Show IN THE NORTH happenings in and around logan cache county on th thursday morning last nineteen team wunder charge of merrills and follett left smithfield for oregon where they have a contract tor for constructing ting railroad on saturday JH brown was before commissioner goodwin good win and had a hearing on the charge ol of unlawful cohabitation he was bound over to await the action of the grand jury M H farnes fames and geo lewis are his bondsmen bondsman his second wile wife was bound over as a witness in the cue case one day last week as gratton grafton hovey hevey ol of millville milleville Mill ville was trying to stick a co cow which had eaten too toe much I 1 acerb lucern the knite slipped and cut his hand band quite severely ea lising the blood to flow profusely not daunted however grafton took the knife in the other hand and made anew trial with a similar result he is now BOW about with two badly disabled disaba wierd hap hands do but it is thought that he will get talons all right prof prota 5 M tanner of provo is spending a few days in this c city ty and vicinity he has been appod appointed ted by the directors of the B Y college to succeed J Z stewart who has resigned as principal of that institution of of learning prof tanner will enter upon the active work of his new position at the beginning of the school year of the college ite he to is now actively engaged making them the necessary arrangements regarding the faculty etc ete A laboratory w will I 1 be p placed c ad in the college building and special attention will be given to the teaching of science we hope in due time to be able to give further particulars balding pink fink a small boy of providence a peddler of watercress water cress was taken before justice J A mcallaster McAll lster yes yesterday tards charad charged with abstracting a spoons as irom from the a prem premises es of mrs mattson attson of the fourth ward of this city wit without ut leave he had gone to the house and found no one in and the door unlocked consequently took possession and ana made a thorough search of all the rooms taking other small articles resides besides spoons sheriff crookston had bad considerable difficult to coln in ferreting him out but finally accomplished jt it on account of his age ace he was released on the promise of this is not the first time that h bouses to have been ransacked by these 8 ON small boys and if it is not stopped some of them will land behind the bars the ih v a water elevating machine of which mention was made in these columns a short time ago constructed by the firm of girl barf 4 haines of this city is now completed and will be removed today to its place of destination the jordan river near salt lake city the present machine is constructed on OD the same principle princia I 1 a as the ones made heretofore but has several important improvements and is much larger it covers a surface of 27 x 24 feet the dimensions i of the boats bents being 7 x 25 feet with a water gateway between of 13 feet in which whish the driving wheels wheals of six feet di diameter meter are placed there are twenty twenty four elevating buckets ol of six gallons capacity each and they are intended to carry the water a distance of 16 feet in ia height the estimated lilting lifting capacity is ia gallons an hour if a current ivons running aioo feet per minute be ob the boats are well calked balked resi ei and tarred the frame and iron work nicely painted and the whole machine is well finished and strongly built the success of this ibis machine is awaited with considerable interest by parties owning land along the jordan and there is very little doubt but that hat t the firm mentioned will have orders tor for others from that vicinity as soon as the present machine has had an opportunity port unity to get in its work wont you yon please to buy some watercress of the words were spoken by a tender sprig of humanity of perhaps ten summers clad in a mean dirty ragged ill calico dress she wore a small sunbonnet sun bonnet of the oame sarae material and shoes that appeared to grind grina the flesh desk from the bones at every step her features showed what a pleasing countenance would be there were it not ier for the expressions of sadness brief and misery which overspread it the eyes were red and bedimmed with tears and every feature marked the presence of a hidden tear fear or dread of something terrible her limbs shook and ana trembled indicating the fatigue with which they were borne down this is the picture of the little girl arl who presented herself at the door of one of our oar homes boides yesterday after wont you please to buy some watercress water cress she said aard in faltering tones no my child we are not in need of watercress water cress cresa today the flood gates of the reddened eyes were opened another pang had been added to the already breaking heart A torrent ot of tears rolled down the careworn face and sob after sob came from the throb throbbing bluZ breast she turned to go but was summoned to return by the person addressed I 1 what is it that troubles you little girl was asked 41 1 I have been out sincel morning and cant sell any watercress water cress and father will whip me again it if I 1 go home with out selling it came forth alternately with sobs and piteous cries and is your father io so very poor that you have to sell watercress water cress to buy food to eat I 1 yes he is very poor and sometimes very sick but that would not hurt stater sister and me so it if he did not drink liquor and beat us lor for not selling the watercress water cress and have you no mother no mother has been dead many years and we have had a hard time to get along alone since she died her words were scarcely discernible because of the heavy sobs which her aching heart gave ont she turned from the premises in pursuit of a purchaser cli axer tears still coursing down her face and a vain hopeless feeling guiding her footsteps and now BOW letas let us picture to ourselves the scene which was enacted atthe at the home of that little girl last night when she returned slowly and weasly she takes her homeward path little basket still containing the cress which no one even out of pity for her sadness has bought she knows very well the fate that awaits her yet she is resigned to it when the rude hut is reached with many mis misgivings gigin gs she lifts the latch and enters eaters T the e burly brute unworthy tile the name of father unworthy in every respect the sifts gifts and blessings which god has bestowed upon him is anxiously waiting her return waiting for the paltry sum which this little one has slaved for all day that he might satisfy his insatiable thirst for the demon drink he rasps grasps the little form so much in need or of consolation of kind words of a parents soothing influence and caresses and deliberately flogs her here let the curtain drop the scene is too harrowing to dwell upon such thin things 1 s are common in other communities but in this wide domain in this enlightened and intelligent community let us hope they are ve very I 1 infrequent and that some remedy wi will abe be provided for the prevention of those that already exist logon logan journal may 2 |