The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-05-14

Mrs. Julia Deane Haync, who wa
playing most successful star engagement
had trained the amateurs until they play
cd exceedingly well, producing entertain
ments in all re PEGS better than one find
anywhere else in the Union save at three
or four leading metropolitan theatres
1t was novel place for the best actres.
in the United States. At first she found
the audience curiously cxcitable, and
inexperienced, composed very generally
of persons who had never seen threatrr
before. When she played the last act in
Camille, one old lady left her seat, passed
through the private entrance and rushed
upon the stage with Il glass of water for
the dying girl Another declared, in a
voice audible throughout the house
'lt is shame for President Young to
let the poor lady play when she has such
terrible cough !" Brigham shows une-
qnaled saGacity in strengthening the
church and putting money in his purse,
10y the same operation. lie says: "The
people must have amusement human
nature demands it. If healthy and harm
less diversions are not attainabls, they
will seek those which aie vicious and de-
grading" Therefore he built this Thes-
plan temple, which spiritually refreshes
the Saints of Utah, and increases his
personal income fifty thousand dollars
annually.
The entire valley is wall in by green
mountains, from fonr to ten thousand feet
in height, and every hue from the deep
blacliish green OF the pine on the foot hills
to the dazzling white of the snow upon
the SUBMITS. Many of the mountains.
intcrsectcd by narrow canons, are torn
and furowed to their very hearts, and
sometimes cleft asundcr from head to
foot Utah, the name of an Indian tribe,
signifies ''those who dwell in the noun
tans," and the Mormons, almost mile
above the level of the sea. in view Of
s)mc OF the finest scenery in the world,
are, indeed, dwellcrs among the noun
tain.tops
Tie great basin extending from the
Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevadas.
seems to have been vast inland sea.
The immediate valley in which Salt Lake
City lies is much its best portion. Little
or nothing is produced without irrigation
but, by the application of watr, the soil
is very productive. Sixty bushels Of corn
to the acre is common yield, and the
small grains do much better Settlements
Of the Saint extend hundreds of miles in
all directions. Almost every valley in
Utah is dotted with little dwellings of
abode, or sun dried bricks, herds of cattle,
flockS of sheep, great stacks of hay and
barley and thriving young orchards
Probably eight-ninths Of the Mormons
are Of foreign birth. Many are English.
while Norway and Sweden are largely
represented. In spite of their heavy, en-
forced contributions to the church. the
conditions of most has been greatly
improved for the leaders are men of
rare sagacity, who stcadfastly inculcate
industry, frugality, temperance and peace
fulncss.
Not more than one man in four or five
is polygamist or plurali,t as the Saints
more delicatcly term it, Brigham claims
to have adopted the system by special
injucrion from the Almighty, and exhorls
them to pcrsevcre in it and defend it with
their lives, and even against the authority
of the Government of the United States.
The women generally acquicscc in it
but regard it as a sore trial, to be COM
pen'atcd only by the happiness of eternity
Two or three sisters have often the same
husband; some men are married to
mother and her daughter, and some to
their half.sisters. When possible, each
wife occupies seperate house or room
but poverty sometimes compels three or
tCur TO live in the same apartments.