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Show The English armv in India is not ytt quite through with the job of con quering that country, although it has been on for nearly two hundred years niiice. They had a Epiiited fnht at Chitral the other dty snd the fighting was about as spirittd as in the days ol Warren Hastmes and Lord Clive. One hardly knows which to admire most, the bull-dog tenacity of John Ball or the staying qualities of the East Indians. Indi-ans. It is certain !y a magnificent case of hold fast on the part of both contestants. A6 the constitutional convention approaches the end of its life, the roaring of the rising waves of opposition opposi-tion begin to ba heard. Daly is going to pevent President Smith's signing it, and they are preparing a lot of old cohab. cases to prosecut, about that time, in order to create the impression in President Cleveland's mind that polygamy is still practiced in Utan. j Such tactics would induce one to vote for a much more faulty constitution, even than this is. The Ephraim Entei prise thinks $30 -000 in ealaiies for the Judges of thi new state a little steep. The Enter prise will think so truly when the tax iegoe3 up one percent, or perhaps one and a half aa it must if the judges are to be paid and leave anything foi any other interest. Our new whistle must be raid for and the female poll tax cannot accomplish everything. W do not cns;rue the Mirroe doctrine doc-trine a3 treventing another nation from collecting an honest debt from j another on this side of the oeaan, bt t we remark in paesiDg, there must be no land pass in the eettlemet. Collect hard money or any other kind t) & sitisfies, but the land on this continent conti-nent belongs on'y to Americans. One grows dizzy contemplating the progress of the Millard Blade. According Accord-ing to it the world has kept woman in savagery for a long time since creationand crea-tionand the pronnesives now propose pro-pose to give her the ballot. She wi 1 then no longer be called the downtrodden. down-trodden. We are inclined to doubt the entire accuracy of the information of the associated as-sociated press, to the effect that a New Jerpey bank has been looted to the ex tent of $2.,00A We don't believe then ever was a bank in New Jersey thut had any Buch sum in its hands at ore time. Doerant is not banned yet, and the doubt ib now expressed as to whether he ever will be, at least r.n this charge. It is rather a good thing, for bim a least, that he was not Luag btfo:e the trial. The convention may now adjourn any day. The eooner it is done the greater the propriety. They have got ten through the work and must be nearly througn the fiuhting. Home it is. Senator Stkphen B. Elkiss of West Virginia is paying a yisit to Salt Lake. As an ardent free silver man the senator is grandly welcome to Utah, Spain has been a little slow in answering an-swering Mr. Gresham'a ultimatum, but the answer is very satisfactory, even if slow. The republican conference at Cleveland Cleve-land in June, will ;do everything, but speak oat frankly for silver. Tbkt are a sharp set in California. They haye discovered that Lord Douglass Doug-lass Is a fool. |