Show p open itinger sickness co oira opera olra give live sheep ilerd herd etc CEDAR CITY feb 10 isa E editor deseret news this is 14 one of the most open winters that we have had since cedar was settled with hard frosty nights and clear pleasant sunny days with scarcely any snow or rain up to date quite a number are engaged in hauling rock for our new nemir meeting house while others are hauling fire wood as if it were october there is much sickness in the thel city at the present time mostly among the young two were taken to an early grave last week one a fine promising daughter 0 of f amos thorntons Thorn tons of pinto creek who was here attending school and learning to play the piano the other an infant son of davi david williams the old proverb says A green yule makes a fat hink hirk yard 11 11 last summer was a dry season here with but little rain in the valley while on the mountains there was heavy and continuous showers causing fierce destructive floods which rolled down our canyons sweeping everything before them destroying roads bridges and crossings and making travel up the canyon fora for a time almost impossible except on horse back doing considerable damage to the farming interest in washing away or choking up the main ditches leading from the creek to the fields also to the mill company IU in preventing them from hauling the greater portion of their lumber there being at the present time over one hundred thousand feet piled up near the saw mill most moat of our out crops were very light last season corn and potatoes not being more than one oue fourth of v what hati was raised the year before bedore wheat oats and barley were about tn two thirds of a crop we had an excellent season beason for fruit of all kinds binds the trees being eo so heavily laden that they the they thes y had to be propped up to enable them to bear hear the their r precious burdens cedar at tit that time was one dense mass gnass of foliage of fruit and shade trees presenting a plea piea pleasing contrast to the bold rugged precipitous hills bills on the east and the wild uninviting sage plain stretching for miles westward ib it seems but as yesterday that the sight of an apple caused joy and rejoicing to our children but now thanks to a kind providence good counsel and perseverance our orchards are a source of duch dueh pro fit and many luxuries we do not hear so much talk of late about silver mines and their alluring prospects of great wealth with but little labor the making of iron and the extension of the utah southern occupying the peo peopled p fes ies attention the more one of the best mines we own here is our sheep herd lierd the total income from which last year in wool and lambs was nineteen thousand p pounds munds of wool and two thousand six hundred and nine 2609 lambs the above number of lambs was raised from two thousand four hundred 2400 ewes when the manager of our sheep herd mr air francis webster was in salt lake city last fall he bought from mr air kilpatrick of vermont nine head of full blooded spanish merino sheep seven bucks ewes and there is a very good prospect of further improve improvement e ment in our sheep we have two good day schools and a sunday school here which are doing much good among the young respectfully THOMAS thorney THORLEY Tn oRLEY orney when a man cant drive well he makes up the deficiency of education in that re by berczely zeter Berc rely cly pounding hla his animals THE tue PRIMA this is how jennie june talks in a washing 1 ton paper about a new artile artilo article of underclothing for the ladies 1 11 out of the smoke of ar the dress reform one useful idea seems to have been elicited it is the union of two heretofore considered indispensable pen sable garments but which are now combined and hereafter to be known abone as one this thia in the prima i or as some call cal I 1 it tha thel beform beform reform garment consisting of waist and trousers trouser sor or drawers cut in ono one and gored a so 0 as to f follow oil ow the brt tout lines of the figure the tho original I 1 believe has shoulder straps and str I 1 bugs innumerable innumerable but these may be added or not nott the m main maln ain aln fac fact is and it is a very imp important of tant taut one with the present style of dress that a single garment fitting the figure supplies all the necessary purposes of underwear and may be madlof made of cotton linen flannel or ca canton flannel according to the season or the climate it is not likely to be adopted at least at present by fashionable women or young garb it is too restricted in style stale and based too exclusively upon utilitarian ideas but It willbe will be seized with avidity by hari hani hardworking working practical women who have many children to sew for and anu to whom it is an an ob object eject to save save washing hig it will be an excellent garment for schoolgirls especially for boarding school girls a and M A I 1 for all girls and anu and women who bo boz bom board and to whom the reduction of pieces in the wardrobe or the la undress bill is a b beon boon eon oon if not a necessity it has been wittily suggested that now them thele is isa a b chance ance anee for all women to bee wee become prima donners ant AnI ARKANSAS CANsAs the san francisco fraucisco chronicle characterizes characterized president presly grants recent message concerning arkansas and the report of the congressional committee thereon thereon as wese wise wise firm and just per contra centra the sacramento speaks of the message a as falling upon the ear of the country ilke jike a L sharp clap of thunder from an unclouded sky also as a fire firebrand firebrat brau bran d and a blufor bid for civil war in arkansas and says the question is whether it was war planned foran for an ambitious purpose or is a symptom of insanity on the part of the president 0 0 were half the tho power powen that fills the world with terror were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts r given to redeem the ae human mind from error 1 there were no need of arsenal and fonts forts 11 Longfe longfellow ilow liow A man never neven knows what real agony Is he never neter passes through a real sirocco of the soul until the batteh batten holo hole out ont qt his collar at a concert and on one oae end ofa of js linen face number fifteen and a halt hait s stands madly out outs under his ear at aki ri right dight a hi angles to his hib neck then he does feel ready to bid the world and its tran transient plent pleasures adieu and welcome the calm cold repose reposo of tha tho silent bilant tomb hawkey hawkeye GEO has be been en la in the thid hat cap boot and shoe shoo business for twenty five years He confines his tit attention to these sped specialties latties ai and nd has made ei extensive purchases i s therein suited to the utah market he intends to keep a full fall stock all the time and will vill promptly and carefully attend to any orders from the trade as well as the ordinary retail cu custom storn stoin read bead his call at his store and see irhe hns has not something in stock s awty you 0 |