Show taa MORMONS Mon moNs A fair san francisco Fanci aco correspondent of the express thus concisely sums up the character and institutions of the deluded fanatics of the great salt lake valley the mormons cormons occupy a prominent position before the community at t present their bivil civil alad and re religious li i us institutions are liberally discussed and corn coal dented upon the topic affords al a fine opportunity to numbers who have little claim to virtue thern them selves to express horror and ad indignation at many of their habits andio and so make capital to sustain their empty pretensions to that quality i they appear to be emphatically a community of religious devotees they believe all odthe of the new testament and reject none of the old and they manifest fttie faith by their works healing hembricr the sick by prayer and laying on oi of hands speaking in unknown languages langges seeing visions and dreaming dreams and they send their twelve Apost apostles lei out ino injo all the world to preach the gospel to every creature 1 like to the ancient israelites Israelit ethey they pay ay a tenth part of j all their increase into the lords treasury a and n d marry many wives because his faithful servants abraham and david set them the example thousands af years ago they regard polygamy as an ancient and patriarchal Patriarch irl institution mormonism ism differs from other religions of oatlie the day in that it is is Juda iain grafted upon christianity instead of christ christianity anity grafted upon judaism they are a remarkably mar kably thriving and industrious class of people but extremely ingnor ant and dependant for thought and belief upon the ex of die law and the gospel but ds as ill in all cases of ecclesiastical rule the mass in in point of morals are far in in advance of their teachers these are men of some learn learning ing and talent but more cunning and an I 1 knavery but it seems that altho although uh I 1 as wise as solomon in in pat licu lars a they cannot control and harmonize the civil and religious elements of their 9 government goven oven ment they restrain their people too much on one hand and allow them too great freedom on the other some day the balancing power willbe will be lost lo 10 st the repulsive becoming greater creater than the ibe attractive and the lone deseret desere t star tar will fly off in in a tangent dash itself in pieces and the broken fragments will wil I 1 be gathered into the glorious constellation of f tile the 31 states k 0 orson pratt one of the twelve apostles of the we the r flermon fl ormon church is preaching thrice on sunday and andS Wrice nce on ell wednesday evening of each week at I 1 temperance hall in the cily of washington on mormonism I 1 oni onis s N 0 pic I 1 83 01 A MORMON Wo RivioN ORGAN called the ser has been started at washington city by orson frattone Prat tone ot of the latter day sainta JA it is in favor of polygamy poleg J and attempts to justify th the e practice by scripture the power of Cong ressor of any state to prohibit it is denied the statements that polygamy is allowed and practiced in the dorme it c 0 m mus o city seems to he be well established from their own 0 organs anything more socially cor corrupting erupting rup ting or demoralizing moral izing cannel be conceived dollar dolla newspaper I 1 THE ERICSSON Ey acasoN SHIP lias has been tr it d and and has exceeded the hopes of her projector upon her I 1 trip on tuesday she made twelve miles mile s in iii un an ho hour ur with wind and tide but eight miles an hour were claimed for herand her and the result notwithstanding the favoring elements alay be considered a triumph i W ja A machine for painting window blinds has been invented by samuel fields a painter of worcester by chith one man can paint easily 80 pairs I 1 of blinds in a day and not work over ten hours |