Show correspondence 2 i 1 A ic keln graan sann pox OGDEN CITY utah fl n oct 12 1871 1872 91 editor deseret news 5 our heated weather appears to have ended for this season last last nast night and this morning we Wa had a refreshing cooling of rain which has laid the dust and made pedestrian locomotion more comfortable business for a short time past has been improving and business men are more cheerful we have had an excellent fruit season and a market for ail all we could raise ral in fact we could have found ready eale for as much more morens as we have havo exported if we had had it W many are waiting I 1 live tive g for something like remunerative prices for grain but at present it is 19 low jow and as a consequence there has not been i a great deal I 1 thrown on the m market arket vegetables here are abundant and cheap yesterday there was great excite ment in this place caused by the report that a number of caos caes of smallpox had been discovered mostly on n the bench littlejr little cr credence e d was at first given to the rep ort rt but at the same fame time all precaution in the matter mattl r poss possible IbUr was wag taken and hopes were entertained that the report was adt true but I 1 am sorry r to say that it if is too true that the ther loathsome does exist be here bere re and that vint it appears appear sto sio to have g got t a strong hold aud is spreading rapidly in the eastern part of this city the number of chees chres have been variously stated staten st aten Atef but I 1 believe at this present writing there are twenty cases or nearly so the quarantine physician and others are bugy busy attending to those who have been brought down with the contagion and the civil authorities are adopting measures to keep it under control I 1 have not yet heard beard of any case which is likely to prove fatai fatal and sincerely chopo there will not bo any ally to report how the disease first made its ita appearance pe arance among the tho people here bere this thia t time timo is not nott a aa a yet really known rum num rumor rumon has it many way was f but I 1 prefer 10 16 walf waif before I 1 say anything on this point i 1 i SEMPER i |