| Show i i W olit H I 1 s i SALT luwe lume CITY yi may 1876 editor iDe newe newy tho the ne necessity casity for and value oi of work is a subject well known among the tho people who have made utah what it Is i today to day sydney smith says let every man be occupied and occupied in tine uuie highest employment of which nis als Is nature is capable and die with the consciousness that he has done his best 11 the influence of con constant stant and useful employment upon the moral and physical development of or all classes blasses of people is too well known to need much attention here what 1 I 1 particularly would like to anen auen tion in connection with this tills sub jeet leet la Is how far this may be applicable to the people in this city by way tway of illustration it is admitted that work suited to a mans ability gives him deftness and increased skill in his special calling idleness on the other hand isaho curse af man mail it destroys everything noble and desirable in men us in in nations and consume consumer a thern them as rust does iron the causes of idleness are many and although it ia Is onnen said of a man being idle that it is a sign that he does dobs not want to work it is however not always the 1 cind from erom the fact that here ihas ihns has been and still is a r great amount of idleness among all classes of people a que gue question silon would naturally suggest itself to the thoughtful as to whether anything cou coul cout I 1 I 1 not be done to meet the general want by supplying willing hanis with with suitable a and nd useful la bor to answer this query as b its importance would naturally de mand would be Ini impossible possible in thi limiti fed eed space I 1 wili will be contented by maki makl uc er a few hints which may call cail it forth some more extensive A and cl practical remarks upon the subject from some one more conversant with the possible resources whence this general wan want t may W b supplied for the benefit of all in other cities it is sometimes custo maryin maryln the respective trades rind and different classes of the people to have committees ml ampol appointed anted for tor the purpose of finding suitable employ for those members of such society as may chance to ba idle ide and thereby more than allan one peirson person may bobene bp fItted how far sueh such a plan pian could be adopted to advantage in our city I 1 would not venture to say but that something could be done for the benefit of those who aie ate able and willing to work but cannot obtain it 4 s beyond all doubt it is not always the tho cleverest workman who can car readiest obtain employment PI oy merit as asahl this ig A a qu quality allty and 91 gift rt of itself and aad isi modified to some extent by the social standing ac of sueh such person or persons it is also of consequence how a man is employed we wa might take a man aman used to farming all jall his ilfe life and put him in an office as ha book blo bla 11 keeper and another used to the latter business and put him to the plow and command both to make their living and the consequence would be loss and inconvenience to both emI oye oyo and employer emp loye loyet there is another point in connection tl with this matter worth notice many a faithful faith falth ful fui being daiv driven to an extreme by sheer necessity in order te to get work has had to submit to any amount Q of f abuse an account of his faith an and d perhaps forced to i neglect leathis lec this his sacred d duty y by being d drivel lunty runts r ivi to his bis enemies eney oney for empl empi employment ay biest blest blost W wora wort brkl I 1 it if ever wrt wert went I 1 curie curle curse curso of goy aliat a f must his blessing bel 1 1 l TABoR mius leral persecution persecute Perse cut lon ton BEAVER may slay 1876 editor be deseret seret newa aw A most malign malignant ini int case of legal persecution s basua has just developed itself in the case of the people vs samuel porter porters a young man of sterling worthland wort worth hand land highly respected by all honorable citizens your readers fe aden j are already aware of his in di charged as being accessory ier to the killing of john P mn ter now wb what at was iho the gist of the evidence ellett elicited ex why sir air 1 ithe the prosecution did prove that mr porter was a special policeman They vhey also aiso p proved roved that at the tim time e of the killing he was nob not on duty they further proved by mr 0 NV allred that he be allred was a po rl iceman leeman andas and as such sueh wason was vas on duty Aw B beaver Teaver city they proved farther further that mr porter had learned that a difficulty existed between joseph hunt and john 11 hunter and that there was waa going to be a h I 1 11 I 1 of a row and that the defendant bafit porter so Bo informed the policeman on duty and said policeman ol iceman believed he told him he be iad tad had better go and stop it this I 1 understand to be the burden of the evidence in the case for which this highly respectable spec table young man has bad to 11 lie lle in prison for months a portion of the time with his arcles galled and swollen leih lelh from the pressure of heavy chains judge boreman of course ordered a verdict of not guilty as soon as the facts w were vere ere legally before him the only Infer inference ende I 1 can draw from the circumstances is that porter was indicted to prevent him from being a witness for hunt charged hunten with the murder of hunter if the grand jury had no more evidence than was elicited in court against porter portor they are all highly censurable and in equity liable for fir false imprisonment and damages e S the injustice does not end wi with th mr porter but both the people and mr hunt were liable to loso loge ae the evidence of one ajio w ho wan was to a extent posted osted in facts of the case T the tho io people were hurried and but for the promptness prompt neis nels of the court hunt would have been denied the benefit of his evidence also another great injustice done mr porter is that h his bis s 10 long iong ng confinement and attorneys attorney ys deesh fees have a e just about used up what means meana h he could accumulate in years of Indus tilous toil toll the fact that he is a mormon explains all EB sai sal eri erl beeh belh abla anla win ton ns etc tom TOMS surry burry co 1 N C may 9 1 editor deseret mews having often heard of the moravian town of salem balem we conceived the desire to visit it A short time tims since we had our desire gratified one lovely morning when the ad vent of spring was beginning to clothe the trees with foliage we started in company with squire hill to visit venerable town on our way we pissed through Se bethania thania an old fashioned town with a good substantial br brlek brick lek ick church that was wag built to in I 1 th this town is familiarly amUi arly ariy galled called hauser pronounced hooser town so called from five brothers of the name of hauser who first settled there and who have the credit of building the first house in tho settlement they were ns and aud came from germany their posterity ar seems to be pretty well represented e n d there being several large families of that name scattered through this country besides several families who live in other parts who are supposed tog their descendants ants we also passed through Bath abaria or old tow n A he here re on 04 an old stone slab was the inscription sc p t ddn wachovia settlement began of nov 1753 11 A good well built moravian church bearing date 1758 is the principal feature these towns are quiet venerable places first inhabited by the ns or U united brethren and no doubt have a very interesting hister history y in the records record air the past we arrived at winston the town adjoining salem thep the two towns being heing only separated sepe rated by a street t or rond toad running east and west winston sto n being on tha north side and salem on the south bouth winston seemed te be the liveliest aud and tak tabing taking the lead in irk a business point of view lew it leing the county seat peat of forsythe j when the ns wem so persecuted se in lq Gerni germany liny lany they thy were offered an asylum by george the third kingoff ring king af pf england who gave them a grant orone of one hundred thousand acres of land lind in north carolina lina lins salem is the chief town amongst the settlements founded by the moravian settlers when cor cornwallis s surrendered i ur rendle i red to the continental tin thia this grant was bon conceded ceded to the Moravia ns winston Win stol has the advantages of the court house lin adia arid dethree three large tobacco warehouses reho uses bes besides des being the thie depot for the railroad two good hotels several good stores run by live t m men i en and two newspapers published there tend to make mahe miro mor lively than at the fr d kte ily town tow n of salem odour adour on our arri arrival viii we visited the editor of the paper who when he be heard our desire to preach in the court house gave game us all the information by which we could obtain it and then when be ascertain ascertained ed we were going to preach advertised it in his paper we held two very good me meetings elings at the courthouse court house in the day ti time me we did the towns visiting browns browna tobacco warehouse a building erected for the sale of tobacco by auction the building was about isoby 50 feet having fourteen skylights and ten doors for unloading it is a frame building the roof overhanging so 80 as to form a shed for the te teams ams to drive under and uni ual unload 0 ad ln inthe shelter here the planters bring their tobacco put up in bundles or hand twelve leaves ib in a hand chand 11 1 1 these are received by negro hands on tobacco trucks which when full are run on the t cales scales in front of the office which is about the cen central treL of the thy warehouse and then stacked slacked up iu heaps accor according ding dinK to grade and quality ready to be sold bold when it is bought by those living at a distance it is pressed into hogsheads hog by a tobacco press in in one corner of the warehouse und is ready for transportation in salem we visited tile the mora vian burial ground vie vip we app approached roach it through a magnificent avenue of cedar trees there was a car carriage rime drive up the centre with a we weli well I 1 kept grass plat on either side the thi these thise se cedars are said to be over one ono hundred years old and certainly make a majestic avenue on the front side of the burial ground is a wall and picket fence with pillars of brick surmounted with an urn we enter by a gate over the entrance is an inscription blessed are the dead that die in the lord the ground is laid out in squares the graves also regularly side aide by side having a small stone sone tablet with simply the nam name e of the departed their birth and death these graves are covered with W weli well e kept p t grass plats ta in tho the centre of t the 6 ground where four paths meet are ate tour of the finest cedar trees we have ever seen they tower u up p above them all As wa we leave the ground wo we read another inscription 1 I am the resurrection and land the ilfe life 7 V ailsy the posterity of these exiled dead receive tile the ful ness of the everlasting gospel that they may be represented in the kingdom of god we then visited the salem female academy that was founded in 1894 and ana is believed to be the oldest c misting existing boarding school for young ladies in the southern states there are about two hundred and twenty pupils the academy e is a fine four story brick building over the entrance is a massive portico supported by six pillars a flight of stone steps leading to the front doors it is a noble building in bro bio john K R winder jr had visited the President who very courteously showed him over oven the establishment and the moravian church pre presenting renting him with a catalogue of the officers teachers and scholars of the academy during the scholastic year from august 1874 to may 1875 it appears to be a most excellently conducted lish ment bro hill introduced us to the proprietor of the cotton and woolen factory who received us very kindly we had a very pleasant conversation in his aad thence then he showed us over his factory employing steadily some sixty bande hands we saw the varied industries fb far taking the raw cotton and wool wooi and c converting on them into cotton yarn I 1 domestic and cloth going through U ive lve 1 the various departments from the first to the last including abeen he engine room we also visited the salem agricultural works in the foundry here where all kinds of cast ings were cast we saw the fiery liquid metal poured into the moulds they casting hudgeons gudgeons gud geons whilst we were there we then went to the machine shop fitting room carpenters shop and finishing room I 1 the proprietor kindly showing us over aind and explaining the different the steam power he used ac in salem stanus stands a large old eld fashioned hotel capable of for many vis visitors iton itom con taming taking that had bad been occupied by gen washington who stayed liere here whilst on his way to vla vba visit gov 11 martin in 1790 and where a miss mim dorothea meyer af forwards ards mrs acx isaac boner played a piano toy td enter iain lain his excellency altogether i we wei had bad a pleasant pleM ant visit and hild had the batia satir satisfaction faction of bf preach preaching I 1 ng the gospel Wea we are aro rewell well weil enjoying the lovely change from winter to mpr spring I 1 ng thankful to tur cur ur heavenly fattler father for the privilege bof lof of obtaining the experience of preaching reaching the tho gospel of his dear son your brethren TEASDALE bolix R WINDER JK JR the cen centennial tennial philadelphia may 17 1876 editor deseret I 1 have been for four days walking th through rough the immense buildings la in fairmount park trying to comprehend the sho wand waud wand I 1 have come to the conclusion that ib it is a big bewildering thing a vulgar thing in one sense for the principal shop men of the world have come here to advertise their wares I 1 and this advertising is the pronounced feature of the thu exhibition scandinavia advertises her tier iron and furs ki allia aiila her wine and silks cat cathay her vases and philadelphia her el drugs if there is any one who 0 does not noi believe that there is iselo lo 10 quent poetry science and art in ad ver he be will be convinced at every turn here but strip it of these and it is HO ko longer the eloquence of industry the poetry of com commerce merice science and art happy in international fraternization the he enthusiasm of generous competition is really a scramble fort for the almighty dollar and 1876 the climax of bf the sordid age this is a superficial view and perhaps a view slightly beneath the surface buts but let UM un go to the tile core sublimity has ap t hs as well as heights and here beneath the sordid motive that inspires the individual and the mass the man and the manager know the restless turmoil of cubtil ft occult forces contending incessantly for that which is most useful in labor truest in art sincerest in man the tho exposition so far has bas not been successful in a pecuniary sel sense nse the entertainment is ready tat ac least partially so the music of fides fires and cymbals may be heard in the main building and in the temples of that have sprung up like toadstools toad stools in and around the exposition grounds but the guests do not come to the feast centennial hotels built for this occasion each with accommodations for not less than 1000 guests are not one third full but few comparatively come either to the hotels or to the exposition philadelphia cannot beauch be much anore more crowded at this time than new now york or baltimore the reasons are plain while the whole country and indeed |
