| Show in the south A correspondent writing from virgin city washington county utah un under der date of jan 20 1888 says 1 I have long thought that a line from our isolated part pait ot the territory would not prove uninteresting to the readers of the NEWS and it if I 1 may be permitted to will intrude a little on your valuable space our ward is eom composed posed of four hamlets including this place bumber numbering 1 n g in all some fifty three families 1 r gm city claiming thirty thirtyfour four of that number imber Hi the vacancies wising arising in the bishopric through the death olour of our late bishop john joha parker were filled on the of nov To vember ember 1886 leroy lerot beebe being made bishop bisho with w attl charles P burke and joseph hilton fili ton counselors Coans elors the people generally ene rally are ar T prospering quite favorably favorably several new residences hive have been erected within the last few years and there are prospects of more in the near facture our sunday meetings are well attended mutual improvement asso oblations Olat clat loBS ions primary and sunday schools are in a flourishing condition our oar day school has bat recently begun begu a operations erat ions fons owing to the great difficulty in getting books bloes there has been conald considerable erable sickness hers bore of late that formidable I 1 though not necessarily victorious enemy mea gels bavin glaid siege to our lit tle tie settlements ants attacking some eighty drI ninety at one time thanks to our fl evenly father only one case was fatal fata the victim being a little daughter ot of bro james and sister coille M humphries ate died on the loth lust chries eing being nearly three years of age we are also called to mourn the death of sister mary parkinson arkinson lV which occurred occur redon on the alt being about WS 86 years of age we have been having the coldest spell of weather this month ever experienced perien ced in our sunny south the mercury tumbling heels over head down to six degrees below zero which is exceedingly cold for dixie have had bad about six inches of snow altogether I 1 we are endeavoring to construct a ditch to get the water on the bench beach immediately above this place taking in about one hundred acres of moderately good land it if successful this will enable us to enlarge our borders |
