| Show hmil LOCAL ind AND OTHER matl MATTERS FROM THURSDAYS DAILY daly NOV 22 serious accident this morning mr dan Edgington of the twenty first ward was riding on horseback in the vicinity of st marys marya hospital near the eastern edge of the tho city his hla animal suddenly slipped and fell to the ground the unfortunate mans leg being under the animal the limb was badly bruised and broken he was taken to the hospital and attended to by dr benedict uncongenial spirits the ogden berald learns that a few days ago a number of harrisville boys while out hunting found an empty bottle which smelled powerfully of bad whisky on monday a young ayoung man was wandering about the same vicinity when he discovered the dead body of an indian frozen stiff on hands handa and knees kneesy V with th the face close to the ground an am tion disclosed tho the fact that there were no evidences of violence on the 0 twe the defunct lod led man xann there appeared to be an intimate connection between the empty bottle and the dead body the spirits evidently evident evi evl dantly ly left the bottle and went into the indian and the spirit of the indian left the body in conse quence cf the spirits spirita of the bottle bottie causing the spirit of the indian to ha be incapable of taking care of the body it is to the old old story winding up as many newspaper tales of death desolation and woe Il whisky did it wedding beddings S vvo we havo great plea sure eure burein in ez tending extending our congratulations today to day to a number of our oar young frienda friends who have launched heir their vessels upon the ocean of matrimonial life mr jesse jcsse strat ford and mr louis A west have taken to wife daughters of our esteemed friend elder bichard richard ballantyne of ogden and mr imri imil brown browl has received for his comp companion anion anlon miss jenny garrard they are all worthy young people with whom we are aro acquainted born among the people of god reared in veneration of the principles of righteousness ness nebs and united from choice to the church of their parents they haye hayo the promise of peace and felicity which the world cannot b be 8 stobo we wish them tham all that enduring happiness happl ness nesa for time and F eternity that can only come through faithful affection and the divine sp RP god bless them the and statehood la in the forepart of noat neat week hon john T caine hon bon james sharp F S richards ble Bic hards esq and hon lion b D let IET feery pery members of t the 0 delegation appoint appointed rd by the conti constitutional tut ional convention to present and urge the claims of utah upon congress for admission into the union cs us a state ym wili will leave for washington to attend to that busl business ness mr caine calne the delegate elect to the forty eighth congress will at tho the same time seek beek to secure his boat beat in ip the national legislature for the term torm of the forty seventh congress to which hon lion geo Q cannon was waa elected the claim of mr sir caine caino lies liea in the fact that he was vaa nominated for the un expired term by the peoples convention and that when the votes were cast for him for the forty eighth congress the same ballots though not subsequently canvassed can ean ot counted included a vote vole for tor the forty seventh congress the delegation will go with the determination to work faithfully foi fol a recognition precognition by congress of the claims of bf utah for the ratification of her constitution and admission into the federal union southern STATES present CONDITION OF THE voll IN thae THAT PART OF THE ehe this morning we were mud pie pleased aeed seed at receiving a visit from B Z der john morgan president of titi 04 southern states mission who a n previously announced returned iron troa his field of labor on monday elder morgan first commenced hi ministry in the states iu in 1875 tb tia beginning be inning of his work being in illinois and indiana when be he spent about nine nino month an and d then proceeded to UK thi southern states he has been la that field almost continuously ete eve since having been at home about sixteen months during seven yeara the tho general situation in tn the mh mk sion is quite favorable A grealer greata number of baptisms have occurred during the last six months than la any previous twelve months tho the opposition that was formerly veri very virulent and pronounced in mani many parts of the mission has practical lj died out it is a curious fact that the anti mormon legislation ha hai done considerable toward bringing about this desirable result only two anti mormon meetings wore were heli held in the entire south on the subject of tho tha edmunds edmunda bill and they wea wen of a decidedly feeble character and as its a rule the newspapers opened their columns to the elders the po position altion in opposition to the edmunds bill taken by senators sull and congressmen from the bouth south is doubtless doubt leas remembered by our readers this was made an issue in th tbt the recent elections and the tha candidates who voted against the measure stood by their record manfully maintaining the ground they took in opposing an unconstitutional measure and yet they were returned to congress with increased ma ima thus exhibiting the general sentiment of the people P bopf e 0 on 11 th the a buble subject pt the omen closer contact of the elden eiden w with ith the people and the plentiful distribution of pamphlets treating u upon 0 n t he the faith and doctrines enter all bained nd by the latter day saints has also contributed dargelo to allay op opposition and persecution the feel ing of the people generally toward the brethren is generous and hoa hos pit abio ablo the friends they have 13 in every section being almost without every section being almost without number the NEWS nelsia Is reported as having a most salutary effect aher ever it reaches in opening the way for preaching the gospel and allaying prejudice brother morgan says a prime necessity of the mission is literature of the right kind he expresses the opinion that thirty elders could do more work with the amount of money in church literature required to take thirty more to and from the field than sixty without this indispensable auxiliary we are pleased to again bid brother morgan welcome home elder morgan was accompanied to our office by elder john hous sous ton of panguitch garn Garf nid lId county who has been laboring in alabama and georgia the first nine months were spent in the first named state stata A few baptisms occurred there in georgia a good work was done especially es hav chally in emigration souls having ing left that conference alone for fir colorado and anci utah durl during ai g the past season brother hougton has haa been absent about two j pangs and a s hils ella associations with his brethren bre thren in the ministry and ibe the people where he be labored have been leen of tho most moat agreeable character everywhere he was hospitably mut met and treated with unqualified kind nesb ness I 1 11 TE and alii TIYE TIVE PRESIDENT ENT joseiph F V SMITH pe pip ivers LIVERS I AN ax ADDRESS last evening at the sixth ward schoolhouse schoolhouses school houses president joseph F smith delivered an addre address 3 under the auspices of the mutual improve ment association of that of the city he opened by saying it WAS the tho duty of parents to teah jeaa children from their earI earl earliest lest iest existence those eternal truths which were necessary necessary to improve their lives and increase their knowledge under all circumstances and to train them up in the way they should go and when they were old they should not depart from it A mathematical truth once instilled into the mind so as to be thoroughly understood and known coned never ha be removed and an error substituted and what was true in relation to this thia was true trun in I 1 n every instance where a knowledge of truth was received whether in mathematics or religion or in anything else while an error no matter how long or how firmly it had been bellove believed ds would be rejected by every honest virtuous and intelligent person whenever the truth was revealed to the extent that a knowledge of it was received a truth could never bo he supplanted by an error because truth was eternal and consequently stronger than error the r speaker stated that when he the r speaker stated that when he had traveled abroad he had inquired into the authority of the ministers of the sectarian denominations to preach the gospel and administer in the ordinances and all they thoy had was an inward mani maul the Catholics who claimed to have direct succession from peter he then showed that through a general apostasy as predicted by the apostles the authority of the priesthood was removed from the earth that revelation and gifts and miracles had ceased and that there was butala but a form of godliness denying the power thereof when in the spring of 1820 the father fathey and son appeared to joseph smith then between fourteen and fifteen yeara of age in answer to prayer and told him that none of the churches then organized on the earth were right joseph knew know what be he had seen and heard and his enemies could not deprive him of that knowledge in 1829 when the priesthood was bestowed on joseph smith and oliver Co wibry know knew that it wag was Co wibry know knew that it wag was cowdery they by the administration of john the baptist for the priesthood and peter james and john sohn for the chiB edeo edco priesthood bent sent from heaven for the purpose when the angel of god skewed the plates from which the book of mormon was translated to oliver cowdery david whitmer and martin harnig harris 9 and the voice of god declared that the i translation was mad made a by the gift and mud i power of god and they were COM corn banded to testify of Us it rhese men became witnesses to the dhe divinity of tho the mission and tho the authority of joseph smith and knew know tb they ey were not deceived so also alao with the e eight witnesses and when these twelve witnesses testified of what they knew the enemies of the church rejected their testimony on the ground that they were interested witnesses but subsequently the three witnesses apostatized and bitterly opposed the church yet in their tea testimony they never wavered and two of them oliver cowdery and ancl martin harris returned i and died in the church a and nd the only remaining one david whitmer living in Rich richmond mollo rat ray ray hay county missouri when he was asked by the speaker concerning the matter matters in the presence of a number of answered gen testimony ia Is true 21 mr whitmer had also declared the same game through to several feral newspapers a shori shore time since biva fiva of the eight witnesses also turned from the church in the hour of trial in missouri and although every opportunity had been given for them to deny their testimony not one olie of them ever over did it became they knew know that it 16 was true and they fah dared ared not perjure themselves before their ein air god president smith related some of his early experiences in utah and when on his mission to the sandwich islands he being 15 years of age his hia receiving through gh the u gift gif of ton guest tho the language and his hia labors there declaring that be he would rather bave the knowledge of the divine mission of tha riphot joseph which ho he possessed than all the world without it for this ore one oie truth was greater than ban all he exhorted all present 10 to gain a testimony mony mouy of of the truth lruth and uee usa that testimony and know ledge in the manner mallner for ehigh it i was gas designed interesting experience SOME STRIKING INCIDENTS OF hiis IRS ulve LIVE IN TENNESSEE thio we had haq ba the pie plea sure suro of meeting elder robert S spence of laketown Lake town rich county who returned on monday night from a mission to the southern states to fulfill fulfil which he left here on the of october 1880 during the first bix sis si siz s months of his ministry he labored most moat of the time alone partly yin in company with elder john jihnu K murdock on duck river biver rickman hickman county tennessee he got along well during that period although it wag was difficult to make head headway boadway ways the field being an old one he baptized five persons there ho he removed to labor on the tennessee river the field embracing several count counties las perry wayne and decatur associated with elder bateman as published in yesterdays NEWS elder beesley of provo and eider merrill of richmond entered the same part in answer to a request from elder eider spence for more help the field aleid being new and very large persecution raged with such violence that these brethren were compelled to tahe taba to the woods wooda being hunted like crimi criminals nalis and outcasts obtaining subsistence ua 1113 best they could at the imminent risk of losing their elivea after consultation elders bateman and merrill went to brother B ff roberts president of the Conference who was on duck biver river to ask whether the field should be abandoned or maintained the brethren naturally suppo supposed ged ted the word would be to discontinue but this was a mistake the following letter being received by brothers spence and beesley hold hoid the fort we prayed for you last Jast night and will continue to dobo do so our oar faith is god will protect you B H rons on receiving this message th the a elders immediately came out of their hiding place and gave out appointments point ments and though followed by armed moba and molested on every occasion with the recommencement of preaching baptizing began and in m a short time a branch ol 01 twelve was organized on cedar creek by elders spence k and beesley and in course of time the r bame same nim jim 0 branch has grown till it now numbers thirty lu in tile the meantime the exposure sleeping unsleeping in Ble bie in the woods subjecting him to damp dews brought a bevere attack of chills and fever upon brother beesley until he was BO reduced that eider elder bobert bobberts S released him to return home horns but while hia bia health permitted ho he was a vallant valiant and indefatigable servant of god never under the moat most trying circumstances in con sequence of his release elder bate i man was azain bent sent back to the same neld held to labor in conjunction with elder spence on one occasion on cedar creek elders spence and beesley were impressed impi essed with a sense benee of danger while stopping at the house of mr a member of the church and they left and went to another place about two miles dla dia distant tant the same samp night an armed mob went to mr millers house and demanded those mormon preachers 11 trying at the bame same time to break in the door mrs mra miller said bhe fihe would leathem let iet them in providing they would leave their flie ille firearms arms on the outside which they agreed to do As soon as she opened the door they rushed in taking their arms with them mrs miller a brave and intrepid woman snatched the mak from the face of one of the ruffians when he presented hia hla pistol within an inch ot of her face and drew the trigger fortunately ho however the cap pap snapped and the tho weapon was waa not discharged the mob left and the man who was unni asked sent a message io jo mr miller that if she divulged Us hid name came he would kill her next day mrs miller went to nashville and endeavored to have the U S commissioner there take ome onic action in regard to thib thia ku ru klux ilus outrage outrages but he was ivan referred to the state ofa clala for redress the ku klux depredations are united states off omm lences when elders B H roberta roberts and D DB it bateman went down dawn from DUC elven elver to spring creek they were accompanied by elder J W eardley of this city while the mob |
