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B9b Bl J W. CARP EN I Ell - PUBLISHER., H - - -y inn i- nir iri -in -i hhwiiiim mug j mm ST. GEORGE, UTAH, JULY 12, 1878. IHH t HjK Subscribers paa over your dollar jjHEH tor 1. he Union and receive your re- BBE ceipt. I We extend a cordial invitation to all who f- el so inclined, 10 write for our columns but reserve our right to choose or not us we think applicable, j 1 I Ouu god Bishops are requested to j :icl a Agents and take Subscriptions " Tor t lie Union tmd forward to our -( office. it . -o .-. HHH Some of our subscribers complain T of not receiving their papers. They ly at the P st Office uncalled for. VVc print every alternate Friday -r . Everybody who ivel so inclined are respectfully invited tv attend the Theological class in the basement of th Tabernacle every Sunday morning Hi 9 o'clock. - 11 it Till rTiafc Miir m inum x Th Railroad Cars are coming1: bo : 1880 Is We learn by private letter that but ter is six cents per pound and eggs fix a nts per doz-n in Missouri. I B? ourexchenges wo luarn of a heavy storm on the 4th. inst. in Pennsylvania doing much damage to propeity and causing considerable loss ot life i mi wmnfliriT?"- - I If the Turks do not indulge in their chronic disposition to raise ob structions, tne congress wi'l probably settle the mdn points in controversy, by July 15. Can't see. the point. Neither can H any one else when they look toward the sun about 2 o'clock p. m. and the HB thermometer is up to 106 in the shade Why does not somebody go fishing and place upon the market some fish ? they would take well during the seal city of fat beef; even goat meat ..takes well when it can be got ! crammed with gloomy for r bud ings in J pa hoes "and Sioux rriay take the war;, I path at any moment. The Indians are vi'iy numerous and formidable as warriors. Gentexmial at Valloy Forgo. opi We learn from the S hiiFctady Gazette of June 28, that the hundredth anniversary of ihe evacuation of Valley Forge, Pa., was ctiibratd on the 19th.ult.aiid il was estima ted hat about 30.000 souls were present. At daylight camion were fired and belts rung throughout the Schuylkill Valley, ami at sunrise a salute of ihirteon puna was fired. At 9 o'clock there was a memorial service in which large numbers took part. At noon a Balute of 3S guns was fired. AM er.joyed themselves in the highest de- gree during the daj o j A lph abets of nations contain the folr I lowing number of letters respectively : Ttalian 20; Latin 22: Hebrew 22 "French 23 ; Groek 24 ; English 2( ; German 26 ; Spanish -27; Sclavonic 27 ; Arabic 28 ? Persian 32; Russian 41: Sanscrit 52: Chinese 2L4. ' Legion. A Roman "Legion'' consisted of 6000 Soldiers divided into l,C horts" and each Cohoit into six "Centuries" with a 'TVexi,urn"or Standard guarded by ten men. VVe read of Ancient Israel having Q-ip-t tains ot "Tei s" "Fiftios" and '-Hundreds" and in our day the (Nauvoo Legion" was j organized in a similar manner. Look out for 1880. -'tis said the world is coining to an end then, but the wise know better, the all vent of ad ventists is not new. It 13 a law of nature that every woman should be married, and wheu we know the enormous excess of the female over Ihe male population, all surprise that so many of the fair sex are unmarried, vanishes. The teachings of Christendom would soon, almost destroy the human race. God's ways ate not as man's. In the Cathedral of Aurhus is the epi taph of one Drackmber?, a Norwegian, who liv.'d to the aire of 146, under seven different Danish Kings. He married al the ago of 111 . and his wife dying, he at the age of 130 married again a young wife. Who need to be discouraged after th.it? The mixture of one error with much liut;i adulterates the whale, as a drop of carmine would tinge a barrel of water. No matter how slight and inconsiderable al4 error maj appear, wp should beware of it, for one leads to another. One man walks through the world with bis eyes open, another with them shut, and this is the teason one acquires a superior ity of knowledge over Lhe other. Boys keep your eyes open. TIHIKIMIOSOOPB. oo Showing the degrees of the. thermometer at 7 p. m. in the shade, at St. George. June 29 85 June 30 85 July I 92 Tuly 2 92 July 3 90 July 4. 89 July 5 v 87 July 6 86 July 7 91 July 8 92 July 9 93 July 10 89 July 11 92 Highest at two p. m. 105 r w ,.. , ., : 3 MnstoiaiioL KING CYRUS 1 AND A FEW ITEMS OF HIS HISTORY. continued h TffiKOMihe time that Crus came j out of Persia with an army of 30. tfjj 000 soldiers, and took command of the M' dim army, he was considered by " m foreigners as king of both JN1 afions, but 9 was not king until the death ol'Oyax- S ars. Nerigiisser, in his great pre- Si purnth ns for the extermination of so potent an enemy as kiig Cytts sent ambassadors to the tings of L)dia, i': Phiygia. Oana, Cappadocia, Cilicia, ; P'iphlagonia and other nrighboting Nations. The king of Armenia, who ; , was subject to the Medes, seeing so -!fY$ 'aige an army coming ; against Cyrus, though: this a goorl time to revolt, and v refused his tjuota of soldiers and trib- - 'i ute money : but in that Cyrus soon f convinced him that he was very unwise -: for he took the best of his horses and came upon him before he was aware, and took him and all his family pus- , oners j but the king iulfilling, on his part that which was required of him ' was res ored to his former standing King Cyrus having iortified that part ' - v of the country with forts and garrison ed them, returned to the main body' of his army and waited the approach of .Nerigtisser's mighty host. They ;pt met on ths-b&r-der-s-of. the two coun- ii:ti tries ; nd a ferrible battle ensued, .in.,. - which Neriirlissor was slain and his -army vanquished. Croesus, king of Ldin, bein? next in authotity, took ;; command of the vanquished army and made a hasty retreat, but was over taken by Cyrus and all their baggage fell tnto his hands, Croesus contin ued his flight, homewhrd, and Cyrus pur-ued him and overtook him on the borders of his own territory and gave 1 l.i him baltle aprain, and conquered him. " Croesus agiiin reirrated to the city of ?h Sard is, i'tid Cyrus followed and shut him up in the city, and took the cdy ' ; 1 and made him a prisoner, and becau.o j Croesus had made war upon him ;- without provocation, he cundemoed I iQ him to be burned and ordered him ? bound on a pile of wood, and as the ; . t(n-h .was being applied, Croesus cried out ii" gi eat agony, oloo, Solon. Solon. ' Cyrus on enquiring the cause of these : ( xelamations was informed that a very if wise Athenian philosopher one lime -had visited Croesus in his capitol city and he shewed him all his vast treas- ures and asked fc-'olon if he did not ! think him a very happy man, to which Solon r plied , 'No man might think $ himself happy until he was dead;' and . 't Oy us. upon reflection, considering . the uncertainty of life, ordered Cioe- - . -V sns unbound and biought to him, and "?:5 he forgave him atd appointed him one "I ofihis councilors and took him home -ti-M&'M w.th him to Persia. TO BJC C'.'NTINU d. 4 "f t