The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-29
Newsy Reading from Herald
Correspondents.
TIE CONVENTION At PROVO.
Brisham's Prize Commissioner
Notes from Mount PLEASANT
Provo Points.

The BRIGHAM orchestra furnished
music for the Syracusans on Sunday
Lass.
WILLARD induig d Ia q cloud-burst
on Saturday evening; the downpour
for few minu,es, was terrific.
A. S. CLARKE, of New York. seeking
health. recreation and pleasure, LETT
fown Wednesday morning rather I'M
ceremo niouSly.
The eclipse on Tuesday evening re-
minded one strongly of Scriptures
propnecy waere the moon Is to be
tUrned into blood"
H. E. ROWLING, returned missionary,
and NJ. W. Dalton, OF Willard, Were
the speakers at the Tabernacle en- SUI
day evening.
THESE are the days that take the
starch ont of oolsd shirts, melt cuffs
and collars and stick postage stamps
together in thesinslde pocket.
s. JEsPEasoN. merchant tailor and d
newcomer, living with j. q. Gssberg,
Main Street, lost child last week.
THOMAS NJ. and Ray Wright Evans
have the sympathy Of host OF friends
aud relatives in the demise of littlt
fSSSlJ q oW LII Si4iANA Va VhISO
summers.
n. B. HoKANsoN, known to the public
generally as old man "BoOnison,' :;
resident of the Fourth Ward, died re-
| Gently, of old age and general debility.
HARRINGTON and Kate how does il
lookP The Orthography IS not 80 bao
as the living, loving, glazing, staring,
s,ecn reality. What viii the end beP
w. Il. BooTHE went to the Collinsto
RACES on the. Tweuty fourth tasin
Olitepa and Snip, runners, aud Giancer,
| trotter. He scooped the local sports II
fine share, winning every race Of the
| Week. 9Iancer is owned by E. ii.
| PIERCE but belongs TO the Boothe stable.
a PsDIeREED Jersey bul', harnessed to
p quaint-looEing breaking cart and
manipulated by John N. Boothe made
oceans of fear for the spectators who
gazsd admiriDgly upon the procession
ON the Twenty-fourth.
| RRv. l.. Olson has come to town to
| stay, he hailsfrom Nephi and succeeds
| the absconder StaalDorg in the manage
ment of the scandinavian Methodist
| Mission here. We trust he will be more
worthy our confidence and esteem than
WAS his parochial predecessor.
Freddie Kelly, 13-yesr-old son of
President Charles Kelly, was badly
turned about the head and face with
powder while the cannon was being
fred on Tuesday morning. 1t was
feared for q time that be would lose the
sight of one of his eyes, but hopes are
now entertained for better results.
JOE FACKER figured in a runaway,
He was pitched into q ditch with his
wife, aHd had buggy wheel turned
inside out. These were the only cas-
ualties of the day, SO far as We have
learned.
ANOTHER noisy crowd to the Hot
! Springs; more racing, another run
away; more horses manned III wire
| fences. and another big livery bill to
foot. This may be fine sport, boys, but
it's just as dangeroussas it ia expensive,
and BESIDES, it's not becoming, You
know; better stop il or the girls will re-
fuse longer to accompany you on these
hazardous larks.
YOUNG Lindsay, of Deweyyille, was
riding race; his horse became unman-
| agsa6le: hindsay's leg collided with
fence post, knocking the post
down and cracking the shin bona
| in two places. Horse and rider
then became entangIed IN q wire fence.
The boys right leg was terribly LARGER
| sted and DR.. Davidson, who was sent
| for, found it necessary to take seven
stitches TO close up the wound in the
thigh and two in another ugly cut.
OeDEN's report in to-day's HERALD
of the Brigham celebration is good so
far as il goes, but like grandfather's
clock, il " stopped short" at the noon
hour. From the tabernacle the i'm
mense gathering repaired 10 Gidney's
Grove to partake OF the city's bospi
| ta'ity and feast from private baskets
and tbs public crib: thence to Young's
Grove, where athletic snd concomItant
outdoor exercises were freely indulged
in and for which prizes were literally
| offered. The days exercises concluded
with bali in Young's grove at mid
night instead of winding up in the
tabernacle at midnight,
ALBERT HURD, OF Snowville. drove
his horses into Bear river for drink
t6e bottom appeared smooth aud nard :,
but appearances are so deceptive as
the sequel shows. 1t proved to
be quicksand and the amin ais had
barely commenced to slake their thirsl
when down they went, nearly out of
sIS0G, ana WQutu DOtG nave been
drowned but for the timely arrival of
young Kotter upon the scene with a |
pair of good pulling horses. He found |
just enough of the drowning equines' |
heads above sand and water to hitch |
to, and soon had them snaked ashore
Hurd said ne heard of such
thing before, bu >ad never seen it;
next time he will t-erd his horses on
the bank and water with pail.
HARRINGTON and Kate" and Mrs. @.
went berry picking and picnicking up
the canyon on the oath, and had q
scrap" with q couple of Mantua
youths. The boys were subsequently
arrested by Deputy Eggleston, taken
before the same individual they had
guarreiled with and one OF them was
to the tune of SCI; the offense
being that the boy had threatened to
pitch Harrington and Kate's" buggy
into Box Elder Greek if they did not
get it out of the centre of the road so
be could pass. Thus the moral re-
work moves grandly on.
The boy appeared without counsel. and
was frightened into paying4the sci. A
commercial man. who was
present at the examination. said he had3