Show elders blobbed anil and whipped A letter was hecei received ve d today by elder robert patrick of t the he eighteenth ward in this city from his son eon william george georg I 1 patrick who 1 is no now laboring a as a missionary in clarendon carolina with headquarters at foreston it is dated foreston Fore eton july and the tells of a mobbing of if two other elders in toe southern states he eaas Two olour elders namely done dogle aal an carter have been whipped chippe d by a mob in the adjoining county the mob was headed by two methodists and one baptist i they took tonk the elders i out of a friends house at 4 in tho the afternoon and marched them to a dark place in the backwoods and kept them all night tu tn the morning they robbed the them in of all the money they had which was fifty cents tore up all their books and licenses and then made them tacna lie sown down over a log and gave them twenty two lashes apiece with harness tugs they then ihen took them to the train and started them to utah the elders went to columbia the espital capital of the and from there they walked down here to foreston Fo reaton they are not livirt bur much and are both feeling well in spirits its all the rest of the elders ehlers are well and getting along fine this is ia the time of I 1 the baptist and methodist revival meetings and the ministers get the people worked up to a areat state of excitement none of the other elders have been molested deseret news |