Show branch branen and sunday kell keli organ iwed swed character of 0 the people VIRGINIA aug 15 1870 editor deseret news before leaving north carolina we organized a branch at toms creek also a sabbath school that both members and their children might have the benefit of holding meetings and attending to their duties we have held beld very inter esting meetings enjoyed much the associations of the people who have treated us with great kindness and our labors have been performed with much satisfaction elders john C harper and frank fran k haymour raymour from frola payson utah on a mission to the south met us at toms areek with whom we had a very pleasant time vve vvo we held a general meeting and nd the minutes of the organization of the branch and sabbath school were read lve we also gave an account of our labors in that field of labor that they might be able to continue the work bro ere harper accompanied us OB on a visit round where we had labored and assisted in holding meeting 4 being introduced to the people afterwards we accompanied bro harper to virginia leaving bro haymour in north carolina his native state visiting his friends we spent a very vezy pleasant time at colonel harpers bro harper father and preached in patrick franklin and bedford counties to good congregations enjoying much freedom opening ope ning new fields preaching the gospel in places where it had bad not been preached before although some who lived jived there had read some of the works of the church had been very interested in them and had desired we ab should ouid visit and preach to them the prospects are that some will wilt e embrace i m the gospel and gather with the saints where we havo have been traveling has bas been amongst the honest hardworking tillers of the soil both sexes bexes are very industrious Indu Arlou not only wily raising cattle cattie and grain but also spinning weaving aton cotton and woolen cloth bed spreads ac raising the wool and cotton and con converting verling 1 it t in into to vi earing wearing apparel surrounding themselves with the necessities of life by their own labor striving to be lie self reif sustaining and independent th the christian civilization that has baa been spoken of by some of our fellow laborers in the north in their interesting letters to the deseret NEWS wherein they have remarked the absence of families amongst the married folks ia Is not so here when we WO were in north carolina we heard of a farmer who went intha into a store for fifteen hats bats to cover the beads of his fifteen sons the storekeeper throwing in one for the farmer him self on the sale ve we had the thru pleasure of an introduction to an wn old lady a short time since sinco who was in her ninety third year she had been the mother of twenty one children in one place where we held meetings in the private house of an excellent man his wife wire had been the mother of sixteen en children these children are all raised to labor to make themselves useful and learn to take care of themselves brother harper expects to take a company with him in the spring to our mountain home As a general thing those who have heretofore embraced the gospel in these states and emigrated to zion have proved to be very firm in the faith and patient laborers for the kingdom of god and his righteousness let us hope hole that who shall hereafter gat gal prove to be of like native worth we believe that those who embrace the gospel today to day when there is so much prejudice in consequence of the wicked misrepresentation that bye the bye has always existed in some degree against the doctrine of christ are bold th thinking inting men and women who think for themselves and who when satisfied of the correctness of the principles dare to take up the cross of christ notwithstanding it ia Is so unpopular truth cleaves to its own and it is bound in the end to triumph blessed are the they who today to day understand the I 1 light I 1 g ht that h now chineth and are true and faith falth t th ful unto it we have havo had a very pleasant profitable visit tc tazewell county and hope to meet with our friends whose acquaintance we made there ere long iong in our mountain home hoine god blesa our southern friend ft brother winder joins me in kind hind regards to all at home 13 your fellow labo laborer i GEORGE TEASDALE sharp practice in beaver neaver county editor deseret mews yews isee I 1 see bee by an extract from the beaver v er enterprise recently published in the NEWS that the I 1 liberals of beaver county have captured two of the offices of eaid eald county by means of a little sharp practice it seems that the county is lost beyond redemption by reason of that office having been creati ed for all the counties at the recent session of the legislature and the act creating it published in the papers paper q to fo give it effect and force for the th august elections e lust 1 dst ast past bast thinking however thad that the previous election of that official by the county court before it was made a statutory office answered ever every purpose and that the people ha had merely forestalled the legislature no nomination for such position was made on the peoples ticket the liberals lowe howe however very verg thirsting for official positions and spoils never permit such opportunities to el escape cape and though their candidate received scarcely a score of votes as none were cast for any one else he is technically the choice of the people acting under authority of the legislature and their real choice the former incumbent steps down and out a in the case of the postmaster at beaver however the mat matter mattella teria terla is altogether dif dlf different he received one vote id te and probably cast it himself for justice of tho the peace now his friends claim that there w was wab s a vacancy on account i of the absence on a visit to S salu salt alt ait lake of the incumbent justice and that as their candidate received more votes than any one else ehe he is therefore legally elected admitting the vacancy and the majority for the sake eake 1 of argument I 1 deny that there 1 is a legal election basing my opinions on the following misuse disuse in the territorial rit orial statutes cS should a vacancy occur in a county or precinct office to be filled previous to the next general election the county court shall fill such vacancy by point ment 11 1 1 annually on the first monday of august there shall be a general election held in each precinct in the several beveral counties for choosing i all officers not otherwise provided jor fur thus it will be seen that if a vacancy in the office occurred on or after the expiration of thirty days from the time of the incumbents absenting him himself seirs it was clearly in the power of the county court and it et only to fill it the fact of their having failed to do so gives the one liberal voter of beaver co no right to revise their actions or supply their emis omissions slone sionE they still have the power to fill the office and will doubtless doubt doutt less do so at their next regular meeting which occurs i this month but even if the so called vacancy had bad occurred on the very day ot the election I 1 still deny that energetic though solitary liberals power to make mak e the county whole in the matter of its off leiai official corps there are two general elections in every two years and a different set of officials are elected each year for instance the absent justice was elected in august of last year and ald this term expires in august of next year so that the only election general or otherwise involving or in any affecting his tenure will be at the latter date it is therefore plain enough that that the supposedly newly elected justice ia Is not the legal incumbent and that so far as he is con eon concerned verned the office is and remains vacant BEAVER beavin rho the rhe of sooth south western i virginia WYTH wytheville EVILLE va aug 25 1876 editor deseret news for the last two weeks I 1 have ridden on the mountains in many places pathless of south southwestern western va than which none of the App appalachian an range are wilder resting at night in the cabin of some hardy pioneer who though he be may be nearer the cantre centre ot civilization than those who have led the star of empire westward has waged a no lesa heroic war with churlish nature on rocky hillsides hill bill sides that do not laugh with harvests from mere more tickling with a hm hoe I 1 have been ben greatly interested with huchor the country in this portion of the state its geological ca and topographical formation is is in many points very singular traveling in a northeastern north eastern direction from the blue ridge bidge mountain and attempting to keep on top of the Alleg hany bany mountain one is compelled to travel a due east cast course say fifteen miles and then a reverse track for fifteen or twenty miles having only made six or eight miles in a straight direction northeast north east this of course forms alternate valleys number I 1 with water running west numbers water running n east number 8 3 west number 4 east ete etc and although these streams thus interlock and are almost within a stones throw of each other those running west are limestone waters while those running east are free stone many springs break out so precisely on the crest of these moun mountains taing that you can at will with your you r foot turn the stream into the c chesapeake bay or the gulf of mexico these mountains are on the side facing north very fertile and heavily timbered while the opposite side is sterile and almost worthless the lands on the waters flowing westward ar are i e excellent for grazing purposes while those flowing eastward are not generally productive certainly not of the grasses there is an abundant sn s nw w of water worn rocks on the tops of many of these high mountains and it is the opinion of geologists that what is nw the kanawha once found its way out to the atlantic by the present channel of the roan boan oake this would seem an unaccountable freak foi for thin this erratic river were it not patent now on every maly map that it has denied defied all ali laws governing rivers and from it its 9 source in in carolina to its mouth it bas has cut ita iti way across range after aften range of high mountains moUn taint taini until the channel iq 19 clear for it to into luto the ohio on opposite post of this river are now to be seen the strata of solid rock h hundreds I 1 of fe neet feet et high duplicating each other as if the river had bad literally hewn its chanuel channel out this is the same through the district ranges known as ds IN macks lacks walkers peters and sewell mountains all parallel to each other in tazewell Taze weli well county some sonie thirty thirty miles north from wytheville Wyth eville is a wonderfully beautiful and fertile tract of country known as busk buska s garden an oval shaped cove entirely surrounded by very high mountains it is supposed to have been a lake and that its present rich black soil is alluvial deposit it is indeed a garden of surpassing loveliness the whole thirty square miles being a carpet of deepest green and unrivaled even by the bluegrass blue gras grass region of kentucky for grazing Dur poses it was once owned in part by I 1 the late governor john ii floyd IS secretary of war during buchan ans administration and 1 I doubt doub t ff he ever made a greater financial blunder than when he sold it it is now accessible by a turnpike literally eul cut for miles in solid rock and as you look down upon it in any direction large herds of fat cattle are seen on its bosky meads and under its spreading oaks quite as unfortunate was the governors kinsman mr Pres preston tonj who owned that magnificent estate the preston bait salt works and their valuable surroundings and during the late war sold it for confederate notes and is now try trying in to recover it in the courts upon the ta plea that he had bad no guid quid pro quo these salt works are being very successfully operated by stuart palmer nier nil r the tha present owners the former a brother of the cavalry leader gen J EB stuart of confederate erate prate ame the latter from newyork new york the he capacity of these works has b been greatly increased and the product is enormous immense mines of gypsum are tire found and very success successfully funy runy operated on these premises by this same company such Is the extent of their operations opera tinus that the virginia and tennessee B R B R has found it profitable to build a branch road some eight miles in length to this place saltville Salt ville and to run regular tr trains upon it these men too are not so greedy 10 of cf gain as to lose iose sight of the cow comfort of all around them their employees haye have beautiful cottages with adorn ings and conveniences also a hotel and a model church building beautifully finished and furnished all the property of the company compau ty and so eo provided on the principle that it pays pas to have bave high h I 1 gh toned and religious opera tives they employ and phy pay different p preachers rea chers without reference to their denominational bias and also employ and pay a teacher of vocal music for the children of the village while this is not a rare policy in the north and west it Is quite uncommon and noticeable in this latitude and is worthy of much praise ad and of being copied by many similar corporations in the south 0 THE tre OSAGE orande OB andie ANtiE the los angeles express urging the cultivation vat I 1 on of the omae r orange says it is hard haid durable and hud ne never ve i r shrinks anu ana will bear an elegant polish we have known wagon wheels made and ironed when hen the wood was perfectly green and in seasoning they did not shrink enough to loosen the irons it is much harder and equally as springy as white oak or hicker hickory and less susceptible to decay there 1 is 13 3 no tree in the world except the willow easier to raise it grows rapidly from the seed beed and a switch stuck in moist soil will grow as rapidly as ds if it had been transi transplanted lant with roots to it in addition to all this we believe it is as rapid a grower as the australian gum and as well adapted to a dry climate in the southern states it is used largely for hedges but it requires a 4 great deal of labor to keep it trimmed or topped down 0 d o rapid ia is its growth it s should be be planted at lease least ten teli feet reet apart for timber ber purposes a and nd if our fart fari farmers rs would devote each a small str strip of land to the growth of this tp iree tree ree reo tb they ey would soon find it a paying payin 2 investment rockville conn boasts of 0 a girl la in that city ten years or of age who can converse with considerable fluency in flye five different languages but j st sho she wants to marry 3 arya a sen sensible hibe Eibe man a fe sew few w i lears sears ears hence nence she hould should learn how to try palatable slap jacks lacks and patch pantaloons in at least one ono language langu ace norvi Norri norristown stour herail |