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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
L Utah Telephone Company are hereby
notified that on Tuesday, the Sd day of
January, A D. 1882, st the hour Of u
O'Clock, noon, at the Office of the Deseret
National Bank of Salt Lake City, in
Utah territory. there will be a meeting
of the stockholders of said company for
the purpose of changing and amending
the Company's Articles Of Agreement so
tust said company can buy, sell, own,
operate and lease any and all forms,
kinds and systems of Telephone or Tele-
phonic Exchange systems in any and all
the cities, towns and camps of Utah Ter
ritorg with wires for telegraph business,
extra Territorial connecting lines, to
supply telephones for private lines, as
we'll as wires to connect such systems
with others between sny and All the
cities, towns and camps of, in and
through Utah Territory, and to fully and
completely 80 amend said articles that
the said company can do and perform
everything under them that is necessary
or proper TO be done TO facilitate com
municstion between man and man.
l.. S. HILLS,
MA Secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 29, 1881.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
~ that Lewis Marier, whose Postoftice
address is Salt Lake City, Utah Terri
tory, has made application for United
States Patent for the Parvenu lode min
ing claim, situate in the West Mountain
Mining District, Salt Lake county, Utah
Territory, consisting of $500 linear feet
of the lode, and surface ground 200 feet
wide, being lot No. 290 and described in
the field notes and plat of the official sur
vey on file N this Office with magnetic
variation at 16o 3O' East, ss follows:
Commencing st the discovery point
where post marked U s 29O d I ls set;
thence S $40 w $50 feet on center line of
claim, to the centre Of westerly end line;
thence n 60 w 100 feet, to corner post
No /, the place of beginning of surface
bounds thence 60 E 200 feet to corner
post No 2; thence n $40 E 1900 feet to
corner post No 3 from this post q 8
mineral monument No u bears n 800
so Z 1,726.5 feet distant; thence II 90 w
l65 feet to post marked u 290 W 7 4,
as witness post TO northeast corner;
thence n 80 w So feet TO northwest cor
ner of said claim, it being in the centre
of the led of Carr Fork creek thence S
$40 w 1850 feet to post No |, the place
of beginning; containing 8 $4,000 acres.
The said mining claim being of record
in the office of the Recorder of said min
ing district, at Bingham, in Salt Lake
county, Utah. The nearest known loes-
tions being the Harriet Tiden and Stan
ley mining claims. l direct that this no.
tice be published in the SALT LAKE
DAILY HERALD, the newspaper pub
lished nearest said mining claim, for the
period OF sixty days.
del b. McMASTER, Register.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29
Fire.

Martin. Texas, 27.-Last night Adgms'
grocery house and all the buildings be-
tween Carriers bank and Woods corner
burned. Loss, $780, 600; partly insured.
Moravis, Iowa, 2S.-An incendisry
fire yesterday destroyed five stores and a
lot Of frame buildings. Loss, $4,000;
nearly all insured.
MerilIan, Wis, $50. N. Paine &
Co.'s saw mill burned. Loss, S25, 900;
insurance $4,000.
Baltimore, lS.-A fire this morning in
warehouse Nos. Sc and SO Camden
street, destroyed property of vsrious
firms to the amount of $4,000; insured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The COrOnatiOn-EXpIOratiOn
at Rhe Lena.

New York, 28.-HerGLG st. Peters
burgh, December 81: The first part Of
the stipulated money of indemnity for
the cession Of Kuldjs, was paid to Russia
by the Chinese government three days
ago.
Several court officials have been or
dered 10 proceed to Moscow to make 8
careful examination of all the costumes
and accessories which the Russian tradi-
ton requires to be used at the Imperial
coronations. This warrants the suppos-
iLjon that the ceremony is to take place
earlier than was expected, probably be-
fore the confinement of the Empress.
The new Russian expedition to explore
the mouth of the Lena is under the d.
direction of Nicholas Jurgen, officer Of
the corpz of pilots. The mathematician,
Meigheren, is charged with astronomical
and meteorological observations. The
medical doctor, Bsnge, will direct the
geological and botonical researches. In
addition to these, the expedition will be
composed of eleven soldiers, two Of whom
are Constadt. The others will be
taken by the local troops t. Irkouisk.
The expedition goes by way of Moscow
and NJui NoYogerod, where it will pro-
vide itself with the provieions, clothing
and instruments necessary, besides FIVE
sledges for their conveyance. From
NJvi it will proceed to Irkoutsk By way
of Ekatunburg and Tomsk. Next spring
it will leave Irkoutsk and will proceed by
the Lena toward the frozen seq. As the
limits of the wooden region is st great
distance from the mouths of the Lena,
the expedition will have to carry with it
from Yakoutsk, the wood necessary
for constructions and firing.
The expedition will begin its
scientific labors on August 1st, 1882,
and will continue them till the same date
In 1888 This expedition is naturally
independsnt of three others which, by
order Of General Ignatieff, will employ
the most rapid means Of reaching the
shipwrecked people; but its programme
will give an IDEA Of the Efforts which
must have been made, and the difficult
ties surmounted by the messengers who
brought the news, and Of the ordesls
through which the survivors will have
To pass before they arrive at Yskoutsk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29
Plenty Of Wheat.

Odessa, 28.-It is calculated that
the Odessa magazines contain million
and half quarters ofgrain ready for ex-
portstion, and that other Black Sea ports
have an equal quantity. The total is
valued ct 80, 600, 900 roubles Business is
quiet because OF the low prices in Eng
land and France.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-29
A Ligh, Ship Run Down.

London. 28.-A Southarklow light ship,
coast Of Ireland, has been run down by
four-masted vessel, believed 70 be
American. The men belonging to the
light ship were saved. Three steamers
left Queenstown in chase Of As vessel
that caused the accident.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

MANY of our exchanges are having
their annual jokes at the reported kill
ing of the peach germs in sections of
Delaware, by the eXtremly cold weather
Of last winter. They think the crop is
all right, as it usually turns out that
way. and the more extensively it is
''killed'' in the winter or spring, the
more peaches they expect in the sum-
mer. These peach jokers fail to under
stand the extent, varied climate and
soil Of the Peach Peninsula. 1t is a
pretty big piece of land, when you
come to look over it, and if one-half
the orchards on it produce fair crop
the people of the North will not go
hungry for peaches. Every year there
is failure of the crop in some section
Of the Peninsula, while other sections
are fruitful. Perhaps the following
year the thing may be reversed, and 50
nature maintains an equilibrium. Just
what sections will produce the peaches
this season, we will tell you hereafter.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
Literary Gossip.

MARK TWAIN is at work on an EN-
cyclopadia of Humor,'' to be published
by James r. Osgood & Co.
The Wilmington Republican come
out last week in a new spring dress Of
handsome type and looks neat, bright
and fresh.
THE Modern Argo, of Quincy, Ill.,,
has reached volume seven and is an ex-
eellent paper in every way. Kit Adams,
the genial editor, serves up an enter
tanning repast Of select literature and
humor weekly. We are glad the ArgO
is sailing smoothly.
THE Philadelphia Times recently
completed its sixth year. 1t is one of
the most enterprising and ably man
aged papers in the country, and it has
been a paying institution from the
start. Its publishers say it has ''paid
not less than six per cent. annual diVi-
dends to its shareholders from the day
it started that it never gave note or
other obligation for money in its busi-
ness that it never borrowed dollar
from any one that it never had a bill
unpaid after maturity or demand /; that
it has paid its entire real estate mort
gage Of one hundred thousand dollars
out of profits that it has like sum of
one hundred thousand dollars of reserve
profits in its treasury to-day, and that
it owns over half million of property,
without one dollar of debt, on an in,
vestment of two hundred thousand dol
lars of capital
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

THE PEAcHcRoP is gone again, ac5
cording to some reports from the South,
When there comes aspiring ID which
it il not reported gone, or suEnmer
when peaches are not thrown of the
docks in this city, ascension robes will
be the proper thing in the line of dress.
N. 7. Herald. When Northern
newspapers will learn that the Penin-
sular peach section is not embraced in
a ten-acre lot, and that whole county
may not ship a thousand baskets Of
peaches, and yet another section of
Delaware or the Eastern shore produce
an abundant crop, we will all be ready
for Mrs. Shipton's smash-up, and Berry
will have found the long lost "Jean-
nnttn -
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
A Fearful Temperance Lecture.

W. G. t. L.
An affecting scene was witnessed in the
armory police court, during the trial of Mary
Hudson, on charge Of drunkenness.
Although blessed with a baby only a few
weeks old, she went on a spree. and was ar
rested on the complaint of her neighbors.
Justice Wallace promptly sentenced her to
theB ride-well. II wish you would let her OF,
Judge, said patient, care-worn little man.
Let her off this time for the sake of her
child. I've stood her drinking for five years.
There was something that moved the court
in the mans tones of resigned misery, so the
sentence was suspended When informed of
her pardon, Mrs. Hudson threw herself into
her husbands arms with hystcrical sobs, and
vowed that CHE would never drink again.
If the sterner sex suffered as frequently as
docs the gentler, would they refuse us local
option?
Do you hear the cry of the women
The women who look forward to the morrow
As day whose anguish they can reckon
By the memories Of a cruel, living sorrow ?
my brothers lend Il helping hand
To this earnest. to this solemn Band
Slaves to wretchedness for ever and for ever,
Unless Right doth use its mighty lever,
And lift manhood from its slime
From its sluggishness and crime.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

THE increasing death rate in New
York City, as shown in the weekly
mortuary bills, bespeaks the near ap-
proach of something like the plague.
Such visitation, the horrors of which
the writer witnessed, almost stampeded
the Mexican Capital in the winter of
rs, when virulent, infectious disor-
der, broke out by reason of the filthy
condition of that city, filling its
streets with funerals and the hearts Of
its citizens with a dismay that threat
ened universal panic. The native
politicians, like those of Gotham, had
stolen the moneys, appropriated to
cleanse the sewers (which clearly proves
the wide distribution geographically of
that noxious weed, the municipal pol
itician''l to such an extent that the
writer was informed upon the best au-
thority, that these city sewers had not
been cleaned out since the nation OBJ
tanned its freedom, space Of over fifty
years! So that the Mexican scientists
declared their capital placed between
the horns of a dreadful dilemma a,-death
to remove the filth and death to permit
it remain This is probably the theory
the New York politicians proceed upon,
their indifference, indeed, arising out
of their tenderhearted care for the well
fare Of the citizens, believing that to
stir up the nasty mass must cause the
plague to supervene. Happily, how
ever, Commander Gorringe, Of obelisk
fame, has consented 10 become the
Hercules to cleanse the huge Augean
stables of the Metropolis. We suggest
the net product be compressed into q
big pyramid 0f Of ifftita ifftiftat and and edieated t
the memory of the most efficient Board
Of Street Commissioners. Nor would it
be amiss to put the erection to the an
cient use of the grim sentinels that
keep guard on the Nile banks, and
make this modern mausoleum the redo
lent tomb Of the Street Cleaning Blu
| reaul
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

THE SUBSTITUTE for the local option
bill, briefly noticed in these columns
last week, passed the House on Tues
day, and is now a law. The bill, as
passed, has not been published, and
some of its requirements are yet some
what Of mystery to the public. A
special from Dover to the Erery Eren-
ina, under date Of yesterday, says the
bill ''does not affect any applications for
license published before its passage, but
future applications must be made by
owners of the property. No change
has been made in the number or char
acter of signers."
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

THE SUPPLEMENT to the Delaware
Western Railroad charter, authorizing
the building of new line down the
State, and which passed the Senate last
week, was withdrawn from the House
on Wednesday, shortly before it was to
have come up on final passage. There
seems to be a feeling on the part of the
people of Delaware to give the Pennsyl-
vania company fair trial before char
tering competing road down the
State, and that if they fail to consider
the interests Of fruit growers and ship
pers, it will be time enough to charter
the competing line two years hence.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
---NT----K
DRESSIIlGOODS,

We can offer You, in Cotton Dress
Goods. new designs at 3, 10, and 12t
cents 81 Poplin Lustres, CashmereS,
Beiges. Alpaca Lustres, Brocatel and
Australian Crepe, at 12k, 16. Is, p,
and 2j cents: Plaid Dress Ginghams at
y and i cents; Spring styles Cam
brics. Cretonnes. Cheviots, Percales and
Monte Cloths, 10 10 20 cents White
and Figured Piques at 81 to 25 cents !;
full lAne OF Prints at from 5 cents up
ward also Striped Skirtings at 12i and
upwards. Serges, desirable shades. at
25-cents Gilbert Check Suitings, in all
new styles, 25 to % cents; Beautiful
Fancy French Plaids, for dresses and
trimmings, at 35 cents all-wool French
DeBeigeS, AZ inches wide, at 40 cents :;
extra importations Black Cashmeres,
silk finish, Spring weights, IS, 80, so
cents and upwards !; Ladies' fine 64
Suitings, i'll Spring Shades of gray, light
gray, drabs, browns, blues. etc. at
Slip. S1.15 and S1.25.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
Notes and Comments.

The wheat crop in Ohio promises
well, though the season has been back
ward. The yield is likely to be large.
A man who registered as ~. p.
Ames, of Pittsburg," committed sui
eide by shooting, in Peppers Hotel,
Baltimore, on Saturday, fire
broke out at the Union Square Theatre,
New York, OH Saturday night, causing
panic among the audience and gem
eral rush for the street. None were
seriously hurt, and the flames were
soon extinguished.-The Board Of
Health of Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
fined physician fifty dollars for not re-
porting a smallpox case. e.-There
were forty-One deaths from smallpox
in Philadelphia for the week ending
Monday last.-Vennor ought to be
invited to join the expedition to go in
search of the "Jeannette. y May be
he'd get a few new points on snow
storms and cold snaps. Clarified is
said to have lost twenty-five pounds in
weight since he took the Presidential
chair.-The San Francisco Greenback-
ers have adopted resolutions endorsing
the murder of the Gar aT--Lieutenant
Berry has gone to San Francisco to ar
range the details for the SsJeannette'
search expedition.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
Mr.. Townsend ON Peaches

EDITOR TRANSCRIPT There is an
article going the rounds of newspapers,
saying quite large grower Of peaches
around Middletown said that the black
spots in the heart of peach buds did
but little harm, that the year of the
large crop 1873 they looked the same
Is iiAftetEFt ne y. " hen man max ssnch an
assertion he should put his name to it,
and not try to prop his foolish asser-
tions by saying that he grew peaches
to a considerable extent. When the
cold weather set in about Christmas, OF
a little later, had a controversy with
that bigoted- nurseryman at West
Chester, John Rutter, about the cultl-
vation of peach trees, diseases and
bearing, and about what cold the peach
buds could stand. I stated zero was
too cold, or degrees below would
kill the greater part of the crop, that
from s to Is degrees below for two or
three days would kill all exposed buds
and badly iniure the trees. 1t has so
happened that there has been just such
a winter to test whether Rutter or l
was right, and to-day, the 7th of April,
there are no blossoms, and this smart
Middletown man knows that both on
the 7th of April, 1875, and on the 7th
Of April, 1880, the peach orchards
around here were in bloom or nearly so,
And how do they look to-day? Dead !
Dead and every day proves what l
stated three months ago.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND,
Townsend, April 7th, 1881.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

THE GoRGEs and foods in the Upper
Missouri river have recently caused
great destruction to life and property.
Whole villages have been swept away,
with the inhabitants clinging to their
honses. Among the villages destroyed
were Gayville, Vermillion and Meek
ing. in Dakota and Green Island, in
Nebraska. Over fifty lives were lost in
the destruction Of the three first named
villages, and as the entire settlement Of
Green Island was suddenly carried
away in the angry floods of the Missouri,
the loss of life must have been heavy.
The losses of cattle in Dakota are re-
ported to be enormous. Eastern
farmers who have been looking longing
ly toward the "setting sum- will stop
and think awhile, perhaps, when they
read Of the trials, hardships and losses
that thousands of the people of the
west and Northwest have endured
during the dreadful winter and part of
a spring they have just passed through,
and many Of them will doubtless con-
clude that all the drawbacks are not in
the East and South, and all the good
things in the West and Northwest, by a
great deal
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
NOTICE TO PERSONS
EHtpP1sted in LIFE INSURANCE! /!


THE Maryland Life Insurance Company of
Baltimore has complied with the laws of the
State of Delaware, and appointed Mr.. v M y.
Wilson, of Middletown, General Agent.
PersOnS desiring to +iIIotI1O
consult their interests by communicating
with Mr.. Wilson, who will furnish the books
and documents of this company for their in
The conpany has assets of 81, ,lS3, ,594.49, and
a surplus as regards poiicy-holders Of s3l2,-
s27.20.
following special features of its business:
lst Its strictly economical management.
ID. The prompt payment OF eeuerA claim
which has been matured against IT, (!ts di:-
bursements to policy holders have already
amounted to nearly million dollars. and
during the fifteen years OF its business 1t has
never delayed or resisted the payment OF any
Sd. The iudicious Investment of its funds.
(As an evidence of the care in the selection Of
its investments, Notwithstanding the dlfl-
culty of investing money Mt once safely and
Drohtably during the last fifteen yenrS, the
securities of this company Will now sell IN the
open market for more than they originally
4th. The liberal form of policy which this
company has issued for years, containing no
technical or unnecessary. restrlctl9ns. ,ia
many of the leading and prominent Bank
officers Bankers, Merchants and Profes-
sional men in the city OF Baltimore ana state
of Maryland as well as in other parts OF the
country, and 1t refers confidently TO any OF
its policy holders for information as to the
care. rigid economy, and honorable dealings
which have characterized the management Of
its affairs since its organization.
TIE rate of premium charged by this Com
pany is as low as the experience OF American
and English Life Companies for the past
seventy five years has demonstrated 10 be
safe and proper charge to meet the contin-
gencies which may occur by excessive NOR
tality and to provide proper reserve to pay
each claim as it falls due.
This rate, however, is reduced by the dis.
tribution among its members at the end of
each year, of any surplus acquired by favor
able mortality or from any other surplus
earnings of the Company.
Long experience has clearly demonstrated
that this is the only method OF granting cheap
insurance and at the same time securing alb
solute solvency over Il period of years.
The location of The home Office of this Com
pany renders it an easy matter to transact
business with it.
WM II. BLACKBOARD,
| apr8-lt Manager OF Agencies
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
Books and Periodicals.

SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, the famous
Bondon composer, who, as pianist and
director, accompanied Jenny Lind in
her American tour in 1880, has written
a biographical and critical paper on
Nssthe Swedish Nigtingalen for the May
Scribner's. The article is said to con-
tain interesting comparisons of her
with Malibran and other contemporary
artists. The accompanying portrait OF
Jenny Lind, engraved by CloSson from
an old daguerreotype, taken while she
was in America, will be striking fea-
ture ef. the number. At-the end of his
article, Sir Julius hints that he may
follow this paper with another, upon
the subject of musical Conservatives
in this country.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
Townsend, April 7th, 1881.

RAILROAD TALK.-W. II. Smith, of
Talbot county, Nd, who was one of
the engineers making the survey of the
various routes for the Maryland & Del
aware ship canal, has been appointed
by the Delaware Western railroad as
its agent to secure the right of way for
the road from Philadelphia to the Sus-
quehanna. Mr.. Smith has reported to
MIR. John w. Davis, the acting presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio in the
absence of Mr.. Garrett, and received
his instructions from him. He enters
upon his duties next Monday. The
Baltimore & Ohio will operate the Del
aware Western independently, and will
probably increase the laboring force at
their shops at Cumberland and Mt.
Glare to build the necessary rolling
stock for the new road. The Mary
land part of the route will pass through
Bel Air and cross the Susquehanna at
Port Deposit on substantial iron sus-
pension bridge. - Philadelphia North
american.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
The Rreakmnn,s Funeral.

James R. Chambers, who was killed at
Green Spring, last week, was buried OH
Saturday afternoon at Elkton, Nd. The
remains, enclosed in a rosewood casket,
were covered with floral offerings. A
broken column thirty-six inches in height,
rising from base of flowers in which
were woven the words, "From his Della
ware railroad friends Among other
tributes were a harp and cross from Con
ductor Duncan, beautiful wreath from
Wyoming, five wreaths from lady friends,
and a quantity of cut flowers from dis
patcher D.. w. Morning Ne'0S
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08

A DELEGATION of colOred Maryland
ers laid the grievances Of their people
before President Garfield on Saturday.
They are mad because they cast ma
jority of the Republican votes at the
last election and were ignored in the
distribution of Federal patronage in
Baltimore. Mr.. Garfield didn't say
much to put them in better humor.
Among other things he told them that,
'sin the appointments to public office, fit
ness and the qualifications Of the indi-
vidual should be considered his color,
whether black or white, could in itself
be neither recommendation nor a
bar.n