious and apps appa appalling liing the cribei chi cri doi dol methe mothe Aei tho the morg mor sympathy ar the they y have hayg forstie fort for ilo the jo criminal r and thi the mora more hearty are prayers id in his behalf do they not nott tiby by taking alch aich la a course lucrease increase the temptation of the evil disposed to comet cruel crimes there are m many manx abs aby merl mili men so constituted that they would wohld readily risk their present ilyes lives sor for OK the bake sake of gratifying their reve neve revenge ngip if they could be assured that afterwards thet they i would go to the heaven of b heavens heave n s 7 andi nedwill dwell dwall in the pres presence nce nee of god by having the aid of a religious teacher before t execution this asseran assurance de so cail call ed christian ministers give them and who dali dalr can ean tell how many there erp ere aie sie arm are who hd commit secret murder and other abomination under iander the influence of buch such teachings thinking that if they only donly repent before death and obtain what iq lq calledo cal cai leda ieda change of heart they are sure suro of future and eternal glory it w would 0 uld be a very sevene severe punishment for many of these ministers in the next world to h have alequi quarters assigned them where t hey they would waal have as ahelf only 60 compan I 1 ions lons ons such murderers as this thomas and others to whom they ibave bave giyen given assurances of future bliss if they had the power they would make heaven heaven A pandemonium and its society so of ofa that no decent person would take any pleasure there they would introduce to its courts the vilest of the vile wretches who upon earth before being condemned to death they would ouId shun as leprous and yet they call themselves christians out upon such folly THE thirst for money the expensive habits the terrible extravagance which are being indulged in by many of the business men of or the country are such as to baue well weil founded and justifiable alarm alardi in the minds of the prudent and farsee mg as to iq what the future of af the country will be bei we live in an age of speculation r and but few are content to maker money in the old fashioned style the thin bie tie prevalent feeling is to make it quickly on the high pressure principle or not noi at all in utah we have been comparatively free from this spirit of gambling and speculation but now atthe thattie th railroad is built mines are being opened and our business is taking a wider vider range opportunities for indulging in this spirit are far more numerous than ever before we sincerely rely hope that our citizens will not allow themselves to be drawn into this style sty ie of doing business better far better for them them to cling to their old fashioned ways even at the risk of being called old oid rogies than to be hurried along by a desire to speculate and make money quickly the permanent residents of this territory have the business of these mountains in their own hands if they only che cho choose to manage s gelt beit it aright in the proper use of their facilities and opportunities they have sure and definite prospects before them for the increase of substantial wealth bukto acquire this they should neither speculate nor noc gamble let others wio WID who co come here do as they may they should 0 control themselves in this respect tha anxiety to get geh rich is the dominant idea iden of oun our geuen geuer generation atlon but if any people can cau control themselves on this point it should bo be those who have settled these valleys valley si in poverty and ge general destitution they came here and when the excitement over the discovery of gold in california convulsed the nations nation j and prompted men to abandon home and friends and incur the most moat fearful risks to obtain gold they were still of aa many n y a ito which th tiley ey had been ic accustomed cus toad J but bub ut they a did I 1 d not get excited they did j ot renounce ren r e iro ounce u n c e stennie sterile a il forbidding utah to go and gather the glittering treasures which their neighboring state spread out so invitingly them they remained here lipke contentedly I 1 Y and have lived long iong longn enough ough to prove to themselves and to those wh who odid did not the temptation as ds they did thic there were other ways of creating ga and of f acquiring wealth besides diggin digging g 9 gold 01 d or speculating in claims T this whis his experience should not be forgotten go t tan at the present ment juncture there wl will I 1 doubtless ee he numerous temptations to speculate in mining claims to gamble iti ih other directions but where one man will make money at this business fifty at leas least twill will lose the risks are too many for any sensible man who has as good opportunities as our citizens generally al ay baleto ba veto take them A man who has his a good farm 0 orchard rehard or garden incurs but little risk in cultivating and attending to that if it he be a man capable of working as asa a mechanic or a laborer he takes no risks in laboring for those who speculate specula le giving them an honest days work for an honest days wages so if he have havea a team one of the bestard besta best and hd safest speculations peculations in which he gan can engage is to get steady work for itald it and himself at well secured good wage wageah s A man who maintains cati calmness hiness finess and self belt possession ja jis in a far better position to make money in in this country under the present circumstances than his neighbor jhb who is carried away by excitement eit cit pr the spirit of ef speculation his judgment is better and if ioa ifa really good opportunity of making a bargain presents ifield before him he has no di difficulty in perceiving and taking advantage of it money will probably be made in mining but money will also be spent id fri mining this iatter latter will go into circulation and the people generally get the benefit of it strict attention to business and economy will if persevered in bring wealth if others choose to gambie gamble gamble gambie and speculate let lot them do so 80 but at it will ili eventually i bring ruin udon urion any people who encourage it this is proved roved in 19 the communities where this prevails merchants are failing falling dall dally daily y and the bankrupt courts are full of business there is a plain cause for tor itus tut where men speculate and make money without earning ibby it by honest end ena endeavor eavor they do not value it properly t it hascoat has ha cost them no toll toil and ati why should they be 16 careful in spending 1 1 lat int it they and their families if they have them enter upon a career of extravagance trava gance gauce that speedily ends in ruin if a man earns a dollar by square honest laborde labo rhe is apt to know it worth and to put it to a right use this community will remain a happy and prosperous bous kous one if they earn their means by well directed legitimate industry and expend it economically and prudently newburyport mass has haa been visited at intervals for the past twelve years and upwards with destructive and mys gerlous conflagrations they were in nearly every instance caused by an ingeniously genious ly constructed infernal machine or fire box 1 and were generally attended by anonymous threatening letters beyond this noling nothing could be traced it was evident that the incense diary must be a nian man well acquainted with the vicinity but no one could even suspect who might be the guilty party about two years ago it was claimed for the first time that the lettera letters were wera in the handwriting of a man named leonard choate yet the belief that he w was as the criminal gained ground slowly he was a man well known and arid it was almost unanimously bonsi consi considered dered thab that he was one ond of the last ihen men rhen in the world who would have hieye been heen I 1 likely kely to have commit committed tech sa so great an 0 outrage it was evident that hee hoe decou could cound id an nob not t bethe bette be the tue gainen gainer of a dollar by any pit fit the fires in fact behas been a loser rather than a 4 galner gainer by them he appears to have been beren 4 a geatal kindhearted yet his jat fat fathers heig helg brothers and nearest friends arh aro ar among the chief sufi erera from these conflagrations when arrested the ohain chain of circumstantial dvid evidence ence was law strong and so conclusive as af to A I guilt that lie he withdrew twe the 11 lt 11 guilty which he had made ail awl all pleaded guilty achurch had been beeh ke ebe anre ware an are he acknowledged that he he wa mas the incendiary and after a trial before the supreme judicial court at salem habas he was convicted and sentenced confinement tol toi in the state prison foi for life every one is puzzled to understand the motive which prompted him to commit these great crimes the question of insanity hab haa been suggested 1 at mt the theory hardly seems beems a denagle i prie pile no one ever suspected the aee ace accused n to tobe be other othen than perfectly rational hud bud aad abd hl his entire entyre walk and conversation have ever been consistent with the hypothesis po poth thesis esis ests of his sanity viewed in all eights Ilg lith ilta the thel case is a ii truly remarkable in all probability no satisfactory explanation can be offered until the convict cd elects to make a full I 1 ant ant free confession IN ix an article headed the time tor for retrenchment trench ment in the american builder the editor says saya that thab the tho time has at last arrived when the life insurance com pom canles are called upon to commence commenced vigorously the work of cutting down their expenses and to io abandon their former dependence on the profits of lapsed policies surrendered agene agencies and an extra class of jives rives ives As things have been going on for fog a year past the business has not been worth what it has cosof cost and howich how touch it has cost he bays says we wp regret to say does doe suot shot not hot always appear in a companas comp anys annual statement he continues 0 our largest companies compan fes are conducted cond cona acted on the mutual plan ostensibly they are managed mana I 1 ged in the interest interests of the insured and an d surplus premiums are jare to be distributed among them annually but bat how easy a matter it is to use a large portion of this surplus in purchasing new business if it a mutual company I 1 1 has bas succeeded in freeing a large portion of its annual receipts from the commissions usually claimed by agents it cert cere certainly belongs to the old member members or and found diminished dividends the new business has cost too tod much peter has been robbed to pay paul anyone who knows anything about the business knows very well that the old compa companies nus nUA paid bro commissions last year and the year before that they never dreamed ot of paying from 1860 to 1865 60 far as the 0 old oid la compan es are concerned the evil of high commissions does not in the least affect tina tins is solvency it is simply a robbery of the old policy holders that Is all and if the old mem members ers era like it why then the public have ia no right to complain but bat then they dont lik ilk like ilke jt it they ale aie are discontented and alid they express their discontent by de demanding demandil mandin 9 a surrender value of their policies they were promised by zealous agenten agents the largest of dividends ana and athey dont get them and so the they t abandon the tild company now there i no pan se nor not reason in this mad Be ramble scramble for bustness business and if it is continued the noble institution of life insurance will come to be looked upon as a system of misrepresentation robbery and wrong MAIL ISAIL irregularity still continue and several times of bf late lite accounts of delay which jayor strongly of wilful neglect have been received from sanpete San pete reese keese K I 1 ft llewellyn esq Es q writes from fountain green a few days since we W believe belleve that we have been beau imposed ni soa sod upon in our oun mail mall arrangements on eez eeg wednesday feb and saturday march ath and saturday march lith 1871 the mali mall carrier of sanpete San pete after i waiting at salt creek six or seven hours ho beyond his schedule time for the arrival of the salt lake city malli mai was informed that there was no mail sack for san sanpete pete ete I 1 am confident thattie that the sack forSan for sanpete pete leaves theoffice the office of salt lake city regularly according to schedule time I 1 do not see any advantage to the contractor tT actor mail driver nir nor even oven th the tho 0 m mail maii ail all I 1 horses to drag our mail matter away down south towards dixie and have to hanl haul it back again we are aware that bad 1 and muddy roads roada are re the cause deause of delay but after waiting until the northern mail coines cornea in to be tod told no mail sack for san pete rete it ibb is very annoying indeed we are thac that some someone one will persuade the miu mail dri drivers on the he route and show them the ad vantage advantage to themselves and teams to deposit iiii our oun mail matter at office at salt creek huab co bv so doing they will accommodate the good earnest people of f iSan pete and discharge their I 1 a duty duvy ti t y j |