Show priesthood tha the regular meeting of the priesthood of this stake convened in the assembly As hall at a t 11 this morning president angus M cannon presiding there were also present on the stand counselors david 0 calder and joseph E taylor of the presidency of the stake and others president angus M cannon announced that special meetings of the saints of this stake would he be held as published elsewhere on tuesday and wednesday december and it was desired that those holding presiding positions should be prepared to report the condition of their respective wards or quorums qu there were thirty eight wards in this stake and it was impossible to hear reports from all at the semiannual conferences of the stake he showed the importance of bishops kepling their records in good shape that they might be aware of the condition of those over whom they were called to preside that they might report understandingly the condition of any member of their respective wards brethren who were worthy should beor boor be ordained to tha the offices of the lesser lemer priesthood that when they were called to the higher priesthood they might have some understanding of its obligations this priesthood was not given as a mere temporary convenience veni ence but etwas it was a savior of life unto jine life or death unto death and if parties didiot did not intend to be faithful they would uld be worse than if they had never received it he urged the priesthood to repent and be more faithful in their labors he severely commented upon the folly exhibited people in receiving into their families men m en with whom they bad had no acquaintance excepting in a business s capacity eider elder jamesE jamea E malin ma president 0 of the second eldera elders quorum quor um said that quorum was vas w as composed of el ders dera residing in tho tha loth sugar house and dell wards and numbered isa members 88 93 of whom resided in the cistand and loth wards waris the brethren of the other wards were so far away they could not well attend meetings president angus M cannon said that in view of the scattered condition of the members of the second quorum of eiders elders quorums q would be organized one composed of the elders residing in the and loth wards and another of those in sugar house and aad mountain dell wards it was announced that the semiannual conference Confer enca of the stake would bo be held on saturday and sunday january gih and ath 1883 commencing at 10 am on the day first named until which time tima tho meeting lae rac eting adjourned practical joke johe jokes jobes 9 are rather expensive at times the theother other day down in montgomery ala in a steam cotton gin one of the boys came out of the lint room covered with the tho lint and in order to frighten him another boy struck a match and touched it wind blew the fire into the lint room r oo 00 mt the lie lle cotton co tto n ignited I 1 gui gul t and boon soon the whole building was in inflames flames twenty bales of cot cottonn tona large quantity of cotton seed the eng ong engine ine all the machinery machine 17 were destroyed quality rather than quantity Is t the ha true value of brain material tho the postmortem post mortem examination of oia ora a mulatto who died recently in cincinnati revealed a brain weighing six tyone ounces there are on record but two brains braina heavier than this that of cuvier weighing ounce and abercrombie Abercrom bles bies s which weighed 63 ounces the mulatto was not considered conal dered bright intellectually ly yet is described as becoming late in life thought fb fbI and re le gerred ber ger ved s |