| Show local and other matters MONDAYS DAILY dally DEC 10 discontinued the post office at prattville sevier county h has as been discontinued provo items the provo river bridge Is undergoing repairs judge emerson emelson expects to leave about the middle of this week for the tho east to be absent about a week there is a talk ef of instituting a wood working establishment at provo to make sashes doors moul mould dings scroll work etc bo so says the enkui er cr silk tomorrow to morrow evening eaher faher graves of provo will deliver a lecture in the thirteenth ward assembly rooms booms his subject will be the bise rise and progress of silk culture dating from 2700 B C until the present time doors open at 7 jecture lecture to corn commence at half balf past seven admission free all are invited organized last evening david 0 calder of the presidency of this stake attended the services in the ward and organized thadea judrum of that branch of the church the presidency of the tha quorum is as follows david R alien alle ll 11 president robert patrick jr first cou counselor nse lor emil lenhardt second counselor I 1 district court monday december loth the december term opened at 11 armichael am michaei michael schaeffer CJ cay presiding willman vs mcguire appeal dismissed ion on motion of plain tiu 3 procedendo to i issue sue clafflin ao vs usda du rell bell et el al pas based ed for the term by consent 0 F miller el edat edal at vy Vs irla iria mining co motion to have plaintiff decide cide clde which count of complaint he relies on and rind demurrer argued by counsel motion and demurrer overruled defendant excepts ten days daya given to defendants to answer james Ma Tierney vs joseph ma placed calendar wells fargo forgo co vs davis davi s and patrick benr Beur bennett iett lett and harkness Hark ness nesa as attorneys for defendants flagstaff silver mining company vs J NH N H tat gat patrick riek demurrer overruled the territory etc vs 0 F strickland passed for the term M T patrick vs wm D forbes ef et az al settled case caso dismissed last chance S M co vs flagstaff S aa M co cadee placed on the trial calendar without a receiver V K P hawker vs 0 J 11 hawker awker demurrer confessed amended an swen awer filed placed on the trial calendar J S waterman vs J M wallace ace motion of defendant to strike demurrer to answer from the tile file because it it is not ve verified rifled overruled demurrer Da to and sustained uen ion days given to answer H thompson us vs J X B meredith demurrer confessed with leave to answer trustees sot of school district vs 0 of and suit dismissed dismiss od aa as heretofore school district no 31 vs james gordon on motion of or defendant the amended th complaint was ordered stricken from the files first national bank of omaha ia vs flagstaff S M co dispo disposed Eed hed of i resumed nied missionary morning we were greatly pleased to receive a call from elder eider john ilor morgan of this thia city who returned from a mission on friday evenitz eve even niner ninar inc inz he left here on the of october 1875 and traveled and preached through the states of illinois and indiana on foot without purse or scrip warning the people and preaching ng the gospel at every opportunity port unity ity the opposition and bitterness he encountered in those two states was much more virulent and strong than he subsequently met with during his miss mission loil Yett bere bete are many friends to the work in those sra Sta slates boates tesi several families gathered out of that part of the country through the t io preaching of elder morgan and others intend coming to utah as us soon as practicable his health failing him there brother morgan morgan proceeded to the south where he found a field for labor opened up in north georgia where an almost uti universal interest in the latter day work of the lord was manifested by the people about six weeks after his arrival he commenced baptizing and organizing branches and for lack of other assistance ordaining native elders and calling them into the ministry to preach their services were manifesting much zeal and energy in the work three branches aggregating gre gating about sixty members were soon organized the opposition l commenced on the part of the elegy and add press who became alarmed on account of so great progress being made madej notices were posted warning elder morgan to leave the country and ministers from the pulpit advocated mobbing hanging and other violent measures one night the meetinghouse in which he was preaching was fired into by an armed mob after the volly was fired there were some symptoms of alarm on the part of the assemblage which however ha wever immediately subsided on accorn account t of a few words from elder morgan who continued his discourse this attack bad a good effect turning the better class of the people in favor of the saints the press denounced the robbers and every effort was made to frown and down awn opposition of such character t r at the april conference of 1876 elder morgan was joined by four elders eiders from utai who had bad been laboring in alabama and aud anda Sout georgia after the conference bishop lisonbee bf sevier and elder bider morgan started through the mountains to find a new now field of labor burphy going south the tho other elders returning home after tra velling thirty days together elders morgan and lisonbee separated the latter to visit some relatives in alabama and visit a branch of the church he had organized the former continued to ti preach in georgia where he soon organized a branch of awen ty two members baptizing a methodist minister and almost his entire congregation ile he ordained the former minister an elder and set him to work preaching which he was actively and energetically engaged in at last accounts 4 alid and will doubty dou ss do much good among the entire people of north nonh georgia active efforts were made dur during ing the summer to arrange emigration matters so as to enable the saints from the southern states to journey up to zion elder morgan was enabled to bring out a company of about eighty who came through to pueblo colorado where they went into winter quarters intending to continue their journey into new mexico in the early eaily spring they secured an eligible location on au an island in the arkansas td ed from the influences of the city and sufficiently near to be convenient to labor they organized in 1 the united order throwing their means together for the common good ef of all elected daniel BB RS eilers ellere of alabama president and general business agent who will do all the purchasing for this company who all live together as one family eating at the same table and sharing alike in all things they expect to be joined by a large number of slut siut from the southern southe states in ln the spring in lif time to continue the residue of their journey together the prospects are good for aheady emigration from those states that have been visited by the Elder sand ha bee say ja ya s there are thousands of people who ho entirely unacquainted with the religious ideas of the latter day saints have bave become digg disgusted with the condition of the theological c a I 1 world and only need instruction to bring them te to a knowledge of the truth patient and energetic elders will find a broad field of I 1 dabor labor open before them in the southern states where much good can be done they will meet with opposition upon the part of a few but the mass of if the people will listen A few nights previous to elder morgans morgana departure from georgia the K K kj K j a secret organization of reckless men led by a minister canie came to the house where the elder was stopping for the purpose of driving 7 him out of the state but the man of the house bouse mr bailey brought his nire fire lock into requisition and no barm was done according to the elders testimony 3 the A mormon lormon people nave have havemann haye L many friend friends samong among hearted hospitably inclined southern people especial thanks are due duo geo 11 herriford Her raford esq of st louis ed F LiS sons esq and col TI truslow of chattanooga tennessee who assisted in securing emigrant rates elder morgan feels glad to return tobia to his mountain homeard homb home and the association of the people of god an arduous mission on oo saturday we were pleased to greet elders J Z stewart Ste wart watt and isaac isaae stewart of draper in this county who had just returned from an arduous ous and toilsome mission to arizona mexico and new mexico the party was composed of the two brethren above named elders heleman ileman Hr pratt pratts george terry lewis gario garfi and meliton gonzales Go trejo the latter returned home a few months since for the purpose of going back baek to settle settie in the south with gith his family elders pratt and terry travelled with the stewart brothers on the return as far as Or derville where they 11 topped stopped over and elder G garft arff st ayed stayed a at t lehi lehl this company of missionaries left here for their extensive nield field of or labor being the second mission of elder bider J Z stewart and H pratt to mexico on the of october 1876 they proceeded edea eded to prescott arizona where they did some preaching and then devoted their labors among the settlers on salt river who are mainly mexicans holding a number of meetings in phoenix and numbers of the people dispo ed to the teachings at el the eiders eldera in fact were convinced fo the truth of r the gospel bui but had not the fortitude to come out i bol boi boldly adly and embrace it in iba the face fac e of we the vindictive and ana virulent opposition incited by the catholic priests 1 A the next place visited was tuc tuce T son where the mission missionaries aries atles we were re invited to hold meetings and preach in kanmi and english a request lequea to bilich winch they re responded cheerful t jy y A number of peo people plo pio at that place tuat that ahey they were I 1 beauy e du y to be baptized but triest driest of i them then receded irom from that position 0 on n ace account Junt of opposition foo loo however a number were baptized in arizo arlzo I 1 na cases occurred of t the be healing w of the sick by the power of god creati ag Bg a great stir among the people and the elders ESders were greatly blessed with ahe the spirit of the lord they visited and preached to the tribes of indians known as I 1 the pimas aimas and panagos Pa on the gila ila iia 1 river who received them kindly and listened attentively to their teachings they said it was waa all lt good but wanted time to consider to revolve what they had bad heard beird 11 at over in their minds minda before taking takings 1 any steps stepa toward obeying it 10 the next visited was tho the state cf sonora bonora mexico where a great many meetings were held heid four of the missionaries being uon con scantly engaged trave traveling ieng and preaching in the cities inu anu anu ana towns for three months mouth 6 five person sl f i were baptized one of which is a school teacher is quite intelligent and when last beard from was preaching the gospel to the best of his ability numbers of others frankly confessed their belief in the gospel but were deterred by their I 1 0 want of the inece nece necessary esary firmness to toy tor ae stand against the prejudice and op position raised by the priests who show great bitterness none of the y elders notwithstanding man i recel izod lent threats against them received 5 any bodily injury the brothers stewart next proceeded to texas and were followed t by the elders excepting mu ali t G trejo on the way there the t L manner in which they escaped n being attacked and killed hilled bahos by hos tile indians is really marv marvellous ellous t i in one place they met a party of bf soldiers in full retreat before abaid a band of hostiles bo ho stiles who had bad shot and killed i the mail driver a short distance ahead next day the next driveriii was also killed and an escorting i i party of soldiers corallee coral led until res cued by another force who were out r repairing P iring the telegraph line in oy A t that h at part of texas where the breth ot t ren visited the population aleoa are aro e Alexi mexicans cans and a number humber of them I 1 i visited the priest there arld and asked ot fit him if they should hill kill the misu mis miso u aio sion aion narles aries he advised them not to do co eo but to avoid avold them and have ia nothing to do with or say eay to them ia the tho priest afterwards asserted that t the tha elders owed their lives to him they however attributed their i pi tion all ali the way through ti to the interposition of divine providence in their behalf knowing that they were pursuing the line ot of their duty they baptized four persons t in that part 4 leaving texas the party follow ill ili lii jil ed up the rio grande to los llos luna lun buna A as explaining in conversation I 1 th the of the gospel to the people as opportunity presen presented tedi f leaving los lios lunas they visited 4 the la laguna guna or lake indians and andi had an interview with the chier chief and other leading men of the tribe ja they ald wid aid eaid they liked what they heard and they believed it to be true the interpreter who acted forthe brethren was waa the sanao banao who acted for a presbyterian minister J irl iri and tho the latter interfered and nasf was ff the means of hindering furthers further 1 progress of the labors of tb the 6 elders in that part i f 1 l the brethren also visited the Zia zunis luis rals and found most of those t who had been baptized of that tribe s holding fast to the faith and seek ing to improve the party passed through new now mexico visiting the settlements of 3 I 1 he saints striking the little colorado a and aud nd follo following wink the line of that river at captain lot smiths i camp their rele release meto to return hope home home reached them the brothers stewart aarein are in exl ex 11 cellena health and spirits and na though pleased to be once mord more at home they feel that they would not exchange the experience they have gained on their late mission f for 0 r any consideration if it was possible to do so we learn from them that the elders of the party are also in good health |
