| Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS FROM friders DAILY DAMY JAN 2 A mild beginning two mild days for the first in the new year the south wind has bas melted most of the snow enow in the valley 4 the mortality according to the statistics given in the mortuary I 1 report of the sexton for 1873 in to days NEWS the mortally mort mortality allt alit y P of f this city was at the rate of 2155 per cent or 2155 per thousand allowing for the total population of the city statistical 77 we avo learn from mr joseph JE taylor tailor city sexton that the total number of interments inter later ments iu in this city eity cit eil during the year 1873 wras bras was of or these 87 w were eid of persons brought to salt lake city from country places and 35 transients deducting which leaves a resident mortality for the year sear of mortuary sextons Sex tons report for december males 25 females 22 of these adults 27 chi ehi children ren 20 00 causes of death as reported lung disease 9 fevers 9 inflammation oxbow of bowels 5 consumption 4 child bed 2 diphtheria dip theria 2 old age 2 heart disease 2 t thrush brush 1 apoplexy 1 dropsy 1 pleurisy 1 mar asmas 1 croupe 1 1 ulcers 1 1 lead poisoning 1 not reported 2 total interments Inter ments 47 jos E sexton horticultural at a recent meeting of the domestic gardeners club at the residence of mr jos hardman the name of the organization was eban ehan changed ed to the deseret horticultural society fo clety thomas H woodbury was elected vice preEl president dent john reading heading corresponding secretary lind and J xi maxwell treasurer john reading heading J ii maxwell T H woodbury andS and ond S stanford were appointed a committee to draft a constitution and bylaws by laws for the government of the society the next meeting ine eting will take place on tuesday at tho the samo place I 1 I 1 A bad plight mr nin K X S myers was staying atthe at the salt sait last night this morning he be found himself in a pretty fix during tho the tho night some individual of thievish proal proclivities ivi ivl ties h had ad crept into his room the result of which was that he found bini himself gelf geif on waking up minus coat pants and boots ani ana and had to remain in bed until a pair of unmentionables and other articles were brought to him mr myers was on a brief visit to utah having come for the purpose of settling up the affairs of his deceased brt bri brother Aller alier horace W myers late editor of the corinne Be reporter porter on the marry shortly after midnight this morning a man accompanied compa nied by a young woman knocked at the door of bishop hardys residence ward on the bishop coming out to see what was the matter the indru intruder der who was intoxicated said he had come to get married the bishop said he was not in the business and referred the fellow to a justice of the peace the man plead hard with the bishop saying he was a gentile his name was gibson and that he wanted to ret get married to a mormon girl referring to the young woman with him bishop hardy however sent the two away that young girl must surely have lost all self respect to be found in such company and under suc sue such h circumstances cum stances missing JT C bennett a well known journalist and late lato pension agent is missing from his home in ban francisco and his excellent wife is in great distress about him he left salt lako lake la L 0 o two weeks ago intending to stop a few days at truckee 6 and since then there is no account of him mr bennett bonnett has been su frering suffering all summer from liver disease and it is feared that he is dead he has always been a man of abstemious habits strict integrity teg rity and was remarkably attached to his family so that his friends believe some disaster has befallen him script dec 30 he was last heard of at omaha dec 18 says the SI SF CIt oli chronicle ronicle those grand parties on new years yearns eve the members of the pioneer and eagle hook ladder companies had a complimentary ball held in the ward assembly Rooms booms and last evening the vigilance wasatch and alert hose companies enjoyed a similar entertainment on both evenings dancing commenced at seven and ended at one chief engineer mcallister and the committees deserve the thanks of the tho firemen for the tasteful manner mannor in which they decorated the dancing hall ball and wing whig various means of amusement besides dancing were provided consisting of draughts chess and several other games besides besides attractive books pictures etc during the exercises last evening a number of songs comic and sentimental ti were sung and on both evenings those who participated appeared to enjoy themselves hugely A comical interruption while ahe t triai trial lal ial of freeman and wheeler was proceeding in the police court today to day a frowsy drowsy lookin looking fellow entered the courtroom court room and walked unceremoniously to the front of the judge and holding a torn shinplaster in his outstretched hand thus addressed that functionary Shu dge here is von pill an I 1 not coot understood onder stood aether dot vos voa von goot pill or von pad von I 1 gots him vor mein borks vill yoo sho t your name to dot pill odai den he shall go allright albright all ail right policeman ernan ernau you au go into that next neit room till this case is over intruder avat vat ish dat go gb into dot odor odon rooms all right J judge that bill is enough intruder bah ah iah yaw I 1 dink dot vash all right yah he be vash gootel goot exit the circumstance created considerable merriment among the spectators of whom theme there was wag quite a number in the courtroom court room tellow had apparently been drinking pardoned by the Gov governor emor ihas bias already been stated in NEWS that charles mingo colored euan caan who shot and killed killed tone ono kinney kin Rin neya deya a railroad hand ogden a short time since was recently tried in the probate court weber county found guilty murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years on bues tues r tuesday day mingo was brought to ishia city by sheriff william brown and delivered to warden rockwood on a directed to mim thim from judge F D richards Bich rich ards aids on wednesday mingo was set sot at liberty having received a full pardon aon don from frem gov geo lwoods L woods the dardon rardon pardon I ardon sets forth that hon Z snow territorial attorney general had recommended in write writing ng this action of the governor on the ground grund that in his opinion the evidence adduced at the trial of mingo went to show that he killed kinney in seif self defense mingo is the same man who engaged in a lively shooting affair in commercial street of this city some months ago when his antagonist t who is now in the penitentiary received a shot in the side it was shown then that he acted in self defense at that time the other barty party in the affray having been sent to othe the penitentiary for attempting a to take his life Fugi pugilistic listic on wednesday evening john L bums of the recently defunct firm of burns and mcshane of the delmonico made a attack on mr 33 li sloan of the herald the atair affair is supposed to have arisen from some squibb squibs which appeared in that paper and which burns burna thought reflect reflected edon on him wo we do not recollect whether tho the articles in question referred to a map which mr jesse jesso fox asserted had been purloined from him or whether they touched upon a certain abortive land scheme anyhow burnss indignation burned fiercely and lie he made the attack alluded to the result was not serious aa mr sloan held the arms of the its las belligerent e gerent retired eating house keeper the latter was arrested and was to be tried before justice clinton this afternoon but the case has been postponed for a week owing to mr sloan accidentally spraining raining sp his bis ancle yesterday A pair of them this morning george wheeler and garry freeman both of whom were yere only discharged from the chain gang a lay day or two since were on trial for entering a gent lemans lemana room at the palace bath house 18 19 commercial street and stealing a coat and vest the evidence showed that the occupant of the room mentioned awoke about four this morning and saw a man crawling out on oil his hands and knees the occupant raised the alarm a light was brought by the proprietor and the owner of the vest and coat entered the room occupied by freeman and wheeler and found the latter throwing the coat out of the window the test vest was found hang ing up in the saleroom same room both pr prisoners loners made plaintive protestations of innocence which however had no effect on the judge who intimated to them that he thought they were both hard cases he sentenced them to pay a fine of each and in default to work a hundred days in the chain gang W wheeler heeler is the fellow who has just served twenty five days for stealing a clock from Z C M I 1 and freemans freemanb Fre emans last case was for stealing carpenters too tools lk both belong to the sneak department of the thieving persuasion cash patents for the iho benefit of those interested we publish the following SAM balt iare CITY dec 29 1873 the following cash pate patents lits tits have b been received at this tills office and are ready for delivery on surrender of the duplicate receipts viz kb no in favor of abner low row richard low pickett 1027 albert haws 1151 levi allem 1153 geo goo H peterson 1159 thomas abbott 1164 wyman aa M parker 1167 eli D spaulding 1168 geo criddle 1 1173 thomas mith smith 1174 1174 charles bull 1177 I 1 james robertson Bo bertson liso 1180 charles harmon 1181 kichard J taylor 1187 neils C jensen 1197 almon 0 williams 1199 charles 11 stevens 1200 james garr 1201 agnes cutler 1203 jasm works 1204 john C luit luil purcell cell ceil 1212 1112 ia joseph seph fordi ford 1213 war ohr ren S pace 1218 andrew gorren 1226 john W main 1240 chas cox 1241 C harles barles bensson Yens son 1244 riehard bichard C camp 1 1245 lev levi rea rew reed beed i also townsite patents for the 1 town sites of harrisburg no washington Washing ton toD no it J acting register 0 FROM FROU SATUR SATURDAYS daws DArs DAILY damy JAN tan 3 more snow snowing more or less leal today to day snow plow flow the temple block snow plow did good service today to day in running along some of the hide bide walks clearing them of snow convalescing we are pleased to learn that Alderman aiderman isaac groo groomas has so far recovered from the effects of the accident lie he met with on christmas day as to be able to walk about in ills his room resumption we understand that G holliand co have leased the saturn smelting smelling Sm elting works little cottonwood and will commence running them on monday advertisements on postal cards the third assistant postmaster general decides that any number of individuals Individual sor or firms may print their advertisements on a postal card before it is deposited ill in the mails N N Y herald blocked intelligence was received from sandy this tills morning that the cuts on the wasatch and jordan valley railroad were filled with snow and although men were at work clearing the track it was considered extremely doubtful about the train getting up the line today fire alarm the fire alarm bell at the city hall was rung at about h half if J past ast three today to day the roof of 0 a build building in g in the rear of kimball lawrences laurences Lawren ces had taken fire the hose carriage was got out and preparations were made to get out the fire steamer but luckily the flames were soon extinguished before any material damage was none to t the he building useful literature says a new now york paper the best book ever published on foods and diet is that by dr edward smith just out in london it is full of facts about nutrition and the value of various arti artl articles cles cleg of food as flesh producers there are also curious historical tables of the market prices of food in london at dt different epochs dwyer should have that book on sale and let the public know it A sensible party it is the custom in the tho festive or holiday times for the rich to invite the rich to participate in heastings fea stings and general good c cheer een eer and for the poor to invite the poor to share their scanty provi dings how refreshing it would appear for the rich to gather kather in in a quiet unostentatious way the poor and gladden them with something to cheer the inner man and cheer them also with kind and encouraging words we understand that brother brothen ellas elias morris invited a number bumber of the widows me the aged and the poor of the ward to his residence on thursday new years yearns evening the invited assembled there to the number of about thirty and und remained together till nine enjoying the good things provided and had a most pleasant and sociable time together periodicals from awyers book aud and newspaper depot we have received the january numbers of 1 I he be atlantic monthly now published by hurd heu hou 0 the science of health I 1 lagi journal popular science monthly the holiday number of scribners illustrated magazine for girls and boys old and now new the cathe ladies illustrated floral cabinet 11 and Zad kells kelis almanac for all of the above named magazines are full of the choicest reading matter and contain beautiful engravings i and are des designed ned especially espella lly ily for christ christmas ins all the e ladies flo elo floral ml cabinet 31 fela flea a very beautiful magazine full of hints as to the management of the flower garden and engraved designs of garlands and devices of flowers for the ornamentation of home and its surroundings it ia la just the thing to cultivate and reline refine the taste of those for whose benefit it is published in addition to the above we have lave also received floral guide for 1874 1871 a rare work of art and full fuli of splendidly exe executed buted engravings of the beauties of teegarden the garden with full explanatory reading li matter Its it should bould be in the hands of every professional and amateur gardener and floriculturist all the above on sale at awyers news depot east temple st storm A storm of considerable violence blow blew up yesterday afternoon and continued nearly the whole of the night before it broke over the city and while it was gathe gathering r ing in the west there was som something eth ing grand in the appearance of the battle of elements over the lake there appeared to be two almost opposite currents of wind blowing and as they met columns of spray fro from nithe the tho waters of the dead sea of the tho west were were vere thrown high into tha aln air a mong the clouds which came rolling along from south and north norths west on the wings of the wind A biting hailstorm soon commenced and the snow began to fall of which there was about six inches on the ground this morning mo ining A fiely frenchman yesterday afternoon CA Dean chit ehlt a frenchman who appears to be imbued with a large amount of erratic proclivities clivi ties somewhat common dommon to ills his countrymen was tried before justice clinton for being intoxicated and striking and resisting resist ipg an officer when he was arrested he was in ill the act of of preventing a bar tender from putte putting ng a drunken and am abusive man out of a saloon A A couple of officers entered the place and while he was bein belu being secured he struck at them after iio ho was taken to the city hal officer A smith as is regularly done was wag about to search mim him before placing him in the when he struck out at mr smith from froni the shoulder the officer retaliated with a couple of subjugators on the prisoners frontispiece which brought him to beims some people appear to think they have a perfect right to kick strike and abuse ai an a officer and other people sustain them in doing it bu but t this is an |
