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Dunstan Times, Issue 575, 25 April 1873, Page 3

Tire San Francisco iVeics Lelter writes of one of its contemporaries : The joyful rumour current on Tuerlay last that twenty-seven members ofthe Alla staff had been killed, was followed by a bitter disappointment the following day* It appears to have had its foundation in the fact that an employee of the establishment had shot that number of clucks, upon which one of tire “ smarties ” who infest this town remarked that he “ saw twenty-seven dead clucks shot at the Alla office.” Tills stupid observation was interpreted by bystanders in the sense inspired by their wishes, and in an incredibly short time a very general joy had spread throughout the they. It is heartless thus to trifle with the best emotions of our sanguine but imperfect natures. A Californian town is anxious to get its doctors to repeat a visit East which they made last summer to attend a medical convention They were absent about two months, and on their return ’ ey found that all their patients had recovered, the chug stores had tlcseil, the nurses had opened dancing schools, the cemetery was cut up into building lots, the undertakers had gone to making fiddles, and (he hearse had been gaudily painted and sold for a circus waggon. The Pleasant Creel: Aeic.s says “ We regret to record the death, altera lingering illness, of Mr, Frederick Acschimann, of Stawell. Deceased was a member of the firm of Lyne and Acschimann, of Ararat and Pleasant Crick, and has been a resident of Stawell since, the first great rush in 1557. As a business man, lie has always been hold in high esteem in this neighborhood, and will be shrcerely regretted by a numerous circle of friends. Ho had for many years been in delicate health, suffering from disease of the lungs, to which he succumbed in the forty-third year of his

A secret society, without any 11011sence in it, has been started at Evausfield, lud. It is called the “Society of Permanent Friends,” and the members are sworn to refrain from borrowing money of each other. Brigham Young has reproved his female saints on their love of finery. At a recent convention, he and several others denounced innovations in the form of “via fashions” in women’s dresses, which were “neither genteel nor decent.” All the prominent Mormons took part in the discussion, and in their addresses mingled trade, finance, politics, business and social matters with their religions teachings. The payment of the “ tithings” was frequently referred to as a doctrine binding upon all saints, bringing blessings upon those who obey it, and the risk of destruction to those who do not. The tithes are not collected so easily now as formerly, and hence the earnest refeience te the subject.