| Show A sensational STORY ai AN absurd story patched up andol and colored for sensational purposes in relation to a youn young 1 woman wo man being rescued at new now york from the mormon emigrant company which arrived here yesterday from liverpool was recent ly published in the new york sun and telegraphed over the to the newspapers the narrative embodied a large amount of falsehood relieved bya by a very limited quantity of truth the name of the young woman Is lavinia coop and she Is not a member of the church her stepmother mrs smith of ogden paid her passage to utah twice the first time she did not respond but finally concluded to do io she appeared to be satisfied until lust just before landing in new york when she was enticed into a part ot at the arizona occupied pled pied by a number of irish emigrants who were holding a coa concert and when the vessel reached the port she was surrounded by a crowd of steerage and a few intermediate passengers who had persuaded her to remain dy by telling her some ridiculous stories about utah when elder J A smith who had charge of the company of bf saints approached pro ached the crowd he was met with shouts of derision and they told him she was not going to utah addressing ingher her brother smith asked if that was her decision she made no reply the crowd answering for her he then re requested Vested a private in interview with wit her ahil which h the crowd would not a allow 10 w he applied to the purser mr hammill to which he aid ald did gid lid and aud the interview was had in the presence of a lady passenger not of the utah company when lavinia La vinla vinia coop on pia being asked whether she proposed going goin west to her mother intimated that sie she did not her reason being that she objected to the mormon refi religion gion glon concerning which she had bad heard some fearful stories shortly afterwards Broth brother james erJames 11 hart the church emi emigration agent came along and he be and elder smith at once placed the young woman in tle the tie hands bands of commissioners that she might be protected from designing knaves among whom w was evidently an jl irishman who had been on an a visit to his native country and returned on th arizona ile he hung bung aronna around the girl giri even eyen after she was in the hands of the commissioners when the company left she was under the protection of those officers when the company reached ogden mrs smith lavinia aop loops s ste oth 1 er was in lii waiting for the train train and j was greatly disappointed when shel shei found that the young woman had bad stop ped behind baving having made preparations to receive her and make her in every way heartily welcome and comfortable the statement to the effect that thad the elders returning with the company compan on the arizona drank drunk chaddi champagne a agne and gambled Is totally false the abstemiousness aud freedom from every unseemly and disreputable habit of the missionaries is a matter ot at remark wherever they travel their absten ance not only extending to strong drink but as a ruie nnie even to tea coffee and tobacco and the statement in relation to gambling is most ridiculous as applied tomen to men who travel without purse or scrip and endure untold hardships for tue sake of their religion which forbids all such practices the guion gulon company who have carried the church emigrants from europe for nearly quarter guarter a I 1 barter of a century recognize the elders and saints as the most exemplary passengers traveling by their line mr hir amsden ramsden ll the com agent at liverpool has oveia over andover and aud over again voluntarily expressed himself privately and otherwise to that effect the sensational story concocted out of the incident concerning which we have given the genuine details Is but another instance of wholesale lying a against adust latter day saints a people who ylo are everywhere spoken against falsely because a great many people in the world love falsehood and spurn thel the truth |
