Show THE CHARIVARI NUISANCE an esteemed correspondent writing from a village in the southern part of the state gives particulars of an affair that recently occurred there which to characterize it mildly was disgraceful A couple residing in the village were married in the st george temple a fact by the way which sufficiently vouches for their respectability and standing in the community and after the marriage ceremony made a long drive to the village referred to where they were received in the h home lome of the brides parents late in the evening a crowd assembled around the dwelling and proceeded to make the night hideous tin cans were beaten cow bells were rung stones were thrown against the door and an abominable din was created not content with such demonstrations demonstration si the crowd took a horse and shaved it from mane to tail inclusive parts of a wagon belonging to the bridegroom were taken away and a cottage near by in which it was expected the young couple would spend the night was broken into mud and filth were strewn upon the floor and planks and other debris were thrown into it the correspondent gravely makes two statements of fact which would challenge halll credulity but for his well known and thoroughly established reputation for veracity and which give by far the most surprising features of the affair he says that every boy in the village over eleven years of age and some girls took part in the disgusting and unlawful mischief and that the inhabitants of the place take the entire occurrence as a matter of course so much so that the officers offices s have made no attempt to vindicate the law so flagrantly violated by it what kind of a community to is it whose young men in a body including some of the opposite sex will turn put out and engage in conduct of the sort described bed what standards of public opinion and civilization prevail there that the members member of the community of mature years including the peace officers look upon such proceedings proceedings complacently and take them as a matter of course it is commonly understood that the bulk of the inhabitants of the village are mormons cormons Mor mons this being true the questions arise Is there a sabbath school in it Is there a young mens or a young ladles ladies mutual improvement association in it has ham it the organizations and methods found in almost all mormon towns for the instruction and advancement of the youth in good morals true refinement and genuine christianity if so how does it happen that such results exist where these organizations are found the correspondent asks if a charivari charI vart such as he describes Is permissible under the laws and if dai damages nages can be recovered by law for injuries to or loss of property caused by the participants in it the answer to the first question is an emphatic no such a proceeding is a flagrant violation of the public peace the preservation of which is a primary object of law the reply second question is yes each i i individual member of a mob Is personally liable for loss of or injury to property resulting from the unlawful doings of the mob and the crowd described by our correspondent was a mob pure and simple not only is a charivari a violation of 0 law but it is a low shocking and barbarous proceeding utterly abhorrent to any sense of decency refinement or good order the term is thus defined by webster A mock serenade of discordant music kettles tin horns etc designed to annoy and insult it was at first directed against widows who married a second time at an advanced age but is now extended to other occasions of nocturnal annoyance and insult insul while K the law applicable to such a c case ase as our correspondent has described is as above stated the news believes the evil can be reached in a better and more effective way than by resorting to legal steps the probabilities are that the young people who perpetrated the unlawful acts incident to the charivari are not wicked but only benighted that they are ignorant rather than abandoned and that a good sunday school worker among them would do them more real good than could a constable the victims of the outrage in this case naturally feel incensed against s the perpetrators of it but the conver i sion of the wrong doers will accod more lasting good than their pun ashment ish ment hence such agencies as exist in the village for reaching the young and in influencing fluen cing them in right directions direct ionar should be diligently employed until all danger of a recurrence of such scenes in that place is averted this 1 applies to all places inhabited by letter day saints where the charivari chari varl nuisance has shown itself |