Show RETURNED MISSIOXARV A Lady and Two Jim Uolibed for Entcrlalnlap Elders Wo b a4 the pleasure of n oil this morning from Elder JosepJi IT Johnson of Johnson Kane County who returned to this Sun ty rture ththiscitySun day evening from a mission to the Southern States after an absence of upwards L two y Ills labors during his absence were chiefly confined con-fined t South Carolina though they extended Into Cleveland and Union Counties of North Carolina occasionally As a rule ho met with kind and hospitable treatment though he found comparatively few who were willing t listen to lilt testimony or investigate tho doC triuea which he taught on account of the deeprooted prejudice E prevalent in that region against the Saints and their religion He was never mobbed but many times threatened and on several sev-eral occasions narrowly escaped violent usage at the hands of lawless and bigoted people The last oem slen of this kind a only n short time before ho was released t to return turn home He and Elder Jensen called at the house of a widow lady in York County South Carolina I who was friendly to the Elders and occasionally entertained them with the intention of remaining there over nIght but felt Impressed after ting a short time that it would I not be safe for them to do fa as n b F a n member of the Church who Ila been in her employ had been obliged to leave only a short time prevh > u becauso of the threats made towards him The Elders resumed their journey about i im and three hours afterwards a mob of about seventyfive men surrounded her house all demanded that the Elder should b delivered deliv-ered up to them TIme lady informed in-formed them that her friends were not there and refused to tell her they were and as a result she and her hired man neither of whom were members of the Church wire subjected to a severe castigation with hickory flu ecr member of the mob Inflicting upon them IT one stroke each The mobocrata all had handkerchiefs tied over the lower parts of their faces as a disguise dis-guise but the laJy when assaulted by them snatched time m k off three of tliim all recognized them as neighbor The assailants also threatened that i tie lady attempted attempt-ed to prosecute them they would kill her The mob then proceeded to the house of an old gentleman named Robert Linear who lived about three miles distant and who belonged to the Church and gave him the same number of ge the same time warning him Optimist entertaining time Elders any more They happened to find in his house J Ilk of Mormon and some other church publications which his sitter sit-ter who lives In this city had sent him as a present and these tiny rllcnt At last accounts tho lady who was mobbed and who had a a consequence left her hOle and gone to live with friends about nine miL distant was feeling none the less friendly to time Eiders or their doctrines ana was taking steps to have the perpetrators of the outrage out-rage brought justice if possible I mf eu3 Either JoLnson f good health and is thankful for tIme ex prrlence gained and flue testimonies acquired during his absence |