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Show HELPED BY BRICHAM YOUNG- The benevolence of JjJrigham Young has passed into history with Borne other things not bo pleasant to remember. Mrs. riauls-berry. riauls-berry. an aged woman living neat-Fountain neat-Fountain Green, in Hancock County, was once the recipient of favor from him which has probably , never gone on record. Mrs. Sauls-berry Sauls-berry was a sister of Jos. Smith, and is now about ninety years old. She lived in Nauvoo at the time the Mormons were driven out. She moved away to Hancock County and has lived there since. Once in her old age when she , found it impossible to pay off a debt of $600 that hung over her little farm, bIic spoke of the matter to J. W. Everett of this city, who suggested that she should write to Brighara Y'oung of her trouble. After some consideration of the matter Mr. Everett wrote the letter for her, and she received a prompt reply, enclosing the much needed amount with the assurance from 1 Brigham Y'oung that no relative of the lamented Jos Smith should ever suffer for anything through the life time of Brigham Young which it was possible for him to supply. It was an act of kindness that seems all the more remarkable because be-cause coming from one of whom the world is inclined to believe only evil. Quincv Journal. |