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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22
Produce.

Chicago, 21.-Wheat. unsettled, clos
ing higher, regular 102H@X. August
$50, September 2, red 1021z@3, spring
los; corn, unsettled, easy, 7524 cash, S5s
October; pork, firm, higher, 211z cash, 65
October; lard, strong, higher, 1891
cash, 42X October.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22
Fire.

9Marshfeld, Mass, 21.-Ses View
House, new hotel, opened July, burned
this morning; loss unknown. The
guests escaped.
Marsbfeld, Mass. 2I.-The loss of the
house burned this morning is SIS, 900; in
sured. Some of the bosrders barely
escaped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22
nONETARY AND STOCKS
New York, August q, IS

~" = u 10 II ~ ~ 1907
Money, q q 4; gvts unchanged.
stocks strong; w q. 89H; Quicksilver
10; Pacific, IS; Msrposs, 2; Wells
Fargo, $50; n. 7. Central, 1857.
Erie, 1879; Panama, los; Denver and
X. g., 605<; Union Pacific. 1883; bonds.
llos; Central Pacific 5s9S; bonds, lis;
6utro. g. ''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22
Bad Bruiser

New York, q. - George Rookie
challenges Wilson or Sullivan for
9 fight for $2,Oe9 to 5000 aside,
within 200 miles of New IOrleans,
in October or November. He expresses
contempt for their pugilistic abilities.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22
Cable Clicks.

London, 2O.-JohD Bender, member
Of Parliament, sailed for the United
States to-day.
Sir @. Parish, diplomAtist and scientist,
is dead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22

MINING PATENTS.-Fun sea
gf blanks Tor application for Mining
Patents-approVsd SoIm-ko Be h13
e Tia EZHAn o.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
TOO NUCM ASK OE Him.

A Connecticut paper says: A crude
old farmer living on the line OF one of
the recent railroad surveys. and who is
owner of barn Of large dimensions,
with hugo swinging doors on both sides,
observed posse OF surveyors busily
driving row of stakes through his
premises that extend to the very center
of his big barn. Sauntering leisurely
toward the trespassers, with an air
savoring somewhat Of indignation, he
addressed the leader OF the gang %
follows:
Layin' eout another railroad 2"
Surveying for one" was the reply.
"Goin' through my barn?"
"Don't zee how we can avoid it."
"Wall, now, mister" said the worthy
farmer, i calkerlate I've got sumthin'
tew say bout that. want you tew un-
derstan' that I've got sumthin' else tew
dew besides runnin' out tew open and
shet them doors every time a train
wants tew go through"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
TOO LITERAL.

The shorthand reporters of Sidney,
New South Wales, having been found
fault with for their method of reporting
the speeches in the Legislative Council,
retaliated by giving the speech of one
of the Council exactly as it was spoken,
as follows:
"Jhe reporters-ought not to-the
reporters ought not to be the ones tc
judge Of what is important-not to say
what should be left out-but-the mem.
Der can only judge OF what is impor.
tant-.
GAS las my speeches-as the re-
ports-as what 1 say is reported some
times, no one-nobody can understand
from the reports-what it is-what
mean. So-it strikes met has struck
me certain matters-things that appear
of importance-are sometimes left out
omitted. The reporters-the papers
points are reported-I mean what the
paper thinks of interests reported. ="
This was taking very cruel revenge,
but then. even reporter is human.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
HE WANTED "WET HASH" "

At hotel on the Isle Of Wight, I sat
opposite Chicago demonstrative dia-
mond snob at the table dhote. He was
a thing Of beauty in diamonds-and no
more.
"What would you like to ave, sir :? Z"
said the waiter.
What'ch yer got?" said the dia-
mond beauty.
"We have potage pri,atanier, a Ia
Juliesane;; Fricdndeu de Ueau avec GRO
quetteS des pommes de terre;; risolles dc
beuf and"
Diamond beauty Ya'as; give us a
plateful of which ever of them comes
nearer to wet hash. ."-Bufalo E1rress
London letter.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
MISS. Thu URsDAY. SEPTEMBER ., 1ss
THE FUTURE or THE MORMON
fsk EYSTEM. ts4f. s.

TEE FUTURE or THE MORMON
In the Century, the illegal Aspects
Of the Mormon Problem" are discussed
by Arthur G. Sedgwick, who concludes
as follows: 3
The failure Of tho attempt to break
up the Mormon system by Congressional
legislation does not, by any means, show
that the Mormon system will ultimately
prevail in Utah. The operation Of nat
ural causes is certain, in the long run,
to sap tho foundations OF polygamy.
The railroads have already brought the
Territory into communication with the
rest OF the country, and the DEVELOPMENT
OF the mines must ultimately bring in .
large GENTLE population-almost alto
gether male. A strong tendency in the
direction Of marriages between Gentle
men and the daughters OF Mormon par
ents must spring up. Indeed, this is
said to show itself already. There is no
surplus Of women in the West from
which to recruit polygamous households;
the births Of the two sexes are always
very nearly equal, and the Mormon
Population is no longer being rapidly
increased from abroad, as it was in the
times OF the early persecution OF the
church. 1t Is now stationary; or nearly
80, and being rapidly hemmed in by a
community having social system which
all experience shows is the only one per-
manently adapted to modern industrial
life. As the Territory fills up, and the
Mormons are brought more and more
into relations with the rest of the world
one OF the strongest internal causes of
dlsintegration will unquestionably be the
sense OF shame operating upon the
younger female generation. In the nat
ural course of things, some of the daugh-
ters of Mormon householders must marry
Gentiles, and others, who do not marry
outside the church, will be made keenly
aware that they are surrounded by
community which regards their position
as degraded one. AS long as they
could keep themselves separated from
the rest Of the world, this Gentle feel
ing was of very little consequence to
them. 1t did not affect them in their
daily life; it was something remote from
them, which they did not even need to
disregard. This cannot continue for
ever, and indeed change must begin,
if it has not begun already, as soon as
the surrounding monogamic Gentle sys-
tenn OF marriage has q fair opportunity
10 enter into competition with its rival.
Under these circumstances, there is
nothing to be done with the Mormons
but to let them alone. Persecution has
been tried, and has only served to
strengthen and increase them. Law has
been tried, and has proved of no use,
because it has not been enforced. From
the circumstances of the case, it can
not be.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
A VENDETTA.

e s. y u >
A clerk in New Orleans dry-goods
store, while in the parlor Of his resi-
dence down town. surrounded by his
family, saw the door suddenly open,
and, before he could recover from his
surprise, man. holding an extended
pistol, rushed into tho apartment, and
placing the pistol to the left breast Of the
clerk, fred, with this exclamation /:
"Ah, I've got you now. and I'll fix
you"
AS good fortune would have it. tho
bullet struck q pair Of scissors in the
clerks vest pocket, and spent its forco
by breaking into three pieces. the pieces
afterward being found in the pocket.
Directly after the sllDt the clerk aross
ana caught the assassin, hut soon suf-
ferel him to depart without injury, His
action ii this he explained TO- his en-
ployer BY stating that !" i WAS Al rignt;
that it was q vendetta, and that he would
settle the matter"
Both assassin and the Ct m were
6icilians.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
A ROYAL FETE.

A Paris correspondent recalls the
magnificent fete once given by men,
ber of the Rothschild family at his lord
ly pleasure house at Ferrieres, in which
the cost of the outdoor decorations
alone exceeded 100000. Ferrieres is
thirty miles from Paris-to the north
east. Workmen were put on the road
in vast gangs and had it prepared with
asphaltum every inch Of the way. Chi
nese lanterns and Bengal lights rendered
it as light as day along the entire way.
The peasantry focked in from all the
neighboring provinces. The scene re-
sembled a Greek mystery. Forests of
new frees in full growth were set out
wherever the roadside happened to be
bare. The imperial carriage, which
left the Tuileries at 5 o'clock, passed
through continuous masses of holiday
spectators. Along the route wine and
edibles were given by the Rothschilds'
orders to all who bore decorations t any
sort-howers or colors. The chateau it.
self, an imposing structure, as roomy as
the Capitol at Washington, was blaze
of ligh. and rich draping. The dining
room, which takes up II square in the
center of this vast ediiice, which is near
ly parallelogram, was such scene as
the mind conjurcs in Alaldin's palace,
built by the slaves Of the gold and jewel
caves. At a vast height from the floor
Il marrow gallery runs around the cham
Der. From this were suspended folds
Of golden dral cry, in which some legend
of Bonapartist glory flashed out in jew
eled letters. The walls were incrusted
with treasures which the house of Roths-
child had been centuries collecting. The
tables We're mass OF glitteripg gold,
even to the candclabra. Tho dinner be-
gan at Q o'clock, and was served by
walters i'll livery rivaling the imperial in
sumptuou,ne<s. The knives and forks
were of solid gold, and when the dinner
was ended the head of the house sol
cmniy directed them gathered together
and in presence Of the Emperor ordered
them melted and the mass sent to the
mint, declaring that having been sane
tilted by imperial use they should never
be degraded to baser hands. Bismarck,
by cynical sort Of destiny, was one OF
The guests at this memorable feast. Lit
tie did the Emperor and his host dream
that within five years the gruff German
Minister of rcyiled Prussia would sit in
that very palace master of France, and
that in the adjoining cabinet he would
exact from France two Of her provinces
and heap Of gold that would twice I'LL
the spacious chamber in which all that
WIS greatest in France were doing honor
to the house OF Bonaparte.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
A GkEAT SCENE.

At Sedan the Emperor William sat on
hill overlooking the battle field with
the American Generals Sheridan and For
syth, when the news OF the capitulation
came, and the French bearer OF the flag
Of truce was seen riding sadly back. At
dawn the noxt morning Bismarck, who
had been drinking champagne and eat
ing sandwiches with officers and myself
until l, and arguing terms Of surrender
the rest of the night, was mounted on
his bay, fresh and clean shaven, riding
toward Sedan, while we followed. A
shabby, low carriage, from which came
the gleam of gold lace, approached. Bis.
marck sprang from his horse, letting it
30, and bowed low. The leaden-c -colored,
yaunt-eyed, deep-lined man with dishev-
eled mustache, in the carriage, was Ma
poloon III. Alighting at weaver's cot
tagc, Napoleon and Bismarck sat down
and talked in an undertone, while we
stood at the garden hedge, the weaver
calmly looked on from his window, and
eager troops and provision carts streamed
by. Then Bismarck rode back to the
Emperor, and Napoleon waited alone,
walking back and forth, imping slight
ly, and smoking countless cigarettes.
The proudest monarch in Europe was
cooling his heels at weaver's cottage,
waiting attendance on Prussian. Soon
troop of cuirassiers formed around the
cottage, Bismarck returned, and Napo-
leon was escorted to ruined house in
Sedar. Won Moltke had dispelled the
obstinacy of the French commander by
showing him the German cannon, and
the capitulation had been signed. The
German monarch came riding down with
head proudly erect to meet the bent and
broken Napoleon, who came forward
with handkerchief at his eyes, while
Williams face worked strangely. In the
shattered house an interview of twenty
minutes was held, then William rode
away among his troops, and Napoleon
spent the night in the bedroom occupied
by William the night before. He passed
the night in reading, and the book sig
nificantly was Bulwer's "IIast of the
Barons. "-Archibatd Forbes.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
MODERN ExTRAYAGANcE.

The Kings Of today are growing eco
nomical. not to say stingy, and save
money, and seek Investments after
fashion which would once have been
denounced as most unroyal, but which
probably has its root in a permanent
sense Of insecurity. Tho late King Of
the Beleians left fortune worthy of Q
Jew Anancier cur own Queen has
grown wealthy on the throne the Sui
tan, according to Mi. w. Blunt, has .
heavy secret purse in England; tho
King Of Italy is an exact economist, and
the Emperor Of Austria is, it is said,
never in debt. Still. this generation
remembers the Emperor Nicholas, who
spent 50. .000, 900 q year on the imperial
household King Victor Emanuel, who,
with eight or nine royal incomes and
estates, never had penny the EN-
peror Napoleon Ell, who frittered away
sGl, ,000, ,000a year, with little hut rather
vulgar festivals to show for it i; and the
King Of tho. Netherlands, who scattered
in his earlier youth . fortune "beyend
the dreams Of av .rice," popularly esti-
sLiated at sf2, 600, ,ooo, and probably.
exceeding half that amount. It is not
fifteen years since weeks visit to Com
peigne cost each lady 95O0-twenty-one
dresses at least being de rigew-since
it was impossible for French courtier's
wife to spend less than 9l, 900 year on
her dress, and since a lady contested
before the courts of Paris bill for
915,O0O for dressing her for three years.
She had paid, says the Quarterly,
E12, 900 into court.
The carefully. guarded privacy of
modern life, too, conceals enormous ex-
penditures. We make very much of
Crassus' bribes, but Lord Harewood
spent e120,0o9 in one Yorkshire cleo
ton; e50,000 have been given for
great borough; and the House of Com
mons expends e2,ooo,OOo every time it
is dissolved. We read aghast OF Nero's
horses shod with gold, and of Spanish
Viceroy driving into Lima with eight
mules all shod with silver; but first
class racing-stable in this country costs
ESQ, 900 year, "liberal stable for
great country house has been known to
cost $4,000 annually; the late Lord
Mayo's wine bill as Viceroy of India cx-
ceeded that sum, and any man familiar
with Cowes will point out steam yachts
which for every month they are afoat
cost E1, 500. There are many men in
England who spend e100, 900 year prac-
tically on themselves and their families
and, if we were to include purchases, as
the writer in the Quarterly does, among
prodigalities, We suspect the ancient
world would be outdone. Speo-
tator.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Up 4 TREE.

A Georgia paper tells an amusing
story Of how an untamed steer troubled
several negroes who attempted to drive
the animal home to his purchaser. The
OK was driven from the pasture and
started on the road to Crawford. Fo,
the first half milo the animal gave but
little trouble. but while going down q
lane he suddenly realized the fact that
he wanted to 60 back home," and made
q bolt for the drivers.
They held their ground until they
found that the OK was dangerous, when
an ignominious stampede commenced.
One OF the drivers escaped by scaling q
fence, while others scattered TO the
right and left, but an old negro named
John Deadwyler was not so fortunate.
He was pressed so close that he had
to escape behind . tree, when COM
mcnced a tilt between man and steer.
The OK chased him around until his
head began to swim, but during tenn
porary lull, while his steership was
lighting fly, John started up that tree.
But he was not quick enough.
The animal sprang ct the man, and
caught his horn in his clothing. For
several minutes there was an exciting
contest, the negro trying to escape,
while tie steer did his best to pull him
down.
At last the hold of the HON broke,
and the old darky went up that sapling
Like sky-rocket. He was kept there
for over an hour before the animal de-
cided to give up the siege and start for
home.
As the beast vanished in the distance
John yelled after him:
CTS a member OBJ de church, but eff
you thinks you can skeer me, you's one
big fool"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
10 THERE TO BE 4 COTTON-PLANT.
ING ARISTOCRACYY


The small farmer-who was to retrieve
the disasters Of the South, and wipe
out the last vestige of the planting aris-
tocracy, between which and the people
there was always lack of sympathy,
by keeping his own acres under his own
supervision, and using hired labor only
as supplement to his OWNS still held
to be the typical cotton raiser.
But the observer who cares to look be-
meath the surface will detect signs of q
reverse current. He will discover that
there is beyond question a sure though
gradual rebunching of the small farms
into large estates, and a tendency toward
the re-establishment of and-holding
oGgarchy. Here and there through all
the Cotton States, and ALMOST in every
county, are reappearing the planter
princes of the old time, still lords of
acres, though not of slaves. There is in
Mississippi one planter who raises annu-
ally 1900 bales of cotton on twelve
consolidated plantations, aggregating,
perhaps, $4,000 acres. The Capeheart
estate, on Albemarle sound, originally
OF several thousand acres, had $52, 900
worth of land added last year. In the
Mississippi valley, where, more than
anywhere else, is preserved the distinct
i've cotton plantation, this reabsorbing of
separate farms into one ownership is 60
ing on rapidly. Mr.. F. G. Morehead,
an authority on these lands, says that
not one-third of them are owned by the
men who held them at the close of the
war, and they are passing, one after the
other, into the hands of the commission
merchants. 1t is doubtful if there is a
neighborhood i'll all , the South in which
casual inquiry will not bring to the
front from ten to dozen men who have
added farm after farm to their possess
sions for the past several years, and now
own from six to twenty places. 1t must
not be supposed that these farms arc
punched together and run after the old
plantation style. On the contrary, they
are cut into even smaller farms, aud
rented to small croppers. The question
involved is not whether or not the old
plantation methods will be revived. 1t
is the much more serious problem as to
whether the land divided forever into
small farms shall be owned by the many
or by the few, whether We shall have in
the South peasantry like that o
France, or tenaniry like thatof Ire
land.-Henry W. Grady. in Ha,per's
Magazine.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
CALLED HER PUSR

A young workman with overalls,
checked shirt and slouched hat sidled
up to deputy recorder and confidently
whispered:
"Is this where fellar gets his mar
ryin' papers?"
"This is the place." wplied the
clerk.
"Well, I want some papers,"
CAN right, sir where's the lady~
LADY! What ladyY
"Why, the young woman you intend
% marry"
ooh! she's at home, of course"
swell, we can't issue you license
without certain information abeat the
lady,"
II can tell you all about her. What
do You want to knowf"
"Her name, age, residence, and such
like facts; and I presume you can't
answer all the questions" .
Cant l just try me-"
"hnocentartlessness," murmured the
clerk. "How old is she? ?"
"She told me she was just 10 years
old"
"Then I'll wager she's 70. What art
less innocence" the clerk whispered.
What is her first nalne?''
II was trying to think"
"In the mean time what is her last
name?"
II don't exactly remember that,
either. In fact I don't think ever
heard it. But suppose that it's Of no
consequence osae
"Good heavens, man What on eakth
do you cau herr"
"Well, I calls her Puss but I never
thought to ask If that was her real
name"
There was an audible snicker through
out the Recorders office, and the candi-
date was advised TO bring in his engaged
partner for further particulars. So
Louis Globe Democrat
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
fHE WAY an INDIAN CUIEF Pro.
-, CLAMATES.

fHE Way an INDIAN CHIEF PRO.
-r CLAMATES.
People of my tribe: The past yea,
has been one of great prosperity to the
Ute Nation. We have acquired two val.
ler dogs and nine maroon-colored pa.
posoes. Fortune has smiled upon us
and our sky has been unclouded. We
own large amount of real estate and
don't have to pay taxes. The white
Father feeds us, and the pale-faee ON the
frontier warns our gizzard with the fire.
water Of the East.
Sour squaws are clothed in the gar.
ments OF the white man, and our maid.
ems are clad in the soldier pants of the
pale-face. The bitter winds of the win
ter do not chill us, for verify the wind
is tempered to the shorn lamb, high.
low, jack and the game. r
Other tribes have lost many Of their
numbers by overwork, softening of the
brain and gout, but the Ute Nation is
still strong as the mountain oak. We
have multiplied upon the earth, and
while we have increased the standing ar.
my has fallen of. Nine soldiers have
deserted and three have starved to death
leaving the rest Of his army alone in his
wigwam.
"Lot us Therefore be joyful. Let us
whoop 'em up, Liza Jane. Let virtue
be your aim. E pluribus ker plunk.
verbena terra firma sic semper ruta ba.
ga. -Nye's Boomerang.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
WHAT'S GOING TO Make POLYGA-
NY 4 FAILURE.

NY 4 FAILURE.
A man stepped into MaiI street bar.
Der shop to set shaved. While the bar
Der was passing the steel over his face,
the man began to shed tears. This
attracting tie attention of the proprieto,
Of the shop, he directed the manipulate,
of the razor to sharpen the implement.
As the shave continued the mans tears
flowed increasingly, and the barber con.
tinued to whet his tool, occasionally
changing razors, and striving as dihgent.
ly as possible to ameliorate the suffer
ings of his customer.
eve are using the best razor in the
shop, sir, said the man with the lathe,
cup. "Your face must be very tender.
Does it pain you much 2"
"a razor pain no! Do you suppose
that a man that has been through the
war shrinks from physical suffering?"
"Then what the deuce have YOU
been blubberin' about?" queried the
boss.
II got to thinking over bad news
from the East. Another mother-in-law
comm out next week to spend the
winter. Hero's the money for the
shave"
II shan't charge you cent" said
the barber, sadly. 81 never bleed 9
mans pocket when his hearts bowed
down. Come in occasionally, and
mingle your tears with mine. I've goi
some mothers-in.law myself. Four, by
thunder !"
"That's what's goin' to make polyg.
amy a failure in Utah" said the tear.
full man as he slammed the door.-Sas:
Lake Tribune.