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Show TERROR NO. 1. The following toltigram to the New York Herald, from Stillaou, the great nasasaiuated, will explain itself: Salt Lake, 13. Alormoniim is bo shaken in its very bones by tbo power given to Howard's elbow at Washington ia regard to tho priesthood, that tbo lat-tor lat-tor are kept very busy at tho Lion hou;o. Several secret meolings have beon held thoro during tho past few days, altondoii by many apostles. The continued organization or-ganization for futuro resistance to the probablo arrests which havo boon so scouted by the suborned or ignorant newspapers is proceeding with greater enorgy as woll ss secrecy than before. Mormon omisaries aro on their n ay east and west, and Mormon missionaries already al-ready sstablisiied in the oast have re coivod instructions to use every means to counteract thocllectof tho Herald's revelation:. re-velation:. Tho above will liklv remind t,a western frontier men of some of those loud swaggering characters who usually usu-ally put in an appearance at every - new mining secernent, their belts filled with bowio knives and revol" Teis, making themselves conspicuous by their self-assertions aud throats. Ouo of these bullies, who recently created some consternation in the Black Hills among tho new arrivals, ia thus described by an exchange : The other day, whan "a wagon load of bullheads was dumped out in Custer city, as wagon loads had been dumped out every day but'oro since grass started, the lirst man to wolcomo them to tho infant city was a chnp live feet high, and. weighing accordingly. There was a blod-stuin ou bis left click, a scar on his right, and to bad tierce oyo?, a voice liko a roaring lion, and a bad limp in una oi ui lege. iio was wnutiing out a tent pin with a big bowie-knife a3 the wagon drovo up, and, pushing tho knife down the back of his neck, he lifted up n Henry ride, ran his eye over tho crowd, and called out, in an awful voice ; "Is there anybody in that crowd looking look-ing fur 1 error No. 1? Kaso if tbere is, here I am; and I'm just aching to be shot full of buhets weighing a pound apiece!" .No ono was looking for him. Some looked at him and some looked across tho streut on purpose not to see him. n-hilrt tli.trn a uniform tyi,,i.j,.i.,i towards hip pofki'ts. "I didn't know but ttuit soruo of you might havo come out here from .Now Tt'ork or Boston to plant me under the sweet jessamine or tho climbing morning glory!" chuckled tbe Terror, us be rested tho butt of his ritle on the ground and tlihed up a six-shootor from his boot 1. I i'bere were men from New "York and Boston in the party, but they didn't want to bury anybody just then. 'I don't own this town," continued the! Terror, as ho laid nis infant armory armory across the head of a barrel; i"I Ua'l own a foot of ground or a share in any of the public buddings erected at tho expense of the tax-pnyers, but when 1 stand on Washington square and uuer one yell this whole town quake.1, I'm Terror No. 1. There's one or two other Terrors around here,, butl'm the boss I'm tho regl'ar death's hoad and cro.:S-bones cro.:S-bones of the Black Hills region." Before ho had ceased speaking most of, tho new-comers bad disappeared, some loeking pale and anxious, and oiters feeling shivers race up and down thsir backs. An hour later, wnen -.a party of five strangers from New Er.gisni wore unk ing the acquaintance ot soaio ot the infernal in-fernal beverages on saie ia one of the shanty saloons, and at the same time pumping the proprietor about pro?pect. in walked the Terror. Ho looked a fierco as a catamount cheated out of her desert, and thoro was an awful growl in his voice as he called out: ".Five o'clock by Omaha lim, and I haven't kilNd or boon killed this whole day long! Turn locse your pet grizzlies, unh itch your whirlwinds, and let a d-jz-n wild )hms come for me al ore!" 'Tulcc something to drink, my good friend," mildly replied the a!ouni-t. " You are always wnlcume hero, but yo-i don't drop ia half often enough. JJuii't hi: ufruid to pour cut all y.m war.t." "To tnii you the tiuth, Stove," -aid the Terror, as ho poured out nearly half a pint (-f the wor?t whisky ever made, 'T carno in. to kill Homo one; but you are u while man clear down to your toenails, and I won't raiso no row. Tha'.'s good whifky, that n, anij if ynn want any one in Coaler city put undsr ground just giro met his name." At that moment three men on horse-back horse-back canr.e down tho strer-t, acd tho Ttr-rr Ttr-rr jumped out with a screech andshout-td: andshout-td: "Hf-ro's tho holyhock you aro looking for. Here's the rnode.t violet who wants to he carved up and fed to the wolves!" lhny weren't looking for him, and they got away on the gallop. The party from the east went out among the diggings dig-gings and were absent a whole weelt When they returned to Custer city they impnrcu ir tlio Terror, and a hotel keeper replied : "Yes; thoy did me to call him tho Terror. 1 believe, but they didn't know him. He was whooping around hero in his usual awful style throe or four days ago, swearing th.it ho must kill somebody, some-body, whoh a tinsmith from Dayton, Ohio, took his rifle and bowio knife away, spit tobacco juice on hia hat, and than kicked him tho wbolo length of this street. The Terror was an awful coward, gontlomon a regular rag-baby undorthe bud, and ho'll never bu seen in Custer again." Wo leave our readors and the Herald commissioner to make their own application of the etory. |