BETTER THAN GOLD. etter than grandeur, better than gold, tter than gold is a conscience c'ear, tter than gold is the sweet repose the sons of toil when the labors close, :tter than gold is the poor man's sleep, ad the balm that drops on his slumbers deep. ing sleeping draughts on the downy bed, here luxury pillows its aching head. he toner simple opiate deems shorter route to the land of dreams. atter than gold is a thinking mind, e glories of empires passed away; etter than gold is a peaceful home F. RYAN. IN DEFENSE OF UTAH. The Troy Times not long ago quoted rom the Washington Critic an item ading: Secretary Rusk, Uncle Sam's able gricultural editor, received a barrel of Jtah potatoes the other day as samples Com a yield of 947 bushels to the acre. He pronounces them of excellent quality. t is evident that Jtah is not as small otatoes in agriculture as she is in reigion. VOL. XLII. never ate better in the East or in the and in 1883 it was estimated that there A FERTILE PROVINCE. whole extent of the Rocky mountain range. The latest date at which statistics are at hand is 1883-nearly ten years ago. Between 1870 and 1883 there were produced from Utah mines $2,150,000 in gold, $45,790,272 in silver, $23,220,000 in lead and $300,000 in copper. The yield has been largely increased since the latter date. OTHER RESOURCES. When Utah was thought fit to be organized into a territory the meagre item of $3,000 was deemed by the United States government the sumtotal of its value. The country was In 1890 Utah produced 40,000 tons of considered an alkali waste, sterile and salt, which is but a bagatelle in comvalueless, but even then it contained a parison with her supply in sight. Utah population of 40,000 people who had has soap factories and candy factories proved that irrigation alone was which supply Idaho, Montana, necessary to turn the desert into a gar- Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona, rockden. In 1883 Utah raised 1,600,000 salt by billion tons, marble works, bushels of wheat, 722,000 bushels of using only native marble, showing oats, 305,000 bushels of barley, 193,- every color from pure white to jet 000 bushels of corn, 215,000 tons of hay black, sulphur and asphalt mines, and 800,000 bushels of potatoes. Her tillable soil in that year reached 215,000 acres, valued at from $25 to $100 per acre, all of it watered by artificial irrigation. Utah now sustains a population of over 250,000 persons, besides exporting much produce. FURTHER FIGURES. cement factories and beet-sugar fac- ONCE A GREAT DESERT. The dairy products of Utah for 1883 were 630,000 gallons of milk, 1,300,000 pounds of butter and 125,000 pounds of cheese. In 1853 the pioneer woolen Fourty-four years ago the valley of mill of the Pacific coast was established Great Salt Lake was a sage-brush disin Salt Lake valley, and in 1883 Utah trict thirty miles long by twenty broad, where no spear of grain had ever numbered ten woolen mills, seventyfive flour mills, 100 saw mills, eighteen grown and no white man dwelt. "It furniture factories, twenty boot and was no garden of the hemispheres shoe factories, a flourishing silk factory upon which the pioneers gazed on and seven machine shops and founde- that memorable July morning," says ries, from the latter of which was pro- a local historian in speaking of the adduced in that year $400,0000 worth of vent of the Mormons therein. "Aside castings from native ore, which is from the scenic splendor, which was found in great variety and purity. It indeed glorious, magnificent, there is estimated that there are in the ter- was little to invite and much to repel ritory 50,000,000 tons of iron ore above in the prospect presented to the view. or near the surface, with ledges ap in by mountains, blistering in the A broad and barren plain, hemmed parently inexhaustible, extending deeper. burning rays of the midsummer sun. No waving fields, no verdant meadow to rest and refresh the weary eye; but on all sides a seemingly interminable waste of sage-brush, bespangled with sunflowers-the paradise of the lizard, the cricket and the rattlesnake. Less than half way across the baked and burning valley, dividing it in twain-as if the vast bowl, in the intense heat of the master potter's fires, COAL AND PRECIOUS METALS. In 1854 the legislature of Utah offered $1,000 to any resident who should open a vein of coal not less than eighteen inches thick where it could be Upon the Pacific coast Utah potatoes profitably worked and within forty ave for many years enjoyed a high miles of Salt Lake City. Since then, eputation. They are never hollow up to 1880, there were surveyed in the nd are always white and mealy. Iterritory 126,000 acres of coal lands, as to in process of formation had crackedness in that valley of the Rocky the early Christians who ha asunder, a narrow river,turbid and shal- mountains, over 1,000 miles from up their lives rather thu low, from south to north, in many a ser- the Missouri river and nearly the new faith that incres pentine curvesweeps on its sinuous way. far from the Pacific, and hopes both as Beyond, a broad lake the river's goal their faith in their delusion has and that to come, But looking -dotted with mountain islands, its enabled them to press onward in the all is silent and still, even as the briny waters shimmering in the sun- face of every obstacle. By a six years except the talking of a few light like a silver shield. From residence among them, commencing tourists or beggars, or the nos mountains snow-capped, seamed and in 1871, I learned to marvel at and by some birds that rest upon the s craggy, lifting their kingly heads to be respect their industry and determina- walls in flocks; the splendor crowned by the golden sun, flow lim- tion and to overlook their peculiar nificence have all gone ages pid laughing streams, cold and crystal beliefs, confident that time would sift cages for the wild beasts are e clear, leaping, dashing, foaming, out the false from the true, and prove the cells of the hated Christi flashing from rock to glen, from peak their worth as human beings, whose empty. All you see around to plain. But the fresh canyon push and energy are ceaseless and and desolation, and ims ginativa streams are far and few, and the arid tireless. Going to Utah with all the fails to do her duty when sul waste they water, glistening with eastern prejudices, I came away satis-trasting elements abound. T beds of salt and soda and pools of dead-fied that time would vindicate the you an idea of its size, I wil ly alkali, scarcely allows them to Mormons before the American people comparison between it and the reach the river, but midway well nigh and that polygamy was but a bugbear, | nacle, as the two are almost te swallows and absorbs them in its a cudgel used vigorously by those shape, if the roof of the Tra thirsty sands. Above the line of gray whom self-interest controlled more was removed and its walls but and gold, of sage and sunflower, the thoroughly than any code of ethics. higher and seats right up to the sloping hillsides and precipitous steeps, clothed with purple and dark green patches; these, the oak-brush and squaw-berry and other scanty growths, with here and there a tree casting its lone shadow; in the valley a wire-grass swamp, a few acres of withered bunchgrass, and the lazily-waving willows and wild rose-bushes fringe the distant streams-the only green things visible." WHAT TIME HAS WROUGHT. W. H. H. LETTER FROM ROME. From an interesting letter written by Mr. Fred. W. Taylor, dated Rome, February 9, 1891, we make following extracts: The Tabernacle is quite sa you would make the long dism it about two and one-half ti large, the small diameter abou and one-half times as large as ent and increase the height walls a little over twice the p height, you would have a g about the size of the Coliseu We have been here now about a figures I have taken of the Taq week and a half and have been on the are from a real estate agent's jump all the time, for every corner has I think they are about correc: Today this valley is one vast garden, a story to tell and every stone a his-is only one part of the wall and Salt Lake City numbers a populatory. You go rushing through some mains at its original height, tion of 50,000. During 1990 her real street, stop all of a sudden to find you the dark ages it was used a estate transactions aggregated $20,000,- are on one of the most historic places manufactory and a quarry; in 000. This brief sketch makes no pre- in the world. You look and wonder, people (the Popes) used it to be tense to do more than indicate some of pass on to another and another, until churches and palaces, as well Utah's possibilities. It will, however, you inwardly exclaim, "How hath the other precious stone they suffice to show that this much-derided mighty fallen!" We have been to the from the other public building Mormon community has within itself Foro Romanum and walked over the the time of Pope Benedict X most wonderful resources and thou- ground among the ruins of ages; all protected it from utter destru sands of wide-awake men and women there is left of the glory and richness of setting it apart to the Passion d with all the restless energy of Western the public buildings of the mistress of because so many had been m life pushing them onward and forward the world consists in a few columns, in ceaseless enterprise and industry. triumphal arches, statues and enough of the sacred pavement to enable you to trace its course; but these are all stately the places they have occupied for and majestic, as they stand there in NOW A NEW LAND. The bugbear of polygamy is now dead and beyond resurrection. Young Utah is in line with the keenest progress of the country, and the Territory when studied and understood is, des centuries. The seven hills of Rome are no ness and there for His name's sake. The first seats above the are Leaving the Coliseum, close triumphal arches of Constanti Titus, Appian Way, Sacra Via moe of Titus, etc., then the F with all its memories and a lit ther on the old historic Tiber. t ti H for the Emperor, senators, etc. nobles, knights, etc., then we citizens and lastly a place fi in all. They had sailors to humbler citizens, making fre canvass over the open top, bu longer a mystery, in fact, our hotel not imagine how they ever d pite all of its drawbacks of the past, a stands on of the most important, viz: seems like covering in the s glory and an honor to our whole country. In this free land and enlightened the Quirinal, so noted in history, century ignorance and superstition although not so much as the Capitocannot long find any corner in which line and Palitine; we would not call to hide from the electric influence of any of them hills at home, for this is a rolling country and these hills some of the age; and Utah is fast forging the largest rolls. The Coliseum gives ahead, to place herself abreast with the you 8 better idea of the great- There are only three classes most enlightened portion of the counRome power of try. The advancing tide of progress is than ple here, viz: priests, soldiers as think gars, but I cannot tell you wher sweeping over her, and to feel its influ- any one thing here; just ence one needs but to spend a few of a city that had to have a place of in the majority, but I rather thi amusement that would seat 87,000 priests have the greatest nume months in Salt Lake City. persons at one time and have a run of their side. one hundred nights, crowded to over- I was surprised to find almost Therefore, when Utah sends Secre- flowing every night of the perform-ly the same state of affairs here tary Rusk a sample barrel of potatoes ance; and baths where 1600 bathers home, only on a much larger from a yield of 947 bushels to the acre, could disport themselves at the same For many years Rome was cut you may rest assured that this is good time. I can hardly realize it, stand-and almost owned both politically evidence of what she can do in that ing in the very theatre and baths spiritually by the Pope. The K line, while it may be remembered also where such things took place. But that our own Rensselaer county tillers here they are-the Coliseum and baths of the soil consider 300 bushels of pota- of Caracalla; and the fact is forced upon toes to the acre a most prodigious crop, you. I have tried to imagine such a and that Salt Lake City has grown vast audience, with the emperor, nofrom an Indian camping-ground to her bles and common folk all in their represent population within the memory spective places, and the performance of many a Trojan. Isolated, and until ready to begin, in which the life of a little over twenty years ago without man was to be taken both by wild railroad connection east or west, these beasts and in combat with one another. patient, plodding, religious zealots laid As I have stood upon the arena that the foundations of their present great-has been made sacred by the blood of AN AUSPICIOUS TOKEN. Naples, Garibaldi and others the different provinces of Italy int and with the rest of the Papal the property of the Catholic ch They deprived the church of near its lands, palaces, monasteries vents, gold and silver amounting to millions (almost untold). The church expects every get its political power and back, while the State would like some more to fill up the empty y. The Catholics say the Pope and against the Hebrews in Russia have rty are the strongest if an issue were caused untold misery there can be no come between the spiritual and tem-doubt, and when the outcry was raised ral leaders of this nation, while the against such treatment by the civilized ing and party seem to have every- world, we least expected the first effort ing in their hands and maintain a would be made in free America to ast standing army. How the result hold the government guiltless of such ill be no man knoweth. The churches are all marble, gold, Iver, precious stones, marvels of culpture, painting and mosaics that re made so nicely that you take them -r oil paintings and bronzes. FRED. W. TAYLOR. THE RUSSIAN JEWS. ODESSA, May 25.-A rumor current measures."" Oscar S. Strauss, minister to Turkey during Cleveland's administratior, is deeply interested in the success of the Hirsch fund. He said: “That an effort has been made to arouse a feeling in favor of Russia we are all very well aware, but there is no justification for it. We feel confident that public sentiment will not be affected. I am at a loss to know how the outrageous decrees found an advocate, unless there is much more behind it than an ordin The sufferary observer can detect. der." ere that the Czar intends to make a as submitted to the council of the emire an ordinance forbidding Hebrews > observe the Hebrew Sabbath by losing their stores or business places r by refraining from work, and comelling the Hebrews instead to close on undays and other days observed by e Greek church. to make the greatest sacrifices in their behalf, to save them from the privations, hardships, discomforts and sickness which naturally attend a wholesale and disorganized expulsion. LONDON, May 29.-In response to a letter from a member of parliament asking him to join in claiming for the Jews in Russia the rights accorded to the Mohammedan subjects of the Czar, Gladstone said his personal action would have no weight. He thought the pressure of the opinion of the civilized world based upon ascertained facts would be the best mode of proceeding. Gladstone expressed a hope that the Sultan of Turkey would support a scheme for the settling of the Jews in Palestine. DECISION IN THE CHURCH SUIT. WASHINGTON, May 25.-When the Supreme court last term upheld the constitutionality of the Edmunds law, by which the property of the late corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon Church, was escheated "The Greek church and its ministers are behind this movement," said Mr. Solomous, who is in charge of the These people would treat Catholics or to the United States, it found itself in Baron de Hirsch fund committee. Protestants with equal severity if they a somewhat embarrassing position. Hebrews are too firm in their religious known in this country and no purpose were in the way. They know the The doctrine of escheate was quite unbelief to pay any attention to attempts considered laudable and proper of a at conversion, and as a consequence similar nature to that for which the they hate our people. Through the in- property was formerly used was known strumentality of men high in authority to which the property could be deshese decrees of expulsion were is- voted. The court, therefore, instead tued." of sending the decree down, withheld The following is an extract from ait, a strong intimation being conveyed letter received by a gentleman in this of a desire of the court that Congress city concerning the expulsion of Jews should by law direct the disposition to in Moscow: "Three days before the be made of the property. Congress having failed to adopt the Passover the Czar instructed the governor of Moscow to expel all Hebrews, suggestion, the court through Justice even those privileged to reside there as Bradley, today made a final order in mechanics, and children of soldiers in the case, and modified in some respects the service of Nicholas I. the decree it entered at the last term. Within these three days 1200 families were The modification made recites that the gathered in by the police and arrested, Mormon corporation having been hundreds of prisons being filled with dissolved, there does not exist now them. Manufacturers and merchants any trusts or purposes, within the were reduced to poverty, for their objects and purposes for which the permoney remained in the hands of the sonal property was originally acquired, Russians. On the eve of the Passover for which any part of the personal a multitude of men, women and child-property could be used or dedicated ren were put in railroad wagons which that are not in whole or part opposed to carried them to the pale of the settle- public policy and good morals, and, ment. The night of the second day of furthermore, there does not exist any the Passover eighty families arrived at person or corporation legally entitled Whitebsk. At the railroad station to any of the personality as the succeswhere they stopped heartrending cries sors of the late church. and moanings were heard. Children were crying for bread and babies crying in vain because the breasts of the mothers were dried. It was a terrible The publication of letters of this cha-scene, and he who has not witnessed it acter in the Herald aroused the indig. ation of the Hebrews here, who penly charge a person attached to the American legation at St. Petersburg with being the author, asserting that le was influenced by a desire to curry avor with the Czar's court. This charge is now under investigation at Washington, and if shown to be accuate, it is probable there will be a vaancy in Minister Smith's diplomatic NEW YORK, May 27.-Sympathy or the Russian Hebrews because of heir expulsion from the Czar's dohains has been accentuated by the asertion lately made to their friends ere that the persecutors are using very means at their command to stem he tide of popular sentiment against em by causing letters from subsided agents to appear in the New York lerald. These letters purport to give true account of the condition of the ussian Hebrews, attempting to show hey are not in as deplorable a condiion as people have made them, while n the other hand the peasantry of ussia are made to appear as being abolutely under the domination of the Hebrews, who are described as sharprs, plying their usurous traffic with he greed of wolves. has never seen a picture of affliction." PARIS, May 28.-Baron Hirsh, in an interview regarding his plans for the amelioration of the condition of the Hebrews in Russia, said there are two ways to do it. The first plan is to acquaint the Czar with the truth in regard to the cruelties perpetrated daily in his name. The baron said he was convinced that an appeal to the Czar's sentiments of justice, humanity and mercy would not be in vain. The Prominent among New York He- other plan is, that some order and rews whose indignation has been method should be established in exroused by the letters is Banker Selig-pelling the Hebrews from Russia. He dan. He is a trustee of the Baron de continued as follows: "If the Russian Hirsch fund. "These letters," said government wants to get rid of a milAr. Seligman, "are inspired by the lion of Hebrews, let it allow many Russian government. That the decrees people who, like myself, are prepared orps. The decree then says, the personal property having devolved to the United States, it should be devoted to such charitable uses, lawful in character, as may most nearly correspond to its former destiny, unless in the meantime Congress shall otherwise direct, which shall meet the approval of the or the Master shall report some scheme court for the disposition of the property. property and accumulations remain in The decree finally directs that the the custody of the receiver until otherwise ordered, and out of it the costs of the suit and receivership be paid. The Utah Supreme court is directed to take the necessary proceedings. There are now nine hundred and forty-two snbmarine cables in operation, exclusive of the seven Atlantic cables, with an aggregate of 112,740 nautical miles. THE DESERET WEEKLY, Improvement generally. PUBLISHED BY THE DESERET NEWS COMPANY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Per Year, of Fifty-two Numbers, IN ADVANC CHARLES W. PENROSE, EDITOR Saturday, $2.50 This is to be the movement recently commence! a labor of love. These workers will along national political lines. Their receive no present pay for their ser- opposition is evidence that the cause vices, but they will not fail to receive good and that it will be supported by an eternal and abundant reward. the better classes of the community. The opportunities for such work are A short time ago we deprecated 2: ample. The duty assigned them is divisions, fostered by certain agitat 1.50 of vast importance. It should stimu- of American citizens into facting late them to great exertions, and in-founded upon differences of race at We advocated union & spire them to conquer all obstacles. If language. it is a good thing to be called on a promotive of life and showed that June 13, 1891. mission to people at a distance, it is as union tended to death, uttering simp great or a better thing to be counted truths which all nature illustrates and worthy to work for the reclamation and emphasizes. At that time the Tri redemption of the youth in Zion. It attempted to distort our language). will need tact, wisdom, faith and per- signify that we were opposed to th severance to render their labors efiec- study of national questions and desir tive. But we do not doubt their suc- to shut out all but local issues, m welcomed quoting our words and misinterpreting their evident meaning. We Wer merely advising citizens of foreig birth to be simply Americans inste of German, or Irish, or Danish, a Swedish, or English Americans. THE YOUNG MEN'S CONFERENCE. THE General Conference of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, held in this city on Sunday and Monday, was a notable event. It was well attended from the beginning. Representatives from various parts of the Territory were present, and the interest exhibited in all the proceedings was marked and gratifying. Notwithstanding his age and indisposition, suffering as he was from an attack of illness, President Wilford Woodruff attended, and on Sunday afternoon spoke to the conference with great force and clearness. This was a very agreeable feature of the oc casion. cess. be The Conference was admirably The musical contest was a novel event, and one that should and will be repeated. It will tend to improvement in the cultivation of the human voice and will stimulate male singers to friendly emulation. The Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations cannot fail to be benefited by this Now the same unprincipled she attempts to show that the articl referred to was against affiliation vil the national political parties, and draw, from this new perversion, ev dence that the present movement is 1 sham and that our approval of i inconsistent-and yet consistent-th that article. We do not expect any reform in that paper while it is conducted by persona who are utterly unscrupulous in the methods and entirely indifferent à in their argume But we will say, for benefit of those who may confused by its sophistry, that t unity we desire and advocate is, in the first place, unity of religious faith and understanding, brought about by the perception light and truth and the is fluence of the divine spirit, and int next place union of citizens under on constitution and government for the liberty, protection and welfare of The young men who were called on for reports, as well as those who delivered lectures on stated subjects, were noticeably lucid in their ideas and distinct in their enunciation, giving evidence of good training in Conference-the consistency addressing public audiences. The pre- latest and best. They should receive pared addresses were all timely, elo- the support and encouragement of our quent and succinct, and the im-leading men in every settlement, and promptu discourses of those who were we hope to hear at the next General called upon to speak were pertinent Conference of the associations, that and full of light and life. not only have their numbers largely The letter read from President increased, but that progress has been Joseph F. Smith was received with made in carrying out the plans devised great pleasure and satisfaction. It is for their benefit, and that the cause of so long since his voice was heard morality, order, peace and general enamong the people that his communi- lightenment has been promoted in cation was something new and unex- every part of the Territory. pected. It breathed the true spirit of the Gospel of Christ, and was strong in the cause of mutual improvement. Its receipt was a gratifying event of the Conference. PURSUING ITS OLD CROOKED PATH. Every sneer and jibe which the of gan of strife casts at the "Mormon plea for unity strikes at the America: system of political government. The tack of the Tribune rebounds agains E Pluribus Unum; against a union a States; against the marching of differ ing parties under the one flag; agains the fraternization of Democrats and Republicans, of free traders and pro tectionists for the common defense and the general welfare; against the sink ing of individual differences and per sonal interests in promoting the greatness and glory of our common coul THE organ of the party of hate and advocate of the policy of disfranchiseOne of the chief, perhaps the most ment for all who do not agree with its important, things done by the Confer- notions, is as angry at the dissolution ence, was the appointment of a number of the People's Party in this county as of young men who have been promin- it was at the cessation of polygamy. ent in the associations, to act as mis- It still keeps up the anti-polygamy sionaries during the fall of the present platitudes with which it regaled its year. They are to take their knapsacks readers a dozen years ago, and hurls in their hands and travel without purse its envenomed darts at the empty air or scrip, to labor for a few months where once the People Party was, as among the young men of Israel and though that party still formed a sub-country. lead them into the path of rectitude.stantial target for its aim. Their mission is to reclaim the way- We are glad that the Tribune and ward, to win souls from evil, to the sour and crabbed souls that love its strengthen and confirm the faithful, voidings, with the venal creatures and to promote the cause of mutual who profit by contention, are hostile to There are among the "Mormon people men who have always favored Democratic doctrines and others wh have contended for Republican ideas while working together in the People' For the present and for some time in the future this will be a dead loss. The existing excitement is said to be a game of financial checkers between the money dealers of Europe, each endeavoring to strengthen himself with gold. Party. There have been others w o Thus it will be seen that from 1857 to Argentine finances are completely were independent in their views. Each 1890, James E. Royd's right to act as a hopeless. The present indebtedness of of these will now probably gravitate citizen of the United States was never that country is $600,000,000, or $150 per to the political body which best accords questioned. The decision recently capita of the entire population, about with his ideas of what is right, or stand given declaring him an alien is of as much as they weuld bring if sold at aloof to watch for greater light. But doubtful correctness. One of the three public auction. Of this vast debt, they can still retain their unity of re-judges who constitute the Supreme $400,000,000 came from London igious faith, they should still be Court of Nebraska, dissented from the mainly, united in maintaining good govern- opinion. There was nothing in which ment, and while holding various to base unfitness for the office except views on subordinate questions, the bare technical correctness of his can still be one in building naturalization. Still, if that is the law up the Territory in which they live the court cannot reasonably be blamed and promoting the interests of the for its decision. But what occasions government and the nation of which dissatisfaction is the declaration of the hey form a part. We expect to be court that Thayer is Governor, a man Always in favor of union, and we notice who was not even candidate for the hat those who ridicule it in their foes, office. Unless there is some special trongly advise it and sometimes try to provision on this point in the Constituforce it among their friends. tion of Nebraska, it would seem that Lieutenant Governor Majors because of ill health, but really because is the rightful Governor. Or he disagreed with his brother and in the event of his non-eligibility, that partner over questions of policy. Powers the candidate who received the next highest number of votes at the last election ought to be declared governor. To add to the disquiet, rumors are in circulation that the Rothschilds of Paris have quarreled among themselves. The Paris house is managed by Alphonse and Gustave. The latter has retired from active work, ostensibly Portugal can not effect a new loan. Spain wants $20,000,000 but can not get it. Italy is in a most deplorable financial condition. Vishnegradski, Judge Maxwell, who dissented, con- the Russian minister of finance, is entends that Boyd is a citizen and eligi-deavoring to swell the value of the ble. He bases his opinion on a con- Russian ruble. He has succeeded in struction of the acts by which Neb- doing so by the aid of French finanraska was admitted into the Union. ciers, who are probably coaching him He maintains that by these acts all into drawing the 65,000,000 of Russian bona-fide residents of the Territory gold held in London until recently. became citizens of the United States In place of an international war with when Nebraska was admitted in 1867. lead and dynamite; it appears that one with gold and silver as the destroying agents, is now going on in Europe. THE NEBRASKA GOVERNORSHIP. THE decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska in the case of James E. Boyd, the governor of that State, delaring him an alien, is occasioning a reat deal of party controversy. The istory of this remarkable case is very imple, and, in truth, brief. Last fall here were three candidates for the ubernatorial chair of Nebraska. Boyd vas the Democratic candidate and reeived 71,331 votes; Powers, the Allince candidate, received 70,187 votes, vhile Richards, the Republican, reeived only 68,878 votes. Boyd received Boyd will carry the case to the Suplurality of 1,144 votes over Powers. preme Court of the United States, He was considered duly elected, and though he said on the 31st ult., while vas inaugurated though forcibly op-attending the burial of his father in osed by Governor Thayer, the incument at the time. Boyd held the office ince until the decision of the court a ew days ago. Cincinnati, that he had little hopes of FINANCIAL TROUBLES. APPRECIATED. THE Peoria, Illinois, Journal, which has said many kind things of the DESERET NEWS, has the following in its issue of May 29th: James E. Boyd is a native of Ireand, but left that country with his "An item is going the rounds of the ather when ten years of age. The press that the Salt Lake Herald, 'the leading organ of the Mormon Church,' ather, Joseph Boyd, declared his inin Utah, has passed into Gentile hands. ention to become a citizen in 1849, but Correspondence of recent date to the There must be some mistake about this. The organ of the Mormon Church, and no record has been shown that he was New York papers from London, state in fact the leading paper of Utah, ully naturalized during the minority that in the latter city gold is the chief is the Salt Lake NEWS. The -f his son. As early as 1855 he told topic of social and business talk. City ally for nearly, if not quite, fortyNEWS has been published continuis son that he was a citizen of the men are talking gold. Editors one years, and is the oldest paper in the United States. He held office in Ohio, are all writing gold. English holders Rocky Mountains. That paper has not nd took the oath to support the Consti- of weak securities are pledging strong changed hands and probably will not. It will continue, no doubt, to espouse the ution of the United States. His ones in Paris for gold. Russia is swal-cause of Mormonism while Mormonism on James went to Nebraska in 1856, lowing all the gold she can get. She exists. The announcement of the teleand was elected to office in 1857. In has taken $20,000,000 in gold from Herald was to be hereafter conducted in graph a few days ago that the Salt Lake 864 he enlisted in the Federal army London in two weeks. The American the interests of the democracy would nd in due time was honorably dis- steamers bring in large supplies of the lead many to believe that the democracy never had an organ in that city before, charged. He has served in the Ne- yellow metal to fill the demand and to when the truth is the Herald has always raska Legislature and in two consti- appease the appetite for gold. been a democratic sheet. The paper simutional conventions. He was in the It has never been the organ of the Morply changed hands and nothing more. Legislature which accepted the enamon Church. That position is occupied pling act by which Nebraska became now, as it always has been, by the best State. He has been Mayor of paper in Utah, the Salt Lake NEWS." Omaha, and held various offices in he city government. He has repeatedly sworn to support the Contitution and be true to it. According to English opinion, the primary cause of all this was the Argentine barkruptcy and the all but complete failure of Baring Brothers. Though the Bank of England averted a crash at the time, yet it could not dispel the uncertainty and gloom which followed, and which still prevails. at 88, Cherubini at 82, Rossini at 77, Among great composers, Auber died Haydn at 77, Gluck at 73 and Meyer beer at 72. |