| Show TROUBLED D consciences our readers remember alie anxiety with which it was aid enid a great number of the nations ae legislators gisla tors learned of tho the alleged intention of hon george Q cannon to expose their private foibles and escapades not knowing that it is a principle of the tile mormons cormons Mor mons to mind their own business strictly they may have fallen into the error of apprehending disagreeable exposures of their eccentricities all the worse for them if they had any tiny reason to tremble all the worse also for them thein that they claiming to act in the interests of common purity morality and religion did not remember the saying of christ ho he who is without sin etc still all the better for them that hon iron geo Q gannon cannon ig is not the kind of a man to peep after skeletons in other oilier peoples closets in his advocacy and defense of the constitutional and legal rights of the people of utah lie keeps himself scrupulously within the plain demarcation of an in gionest man and a gentleman he ile can afford to let the scavengers and bienas hyenas of tile venal pre press of the capital dothe digging and stirring anion among 11 the rottenness and putridity of private records ho ile is not fighting for mans cause alone but vindicating the tile ways of god also hence he lie cannot and will not stoop to the common practices of the political blackmailer and blackguard still as we said above the mere suspicion that certain coneless congi ess mens conduct was on oil the brink of being made public caused a thrill of horror and a tremor of anguish to pervade their souls and it is evidently in just appreciation of this flagrant fact that the lie independent virginia nov nev cli says now that the anti monnon Ifor nion boom has drawn attention to the morals of congressmen wo we amici a lack of interest in ili mormon wickedness to show self itself it in IV washington ashington ay aw AN ANTI MASONIC convention was to be held in batavia N Y on the fth ath and ath dinst at tit which it was expected that plans would be adopted for the monument which the association opposed to secret societies intends erecting there to the memory of william morgan the alleged of INTas masonry onry who was abducted from batavia J P stoddard of chicago a secretary of the national christian association was there to make arran arrangements 10 for the meeting mr stoddard also has charge of the funds for the proposed monument he ile says that over 2000 have been contributed by sympathizers in all parts of the country and the monument will bo be put in position during the coming summer ho ile proposes to have it unveiled in september next on the anniversary off of morgans organs abduction and will invite thurlow weed to speak YORKS legislature has been bound in a deadlock for a lonc long time democrats and republicans arc are evenly balanced except the tammany contingent which is preeminently inclined to play ilio file dog inobe in the manger policy at last tammany yielded and last thursday they united with the regular democrats on a cardi candidate date for speaker of tho the As assembly sz embly viz viz hon clias chas E patterson an ail exchange says of the new speaker ier patterson was born in corinth vt on may ilay 1842 and is therefore delux e 40 years of age he ile was graduated from union college in 1860 having previous to entering tho the college studied at the castleton vt seminary an and d tho the cambridge N bacad academy he ile is a lawyer by profession To he ile represents the first district of rensselaer county in the assembly and this is his second term last year ear he lie served on tho the committees on judiciary judiciary and banks electr a LIGHT lias bas often been claimed to pom possess the inestimable advantage that fire risks would bo be abated or reduced by ic moving the dangers of flaring gas jets and explosions plo from leaky pipes it however appears that the currents of electricity which produce light cin can as readily produce intense heat and a new and special risk is therefore caused to this we have referred before and we again desire to direct attention to it in the public interest As we learn fram from the N Y sun commissioner van cott reported that only in i the last week of january ahrea firo fire alarm boxes were burned out by chance currents from electric light wires oun OUR dispatches of late hite contain a good deal of business facts which look to us like the stormy petrels to the experienced mariners marinero ma ete eve indications of trouble ahead |
