The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-04-28
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LEE CouKrY.-We had OF late years entire I
" lost track Of William smith, brother Of !
the prophet Joe" In 1899 we knew him y
we'll. He was then keeping tavern in Ply J
mouth, a small village in Hancock county, :
some thirty miles from Nauyoo. A goodly
number Of the saints irequented his house,
bot he never had much influence With the
great BODY of Mormons. 'Bill," as he was
Familiarity termed by his "GenIile" acquain-
~tances, was always regarded as one OF the
lesser liQhis. Compared with his older
brother Joe, or his younger brother Hiram,
The was ahinfcrior man. He had much less
capacity than the former, aud Tar less GULL
walton than the latter. Yet he was hysno
means deficientin that peculiar shfe@dness
which, fromthe mother Of the Prophet down
to the youugesl Of her children, was u char
acterisiic Of the Smith family. Bin, howev-
er lacked caution. He had not the faculty
OF conceaIment which distinguished Joe and
Hiram. Perhaps this was the reason that
the two latter induc. d him to take up his
residence outside Of the holy city. This
weakness of Bill conduced to his popularity
where he lived. He obtained a reputation
" IduhuUoo Ntu Cduubl thoh
shrewder brothers, and when he became
candidate for legislative honors, he pulled
many vote outside Of the Mormon orgahi-
cation.
After the murder Of Joe and Hiram, Bill
made a desperate attempt for the succession.
But he carried ton few guns. Rigdon was a
bigger man than Bill, Strang was bigger
than Rigdon, but Brigham Young was the
biggest Of them all. But Rigdon, Strung
and Bill were all too bi. to play second 6d-
die to Brigham Each drew off with his
particular adhereuts aud set up on his own
account. Brigham and the great mass Of
| the Saints made their hegira to Salt Lake,
Rigdon and his. followers to Pennsylvania,
and Struug to Beaver Island; Bill COM
menced a kind Of nomadic life. We met
| him repeatedly afterwards, upon the South
ern rivers, travelling up and down lecturing
on Mormonism in the principal cities and
towns seemingly fond of the notoriety which
attached to him. Within the last Eve or
six years, we had heard but little of him, and
we supposed he had either subsidized into
~peaccful retirement, or had made his submis-
sion ID Brigham Young, and become q citi-
zen Of Utah. Our first impl essfoD was cor
rect. VILLAIN Smith, as we learn from a
late number of the Dixon Telegraph, to-
gether with a few followers, has settled in
Lee county, Illinois. There, he maintains,
the distinctive tenets of MormOnisIn, keeps
up "stated preaching,'' and practices many
OF the peculiarities for which the sect is Ia
nous. Last week he was brought before the
Circuit Court at Dixon, at the instigation Of
a spiritual Wife," We copy what follows
from the Dixon Telegraph:
tho f,rouonf torn, nj mr. Circnir COfrf
William Smith was brought before it, hav-
irg been arrested in consequence OF an uf-
iduvlt made by one Of the female members
Of the church, In which she set forth that
she had been induced to believe that it was
necessary for her salvation that she should
become his spiritual wife; the result OF which
was the same that usually accompanies cas-
es where 10 spiritualism is claimed. On
account OF the inability of the witness to at.
tend at this term, the cHse was continued
The defendant says that II all arises in por.
serution from the Gentilcs.
"As another item on The ssmr subject, we
my state that Smith has himself now pend
ing in the same court an application for a d.
vorce, on the ground that bis wife while at
Nausoo was initiated into the my ~sterics OF,
aud. III he say >, took suve Ell degrees in spir-
lLuil Nl'CNJs w tiiI ~ ~ NO uNApiu'H- w
} his ideasof the doctrines of that particular
( branch Of the church militant, what is sauce
: Tor tho goose, Is mt sauce for the gindcr.
A TIGeR'a JOKE, There is nj present OIL
exhibition, at the museum at New Orleans, a
Texas tiger. Of whom tho rcoyunc relates
the following story, upnn what it calls riJ
;. '.best authority :''-''N hrn This fellow was il
4 Laredo, being dumrsticatcd, he was allowed
. 20 run loose in a yard which was enclose,
! by a mvd wall, aud had ar entrance through
a large gate. Ohe day the gate was ief
open. N Mexican stood in The gateway, ru
d minating on the mutabilily of human affair
IA and the chance for a supply VI cigarritOs.-
The Tiger lay in the yard summing himself
coilrd up IN the dust, and apparently asleep
&c Presently n large jackass-an animal will
which every Mexican town abounds-walk
=, cd l~eisurely up TO the gateway and pukcd il
&c his head to inspect the prctDises, or inquirr
after the health ofthe sehoritns. AS quicl
10 as lightning, the tiger, who was n playful
ri chap, leaped upon the lOng-eared visitor, AM
chung like grim death to his neck aud head
" The j1ckass, not wearing spectacles, did no
Il see the origin or manner of this attack o.
IN his feelings. He immediately took it int
). his head that the Mexican ha' hit him owe
=, the sconce with u rake or some other liah
" Implement. Not admiriDy such proofs q
ct affection, he wheeled, inconlinently plante
Of both heels in the astouished Mexican
IL 'breadlbasket,' and broke for the centre {
nd the town. the tiger holding on harder tina
=. ever, the Mexican running and shonting;t h
10 dust flying, aud the jackass giving vent I
n, his srnsibilities with II dcalening 'ee-haw
n, ee.haw!' A luughable scene Of c%onfusio
h, followed, which was ended. by some on
knocking the tiger from hts seat with a piec
Of scuntling, ard leading him home niue
rerreshedby his ride aud joke;while the jacl
ass, c%Oniounded and ustonishcd bryon
measure, gave a peculiar jerk with his tai
al repeated in a higher key his 'ee-haw! ct
o5 haw! and made for the prairie. The la,
seen of him was his ears pointing to ii
North Pole" b.. i"t
'et CHINESE In CUBA.-In arecenS lett,
'or from Cuba, Mr.. Books, of the N. Y. e:
VI press, writes; ..
new experiment in labor is maxim