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Show BURGLARS, SMALLPOX, LEGISLATURE. LEGISLA-TURE. With burglars climbing through their windows and smallpox spreading spread-ing over the city, and with the legls lature in session, Salt Lake is sorely beset We asked a liquor dealer what he thought of the afflictions. He said he feared smallpox and had a horror of burglars, yet he could endure the presence of both without suffering nervous prostration, but the legislature legisla-ture gave him nightmare. An officer of the peace declared he could face the worst laws the legislature legis-lature might pass and never lose his equipoise, but he trembled at the thought of the possibility of the night-prowlers night-prowlers carrying off the city whllo the capital city police slept on their beats. A doctor said the legislature would adjourn at the end ot sixty days and that would terminate its life and allow al-low people to breathe deeply; that eventually the rogues would steal away, but smallpox uncontrolled would remain forever, and was most to be dreaded. Here we have three different viewpoints view-points of tho woes of Salt Lake. A Salt Laker, at a banquot in Logan, Lo-gan, said tho train on which he reach-I reach-I ed Logan was met at the depot m Ogden by tho entlro population, and, I as they boarded tho train they were ' in tear6, apparently grieving becauso they were forced to reside in Ogden. An Ogden postprandial orator, quilo equal to the occasion, admitted the Ogdonlto. after Btopplng on tho train, were lachrymose, "But," said hc. "they were Informed the train would carry them to Salt Lake, hence tho tears." Tho laugh was on the humorist from tho capital. The people of Ogden have their tribulations, but let us pray we will never bo so sorely afflicted as is Salt Lake, with Its carbuncles or crime and dlteaso and Its legislative perturbations. |