Priests: J. Flint, Joseph Smith, J. Nightingale, J. Lee, Thomas Jackson, Samuel Wells, Charles Turner, Christopher Riding, George Robinson.
Teachers: George Hewitt, Thomas Jennings.
Elder Barradale was appointed to preside over Cheltenham branch; Elder Rudd, over the Nottingham circuit; Elder Pritchard, to labor in Derbyshire; Elder Speakman, with Elder Robert Parker, in the Bradford conference; Osmond Shaw, Addingham, Yorkshire; Elder George Eyers, in Lincolnshire and Hull, in connection with Elder Henry Cuerdon and Elder Samuel Downes, in Derbyshire, with Elder Hibbert.
Tuesday, 6.—I rode out to the Prairie Farm.
Earthquake occurred in Java, destroying Nias and burying its inhabitants in the ruins.
The total national debt of Europe is estimated at $10,499,710,000. A century ago the European treasury was comparatively unencumbered.
Wednesday, 7.—Concluded a settlement with J. W. Coolidge. Gave him a deed for city lot.
Visited Elias Higbee, who was very sick.
John Workman and a company of 30 Saints, mostly his own family, arrived from Tennessee.
Thursday, 8.—This morning, about daybreak, Elder Elias Higbee died at his residence near the Temple.[A]