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Year: 1871

A rumor-whcnce it camc or whither des- tined. we cannot say-reached Prescott this week, to the effect that most of Lieutenant Wheel r's escort of Cavalry had deserted him, raking their horses, an ambulance, etc, and leaving him and his party of scientists alone and on foot, at some point this side of the Great Colorado river. Military men put no faith in the rumor yet should the other ru mor-that he had sent into Camp llualpat for an escort-be correct, the men ot his old escort, who belong to Trnop"I, 3d Cavalry, may have left ,hc Lieutenant and bis party in the urch We hope not, however, as We look to the Lieutenant and his party to make a complete exploration, this summer.
Year: 1871

The peace of the city of Paris is again threatened. The popular mind is again torn by political dissensions that threaten to es- tablish anarchy upon the ruins of the infant Republic. The l6th of August was the fete day of the First Napoleon, and the rumor that the Army would, on that day, revolt against the Versailles government and de- mand the Empire, with MeMahon as Regent, caused general panic. Thousands fled from the city, in terror

 The unreliable spirit of the French people was never more clearly evinced than at pres ent Thiers, lately the admired of all who has done so much for France who snatched the shattered fragments of the vanqulshed Empire from cauldron of civil war aud was the chief architect in the work of building up a Republican government, founded upon the principle of liberty, is now the hated and envied Uf all. He is still Chief of the Asseu- ply, but is liable to be swept away by revo- lntionary wave, at any moment It is evil dent that even the overthrow of the Red Re bellien has failed to restore the confidence of the people.
Year: 1871

James Collins, Frst Lieutenant of the First Cavalry, having ordered a soldier to discharge bis carbine at target before which a trumpeter was standng-thereby causing the shooting and killing of the trumpeter- has been tried by court-martial, found guilty of < conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline" and dismissed the ser vice. The civil authorities should now take him in hands, find him guilty of 'rnurder in the first degree" and dismiss him through a a trap door after having first secured bis neck to the end of ahempen cord, so as to "b break J his fall
Year: 1871

The cornerstone of what is to be a mag nifcent store was recently laid at San Der nardino, California Among the newspapers deposited in an iron vase, under the stone, were copies of this paper.

 The heat was intense III in the shade.

 The ladies were preparing to give grand ball, with the view of raising money to build Masonic Hall. All of which we learn from the Guardian
Year: 1871

MuRKY and chill was The report that
rame down to lis nj pretty early hour
last evening from the Register office. The
author Of the dogma had gone to the
country, the editor was in II fl Of the
blues and the ROSTERS had ali gone to
ruost The lNTELLtGENCER office was
filed with Jolly crowd till late hour.
They were jolly over tho gain of i93 in
this Ciiv
Year: 1871

come forward and take the choice seats in
the tabernacle, with plenty of voters to
give and ensure them the political power of
the State, that they may WELD it for the
prosperity of the people; but listening to
the siren song of locoiocoism they hesitate.
In the meantime, let US repeat what our
Richmond Republican contemporary, the


State Journal, told them few days ago
they will have to continue under the rule
of the "carpet-baggers, scalawags and
for the locofocos will not be al
lowed again to rule and ruin this State.
Year: 1871

~ 'iiS otONNiiViuSio . vi SSNSi al tiiOuSdiu uoi-
lars. 1t is great accommodation to those
who have long distance to travel, and in
TACT has become one of the necessities OF
every city that makes any pretensons to
size and rcspectability.


The running of cars, in city like Rich
mond, is surrounded by many, difficulties ;
among them no greater one is experienced
then that of making distinctions between
the white and colored people, who are dis
posed to make convenience of them.


A difficulty OF this character occurred
this morning. MIR. John Oliver, a respect
able colored man, connected with the inter-
nal revenue department, In attempting to
ride on car No. ., complains that he was
forcible elected from the car by the driver,
and that such violence was used and he so
roughly handled as to receive severe bruises
and injuries. Whatever may be the facts,
he bears marks of violence, which were re-
ceived, according to his statement, by the
rough and violent treatment of the driver.


PreferIing to hear both sides of the ques-
ton, we called upon the president of the
road, (Nlr. Hoy0 who informed us that the
driver attempted by persuasion to induce
MIR. Oliver to leave the car, and that after
several repeated refusals, he took him by
the arm and used some force to put him
off: gI


We mention this case i'll order that we
may show the colored people some of the
difficulties under which the city railway la
bors, and to give few words of advice to
them as well as to the drivers in charge of
these cars.


We have no prejudice that would induce
us to leave a car, because q colored woman
or man was in it alone, and that would per-
init us to remain, 2rortded that individual
was lucky enough to have in charge some
white gentleman's baby. Not of this class
are we; but there are number OF silly
persons who do entertain such pr9udtcc,
tor it can be nothing else) and 1T is con-
fined Principally to weak-mlnded women.


The city cars must be supported, and if
they are not, then their owners will sell
them and nobody can ride. The question
then Is, shall we have them at all ? SO
long as this prgnd'ce lasts, the colored
people must submit to such regulations as
are adopted, or falling to do this will sub
Ject the company by suit or otherwise to
such loss as will induce them to sell out the
enterprise.


1t was by order OF former military
commander that the present regulation OF
distinguishing cars, provided for white and
colored persons, was adopted. and so or
dered as perhaps the easiest solution OF the
difficulty. The colored people do not sup
port the cars asslgnodto them, equally with
the whites; II they did, and more cars were
required for their accommodation, they
would be furnished by the company.


The question OF a colored mans right to
rae IN any OF the cars need not be consider
ed by us, Tor while zoe say they have the
Year: 1871

The Convention yesterday was one Of
the best in material and one of the most
courteous and harmonious in temper that
ever met in this county, The delegates
appeared to be animated by the single de-
sire tosecurc the choice Of the very best
and strongest men in the county, without
reference to locality or personal prefer
cnces, The city delegates expected that
one Of the nominees for the Convention
would be taken from the country, and in
accordance with this understanding two
gentlemen were nominated for the coun.
try district But when all the nomina'
tions were before the Convention, the
country delegates themselves were i'm
pressed with the belief that the names
presented from the city were the strongest,
and voluntarily and unanimously with
drew their candidates and made the nomi.
nations by acclamatlon, We believe this
course was as wise as 1t was generous, and
il will be remembered TO the credit Of our
country brethren in future.
Year: 1871

There never was greater misnomer
than that OF calling the little animal
found bnrrowing in the prairies a "Prai.
rie Dog" 1t has nothing canine about
it, and its true relationship are among
the squirrels, marmots and woodchucks.
1t is SO much like our common wood
chuck in general appearance that it is
well enough described by calling it a
woodchuck in miniature. its length
varies from ten to thirteen inches. and
its weight from one to two-and-a-half
POUNDS. The ears are very short. and
the tail about one third rs long as the
body. The general color is reddish
brown the shade varies with the season.
aud is lighter upon the lower part OF the
body than elsewhere. The tail for one
third or one-half from the tip is black,
the rest being of the color of the body
The Prairie Dogs are social animals, and
live III large communities known as dog
towns.' The animal burrows, and WIKI
the earth from the excavation forms 3
dome-shaped hillock which contains as
much as two cart-loads of earth. These
mounds are often seen upon the prairie
rs far rs the eye can reach. The writer
once, III Western Texas, was three davs
in passing through one Of these dog.
towns, and as Che distance made by the
train was estimated at twenty miles
day, the colony was at least sixty miles
in length and extended on each side of
the road as far as we could see.


In each mound is an opening, some
times two, extending downward at mn
angie of 40 degrees. How deep the
animals burrOw we cannot state, but
some assert that they go down until
water is reached. Where these animals
abound in such numbers the herbape is
very scanty, and we have frequently
seen towns where the surface in every
direction was so barren that il was diff
cult TO imagine how such multitude
could subsist.


1t traveller approaches town eau
tiously, he will see the animals in con-
slant motion and chirping o one another
in the liveliest manner. AS soon as he
is seen some animal gives the alarm and
away they all go, each for his own hole,
where it stands with its head projecting
and uttering its shrll bark.


The Prairie Dogs are very difficult to
shoot, as they dodge with great rapdity,
or if shot they tumble into their holes
out of reach. Those who have eaten
the flesh of the animal pronounce it ex.
cellent. The young are easily tanned,
but make rather uninteresting pets, as
they sleep a great portion of the time.
In the dog towns one meets with rabbits,
numerous ratt.e-snakes, and small bur
rowing owl. The prairie men assert
that these live in common with the
prairie dogs, but it is more probable that
they find it convenient to occupy the
vacated dwellings of the prairie dogs.
Year: 1871

There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead is there
There is no ireside, howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair N.
The air Is full of farewells TO the dying,


And MORNINGS for the dead
The heart of Rachael for her children CRYING


Will not be comlorted
Let us be patient these severe Affections


Not rom the ground arise.
But Oftenimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
We see but dimly through the mlsts and yapors I;
Amid these earthly damps
What seem TO us, but dim, funeral tapers


May be heavens distant lamps.
There is Death what seems so is transition /,
This life of mortal breath
Is but suburb Of the life eyslan


Whose portal we call Death.
She is not dcad-thc child of our affection
But gone unto that school,
Where she no lOngerneeds our poor protection,
And Christ himself doth rule.
In that great cloiser's stiffness and secusion
by guardian angels led,
sale from temptation, safe from sins pollution
She lives, whom we call dead
DuJ uittI ud1 we tnlnK what she is doing
In those bright realms of air
Year after year, her tender steps pursuing
Behold her grown more fair.
Thus do we walk with her. and keep unbroken
The bond which nature gives
thinking that our remembrance, though un


spoken,


May reach her where she lives.
Not as child shall we again behold her;
For when with rapture wild
In our embraces we again enfold her,


She will not be a child
But fair maiden in her Fathers mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace;
And beautiful with all the souls expansion
Shall we behold her face
And though at times. impetuous with emotion
And anguish long-surpressed,
The swelling heart heaves moaning like the
That cannot be at rest;
We will be patient and assuage the feeling
We cannot wholly stay;
BY silence sanctiying, not conceaing


The grief that must haze way
Year: 1871

above us stratum of fine curly cirrus,
though an intensely blue atmosphere
was visible. To our right, and on our
left, and little below our extreme hight,
some miles distant, two nimbi or storm
clouds were visible, and from their pecu-
liar form and color i took them to be
snow clouds similar to the one we en-
countered. There was also visible in
the distance q regular thunder storm,
giving out flashes of lightning and peals
of thunder, developing great agitation
in its mass of vapor, while our snowy
nimbus was as gentle and serene as the
quiet mountain ranges on either side of
us.


1t is worthy of remark that at our great
est altitude / could read print and man
uscript with the naked eye that / could
not read on the surface of the earth
without the aid of spectacles. / had ex-
perimented in this during former ascen-
sions, and can only attribute it to the
diminution of atmospheric pressure,
causing the eye to become more con-
vex.


At halfpast four we landed, and soon
buc DdllOOu WAC ouiiOuhuou " PShoono
from the town, our descent being within
three miles of the place from where we
started. Mr.. Relneman and myself
stepped out Of the car, and my grand
son stepped in.


Upon this the air-ship Gambetta was
put in ballast, a petit ascension was
made, landing the party in an adjoining
field, the atmosphere being in splendid
condition for aerial field sports. After
this a procession was formed, the car
being occupied by the second and third
generation of Wise eronauts, was towed
back to town for fresh start, the result
of which you are more able to describe
than myself 1t is but just to say that
Mr.. Reineman behaved with the utmost
composure.
Year: 1871

new outrage OF the LaWs


From the Salt Lake Tribune, August 81


At the Mormon Endowment house, on
Monday next, will be celebrated another
polygamous marriage. On this occasion
two more virgins will be offered upon
the altar of the celestials in pursuance
of the policy of the Lords anointed, "
to tie his knots up right and snug. The
story is one of Brigham's chief Clerks,
who, in his family connection, is some
thing Of a cousin-german to the city
treasurer. The case is decidedly unique,
and it will not only constitute the last
"celestial" outrage against our common
law, but also give striking caricature
of the polygamic romances. 1t would
be suggestive of rich burlesque Of Clos
ter wooing two Lady AIMS, in one great
scene, to be performed at the Salt Lake
theatre on the next occasion of the vari-
alton of King Dick.


Our hero, who is a well-to-do widower
of 40, although in form not an Adonis,
has handsome face. Being in search
Of brace Of young maidens of delight
ful lS-emblems Of a plural spring TO
beautify his house on the beaoh-he
found first a charming maiden from
mountainous Wales, who is, as her name
indicates, pure descendant of the an
cient Britons. She was brought into
this country by a missionary from Utah,
who is a countryman of the fair damsel.
To him she was engaged by promise Of
marriage which could not be performed
in the old country, the young missionary
being already married. Arriving in
Zion, the match was broken of, but one,
the handsome-faced widower from court,
took pity upon the friendless girl and
share Of pity upon himself and wooed
and won the simple child of seventeen,
A double marriage, 10 take place on the
same occasion, was next proposed TO the
child, % which she consented, saying in
her childish innocence and worldly mex
perience that she knew polygamy was
Year: 1871

according to the laws Of God. The
widower left to her the choice of his
plural bride, and she chose her compan-
ion, another inexperienced child of sew
enteen, who has a father, however, to
counsel her among the chiefs of the state
of Zion. But the widower has affiuence
and position at court, and these Mormon
chiefs seem resolved to press the poly
gamic conflict to their " last ditch I"
rather than resign it, or even make a
compromise to let by-gones be by-gones
We shall ever urge humane considera-
tions of wives and children in the settle
ment of "Utahs difficulties" but to
these leaders of the people and court
favorites who counsel and perpetrate
outrages against the law and in defiance
of the nation, there ought to be given no
consideration beyond the grant of an
impartial trial
Year: 1871




SHALL WE MEET AGAIN The fol-
lowing is said to be one of the most bril-


liant articles ever written by the lament.


ed Geo. d. Prentice:


| But the fiat of nature is inexorable,


There is no appeal for r lief from the


great law which dooms us to dust. We
| flourish and fade as the leaves of the for
est, and the flowers that wither and
bloom for a day have no Trailer hold up
on life than the mightiest monarch that


ever shook the earth with his footsteps.
Generations will appear and disappear
as the grass, and countless multitudes
that throng the world to-day, will disap-
pear as the footsteps on the shore.


Men seldom think of the great event
of death until the shadow falls across
their own paths, hiding from their eyes
the traces of loved ones, whose living
smile was the sunlight of their existence.
Death is the great antagonist of life, and
and the cold thought of the tomb is the
skeleton Of all feasts. We do not want
to go through the dark valley, although
its passage may lead to Paradise; and
with Charles Lamb, we do not want to
lie down in the graves, even with princes
for bed-fellows.





In the beautiful drama Ion, the instinct
of mortality, so eloquently uttered by the
death devoted Greek, finds deep re.
sponse in every thoughtful soul. When
about to yield his young existence as
sacrifice to fate, his beloved Clemantha
asks if they shall not meet again, TO
which he replies: " asked the same
question of hills that seem eternal-of
the clear streams that flow forever-of
the stars among whose fields of azure my
raised spirit has walked. As looked
upon thy living face, feel that there is
something in thy love that cannot wholly
perish. We shall meet again CIemantha. /"


DYrNG.-B Baniamin F. Taylor, of the
Chicago Journal, draws the following
beautiful picture in reference to the GER
tain departure for that undiscovered |
country There is dignity about that
going away alone, which we call diving
that wrapping of the mantle of i'm
mortality about us; that putting aside
with pale hand the azure curtains that
are drawn around this cradle of a world
that venturing away from home for the
first time in our lines, FOR we are dead.
and seeing foreign countries not laid
down on any maps we have read about.
There must be lovely lands somewhere
'tayward, for none ever return that 90
and We very much doubt if any
would if they could.
Year: 1871

SUCCESS IN LIFE.-The great secret
of success in life consists in bending all
your efforts to whatever you happen to
engage in. Don't let your fckleness
lead you to slight your present occupa-
ton, and think lightly of it, hoping some
thing better will turn up by-and-by.
The way to get along in the world is to
make every step one that is ahead, and
each to follow its predecessor. For full
fifty per cent. of the effort Of the world
is absolutely wasted in indirect, dffuse,
indefinate labors. Young men start on
in life without purpose or point, casting
a thought neither on their fitness nor un.
fitness for particular calling; now do
ing this thing, then that, and after that
nothing; one day going on, and another
on the right (Which is wrong) or left, the
next backward, and then not going on
at all, which is perhaps as bad as the
who.e combined. The right line in life
is the one which leads straight ahead.
This almost always secures success. If
you are creeping, do it energetically un.
til you can get on your feet to walk but
never try to do both at once. And when
once on your feet, never get on your
hands and knees again; but strain all
your efforts to your new life.
Year: 1871

George Mills writes as follows: was
struck by lightning under the following
circumstances: am farmer, and had
gone to the pasture, three-fourths Of
mile from the house, on horseback, to
drive home the cows. A heavy shower
had just fallen, accompanied by much
lightning and loud thunder, and little
rain was still falling-we would say it
was "sprinkling." While riding through
the field discovered small cluster Of
cockleburrs, noxious weed that infests
many farms in this section of the coun.
try. The cattle were feeding near me.
] dismounted and held the horse in one
hand, and proceeded to pull up the burs
with the other


While stopping to pull up the last one
my hand grasped it close to the root, the
horse standing with his head partly over
my STOPPING body, flash of lightning
struck the horse, entering his head in and
behind his left ear, tearing two holes in
the skull behind the ear; and though he
was wet with the rain, the hair was sing
ed from his head, neck, shoulders and
one front leg to the ground he, Of
course, was instantly killed. A small
portion of the electric fluid struck me on
the right temple, singing the lashes OF the
right eye and burning or scaling the face
rendering me unconscious for a little
time. The following we're the sensations
and phenomena as / observed and re-
membered them: First, felt myself en-.
veloped in sheet of perfectly white
light, accompanied by sense of suffo-
eating heat.


The light could be seen as we'll through
the back of the head as with the eyes,
and appeared to extend several feet on
all sides of me: then ! experienced
sense of danger, and tried to escape in
jury from my horse.


Then followed troubled dream, in
which was hauling load of hay in
company with another person, and in
spite of all the effort l could make to
avoid it, the load of hay was about to
fall on me. When in the dream made
the last effort to spring from under the
hay, found myself standing on my feet.
The first thing that observed was that
the cattle, in fright, were running from
me, and next, that | stood in front of the
PROSTATE horse. Finding that the horse
did not breathe, proceeded to pull off
the saddle and bride, and then / felt
severe pain in my head, which continued
for several hours, followed by soreness
which seemed to be in the substance of
the brain, with an inclination to infam-
nation, but at the end of week no ef-
fects os the lightning were felt.
Year: 1871

the prince assume the disguise of the
peasants ? Cannot the noble descend to a
lowly state, in order to test the heart ol
one whose personal charms have capt.,
ted him {? My lords, ! yield the prize of
the Princess Editha's hand ouly to him
who can assert a claim Of birth and rank
superior to that of the Arch duke OF
Austria"


As the page spoke, his form assumed a
commanding aspect, and his countenance
inspired respect and awe. But when he
proclaimed his almost sovereign rank,
every crested head bowed, every knee
bent; and the Elector of Treves de-
scended from his throne to do honor to
the heir of his imperial sovereign.


We need say no more; unless it be to
add that Editha now comprehended full
well, as she raised her blushing counte.
nance with smiles of joy to her lovers
fond glance, why his imperial highness
had bade her hope ON the eve of his de-
parture for the war.