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Year: 1877

yoEcan handle well, as they will only
emparrass you, and give you plenty of
trouble with no gain. Stand fast by
your money. Loan it if you can get
good security, otherwise invest it in
bonds and things OF that description.
But whatever you do, do not spend it.
Do not give it chance TO slip through
your fingers and 60 off east again, there
to be massed in few hands, and to make
the owner OF it cry out against its undue
volume and cheapness, and to take all
sorts OF measures to get its volume re-
duced.-,St Louis Repu6lica1.
Year: 1877

THE grand jury of Baltimore county.
Nd, has presented two Judges Of
the county circuit court for malfea-
sance in office. The presentment was
agreed upon while four of the grand iu-
rors were absent, and it is understood
that three of those present obtained the
action. The whole thing is a campaign
dodge to help on the election of certain
members of the grand jury, who are can
didates for county offices. In reply to a
reporter, Judge Yellott said that if he
does not have these grand jurors indicted
for perjury he will be liable to indict-
ment for felony, and that he means to do
his duty. The penalty for perjury is not
less than FIVE nor mere than ten wears in
the penitentiary.
Year: 1877

away from her home and joined a
party Of Mormon converts ready to
sail for America. On her arrival
at Salt Lake she was married to q
Mormon namedJ. Y. Thomas, who
lived about fourteen miles from the
city. She was his fourth wife, and
was by no means contented with
her lot. She ran away from him
two or three times, and was once
punished by being shut up in the
cellar for two weeks and being fed
on bread and water. No one knew
of Buckley's presence in the West
until he had reached Salt Lake and
began making inquiries about his
sister. He found out where she
was and rode out to the house, and
when he learned from her own lips
how she was situated his hot Eng
lish blood fired up to the boiling
point. He returned to the CITY to
secure an interview with the pro
phet. At the interview he was
given plainly to understand that
his sister must remain where she
was, and that Salt Lake City would
not be safe place for him after
twenty-four hours more,


Buckley purchased two horses
and additional firearms, and at II
o'clock at night set out for the
ranch, his object being to rescue
his sister from the house and ride
away with her. Spies had been
watching all his movements. When
he left the city three avenging an.
gels, one of whom was Case, rode
after him. In speaking of this
affair, Case said; Gle fought like 8
tiger. AS soon as he knew we were
after him he dismounted, let hi
horses 60, took cover behind the
rocks, and we did not get the droI
on hlm till one Of our angels haC
been killed and another wounded
We left his corpse on the road, and
it was generally believed that he
had been killed by robbers Or In,
dians."


Buckloy's sister knew enough 0.
Mormonism to suspect who hat
murdered her brother, and !. tht
tragedy preyed upon her mind unit
she became a lunatic, and one day
destroyed her own life.
Year: 1877




are telling how you 'scooped that
man in or got ahead of this one at
a bargain, The fundamental ele-
ments of truth, fidelity, justice,
honor, are universal, and should be
more taught in our schools than
they are. A child may commit the
whole bible to memory and yet be
a scamp. ItiS not enough to throw
an inkstand at the devil, as Luther
did; literature doesn't kill the devil,
and it is time, in all forms of busi-
ness, t. counsel integrity and make
conscience the rule Of mems con-
duct"
Year: 1877

A special dispatch from Detroit
to the Cincinnati Enquirer says:


"What ! have told you must not
find its way into printl" These
words were addressed to your cor
respondent in December, 1871, at
Omaha. The man who spoke them
was George p. Case, for several
years a resident of Bay county,
Michigan. l found him in Omaha,
at the date mentioned, sick, penni,
less and seemingly about to die,
and it was only when he had be-
come convalescent, and was about
ready 10 start for Mexico, that he
gave me the information used be-
low.


George P. Case was no more nor
less than one of Brigham Young's
paid assassins or avenging angels.
His acquaintance with Young was
brought about rather curiously.
He was at Salt Lake City, on his
way to California. This was in the
spring of 1866, and the Gentle
population of Utah was fast in
creasing. Being on the street at a
late hour one night, the prophet
was recognized by three or four
boisterous chaps, and they were
ready to give him rough handling,
but Case came up and took the old
mans part and beat them off. He
was asked to call on Young next
day, and before the interview closed
Case had hired to the prophet as a
detective. 1t was not long before
he discovered that his associates
were asSassins, and that asSassina.
tion would become part of his
duties.


Case was rough and reckless, but
he was neither a robber nor a muir
derer. When he found himself
pointed out on the streets as an
ayenging angel, he sought an inter
view with Young, and stated his
desire to resign his position.


at would be safer for you to
continue on" was the prophets re-
ply.


"But I don't want to-" Case pro-
tested; 81 want to go on to Califor-
MIA"


"Men who leave our service after
being entrusted with our secrets do
not always get along finely" Young
continued,


lie spoke very pleasantly, and he
seemed very friendly, but there was
something in his look and tone that
gave Case a feeling of uneasiness.
He was given a day or two to re-
fleet, and he finally decided to re.
main.


Case said that after once a Gen
tile had been given over to the
avenging angels he was a dead
man. They might put him out of
the way at once, or might delay a
month, according to circumstances,
but the shadow Of death walked by.
the victims side from the moment
his name was handed to the "an-
gels" In some cases the victim
was imprisoned for time, in or
der to extort information, or for
reasons best known to the church.
When once the dungeon doors had
shut behind him, no man came
out alive. In some cases the dead
body would be left on the street,
ard it would be made to appear
that the man had been waylaid. In
other instances it was carried out
on some highway, or flung into the
lake, Many of the Gentiles, and
more particularly those OF wealth
and standing, had nothing to say
against the church, bat in many
cases gave it more or less support.
Such people had no cause for fear.
Other Geptiles were fierce in their
dennpciations, and sometimes pro-
yoked quarrels; bRt unless they
needed the contents Of warning
letter their tongues were soon ST.
fenced.


One day in 1867 William Foster
Buckley, Of Birmingham, England,
arrived in Salt Lake in quest Of his
Year: 1877

The London Spectator gives the
following account of the process of
training African elephants in Alex
andra Park, near London:


"The 'juniorest' elephant is
selected to have his lesson first, and
comes singing down to the ring in
his heavy trot; the occasion is quite
a private one, but there's a Nubian
looking on, who has learned the
English method of applauding, and
he softly claps his black palms to-
gether as the pupil entangles him
self in his rope to begin with, and
feels up Mr.. Felix's sleeve for con
ISOLATION in the shape of carrots
He does not get them at this stage
Of the proceedings, but he knows
they are coming, and it is very
funny to observe him, in the midst
Of his lesson, twitching his trunk
in some new direction, which it
suddenly occurs to him to explore,
and then he resumes his studies as
if he had not had a momentary
distraction.


"He weighs seven hundredweight
at present, and if he can only be
kept from injurious foods and in
hammatory diseases will grow to
ten feet high, it is expected, and
furnish a remarkable refutation of
the general notion that African ele-
plants cannot be highly trained.
They are not, indeed, equal to the
Indian elephants in Intelligence /;
one has only to look at their brain.
box to see that, but the four little
elephants, all newly come into Mr..
Felix's hands, are making rapid
progress under the system of kind
ness, patience, praise, reward and
mot knocking about Come, my
babyp That's a fine boy! 'Ah,
brave, brave; you are beauty!'
Fine boy! beautiful boy Such are
the phrases, perpetually repeated,
which encourage the big little
scholar as he climbs on wooden
pedestal, lifts one clumsy leg after
another, admonished by a gentle
tap of his teachers stick-neyer
used to hurt or frighten him-or
turns his numbering body in the
valse which, when he is perfect in
the accomplishment, will be hailed
with peculiar delight by the public.


"The valse is performance
which the little elephants learn
very readily. They are at first held
by one huge, tapping ear, and
turned by the teacher, whose steps
they follow-the movement comes
easily to them; after two or three
lessons, they need only to have the
stick held on the side from which
they are to turn; a few more, and
the wave Of the teachers hand in
the required direction is enough.
Three Of Mr.. Felix's pupils are as
yet not sufficiently advanced to APP
pear in public; it was most inter
esting to see how they took in the
idea Of what was required of them,
and to hear him praise them when
they succeeded in doing what he
indicated. He never lets them be
tired and observes them so closely
that. when the clever little black
elephant was coming on finely in
the art of rolling a barrel with his
loreleet-it was delightful to see his
satisfaction when he discerned what
he was to do, and that his bind feet
were to be kept clear of the barrel
Year: 1877

London World


The last sensation in ballroom
manners comes to me from Trans
vaal, our newly-annexed colony.
The ball was given in honor of Sir
Theophilus Shepstone. The ball
room was only eighteen feet by
twelve, lighted by four candles on
the wall, and a much smaller room
opened out of it, lighted by two
candles stuck in black bottles. The
floor was of mud and after each
dance was profusely watered, till a
perfect bog was made in one spot.
The young ladies were prismatically
gorgeous in their dress. But the
one great feature was that each of
the chaperons had an infant in her
lap, whom she openly, and without
disguise, fed from natures fount.
| commend the idea to ladies in
London, who have reached the limit
OF display of charms possible with
out the excuse of the infant.
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tising; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of rO-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not be-
abused when 1t can be helped. We want.
therefore,
The Advertising Patronage
of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms Shall be In Harmon


with the business Outlook.


Send In Your Favors.
Year: 1877

confer with the Pennsylyania Railroad company wiz"
power to make such they may think advisable
for the prosecution OF suits In connection with the ra
road company against Aleehany County pIoyideo thas
the railroad company furnish the said claimants Will
guarnee Of the payment OF such losses within perloo
fWa
Year: 1877

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because
the edges Of his hair look as if they
had been chewed off by an absent
minded horse, but you tell it by the
way he stops on the street and wig
gles his shoulders. When q fond
mother has to cut her boys hair, she
is careful to any annoyance and mess
by laying a sheet upon the carpet
1t has never occurred to her to set
him on the floor, and put the sheet
around his neck. Then she draws
the front narrower his eyes and leaves
it there, while she cuts that which
is at the back. The hair which lies
over his eyes appear to be on fire
She has unconsciously continued to
push his head forward until his nose
presses his breast, and is too busy to
notice the snuliling sound that is be-
coming frequent. In the. meantime
he is seized by an irresistible desire
to blow his nose, but rccollects that
his handkerchief is in the other room.
There is Il fly lights on his nose, and
does it so unexpectedly that he in
voluntary dodges, and catches the
point of the shears in his left ear
At this he commences to cry and
wishes lie was man. But his moth.
doesn't notice him. She merely hits
him on the other ear to inspire him
with confidence. When she is done
she holds his jacket collar back from
his neck, and with her mouth blows
the short bits from his head down
his back. He calls her attention to
this fact, but she looks for new
place ON his head, and hits him there.
Then he takes the awful disfgured
head to the mirror and looks at it,
and, young as he is, shudders as he
thinks what the boys viii say,
Year: 1877

One of the crying evils Of these
times is the tendency and disposition
of girls to get through girlhood hur-
riedly and get into womanhood, or
rather into young ladyhood, without
enjoying the beautiful season of girl
hood. Speaking on this point, Bish-
op Morris says;


"Wait patiently, my children,
through the whole limit of your girl
hood, Go not after womnn.hood; let
it come to you, Keep out Of public
view. Cultivate retirement and
modesty. The cares and responsible
ties of life will come soon enough
When they come you will meet them
| trust, as true women should But
oh, do not throw away your girlhood.
Rob not yourselves of this beautiful
season, which, wisely spent, will
brighten all your future life"
Year: 1877

A woman writes to find out what
evil genius IL is that always leads Il
man into the pa?lor to black his
boots on the best ottoman, rather
than on the moro convenient wood
box in the kitchen? And why n
man always walks away from the
wash stand when he begins to wipe
his face, and drops tho towel half
way down the stairs, or out in the
front.yard, or wherever he may be
when his face is dried2 Good, land,
womanl do we know the unlathoma.
blc2 We suppose its the same inn
pulse that always makes 4 woman
stand before the glass TO comb hCr
buck hair, or button her polonoisc'
Year: 1877

1t is n fact not altogether unwor-
thy of mention that the man who
compels his wife to use n broken
stovo.lid for seventeen or eighteen
consecutive years, seldom complains
Of the expense consequent upon pro.
viding his yellow dog with the latest
thing in patent automatic mUasICs
each gOaeOu.
Year: 1877

Philadelphia Bulletin: When the
foreman Of the composing-room
knocks form into "pi" now he
doesn't have it reset as Of yore. He
simply slaps it into the press as it is,
and the newspaper is run Off with u
war map up 70 the average.
Year: 1877

1t is about time for the regular an
nual scientific paper on the presence
of deadly poisons in all the prevailing
colors Of all wall paper-followed, as
usual, by the announcement ofa new
shade of wall paper in the market.
Year: 1877

New York Herald; A Chicago girl
is so modest that she refuses to let
the clothes remain on the line dur
Ing the day. In our neighborhOod
the tramps refuses to let the clothes
remain on the line during the night.
Year: 1877

"But I thought you went to the
ball."


$50 I did, and heard the story Of the
blue silk dress, and found that there
was no one I cared for there, or any
where else in all the world, except in
this old kitchen"


Carrie blushed, and shook down her
yellow curls over her tear-stained
cheeks.


What change had come over the
old kitchenI How bright and cheer
full everything seemedl What hap
py, happy Christmas it turned out to
be after all


The next morning the dry goods
clerk brought up package for Car
rie, containing the blue silk and the
dainty gloves. she guessed we'll
enough whose hand had sent them.


Miss Hunt was called upon, and the
dress gotten up magnifcently; but
when Carrie wore it, it was no Christ
mas ball, but to her own wedding.
Year: 1877

BEAUTY OR BRAINs.-If it was op-


tional with all women to be intelligent


or beautiful, but forbidden to be both.
which of the two gifts, beauty or brains
would the majority of the sex prefer?
This is delicate question; but if put
to vote we are inclined to think that
beauty would carry the day. Men
bow down to feminine loveliness, but
as rule they all fight shy of feminine
wisdom. Some of them even seem to
regard it with jealousy, as an infringe
ment on their prerogative. It is true
that several tough old philosophers
have inveighed against the influence
Of beauty, stigmatizing it as short
lived tyranny" a silent fraud"
mere accident of nature" and the
ike; but the probability is that these
,austic fellows had made bids for it in
Tain, and that the acidity of temper
hey displayed was ascribable to "soup
,rapes."
Year: 1877

All opinions should be respected, even when
they are sincere.


The prettiest woman in the world cannot
give what she has not got.


Women travel to see what is talked about,
men 10 talk about what hes been seen,


An Englishman would be exceedingly NOR
titled if he had no faith in another life
Tdine


When we are wise enough to know that it is
best to laugh, then we are past laughing.


If you would please a pretty woman, don't
talk to her of her beauty, bat of the homeliness
of others.


We have our friends go long as we truly miss
them. They are gone indeed when we no
longer grieve for them.-Bello10s


In the domain of the passions man might
attain to the level of the monkey if he only
had his frankness.-ChQrles Joliet.


For three women out of four the attraction
of travel is chance to dine at table d'hote
and sleep in strange bedroom.


My head to-day is perfectly barren, and you
will find Inc stupid enough; for a frit nd has
been here and we exchanged ideas.-Heine.


How is it that a woman sees SO readily that
she is loved, but never can find out that she 10
loved no longer? This is French question,
of course.


When a man returns home at night and
kisses his wife with more than ordinary tender
ness, she may be pretty certain that he has
been in mischief.-Joaquin Miller.


"God may have been in a just mood, but He
was not in a merciful one, when, knowing that
they were to be in the same world with men.
He made women. The Story Of AUis.


With the growing rapidity and desperate uni
formity of modern means of transportation,
the taste for travel is less an impulse of Curl
osty than an itch to be moving. We no longer
travel, we shift places.
Year: 1877

The children of povertyi my heart beeds
when think of them; the children simply
covered by rag; the children of famine and
OF starvation the children of drunkenness and
the children of crime, flotsam and jetssm upon
the wild, rude sea of life; the children in al
leys that crouch in corners when they hear the
unsteady step of drunken brute Of father:
the children, little babies with drinking moth
ers; the children, too, of the rich that have 10
iberty-these little children that are crushed,
that ara tramped upon, that are frightened,
pity them all, from the bottom Of my heart.
what right have you to tyrannlze over a child?
L have very little respe ct for man that can
not govern child withOutlbrute force Think
OF whipping childreni Why, they say that chill.
dren tell lies. Yes, cowardce is the mother of
lies. Tyranny is the father OF lies. Suppose
man who is as much larger than yon as you
ere larger than a tVe-year old child, should
come to you with pole in bis hand: "Who
knees would knock together, and you would
swear that you never saw the plate, or that it
was cracked when you got IT,


Think of a member of the Board Of Exchange
whipping one of his children for prevaricstiug.
Think of lawyer testing his own flesh and
blood because he evaded the truth. Think Of q
dealer 10 stocks punishiug his child for setting
af1oat false reports. What an inconsistency 1
lhluk or II Ii you should hereafter wuip your
chlld, wish you could have your photograph
taken when doing so, with brows corrugated
with anger, your cheeks red With wrath
and the little child shrinking, trembling,
crouching and begging! If this child should
happen to die, wouldn't it be sweet in the su-
tumn when the maple leaves are turning TO
gold anh wnen the scarlet vines run like sad
reeret out OF the earth-wou,du't it be delight
ful to go AID sit on the mound that covered the
flesh yon bad beaten and look at yourself in the
act of whipping that child?


Now, think of it; think of it.; and if all I say
tonight will save one blow from the tender flesh
OF infancy, L am more than paid


have known men to drive their own children
from their lors, and then get down on thsir
knees and ask God to watch over them. will
never ask God to do a favor for a chlo Of mine
while 1 can do it. Never. Another thing:
There is nothing in this world like being honest
with these children. Do not pretend you are
perfection; you are not; and if one of them
happens to tell story, do DOT let on as II the
whole world was going to burst. Tell them
honestly you have told thousands of them.
Year: 1877

He was large man-weighed over 300
pounds then, but when met him three weeks
later be weighed less than l25.


He has been sick


The seven-line-nine- hour effort was too much
for him


But 1t was not ell lost. He never advised an
editor again.


Neither did he ever Compose for o paper
again.


1t was hard work for him to write aud be
saw he was not cut out for an editor,
Year: 1877

Although there was not full vote when
the silver bill passed the House decided ma.
jority of the whole number of representatives
voted for it. The passage of the bill is not
due to absenteeism, but is the result of ''pure
cussedness." Just as the country is within
reach of gold payments our legislators
choose to throw our currency again into con-
fusion and indefinitely postpone the return to
a sound financial system.


The bill was rushed through without de-
bate, under suspension of the rules. There
was but one argument to be made in its
favor, that it affords wonderful facilities for
cheating everybody in general and the public
creditors in particular; and its advocates had
enough sense of shame left to avoid making
that plea. As. no arguments advanced
against it could have any effect upon the ma
jorty of the House it is perhaps as well that
it was not debated; it would have
been humiliating thing for the country had
one of its representatives defended the meas
ure because of its extraordinary advantages
to swindlers, and other defense there is
uOUo. lue ITlcDuS OF Lno RECOMMENDATION OF
the old silver dollar will not listen to the les
soDs of past experience. Like the girl who
wanted to test the wickedness of dancing
herself they want to test the folly of de-
precated and unstable monetary medium.
Did the experiment only affect themselves
there would be little objection to its trial; but
unfortunately IN the jig they are dancing the
expenses of the fiddler fall upon the whole
country.


There are yet two hindrances to overcome
before the bill is law; it must pass the SEN
ate and receive the approval of the Presi-
dent. 1t does not seem possible that the
Senate will vote for measure which will
have the effect to turn us back when we are
SO far advanced on the way to prosperity
and which will place us at SO great disadvan-
tage in the markets of the world. But should
the Senate yield to the craze the President
must veto the bill or prove recreant to his
duty and false to his record.
Year: 1877

For the last two years the country has
been hard at work readjusting its business
for specie basis. A Democratic House o
Representatives is threatening TO destroy al
this labor and effort.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used