Show local and other matters FROM resumed the mixed trains on the utah central railroad which were suspended during the blockade have resumed running as us ual over jordan the several canal enterprises over jordan are being energetically pushed along redeem the waste places oath of office yesterday the oath of office was administered in the district court to philip T van yarl zile the new district attorney for utah closed the old oid telegraph smelter closed down last sunday the stamp concentrating works are running the company are shipping ore to omaha 1 first company the first company of this thia years yearns emigration is expected to leave leavo Liverpool laverpool 6 on n or about the of may jigger 10 the old sheridan works are being operated upon the jigger principle the co company p mpa y are collecting the refuse aro around arld the th t works and in the vicinity and are making a good thing bv by getting the metal out of it grand ball there was a grand ball at the old telegraph S Sm elting works west jordan on thursday night given by the employed emp loyes who together with mr holden borego bore the expenses of the affair the the interiors of the buildings were gaily decorated for the occasion recovering the little bon son of brother B NV V driggs who was accidentally ci run over by a loaded wagon at pleasant grove some time since la Is slowly recovering recovering rec the irjary to his leg was bue mue much more severe than was at first sup pose dand the little fellow has suffered severely grouse creek greek we learn from bro B F cooke that the settlers on grouse creek have commenced arming farming and gardening angwill and wiil will go to work on their irrigating canal about the beginning of april plenty ot of snow has fallen int iti the mountains and the prospects for water are good lost there was lost this morn ing ing between the waid wald and the temple block a purse containing two orders on the tithing store one of which was for 15 45 in favor of archibald buchanan the finder will confer a favor by leaving the proper ro perty ty with joseph mcmurrin at the he general tithing store woolen mills the west jordan jord an woolen mill mille which have been stopped about one month mouth for lack of wool will start up again on or about the dinst the company have llave made arrangements for ob aaning from mr H B clawson 31 awson the concern is in a financially sound condition uniform buckle son are making in their usual workmanlike manlike syle style a uniform for the mutual base ball club of south Cottonwood and mill ifill creek the suits are made of unbleached canon ton flannel slashed with bright brig ht blue lue we understand the intend having a tussle with the des erets for their laurels this season beason from ogden we were pleased to receive a eail call today to day from our old and valued friend bishop david M stuart accompanied by brother thomas hadley hadle hadie y clerk of the ogden tithing office bishop stuart has aas been appointed by presiding bishop edward hunter as agent 1 in n the management of tithing and other church business in weber county lecturing A k correspondent writing from american hork fork in formagus forms us that dr crockwell blell delivered a lecture at the meeting house of that place on thursday evening to a crowded assemblage on throat diseases scarlet fever and diphtheria the bishop expressed himself as highly pleased with the amount and character of the information imparted and a vote of thanks was tendered to the lecturer he also delivered a lecture to the ladies ladles of the same place under the auspices of the belief relief society on the physical women cache this afternoon we were pleased to meet with elder george jj farrell of logan he reports fine weather in that part A good deal of winter wheat wag haa hehn heen ea loy toy sharp frost and lack of snow farmers are busy basy plowing and putting in garden and field seeds general preparations are being made to commence recommence re at an early day the work of building the logan temple notwithstanding the comparative absence of snow in the valley during the winter there is an immense deposit of the beautiful full in the mountains ensuring an abundant supply of water for irrigation an au old citizen lone gone elde howard egan generally genei genel rally raily known as major egan died at an early hour this morning after an illness of about two weeks deceased was an did and respected t citizen of this territory he was born in montreal canada and became a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in an early day he resided seme some years in nauvoo and filled several missions in the states he came to this city in iq 1847 with the pioneers under president brigham he resided principally in salt lake city but during the last few years until recently he labored as a missionary among the indians jn in the vicinity of deep creek seeking to impart to them a knowledge of the gospel and train them theda to the habits and industry elder egan leavas leaves a large family hisson his son R E egan of bountiful arrived in the city yesterday after being apprised of the condition of his father and other relatives at a distance have been notified of his demise another one gone crone the latest nun number ber of the utah antl Arti musical cimesa times the ClOs closing lilg illg one of the tho second volume comes comes to us with the alli nisi all i no that with it the pub li cation of the periodical cal cai will cease at least for the present the reason assigned by the publishers calder careless is that numerous other pressing duties would prevent them paying payin that attention to the pape paper r which when it require we regret the depa ri r i i tare of this interesting and ably conducted on ducted journal which was rapidly increasing in in popularity at it home besides having a standing of f decided respectability abroad numbers lumbers of the music and art journals journals of the country quoted from rom its pages we take farewell of f the cymes times respectfully mutual improvement in accordance cor sor with a published announcement no a meeting of the tera iera and a number of the members of if the mutual improvement associations olat ciati citations ions lons ons in this e was held at mhd he council house last night alost most of the associations in the cit city ea were represented and some of the settlements the chairman junius F wells weirs president of the central committee te e of the Y M M I 1 associations stated the object of the gathering which wag was to ao elect a superintendent tende bende nt and other officers for the associations of the salt lake stake A motion that the nominations be made by the presidency of the stake who were present was carried un ani the chairman being furnished with the names selected in this manner presented them as follows the tho vote upon each nomination being unanimous for su superintendent perin of actions in the ibe salt lake stake john nicholson first counselor milando pratt second counselor charles NV hardy secretary heber J grant treasurer easu ree ref george C lam lama bert bort appropriate and instructive remarks were vere made by AM cannon and joseph E taylor of the presidency of the stake and by brother junius F wells I 1 FROM MONDAYS DAILY marcu marou 18 1878 abood A good chance farmers havo have ve a good chance to have their seed wheat cleaned mr cha charies charles rles ries H Wilc wilcken keni kenj at the B Y tower mower mill in the second ward proffer proffers sto to do it gratis tako take your youn wheat to him womans comans Wo mans exponent we have recel received ted the march number of this excellent Jo journal which is always a welcome visitor it has its usual compliment of judiciously selected matter and well written original articles next lecture the next lecture of the series under the auspices ces of the tenth wardy M L aj A will be delivered by dr J M benedict on the circulation of ol the blood it isa is a subject upon which the th e D 0 ckon etoi ia w U odale MX able and intelligent manner entertainment to morrow evening there will be a variety entertainment at the ward new house for the benefit of the building fund A good pr pro 0 grame has been prepared obsequies the funeral services of elder howard egan were conducted at the ward meeting house yesterday morning the house was crowded and numbers were unable to gain admittance elder orson pratt delivered a highly Ins instructive disc dise discourse durse ourse which was reported in full by brother G geo eo P F gibbs the remains were followed to the grave by a large cortege corteg me of mourners shut them up there here was a neighborhood quarrel before justlee justice today to day which had grown out of some of the parties allowing their chickens to run around and trespass upon adjoining lots if people would comply with the lav lay and shut their fowls up from the of march to the of octoba october of they would escape these diser disgraceful a ce bic bick biek kerin eringa 94 gs 94 chatto what to do with them our the ir lh erald complains that none n 0 ne of our oun local lecturers have during the present season expatiated upon the important subject what shall wo w e do with our girls girla while the boys haye have been disposed of innumerous in numerous ways the herald is right the disposition of our girls is a question of great importance we think however however 1 1 the solution Is comparatively easy marry them to the boys boya A veteran th this is tho the annever of df the birthday of unclog robert carter catter the sprightly iari lari lar popular and prompt news dealer mr carter has been in lif the business over half a cell ceil century tury and has bas alway made it a point to give satisfaction to his lils patrona patrons go fie is 80 of age but still active and capable when you want to tb get periodicals of any description home or jo foreign do donit dorit lit ro norget forget aget that uncle robert can supply you to prevent mildew robert mawson hands bands in the annexed the following method wil free the gooseberries goose berries from mildew and the branches from canker in the spring take some forked sticks and prop the branches so that you can prune the bushes cut away the amai amal smallest lest iest of the suckers let lebr the most thrifty ones grow which will in three erfour or four foun years be taller and bear larger berries than the transplanted cut out the old stalk clear away the earth but do not disturb the roots pot put night boll soil on the top and in a trench a little outside of the roots and cover with fresh soil meeting of citizens theonder the under signed bankers busi busl business ness nees and mining in men on interested inythe welfare of this thia territory call a mee meeting to be held at the liberal institute on thursday evening march slat at 8 9 sharp for tho the purpose of petitioning congress to establish a bracell branch mint in salt lake city mccornick co dearst national bank banfe walker bros wells fargo 4 co T Rio R jones joner nein kahn bros H mackintosh joab lawrence A hanagr we W 0 bennett R 0 G Cham chambers bers beis henry IV lawrence lawrencep fred Meyer sp W jennings Ss sons H C goodspeed W G gail Gall ghery ghers john johb john kerr W ioan glean loan john sharp SM and others refrigerator r mr mtr W E wilcox Is preparing to enable the people to keep things cool during the summer months he bas baa invented and is manufacturing a cheap tor it fa is a very simple simpie contrivance but i he lo claims it is very effective e enabling people to keep meats butter milk and other perishable eatable eatables fresh a b considerable on sid I 1 erable time in the hottest wea weather thel the placed in the i middle of the box filled with a mixture of ice and sait the re fliger filger fr ige ator is provided with bentila tors lo 10 g give 11 the viands the benefit of a free current of air which the fa inventor bays says will scarcely increase clease the temperature morg mors more than thail two or three degrees it lse ise ia a handy thing to have about the house another veteran departed on saturday evening about eight elder burr barr frost died at b his Is r residence 0 in the ath ward somewhat suddenly of df paralysis he was vaa an old member of the church of jesus christ of latter latten day saints he resided in this city from its first settlement being one of the plo pio pioneers neeri who arrived arrived in the salt lake valley in iu 1847 1917 no H e per pet vt townsa ewis beveral several ev e ral rai an elder of the church the one of most special s note no to being going to 6 australia where he was instrumental in bringing quite a large number of people to a knowledge of the gospel he was glay open and fearless fea fen riess in his expressions and always ready to stand by kia kis hla h his hib la convictions of right his demise was unlooked unlocked for by many of his friends frie it is only a bayor day or two since we saw him upon the street apparently in his usual health he leaves a large jarge family to mourn his loss harpers I 1 M magazine n 0 the h e april number of this excellent excellent ma magazine kazine contains the american clyde with thirteen illustrations the city of the winds with twelve illustrations lust rations the electric time timed ser vice vlee with five illustrations if I 1 were you sir a poem the normal college of now hew york city with thirteen illustrations to a pioneer of antislavery a sonnet in the heart of the hartz with twenty illustrations A Song bong longwith with an illustration by Abbey AUbe yOle ole OIe flemish masters with six illustrations LAl lai legro a poem with twenty 7 two illustrations macleod of dare with an illustration by G hi H bougeon Boug ton segovia and madrid a poem the friar ass with three illustrations lust rations the return of odthe the native with an illustration aunt sart aart studies old german lovesong love a song ong a poem the perfect Canoe with twelve il lustra tion A A proposal for a heater A new D in Amerl american cArt art our indian brothers like the gold ground Grou ild iid a poem debby ann 1 editor easy chair editors lit arary record V editors scientific fl c orm orn record re d editors historical record editors drawer sunday school jubilee the combined sunday schools ortho of the Seventeen seventeenth ih and ef Eighteenth gb teen Wards met yesterday morning in hi social hall and held a jubilee some of the exercises were rendered by the tiie children of the two schools sepe and others in concert thoy they consisted of sin bin singing gingo an answering questions relating to the per personal 11 history of joseph smith and of the tho church repeating from memory the he articles of faith and doctrine of the Chu church relf reif and duets were sung and recitations re given at the close of those proceedings brothers Br others othera B S L evans W willis and geerge george goddard and bishop edward hunter delivered short add i esses the entire exercises showed both schools up in good light being most efficiently executed much labor and care had bad evide evidently fitly been bestowed I 1 upon the children by the superintendents and teachers brother james dwyer is the superintendent in hi of the ward school and brother horace go whitney of the I 1 the hallwas hall was crowded the children occupying the body and the spectators the platform atthe at the east end at tho cos oos close the benediction was vas pronounced by bishop hunter who invoked the blessing of god upon the children childre n and all who were laboring for their advancement in the principles of truth and holiness an express expression 14 of thanks ivas was vas I 1 tendered fo to brothers bro akers S BI R arks and milo by the ward sc school fo r their valuable assistance si I 1 1 in capacity i |