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Show INTERESTING, BUT MIXED. Under the caption, "An Interesting Meeting," wo find tho following interesting inter-esting editorial pargraph in the Rochester Roch-ester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle; Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Mor-mon church, and the only man who ever found gold In Western New York, was killed by a mob while a prisoner In .lull at Carthage. III., on .June 27, 181 i, after he had undertaken lo suppress a newspaper news-paper that had denounced bis "revelations" "revela-tions" regarding polygamy. Ono of the loaders of tho mob was a man named Madison, On the sixty-seventh anniversary anniver-sary of Smith's death, his son, Joseph F. Smith, now the head of the' Mormon church, was In Washington, testifying as a witness before the Sugar Trust Investigators. In-vestigators. One of tho members of the investigating committee Is Representative Representa-tive Edmond H. Madison of Kansas, grandson of the Madison who helped kill Joseph Smith, the eldor The manner In which fute brought together tho descendants descend-ants of two of tho men concerned In the tragedy at Carthage furnished a dramatic dra-matic incident. In connection with the testimony of the famous Mormon, that was not overlooked by the alert Washington Wash-ington correspondents. A meeting like that is certainly most interesting, and must have awakoned very keen omotions in the breasts of the men chiefly concerned. To have the offspring of Uic hvo antagonistic personages per-sonages concerned primarily in that tragedy meet undor such circumstances is a coincidence of more than commonplace common-place concern; and it would havo been vastly desirable to have the two men meet aad tall; tho matter over, each giving his expression ' to his ideas and reminiscences. Unfortunately, however, how-ever, this was not brought about. We note, however, somo inaccuracies in tho paragraph quoted. Joseph F. Smith, now head of the Mormon Church, is not tho son but the nephew of the founder of the Mormon Church; ho is the sou of Hyrum Smith, who was a brother of Joseph Smith, Jr., who received re-ceived the "revolutions." And as the perpetrators of hc crime of slaying the two Smiths havo been supposed to be unknown, it would be of interest to know how the part wliich the "man named Madison" look ill tho assassination assassi-nation comes to be disclosed. |