Show local and other matters watters klat KIat lom mom milays DAILY MAY 18 lower thermometer eter eten degrees lower today to day than yesterday A contrast it has been no nearly ari arl y nifty fifty degrees hot terin new now york city than in salt lake city today to day Is that why they are getting so ex cited over ali ith ete ate ere while the tile people here ire are as coo cool as a silk raising brother thomas W V winter has established a in the fifth ward for the pu purpose of raising silk worms and producing silk the room is 16 x 18 feet and he has planted out a quantity of mulberry trees he cans caus la the establishment the fifth ward 11 A little mixed things are getting a little mixed the new herald says there is a great insurrection imminent in utah and new now york world says its all bosh by and bye by ewe we shall know all abou about t it if we keep track of the yarns that appear in the yew new L york papers something singular 3 though that we who live where whore ail all thorf trouble is going on ow should know F fa feo a little about corinne accord may mav 16 its an IH wind ac wh while I 1 le this may bot riot be e a very agreeable day for choso whose bushi business esa esp compels them to meet it on the outside we ob observe erve enve ih that at the stores are selling a 6 heavily ine lne increased ceased percentage ef of umbrellas rubber shoes ac thus thiis aping somebody a kindness besides the farmers which W ic latter class will not riot co complain mp lain iain if 1 they at are compelled to td be h housed on sed for a d day y or two on account of boisterous weather why 7 why is il that the mor conall mons as a people are so fio egregiously slandered and belied belled this is a qu question estion which may be easil easily y answered they hire are the people whom the almighty has had selected to work out bis his purposes in tho tha last days hence nothing can be bd too vile for the agents of the adversary on od earth to toady soy and print about them such buch trash as all well disposed people are aware is simply a systematic course of malicious persecution and tiie the vilest kind of falsehood the tho wet has comeslast Come Last aven evening in the wind blew and the tho boist fl w iu in a very unpleasant manner then the rain commenced to all and the snow or sleet followed continuing apparently all night and keeping it up loday lo 16 today igday day A grand thing for the young crops Lit Littel tells telis Ts living age the numbers of ibe the living age for the weeks ending may ath and respectively contain across africa a review of camerons camerona journey on certain relations between plants and insects insect Is the pulpit losing its power the french army in 1877 realism in un beli beil beliel ej dr carpenters mental physiology robert herrick by P F T palgrave A slave hu hunt ri t in borneo mis miss mib mis craik microscopic extravagance the new asceticism together with shorter articles arti artl elea clea and find poetry and instalments bf george mae Mac maedon MacDou Donalds aids alda and william blackb blacks fine line ser serials hils hiis fahed up the scene scena in the third district court room for the pasi past two weeks and upwards upward 83 ba has hat been rather peculiar pecullar and as much much like a miners convention hall as anything else the parties to 10 the great mining suit of kahn vs ahe lithe old oid telegraph company compan N had prepared numerous maps charts diagrams specimens etc ete 3 the latter in particular fill filling ingup up two of the large tables and the former occupying C u an g much of the space thoc ayt of the b bar a r the h e general app appearance was waa somewhat untidy uye tily obviated the necessity 0 of a visit by the tle jury to the mine itself by bringing the mi mine I 1 no to them the book of mormon the thi e new american cyclopedia 21 published by appleton co incorporates what purports to be the a description of mormonism and the mor mons mong mons of considerable length abic which however in many particulars is absolutely untrue the article quotes arona frona row rom the test djory of the three witnesses to fo the book of mormon 11 wherein they testify unto all nations kindreds tongues and people 11 that they saw the plates celita colita containing ining the record of that book which isa is a record of the people of nephi and also aiso of the Lama their brethren re and also of the people of jared who came from the tower of babel that they also knew khow that it IL was brought forth and translated by the power of god that the plates engravings ac 3 were shown them by an angel froehl from lihaven li eaven aven the article articie a ates that the three witnesses oliver cowdery david whitmer and martin harris several years afterwards quarrelled quarrel led gith with amith renounced mormonism sma and avowed the falsity of their testimony this statement ni is totally untrue david divid whitmer is the only one of bf those three bitnes es to the book now living and notwithstanding that he withdrew from the church at an fan early day he has never denied defile dihe the truth of his testimony but on the contrary continues to assert its correctness reet ness nesb A few years nto nao ago we pub lighett the substance of a conversation that took place e at an interview between him and elder moon formerly bishop odthe of the erst baity of this city in the course of which mr whitmer declared the gen uin eness of his testimony concerning the book of mormon his declarations to a correspondent of a paper a year or two ngo ago were also to the same effect oli verl veri cowdery maintained to his latest breath that hl his tes tea testimony ti ony relating to the book of mormon was strictly true showing his big faith in its validity by uniting reuniting re him self with after estran estrangement kement gement from it being a member when ho he departed this thia life it was also well known that martin r harris always asserted that his big testimony was true be he also aiso returning to the church and abd coming to utah a few tew years ago on his arrival he publicly in the tabernacle in this city asserted unqualifiedly as co to thel the correctness of his testimony during his last years he resided with his soul son bon in in smith alerd cache county where he maintained the bamo samo posit position iota until his demise a year or two since the fact that two of the three witnesses witnessed wem were for a ione lone period of years discon disconnected netted with the church and the third remaining in that condition to this day thus being every overy one ia III the full sense of tho phrase disinterested witnesses and yet maintaining unflinchingly the truth truthful fu leh feb character ara eter of their testimony mony MODy regarding the book of mormon serves to greatly strengthen thu the evidence in favoron favor of its being what it purports to be nothing has yet arisen to nullify their testimony m 9 which therefore is in force I 1 in a all ail the thu world FROM SATURDAYS DAILY MAY 19 fire eira extinguishing apparatus walker brothers have received at their establish establishment men t from thelast the east about three hundred feet of linen hose and an improved iron hose cart or reel homogeneous the norwich folks are a homogeneous lot of to sociability given to to turing auld ac and have a kind of reunion re union party every year the gathering for the cur tent season is to come off at fullers hill gardens on june juno ath when they and their friends intend having a good time harpers monthly for june contains contemporary art in germany A dream land city the an ani dro lakes the iungen lungen lay erema or my fathers son SOD the wheeler survey in Neva weva iia lia gibraltar moses climers clymers ely Cly mers merb business birds nests the professors victim popular exposition of some scientific experiments A woman hater garto editors easy chair and Dra lra drawer and literary scientific and historical record bough the waters of the salt lake were violently agitated by the storm of thursday afternoon at lake point a portion portions of the pier was washed out by the heavy surging indof of the waves the to which the tho steamer general garfield was vas moored was torn out and thrown high into the air and the vessel was driven upon the beach and stranded A storm on tb the e salt lake on account of the weight of the water is dangerous to any kind of craft on n it newspaper diree tory and advertisers handbook for 1877 this is a work of about ja dw pages excellently printed on thick tinted paper illustrated and embellished with portraits of leading new york journalists the work con flins 1 A complete list of newspapers and hud other periodicals in the united states and british Ani aul america erica 2 A list of the new newspapers of the united states and territories by counties 3 A list of dally daily newspapers of the united states and those having a j tion of or over 4 A list af weekly newspapers having d a circulation of anu anti upa upwards 5 A list of religious weeklies which admit advertisements 6 A list of agricultural newspapers this directory gives a list of j newspapers and other periodicals i and aud eean bean of BM B M Pettit gill co cb 37 park row bow new york for far a dollar 1 I 1 tho the reason A gentleman handed banded us the fol foi following lawing today to day everyone every ona one seems anxious to know I 1 why the new york merald herald professedly fes sedly the greatest american newspaper and really the most stupendous sensational publication of the times should so persistently en aly seek after publish anz and give unlimited credence to the rumors of a mormon uprising Therea theren the reason sonIs is not apparent but such a course must emanate from the same chimerical cause that prompted them several year since to declare that the wild beasts in gentral central park had e thau that a number of lives ilves were destroyed 3 and that danger impended im over every inhabit in habitant antof of the metropolis on account of the condition of these ferocious animal also that led them to dead describe ribe the gen grant and his ardent supporters of 8 for the subversion of the american republic and the installation of our President ex as emperor and which caus causes esthern them to coulten ance every edery filibustering expedition and childish scheme mr probably had bad his instructions and although he is just as cognizant of the peaceful attitude of the latter day saints as eta any fair minded person he probably understands that his literary head bead depends upon the character of his communications and that an ali unbiased report odthe of the condition of affairs in id utah would cost him his position po the sanitarian for or via kia may ira obtains influence fluence lil Iti of civilization on the duration of life school hygiene sanitation in india A city of health health better than wealth hip joint disease state boards of health management and treatment of the insane naval bureau of medicine and surgery health resorts of europe and africa state medical society transactions etc coming up the truth concer concerning i ning the lying sensational reports reports about the condition of utah Is floating to the surface among the great bulk bulb of the non mor mon on po of this city there is a powerful power rul feeling of indignation against the barefaced bare faced who by their sensational and wickedly untruthful reports are I 1 injuring jurn the business interests of the territory ahir f h ir denunciations of the scurrilous crowd are most luri lurl unqualified fled and unsparing if they only had the mural stamina to come out openly and above board on the subject the rabid ring rink would hear a good many allusions to themselves that thab are by no mean s complimentary so far as the mormons Mor mons are concerned they can stand being be ing lied about probably better than anybody else from the fact that they have become used used to tb that kind hind of treatment they have also been used to seeing their mai and traducers ers rs ultima ultimately shown up in their true colors lii lil in alp their naked deformity and they any doubt that the plesent present instance will be no exception to that most excellent rule truth will keep coming to the surf surface aee dee when lying exaggeration and misrepresentation have expended their forces 4 less than two tears years ago persons 9 animated by the same lying turbulent evinced by the them rabid ari an ti thormon element now created a great row and hubbub relative I 1 to I 1 a few peaceable indians indiana who bad located dupon upon a farm in the norte western part of the torr tort territory iol these indians had resolved to quit their nomadic style of and betake themselves to the industrial pursuit of farm farming ingi and there was wai but a comparative handful of them thein at that afoul A foul slander to the effect that those poor harmi harmless t sa ban band d of peace peaceable abio ablo nid indians hid fans lans were in collusion with the Mor Mormon mons to td destroy and kill bill off the non mormons cormons ons of northern utah wa was a sent b broadcast road cast casl similarly to the present tying lying rumor i 1 relative to a 19 mormon uprising 1 1 governor emery just as he habeda has been now was thrashed into ito uhe the ludicrous ludl ludi erous crous position of demanding troops to subdue this poor halid handful ful of indians the toe troops were forwarded forward ward ed to the spot and the helpless red men at the instance of 4 pick of habitual liars we were to compelled to abandon their crops which were ready for harvesting it is needless to state that the troops returned as athey went without seeing the shadow of p a hostile individual and subsequently the bame same e indians return iR to their farm ai an and d have continued io to peste peate peacefully fullY cultivate the soil soli and sustain themselves upon its arbe pro ducts by their unobtrusive course c I 1 urse giving the he ile to the rumor that wa was vindictively circulated concerning concer nibe them and the Mor mons moBS 11 1 1 the calling for and sending bt troops on that occasion wag was universally viewed as a grand farco farce and ands I 1 the lying character of the u bals a ls who have I 1 1 ent sensation having been belan theil thell aud at many other tim times e spro prove vedie df ii 14 i i indeed remarkable bie ble mall mali men claiming to tb be endowed altha wl tHa moiety of common bense sense sense should themselves to be whipped in k to using an any fluence influence ia official pr ot otherwise berwise to tj have a repetition of sueh such farcical proceedings 1 er truth wil wll assert itself arhim itt e lu iff the present instance as well as in that alluded to above if men m enc will make knake them themselves I 1 appear ridic L ulous swe kwe decant cant it is th mel wel ein eln own lookout look out I 1 ua |