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Show MOKE CONVKKTS. About Two Hundred Candidates for Sainthood Saint-hood at the Depot Yesterday. Yesterday for about four hours during the morning tho Union Pacific depot was thronged with a motley crowd of converts to Mormondom, just arrived from tho southern states. There wore old nnd youDg of both sexes, from little children to old age, and their presence was mado mnnifost by a heterogenous conglomeration of smells not i.t nil beguiling to the olfactory nerves of the average human being. These candidates for saintly exaltation were said to be from the southern states of this republic; but if this statement be correct, they must have been hunted up from among tho mountains of enpt Tennessee and northern Georgia, where all the ignorance and Hastiness of the south are congregated. In those sections sec-tions such people are known among the negroes as "poor white trash," and in Georgia they are commonly called 'crackers." The three carloads of emigrants loft shortly after noon for southern Utah, to be distributed wherever thoy will do the most good to the church. |