Show POPULATED DE CITIES A recent issue of the new york nag mau and express coot this lna a loog article on the be depopulation of cities and ana towns to la the united states that once were thriving centers of business buBi neBB but have been almost or quite dese deserted ried there are hundreds of these scattered over nearly every part of the union sims S me which once had bad a population ot of to now are entirely without inhabitants of one city which occupies a prominent place lo in the history ot the latter day sainte the paper says nauvoo on the east bank of the mississippi is in Illinois was less than two generations erat ions ago the capital city of the mor mons it had a population of the temple of white limestone and the massive house of joseph here joseph smith had his revelations authorizing polygamy and here he reigned as a prophet under a state charter which granted his community its own courts and its own militia but bat in 1844 the mob rose and massacred joseph smith and in 1847 the mormons cormons were forced to emigrate to utah A colony of Icar loar lans succeeded them but they departed for iowa and now nauvoo Is a straggling count country town with a population of oar oely y 1200 acdan imperfect tradition of WL past splendor A further account la in riven given of th rise and fall of tow towns ns in kansas nee brasha Color colorado adot and other western states and territories the destructive feature usually being attributed to the railways which were operated to bull ballu up new twos t ans on their own lands and for their in interest there is one notable able feature associated with the ma mail il and express article on which it Is IB evident a goodly degree of care has bae been bestowed that la Is that for gutib there is i not recorded an instance ot of where a town has grown into prominence and then has been abandoned by its inhabitants in the complete manner which marks the annals ol of other western states state |