Show correspondence tremendous fall of rock koch narrow escape eroin from death LOGAN jan 19 1878 editors aws on th thursday u esda jan 17 1878 1678 abou about t noon while the hand hande engaged at the tern temple tempie pie stone quarry were at dinner a huge mass of rock feet long 52 feet high and 6 feet thick weighing 1969 tons tona brolie brolle loose from the quarry and slid down a short distance 20 or 30 feet into the hollow beneath tearing up a tramway built for the purpose of carrying rock a sho short rt distance down the bafton to the loading place six men and teams were present at the time one of whom john A woolf of hyde park narrowly escaped being only a few feet out of reach of the rock his bis horses horbes taking fright at the terrible noise cee cel occasioned asio ned nod by the breaking rushed up the side of the mountain bro woolf caught hold hoid of the back end of the wagon and was thus dragged out of the way his wagon sustaining ustain ing log the only damage by having one spoke broken the gang men 14 in number previous re to going to dinner had bad s shot phot off two blasts and after setting fire to them took shelter under the ledge in question which had been undermined about five or six feet all along the face of the rock af after ter which they went to dinner during which the above affair took place thus escaping certain death there are at present 80 men and 30 teams engaged upon the work 0 of f the logan temple and hands re increasing weekly many have been waiting a fall of snow enow to haul rock and other materials with hiede bu but t waiting in for the fulhage ful have begun the work of hauling with wagons yours respectfully J A LEISHMAN social tims time at Farmin farmington egon aton farmington jany 21 1878 ed editors igors deseret bewz one of the most enjoyable and whole affairs that this genial town ever witnessed took place on saturday last it was waa gotten up by sisters bisters lizzy coombs maggie haight aud and helen miller as com coco mitt tee for the purpose of giving a feast and a hop to all ail the aged aud stay at home folks in the ward the provender consisting of every choice and substantial viand the country affords was provided in great abundance at 1 p in eighty persons average age 58 pat down to eat and the consumption of provisions continued until persons had feasted after the eating a social time was waa enjoyed and mirth joke sand dancing prevailed making the whole thing one ode of the most stupendous comfortable and commendable affairs ever enjoyed in the town it will bear repetition about once a month mouth A STAYNER STAyN nR those investigations A department with n geh which the average voter IN Is little cumbrous Cum eum broun bronn concerns as useless ai the Geor georgeona geons galley lu in which admiral cleopatra navie Mavle alea aled the rilie anore noro noye more money paid the officers than to nil the bien men eto etc etc washington jan 15 1877 editors deseret congress hap bas through the passage of the grover resolutions for general investigation undertaken a gigantic work and if it can be carried through in a proper spirit it will result in great improvement pro in the military naval and civil services that their efforts will be seconded by the president and a majority of the cabinet is conceded and alte gether guther the outlook is hopeful for cleansing the metaphorical ship of some of the scaliest iest barnacled barnacles barn acles and most destructive truc tive that ever interfered with safe navigation the branch of the public with witia which the average voter least acquainted is that of the navy its operations are off the tetra terra with which we are familiar and a mare incognita navigation naval warfare and defence are subjects of which the average american citizen knows not nothing hing bing hence it is easy for those who love jove the navy better than their country 4 powerful class has been educated to love iove their navy more and country less to impose upon the representatives odthe of the people and make believe that our ofir ponderous extravagant and practically useless naval e establishment Is just as it should be naval officers have less byr syr sympathy apathy with our form of government and all that is peculiar to our land and than any other class of citizens this is i no reproach to them as cosmopolitan gent gentlemen lemeD lemen and traveled scholars for foi they have had rare rate opportunities for observation and comparison but they love the navy it is their home aud and CO country and the stars and stripes that float at tho the mast head areto are to them not typical of a federation 4 of states striving in pain rul Tul ul doubtful throes toward a purer civilization a wiser juster polity but of an atma alma mater they call her uncle sam ham JI I 1 that educated and them and made them therne an au oliga oligarchy reby of elegant pensioned gentlemen lu in all that characterizes an nevot accomplished man inan of the tho world theu the naval officer is far superior to hi hh 3 cousin in the army the army of officer fleer unless he has huff buff sufficient lelent influence to remain in some garrison east ia Is sent to our frontier where he is smoothed by attrition with the gentle savage and surrounded with opportunities for becoming refined and polished equal to these those of a dutch skipper on a whale fishing but the naval officer commences his public service wi wl h a pleasure cruise first to europe and then to asia while at every port he is i received with davai naval honors and frequently feted and feasted by royalty unless he is made of superior stuff he will contract an ed idea of his bis hi own and look upon lits hia plain democratic father fatherland landas as an appendage of the united slates navy havy no doubt the gilt edge url uri ers have fought and wiil wid for their country but nut no better than the th enlisted man who swings his h hm hani ani mock in the hil hll hold held and spends ils lis of 11 per month in ite ita jho brothels othela br of iilo iiii the first port he lie reaches how have we such poetic exaggerated estimation rf if the common vitue virtue of fiali fighting ting for our horm horn ts t s or lairs an inherited from our in the thio animal forms but our war is not on the naval officer ippie eo so much as with the expensive establishment with which he is identified which he has in a peculiar manner mauner built up and which le h he be almost aimor alone ih is defending in its wanton waist ful rul extravagance trava gance ganee before the war we had no naval officer of higher rank than commodore a grade that corresponds with that of brigadier in the army but now we are paying pay ing admiral da rai rat vice admiral and 11 rea rear r admirals great changes change a have been brought about chiefly through the influence of admiral porter at the close of the war he and farragut wele as conspicuous on the sea as were grant and sherman bherman on land but the astute and wily porter outwitted the plain and simple simpie fara gut got him out of bo the way by sending him on a gilded mission to europe then he sat bat awn and with the gigantic establishment ol 01 great britain for a model he be reorganized our navy and made it the cumbrous puss in boots it Is very imposing in ili fil officers cers cill official cial elal titles bureaus and anti pay roll but taut for al ali all I 1 pu purposes reposes of at tack or d defense defence efe n ley wey lel l el as maybe may be gath gathered ered eted rom from his own sworn statement before the naval navai committee of congress two years ago as useless as the gorge gorgeous aur aus galley in which admiral chaput a navigated tho the nile 1 if is nee s sary only to look at the figures for proof tf the expensive top heaviness of the navy were ere required to pay nay the ald aud cn c n listed men for I 1 lie he present ri resent at yar ai of this sum are ue paid to enlik enlisted ted men common sail sall sailor and over to the officers Js Is there tiny any other coti cori corporation thal that it over aers mot e than all its employees employee from the last naval diva register it may be eiten sien that about 30 ships are in what is caled active sea service that if lif ailing alling from port to port firing sa salutes lues exclia exchanging nging courtesies ev enjoying hospitalities ho etc in european Euro peau asiatic ati Atlantic antie antle and abid abw abi d riluth waters this does doer not in include 61 u d A ir c ship hulks luiks that thai aro are used as us boarding boasts for enlisted men mens and to furnish increased in creed pay perquisites and shore abor duty to a few onn off officers leers each ship entailing expense sufficient to runa runs run a huge luge hotel besides the admirals mentioned above the lat lav rc register exhibits a list ilat ot 25 commodores commod oies ores 50 captains 90 commander commanders 81 lieutenant commanders 2 lieutenants mas term 71 ensigns 77 midshipmen midshipman officers of the medical corps bf officers of the pay corps 79 chief en ginebra 97 passed assistant engineers 82 cadet cadot eng 44 am assist I 1 ant engi engineers neels neets 24 chaplains chaplains 12 ard of mathematics 11 navai naval baval constructors S assistant naval can constructors tors 9 civil engineers and cadet midshipmen on the retired list listi drawing three quarters of full pay are 36 rear admirals at per annum each 14 commodores comm at each and besides these we have a large largo number of profess ors tutors and secretaries to a say bay a y nothing of the rny us useless eless elees m marine a marinn corps and a dancing teacher for the cadema at annapolis with a I 1 salary 0 of f 1500 0 A 8 small emall fox pox civilia atlon A ogden J CITY jan an 21 16 18 deret maws news 1 1 2 we W have at this time most moat de V a ligh wea weather inde indeed ed it Js 43 like ilke cpr spring 1109 the 1 fasl fast disappearing which I 1 with 1 t h the recent show ers era of warm M rain xin make the both in and out of town very veny mud dy and abd the travel for ok teams and pedestrians is heavy and disagreeable that dreadful rn alady malady the smallpox small pox has again visited us and although there have abeen b een two fatal cases the people generally manifest but little excitement cit ement and fe feel feol elbut but little alarm nevertheless every precaution is taken to toj prevent t as far as possible the s spread read of this terrible disease tha the city ity council have acted with commendable promptitude in the matter As soon boon as it was duco discovered v that a case of smallpox small pox existed dex def defacio de facto aclo the council met in special session and at once adopted measures to prevent the contagion from circulating among the elti iti zens the former quarantine physician refused to again serve berve another was im jm med mediately fately lately appointed experienced nurses were sent to take care of the bic sic keach bick sick each end of the blockon bloc block kron tron on which he resided was fenced up and teams prevented from traveling near the residence pedestrians kad hadl laa no desire to traverse this quarter whenever a case has been reported the physician and marshal have been on hand promptly to zam am xam ine lne lne ine into and attend to it at once every person who is reported ick and who experiences any symptoms of an attack of the disease is visited and examined thus every possible precaution is taken and all that could or can be done has been and still will be done to keep the malady confined to where it Is discovered the clothing of the deceased he acs B been been bean buried at a proper time and by the proper persons so 0 there ig is no danger of it spreading frona from that source and the people generally feel safe and satisfied with the action or 0 the city gathers fathers Pa in the premises it is true that thai a few persons are timid and think it strange that the smallpox small ismail pox 0 or any other contagious disease should appear among us and th they eyare are ready to blamo blame anybody for fon such a contingency formerly we dwelt herein here in simplicity and security in the enjoyment of health peace and plenty of the common comforts of life we observed the laws of health and n although though we were unable to procure any of the delicacies still we were not exposed to any of the evils which afflict the civilized world when in 1848 weber county was first se settled tite tile the white while population were few and very far between and in 1855 when tha the writer first came to ogden the habitations of the saints were scattered very widely apart the people lived frugally sickness was considered something strange and death something stranger bince since that period we h have I 1 ve witnessed civilia civilization atlon lias bas bended wended its way westward it has penetrated our once Isola isolated tedi silent and peaceful abode in these mountain valleys the advent hereof here of the national hig big highway laway has afforded the means of transit to tothie the people of every nation to visit this famous country ve vie are located in ina lna a place 19 beautiful toz for situation at the terminus of the great continental utah central andul and alf and northern railroads ani sni and ana here at this point is deposited va very bg frequently the scum and filth ill III h of society from the east and from the west vest sometimes an eastern penitentiary has discharged its moral pests shipped them on a west bound train and they thoy have been dropped down in ogden city where being boing hard up they have either remained or have been assie assle assisted eted to still ago ogo go west young man this point at which the numerous tramp family stepped off the cars care to rust rest and rusticate for week sand months during the past year yea rind jand mand where they had bad an opportunity to spread any foul disease with which they may have been afflicted among the people of this thia town and immediate neighborhood formerly we had no dram shops or three card monte inen men to introduce gambling to our young m men e n or to swindle the stranger out of hib hia money if in those days a person imported manufactured or sold bold any kind of intoxicating liquors liquor a he be did it under great restriction tion but now a man can buy sell or consume the liquid poisons without let golet jet or hin bin hindrance drance the population was almost exclusively mormon who were taught then as they are now in our own excellent institutions to shun the very appearance of evil if any were sick they called for EIders Elders through whose administrations their faith made them whole the present population of ogden city is about the great majority of whom bro aro mormons Mor mons the tho balance Is made up of jews gentiles chinese negroes etc we have here in addition to our own tabernacles and schoolhouses school houses one catholic church and school schoolhouse house hoube one episcopal church and schoolhouse one methodist church and school and one spiritualist spi Bpi ball we wo have about 56 houses who deal in general merchandise iwo two breweries about twenty your four saloons opened for the aie ale sale of all kinds of intoxicating drinks we have billiard halls a host of restaurants boarding and lodging houses W we baie have news newa dealers who import fons tons of trashy sensational literature much of which is purchased and the contents eagerly devoured by many of the people of this town we likewise have doctors parsons and lawyers in profusion some of whom delight in promo promoting dissen and litigations none of these outside institutions with the exception of a store or two existed here previous but thay they have been introduced subsequent to the advent of modem civilization civilizations into our city with these places of resort which are patronized and visited by so many of the lowest classes of people and 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