Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-02-05

living prophet of God; that be could heal
the sick and restore the sight Of the blind !;
10 fact, said he, these things are an every
day occurrence, aud, moreover, that he
could impart this power to others. These
poor, ignorant people believe everything he
says, aud will hear nothing to the contrary
But ell this they are welcome to believe,
YOU will say, II they will only do away with
poligamy, and so do /. Yet, delude not
yourself with-the thought that the Tailroad
will speedily put an end to this national
stigma; 1t wilhn0t. | came here with that
belief, but have seen too much to think so
now. Should po'igamy be done away with,
the foundation of tie Mormon church is
gone. Whenever Brigham gets man into
poligamy, he{ then has him for life. NE
other religion or country will uphold him 10
this, and in Self-proteetion he sticks to
Mormonism to the bitter end.
With the approach Of the railroad, came
an increase in Gentle nUmhers and 10
discourage this as much as possible, Brig
ham forbade his followers having any inter
course Shrtever with Gentiles, either soci5
ally or commercially. That those coming
in tom the country might know where TO
trade, he ordered every Mormon merchant
to put up the following sign. DAA 4il'A
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
zIoNs co OPERATION.
rTe MERcANrILE IEsTIyyfpN. nG9
Just under " Holiness,tor The, ,Lprd ;" which
is i'd an arch, is the Ali-seeing Eye, which
We Gentiles call a bulbs eye. Over every
Mormon store you see this sign now. This
has been done since / came here, with the
intention of freezing out 81 GENTLE mar
chants. The Gentle merchants at once mar
ked their goods down aboutstwenty five per
cent, and those poor q latter Day Saint s ..
pay that much more for their goods in order
t build up Zion" Ifythey are caught
trading with a Gentle, they are cut off
from the church. DFT ~
Let an outsider or Gentle, as we term
ou rselves, commence paying attention to a
Mormon girl, and be is at once spotted, and
II he persists, is assassinated. Qnite CON-
mon is it TO hear, upon getting up, on a Mon.
day morning, that man was found killed.
Strange as IL is, they always select Sunday
night for committing murder Certain ones
here are paid for that especial business,
and known as the Destroying Angels
1 They are taught that to kill Gentle will
be the means of sending both parties, the
murdered aud the murderer, TO Heaven;
that to take your or my horse, or axe, is to
take nothing but what of right belongs to
them. They look upon woman as an in
ferior being, and speak Of her as I'VE l~onld
0f a COW. ~~4S
notwithstanding these facts, they have
some meritor!cSs traits, and Industry is
one. Rhey may properly be termed self
sustaining people-making all their cloth'l
| iDg, and raising such food as they have To
eat. A great number never see such a
thing in their houses as coffee and tea, and
nine -tenths have meat but once year.
Against their I" tithpg" is paid, they dud #
hard work to maintain their large families,
The cars are now within forty miles OF
this city. Could you see the rapidity with
which this railroad is built you wonl0 be
amazed. Although the ground is now hard
frozen they stop not, but blast it as they
would stone. The railroad will run about
forty miles north Of here, and come into
this valley opposite the middle of the lake.
1t being too wide to bridge here, they run
north some twenty five miles to the upper
end of the lake and there cross by bridge.
The two roads will likely unite blythe lst
of June, and then It is thought the, Union
| Pacific Railroads viii continue on thfough
/ Idaho to Puget Sound, and the Central
Pacific Railroad will come down by this
city, aud several hundred miles south Of
here will turn eastward aud connect with
the Denver branch Of the Union Pacific
Railroad. By this you see We are TO have
railroads through those territories in more
than one direction.
We all look for good town TO spring up
above here where the two railroads meet,
which will utterly depopulate this city Of
Gentiles. Everything is lively with us, and
living zery high. But defer more for my
next. 10
| met John Mitchell, of Abingdon, with
whom we weRt 10 Emory and Henry Col
lege, as you viii remember. He has been
on the railroad for some time, and came in
on visit. think he is doing well. Also
Thomas Hoge, Of Giles county. Hl&