Show local and other matters matter FROM SATURDAYS DAILY hally mr MAT lo io 10 emigrant companies the next vest company of emigrant ef will leave liverpool on the of hayand may and the third company on the ot of june provo park gardens the provo park parke pleasure gardens are open for the season excursionists by the utah southern may get off the train within 10 minutes walk of the place there ia is room under the trees for 20 rows of tables the place is well fitted up and tho the gardens are conceded by all who have visited them to be the best laid out in the territory father daniel graves ia Is the proprietor fire at york the house of harry coburn at york took fire yesterday and was entirely consumed he is a poor man and had just built his little home hence his loss is serious mr coburne Co burns fellow employed emp loyes on the utah bouthern southern bout Sout bern tern railroad raised a purse of 50 30 for him immediately on the arrival of the train at york and his employers have also been very generous in assisting him fatal accident on thursday evening a lamentable accident oc cured at brigham city an infant boythe only child of leonidas and zenia pierce and grandson to apostle lorenzo Jj orenzo snow met an untimely timely tin yin death by falling tub of water when taken out it w was aa thought some somo faint signs of life were manifest but though everything was done to restore animation mat loris all efforts were fruitless life was extinct sale of mines the telegraph mines in bingham canon which for a long time have been ably and successfully managed by I 1 E holden hoiden esq of this city have been sold to a french company organized in paris under the name of the des minos mines dargent dAr dsA igent genf et bt Fond Fon eries derles de do bingham the transfer was made on the ath dinst professor carl Ochs enius entus a learned learnt 4 and skillful european mining engineer assuming the mans mand management gement 4 with mr holden as hh his assistant deseret museum the museum has received by favor of C nibley esq ot of logan a eurious curious work on short hand by jos gurney printed in london 1785 pres presented entel entea to the deveret museum by james may mays esq of sheffield fields england also transactions of the illinois department of agriculture for 1877 pie presented by A H esq of fairburn fairbury Fair bury ills specimens of fossils of south utah from irom Or by favor of the bishop of that settle ment who has been aided bysee by several bral brai of f the brethren specimens are very interesting consisting of ammonites bacci aites altes os tima and other mollusks mollusks of the cretaceous tace ous and early tertiary periods sueh buch contributions are aro very acceptable and prove that the brethren are alive to the interests of our museum stanlight starlight star stan light the following are from the millennial star mar of april mst eider elder orson finished the important labor of getting out electro plates for a now edition of the book boob of mormon with foot note reference references prepared by himself arrived in livor Liver liverpool POOls from london on friday april we are pleased to be able to state that brother Brof fien fier pratt is jn a excellent health and spirits Last evening he delivered a dis discourse couise of most intense interest in tho meeting room dwelling specially upon the prophetic symbolism or of the great pyramid in upper egypt r elder joseph bull who has been assisting elder Eldee pratt in getting out the plates for the book of mormon a arrived hero today to day having called at birmingham on the way from london the following elders are released to return home with the second emigration company which will leave liverpool on may elder A F McDo McDon akl aki from being president of the scottish conference fe rence yence eider elder rJoseph joseph E cowley from being president of the manchester conference elder joseph bull ju jun from in being president of the the st conference elder aaron J M medo McDo mcdonald cdon edon id from being traveling elder older in the scottish conference Eld eid elder eider erV W J B Carter from being traveling elder in the birmingham conference elder jacob J Sch arrer arror ors ars from being traveling elder in the swiss and german mission i elder johnf miller on account of ill health from being traveling elder in the nottingham conference alsoto return with the tho company that sailed april loth elder willard weihe weibe from the tha swiss and german mission E elder eider ider lder hugh findlay is appointed to preside over the glasgow conference elder john rider elder is appointed to succeed elder joseph E cowley in the presidency of the tho manchester conference elder Andre ed ad to preside ov over erthe the dundee conference FRO ero FROM X MONDAYS DAILY MAY 12 president preside nt john taylor would be pleased to have llave the leaders and members ot of choirs bands and orchestras ch strass estras teachers of music arid and others who haye have musical ability meet at the council house on wednesday evening may at to assist in consummating the organization of consume a vocal voca roca and instrumental musical society and to take action upon the tho report of the committee appointed at a meeting held in the president entla office on the of march last D M secretary pro term tern the tho Shur tufe tUff oase case the prose cution closed the introduction of testimony this morning nesses bui but nothing of df additional importance wa ed the defense began this afternoon mrs ellen sh shurtliff urt liff was tho the first witness examined and was still on the stand under cross examination mi nation at last account information wanted of the whereabouts of alice wickham who emigrated to salt lake in 1859 1959 or 1860 that is ja the last timo time she bas has been beard heard from any information concerning her bar whereabouts will be thankfully received by james warby beaver city utah or elizabeth lang Laug langridge ridge Rams dauer ramsgate chronicle gatos gates kent england bea esa eaver eauer serious accident yesterday morning an accident occurred which w aich may prove fatal to mr A J dunham an aged carpenter who has for lor SO borne me time past 5 t been residing in this city he lie was working on a platform at the rear of the tho dooley stevens brick block which was about 25 feet from the tho ground when in some unaccountable way ho he lost his balance and was thrown to athe earth his left arm waua wa broken his shoulder dislocated his spinal column seriously hurt and he received levere severe internal ida uries urles junction womans comans work thursday morning sisters E R snow and M 1 I home horne leave an a trip through and bevier sevier counties for I 1 the benefit of the ladles ladies j along the line of their route we publish the names of those j points where they will stop and I 1 hold meetings on their way vay on dinst they will be at nephi fountain green and moroni moroni mount pleasant spring city ephraim Ephr airn alm bali sali da ria lind nd on the and at richfield to attend the stake conference at that place they will afterward visit other places in that vicinity obituary we have received a notice of uhe tho death on of sister amanda susanna cham bar borlain lain wife of john A chamberlain which we publish by request tild und deceased was waa the daughter of william and M A E the latter a lady well known in irl this community was born in wigan la lancashire my may 18 1844 and her mother being a latter day saint Sain was baptized and confirmed when eight years old by bishop cairns she moved with her parents to boston in 1856 remained there for six ft years and graduated with honors from the welles school in the june of 1862 1662 she came to utah and was married on the of december 1864 they resided in cedar fort utah county ten years and then moved to a remote district about ten miles from deseret on n the sevier she was a faithful saint a true wife and mother and leaves a husband and three little children to mourn her loes loss educational the county educational cat ional association met on saturday afternoon in the twelfth ward schoolhouse school house A brief s session s of professor biggs riggs school was the first exer exercise clece of or the day tho the system of teaching pursued being commended generally this was followed byan by an address from mis misa lottie lottle claridge directed to and calculated for the benefit of the pupils professor J B Tor toronto ont then took the floor and deil dell delivered verea an address history on shoeing the best beat methods of acquiring a knowledge of it and the benefits derived from its ita study he did not sp approve of text book as they were ere dry and tedious but preferred the lecture system interspersed with anecdotes embodying and inculcate ing the main features of the lesson history taught us our true position in the grand march of humanity it also eradicated prejudice and by giving various examples of the rise and fall of nations and individuals divi duals the causes of political changes and the career of the human race from the earliest periods taught us how to judge of the future by the tho past and govern ours elvea olvea sic sie cordingly accordingly the tho committee oa on drawing reported that precept preceptors ors could bo be obtained I 1 as soon as a arrangements for pay had been mado made the report of the committee on musio was recommended owing to the time being so far spent mr woods address was postponed until the next meeting w which will wilt be held in the ward schoolhouse school house on Batur saturday day dar may atone abone at one in the a hernoon ter er noon |