Show aey ITY arrollo ta ko no weber coal coall come andl anil get your Alimony The ogden postmaster fibla sair bair A LT alx lx nake LAKE NE CITY crry 1 nov 3 1875 editor deseret mems moms I 1 Is s it true that the railroads cannot bring any coal from tho the weber mines that the local mines are to bo be starved out if so they will last the longer for if the coal Is not got out and consumed it remains in its native L bed a reserve resource for future use dle Ble meantime antime how about that projected railroad direct from this city to the weber in default of that road would it not pot be well to construct a light horse 61 tramway 1 narrow gauge to be laid down across the mountains the nearest practicable way from this city to the weber mines very level grading e would not be 0 ao o necessary new now as where W hero here a steam locomotive is used for the propelling po power the tramway could run ov or r the mountains easily enough by y doubling teams let lot us have a tramway to the coal unless we can cari have a regular railroad and thus be independent of the great r til ill roads for our fuel it would be in the in ferest interest of the weber coal miners to have such a road roid in operation are not matters judicial judici af in a curious condition in this part of the country according to recent en unc lations if I 1 understand them at all if a woman wants to bleed a man providing he be a ler mormon Nl ormon itea it ia e easy enough to do it its it Is is held that if a woman claims that she is is mans wife wire it Is not ne necessary for her to prove much th that at it mat matters ners fers little what the man says about it that alimony and ana lawyers fees during litigation for divorce can be allowed when it is notorious that the woman never lever tid ver was the wife of the man in the eye of the civil law and therefore when it is ig known that the tho ultimate failure of the woman homana 4 suit is as absolutely astred as anything future can be in law what a farcical exposition of law jaw this is is to be surel what a direct encouragement to feminine blackmailers chatau what an invitation coall to all ali discontented women who are legally married or who are not married in the e eye ve of the law to engage in litigation 0 only commence a suit and you shall have liberal alimony you shall live like ladles ladies nad aad your lawyers like fighting cocks the man whom you elect select to sue shall become fair for you the law allows it and the court awards it iu come one come all and get your alimony no matter whether you are legally married or not only c swear that you are discord dire sister of the slaughtering power let us see it we cannot give you the reins let us convert every family into a crowd of greedy and angry r litigants let ns us drive harmony y and peace from the land let us set every woman and every man against ach each r each other the law allows it and the court determines it come all ye discontented souls and arid get your alimony this appears to mo me to be a plain plat unvarnished nun varnished statement of the situation as the community generally view it dives divestea divested te d of turgid and tedious tech technicalities ties for which common people have no relish truly common sense appears to he most uncommon sense in the courts in some courts the removal of the postmaster of ogden has excited considerable in ter esthere and elsewhere firstin Fir was said to have been because of his religion next because of partisan political pressure from nebraska and iowa although half denied still there may bo be something in the religious reason after all anyway people believe there is it will be well if there is not the then as to the political reason what on earth has nebraska or iowa to do with ap an point polut ments for utah it is the uth utah people who are chiefly affected by these appointments and in all justice us they are the people wishes should be most consulted in the matter of making th we 0 appointments if justice is the object of the american government now there may be a third reason for the removal tiie the late postmaster may have been too honest to be very acceptable to political people as a federal official possibly the new incumbent will take care caro not to prove himself open to objection on that score too much honesty does not appear to suit in public office A big rascal with a little political pressure behind h him m a appears p pears to be more acceptable th than a n an tin honest man mau particularly if lf the latter iatter believes lie lle ve in a religious creed which the politicians do not approve RAMBLER aw visit to tooele thoele county SALT november ad 1875 E editor di eor vor deseret deg Def leret seret josf nem new during the past week I 1 v visited the school districts in the cities of tooele thoele and grantsville Grants ville and delivered lec lee lectures tures turea on educational subjects to their good people tooele thoele city is all included in in one district with two schoolhouses school houses each of which is calculated to accommodate about e eighty pupils alere re were children reported from that city last year and aud as only of them can be admitted into their schools are barred out the schoolhouse belonging to the methodist mission is nicely furnished with the triumph desks and seats maps charts ac and as it Is unoccupied by that people mr hir robert skelton shelton with the other trustees intends if pie possible to secure the use of it for school 01 purposes this house will accommodate about seventy severity nive five pupils and if they succeed in securing it there will still be ninety nive five children left out in the coid cold world out in the street et ac that cannot possibly be ad admitted to the privilege of public education jn in our common schools if the people of thoele tooele will co operate with the deep interest energy and determination possessed bythe by the trusi trustees tees teer fr the advancement of their dional interests they will soon erect a school house about eight rooms of or sufficient size that all their children may be in school in whatever krade knade rade their qualifications may require they bad had not opened their ac schools bools yet but expected to commence soon the city or grantsville Grants ville la is divided into two school districts and like thoele tooele has also grown entirely out of its school facilities there are about children in the two dis tracts in each of which is a schoolhouse that will hold about seventy fave five pupils perhaps by the use of a mallet a few others might b be driven in endways around the corners still there are about children that cannot be admitted into their schools on the of october mr H HA A woolley commenced teaching in the second district 11 had but thirty pu pupils IN in the beginning nin din but his ability ability as a teacher will with the he has being those of his hia old teacher mr W H rager eager will soon call into ha hia his school all and more than he can accommodate this second district school bouse is neatly fitted up with comfortable homemade home made furniture maps charts globe etc as directed by mr J R clark the leading trustee who is very much interested in educational matters the other district has a log schoolhouse which to judge from its architecture and general appearance one would suppose suppo e was built in about the year one or soon after they will open a school there soon A part of of anace incorporating po rating ilig the city of grantsville Grants ville appears to conflict with the territorial school law and has caus caused d considerable discus discussion slon sion and division among the county district and city authorities a 4 to whether the county court shall divide the county into luto school district districts and take bonds bond from the school trustees for tho the faithful discharge of their duties as required in an act providing for the tife establishment and support of common schools or whether the city council has this right so far as the city is concerned I 1 and to assess and collect taxes fo for r the support of schools the same cause caust of trouble is also in the charter of tooele thoele city some legis legislation lation on this point would be of benefit to tooele thoele county mr thomas accompanied d by mr abel parker parker trustees of tooele rocele ro oele unsolicited met moe roe at the terminus of the U W B R W with witti large hearts and a nice comfortable convey conveyance aripe to carry me up to their city and arid thence chenco to grantsville Grants ville from uhichi was very comfort comfortably ably conveyed back to the R VV W terminus by y mr S W woolley for the hospitality and liberal expressions of good feeling of thoo those gentlemen I 1 am very grate grateful rui rut I 1 am also truly thankful for the hospitality extended by III ili bishop hop J lowb re who appears to have a solli soul soui in him in keeping with his gigantic proportions 0 H RIGGS BIGGS ter sup supt t com corn schools school literature SALT BALT lare LAKE CITY oct 29 1875 editor deseret hems hews our natural egotism ma may y scarcely permit us to make aj ajust us t com comparison rison between our own ime time at add and ra d any past period but there is anu much 11 that indicates this to be a skeptical age the old religions seeni seem losing their hold on the tile human mind this spirit to theorize and doubt I 1 think has bas to some extent made its impress on the minds of latter day Sai bai saints tits several reasons might be signed assigned ue for this but outside literature litera tuie tuto has doubtless exercised a POW powerful erful influence in this thia direction it and gospel principles do not assimilate in their results sensational literature streets the minds of adult persons and the good counsels of the public meeting 9 and the fireside are often neutralized by chii books used in iii the public schools and those be tit i rul ful little v volumes lumes which make ip up our sunday school libraries while some of the elass class books in our schools may be made up of selections from english literature they impress the minds of our youth with those loose indefinite ideas of god and his attributes and of their duties to themselves and their fellow meu men which have descended from the pagan sages pages of an equity ty the ha influence fluence of thee theo ideas wiil will bo the tho same bame now as in former furmen generations I 1 presume our sabbath school books are the tho best selection that can be made from frona that class of literature era ture but they are tinctured tincture d with that maudlin piety which developed deve dev lupes elopes itself in theories and emotional rather than in the practical applicator of correct principles to the duties of 0 ilfe life old religions being ed science is leading the intellect of or the uge from the contemplation of the higher spiritual influences down to the cold deductions of or materialism ferial ism away fr arm creative intelligence 13 getice to the abstract study 0 of the physical forces of nature the latter litter day saints have this advantage over the rest of the worlie worl 1 that thab there is open to them the channel of comman communication with those higher who organize and control the elements mt ants and the alra atra alaks kirs tirs of men ow and who circumscribe the highest st aspirations of men in their knowledge of or natures laws A nirm firm faith in this fact is a sure defence against the influence of skepticism and cannot be a source of fanaticism and to produce a literature which will be plea ing and instructive and inculcate the sentiments of our religion must yet require many years A literature that will meet our wants in this progressive age requires an amount of mental culture in ourselves to originate and appreciate which we are but barely commencing to acquire might not nut much more be done in this great work than we are now accompli hing it must be a home labor our intellectual wants m must u qt be gra gratified titled on the same principle that we ar endeavoring to supply our bodily necessities large sums of money are being annually expended for school tool books a published out outside sicie of the tiie territory which might be produced at home aar not riot only save the mean but avoid instilling false principles into the minds of our children for there ia is where the foundation of social reconstruction must be laid or wo we fall fail JAMES A IITTI during a clerical conference the following conversation was heard between two newsboys 1 I say sayi jim the meaning of so many ministers being bed 0 hero here altogether geth why answered jim scornfully they always meet once a year sear to swap sermons |