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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-01

Cash collected from August g, $780, to
June, 81, 1871 SCI, G.4 ~
Water rates charged to accounts on
le0ger----------------- -O-OOS %
Total paid for water rates 5ss 10
Paid by me TO city treasurer as per his
lbs recelptS------- ----------szi,V-a ~
UNcoLLECTED ASSESSMENTS.
There is vet outstanding and uncollected
s22 %. The amount is due from two private
homes at $ each, one private home Of IS, and
one butchershop at sii.25. The water in these
places has been shut OF and Will not be turned
on again until payment is made.
SPECIAL TAX FOR EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS.
The credit az counts on the ledger in my ONCE
are si36, i5i.64. The several accounts are held
by !. 32j taxpayers and range from 70 cents 10
81, 1895.
WATER TAPS.
June 30 1890 there were 3, l3S houses or bust
ness places supplied with water taps. During
the past year ,e6s new taps have been added
making a total Of s.4oo water taps in use at this
date.
ASSESSMENTS FOR 1891 AND 1892
have already commenced on the work OF
assessing for the ensuing year. AS yet 1 am
not able TO state the exact amount the assess
that IL will not fall much short OF SIS. 0)0. How
much OF the amount will be paid in cash and
how much charged 20 accounts on ledger / have
no means OF knowing.
L
books and accounts by the finance committee
CHRISTOPHER DIEHI,
4 Assessor ana Collector of Water Rates.
Received and filed.
DIFHL's REPORT.
| Collector Of Water Rates Diehl submit
ted the following annual report for the
year ending June 30, 1891:
CITY ENGINEER.
Engineer Doremus reported that he had
arranged with the military authorities for
a resurvey of the reservation for the pur-
pose of locating definitely the boundary
line between the city and the reservation
The same officer called attention to the
practice OF mounted horsemen and news
boys of riding over and along the sidewalks.
This practice would destroy the pavements
In snort time, and he suggested that 1t be
stopped. Referred to the marshal.
The same officer reported that the sum
of $3.50. 80 was due the Eagle foundry for
gates, screens, ETC., for the gate house In
City Greek canon. Appropriated.
COMMERCIAL STREET PAVING.
The board Of public works reported that
the Utah Asphalt company had furnished q
bond in the sum OF $500 to secure the pave
mept laid BY that company on Commercial
street. Adopted.
STREET bitches.
The city engineer represented that in
constructing sidewalk pavements in the
several districts, some provision should be
made for conveying irrigating water from
the street bitches to abuttinR property.
No instructions had been given him In re-
gard to Intersections and cr0sswalks, as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-01
STREET bitches.

The city engineer represented that in
constructing sidewalk pavements in the
several districts, some provision should be
made for conveying irrigating water from
the street bitches to abuttinR property
No instructions had been given him In re-
gard to intersections and crosswalks, e.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
NUMBER /.
a Turtles Nest.

In the town of Patten, place distant
from tidewater over ninety miles, there
is a great curiosity, known as the .tur-
ties nest" For ffty-two years turtle
has come annually to the nest to deposit
her eggs. Over half century ago she
selected her nest, then in an open field,
but now in a yard in front Of resi-
dence. A relative of the owner of the
house branded the date 1871 upon the
turtles back, and it can be plainly
traced now She comes about the same
date each year, and her first few days
are passed in inspecting the ancient
nest, the yard and surroundings.
Later she digs a hole in the ground
and there deposits her eggs. This year
she left forty-two eggs, but as many
We're carried away and the others often
disturbed, only about a dozen of the
eggs Matched out. The owner of the
house has ten of the little turtles, none
more than twice the size of postage
stamp. The old turtle always departs
after laying the eggs; the warm sand
and sun serve as an incubator.
This turtle has been seen at the Drew
Dead Water on the Mattawamkeae
river, fully fifty miles away from the
nest. Her weight varies from thirty to
thirty-tive pounds, and it is said she was
as large when branded as she is now.
Each June she comes to Patten, and is
always welcomed by old and Young
Bangor (Me.) letter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
1 Walking Back to the Big City.

Wrecks Of the early winter theatrical
season are already seen in New York
managers whose ventures have failed
after a few nights out of town, tired
looking actors who seem to have walked
home, and bedraggled looking women,
whose faces tell plainly of their disap-
pointments. It is the old story of poor
plays, poor houses and the refusal of the
ghost to do his weekly little pedestrian
act. And yet in the main the theatrical
outlook is very good, for with big crops
comes plenty of money and an army of
people to be amused. But it is the sur
vival of the fittest. The poor plays are
not patronized, and the managers of
many come to grief. There are many
familiar faces on the Rialto today, men
and women who started off a month
ago filled with hope. Some of them will
be glad to shovel snow for a living be-
fore spring.-Foster Coates in Mail and
Express. +. --- e59sE
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
A Bad Place for wrecLs

When vessel sinks in the channel
through Lake George flats, near Sault
st. Marie, there is plenty of trouble.
The value of the vessels delayed by a
wreck there recently is estimated at
1900, 900, and that of their cargoes at
&,0O0,000. At one time seventy lake
steam vessels were anchored on the east
side of the blockade and sixty on the
west side, and a new channel had to be
cut through the flats to allow them to
continue their ways Four dredges
worked day and night to make a channel
700 feet in length, 60 in width and so in
depth. It is said that the only way to
prevent accidents like that which caused
the wreck is to limit the speed of vessels
IN the channel. There was the. same
trouble at the st. Clair flats until men
were stationed at the ends of the chan
mel to time the vessels.-New York Sun.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
Hats or in the Synagogue.

The vexed question of chats on or
chats off, during public worship was
settled at the annual meeting of the
Anshe Chesed congregation, at the tenn
pie on Scoville avenue. The old Jewish
custom Of the male members of the con-
gregation wearing their hats during
public worship has always been in vogue
in this congregation. A number of the
younger and more progressive members
have objected to the custom, and it has
caused more or less discussion for several
years. The older members held tena-
ciously to their hats, and the younger
ones bided their time until they should
have sufficient majority converted to
their views to change the custom.
The matter was brought up at the an
nual meeting, which was very largely
attended. The hat question was dis
.cussed at great length, and several very
warm speeches were made on both sides.
1t was finally put to vote, and the
members who are opposed to wearing
hats We're victorious by decided ma
jority. The decision was that hereafter
the congregation shall worship with hats
off, but those who desire to retain their
head covering will be permitted to do
Cleveland Leader and Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
The Bursting of q Big Wheel,

The bursting of the great fly wheel
or perhaps more properly the driving
wheel-in one of the mills of Manches-
ter, N. H., illustrates Che ever present
danger hidden in the use of modern ma
chinery. There does not appear to have
been carelessness or even an accident
which usual caution or foresight could
have prevented. The automatic COVER
nor regulating the supply of steam to
the engine seems to have become clogged,
the engine suddenly speeded up and the
great wheel was set whirling at pace
that tore it into pieces by the enormous
centrifugal force thus generated, scatter
ing the entire building over the country
round about and crushing and wounding
the work people. This wheel was forty
feet in diameter, with face nine feet
wide, weighing fifty-fve tons and turn
ing, when run at the usual and safe rate,
sixty revolutions per minute. Boston
Commonwealth.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
A Hermit with Millions.

The coming novelist who will dissect
American character and hold it up to
the wonder or admiration Of the world
will find something worth studying in
the life of the hermit Of New York and
Newport who has just died and left
behind him the $1O,OOO,OOO he ached to
take away with him beyond the grave.
For ten years Edmund H. Schernner-
horn had lived in literally palatial
mansion at Newport, with his gates
locked against all but his physician,
surrounded only by servants, and living
in parsimony which contrasted strangely
with his once spendthrift ways. In my
boyhood had heard of him as the gay
est of gay young men about town, and
afterward as entertaining the fashiona.
Bile world at lavish expense in his
Twenty third street residence.
!. Then, after awhile, he wearied of So
cial pleasures, drew more and more
within his cell, became recluse and
scholar, and finally grew utterly unso-
cial. A bachelor Of seventy-fve when
he died on Thursday, he belonged to
one of the oldest of New York families.
Why the wild and luxurious bachelor
leader Of society became transformed
into the unsocial recluse is one of the
secrets at which. his friends can only
guess-they allege disappointment in
love-and which the novelist can spell
out to suit himself. Philadelphia Rec
ord o.. .s. a.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
Truck Loads of Money.

Did you ever see more money than you
could carry7 Comparatively few people
have, but such sight may be often wit
messed in the lower end of the city. AS
an incident to draw a crowd the loading
of truck with silver is very potent. A
custom house truck stopped in front of
one of the Broadway safe deposit insti-
buttons yesterday and men wheeled out
handcarts loaded with silver bars which
others tossed into the truck. They looked
very pretty the bars, mean-aud
crowds of people stopped during the pro-
cess and passed remarks upon their
weight and value.
It wasn't money, of course, but it will
be soon after Uncle Sam gets possession
Of it, and very snug fortune it will
make, too, in silver dollars. New York
Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
PRINCETON COUNTY MINNESOTA THURSDAY DEC "a 1891
TO Send Flowers BY releeraph.

Half dozen florists met at the Sher-
man house recently and tackled the task
Of circling tbs earth with flowers. That
is, they planned scheme which pro-
vides for a chain Of correspond dents
throughout the world to act together as
one concern for the purpose of executing
orders given in any part of the globe for
anything in floral arrangement from a
tiny buttonhole bouquet to an elaborate
bank of roses. In order to effect this
purpose an organization known as the
Florists International Telegraph Deliv-
cry association was started in Canada
last August
A majority of the board Of directors
do business in the United States. The
gathering was attended by H. S. Lie
brecht, of New York; G. B. Whitnan, of
Milwaukee, and Frank Hunts1nan, of
Cincinnati, all three members of the
board Of directors G.. L. Grant and
Joseph Curran represented the Chicago
florists. "Our purpose is" said Mr.. Lie
brecht, .'to make it easy for man in
Chicago, New York or Timbuctoo to
convey a bouquet to lady in any part
of the world, with lightning speed, with
out starting it from the point where he
himself may be.
"For instance, take person here in
Chicago having friend arriving or leav-
ing on an ocean steamer in New York.
He simply has to walk into the store of
our agent here and give his order. The
order is at once telegraphed to another
agent of the association in the place
where the flowers are to be delivered,
and there you are. We have come to
Chicago to perfect our rules and appoint
an agent. - Chicago Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
Tennyson at Aldworth.

Lord Tennyson's stay at Aldworth is
now drawing toward close, but he will
not be returning to Farringford for some
three or four weeks. He has not for
some years been SO strong and we'll as he
is at this moment, and there is no doubt
las heard q friend of his remark) that
the regular periodical changes from the
mild climate Of the Isle Of Wight to the
bracing air of a country lying 800 feet or
more above the sea level have had much
to do with his amazing vigor Of body
and mind. He has as usual been con-
stantly entertaining visitors from his
first reaching Aldworth, the latest being
Lord Dufferin and Theodore Watts, who
have but just left. London Globe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
A Wonderful Underground Lake.

An underground lake has been dis
covered three miles from Genesse, Ida.
It was found by well digger. At a
depth Of sixteen feet clear, pure lake
water ran out over the surface for a
time, then settled back to the earth's
level. The most curious part of it is
that fish were brought to the surface on
the overflow. They have peculiar ap>
pearance and are sightlesss, indicating
that they are underground fish. The
spring has attracted much attention.
and many farmers in the vicinity fear
that their farms will drop into the lake.
Boise Qda.) Statesman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
Robbed While Asleep.

A queer case was tried in the circuit
court of Louisville Friday. The defend
ant was man who was captured in the
act Of committing burglary. The de-
Tense set up the plea that the defendant
was somnambulist and was asleep at
the time he committed the deed and
was, therefore, unconscious of wrong
doing. The jury believed and acquitted
the man. Philadelphia Ledger,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24

| have opened my photograph gal
lery in Princeton and am prepared to
do work equal to the best. BABY
photos a speciality. Copying, enlarg-
ing, ink, oil and water colors done to
order. Prices reasonable and good
work guaranteed, rain or shine. Give
me q trial. ]. M. Cox, Artist.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-24
The Cedar Rapids Pump.

The Only Wood Pump furnished with Perfect and Pract
cal All Metal Bucket and Brass Valve Seat for Check Valve This
Pump Remarkable for it's of operation This due the
Metal Bucket which always fits perfectly avoiding all
friction The difference small chances
the Cheap John Pump with which the market flooded.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-08
nolme. ON Lltrrnr, A.pirant..

Nv Dear Madame:-I am always Vell
willing 10 read any specimens Of verse sem
me by literary asplranls. ana / snail Dee
ready 10 d. for You what have done FOR
scOTes-tO speak mOdelateiy-Ot Others.
At the same time have 10 confess that my
experience has been very discOuraging.
Poetic sensibllty AMI an ear for rhyme ana
rhythm are very cOmmen glits, and are
very often mistaken tor poetic genius bl
those who possess them and their friends.
You can well imagine that II - not
very agreeable task to undeceiNe those who
have been BATTERED into the idea that they
Possessed extraordinary powers. Yet this
is what have 10 do habitually, unless
choose 20 keep up the Illusion and betray
nv correspondents into false expectations.
am not an editor and have no connec-
ton with any periodical except as con-
tributor. Whenever any correspondents
wish 10 have their commune ltlOns pub
lished, | send them 10 the editor lany perl
Odcal they designate, and leave all the rest
to him, taking II for granted that he knows
what will suit his purpose bctter than
do.
am sorry TO say that the poems and
stories sent through me are almost lnyari-
ably declined. You VIII ask why! II il
because they me from this or that section
Of the country By no means. Mr.. How
ellis, from one Of the Western states Bret
Harte. from California, were eagerly wei
coined, while plenty of Eastern writers had
their pieces rejected boy our publishers. Is
it, then. because they are new and unknOwn
20 fame; No; The real reason is that new
writer match themselves against those Nhl
have proved their superiority. 10 Is just
like a village baseball club challenging the
BostOns.
have written YOU much more fully than
| commonly d., and more at length than |
should expect 10 again. But | do not wish
YOU 10 be disappointed. Your letter is frank
and fair. and You have your chances of sue.
cess like another. But Of the hundreds OF
thousands Of poems th 1t are written by our
educated and intelligent ladies very few arc
marketable. or remembered a week after
they are published. | am afraid you vi
not be made happier by my criticism, hui
am, nevertheless, yOur, very sincerely,
"OLINER WENDELL HOLMES"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-08
Highest ali Lsavening Power-U Govt Report aug ~ '
B Bs%s:9
ABSOLUTELY PURE
SMYTH COUNTY.
Settling Down to BusiDess-The Ice Crop.
MasrimOnial-Dsa cath OF Mr.. Alexander.

settling Down 10 Sntnet-ihe Ice crop
MasrimoniaI-Dsath OF Mr.. Alexander.
MARION, VA, Jan. I.-LSpecial.l-Now
that the holidays have closed, our people
have again settled down to business, and
our schools and colleges resumed labor.
The few days Of rain and warmth have
caused the snow TO disappear. our streams
were considerably swollen by the fall OF
rain and melting snow, but no damage OF
any kind has been reported. During the re-
cent cold snap q number Of our citizens ii
ed their ice-hOuses with fairly good quail
ty OF ice. and the weather being cold again,
hopes are entertained by those who failed 10
get ice then that they may yet do 80.
DR.. T.. I. Brady. assistant physician in
the asylum 1T this place, was married jan
uarv !. 1891. in Dawson. Ga. 10 Miss kath-
leen McNulty. He arrived here with his
bride on Saturday last. and they are the
guests Of Colonel John W. Richardson, our
County Treasurer, whose wife is a sister OF
Mrs Brady. They were given a reception
today by the officers OF the lgm, where
they will remain in future, occupying their
elegant suit Of rooms in the official wing oil
that institution.
The remains Of Nr. John W. Alexander,
who died at Elk Garden. in Russell county,
on last Friday, arrived here Yesterday, and
we're Inferred in Round Hill Cemetery TO-
day, Funeral services were conducted IN
the Methodist church by Rev. George W.
Miles, assisted by the pastor. DR.. j. ;. ken-
nedy. Mr.. Alexander was the son OF RT.
Frank Alexander, q the H0lston Confer
ence. and was twcnty-three years OF age al
the time OF his death
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-08
THURSDAY, JANUARY s. 1891.
PROSPECTS or IHE FORCE BILL

The ardent and sanguine friends Of the
Force bill have not yet abandoned hope OF
its ultimate passage. According TO our
Washington correspondent they are claim
ing that, although now put aside in favor
OF the silver bill, its consideration Is only
deferred, and that as soon as the Silver bill
10 disposed Of. which they claim VIII be
only matter Of few DAYS. the Force bili
will be again taken up and kept before the
Senate until it is passed. There are even
hints OF a deal having been made TO that
effect between silver Senators OF the west
and Force bill Senators Of the East, ana
that In case the latter will help the former
In their silver schemes, the former VIII, ID
turn, assist the latter in getting through
their pet measure.
There is very little likelihood Of there
being any truth whatever in this reputed
deal. II is far more likely that the silver
men will look to the Southern Senators for
assistance than to the East, since many OF
the Southern men have aYowed themselves
already In favor of free coinage. But, apart
from all this, 1t is hard TO see how such a
measure as that now before the Senate can
possibly be railroaded through that body.
The silver Senators are chiefly concerned
over the increased value which the passage
OF the Free coinage bill will give TO The
Western silver mines, and the wealth which
will be gained by their constituents, who
are mine owners. As soon as the bill
passes, If 1t does pass, every 4l211 grains OF
SILVER bullion they possess will be worth
one silver dollar, and. in consequence. the
price Of their silver product will be mate
rally enhanced.
While this is the main concern Of the Sill
yer Senators, the Senators from the East
are actuated by very different motives. The
West 10 the debtor Of the East, and the
latter section is soicitous about getting It's
money back in coin equal in value TO that
which was loaaed In the first instance.
The East, therefore, will as earnestly OPP
pose the free coinage of the 4121l grain dol
lar as tine silver men will advocate it, and
the contest between them must he pro-
longed.
There does not seem, therefore, that the
silver bill will so easily be disposed of, and
by the time it is finally acted ION, the ses-
sion will be considerably further advanced
than II Is at present. in fact the question
with which the majority will then be con-
fronted will he whether il will be better
to insist longer upon the passage OF the
Force Lill, which the people nave
already condemned, with the certainty
OF compelling an extra session oil
the Finy-secon Congress, or whether II
will be better to consider the necessary ap-
preparation bills, and so avoid the expense
and responsibility Of such extra session :
The conservative element of the Republl-
can party will certainly decide to take the
last mentioned horn of the dilemma, and SO
the Force bill may be considered as pracii-
eally buried.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-08
NEW HOTEL PROPOsITION.

There are several kinds Of property in
this community which are worthy OF the
special attention Of the capitalist,
not so much on account Of what they
are now, as ON account of what they
are certain to become under the influence
OF general expansion in the wealth ana
population OF Richmond and incidentally
OF the State and the South.
These forms OF property are, speaking IN
general, those that depend upon the pubic
ut large for their advance in value. A. our
population increases in numser and comes
into the possession Of more abundant
pecuniary means, these special forms Of
property must necessarily not only rise IN
actual value, but also widen in the extent
OF the profit which they hold out for the
future.
This truth, and the his tory of every great
CITY in the North and West shows IT To
be such, has a direct application to the
real estate OF Richmond and its vicinity;
but 1t has a special application TO the
proposition of building great hotel here
which will be distinguished for every met
ropolitan convenience and appointment
This proposition has been agitated LOT
many years, only 10 collapse in complete
failure, but the reasons which suggested
the proposition increase rather than ue-
cline in force. Every year that passes
without the hotel being erected, only makes
the success Of the experiment more assured
when IL 10 once undertaken.
Here 10 precisely one Of those enterprises
referred 10 by THK TINES on yesterday IN
ats comments on the establishment OF a
Southern magazine, which if taken up by u
small band OF capitalists could be carried
20 90 successful consummation that
feeling OF establishment would arise In the
community that the undertaking was de
ferred 30 long.
All the prevailing conditions are now
rips for the reinsuguralion OF the hotel
scheme. There is no form u investment
which any one or any set OF our capitalist.
could make which would insure more GER
tain or a larger degree OF profit.