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Show fw Imiu Auitnllu. 1 A Split In the JotephUe Church. I Kansas City, July !). A serious I split has occurred in the Hendrickite branch of the Mormon church at Independence. In-dependence. Mo. A majority of the members have withdraw", and now seek admission to the reorganized i branch, because Elder Wall, chief of ! the Hendrickite branch, tried to institute insti-tute certain reforms among his followers, follow-ers, lie required the s sters to e'ress ; in plain black dresses and sunbonnets : without ribbons', laces and frills; he t forbade the men to use tobacco, ami j disobedience he punished with expulsion. expul-sion. As a consequence he now has ! only about thirteen members. j The Humor rUproTd. J San Diego, Cal., July 9. Thf rumor ! of the plot on the part of the Data's I otlicers to take the vessel out of the j port last night, is disproved by the fact that the vessel is in no condition to leave, her machinery having been taken to pieces, her boiler iieing overhauled, anil the caps on the cylinder-head j have been removed The Charleston 1 lies within a t;w hundred yards f her. |