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Show We have a lively senae of tho humorous, hu-morous, and when the Mormon Elder El-der who runs tbo Salt Lake Herald charged that the Ciiief Justice of Utah was an employ; of The h'iuv!'c and wrote the interesting correspondence correspond-ence publisned in this journal from that city, wa were inclined to regard it s the Elder's little joke. But Judge McKean seems disposed to view it iu a graver sense, and it turned out to be no joke at all, or so tit le:wt Brother Sloan must have thought, when he was brought before tho United Uni-ted States district court the other day, and the Chief Justice proved to the entire satisfaction of all that Th Republic Re-public correspondent was altogether a difterent gentleman; :uid when the Chief Justice further denounced tho Mormon editor as a " liar and slanderer," sland-erer," the matter uinuid a very grave aspect indeed for the Mormon apostle. -N", Y. Jiepublic. The Republic is slightly inaccurate. First, Mr. Sloan never was a Mormon Mor-mon apostle. Second, Mr. Sloan never wrote the article referred to. Third, Mr. Sloan ia dead. |