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Show YOUTH'S EXPErTeHCE. Continued. At this time those who professed profess-ed to be Latter-day Saints were wisely counseled to bo still about it as this was the time the Bnchan-nan Bnchan-nan Army came to Utah towipe out the Mormons, and a bitter feeling against the Latter-day Saints existed ex-isted all over the country. ; The few meetings we held were held privately among ourselves nnd nothing was now being done in proselyting on that account. Also at the same time a panic was all over the nation and business of every kind was very dull and it was hard to get employment, it being sometimes months that wre had little or nothing to do. We moved to Ashland in Schuylkill County, wheie a few Latter-day Saints lived, to see if we could not better our conditton. This was a coal mining district and the kind of labor usual at such business was new to me, so at last I cor eluded to start a Butcher Shop. Gener- ally I purchased my meat ready dressed, and it was not long before I had a nice trade established, wnich assisted me considerably. During the Utah war the few families of Latter-day Saints who lived here held sacrament and testimony meetings and we always had good times, in each others society, so-ciety, but of course we dare not let it 'be known that we held any meetings. meet-ings. On ilfarch 23, 1859, there was a son born in the town of Ashland, and he was christened "William. About the middle of Mav we sold out our effects and went to Florence where the Saints wrere preparing to cross the plains and go to Salt Lake Valley, the gathering gather-ing place of the saints. We arrived arriv-ed at Florence with about 300 pounds of clothing and other property prop-erty and but very little money. Rhondo. To be continued |