Show A TRIP TO NAUVOO condition of the former rome home of the saints SCOTT COUNTY illinois august 1887 editor deseret news elder B R 8 gibby of farmers ward salt lake county and myself of fairview sanpete county were called on a mission to the northwestern states in connection with others to 0 labor under the direction ot of Pre president wm win M palmer we left home april 1886 and when we arrived in council bluffs the elders were divided some were assigned to Minnes minnesota nta and some to the southern part of illinois and it fell to our let act to go to illinois where we have been laboring ever since with the that elder went home borne with elder W D grover grever who was sick he left illinois with elder arver july 1886 and remained home till sept loth since that time he be has been laboring in the southern part of illinois but he and I 1 have only been laboring together since june the first at that time we were appointed to labor in jefferson county we have had bad good go 0 d health all the time with the exception that I 1 had the chills and fever for about two weeks and that happened in J july uly 1886 WE WB STARTED FOR NAUVOO by way of springfield on the first of july last the distance is about miles and we held meetings along the road wherever we could get the opportunity port unity we held eighteen meetings in that distance several schoolhouses and churches were refused us at springfield which is the capital of illinois is a very fine state house we had bad a very good time while we were we stopped with a famil family y by tiie the name of binney the daml family y belonged to our church but are josephites Josephi Joseph itee teall now they treated us very kindly we kac ha the privilege of viewing the state house both inside and out and I 1 went to the top of the dome which is feet high the building cost over 4 it contains the statues of abraham agam lincoln walter waller A wood and stephen A doug lass we also saw the lincoln bonu ment which is a vt very ry flue fine piece of art it is one hundred leet high we also saw the watch factory here which furnishes famishes employment employ meat for about hands bands and completes wat watches clies dally daily we also visited the large rolling mills where iron is ia made and soaped they furnish employ employment for about 2000 men 1000 at day and 1000 at night so we were told we loft left springfield july for nauvoo nothing occurred worth mentioning until we reached carthage WE WENT TO TUB THE JAIL G as soon as we arrived in carthage the family that is now occupying the jail as a residence was very kind to us ate they told us how it all happened in the ming killing of joseph and hyrum and showed us all ail through the jail it it is id fitted that it makes a very fine dwelling house ane stairway is there just the same as it was when the murder was committed the same door to the room that the mob broke into is there yet with abne bullet hole through it which it is supposed was the one made by the ball that kulen hyrum there is also a dark stain on the floor which is supposed to be the blood of hyrum the room is very nicely fitted up with carpet on tue loor floor and will paper on the walls and ceiling the well that joseph was placed against g a I 1 ast has been filled up and mrs airs browni Ji ing the lady of the house has some nice flowers gro growing on the spot called the LILY OP OF THE VALLEY we were told that most of the bus business men of carthage were antl anti mor imor mons we heard of some old time mormons cormons Mor mons at a little town called webster and when we found them they were josephites and most of them were apostates and you may know they did not treat us with much respect there are a number of them living in hancock county we went from webster ao to nauvoo and our first introduction to that city wasa was a meeting with an old apostate who had been to salt lake city and he told us so many stories that we could not believe win him ard and because we could not he ordered us out of his honse we called on mr damore lidamore Bi the husband of the late emma smith and had bad a very interesting chat with him he fie dejongs to no religions society hut he thought joseph smith was wai a idiart smart nan man we then took a view of the city the Nauvoo mansion blan sion is yet standing I 1 think it belongs to mr bidamon Bida Bifia mou he is living in part pan ot of the nauvoo house which never was completed many of the residences of et the saints faints are yet jet remaining but they look rather dilapidated many of the buildings ull dings have been torn down and moved away thore there is not a sign of the temple cef left t where it once stood the postoffice post office is in built of the i ock lock of the ter temple hiple the well that supplied font Is there yet and in use THE population OF NAUVOO is from twelve to fifteen hundred but it is s not much of a business place there is a store here and there through the city there is a i large Cst catholic bolic church about thirty yards north of where the temple stood the face that was cut in the rock on the front of the temple is now in it is kept there lor ik a r aelic elk while abile viewing the city we had serious reflections rejections to know that it was once the home of the saints and then to 0 o have it fall into the harida of a wicked and licentious people eople cauff caused d us to mourn and we birot did not feel like holding a meeting jn in all hancock counte 86 we passed through out we found that the inhabitants had bad a bitter hatred towards our people yet and it it were in their power they would wipe them out of existence welli well before we close our letter we would like to saya say a word or two to the WOMEN OF UTAH that are under oppression and in bondage thatis it if there are arc any we were born and raised in utah and we did not know that there were any women of that order I 1 here but the people out here say there are they have not been there but know all about it and they say all the christian Cb ristian people out here are praying for their deliver deliverance aRce dont you ton feel the effects of their pr prayers dyers it yau you do n it is because they are not very earnest well we both feel well in our labors and are endeavoring to help forward the work of god your brother in the cause of truth C A TERRY |