Show washington 0 ON LIBERTY anent the pending cullom bill and the clatter the bitted bigoted and nn an ameri can press is making about the crime of being a mormon a friend calls to our attention a letter written by george washington a gentleman of whom some of the press writers m may ay bare have beard heard the father of bis his country wae was addressing himself to the central committee of the united baptist churches in virginia and these are hie his words ll 11 I 1 could hive have enter entertained in tan the slightest slightest apprehension that the c constitution sti ution framed by the convention where I 1 had the honor to pr bromide omide might po possibly endanger the religious rights ot of ANY ecclesiastical sias olas society eo clety certainly I 1 would never have placed my signature to it and it if I 1 could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as a to red render reddie eIe the liberta ol 01 conscience insecure 1 I rg beg you u will be persuaded that no one would cuir be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against toe the horrors ot of spiritual tyranny and every sip ecie cle ot of religious persecution ra e 0 u tion for you doubtless remember th I 1 have tt v e 0 often expressed my gentl ants that any man conducting himself as a good citizen and being accountable to alone lor religious 0 opinions inions ought to be protected in the deity according co arding to the tb dictation of of bis his own conscience we commend these undying sen bences to the legislators who would make men offenders for a thought to the ignorant rabble who applaud the revolutionist the despoiler and the busy foe of right to the frenzied press which shrieks out anathemas ana themas against a whole religious body whose ebie fest crime ie is unpopularity the fury of the present attack upon the mormon people is enough to make the patriots bones shake in their tomb AMONG THE names of the redoubt 11 1 who contributed to the pay Ston santone tons fine in the he a police court we observe that of 0 C goodwin the amount of buncombe bun comoe De which this same goodwin godwin has circulated abroad fo co show the disloyalty of mormons in c contributing on money to pay each others other I 1 a fines lines would fill several volumes it would have been in the best of taste for mr goodwin before putting his name in print in such a cause to have followed St antona antons example in the police court and concealed his identity behind a john doe W A bandy or some other respectable soubriquet ANY ONE ONIC interested in the sick benefit funeral aid and death bene beneficiary ilcia ry associations am oc lations of the united states can help make the statistics of theiron their organizations for the forthcoming census more complete and disseminate the knowledge of the good work they are doing by sending the of euch such societies as they may know of and the addresses of their principal officers to mr charles A jenney special agent of the eleventh census 58 william street now ew york city aliz accountant of a tacoma investment company is short in his accounts amounts and missing being described as six feet eight inches tall tau white haired with hands and feet abnormally large the latter so much so that be interferes and being from this striking description almost sure to be captured the mystery is how he came to tike take the risk for the petty eum sum of a thousand dollars COULD type which Is now being used to demonstrate demont which city Is to be bethe the real ter terminus ol 01 the pacific line 0 ayden aen or salt lake be into rails it would d 0 soon oo 00 1 l pan the distance which now exi eals 1 8 b between e en those two places and the real pr present end ol 01 the line which Is u onwards of a thousand miles away dente hewn es for the information of the un uninitiated n I 1 reader we desire to bay say the foregoing is supposed suppo eed to be a joke A SEATTLE CATTLE girl fell from the third etory story window to the sidewalk the other day and she went to a dance the same evening As it is scarcely possible that this particular damsel dames I 1 could have been made of clay we apel respectfully trully suggest that she be maid of honor ir IT is but fair to say that ogden river which for a time was v very ery threatening and certainly bad hail every inducement to cause trouble has comported itself under all its temptations with excellent grace and fine consideration WE POINT with pride to the fact that ogden is now mentioned quite ae anch as salt lake in the papers printed at the latter place ogden makes everybody talk about her IT is probable that denver deaver will give hex 11 II and his attendants a great reception ion when they pate through on the way to ogden col fisk duke of denver has the matter la in hand arit of new heavy beavy raila rails along the side of the utah and north era ern track may be taken as a pointer that the narrow gaage railroad Is a back number A |