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......Earthquake shocks at several places in Sanpete county, yesterday.
[Deseret News; March 24, 1876]
......More earthquake shocks in Sanpete yesterday.
[Deseret News; March 25, 1876]
EPHRAIM, March 24, 1876‹Another earthquake occurred at 6:30 p.m., yesterday, at Moroni and Mount Pleasant. The walls of two houses at Moroni were cracked by them the day before.
[Salt Lake Herald; March 25, 1876]
Mount Pleasant News Items
Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, March 24th, 1876
Editors Herald:
This interesting burgh on the Sanpitch has been visited by earthquakes not in divers places, but right here, interfering with our placidity, the arrangement of our dishes, the equilibrium of our houses and persons. We are truly thankful it did not last long else we might have had, if not the ruins of a Pompeii, a lesser one in this fertile valley.
But we have another species of earthquake‹the inauguration of the land jumping mania, in some cases a resort to arms, threats and personal abuse, making it necessary to call in the law for the maintenance of private rights. Certainly there can be no more demoralizing procedure than this. At one time we thought of "bloody Kansas," "the shirt," and "the chasm," but this has all passed from us to the local land office for final adjudication.
The sun, once in a while, shines to assure us he has not forgotten earth, and that he lives to shine when the winter king abdicates. We presume king Sol will give a warm reception next August, if we are only patient.
In politics there is nothing new here, though this is the head centre of the republican party of the county. The democrats have done nothing as yet to send delegates to the territorial convention of the 8th April.
Mr. Eccles, formerly of Ogden, is here seeking cooperative aid to establish a furniture manufactory. He seems to meet with cheering success. He proposes cheaply to increase our lounges for home comfort and abolish our loungers on the corners.
D. C.
[Salt Lake Herald; March 26, 1876]
Eds. Tribune: We have had three shocks of earthquake in this place during the last sixty hours. They caused the plastering on the walls of the houses to fall, caused the porch of one home to fall, rattled the dishes on the shelves, and generally frightened the people, who ran into the streets screaming.
I have talked this matter over with a number of the brethren, and they think it all happened because there is a new Chief Justice appointed for Utah.
Quake. Mount Pleasant, March 23, '76
[Salt Lake Tribune; March 28, 1876]
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