Show local alid other matters FROM wednesdays DAILY JAN JAK 6 sharp last night is considered the sharpest of the season EO far bom borni to the wife of mr duncan 11 mcallister dec 31 1874 a son st george we learn by special dispatch from st george dated today that beautiful weather prevails there fifteen hundred and twenty three tons of temple rock had been hauled during december most of which has already been placed laced in the walls the health of presidents presidents brigham young and geo A smith is good cold nearly everybody has been complaining of cold last night and today to day yet the weather is J S comparatively ively mild hereabout to what it is east of us the wires bring the intelligence from omaha that the thermometer is two below zero at that point and then it almost makes one shiver to think of it twenty eight de degrees rees below zero at cheyenne yesterday it was ten below at helena montana bion blon tanh tana so it appears to be closing in and around on us and it may reach here soon insanity yesterday an insane man named young was brought from provo by deputy turner and officer joseph hyde for the purpose or of placing him in the asylum it being considered dangerous to allow him to be at large as some of the tite outbursts of his malad malady yaro yare aro are rather violent it appears that his condition is improving however and he has been i placed in the city jail for a few days to eee see if he will recover sufficiently to render his going to the insane asylum unnecessary excursion from provo at two this afternoon an excursion party from provo consisting of people eople of all ages arrived at the depot depot having come for the purpose of seeing salt lake city quite a number of them old and young never nelven having traveled on a railroad before the ther party purpose remaining till friday and we trust they will return with the impression that they have spent a pleasant time in the chief city of utah the unfailing Resul result tWe 4 have had innumerable occasions to notice the invariably bad ending of all who have ralo raio raised rained ed their voices used their influence and exerted their power against the latter battec da day y saints and if the present incumbent of the white eliou house so is not drifting in a fair way to be no exception to the rule we aye do not read aright the signs on the political horizon which point to an ominously i dark future it is merely a matter of time and frequently but a short time A squabble this morning inon lIng dr bredemeyer was before justice to anscer to a charger preferred dy emma mahon of whom the doctor docton rents lenth an office the evid ovid ence showed that the land landlady lallY wanted the accused to leave the premises andy and not doing so as quickly as she thought he be ought to sho she locked him out this made him call her some bad names she retaliating by wagging her finger in his face and lie he pushing the men acing finger aside the whole thing being but a petty squabble the tho case was dismissed the doctor paying costs questions and suggestions we occasionally we might say frequent lynear of cases case of robbery which are taken in hand and worked up by parties claiming to be private detectives tec tives and the manner in which such cases generally and we might truthfully say almost invariably terminate is ia suggestive of a new rew pungent ideas the way way was such ada ama affairs ins irs are generally a arranged is for th the e private detective to recover the property and return it or a portion thereof to the p party arty robbed the actual thief eleven times out of a dozen going ascot scot free showing very plainly that the bringing of a culprit before a bar of justice is not made even a minor object in the detection and in view of this and other reasons it cannot be safely concluded that private detectives tec tee tives who do not derive any authority directly or indirectly from the community are of any benefit in the detection and punishment of crime the tendency being the other way to find and return the stolen pro property perty or a PO portion artion thereof to t the rightful owner for a consideration to discover and recover stolen property may seem very clever and smart on the surface but that all depends upon the we means of discovery and recovery for there are ways that might render it the easiest m matter atter imaginable here comes in a question as aa to whether it is ia at all probable that a party discovering the property stolen can 10 do lo so without in the natural course of things also ascertaining who the thief is the person who reasons underneath the surface will say not very likely if both discoveries must in the usual course of things be almost simultaneous why i not the culprit produced as well as the property it does not appear very clear either elther that parties who have been robbed and who block the wheels of justice in preventing the detection and punishment of crime by making agreements with private vate parties for th the 0 recovery of their property without any view to the capture of the criminal can be rightfully rights ully considered the friends of f the public but rather criminisi cri crl minis it is the duty of every rood good citizen chizen to lend his aid and influence in keeping down crime of every kind and this end it appears can only be sub served by the detection of the vultures who prey upon their fellows ana anu by their punishment for their misdeed misdeeds any persons whose influence does dees not tend in that way whether they be private detectives or otherwise are no benefit to any community and should not be encouraged city council the regular meeting of the city council was held last night mayor wells presiding when the following among other matters of business was attended to petitions of geo W crocheron and B petit for a reduction of ground rent for their market stands were referred to committee on markets petition of B salisbury askin asking that W jennings be not giantel granted the privilege of making a railroad trac trae track on the sidewalk opposite pe titio ners residence was referred to committee on streets and alleys petition of A H raleigh rale raie igli asking the privilege of putting a moveable moveably move able ga gate te in the canal on eighth west street at the intersection of third north street for irrigating purposes referred to city petition of dr higgins davig davis fo for nor r a free medical license was referred to committee on lii lit license petition of J moore and others referring to sundry nuisances in the central part of the city and asking for their abatement was referred to the city marshal with instructions to remove the evil complained of at the tho expense of the owners of the property where it exists city sextons sex tons report for 1574 previously published in the NEWS was filed the treasurers treasur ers report re port for the year ending nov 1874 was reported correct by the finance committee and placed on file chief or of police burt presented his report of the number of aire S dying the various kinds of crime for the year 1874 as published in the NEWS the other day placed on file the city marshal and chief of fire department presented his bill of expenses for december 1874 I 1 referred to claims committee alderman report fordac for dec 1874 showing that ninety seven cases had bad been tried had been assessed and collected in ca cash sh fines and in labor fines was presented and placed on file A bill for 27 was presented by the committee on I 1 improvements as having been expended in improving g the bath house and insane asylum yiu m referred to claims committee and the bill of expenses of the superintendent of the insane asylum for dec 1874 was similarly referred referred chief engineer of fire department john D T mcallister presented his annual report for 1874 1974 and tendered his resignation of the position referred to committee on fire depart Depatt department ment FROM thursdays DAILY JAN 7 the beautiful the snowstorm snow storm which has been covering the mountains and threatening ti tho the valley all day began to fall on the city this afternoon but lastel only a few minutes ovard not war the notice of the death of a young woman at american fork Dec dee dekelber december elber 1874 in the NEWS a mistake was wa s made in the surname the deceased ceas ed was not named n a med betsy ward but betsy ovard jn in communications for the press all names namis should be written with studied legibility A bummer this morning james B oneal was defore justice on a charge of imposing on restaurant keepers by obtaining meals under false pretences pretenses and refusing to pay for them the charge was clearly proved and he was fined 10 besides an additional fine of 5 for drunkenness A threatening case some sometime time ago some excitement was caused by auguste cagann being shot in his cigar store east temple street by nelson bonkofsky Bou kofsky jamann has so far recovered as to be able to be around again and now ho comes forward and makes complaint against bonkofsky Bou kofsky again this time for alleged threatening to take his lifo iloe since the shooting affair took place the case was to be heard before justice CrIS crismon moni MODi at the court houte house today to day wiggins wiggins was around on the principal business streets today looking as innocent and unconcerned as though his name wiggins ile he shook several of his acquaintances heartily by the hand band and inquired affectionately after their health and all this in broad daylight we may as well state however that this thia was not the same wiggins that the deputy U S marshals are anxious to interview ter view there being several wig bluses in in town but brut the veritable eagerly sought for wiggins wigging is still non cst est A muss it flanders was arrested and will have a hearing bearing in the police court this afternoon on a charge of assaulting a woman it appears that the complaining wi witness tries tiles 9 w with t h her children rents one room and a portion of another room in a house occupied by himself and family and not being aware that he had any right to be in the room jointly occupied by the two fa families he essayed to put the complaining witness and her children out this led to a squabble in the course gf ef which he be was only prevented from maltreating mal treating the woman by the timely interference of his wife the nose Nos eMr nir air C W Stay nerys ners lecture on the nose at the ward assembly rooms booms brought out quite gulte a respectable audience who listened with amu amused S ed attention to his remarks on that eminently conspicuous topic the diagrams of the various forms of this leading feature designed deigned by mr 0 al ottinger were a source of much amusement mr nir stayner has a good voice and was repeatedly applauded the characters delineated at the close of the lecture were those of mr joseph morris mr geo go goddard master john snell bnell all of this city and mr daniel graves glaves of provo we understand that this lecture will shortly be repeated in the ward assembly rooms booms small potatoes there was a small civil case before justice today to day in which the evidence sael shelled led strongly of an attempt OP the part of the defendant to swindle the plaintiff who was a servant girl suing her late employer for wages duea due to the amount of 28 th the defendant claimed that the boot was on the other foot the girl being according to bis his statement due him over 30 instead of him being due her 28 a and nd produced his books as evidence eviden e the justice examined the books which showed according to the statement but the official also noticed that the accounts bore strong evidence of having been tampered with the figures showing two hands writing and two kin kinds ds of ink A fact that strengthened this suspicion raising it to nearly a certainty was that when the servant girl left the defendants employ she got his bookkeeper to make ill lii the entries of debit and credit during her term of service on her own books which tallied exactly with the entries in the proprietors proprietor books that were in the book keep ke pl ers handwriting the entries in the strange hand making the discrepancy the justice wisely said that the best beat way of settling the matter was to send for the bookkeeper book keeper but the employer thought he had nad better settle by paying the bill which he did the political revolution the great political revolution revolute n that is agitating the country powerfully in every state of the union brings out many pusillanimous phases of character the powerful influence at work against the administration on en account of the ruin it has brought upon the country has caused tens ten 4 of thousands of its former supporters to be honestly its opponent sand hand to believe that any change would be better tham than the predominance of the present centralizing corrupt state of things political when the most rabid red hot republicans and supporters of the administration atra stra desert their old position however and claim that they have a always been democrats that they never were anything else the inference is that such are a parcel of miserable slinks who have no set get principles but always incline to whichever side they think to be the strongest for the time being there is not a few of that class among the crusading ring in this city and territory who are just of that kind of breed and although the most rabid of I 1 mormon eat eairs m now if they thought they could make any capital or gain any advantage by it they would pretend to be the friends of the I 1 mormons cormons Mor gAlor mons tomorrow to morrow at present however every body who does not join in with them in their efforts at inaugurating vi religious persecution but quietly pursues his own business are abused vilified and slandered by them about as much as the mormons cormons Mor IMor mons themselves it is surprising that quite a number or of that class should have made the late discovery that they are democrats that they never were republicans and never were supporters of the present administration and these are the persons ma many ny of them who in loud mouthed sp outings supported and rati ratified nned fled the reelection election re of grant and abused the mormons cormons Mor mons in the same breath some idea of the political revolution that is going on may be formed from the statements of af governor parker of new jersey who said lately at a reception by the manhattan club to governor tilden of new york that nine years previous to the na night ht on which no he spoke there was tu but ton von one e democratic governor in the united unite states that was himself then governor of new jersey and in 1863 and 1864 1881 governor seymour and himself were the only two democratic governors in the united states gut dut now there was a majority of governors in the united states the present number being twenty one the brit british ish M mission 1 ss 1 on tb the f following lowin gare are from we tue millennial star of dec 15 appointments by letter erom from prest C G larsen dated C copenhagen dec 7 1874 we learn that the elders recently landed from utah arrived at copenhagen on the ull uil and each was appointed to labor as follows viz elder N 0 flygare to preside over the stockholm conference elder eider andrew B R anderson to labor in the aarhuus ar huus conference elder C J gustavson to labor in the gote borg conference soren peterson and hogen hansen to labor in the conference and soren boren C hansen and J AT larsen barsen to labor in copenhagen conference under the direction of the respective conference presidents there are now three and in some instances ce s four elders from utah in each of the conferences of the scandinavian mission information WANTED mrs hannah bingley of brampton england wishes to know the whereabouts of mary luary ann marsden who when |