Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-27
Utah.
THE EXCITEMENT OVER THE PROPOSED
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION.

At Salt Lake City the irrepressible
conflict goes on. All the papers, Nor
mon and Gentle, are loaded down with
matter on the Utah question. Tom
Fitch and exTerritorial Secretary Full
Ter, ex-Acting Governor Mann, and vari-
Gus other renegade Gentiles, are at work
like beavers to prevent the dreaded legis-
lation by Congress. Special dispatches
have been sent by the Deseret telegraph
to various papers east and west, depre-
eating the Presidents policy, and setting
forth that the Conservative Gentiles
think his special message will materially
iniure business, and is based on wrong
information. Every unprecedented and
truthful business man in the community,
who does not yield allegiance to Brigham
Young, can testify to the falsity of the
church kilograms. Many opportunities
to secure Eastern and foreign capital for
the development of the mineral resources
of the Territory have, within the last
year, been lost, or deferred by the fear
of insufficient security under Mormon
law. Letters are here now containing
the refusal of capitalists to invest until
they can depend upon the protection of
the Federal courts and laws. The en-
ployes of the church leaders are again
canvassiDg for signatures to a petition
for a commission to come here and in
vestigate, for the purpose of delaying
Congressional action of any nature,
which, it is urged, would now be prema-
ture. Another connection has risen by
the refusal of the clerk of the United
States District Court to accede to the
request Of representative of the Nor
mon Territorial attorney to issue venire
for a grand jury. The Neaos, the chief
organ of the priesthood, glories over the
argument Tom Fitch addressed the
House judiciary committee in answer to
the memorial of the bar of Salt Lake
City, and asks that the signers now re-
cant.
A WISCONSIN lEAMsTER OvERTAKEN
IN THE Snow BY FAMIsHED Wolves
Mail advices from the little town of New
London, Wis, bring news of the dis
covery of terrible tragedy near Perry's
mills. As Heinrich Bloch, a German
farmer, was coming out of the woods
north of the mills, his attention was at
tractcd by the appearance of the other
wise unbroken snow near large tree.
The crust was broken and bloody, and
upon it lay heap of what seemed robes
or fur, surrounded by various indescrib-
able objects. Going nearer, he was sur
prised and Mortified to discover that the
heap of robes was a pile composed of the
bodies of two dead wolves and a dead
dog, all gashed and torn. The other
things were the skeleton of man from
which nearly all the flesh and entrails
had been picked, some of the bones being
quite torn off, and lying in the snow at
some distance, bearing marks of abrasion
from the sharp teeth of the merciless
brutes. Some rags of bloody clothing
were there The feet of the skeleton,
which were encased in very heavy boots
and thick socks, had escaped, The prob
ability seems that the unfortunate man
was a lumberer going from one camp to
another, who was overtaken by the
pack and killed ere he could CLIMB a tree
after a stubborn fight. The Immensely
deep SHOWS and consequent scarcity of
game have made the wolves, usually
cowardly desperately fierce. so that the
miserable mans fate mast have been
what conjecture, shuddeFing, sets it
down.