Show correspondence A BUDGET allom OG eat ean weather the D R M G accad accident ent eng business outlook 31 1 associations ciati ons ony lecture on britons a A pa ji 1 odde N arti cirl utah february 4 1684 l editor desso besst nem mem s H 1 ly but bat a few days since the streets of ogden were dry and the whirlwind carried the dust high in the air lie cent atmospheric changes haye brought bt numerous heavy downfalls down falls ot rafn rain ra ia which flooded the streets and lots and what with water and mud our it highways 1 leh ieh and sidewalks many of extremely hard to navigate last bigot we were ivere visited with another copious shower indeed it rained steadily all ali night and part of this morning the ground aund r has thawed out considerably and the snow has almost entirely dis disappeared from the earths surface and a great eat deal from the mountain side sides the tho he washout which caused the terrible accident on sunday on thedda the denver and ela rio grande railroad four fatir miles fromherz from here is about 80 feet long eight feet deep and about ten feet feet wide the engine was nearly buried burled up and the mail car is crushed into duto kindling wood A force of men are ard at work raisin raising the machine and repairing the break the fhe place where the adel accident occurred being all sand it ls is thought the damage to the th e engine will be but sli slight lit I 1 the trai trains s from all other points arrived and departed antime on time lime to dagand thus far there have been boother no other wa washout shouts son sor or breaks resulting from tite the late storms along the lines the business outlook ili in tills this place is no better than it was ivas when I 1 wrote rou you ou a month ago indeed there have been een cen more assignments and the merchants can see no sign at present of brighter days ahead on the railroads the travel is small and the freight business usi is light the employees are working not more than half time thustle thus general depression continues the farmers are still gloomy because there is as wt yet no market for their grain 0 or other produce not even brewers pitr barley 1 yesterday the beplar regular quarterly conference of the mutual A ut mutual improvement associations of the weber stake was held in the ogden tabernacle notwithstanding the inclemency odthe weather and the muddy wah waw ways vi tze house was well crowded with participants and listen listeners ers evs to the tho proceedings all of which were of a highly interesting character the reports several associations showed a steady teada increase in numbers and a growing interest in the institutions by the youth of both sexes who frequently meet in ill joint session for their improvement exercises they are cultivating a taste for reading and studying useful and polite literature their libraries are increasing ili lil iiii etim umbers and quality y and the tile talent acure andre search of tho the students is developed deve lobed and evinced by the manner in which they speak and und write Among the subjects discoursed upon by the young men at the late conference conie Conle rence were the fallacy of the claims of the protestants and catholics to the priesthood tho the altho author of genesis a scientist 11 was the repentant thief saved by baptism essays were also gi riverton giver verion verton non don fon various other subjects in the after part of the day th elarge y r assembly was addressed oy by elders junius bunius sF F wells joseph A gestand west and supt siept E ii II 11 Au An auberson berson derson anderson on t the e importance of the great work of lin tin improvement ro in which they are eng engaged a 0 the he n necessity of acquiring useful useful knowledge from good books and storing the mind with pure intelligence which wech 1 osithe the jhc thc glory of god and showed that the most valuable of all knovIe dge is that filat which Is ig received from god by inspiration and revelation as it searches back into the past circumscribes the tile present extends to the future and pertains to the salvation and exaltation of the human races both living and dead it waso wago was one ono neof of the best reunions of the kind ever held in this city at night elder CW stayner delivered his highly entertaining and instructive lecture oil on tiie tile the britons past and aud present to a jarge large and appreciative audience in the second IV ward ard meetinghouse it was listened to with great gr at attention and at the close athelee the lecturer tur r r was awarded a vote of thanks wimm according ta an english statistician who had od been at pains to collect data W odi odd the subject early riserio live tu tn longest the new haven board of health ha prohibited the blowing of loco moti whistles within the city limits where is our board bartholomew binns binus the english public hangman was arrested rece recently Atly i q id d fined and costs for to rila rita rl free on a railroad in lundon london n miss elizabeth Rl richards ellard eliard who veo died last week at wilmington 19 lavar had taught school for nearly N i y ear var 8 and in several instances had had all ali amon lol iol her pupils members oi of three generations of thet ther same aam faulta families A valuable addition to ule nie strength li I 1 of the british navy was recently ni mel met te i at Portsmouth when the lm rrth 10 fidell i stee stoe twin vu screw armour piat piar i 1 barbette sh 1 1 after being named b t I 1 princess edward etvard of sa saxe ce welmar welman f was floated ont out of dock |