Show i I 1 items gram tram escolante ESCALANTE EsCALA KTE iron co utah july 1878 editors deseret news escalanti ese Esc alanto ta a young soung 5 0 U n g settlements 1 being only two years old it is named aft after e r a spaniard wilo who Is supposed to h have ave been its discoverer now how long since I 1 could not bay eay escalante was also discovered by a company of mormon cavalry who were in pursuit of black hawk and his hit ban band dain in the year 1856 1656 it is situated about 50 miles from pang witch in an eastern direction it Is lain ia the southeast corner of iron county utah the valley from I 1 the summit ot of the mountain noun tain to tb th e lower end where the Ea escalante calante creak runs through the east range of mountains towards the colorado river is about aboul 17 miles milea long it is irregular in jn the width but widens out towards the lower end it would probably average oue one mile in width the escalante creek is formed by a number ot of small springs at the foot of the west mountains and its course is from west to east the facilities of the valley are good we have an immense quantity of itil kinds of pine timber suitable for diu erent kinds of bunding building wo have also abundance 0 of caspe and cottonwood cott colt onwood cedar d ana and ah I 1 osk oak we have an abundance da of lre lUe firewood wood and it la is obtained very easily behave mountains mount dins sins of rock suitable for building purposes and it is already qu quarried NV we c haye have ha vo also a range of mountains which ap appears pears to da bel chiefly pla pia plater e ter ofpria of paris uy uj milea in length we have havo some rome bome some petrified rock in which you yoa can trace the grain of the tre treb erocA onona which it was formed as s i plainly y as you can in a tree treo tre 0 new newly ly feied felled we ye have many natural tural formations which would be worthy of the examination or the study of the geologist we havo have good land and a good supply of water for all the land now under we raise good crops of grain and a great variety of vegetables ge tables we have an extensive range enge which we consider good for a south range or a range in the I 1 southern parl pare of the territory ouri range is called a desert and la is supposed to bo be about 60 miles long it fc is situated south of the town and I 1 extends to the colorado river biver but there is very little water on it and aud i our stock and teams generally come e into town to get water we have some gool goob mill feite hites we have a saw mill in courso of erection wo we have abingd mill II 11 already running we are now organizing r gan izing and subscribing towards s purchasing i a vi gristmill and we aim alm to obtain and baud pac ruch 4 machinery as wonted we need for th convenience andi and improvement of the yail yali valley vailey eyt bave have a goo good abu r town js located on pa an elevated bench and nd haq a commanding view of the north nield field and also of ot the south range our town looga li for its age we haye have built odin ofir our houses of hewed pine pire logi logg because they were gere easy eamy to obtain our oar city lots lota are fence fenced qin and hiie are under cultivation part of oui our lots lota are arg put out to orchards apples s plum pluma and mand gooseberries goose berries axe aro 41 already ready producing 91 some omo ome little fruit which is 18 very en us A few jew shade trees r es are planted along the ibi sidewalks d w iki and they now appear in ther beau ty latec is running through the street and the fields and Zar gardens dens denh look well and aud promise a good crop prop our industry will b be pre pro rewarded NV va e have about 50 ja already set bet tied ax th 0 valley an and aud 4 nearly every family has bai hasia basia a dou gdud dol plain log rv A rew families miliea fa live out put on ranc ranches ilif S in different suitable placed in tile th e valey va aley but the tho the 0 of f th the e people are living jiving in the town we have a good plain piam hewed house 20 jio wet hold hoid meetings regularly and bano havo itsines times generally we good sabbath school well attended by scholars and teachers our waid is fully organized organised red sed we have havo all ali tire the ador quor ot of the as fully organized gani zed as us possible and they are arp ju in good worl working drig order W wp 0 havea anve relief society and two mutual im pro rement societies bocie socie lies one ove for or ilie the oung men and one for the tho ladie ladle and health und and prosperity v abound at present pres sent cent we labor under iwine disadvantages being gme what isolated but wo wa hope to bo de able shonto goon soon to gather around us the things we need for ther the corm corn fort and ani eon con convenience v e riffence of ou ourselves and families the of july was celebrated here bere in a spirited and energetic manner ye had a very rood good representation presen bresen tation of all the different gomp pomp companies anies usually formed country towns or jc f itie itle and although we have no artist residing here at present to make wake our bannera banners etc we had some very good plain homemade home made banners representing senti esch each of our vur comp companies ariles bieh bich which bleh showed how edwell weli well in the 66 procession and also served ta decorate the bob boh bobhol bause during the whole celebration nye lye badan nadan had ar excellent time and enjoyed ourselves our purs selves elvea well ii li all ail 11 things passed oft off in good order orders everybody turned ou out and honored theda the day yand and elde wide everybody lody tody apparently felt pio pia perfectly satisfied with the whole proceedings A P is bishop of this pia pis pla place ce with E B twitchell anad 13 adamd adams councilors councillors counci 1 lorb lors orb ors I 1 lay may th the blessings of peace and prosperity attend the children of zion everywhere yours in ia the kingdom henny HENRY stokes I 1 fc I 1 i e II 11 r s from rarig 0 o theresi the pere bere the eky city of rye iye tle lie and aud the city mema mead the tomb tombs s or Xia kia place nol Mol laere lacre marsha marshal ney ncy nena bead PARIS panis july b 1878 1678 editors demerel news yesterday I 1 fotion gob got on top of an hin omnibus these whose destination wasi wast the bastile but it was no not nol t my intention to stop at eit this historic monument I 1 had visited it before AV the bas tue you get a correspondence or ol exchange ticket for yere pere lachaise climb to the top of an ani other in ten teia minutes you have been borno born 6 from th tue eheart heart of the gayest most glittering of cosmopolitan cent cenores centres cen tres reg to the gates of the largest collect ioui iori of ous otis ashes that any cemetery in the wrid world encee it waybe well fo ab viol vero pero ver 0 kap kag Lap laphane hahe hake the first time as I 1 visited visite dr it ift without a g guidebook ulde auth apil ana nua without fore 6 of hp the presence 0 of the imm immortals Immor orthia tala you wilt wih met wet there for otherwise you will wil not nob avo c the thrill of surprise when you stand before tomb of M ahlers laplace balzac i moliere blacine rpy ney massena s grouchy and a host of others to td whom the world ia is indebted eil for so much of its literature poetry his tory sei science ence enee jurisprudence and aia ala for as mucho much ot tits fits its ca carnago carnage too the first monument of import t tance ance and ana one of the most moa interest I 1 ing lug ug in the entire cemetery situated t to 0 the right of the main mriln entrance I 1 la il that of or abelard and heloise whose romantic history ia is ho ud well known it consists of a lar chapel in the gothic style of the century built from the ruins of the tho celebrated abbey of para clete cee of which thich abelard was the found founder ers ert and the first ab bess the chapel contains the sarcophagus cop hagus which I 1 abelard himself caused to be constructed c ted tod before his hia death he la Is represented in a recumbent posture by his sidel side is the statue of heldise Hel bol gise the inscriptions relate to the ill fated pair record the origin of the monument aud aud and its removal Augustl augustins ns where here etwas it was placed for a time to its present posit position loni ioni the tomb was deeb decu rated with fresh flowers the off offerings of those w ho regard this as the shrine ahline of consecrated love to the right is the tomb of laubis to n who in 1810 as marshal of Y eranee france rance ranee escorted the young arch ATch archduchess duchess marie louise to parla paria to take the place of the divorced Empress Josephine barther farther on perier who was prime minister to louls louis phillippe rests beneath a lofty pedestal surmounted by a bronze statue of himself wa we passi pass on to a tomb covered with literal thousands of bouquets anu and wreaths of immor telles some of which are 16 feet in circumference it is tho the grave of raspail ras Bas pail pall a distinguish distinguished od republican and a candidate for the presidency in 1848 1818 he was afterwards arrested and condemned by the court at bourges to six years am imprisonment rison ment for having conspired to dissolve the national aag Agg assembly embly but today to day no tomb in pere lachaise is honored with such enthusiasm of remembrance from the rehabilitated republic as that of raspail Ba spall I 1 attempted in my blundering french to ask one of the attendants in fa the telnet ery for the tomb of al tillers but before I 1 had spoken his name she anticipated my ray wishes withes and pointed the way it was not so heavily decorated ed as that of Ba raspail spall but there was a dense crowd around it and each visitor after signing his name in a register kept for the ed from an attendant a few im mor telles as a souvenir at an angle formed by the bifurcation of the path is a small space apace ot of ground laid out ouk as P a garden the last resting place of the III ill starred marshal marshai ney no monument or inscription marks this redoubt of him whom napoleon called the bravest of ther then brave 11 odthe of the many illustrious persons buried hem here the following names may not bo be uninteresting to the reader DT david the celebrated painter and president of the convention in 1793 1703 when louis louls the XVI was condemned to death by that assembly alfred de do I 1 musset the poet mademoiselle ra rachel bachel ea the celebrated no actress talma t the a actors actor massina M tie tte r and grouchy marshals of the first t napoleon the tardiness of the last as t of whom lost him the battle of waterloo but I 1 have not space apace to mention one fourth otther of the renowned personages who have found a last Us t rest resting ing place here to td obtain burfal burial buri alin in paris secure from future disturbance of the grave by the authorities is a dm dim cult matter all funerals are conducted by the government which furni furnishes sheB everything at a cos coe cost cobi t of from four to 1500 to obtain a single burial place for five years year coats costs ten dollars or for all time those thoad who are too poor pool to afford this are thrown into tile the common comp pits holding forty or fifty p per er son sons when a lot is sold part payment ig made anda and a kind of mortgage taken to secure payments it thee theo noe nee payments non are not promptly madel made the Ahe bo body dy is taken up ard and thrown into the common pit i 0 A A e yoal loal w tt Z 1 A 1 august ath 1878 U i editors for some weeks past t have been more or less busily engaged ih ili working up genealogies in this thia state and as I 1 intimated in a former letter jetter will give the readers of the NEWS nearly all of whom are deeply interested in genealogical matters 8 such information as ican relative to the prospects of su success decess in that kind of work in pennsylvania I 1 inthe ti mhd firt first place no public records have been kept biages and deaths in any of th the towns or villages in tho the state so farall far as I 1 am informed this ThI incalculably unfortunate circumstance renders it much more morer difficult tedious expensive e and uncertain in tracing genealogies in pennsylva pennsylvania than it usually is in new neyr eng andi and where in most villages harej been kept more or less imperfect records The Quakers or friends howe however veri verj have kept kepi records in their churches that are of great groat assistance in tracing genealogies among that sect and antt any of the saints who may bo bd descendants of the Qt quakers Lakers of pennsylvania are more likely to obtain reasonably complete co M genealogies than the descendants of other classes of of its oldin habitant are lancaster county once incle included deh dea a large tract df country in t the henen hegen central part of the state P that has since been divided up into half a dozen counties and in 1819 the public records up to that da date were const consumed aimed by fire and thus unfortunately tuna tuua tely were destroyed the means by which genealogies the of the old sett seti settlers setters lers of central pennsylvania could have been peen obtained while in wee gee weeks ks ago I 1 visited the state library i which is one of the largest inthe in the united states the librarian and his assistant treated me githmark with marked courtesy and placed at my service a numb Brof of volumes calculated to assist me but the information the books furnished on genealogical matters matteis was but meagre in fact there are but tew few if f any publia published hed volumes in the state are calculated to throw much on tuo tho ih a genealogies of its old settlers and until within a few years interest to have been beef in du such buch q h matters lately iho ho wever waver partie parties sr in various parts of the state na naye e begun to interest jn collecting records and information on that subject while in harrisburg I 1 made the acquaint dr W H egle author the centennial history of pennsylvania syl byl yanta yania a voluminous work ile he gave me some bome valuable information was wag well posted on genealogical and historical matters and kindly invited me to write to him if in future there should be anything he could do da for me and he would gladly oblige me I 1 h have it ve now been in fix philadelphia two weeks but only yesterday dis discovered means of obtaining any information in relative to genealogies in this uhla cit city yand and county I 1 had to learn something at several libraries acut rarned earned them were f during the tha heated term anora anc r ra did not afford the In information format n 1 I tol desired yesterday ho however V ae r I 1 visited the philadelphia library the oldest in the state and was by b y a polite assistant librarian advised e to call upon CB hildeburn esq librarian of the philadelphia athenaeum Athen Atheni eum I 1 did so and was waa very ry courteously tr treated dated mr hildeburn gave kave me much information being a genealogist himself t ook took me to the office of the register ter of wilis wills showed ma the ropes a lit ift little le so that hat I 1 would know how to get at the records to the best advantage yan Tan vantage tage and assured me that be he would help me all he could at any time the rho records of wills family jamily bibles tombstones tombstone ls and the les lea lesof of living individuals are generally the source of information on ge gen matters in this thie state stat and aud though itis it is very tedious usand and expensive to work up complete in the absence of better facilities I 1 am having fair fain success and have neb net yet failed in a singia family I 1 have ni 1 I 1 can but acknowledge thel the blessing of god in my illy labors in moving upon the hearts of those who can banto canto to assiat assist me I 1 have been ben treated with uniform courtesy and |