| Show correspondence credit marks foy for utah t tail i lancaster co pa january 11 1877 creditor deseret we mews news aban As asan an utter and absolute refutation tion of the gross and malignant slanders perpetrated against the nobie hoble and illustrious people of utah r herewith enclose a cc long list of reputable credit marks for the self seif denizen denisena BL of deseret doi dol collated from a source both authentic and conclusive viz the compendium of the ath census of the ui Q S a copy of which at the instance of non bon geo Q cannon I 1 the hon zach chandler secretary of the interior sent bent me a sheet some time since respectfully A M MUSSER 1 comparative statistics IOS los AS pee PER population T if f collated from the compendium of the oth census of thi the U S for J 1870 by A milton fusser musser jS lancaster city and county fcc por pa january 1877 7 S X it gai gal aai s 0 j i 4 8 ss alv q 4 3 tf K r U i S 1 ti 1 11 8 2 s t L 1 g S y S a 1 qa offa 4 0 j 8 t 1 at e as j SS i t PT iho e S P e Q at 5 so Ss d e it united states ii I 1 31 16 31 8 9 31 13 1 3 28 26 it wa igya ac t Uta utah hf f bya 6 aig alg 31 9 35 1132 n ita 18 1889 ilg 89 8 9 penn renn alvania t 5 IN uld 73 91 gil 30 10 9 94 13 T ohio 24 22 12 gha 8 31 10 71 7 23 new 59 30 20 12 20 91 5 0 6 1011 loli 10 11 12 J nevada novada 43 31 WA lis lid 2 2 45 my bourl 14 ily lly n by fim fly ia 33 gil ill an si iti ili il illo iilo 1110 11 10 i 11 Z 5 23 13 1 1311 3 if 25 2554 2534 11 liv 1034 1014 12 illinois 23 ill ile t gys gha 31 82 82 5 VA agy 41 33 19 1 iv 24 1 0 10 1 0 its id 9 H arizona les lc wa sib 1 colorado 19 SY 9 22 32 21 11 dakota aj AU ifa efa ii 7 district ot of columbia 2 23 V 3 85 35 gis 91 9 15 1 5 j 27 x 10 ion lon ali 8 34 idabo 2 zu 6 1 1316 13 1 3 IS 1 ll 11 11 44 8 50 1 1 1 10 D I 1 15 5 WA IQ 5 now mexico loi 1 IU 21 91 iio ilo 1 21 af 5 1 k 13 ils ily u 81 1 3 27 93 15 s wyoming 25 9 91 1 3 gil 11 13 preaching prevalent apprehensions falsehood 1 la a j circulation hard weather and t nard hard rimes acel accidents tongs tents ana and wick eddens i WEST VILLEs blot I 1 co mich jan adilor deseret jews V 1 since writing to you ou on the af lof pf october I 1 have traveled much 1 jp reached every opportunity that presented itself and visited families expounding the scripture a and teaching the plan of salvation many believe belleve my testimony and marvel at my teachings saying how can this man handle so much scripture how ia Is it said a g gentleman man to me tha other evening g cc you can answer every quei ques tion alon on and ex ulala scripture so sa satis batis ily 1 have never met with ziny any dimster before that could when I 1 would ask them to ei explain lilain the reve revelations lations would say pay 10 0 that is in the future pr or it ia Is a sealed scaled bobov book s T r told themi them could do no more than any other man of iny Tny myself self seif but it was as isaiah said 22 chap 14 verse romans 10 chapter 13 and 14 verses versea and hebrews 5 chapters chapter 4 verse many say the bible Is laa lan a new book to them I 1 have baptized six souls ouis since aluce last writing making in all twenty eight and others are strongly be having blany many believe my i andray they are afraid it is true nut but say sav the they il gro 0 that awful name mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 have also aiso organized a small branch here and ordained enos ij root a priest to take charge the brethren and sisters here and at broomfield broom field and at sylvester feel foel well ia in the work and full of the spirit and are anxious to get to zion roll on the great work wickedness increases all the time and the love of many waxes t cold as jesus said it would no man can trust his hla neighbor without security and mens hearts are failing them for fear all are looking for some great change and they fear it is for the worse it seems as though it ia Is impossible fbi for the majority of mankind either to tell the truth or to believe the truth in this ago of the world but a lie they will believe at 0 once nee and pay their money to hear it an apostate lectured at big nig rapids lecos ta co mat last month and the suc audience bad lad had to pay 60 cents admittance ta nee uco to hear for a few minutes it was stated that the women in utah were in worse bondage than the slaves were in the south and the lecturer was working to get got means to ll liberate berate them what a vi pity money will release them it the law cant but buk it ia the money the lecturer wants I 1 received an epistle from the bisters sisters of glenwood utah with four dour names signed to it and with their protestation against the statement of thein their being anbo ia bondage and I 1 return my thanks to ilki ilke alster aister far or their heip help hip it hab haa is helped me much to allay the prejudice if the saints would write more to their friends and relatives it would help the cause on one of the blackest lies that ever appeared has been circulated here concerning me and was sent bent here by ene one i mies at salt lake city concerning me ne having six wives etc eta whereas I 1 have got only one wife and never had but one other falsehoods have come from the same quarter concerning the saints berea hereabout cu t paul says 2 thessalonians Thess alonians 2 chap 11 and 12 verses and for this cause god shall send them trong strong delusions that they might be damned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness it is very cold aid and stormy here the knowis snow is two feet deep it has not thawed a particle since the middle of november the thermometer has been down to 30 below zero the detroit river elver is b bridged ridged with ice tee from one end to t he the other from one jo to two feet t thick hick something that nover naver was was k known before says the stanton llera herald Zd it is hard travelling velling tra to preach with so much snow and cold weather times are very hard many are suffering and the poor houses are all full true there is a great deal of lumbering going on but there are more men than work vork in catosha county and two other counties in the northern part of this state many are in a starving condition they have havo called on the charity of the churches of michigan for aid or they must starve says the big rapids ff etala erald for there is no work for them there are buildings burning in every direction every few days in charlevoix Charie Charle county mich mleh on the I 1 ath of december a house waa wax burned to ashes and two children were burned up in it four others were badly burned and injured iza irl tired by lumping from an upper window it being beinar the only exit on account of he the fire alre A few miles from here a man shot a woman a few days ago and he Is now in the stanton jail A man the other day f neli fell from a pile of logs and broke his neck I 1 could mention many accidents and much wickedness but I 1 have not time my eyes are tired of seeing it my heart aches for my fellow creatures oh that they would repent that god might spare them but they V will III lii not and it will get worse instead of better f am going to hold hoid a two dayal i meeting at sylvester mecosta lecosta county the saints from here aad and from broomfield bro amfield and millbrook will be there the conference will be on the and of this mouth month I 1 intend going to kalamazoo and alagan about seventy flye five miles i from here next month to preach and obtain genealogies genea genes loges from your brother in the evel eyel everlasting covenant WM M chills ten tin and nna d feie hodl hoil bex sex etc IVA washington Wac hington co cot 1 jan editor deseret desere 1 news I 1 the health of the people of wash ington during the summer and fall of 1876 has been very poor there being considerable afflic affliction tion tiou gith with chills and fever yet there have been but few deaths resulting from diphtheria and only one death of an adult during the past year the year 1876 has been behin an exception for chills and fever in washington I 1 am h happy appy to state that the health of the people is rapidly improving and very few cases eases of sickness now exist with the exception of a few remaining cases of chills chilis and fever I 1 am also happy to state that as a ward we are being awakened to the in interest of sabbath ard aid ayd dby day schools AB an earnest of thieve this we have been taxed three per cent to build a schoolhouse school house which by the by all admit was very mu much ch needed it is a schoolhouse school house and not a meetinghouse meeting house aa as appeared in the columns of the NEWS a short timo time since it is fifty by thirty feet with a basement full size of the building there is a tier of volcanic rock next the ground three and a half feet in width and averaging twenty inches thick next to the volcanic rock is about five feet of limestone the remainder of the walls walla are to be built of white sandstone of which there ia Is an abundance in the vicinity of washington ofaf of a superior quality it is expected the rockwork will be completed in tyr two or three weeks and is of a very substantial character during the summer our meetings and sunday school were sparse sparsely ly attended in consequence of sickness the prospects in behalf of our sunday school are somewhat flattering at present I 1 wish further to bay say that thau it is my firm conviction vic lic tion taking into consideration the multitudes of bf children which swarm the settlements of the saints in these mountains and the active part that the advancing generation must soon assume in rearing off the great latter day work that these things call loudly for those who have the ability to step to thel the front and unit unite with those already engaged and make our sabbath schools a success they take rank among the ahe most mos effective institutions t ons f nor for or the correct and proper training of our youth which in my estimation is of paramount import imbor i tance B R F home homo r pe rs improvement schools etc plin PLAIN gity CITY webon co utah jan jau lothi 1877 i editor des desert ceet mius I 1 iam I lam am am always andio anxiously cisly waiting for the next copy of your vald vaid valuable able abie p berthet per thet DESERET NEWS and abid als ais aiso also 0 the juvenile Tu venile instructor as it ia Is called I 1 think it it is a good instructor i toT tor for people who vilio were juveniles many years yeat ago sucro aswell as the young J 1 often think it would be much muck better for our community if they would patronize patronise patr onike onise our own papers rather than send outside ef of the territory for the trashy literature that is constantly teeming into it I 1 do not mean to say that there are not any good papers outside of the territory but that the goodpa good papers are not always subscribed for some people ae esy eay IU am not able to take the DESERET NEWS or the Xu juvenile venile instructor II 11 but they can go to every dance and theatrical entertainment that comes along and spend many a dollar during the year for whiskey and nonsense but vvo vve we are to too 0 poor to take our papers 0 yes we have a nice little prosperous settlement and some of the best m men en in this part of the country for our officers and the priesthood are alive to their duties in looking lo after the interests of the people and esp especially pec ally lally the mhd young folks it is very interesting C i to hear d our ur president bro shurtliff talk to the young on the subject of not indulging in the intoxicating cup and upon the evils that follows that course but I 1 must herd say a good word for our young men I 1 I 1 have not seen one under the influence of liquor all nil through the christmas holidays the young inen hold tb their ein eln meet inns ings regularly once a week kandare land tand ame are making good improvement the young ladies have their meetings once a week also and are doing splendidly we have good weekday and sunday ach och schools one hun huni dred and six bix scholars attend the ciby day school they are taught by two young men that belong to our set bet 4 clement and are bre good members in the church our meeting house Is filled ta toils ltd its utmost capacity on sunday to hear the word of the oord lord we seem peem to take new energy with the new now year and the saints ara are waking up to a sense bense of their duties in regard to temple tempie building tithe paying attending meetings etc we have a very good community although we have our shale share of grumbl grumblers ers WILLIAM ENGLAND sew kew schoolhouse sunday school wea wen gher ther ana and II callb ith B vows lix mix jan 1877 editor deseret mews news since my last laba communication which ia Is one year ago this winter our beloved brother snow has sent i some good men to our assistance and among the rest bro arnold arnola goodliffe for our president by his hla able management we have accomplished a considerable amount of public work we have made be tween onland one and two miles of water ditch and expect to get the water where we can use ute it by the first of june next wo we have also got a schoolhouse school house feet ready for the roof we have a sunday school in run ning order with an average attendance of twenty scholars the sunday school gave an exhibit exhibition lOti last monday which would have done credit to an older settlement it consisted from some of the church works recitations etc ete which were vere followed by I 1 ap appropriate pro pilate remarks by president Goodli goodlee fre and elder D B dille and richard potter after which the tables were spread with a sumpta ous dinner which tho the old and young enjoyed then the young ripped tripped the light fantastic too to the sweet strains of music so ably rendered by brother john C tin gill until dark when the elder children took up the exercise continuing until ten when al ah turned towards home fe feeling elint thank god forthe many blessings they enjoyed from his hia bounteous hand so fco cco ended the first bunday sunday school examination eyer ever held heid in this place but taut wb we hope not the lh last 6 adne D e the health of the people ia is good i and they enjoy the spirit of tho the gospel the winter is very open and the ground la bare there has beeh been about four inches of snow but it io a gone we have had one night that the thermometer went down to birb zero I 1 remain yours in the cause of mith truth J 0 |
