Show missionaries p n tho south wo we have been courteously cour tonly permitted to peruse a letter from elder william winder bon aon of bishop john R winder now on oil a mi mission ision in the southern states to hit wife lie ile gives ant I 1 an It account Count of some gome interesting with a mob who were determined td run the elders out of stanley county tf C the letter is dated july slat mat and the following tollow inc is tit the e lt substance il e t a rice 0 of f t the h e s t i te n ent in reference en e t to 0 t the li e operations pe r sl ti 0 ii s 0 of t t tho h e tile the elders hail had an appointment to hold a nt at the bouso of mr dick on I 1 lie sunday previous and arrived in the locality C bality ft a few days before in order to visita frienda ri egils we n they arrived they found the people in the district in an ail uproar about the missionaries and a number of them conspired to take them out of the meeting arid and put them over the ilia river into tin an adjacent county find demand that they re remain main away amay permanently manent ly they also threatened air dick 1 he litter latter stated as lie hail bad agreed to allow the brethren to hold meeting at his place lie would stand eland by it if they ther desired desire no watter dialler what hat alight come of it it was concluded however to give up the idea of fillia ill nd I the appointment me I 1 t the mob did not learn of this intention and about seventy live five of them thein 11 gathered 4 ae b e red at t the place appointed for meeting t ing they procured a warrant tor for the arrest of the elder Il deison son a charge of zo in witting a breach of tile the pece peace tile the brethren did not evade the issue being innocent and were placed under arrest while in custody and on the way to albemarle Albe marlo J li simpson the complaining witness approached the brethren and tried to induce them to leave the county and the charge would be withdrawn they refused to do so thit thin disappointed the accuser who knew tile the mob had no case about fifty men were ere gathered on the rond road to take tire the prisoners from the custody of the officers arid and drive them out of tile ali locality but their courage did not reach the sticking point and albemarle was wan reached in safety friends were on I 1 hand I 1 a nil to rivo give bonds for the appearance of the brethren to answer to the charge but they deemed it safer eater to remain in prison and dill did BO 80 sleeping elc cpin on oil a straw calleton pal pallet leton on the floor during the night the elie sheriff riff treated them kindly A committee of three deputed by a large mob who vibo remained tit at a distance called at the jail ind and demanded mandol de that tile the sheriff deliver up to them the mormon prisoners the officer declined being being told that force w m cold be used it if he be di did not comply be still refused to surrender his nv ards no effort was wag made to carry the threat into execution when the trial came on tile the court house bouse was nas crowded the two features of the charge were that the elders had been the mears means of a man and his wife separating and that they had preached false doctrines and therefore committed a breach of tho pence peace it was all shown ON n that there was not the slightest ground for either allegation arid and tile the defendants ill mere lre discharged arid and the costs mere ere taxed against the complainants subsequently a mob gathered and informed the elders they were going to take them oil out M of tile county Tr the latter clatter talked the matter over with their drosc cutora and finally agreed to leave of their own onn accord preferring abat method of der departure arture to being accompanied over the border by an ebeart thus the matter ended deseret be seret |