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Show jtf a CHRISTIAN alternative that was submission, offered to answer to any charged before the law, when we were given to understand in their own language: We will JJJE 'AWFUL OUTRAGES ON MOR-MO- show you a little law. We are law An attempt to reason enough for you. MISSIONARIES. only seemed to enrage them the more, and soon we were receiving with awful fury lashes from the beech limbs about five feet long, in the hands of an infuria Flogokd yjTii Hickories. ted mob.- The captain, who gave the most fearful cuts, was a man that would Jflarc.kd out in Twir Night Clothes by a we gh about 200 pounds, and of a bony make up. Each lash made Gang of Siiiilheyn Toughs.. -- LAND. N AN UGLY WOUND and many ol tnem brought the blood as they came on us with all the force and Danville, Tenn., September 26th, 188S, vengeance a demon could of The Her- command. Heads on one side of the Special Correspondence ald. On the 2d inst., the defeated mob log and our knees on the other, we raised who waited upon us August the 19th, up once or twice to beg for them to 'called again to prove they were- - capable shoot and end the affair, but as we raisof perpetrating an outrage fit only to be ed, others around would 200-pou- V . , . . ' charged to barbarians. Between the above dates we were visiting friends in other parts. The first outrage spread freely, and the lady ol the house visited by the mobocrats, with a ready tetnper, busied herself 111 addressing letters to those who were guilty of joining such a gang; including some near neighbors, in winch she told them of their hyuocrisy in assuming td be friends; yet, Judas- -f ike. loaned a lantern or pistol to use in arousing quiet and peaceable citizens lroin their slumbers in the dead of night. The very language used was quoted to ijhem.'and caused a Smarting that found jaji.dmlei in a most vehement denuncb ation of any one who would presume' to say such a thing. The cap fit too tight-- : ly, however, and the stronger tlie denunciation, the more positive became the evidence of guilt, a very common .trait with the THIEF MURDERER FIEND OR behind a mask. So complete was this .expose that the mobocrats said they we had spies at every house in the neighborhood for miles around. With a little stretch, we might quote; 'The uiCKe4. tlae jKheh no man dr guilty conscience needs ho 4 ' accuser" On September 1st, we were to meet a friend from home, spend a couple of days together, and seperate for our labors. Anticipation were pleasant in the hopes of seeing some one direct from home, who could tell all the news of recent oc curance. Our fiiend came and kindly remembered us with some lresli fruit from Utah, a luxury almost too great for a Mormon elder strongly impregnated ,with corn bread and bacon. Knowing considerable excitement prevailed, we used every precaution to each our destination unobserved in the pobocratic neighborhood. Bello is the name of a town within five niles, and we were compelled to credit .this town with a doctor who headed the first mob. An election was progressing the day we made this trip, and whisky, as Usual, was used freely to influence voters and .craze the country rabble. Hearing of .our presence in the country they doubt- ' less organized either at this place or on their way home, because we did not reach our destination until about 5 p. m., I and that we thought almost entirely unobserved. The family were a little excited upon .seeing us, fearing a repetition of what had transpired, but being so accustomed to mobs and threats, we soon entered into a lively conversation and dispelled, to a great extent, the gloom we noticed .upon arrival. - We sang, chatted and prayed, retiring about 10 p. m. Several times, the bark-,in- g dog aroused us,, but being in a land of rats, we paid little attention to the . . brute that was evidently doing what he .could to jceep friends away, and not rats. fj ; About 2 a. m., a companion turned to the , i f ,writer and exclaimed; t "the mobs come? the mobs come! ,and in a moment the ruffians began pouring into our room as fast as they could, the leader with a lantern, exclaim- Surrender! ing . with drawn pistol: . It tqok no time to tell he f , .Surrender! was in earnest from his .'reckless demea- , , . . , por and gruff stentorian voice. His jnovements, demonlike, impressed us at .once as though he had been in the business before. Turning to fiis men, more han a dozen in number, all armed and fr-.4 : hideously masked,- - he commanded: ' "Take out, men! Take them out! t .at whichthem they seized and jerked us from .the ted, refusing with awful oaths, to let ,us even partly dress. Ail attempt was , ,, .made by the writer, two or three times ,to get his pants, but he was snatched by ' Jiaffadozen demons at each attempt. To talk to be heard was out of the ques- I,, ,Jj, tion; the voice being drowned with blas- u phemies, all seeming to talk at once, re- ninding a person most forcibly of a sechell. J jst as the writer was being tarian - marched through the door, he turned - ' t and looked to see the movements of the .man of the house in the adjoining room, when A MOST BRUTAL SIGHT ' ," , 5. fli() . , 1 ia. f ei & VS I ?' greeted his eyes. As the man reached the partition door, coming into our room, a devil guarding. the. entrance with' an uplifted dub dealt a terrifie blpw , .squarely? on his head, staggering him, .and making the blood pour out in a stream upon the floor. The captain then turned to him and said: If yqu step out-- 4 side of this house before 6 oclock tomorrow morning, we will kill you. I This was kajd fur fear the man would f. follow the rest of us fo the woods and avenge the outrage upon his rights as a citizen. He had formerly said they never should take us out unless jt was over his dead body. On they marched us in our night clothes, through the mud, it having been raining the day before, in .fact for a week, until we reached a large beech tree about forty rods from the jhouse. We had no chance to talk, for the noise, , .confusion and constant profaning drowned our voice?. Halted under the beech, the first thing said by the captain was: We dont mean to kill you. and then he commenced cutting beech limbs from a quarter to three quarters of an inch in thickness. They were hastily trimmed, .the captain trembling w ith madness: ugly knots left told most .awfully upon our almost bare backs later. Orders weie thengivertto FORCE , . US DOWN : Mpon the ground in a row, which were soon changed to forcing us over a log near by. The resistance offered brought a blow over the head with perchance a pistol or a club, and we had but one standing our very teeth. Not shove a pistol noticing this they would strike us over the head with it, compelling us to keep the head down. A promise was sought to be exacted that we would leave the 111 country, but we remained silent; an unfortunate circumstance, because of being compelled to promise latter. One of the elders jumped to his feet during the beating, but he rvas soon forced down again, and received more lashes than he would have received othewise. At one stage we heard from their own men, pleadings that we be let alone, which were unheeded.,, One of their party sickened at the sight, . walked about a rod, and, in returning, was reported as a man coming up, which brought out cries of: shoot him! shoot him down! " until they were assured he was one of the number. Finally, they let up, and we were told to return to the house. The last they uttered was: If you ever show yourselves here again, you will look up a rope. We returned to the house and found the owner bathing his wounds, and blood on various parts of the floor; the poor Womaa,. heartbroken, came weeping upon our shoulders. We bathed our wounds with turpentine, and laid down the best we could until morning, when we lefl, we hope never to return. Our stripes have had time to Leal, and we are again feeling as strong as ever. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our A blood on them that dwell on earth. boasted land of religious liberty! Give us a little liberty and less boast. ' Saile. COPPS LAND REVIEW. The Chinese and The Public Domain, The Chinese Question is just at present the topic of public and The week previous to this was one long to be remembered by every person in Provo, on account of the amusements that have been here, to be sure there were only three entertainments given, but two of them were of a kind that can be relished by the amusement luving community, viz. the Dan Morris Sullivan Company which showed here last Tuesday before to a grand Reunion of the Utah County Bands. This performance was not a play as nearly everybody supposed. but a panoramic view of Ireland intermixed with Irish songs and dances. Taken altogether it was one of the best panoramas that the writer has ever had the oppertunity to witness. The paintings of the ruins of old castles principal streets of Ireland, seaports etc. were splendid, and last but not least Ireland as it was, Ireland as it is and Ireland as we hope to see it, hand in hand with said to be in compliment to Senator Beck, who desires au opportunity to see the bill before completing his report against it. But, of course, the general provisions of the bill are as much a matter of common knowledge as if it had been officially given forth to the press. The bill, as it stands, is unfinished, and as to many of its provisions the Republicans in the Senate are not yet agreed. The text is volumnious, embracing the Mills bill, reprinted entire, with a line struck through what is desired to be canceled. It is completed by the Senate bill in the shape of an amendment or substitute. The letter press makes nearly 250 pages. The reduction proposed is variously estimated at from sixty-fiv- e to eighty-fiv- e million dollars per annum. The reductions are mainly on sugar.on which the duty is cut 50 per cent., on rice, and on tobacco, it being proposed America, was a well executed p'ece of to abolish the entire tobacco internal painting. Last Friday the Bands ol Utah revenue tax. A strong effort will cerCo. united themselves together and had be made to have the tax on cigartainly a gala day. The Band united together ettes retained. The tax on alcohol used and made one band, which was a grand in the arts is also abolished, and an atsight as they paraded the streets of Provo tempt has also been made to incorporunder the leadership Jas. II. Wallis much ate administrative provisions which may credit is due this gentleman for the wav the Government against fraud. protect in which he conducted the affair. In the As to the metal schedules, the evening they gave a grand ball which has been sorely vexed. Steel was well attended, and which 'kept up rails have been scheduled and reschudu-led- , until everyone was tired. and though the reduction now rates before the bill is given to the at $142, seems be to the day for the Saturday Provo hoodlums to get1 on a spree and Senate itself this provision may go to have a night out but it generally send $2.50 per ton making the duty $13.50. is concerned, the Comin one or two being coppered by the So iar as even mittee ask for an increased may police. manufacturers say The duty. The Cosmopolitan Hotel has been hav- that couldnt live with the present they ing a big run lately almost taking all the tariff. custom from the other hotels and resNow, this is but the overture of the taurants. Nephites are seen in little comic opera of tariff trouble. The bill groups here and there, waiting to go is only fairly born. Daily hearings of and give evidence in coliab cases. persons interested in any of the indusPeople are begining to prepare for win tries involved must ensue. The publica ter in this section of country. is tin-pla- tin-pla- tion of the text of the bill will bring a thousand of these gentlemen to Washington. The action of the Finance Committee will, of course, directly effect the vexed question of adjournment. There is even a doubt but that, if the tariff debate is Anally acted upon, the Senate will sit for ever. Some Senators of both parties insist that it is highly probable that no conclusion can be reached by election day, and an early adjournnentis out of the question. Through this black night of dispair faintly shines the star of a dear hope. It may be that after a ten days debate the impossibility of finishing before election day will become so apparent that adjournment will be readily agreed upon. However, it is altogether probable that this will be an extremely long session, broken only by a recess for election about NqvemDer 1. Mr. McMillan, from the bad lands of Tennessee and the creeks above Carthage, is rapidly developing into an intellectual Sullivan, though I have sufficient confidence in him to believe that he would not heedlessly welter in the It hapgore of a of floor this the on the House, pened week. Mr. McComas, of Maryland, was endeavoiing to have a date set for the discussion of the Blair bill and Nr. McMillan objected twice. Mr. McComas intimated that the objection was made from pute cusedness, and Mr. McMillan, in a fine rage, dared Mr. McComas The to repeal them words outside. Marylander said that lie dare do anything, but for some reason or other hostilities were prevented, ani the two big, raw schoolboys returned to their seats, conducted by deeply sympathizing friends. Senator Stewart, who counts the day lost whose lo iv descending sun witnessed not another Chinaman excluded, has n. affered a resolution calling upon the President for such information as he may have received since September 7th, regarding the action of the Chinese government on the recent treaty. Senator Edmunds impressively insisted upon considering the question in executive session, and the public for some unknown reason was left to cool its benighted heels in distant corridors. In executive session, Senator Edmunds offered a still broader resolution as to the same mat er. A great many refuges are in the city from the Florida fever district, Mississippi and Tennessee. Their fright is amazing, and they say that the feeling is common everywhere through the South. At the Post Office department, the Assistant Secretary is engaged in deciding what measure can be taken to protect the mail service. The South is threatened with an absolute suspension of mail facilities unless something can be done to avert the panic about yellow fever. After a conference of a month the Sunday Civil Bill is through the Committee. The Congressional Library item has been the sore object of dispute. The building will go on but with new plans. Architect Smithmeyer is to be paid a fair price for what he has done and is dismissed, and Col. Casey, of the engineers, placed in charge. The limit of cost necessitates a new design, as Mr. Smith-meyeplan would make the bulding cost more than the Suez Canal. Once in a while vengeance overtakes the fiend who writes Letters to the Editor. A budding genius, named Hack-maat the Government Printing Office, it is alleged, has just been discharged for writing an open letter to the Washington Post , complaining of the levying of political assessments. One is led to the ad inference that writing letters to the newspaper is a thankless rs n, Nephite. FISH AND GAME LAWS. m An Act Supplemental and Amendatory to Chapter VI Session Laws of 1884, Entitled An Act for the Protection of Eisli and Game. Section i. .Be it enacted by the l 11. Goiern-o- r and Legislative Assembly oj the Territory oj Utah'. 1. That every person who between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of September in each year, wilfully takes, kills, destroys or offiis for sale any kind of will geese or wild ducks; or who shall at any time rob the rest ot the above mentioned birds; or who shall kill any wild geese or ducks between one hour after sunset or one hour before sunrise shall be guilty ol a violation ol the provisions of this section. 2. Any person who shall, within four years, kill any bird of the kind generally known and designated as impoited quail, or who shall have the dead bodies of such birds killed within this Territory, in his possession within the confines of the Territory of Utah, shall be guilty of a violation of the provisions of this a political discussion, and a bill prohibiting the immigration into this country of Chinese persons has been passed by Congress, and is now before the President, who will probabbly sign it now that official information of the rejection by the Chinese government of the treaty recently proposed, has been received. Quite a flutter of excitement was created a few days ago by the announcement in the public prims that Assistant Commissioner Anderson, of the General Land Office, had rendered a decision to the effect that a. Chinaman who in 1887 declared his intention to become a citizen 3. Any person violating the provisof the United States could legally initiate ions of this section shall be fined in a a homestead entry. sum not less than tea nor more than fifty It is quite certain, however, that what- dollars. Sec. 2 Every person who between ever may have been the foundation upon which the rumor was based, and what- the 15th day of November of each year and the 15th day ot August following ever mayhave been the opinion of the takes, kills or destroys any deer, or who Assistant Commissioner upon the subject shall at any time kill any of the above at the time of the publication, no such animals tor their skins, is guilty of a misdecision wis promulgated, and that off- demeanor. Sec. 3. Every person who puts into icer is now firmly of the opinion that un- the wateis of this Territory any poisonless a Chinaman can conclusively show ous substance, giant powder or other exthat he had declared his intention to be- plosives, upon conviction thereof, shall come a citizen of the United States prior be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not less to the amendment of the Naturalization than one hundred days, or may be punLaws in 1875 he can never become quali- ished by both fine and imprisonment.' Sec. 4. It shall be a misdemeanor to fied to make ah entry of public lands untake out of this Territory any game taken der any of the laws where citizenship is or killed within its boundaries. a Sec. 5. The county court of each It appears that the district land officers county ol this Territory shall appoint a in one of thejeritories permitted three fish and game commissioner, whose term of office shall be for two years and until Chinaman, who had filed heir declara- i.is successor is appointed and qualified; tions of citizenship in 1883, to make a sa.:d commissioner shall, before entering mineral land entry, and the case came on i;is duties of his office, take and subbefore the Assistant Commissioner for scribe to an oath of office and give a consideration. His judgment was em- bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful preformance of his phatically recorded against the legality duty, said bo.nd to he filed with the proof such an entry, and an order of cancel- bate judge. The commissioner shall relation was made at once; no holding for ceive such compensation as shall be decancellation with privilege pf appeal, was termined by the county court, bo. paid out of the county tr easury, and shall permade, but the entry was canceled out- form his duties under the directions of the right, without a word in the decision county court. It shall be the duty of the commissionabout the right of appeal on the ground of this Territory that only citizens of the United States, er to see that all laws fish and game are for the of and those who had legally declared their faithfullyprotection enforced, and shall report his intentions to become such, can make en- doings to the county court quarterly try fo miufcral lands, arid that as the All fines and forfeitures for violation of Revised Statutes as amended by the act the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county of 187 exiued ftjongolians lrom the wherein the offence shall have been privilege ol becoming citizens, the entry Sec. 6. That sections 1 and 2 of was illegafaid utterly void. VI Laws of 1SS4 be and are herechapter Very few Chinamen have ever become repealed. by citizens of the United States. I am Approved March 8, 1SS8. that out of the thousands that hve come here only sixteen were ever naturalized. If this be true, and no change WASHINGTON LETTER. occurs in our naturalization laws, the public domain will not be absorbed to (FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT) any great extent bv Chinamen unless Washington, Sept. 2Sth, 1SS8. those sixteen prove unusually prolific in Senators tariff bill The Republican offspring, been has reported. This Henry N. Corp. measure was solemnly delivered to the full committee on Wednesday by the PROVO ITEMS. and at the adjournment N. B, member Provo Oct. 4th, yielded up his copy to the every Ed. Ensign: clerk of the Committee, who placed it Jt may be that the readers of The En- under lock and key. One copy only and Misses sign would like to hear from Provo once found its way out of the room, and that more. And taking it for granted they was carefully sealed and sent by a trusty would I will endeaver to give them a messenger to Senator Beck, who lies brief review of the doings of last week. sick at Fortress, Monroe, This secrecy j. MERCHANDISE GENERAL SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS OOHNEIl MAIN AN D DEPOT STREET NEPKI. GENERAL MERCHANTS MBO BLOCK, OPPOSITE ' com-mite- CO-O- P, MAIN STREET, NEPHI. of Groceries, Dry Goods complete stock Hardware and everything in the General Mercantile line kept constantly on hand. A Large and ORDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIYE PROMPT ATTENTION. long-expect- e, sit CIW Wraps, Jackets, Jerseys, Hosiery, Underwear and Fall and Winter Dress Goods. We tee just laid ii a tone of Fall Goods cisisli of ladies, |