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Show The Scandal-Monger D;shed np, West Jordan, U.T., ! December 11, 1S76. Editors Herald: A correspondent who would write ol an unfortunate young man as having hav-ing "the top of his head blown ofF," and a paper that would ndmit to its columns such a class of literature, are probably beneath the notice of a gentleman, but a direct falsehood in the communication sigued " A Sample," in a morning contemporary of yours, demands theEtroDgesl denial, and probably stronger language than your columnB - would enlertain. As to the domestic affairs of the bishop, who is therein accused of having "eleven wives and forty-one children," I will not pretend to discuss, as I bave not quizzed into his private affurs, out there is an accusatiou agaiust ft young "Siuti'S" vino 18 aid to hivn incurrad disgrace and then attempted suicidejwhilt: no name is mentioned the (act that there is but one boarding house at West Jordan, seltles this vile slander on the young woman who waits on the boarders; this accusation is an unmitigated falsehood, and no language can bo too severe, or treatment either, to apply to its author, who shields his cowardly person under the protection of the jourual in question. W hat-redress hat-redress can the innocent obtain for the loss of reputation, and who is to recompense them for being made tbe laughing stock of a neighborhood if slander can be published with impunity im-punity ? We have only one consolation, consola-tion, and that i. no one believes the oiatementaof a liar, whether it be in the form of a person or a newspaper, after you find him out. James Gardner. |