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Show A JOURXEY E.VST: VUhop KolcT Jlales a Tripof Seicn TiioBsaad "Hires'. lli-hop FmlclUk Ktsler, pfj the Sixttcnth tahl, ntifnitd btrtce ou Stmday evening list rom a visit to tie Kist, where he has been on fi genealogical mls!on. ."avint; Salt Tsake' City oil May Sih. he first went to Council Illufis, and thence Jouruejed to SlluiicapoIIs. AllheJatterplacohe IvarBeilctliat his youngest t-ro'lrer "inim he had not seen for upwards of forty-seven years, had been dead about seven months. Upon application Icing made fo the local authorities, how . ever, permlsnlon was fobtalned to exhume the body, and the lilshop was thus enabled to take a last look at the face of Ue deceased. Hlshop Healer neat went to Chicago, Chica-go, and from thence to Clevetilrd.O. He afterwards visited Kirtland.and was conducted 'over the Tcmpln there. This structure has under-gone under-gone considerable internal Improvement Improve-ment and has been thoroughly repainted. re-painted. The next place to which Ktshop Kesler traveled was llub-liard llub-liard City, O. There he rsed some-years some-years of Ills early life. In Mercer Co.,. Pa.,he made another brief halt, thence colngtoKvimvil!e,Criwford Co., Fa. At KvrirliTlHe he discovered discov-ered many relatives on his mother' side, and gathired n number cf interesting in-teresting facts concerning them. Erie, Buffalo and Kochester, 'N. Y were sulisifiueiilly visited, anu Niagara Falls was also taken In the programme at this point. At l"al-myra l"al-myra Itishop Keler accidentally mcttheviteran Major Uilbott. who printed tho first edition of the Hook of Mnrmbii, The Major ! now in hi 87th sear, bat looked well and hcartr. One of the spota to which this Itishop went befoie starting hoine. w-ard was the hill of Cumorah, di-tant fotlr miles from Falmyra. IIu here saw the house wherein the Prophet Josepli Smith hail his first vision, and other oljeets of absorbing absorb-ing i nterest w ere jailnted out to him associated with) the youthful life of the Prephet. After passing a few hour lu New York HIboplCes!er stayed s-evi ral da.tsxvlth hisuife'n rvlative-i In Jajng IsiinJ At Washington ho was most klmilv fecs-lved bv the Hon. John T. (-tine, vtho escorted him thniugh the Capitol, to tho Uhito House-anilothtrplaccsi. House-anilothtrplaccsi. The Bishop had a i-h-asaut ride lio-ne via the It. G W. iUilruad, haxinj traveled in nil no few ir than 7W miles. Hosajs tnat, uucli as ho has enjoi el the-trip, the-trip, he b gla I to get back ouee more to Ins mountain home-. |