Show 0 our ir country contemporaries delaver beaver enter enterprise J july uly 31 athe he fol foi lowing following is a synopsis of mr veils bells ells eils Sp leers feers opening address addieg for the derence defence in li the lee xee trial de delivered liv july 30 he traced the course of the emigrants through utah claimed that they did net not expect or intend to try to prove that the massacre was perpetrated by indiana themselves but that they had white allies who acted under instructions of superior officer officers sn that thai the mormon church was not responsible cespon for what some iome of its members may have done since bad men cau can be found in every church that the mormons cormons ner vernot to blame for refusing to permit supplies to be sold the emigrants since they the settlers were themselves threatened with invasion and might soon have to keeto nee to the mountains to save themselves and would need all that they had that the mormons cormons proposed to leave johnstons army no than the muscovites left napoleon no mure more than desolation he thul thui iro pro ceedee to state that the defense would prove that the emigrants were hard people some of them criminal in their transgressions gres to such an ei 1 tent were they them disposed to be turbulent that they ahry divided among themselves and formed two separate co companies m k es tho the speaker asserted that lp lee lea v e w was a the only man upon the field of slaughter who raised his hia voice in lit opposition to the massacre that if a bishop who pretends to have made mado a feeble euort enort to avert the tragedy 3 dared not disobey orders how much more so must it have been the case with a lay member it if is a remarkable fact that all alt councils that were held on the subject of the maA massacre sacre were held at cedar not at harmony liar TIar mony mODY where the prisoner lived referred ref nef erred to the tho fact that there were walled cities in those days and Par olban olvan was one of them why was it so it was necess necessary ary aty in feudal and antediluvian periods to have cities walled wailed up but why now noton not on accorn df emigrants passing through but bui bu to protect their own wives ang and children from the savages only such men were engaged in this massacre as were prompted so to do by their own wicked acts when a man participated deliberately libera tely and voluntarily in 14 the tragedy he cannot excuse himself by saying he acted under r duress and no man should be convicted convicted upon the testimony of such men the indians were at war with americans beyond the mountain and seeing that tho the people of utah were friendly were disposed to be friendly also and would have remained so but for the acts of athe he enil enli emigrants grants themselves and 00 opo savages ag were upon the war karpath warpath at mountain meadows tho tin people peoples of utah were compelled for their awit safety to refrain from arrita irritating hinr the savage sand saud the most intense moul ment prevailed the indians were painted and plumed for war and here beere in little valleys the people in I 1 hel hei helpless liless numbers were ivere surrounded by them settlers Set were unable to protect tho the emigrants under sueh such circumstances we deny that mormons cormons were there through counsel entirely as some cf thern cefai to save the emi emigrants rants morman were frequently killed by indiana in wars and the military x tion was for protection thousands of emigrants had been tra velling the route of the emigrants to peo heo people pie wie the golden state and travelled in safety so far lar as utah is coll conqer neil nell why nas was it that only this train was doomed even lien one portion of it passed through in safety our oud the ory is that the emigrants themselves excited tue the savages c s to madness and thus worked their own destruction the indians threatened a war of races raees and the mormons cormons feared it and if they did not help them wipe out the emigrants the they would hi klu kiu the mormons cormons who wele at the meadows ou on an errand of peace arid and then wipe out the s i ettl bettl ers era the speaker urged the jury to lay aside their prejudices s sj mpa thies thiea and religion ou in order that a just verdict might be reached it is a significant fact that lee held no position either in the military civil or ecclesiastic service ser eer vice the story that he be was a major is as falsehood and the sta statement temen it of ill lil his hia 4 being indian ludlan agent at that time is ht an exaggeration he was not an cerin the was merely an indian farmer or subagent sub agent but he must he be built up epand antl anti made ninde sufficiently great that his blood may atone for the crimes of others it is also noteworthy that all th the stock estock goods good sae sAc of the emigrants were taken to cedar not noo to harmony where lee lived the rho principal actor was lees leea principal accuser xen geD SMith abd and lees lk lees leeb es mission to tb mountain meadows was one of mercy not of destruction A the speech occupied about three I 1 j and a half hair air hours boure and was wa camly rankly extemporaneous W orane urane ous ut utah ih county times july 31 eli yesterday another silver brick mck weighing ounces and at passed through this city from tintie is coming up many of our farmers are very busy cutting arld and hauling in their wheat and we are glad to know from them that the quality i is is very fine and that the tile yield fr from om the straw vill will tie lie unusually good the prospect for an abundant carn corn crop is also very fine ta A citizen writing to the times says permit me to call your attention to an inhuman barbarous coward ly jy and exceedingly dangerous practice that has been going on for some time in our city more particularly in the west dart uart of or town that is the poisoning of dogs cutting tin 0 their throats etc by cowardly midnight hoodlums who prowl around after arter datka dark seeking an op ort unity to carry out their low nty ety airty designs the writer is acquainted quain ted with seven cases within a about nive five alv e blocks within two weeks some of the animals being beang prized by their owners as good watch dugs bugs to mind their wagons when out traveling others to guard their premises etc no later than last evening there were two animals that bad their throats cut and stabbed one of or them pre enting tenting t enting a piteous spectacle next morning he be being still alive gak owners of animals should be bd on the watch for these gentry and give them a reception lun lUD worthy the occasion A little medicine applied in proper dones doses may have he a healthy effect if prompt meltire measures are not riot adopted some ones children will babit be bit hit by the poor dogs after the poison has heeti been administered and death ensue in consequence then how much better than thau mur darers are this class of of hoodlums 1 I for fon forone one will give 1000 towards the apprehension and conviction of these low lived raiders odgen junction july 31 this el hit fit flames were seen issula issuing g from the roof of the kitchen of or the alien allen house belonging tow G child R eq 9 meil john nicholas and 0 orvil orvii 1111 child mounted the r noor roof 9 or and several persons ran the abel aesque i que gue handing handi handl lug jug buckem buckets of watery with which the fire was without matar matan mateyak lai lal damage to tp the building tho the roof toof of the tile kachen was fedj cause 0 of the conflagration was a fk heated stovepipe stove pipe chih pal pah passed t d through a hole hoie only seven inches fuches in diameter and it nd was protected only with part of it a thin tin bucket ogden aug 2 who knows charles IV tyrer hi his wi wine wife is very anxious to hear from him she wants wanti the utah papers to publish this charles charies Ch arles ailes W V tyrer your wife annle annie N tyrer wants you to come bome to Centro kansas I 1 have not nut received a letten letter from you ki since CO dec 1874 if anybody knows tile the man let word besent to the anxious wife who says there is important bustness business 4 for fon him to olis olla mr cright elight CW C wr i ight I 1 of 0 d n valley vailey sho be edus od dzu aa i V paradoxical fv membre r of or the feathered fe tribes cribei tri trl bes bei it as a blackbird hi lit defils characteristics exa except pt color and chapis principally white with witha a dovea d tint on the thu blaak bek I 1 it has allai gen wen a liue lluc allue V of which it iteline ite eune eine to ao vu lj king bear luear Hunt ovnie and at ladt sons solis snared it and he has conveyed it in a cage to ailt aid lake inke for nor the deseret deb des eret museum we have not net heard much about the tho broaca business lately but the subject of bf home made sweepers hwee nwee pers has not been dropped As a proof ort of this histake take sh a walk down youg young street and you will see close to mr H B scoville villes s residence a large a rire brick building which he is erects erecting 11 ready for business in the fall it ig is s to tobe be hoped that those who are calsing rai ral ing broom corn will tak take epro pro per pet percale care of it in time aud deliver it in good order to tho the the manufacturer we should make at home all things we need that can be manufactured profitably and brooms i can cau certainly be numbered among them yesterday marshai marshal W V NL fife fire I 1 was taking a ride with his wife in a buggy and was just in the act of turning on the state road load when the tile coupling couplin pin that fastens the hounds and the reach together was jerked out the point of it havin having 9 evidently been previously broken ott oft the buggy tipped and marshal shai fife and arid llis liis wife wite were thrown to tile the ground he stilt still retained possession of tile the hoes hues and hung to the horse which bovi BOW terribly scared seared began to ta plunge and kick kiek ick ice the tile animal struck mr fife fire twice ou u the leg a painful wound but he held xu on like grim death and succeeded in quieting the hone hoke and thus saved the buggy from destruction mrs fife fire who has been unwell for some time was terribly shaken but fortunately no bones were wie w wre ie and arid she scho la Is able to hil nil up arld and coil coll tu to day though she fawls very oie ioie i hore bore five dollars iol fol lars will cover all the damage done to the buggy an american amerlean colony lias has sprung up in the tho caribbean sea the name of the island is cozumel Co zumel aud and it belongs to I 1 jenho the climate is delightful being al at an average temperature of 80 degrees and uhe the distance from new orleans is four or nive five days sall sall sail the products of the island are sugar tobacco and all kinds of tropical fruits while it also grows valuable timber such as ebony lignum vitre vitra and logwood to settlers the tiie mexican government allows 2471 acres of land in favorable locations loca on the payment of 25 which payment can run through several years I 1 the free freo excursion system systemic jn bal timo much reduced the death rate among the poor children of that city thib thia summer |