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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1879
Page
3
Washington dispatch notes Southern leaders pressing for repeal of jurors test oath, opposing Democratic legislation. Comments on party tactics, field notes from San Francisco, New York, and California readers.
The Senate was fully attended today but no business of importance was transacted.
A long series of telegraph summaries sketches conflicts from Lahore to Natal. Reports: Kakbob Khan’s delay in decision making, Albania resisting Greece annexation, Austrian and allied troop plans in Eastern Roumelia, Capetown troops at Ponglo, Ekowe relief efforts, and Cetewayo's strategic moves. Also notices on Bulgarian arming and a music festival call for prize compositions with publication rights.
A collection of brief items reports death of Congressman William J. Albert in Baltimore and Paris painter Couture. It notes Basulto desertion, French occupier rumors, Blackburn workers voting five percent cut, Newport real estate hoax, high society embezzlement suspicions, a possible Marquis of Lorne visit as ad dodge, a Lehigh Valley rail accident killing the engineer and injuring the fireman, a prison death inquiry for Charloi Central inmates, Yellow Jacket-Sutro Tunnel delay, and Morgan arrested in Charleston with $20 000 in bonds.
The Cincinnati Musical Association proposes a $1000 prize for the most meritorious work for chorus and orchestra. The directors aim to elevate music standards and encourage native talent through festivals that have featured choral and orchestral works and new compositions.
A quirky feature notes a preacher praising improving earth with soil as context. It mentions Alexander Stephens taking 870 medicines, remarks on Memphis men who avoided yellow fever with Cincinnati whiskey or yellow root, and jokes about the National Washington monument project being too grand a task, suggesting a shot tower on half profits as a finish.
Wool cloths for men and boys reduced in price both wholesale and retail. Send to John C. Cutler, Agent, Old Constitution Building, Salt Lake City for samples or call to view before buying Eastern Goods.
John Vanderpol born May 14 1802 in Ireland died March 16 1879 in Salt Lake City aged 76 at Sixteenth Ward in full faith of the gospel. Elizabeth Van Steeter daughter of Henry and Alyda Anne Van Steeter aged 21 years 7 months 11 days. Sale Lake Jerald.
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