Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-18
JUNCTION JOTTINGS.
About Hemenway Marriott MAR
tyrs-Ogden District schools.


Vests clemency and Judge Zane's kind
ness opened for him the doors OF the
Weber county prison cell? Some have
laid even wagers that he will re-enter
the sanctum sanctorium of the Herald,
where he achieved such unenvable no.
toriety by doing great mischief; while
there are others betting that he will try
to make amends by occupying the editor
ial tripod OF the Ne,CS, upon which jour
nal he used to heap piles of lingual mud.
do not venture to decide whether the
Scylla or the Charybdis will swallow him
either alternative appears impossible
now. But let us remember that it is
the improbable and the supposed i'm
possible that occur most often.
The well-known publisher Of the North
lyestern Stock Journal, A. S. Mercer, Esq,
OF Cheyenne, is at the Broom Hotel, ac-
companied by his wife.
+. Altman, of Cheyenne, spent Wednes-
day in Ogden.
To-day was brilliantly sunshiny day.
| Old Sol's rays at noontime were agree
ably warm.
DR.. j. @. Taggart, one OF the leading
members of the medical fraternity OF
your city, registered at the Broom to-day.
The attendance at the Sacred Heart
Academy, most deserving educational
institution, is steadily increasing. The
worthy Sisters are winning the love of
their pupils and retain the confidence OF
the parents who entrust to them their
children.
II. p. SAKE, the great importer OF
thoroughbred stock OF all kinds, has Just
received tifty-three head of the finest
Holstein cattle, Of all ages and sexes,
ever brought to this market. They are
| for inspection and sale at the tithing
| yard, on the corner OF Fifth and Young
streets. Read his advertisement in this
issue OF the DEMOCRAT.
| We learn that X. p Harris, who was
elected County Treasurer OF Weber two
years ago, and who discharged his re-
sponsible trust to the entire satisfaction
of the public, has surrendered his Office
to James Pingree, who was elected on the
Richards ticket last August, although
there is an idea prevalent with some that
"Bob's" term has not yet legally ex-
PRED. But Mr.. Harris is man OF peace
and rather yields point than have a
| fuss.
MARRIoTTsvILLE MARTYRS.
Deputy Marshals Steele and Milestone
made haul on Tuesday night at Marri-
otis, village about five miles northwest
of Ogden. They descended upon the
premises of one James Burton and the
domicile Of old John Marriott, for both OF
whom they had warrants upon charges
of unlawful cohabitation. The capture
of some OF the necessary witnesses neces-
STATED a somewhat keen scent on the
part OF the officers of the law Burton
was taken before U. s. Commissioner
r. j. Black, where he waived examine
ton. George w. Driver and James Ii.
Shaw, leading business men OF this city,
signed his bonds, which were fixed at
$1,000. The other prospective martyr
from Marriotts, John Marriott, appeared
before U. S. Commissioner II. G. Ward
leigh, before whom he pleaded guilty,
| being thereupon placed under bonds of
81 800, which were furnished by Samuel
Horrocks, the Main street merchant and
ex-City Councillor, and Samuel Glasgow.
Thus the harvest continues with undi-
minished force and the scythes OF the
marshals are kept moving big swath.
By and by the threshing machine of the
court will have plenty OF business. 1t is
reported that there are now seventy-one
such cases awaiting the action of the
court and its various appendages. There
evidently will be many more 50 that the
question already arises whether by the
time the new penitentiary is really COM
menCed there will not be call for an
| other one, or one twice the size of the
one now to be erected.
OUR WARD SCHOOLS.
We should more properly say our
"District" schools; for when, Il number
OF years ago it was feared by the Church
authorities that there was a danger that
one OF the other existing four school pre-
Cincts in Ogden City might be wrested
from the ecclesiastical control by the
Liberal element, they hit upon the plan
OF consolidating the four into one, so as to
be able to swamp any possible Liberal
majority in the one by the assuredly
overwhelming majority in the other
three. We now have in Ogden
what is called central school, which is
held in one OF the finest educational
structures in Utah. In that there is an
academic department in two branches,
and grammar and intermediate depart
ments. Then there are the primary
| schools in each Of the four wards. the
Fourth one having two school houses,
owing to the large population of the
Bench, the real dwelling portion of the
city. 1t is not the intention here to ami
lnadyert with any feeling OF caviling hos
tility upon the qualification OF the teach
| ers Of the various schools. They evi.
IDENTIFY try to do the best they know how,
with the ineXperience of some and the
shallowness of others of them. But
were they Campes and PestalozZis they
could not be expected to obtain the de-
sired results, owing to the overcrowded
attendance in their class-rooms. There
IS the young lady teacher OF the Second
ward primary school, with an enroll
ment OF lO6 children. Why, Il Napo-
leon could not manage l0G Og-
den KIDS" let alone teach them,
another teacher has l04 under her
lerule, still another has 8j young ideas to
snow now to shoot, and others in similar
proportion, the least number OF pupils in
charge OF one teacher being 48, which is
by al modern educators acknowledged To
be the maximum to be allotted to one
pedagogue. But there we have the maxi.
mum more than doubled. No wonder
that all the parents who desire a thor
ough education for their children iorepo
the advantage Of cheaper tuition and
send them to the various mission schools
although in some Of the latter the tuition
is much higher. 4 radical change is
urgently needed This crowding of
bevy OF pupils into one building and
under the tutelage OF orfe person is de-
ieating the very ends of education. Let's
nave more schools and more teachers.
Ogden Cry, Utah, Nov. l8, 1886.
The baiio en- maschera, Wednesday