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Show THE "KNOT-HOLE BRIGADE." Kev. De Witt lioca After the Can? With a Sharp Stick. Dr. H. G. De Witt held forth to a large congregation at the Baptist church last evening. His subject was, "The Spider Caught in His Own Net; or, Lessons for: Utah." In the course of his remarks, and as one illustration of how the spider sometimes gets caught in a net of his own weaving, the Doctor alluded to the -infamous conspiracy recently unearthed un-earthed in this city, and paid his respects to the delectable " knot-hole brigade " in the following language : "The evidence during the past week, beyond be-yond the shadow of a doubt, shows that a vile conspiracy existed in the city a conspiracy con-spiracy by which harlots had been brought from various parts of the country and put in elegantly furnished houses, and that the unwary had been beguiled by arts and by blandishments and under all manner of pretenses, pre-tenses, to go into the way of her whose way goeth down to death, whose steps take hold of hell! Then they took her affidavit and filed it away they say five hundred hund-red names!. And all this vile, infamous, perjured- and hellish criminality why? Why, just to hold a reign of terror in this community, so that you would not dare to open your lip3 for fear of being blackmailed! A harlot was to follow up any man, and while her affidavit amounted to nothing in court, it was enough for blackmailing black-mailing purposes. Now, I want to ask you if the stone has not rolled back, when the aroh-leader of that vile and hellish conspiracy con-spiracy is awaiting his sentence, the dread sentence of the law, and his associates and accomplices stand aghast while an unseen hand writes upon the wall Mene, mene, tekel, Upharsi7i thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.' The speaker wound up his allusion to the sweet-scented outfit by stating that in all probability the aforesaid arch-conspirator would shortly be found behind prison bars and grates, where he ought to be put for a hundred years, and then, said the speaker, "I would ask the Governor Gov-ernor if he wouldn't commute his sentence sen-tence to a life term !" |