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bined with certain facts as to the
way the jury stood, made
known afterwards, will Justify the as
Sertion that the verdict was the re-
suit of compromise. 1T is said, on
the authority of one Of the Jurors, that
the first ballot taken showed eight of
the twelve were in favor of inflicting
the death penalty; the remaining four
voted for straight out acquittal.
While the majority could not by any
means be brought over to this conclu-
sion, they were Unable to get their
colleagues to agree to an infliction of
the severest punishment that can be
imposed by any human tribunal.
Hence the thirty years sentence.
Viewed abstractly, the verdict
would seem to be singularly
illogical. Here is man
accused of perpetrating murder of
the foulest kind-a cold-blooded,
heartless assassination. If guilty of
this crime, the death of the perpe-
traitor could be the only expiation.
Public sentiment and the law of the
land alike demand this: justice to the
family of the murdered man, and to
the community at large demand it,.
Ii he did not commit it, then he should
have gone Scot free. Really there
was no middle stand.
But it seems that doubt OF the
preparation of this murder by Robert
| Pearson found lodging in the minds
| of one~third the number Of men who
| sat as the arbiters of his destiny. Did
not several witnesses swear that
he was at home at the time DR..
Stovall met his death? True,
these witnesses were members OF
his own family. Still it might
be asked, how else could mans pres
ence at home, especially in the
country, be established save by his
wife and children. But what will not
these latter do to save the life of d
husband and father where it is 10
such imminent peril? Human exper.
fence will readily suggest an ans
Wer.
Besides all this, however, it will be
remembered that DIR. Stovall, when
making his dying statement, charged
| the killing not on the defendant, but
j on his brother Tom. This doubtless
had its weight.
There was not much talk about the
action of the jury. Some expressed
surprise that Pearson was not cleared;
a few denounced the verdict, on &C
count of its being too mild.
A motion for new trial will be made
right away by the attorneys for the
defense, and If that is refused, the
case will be carried to the Court OF
Appeals. If the sentence is ever ex-
ecuted, it amounts practically to a
life sentence, as Pearson is now at
least forty years old, unless some fu
ture Governor should see fit to grant
pardon.
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Gen. Longstreet lives about two
miles ont OF Gainesville. Ga. Fl 8
house is large two-story frame
Guiding, with a spacious yeranda
running in front. "Here," writes one
Who recently visited him, "the
General sits, a typical patri-
arch, enjoying the peaceful days
which have in them no trace of the
terrible events with which his fame
was connected in the early sixties.
He culsivates the wavy Burnside
whiskers, and moves about in a long,
flowing dressing gown"
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The late Mrs. Yulee, the wife of ex-
United States Sen itor EYuiee, once
was beauty in Washington society.
Yulee, a pudgy, uDgainly young man,
sought her hand, when she laughingly
replied that when Senator Yulee pre-
sented the suit she would consent.
He went at once to Florida and was
forgotten by the beauty. It was not
long before he won his prize, and no
one was more su1pris ed than the lady
herself when the Florida Senator
claimed the fulfllmont of her pr. n:
Use.
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CONSUMPTION.

d poslU We remedy for the above dis
ca Dy its use u. Jusands of cases of the
W Jrst kind and of long standing have bean
cured. Indeed, so strong is my faith IN its
eIncacy that VIII sendTWO BOTTLES FREE.
together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on
this disease, to any sufferer Give express and
Z: .. address. DIR. 7. A. SLUCUM, 1s1 Pearl
St.'N'Y
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PEARsoN's PUNISHMENT.
Fsu.d Guilty of Murder Ia the Sc G ard
Degr, Q, ard Sent Up fog
Thir " Years.

The jury retired to make up their
verdict in the Robert Pearso case,
about 10 o'clock p, m, Thursday.
From the length of their stay, it
was the general impression that they
would be unable to come to any agree
ment. Contrary to this opinion, a
verdict was rendered about 10 O'clock
Yesterday morning. 1t found Bob
Pearson guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree, ana liked hts punishment
at ,hsrTy years in the peEitentiary.
"A analysts of the verdict. com.
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When Senator MoutwelI, of Massa-
chusetts, once insinuated that Senator
Bayard had teen disloya,, he received
the following staging reply: 1.-The
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way. have been y party 10 some act
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the G.:vrrnmt of this country. 1
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
PROVO POINTS.

BUSINESS IS now somewhat dull, as is
the usual consequence of the holidays.
THE HERALD Annual was received this
morning by great many of its sub
scribers.
THE YOUNG men of Provo should now
leisure evenings at the Reading Rooms,
where they may enjoy and instruct
themselves. =.
The TAYLOR and Olson Salt Lake
Dramatic company performed Old
Comrades and Loan of Lover last eve
ming, at Cuffs Theatre, to good-sized
audience. Tonight they present Marble
Heart and Comrades.
AT THE session of the County Court
held Monday and Tuesday last the fol-
lowing business was transacted. The
road districts for Provo Bench, Lake
View and Pleasant Valley Junction
were organized. The road supervisors
appointed for the ensuing two years.
Applications for license to sell spirituous
liquors were next heard. Order of the
court to Office, that all parties hereafter
applying for license to sell spirituous
liquors, must file bond in the sum of
$1,000; to be approved by the Probate
Judge, was then given. Remittances
and abatement of sundry persons
taxes, erroneous, and double assess
ments, heard and corrected. The
clerk was instructed to, apply to
other County Courts for Utah
County's portion of taxes on transit
tory herds. Petition : of John
A. West for appropriation = to
assist in publishing new map OF Utah
Territory was referred to Selectman
Holloway. Petition of William Green
wood, asking for an appropriation to
reimburse him for money stolen from
his residence in American Fork, while
acting as agent for County collector in
1888, was not granted. The Probate
Judges salary was established at
81 geo. .,,,s.. , V. ARA:
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SUNDAY SERVICES.

CHURCH OFF EsUs CHRIST OF LATTER pA Y
SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus
M. Cannon, president; Joseph E. Tay-
lor and Charles w. Penrose, counsellors
Services in the Tabernacle at p. m.
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL. = Morning
prayer and baptism 9.45 a. m. Litany.
Holy Communion and sermon, IL. a. m
Sunday school, 245 pm. Evening
prayer and Catechising, g. 30. p. m. Even.
ing prayer and sermon 7.30. p. m.
CoEGREGATIoNAL.-Se Services at IL a. m.
Preaching by the pastor, ]. B. Thrall.
subject, '.The Visible Christ of To-day y
Sabbath school at 12.15 pm. No even
ing service.
BAPTIST CHuRcH.-H. G. De Witt
Pastor. Services at Il a. m, and
100 p. m. Subject in the morning "The
New Year" In the evening, Courage. I"
Meetings every night this week. All are
invited
METHODIST CHURcH.-Rev. T. C. IliR
will preach at II am: and 7.30p. m.
Evening subject suggested by the New
Year: Another Milestone passed in
the Worlds progress Towards its Divine
Destiny" Sunday school at 1920.
Young Peoples meeting at $50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
GRAVESTONE ADVERTISING.
How the Partisan Cemeteries are
Utilized by Tradesmen.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Two meditative beings strolled
thoughtfufly through the avenues of
Greenwood cemetery as amicably in
clined as Frenchman. and American
can be, and apparently determined that
differences of opinion should never
alter friendship. You have got the
reputation, said the Gaul thoaghtfully.
"of being people keenly alive to the
value of advertisements. L think YOU
are. But I beg to state that you do not
go as far as we Parisians. You stop
at the churchyards. In Paris they are
our great field for advertisement"
The American begged that this condi-
ton OF things might be explained. and
the Frenchman begged that he might
explain them at the same time.
I" In Pere la Chaise," said the GanI
(which, as everybody knows, is the
world-renowned cemetery of Paris, YOU
may always see a crowd of people whose
presence there is at first inexplicable.
They wear no hat bands, and are conse-
iquently not in mourning. They are not
intensely jolly, and cannot, therefore. be
mistaken for undertakers. They seem
to go nowhere and do nothing. hut
pretty soon their work there is discoy-
cred. In inspecting the principal monu-
ments, say those erected to Rossini,
Auber, Heloise ct Abelard. Theirs and
,Raspail, a state of things is found
which is at once astonishing, and might
even say disgraceful-but I won't,
because 1t would not be patriotic. These
ton, he liforollxy -
bottom with cards. At first YOU are
inclined to suppose that.en these cards
are scriptural maxims or adages appro-
pirate to the mournful occasion. Not
bit of it. You learn that the exquisite
monuments are simply made into pi-
gantic posts for advertisements, to be
used much in the same manner as dead
walls. On Raspail's tomb you will see
Elegant bottines can be obtained from
NJ. a, No. 20 Rue - Mr.. b.. wine
merchant Nine. c., midwife:' Mile
D., costume maker and so on.
in all cases the addresses are
given and the cards are firmly
liked SO that hurricane could not
blow them away. Don't imagine that
you see one, two, three or four cards.
The tombs are positively white with
them, and they are considered so much
OF an institution that they are hardly
noticed by well-bred Parisians. | sup
pose the scheme was originally COM
menced by the undertakers of the Rue
de la Roquette, just outside Pere la
Chaise, who placed the advertisements
relating to their immortelle wreaths
and couronnes on the monuments. and
thought there was nothing inappro-
pirate in their so doing"
Nothing Inappropriate" queried
the American Indignantly.
Not according to their standpoint
was the answer. We'll, that paved the
way for the others, you know. and
though | am quite sure that well-edu-
Gated and thoughtful Parisians think of
the nuisance in the same light that You
do, nothing is done to prevent it, and
the thing is kept up as though it were
one of our institutions. 1t strikes every
visitor to Paris, but do not remember
ever having seen it publicly noticed.n
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understands his business, and knows
wheJe.eyen wrinkled human nature Is
weak. In his efforts to disabuse the
minds of his auditors of all idea that the
growing hostility of the American
5ubIic to Mormonism was anything to
be seriously feared, the apostle declared
that his church gloried in being. OPP
posed, and wa1ed fat upon persecution.
His description of the riches, prosperity,
and domestic paradises of Utah seemed
to render the poor spinsters present
crazy to go there with wings. Inc
preacher predicted that the whole SWISS
people would soon be converted 10 Nor
monism. Before the sermon, Apostle
Cannon exhibited flask OF sacred oil,
which he described as divine dlstilla-
ton. He invited all those present who
were sick to advance to the table and be
anointed with this sacred. lubricant,
which he pronounced cure-all. But the
sermon had proved SO rejuyenating that
none of the ancient maidens seemed
just then to need any of the holy oil.
After the sermon sort of experience
meeting was INDUCED in. One old spin
ster, who announced herself as a happy
and expectant convert, told the assem-
blage that her conversion had made her
SO strangely happy that; even her
dreams were pleasant now. She re-
counted several of these, and one of
them showed st. Joseph Smith in sort
of eternal game of blindman's buff with
a lot of angels, who had nothing else to
do but make Mr.. Smith enjoy himself.
Apostle Cannon has arranged for
series of Mormon mass meetings at
Zurich and all the principal towns. of
Switzerland.
This telegram may be interesting and
instructive to persons who are not
aware that it is the invention, pure and
simple, of some press reporter whose
is great deal broader than
his conscience. Just how near to the
truth the correspondents statements
are may be estimated when it is known
hat Apostle Cannon hasn't been in
switzerland for fifteen or twenty years,
md We are not certain that he was ever
here. As the whole telegram is based
lpon Mr.. Cannon's presence in Berne,
0 the. light of the fact that the
entleman is here, and has been for at
east fifteen years past, further com
lent is unnecessary, except to say that
the Associated Press London agent
snt the dispatch he does credit to his
Employers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
SPECIMEN DISPATCH.

A London cable dispatch on the 9th
of December, appearing in New York
papers ON, the 2sth.. is entitled to the
pastry, Itpurports to be an account of
the doings of the Mormons in the little
republic Of Switzerland, and goes on to
say that:
Apostle Cannon is managing the DO
lygamons campaign in the Canton of
Berne. On Christmas day he held a
grand service in the parlors of the
Emmenthaler Hotel in the city of Berne.
He had no difficulty in securing the
parlors for his purpose, and conducted
his advertising without any apparent
fear of the authorities. Admission to
the services was by official card only. A
correspondent managed to get in, but
he was made very uncomfortable dur
ing his stay by being treated as a spy.
Seventy persons attended the services.
OF these fifty were women, and all these
women were elderly and apparently viii
ling to be husbanded. The exceptions
were young and comedy Swiss maidens.
who were densely ignorant and appar-
emily under the spell of glowing prom
ises. Apostle Cannon did the preach
ing. What he said was uttered in Eng
lish, and translated, sentence by SEN
tence. nto German. He gloried in the
Mormon Church as the one religious
organization devoted entirely to the vel
fare OF the family. and whose mission
vas largely to find for woman the
sphere for which she was destined and
for which all the elements of her nature
cTaYed. The skillful manner in which
Cannon fred of this apostrophe fairly
made the faces OF the elderly proselytes
present radiant with revived hope and
i1venility. The. Apostle undoubtedly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
Personal.

JAxEs McGAEeoR has returned te the
city.
S. R. THURMAN, the Provoite, came to
town last night. SEQ
BIsHoP H. B. CLAwsoS has returned
from his eastern trip.
APOSTLE ERAsTUs Snow went to Kan
sas City yesterday, over the D. & R. G.
f. E. CRANES, came in from Price
station on the D. & R. G. railway, last
evening.
BEN. E. RICH, Of Ogden, was on the
streets Saturday. He returns north this
morning.
DANIEL CLAys returns to Bingham
this morning, after soiourring in this
city since Friday.
ANDREW J. STEWART the steck-man of
Crossword Farm, Utah county. is in
town. He can be found at the Spencer
House.
D. c. ADAMS, the prominent member
OF the Pleasant Hours Club. and we'll
known as an agent for several large
grocery houses, ETC., leaves here for the
east on this mornings train.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
THE COLOR LINE.

The color line in society is as well de
fined now as ever, and it will never b,
less distinct than it is to-day. Natur,
herself has drawn it, and she makes ne
mistakes which legislation or society OF
sentiment can overcome. Men and
women of the white and black races
may associate with each other on occa-
sions, and the eolored people may be
treated with as much respect and con-
sideration as the whites, but the coler
1inew will exist; it cannot be rubbed out
until the natures of both races have
been recast, and the prejudices which
have existed and been cultivated for
centuries are overcome.
A recent incident calls this matter
up again. The occurrence illustrates
very forcibly the existence of the color
line. The other day ex-Congressman
Lynch, the colored temporary
chairman of the Republican Ma
honal Convention last summer.
was married; his bride is a negro, but
has remarkably light complexion and
straight hair. The marriage was
naturally regarded as high life society
event, and there would of course be
reception; but in arranging for this |
difficulty arose, the solution of which
has given great offense to the colored
society of Washington, the Bee, the |
colored organ of the city, fairly foam
ing with rage at the way in which Mr..
Lynch, his wife and others insulted
their race. It was well understood that
the ight-colored negroes objected to
association with the blacks, the preiu-
dice being quite as pronounced as it is
in the case of the Caucasians and the
Africans; and as the blacks could not be
ignored, two receptions were arranged
for, invitations being extended to those Of
black color to attend in the afternoon,
while those of light shades were to come
in the evening. The afternoon reception
was fesstless affair, but in the evening
the guests were given a supper with
wine. When the afternoon guests
heard of the drawing OF the color line
on shades, they were naturally in
and the Bee having espoused
their cause, Mr.. Lynch and his wife
are being made to feel keenly the un-
pleasant position in which they, have
placed themselves. Smarting under the
savage criticism. Mr.. Lynch explains
that he had nothing to do with the ar
of the receptions or the is
susnce of the invitations; that his
Eife's sister, who had charge of this
part of the business, was mad because
Aer sister married a nigge' = and re-
revenged herself by Insulting
the race. But there is no use
explaining, or trying to shiftthe blame
she prejudice exists, and though itmay
he hidden at times it cannot be over
come. Mrs. Lynch feels above the
other negroes in proportion as she is
whittier than they; it is condensation
on her part to associate with them, and
while she may permit them to come
about her as equals, she will not and
cannot feel that they are her social
equals. The color line" intellectually
will be obliterated long before it is So
ciaIly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04

SENATOR VEST, the other day, while
commenting on the abuses growing out
of the "leaves to print" their speeches,
granted to Congressman, showed that
the appendix to the Globe for the
Thirty-serenth Congress contained the
same speech purporting to have been
delivered by two members of the House.
The explanation was this. A member
of Congress contracted with one of the
literary fellows" hanging about the
capitol for speech on the tariff, the
price to be SIS. The speech was written
and turned over to the, statesman who
accepted it, but refused to pay more
than $50. The author accepted the
money, but without the knowledge of
the Congressman kept a copy of the
argument. Soon after another member
of the House applied to the same liter
airy chap for speech on the tariff, and
the same old speech was sold to him for
$50, who obtained leave to print, it
April "a, while Statesman Mol obtained
leave to print May 26. Neither speech
made its appearance until presented in
the appendix, where it appears in two
places, word for word. The exposure of
few of these abuses will put an end to
the practice ofpermitting timid or igno-
rant Congressman to publish pages of
speeches that were never delivered.