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Show MOUMOXS BEEN THROUGH SFKC-TACIES. SFKC-TACIES. To the Editor of the Ifendd : Though an old man, I can still appreciate ap-preciate hospitality. And after a sojourn so-journ at Salt Lake of two weeks, enjoying en-joying not only extreme hospitality but the warmest friendship at the hands of Mayor Wells and a host of other Latter-day Saints, I feel like giving this j public expression to my gratitude and i good wishes towards that much-ma-j bgned and judicially-abused commu- ! May God bestow upon them the ' blessing of happy deliverance from the band of harpies that seek to punish religion with imprisonment and death. ' But devils incarnate will not be per- j 1 mitted to lay waste this goodly land, i I Such contentment, perseverance iu i ' well-doing, unity in action and prosper- ! i ily under difficulties, as I witnessed I i among the Mormons, I havo never j 1 seen elsewhere. i I left there December 11th, aud rodo i homewards with the variation of a little snow and then no snow at all, 1 until I reached tho summit. There j one hundred sappers and miners were ! commissioned to shovel away the cne- ! my's works by spells till we arrived ; twenty miles cast of Cheyenne, where i ; fiue weather and fine roads greeted us. i j Employes wero most obliging, and presented us with victuals and drink j bread, cheese, butter, whisky, eggs, : dried beef, sardines and "biled" roos- ' I tcr3 of undoubted age. ! Having thus reached home again, I 1 I halt for a second thought, and find that ! j so thick and b-:dvy have been the kind i I attentions bestowed upon me, that I ; i am falling into a "brown study" as to I my true status whether suddenly I ! have become a prince,or still remain an i old man in my dotage. L. Miller, In th? Omaha Herald. |
