Omaha daily bee., 1877-11-14
MATTERS IN ~MORMONDOM.

A Sensation in Mining Circles-Ez
JudaeMcKea for GoternOr--Tem
pIe Building Maiiia-JournaIisti,
improvements, Musical and Othe
Items From the Salntcd City.
Correspondence of the Bee.
Salt Lake City, November H.
NV letter will he one of odds ant
ends, gathered here, there ant
everywhere so far a. they concern
Utah. Perhaps some of them may
be as pertinent to q Salt Lake letter
as q local notice that for some week
stood at the head OF Its peculiar col
umn in a Liverpool (Englandl news
paper. 1t read: "Mars is near The
moon to.night,u winch certainly
was q local item, but the locality
was a long way of.
Mining matters are dull. They
always are here when the price OF
lead is low. Quite a furore, how
ever, has bsen created lately, re.
garding the Bonanza mine, In the
San Francisco district, Beaver coun-
ty, about 40 to 1870 miles south OF
this city. One correspondent says
Of it: "The explorations at the time
of my visit showed 8 body OF ore
nearly 200 feet long, over 200 feet
deep and over 80 feet thick. and its
limits not yet determined"
There is some pretty Strong talk
of starting a Conservative non-Mor.
mon paper In this city. The scheme
Is said to be backed by Eastern cap,
itsl So many OF the Gentiles Of
Utah despise the rantings Of the
Tribune, that the want Of O reliable,
non-sectarian, conservative sheet
has long been felt by them.
Ex-Judge Mexican for our next
Governor is the present battle cry
OF the radical wing. A petition
looking to this, but %ostensibIy for
the removal Of Governor Emery is
being covertly circulated amongst
the more pronounced OF the liberal
party. A subscription is also being
taken up to pay his expenses and
that of two other delegates o Wash
ington.
Elder John Taylor, the new Nor.
mon president, was sixty nine years
of age on the first day Of the pres
ent month.
The pleasures OF our Indian sum-
mer are now upon US, the storms of
last week have passed away, and
q lovely, bright, cool season has sue.
ceeded it.
O,;den is to have a street railroad,
and altogether that city has bright
ening prospects. The extension Of
the Utah and Northern road will
bring many a gri't to its mill.
Work on the Utah and Northern
is being pushed vigorously. The
grading contracts are mostly small
and are divided amongst numerous
contiguous to the line of
road.
DR.. Peter Clinton has been non
suited III his suit against the United
States Marshal for damages. The
case will be carried up to the su-
preme court, and If then not salts
factory, still higher yet to the gu
preme court at Washington.
Our boys in blue r coming home
from the wars. Joseph having sur.
and Sitting Bull being
over the border, they can comforts
bly, hybernate in Camps Douglas
and Cameron.
Trade Is somewhat brisker !; our
country couelns are coming in large
with their potatoes, pump
kins and "garden sass" The pota-
to crop is very light this year.
The Mormon s'temDle building
mania" still grows and fiourishes.
The temple at Logan, northern
Utah, is being rushed ahead with
unexpected energy. The work OF
.ock-laying on the walls on the one
1t Salt Lake is about finished for the
AL the fashionabIes of our burg
,re aglow regarding the approach
ng visit of the Kellogg-Carey Opera
No doubt we shall have a
'ich musical treat. WINDSOR.