Show HOTEL VICTORIA venice aug Y 7 1873 E ider angus M cannon my dear friend on arriving in england ayfield my nield field of labor jabor was assigned in a the birmingham conference as you arc probably already aware and at as early pa n date as possible I 1 repaired totham to that town and commenced york work vork endeavoring in my feebie feeble way to become familiar with the condition of or the people and learning how I 1 could kople kopie ho a the means of doing the most good buti buti will give gave you some few items relating to my present little trip upon our arrival in liverpool elders eldera herrick and clark and humble servant arranged 0 for a trip to vienna and in order 0 to do so without inconvenience to our respective conferences it became necessary for us to come early in the season as many of the returning ingeb belders iders expect to leave liverpool early jn in september accordingly on the evening of the ulie ultimo we luft loft london for harwich per steamer zealous arrived at antwerp an twerp on the following morning at 8 remaining there for a short time to see some of the principal places of attraction we came to brussels which ia is a beautiful little city and possesses many attractions in the way of nine fine buildings beautiful arcades walks 1 drives ac but to me cne of the principal objects of interest was the battlefield battle battlo field of waterloo which we approached by the macadamized road built by the emperor ili in 1814 one olic year before the battle I 1 presume it would not have been constructed ted so readily if it could have been understood to what use it would bo be applied in r so 0 o short a time for you will ro member remember it was this road that enabled wellington to I 1 get ct his artillery into position so readily adlis on this road we pass through part of the fine old forest do sognes bognes So ignes gnes but on the immediate ground occupied by the english it lias has all been cut away with this and one other exception the battlefield re r mains about the same and that is the construction of a large mound mould mound on the tho spot where the english contre centre rested sted tin s is ascended by 95 stone steps and enables the visitor to get a very good idea of the positions odthe forces and the advantages advantage and disadvantages to ito be gained by the occupancy of such and such is iqs positions alons I 1 assure you I 1 enjoyed this days drive very much for independent of the history connected with it it is a most beautiful drive leaving brussels we arrived at cologne at pm of the uit and came up the rhine as far as mayence stopping by the way at bonn boblentz coblentz and bingen 0 this is a very interesting parl part pa rt of the tho journey and gives us among other things an idea of what can call be done in tho the way of cu cultivating Iti vatin r mountain sides with grapes ac were it not the fact that they are there and growing it would bo be hard to believe in many places the mountains are so steep that you could not walk up them without going by a circuitous route and then they are so rocky that there does not seem anything in the world for the plant to live upon if soil was conveyed by some means to many of these steep mountain s sides ides how can it be kept p t from washing away but the gra grape is here gro growing lvin ivin g and leaves no doliva doubt as to what can be done you must know knew that everything is utilized the streets are carefully swept by wo women and children and manuro manure of every description is saved we should think it very hard indeed if wo we had to cultivate such land in utah as is cultivated by the people in germany austria and ind italy we should think it very hard indeed in these countries generally the agricultural implements are of a primitive kind and very cheap instead of large teams of four and five fat horses homes being hitched to olic one plow as is 19 the case in england in many ina instances you will see the germans plowing with one cow but tw two 0 gen generally orally arc are used in some places horses or oxen are seldom seen among the farmers but cows are used and this as you can readily see affords the family something to live ii ive lve upon as well as a team for work nothing must be lost here or the tho farm farmer er could not live women do the most the farm labor in the liay hay and harvest fields you will see two or three women working you tt b ono bian hian and using get git the tho shove shovel wheelbarrow and pick ns as well weil I 1 have thought many times how much more profitably profitable the tho labor of some somo of our utah regenerators who are arc harping about tyranny and oppression and have such a longing desire to do something to relieve the poor oppressed women of utah might be employed in the dominions dominion of william or joseph they might perhaps induce the emperor of germany or his mh M highness h of austria to release the poor ioor poor people from hup tup supporting porting so many ciany thousand soldiers young men and boys as aro arc now stationed in every city and almost every village thus obliging women to perform what they would otherwise do this would indeed bo be an act of humanity one of almost universal good can you not suggest something of this kind we could dispense w with th their labor at least for a short time and the financial and political condition of the country would not summer suffer and I 1 am well satisfied the moral and religious would not bo be impaired by their absence most of the country from vienna here is suli sull suffering bring terribly from dinuth 10 U t h especially between hero herci and ind trieste alies t 2 coin is cultivated to quite an extent and thousands of cres acres will wili make nothing not even fodder nain kain would not now save it it is so much dried up the meadows and pastures many of them look like ilke ours in october when whon it is very ver 17 dry now bow I 1 have occupied all 1133 my space and havo have said nothing in relation loft to the great worlds fair you will see enough about this in the papers I 1 will content myself by rany sn saying that it is a very ve very ry grand ranz affair and all that we had anticipated although the weather being so very hot and there be being 1 ng some sickness our stay was ma made de shorter than otherwise this is also the case here the weather is very warm and some c holem cholera hoiem we expect to leave hero here for milan via verona today to day at ten ton it T BURTON burtos HEKER neker CITY wasatch co aug ed editor odor news within a mile and a half west of this place near the bridge over the provo river between heber city and snake creek or midway frank frans carson of ofalia alta aita littie little cottonwood shot a horse bone thief last evening frank tracked him from aita alta over the mountain overtook him his franks horse lion e aud and with a blind bridle and denn dern demanded his horse the thief an irishman pat by name refused called frank the polite name our official friend has so readily at the end of his tongue and with the natural proclivity of his ills countrymen for a tight light attacked him with a fence stake striking him across the legs as he sat on his horse whereupon frank shot thim shim through the right b breast roast and th the tho c irishman still showing i g fight frank struck him with h his is pistol over tile tiie head the horse h ono one thief begged mercy then and fra frank taking his horse nom hom ft om him film let him go came to heber and with a friend returned to look for the thief but could not find him nor has he been found up to this present writing no doubt he will turn up somewhere as ho he said to frank he was not much hurt I 1 here hero is a fine country splendid looking grain probably in this provo valley vailey bushels and large quantities of hay bay heber city is a thriving settlement and und has lias all the facilities for making a fine city plenty of building rock lime me stone and timber and above all has a real go ahead enterprising and live man for a bishop abdai abram hatch ills his example in building building and improvement appears to bo be emulated with zeal by some other go ahead spirits like him seif kelf they are applying the bone and sinew guided by the intellect god has given them to utilize the tho bounties of nature god has provided and are making a real fine place I 1 notice a considerable addition to the tho cooperative store building doubling its previous capacity a neat meet ing house nearly completed a public square in course ot of being fenced with picket fence and surrounded with 1 a I double row of shade trees a neat treat substantial and convenient tithing office and yard and a great many other evidences that there are live men here you editors and other newspaper men when you want to yet rid of the blues baies should tat tal tako take ae a it trip 1 p 0 out ort it by Kimu kimball all ali the e 4 ans to this valley at Kimb alps alFs you would hear tho tilo sportsmen guns and if they were wore successful would witness their pride in displaying their spoils occasionally a few small ducks too young to get out of tho the way now and then a prairie chicken or bago eago lien hen a grouse or a few biad blad blackbirds birds of course if treyarc they are aro unsuccessful the first you see of them all signs of fatigue are banished and ind they look perfectly perfect fy Jn innocent of handling a gun that day by the bye when wilen a fellow pays 1 fora for a bed one night dont you think ho he ought to tp have clean sheets or at least some assum aasum assurance ilce lice that the martof the sheet that comes close under his nose has not covered the pedal extremities of his ills predecessor Vr tor Ton 0 A big serpent inthe in the sac amento melito they havo have a story on tho the yolo side of the river that thata a hugh serpent dwells in tho the Sacra uarl darl isomo isome bed the sea serpent for this occasion is a river r serpent A boy has lias seen lda ida alta it a man has lias looked ipox its ugly head it appears near the bridge and stretches ches chus its body nearly from shore to sh shore ore it Is in order to advise people to go no more into the river to bathe speaking of that brings to light and mind an event of sunday morning last A gentleman who sometimes dips into the macra maera mento liean llean bear the new gas works went to a spot nearly a quarter of or a mile west of there early sunday morning to disport himself in the tile river leaving his clothing on the levees slope he was soon billeting bulleting buti bull ting eting the current and kicking the water to a perfect foam tired at last he straightened up ili in water up to his neck to walk out when suddenly his foot was seized as if by giant jaws horrible thoughts rushed upon his mind somo some sea serpent or monster of the deep had him nast fast ho he struggled in vain for a grip like that of a vise held him liim he yelled lustily cried help belp murder police and in in response to his cry came two young ladies up the levee who where out for a sniff of the early morning air hero here c was trouble troubie afresh he told them the horrible story and begged them for all they held dear to bring help they brought it in the shape of an italian fisherman up the levee whom shoni they summoned then they hid their naces faces and ind und departed the fisherman rescued the bather from the grasp ofa of a forked limb ef of a tree into which be lie had thrust llis his foot in such a position po ution that the more he be struggled tho the firmer he was held As he disturbed the limb the current tended to bear it away au and aud d so ho be tai thought ought it was some monter monster bearing him to destruction the italian didiot tell the story for lie he speak speaks stio no english the victim did not speak of it but it got out and was all the talk at a certain boarding in house this tilis week one of the tho tl ladies ladles les ies resides it is reasonable to suppose then that the jadi ladles e go so far away but what the sequel quei quel of our friends nilsby mishap came crime to their knowledge As for him lie he walks nith with a cane yet from irom the severe strain his ills ankle received sacramento recon record cl catching an eel one of our ofir guests while fish fishing ill lil 9 for flounders got a bite ti tile tilo 1 other day that did her iier good she is of a lethargic nature and when she drew out that e eel L 1 I she cut u up p a series sennes of antics which chic h sent the blood coursing through throng ii her veins and brought a flush to her cheeks checks that made her look positive ly handsome it happened thus A dozen of us ladies and gentlemen were wel welo 0 seeking beeking the plodding founder flounder from the wharf z which forms one of the artificial beauties of gosling cove wo we had bad been moderately successful and had landed a good supply some of which lay on the wharf and some in baskets all of course cours cc be beyond yond an any Y hope in this world the gentle gentie rentie yentle miss aliss eunice got a bite bito and P pulled out aneel an eel he was large and of course lively and vigorous when she ahe saw his hideous form wriggling in the air sli sll she ut uttered tereda a shriek and dropped her fier pole if it fell on the wharf but not so the cc eel eol ho he first contorted into the tile faeo face of a lady fisherman nearly winding round her neck which caused her to shriek and turn deadly pale his then struck the wharf and mistaking it for ills his native clement mo ini mediately started to go am mh ere i this was the signal for tho the ladies ono one and all to drop their poles riet ec sieh up a chorus of i creams clutch their skirts and endeavor to seek a higher level in the confusion one member of the party walked backwards over a basket of nish fish and both upset the former striking against the corpulent mr K M whom we facetiously termed pickwick ho he was standing near ilear tl e edge of the wharf his ills oace face wreathed in smiles and ind heartily enjoying the tho antics antles of both eel and ladies I 1 ne never vershall shail shall forget the peculiar appearance peara pe arance nce uce of the bottoms of his ills boots as ho he went over heels up into the water of course this added to the hullabaloo but 11 was a good swimmer and struck boldly for shoal water in the meantime the eel was having it all liis ills own way unmindful of K ho he squirmed and rid twisted now balancing himself on his head and anon darting arting cl here and there to the consternation of the female fishermen who seemed to bo be riveted to the spot by a strange spell and all determined to protect their lower extremities from assault at last his was secured and the ladies lidies breathed freely but mr pickwick declares that before you catch him going fishing with women again lie ho will ascertain their standing gil gri the eel question cor boston sun dad times 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