Show endito editorials R I 1 A L S J V tiie THE 13 Y ACADEMY 0 ON x monday next the loth dinst a new term commences at that deservedly popular institution of lep lev jevning learning ning the ild brigham ham youn young academy at provo prof karl G maeser the principal as a thoroughly practical educator has few superiors in Ar gerica america and he be has this to recommend him in addition to his Ms profound learning and most excellent methods of imparting instruction and governing a school he is a thorough latter day saint and possesses the ability to make the study of theology attractive to young people and of training the pupils who attena attend the academy in the practice as well as the theory of their duties as members of the church tile tiie religious training which chic h the students of the academy receive is regarded by parents who are true latter day saints afla anna who are ambitious to see their children grow tup jup to be valiant in 41 tile tiie cause of truth as us a specially important feature of the education there imparted for it has been observed that tue students who have attended that institution in the past though they might previously not ilan lian nave liane e been een religiously inclined have almost invariably left the academy after taking a course of studies there with a strong and abiding abidin in faith in the gospel and a lively zeal for the causa of god to secure this most desirable end as ins int well will 11 as ito advance the students as much as possible in all the studies the they undertake particular care is exercised exercise in the selection of the various members of the faculty as to their soundness religiously as well as to their being in qualified otherwise and also ill in looking after the students at their homes or boarding houses as well as during school hours in tact fact the morals of the students of that institution are las as carefully guarded and their habits as carefully scrutinized and directed as if they yvere ivere were under the direct supervision of wise and solicitous parents at their own homes ane B Y academy has thus far been an honor to its noble founder a credit to the faculty an attraction to provo which has grown to be regarded as one of the principal seats of di learning of 0 this interior country and a great bene lit to the community and as such we most heartily wish it continued success and commend it to our readers as 1 entirely t worthy of their patronage A 11 missionary INCIDENT T I 1 TWENTY yive FIVE christians OF THE k SOUTH MEET melt TWO ELDERS WITH iv THEIR TR PECULIAR ARGUMENT elder heber heben wright in a commini cati catl onto the ogden herald written from paris spartanburg county SC july 1885 gives the f following lowing ol account e of an incident in his missionary experience 1 I learn through my correspondents that the news ot of a friendly visit of twenty nive five of our cari Carl stian citizens of this county to my companion and myself while in the heair of a avery very extensive forest has reached my mountain home and thinking probably it mi might ht be rumored worse than it really IV was as I 1 I 1 thought I 1 would give eive you the facts and trust you yow will nind find room in your valuable paper to publish them on the of may while traveling to see a man to get permission to hold hoid a meeting in a schoolhouse over which he had charge we were suddenly overtaken by eight men on horseback whom we recognized lazed as bein being g men who had attended our meeting on the pre sunday they informed us fuere were some more behind and wanted us to stop until they came up on the arrival of their companions they surrounded usand their spokesman spokes manDr J 4 H hague who is a preacher preachy ar said sald said gentlemen we have come to learn your motives bothi to this country we told him we had previously tried to make everything clear and it t there here was any point not understood we would be pleased to explain it was evident he tl had nad hot come for the purpose mentioned for he continued behave we Ve have come to inform you that you and your labors are no longer needed in this country and gewant we want you to promise us that you will leave and never again attempt to teach or preach the doctrine commonly known as 1 mormonism to any of the inhabitants of his country we told him that we had been called as was aaron aaronj and until gewere we were released by the same authority we nye could not desert our post they rode a few yards from us and bej began an to curse and swear saying thi they y would see whether we would promise or not and und five of the most enraged dismounted and be a anto n to cut their switches evi evl evidently dently f for or the tile purpose of whipping us at this crisis three of the party r returned to us and said you see the disposition of the crowd they are determined to have you tou answer the tile question yea yeal yeat or nay we told him they ha had our answer they returned to the in infura uri url abed crowd and we thin thinking kinc kinz it not wise to t to ment them with our presence started back down the road which fortunately for us made a slight turn and when out of sight of a part of the crowd we darted into the thick woods my companion afterwards stated I 1 was I 1 fleet for one of my build for I 1 had to I 1 wait several times for him our oar coun tenancies ten ances were something similar to those of the villains who met the warm reception at the heroine nelsons belsons Nel sons recently in your city eity what became of our christian friends we did not inquire but after running about a mile we took refuge under a fallen log and patiently waited for or the friendly shades 0 of f night and when darkness reigned supreme we emerged from our cozy den walked 16 miles forded corded a river which required us to strip off our clothing and arrived at 2910 a am in at the house of a friend all 0 K and feeling thankful for our liverence deliverance de and an additional testimony to the truth of the work of god times here are rather warm right at present but we hope to be able to hold out is A characteristic DISPLAY A SCENE characteristic of commissioner mckays court occurred before that functionary yesterday morning in the case of mr john VV W snell charged with unlawful cohabitation with his wives one of the witnesses for the prose cution mr snells alleged plural wife dec declined lilied to answer certain questions P put ut to her by the prosecution and finally by the court touching her relationship tion ship to the defendant this attitude of the thie witness miss eliza shafer caused the commissioner to explode and make a sorry exhibition of himself manifestations of temper by a court are always in bad taste the exercise of judgment requiring a cool head but when they are coupled with contradictions and nights flights outside of the cause in question the matter is made still worse mr mckay made himself a falsi balsi t r 1 I ti tia ins bulted the defendant by stating that it was always a woman that was waa pushed for ward in such prosecutions to defy the court As the position of the witness named was the only matter with which he was dealing his brutal and unqualified insinuation could not have reference to any other yet he veered round and said in effect that no such influence had been used in this case as mr snell with whom he was acquainted was not that kind of a man I 1 if then there were no such condition in the case before the commissioner as the influencing of witnesses to ref refuse refus ue u e to comply wit lithe hithe requirements of the court what was meant by his hurst of anger ile he pretended to ue ie filled with spurious indignation because there were other contemptible sneaks who have advised such a course coarse then the logic of f the passionate display Is that in the case ot of john W snell or any other man it is becoming in the choleric commissioner to fly to pieces and make an ass of himself on account of something that somebody else has bas done in a matter that has not fiot there cotest connection with the proceedings ce before him it must also be inferred that the tho reason lor tor the commissioner concluding that mr snell was not liable to th the e imputation cast upon him was that the court was acquainted with him this being the position it is consi consistent stent tor to conclude that had there been no such acquaintanceship ship there would have been a corresponding absence ot of innocence on the part of mr snell and that in all similar instances where the commissioner is not on familiar terms with the tile defendant the condition would necessarily be one of guilt perhaps it has been observed that in the class of cases to which that ot lir mr snell belongs the courts generally get up a certain amount of sideshow designed for outside effect evidently the commissioner was doin doln doing some attitudinizing yesterday anners annert afternoon with that intent therefore lie he had to palm paini off ane falsehood in a suit to which he at the same sanie time admitted it did not apply that men influence their plural wives to resist the courts by declining to answer certain questions regarding their conj conjugal u ga I 1 and domestic relations h if it be admitted that the relationship of husband and wife exists what is more natural than that the woman should seek to screen him to whom she has confided her ber affections it were unwomanly to be otherwise and no law can reverse the situation and surely those who are so ready to inflict punishment upon her for taking a course which might be said to be almost beyond her control because contrary to her nature to avoid appear as worthy the design designation atlon ot of sneak as most classes to which the appellation is applied the tile commissioners regret at having hiving to punish women domenis is rich when the instances in which he has inflicted it are ure considered one would naturally suppose that the filling fining and imprisoning of women who are guilty of no crime was his forte as a committing magistrate but if his backbone back bone as all an of punishment upon innocent women had begun to weaken it has probably been bean re stiffened the vindictive varian expressed his willingness to share the responsibility in the case ease in quest question ibn nay he was ready in the extremity of f his asinine zeal zeal to g go 0 f further urther than that he was willing willin t to 0 share with hw hirs honor the glory of p perpetrating er pet rating an illegal act for he madea motion for the commitment of the witness until she should answer the questions there is no law authorizing such a proceeding edin the extreme penalty within the power of the commissioner to inflict being a fine flue of and imprisonment for 24 hours but bat this p ignoramus is tro probably uro iro bably babiy una ware f that t fact although the question was made clear some time thile ago in the same court in the case of elizabeth starkey fancy faucy a man glorying in the opportunity of taking a share in trie the responsibility sibl lity of imprisoning innocent women against whom there is no accusation ol 01 crime and then wonder by what mysterious process of nature such abnormal specimens of mortality as the assistant district attorney are developed the commissioner exhibits a tenacity worthy of a better cause ills his ru bulins rulings lins in the investigation of the cannon case case are remembered their essence amounted to the proposition that if a man had opportunities for engaging in sexual commerce with more than ivas was guilty of unlawful cohabitation ile he still holds to a wide construction of the edmunds ivy iny law and stated yesterday that the decision of the supreme court to the contrary notwithstanding lie he contended that the existence of a marriage was not a ue necessary essary ingredient of the offense now if the judicial of this territory orv were to stand on its head it would woula send commissioner mckay to the top tup of the fabric but this reversal is not a probability otherwise the temperature might be made uncomfortable for some soine non mormons cormons Mor mons 11 but the higher tribunal has manufactured a 1 strong barrier against r the escape of the honorable and virtuous mormon and a tunnel out of which the non mormon sexual can walk with his hat on ulie THE NEXT above I 1 WE wr are informed that the next nest movement on the anti mormon pro gramme is the denial of the tho benefits of the copper act to the brethren connin confined ed in the penitentiary I 1 for unlawful cohabitation tile the act referred to materially teri ally lessens the term terin of impila the deduction being C five days for each month on the condition of good conduct after the first year it is seven days a month mouth after the second nine days and af after ter the third ten days william fotheringham ham of beaver undergoing a sentence ll 11 ce ot of three months on conviction for u unlawful f ua cohabitation is we understand the first proposed victim as his ills term will be the first to expire we understand that the habeas corpus proceeding will be tried in his bisca ca seand the question will probably come up for hearing in the tile district court on monday the result rosult will be awaited with considerable interest and by many with much anxiety another point involved in the fotheringham ering er ingham llau liau habe habeas s corpus korpus case is the question of the commencement of the term of imprisonment whether it be gins from the date of commitment or from the time the trl irl prisoner enters the penitentiary the clear common sense view on this point is that the tile service of the term begins from the moment the person under conviction is placed in the lands hands of the U S marshal after sentence ile he is then a prisoner of the united states to all intents and purposes technically the sentence may luay direct that he be imprisoned for a certain time in a designated prison but if it be held thattie that the time consumed between the issuance of the commitment and his incarceration should not be counted in the term the prisoner is thus punished by deprivation of liberty to an extent unwarranted by the judgment the time involved in this way in the fotheringham ringham case is three days which intervened between the in making akino aking ot the commitment and his reaching the penitentiary As an illustration of the fruits which follow the delle deile ver who sincerely accepts the gospel as taught by the lat ter day saints and I 1 lives ives by its precepts elders garner and chr christensen is t ense n whose return from a mission to the southern states we mentioned yesterday related the following the people of mitchell county N C and carter county tenn where they labored during the past year ear are most inveterate tobacco chewers hewy hewl e r not yot only are the men addicted to this abominable habit lout but women and children also even downto down to the bab babe when ewhen scarcely able to leave its mothers breast the habit grows with them from infancy and almost becomes a part of their nature and many use the weed most excessively and disgustingly the habit of drinking coffee too is almost universal there in fact it is the general beverage of the country tea cocoa and other warm drinks bein being seldom seen there and raw water being rather unpopular among them theW the 39 persons whom the elders betl bEti baptized zed none of whom had bad ever heard the gospel preached before they went there or learned anything about its re requirements quire ments almost if n not ot quite every one was a addicted to the habits mentioned but after being beino taught that the lord required his ill s saints to tb observe the word of wisdom which condemns ta th use of tobacco and hot drinks including coffee every one ceased entirely the use of tobacco and coffee and freed treed themselves from the expensive filthy and injurious habits to which they had been slaves |