The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-06
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An Interesting Letter from
Pauncef0rt.
CARLETON AND EMMA NEVADA.
"Reminiscences AZ Other bays yreaclt.
for fickets-Fhe Cohcert-The
Opera-VGu ieyilie.


well remembered for his histrionic ard
scholarly abilities will be read with in
terest, and we make the following selec-
tons from the epistle.
1t is dated Yokohama, Japan, Race
Course, October 23rd, and opens:
Il received a most welcome letter
| from my old c)mrade, prompted and
prodded on tothe same by his mt ca bet
| ter half. BY the same mail came batch
o. papers from Joe Bull, Bob Neslen,
1.-THE Methody" and 2. M.-for all our
best thanks. You can't think how
pleased am to 90 over the Old ground
and compare the past with the present,
though, Master Phil, it takes devil of
a stretch of Imagination 10 realize the
changes that have taken place; not so
much the enlargement of Salt Lake
City in buildings and population. raj
roads, ETC.; but such headlines in
papers as Fashion and Gossip "A
Lawn Party 'Myriads of Lights The
Doodle Dashers of the North and the
enormous string of young pullets that
graced the festivals of Terpsichore,
where valses, polkas, mazurkas, and
gallopadeS succeeded each other in
T Ipid succession.
"Dear Old Dick Margetts, the finan-
cier, reguieScdt IN pace, is the true wish
of your friend, G. 2. ]. B. Kelley gone
too, Maiben and Mrs. Colebrook. | am
very much surprised at Harry Bowring
leaving Salt Lake. remember me to him
most kindly. He fully deserved that
his tawny Saddlery should have pro-
crossed in a ratio with the city itself
Dave Mckenzie is by this time, I su, :
pose. -. [ don't know on VIII It
elevation to place him, seeing that j. T.
Cainr h : become a member of PaTlia-
mant. You see, / have great many
! California papers and also some from
Victoria. 3. g., and they give me all the
salient matters that appear about the
Norm ms. confess that this prosec /
ton or living with more than one
woman puzzles me. Polygamy we
know is against the law of many coun-
tries, and though one wife may traE-
sport q man with 10y yet two will tram
! sport him fer the term of his natural
lie. But unlawful cOhab' tation is uni
versal all over the globe. In continent
a. countries, the houses are licensed :;
how comes it that the Mormons may
nos have one wife and several miStreSSes
though they are in Mormonism act
nal wives? Heavens, that has been Dis
Gu ed in your circle Qd naHyeGn
You ask me TO relieve the distress that
pervades the mind Of Mrs. z relative
to my pluraliieS. There never was
more Imaginative tale created. had.
! and nave no wives, nor the number o
/ femal servants that could be mistaken
! for such. Ny present establishment
! consists of my hOusekeeper and cook
in one, and a general servant with an
occasional boy when required. never
wore a beard, never, | was the best
advertised man in the United States,
British Columbia and England, free
gratis and for nothing. / received let
/ teTs from all parts where | had acted
from correspondents who knew me, but
was ignorant of them, each letter con-
/ tanning a column of print more or less
! from the local press, set up with CAPT
/ tails and loaded lines, according TO the
various fancieS and genius of the COM
/ p0sitor, such as:
He WEARS No SHOES
HIS BEARD FLOWING MAJEsrTCALLY 10
Hrs WAIST
/ HIS FOURTEEN WIVES or THE LARGE
NosED RACE.
! THE PoLyGAMoUs JOHN MlLDNAY!
SrERNBoLD TO THE RESCUE,
THE VIGOROUS OcToGEXAR1AN!
The PATRIARCH GEoBGE!
From New Orleans, New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, ST. Louis. Montreal,
Texas, Memphis, Denver, and every
where else. / ought to have a separate
post Office, such was the enormity of
the correspondents.
General Van Buren,, Tia late United
States Consul for Japan, called at my
house here one day some time ago.
! He had Just returned from j visit TO
I the United States. He told me he had
met in San Francisco with a gentleman
| who made 10 end oi inquiries about
me, and who seemed most anxious for
my well doing. He gave him his card.
which he had lost, and he couldn
/ think OF his name Tor the life of him.
| asked the General 10 describe the
style OF the man. He replied that be
was theatrical man, with a very short
nose-Or the contrary. Aha | have
! Yes, that was the name | was very
glad indeed TO hear of the old fellow, for
he was ,andis of the right race. l see by
the notices of trials to come off that the |
United States w. II. u. Clawson ap-
pears. Give he, my best wishes, with
the hope that be may come off with /
flying colOrs. | see there is another
editor of the Dcseret News. | suppose
that Albert Darlington is no more. |
see that pleasing amenities of Repression
occur between the Salt Lake HERALD |
and the daily Tribune, it being quite |
plain that they are franticauy attached 7
to each other.
Where is the ancient Charles Cole /
brook and John Squires. the barber? I!
What has become of my old Tooele col /
league, I. y. Lyme? Never till life ends |
shall l forget that Barrel and me
pouring in the treacle in return |
for tickets of admission, and Bishop |
Clark at Grantsville telling the brethren |
and sisters about our taking butter and !
not taking eggs. Good heavens and
earth, what a scene! No farce that !
ever was written could equal it, if it |
could be presented with the original |
cast. If Lyme is living amongst You |
now, remember me TO him in all kind |
ness, and also Mr. Delegate Game. That |
upright department and gray age have !
brought him honor.