The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-08-04
SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE.
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
San FRASCIsco, Jnly 2Sth 1907. J

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you may know we have finally torn our
selves from Salt Lake City, aud 30 far rs the
writer knows, none Of the company have
made themselves lianle to punishment Tor
bigamy, They are still virtuous and nap
pv. Not welding the pen ofa ready writer,
cannot gttemp. description of our jour.
ncys and adventures, of how B--snd
y both fell in love with Miss of
New York, and to prevent any dlgression |
toward me, salanically and with malice afore |
thought enquired for my wife and children |
in her presence; of our visitiHg3 with W,
and Vat Echo; Of oar camping
with our old conductor Capt. P; OF the
big trout we caught, and the bigger ones
we ate: of the fate OF BIS copper cass
and its contents Gad our going to the city
of the latter day saints; Of DR.. Tidany's
sermon, at the Tabernacle, in which he was
afraid to allude TO Mormons or their doe.
trines, though the Bishop Of the church
was distributing thei sacrament before his
face and eyes while he preached; and OF
Brigham Young's following in u short har
rangue, taking the words out the reverend
gentlemau's mouth, to enforce the abomina.
Bile doctrines Uf MormoD;--or of our jour
ney over desolate plains where neither
animal or vegetable life can exist, to this
paradise where strawberries grow as large
a. apples. and are to be found with peaches,
pears, plums, potatoes, onions, celery and
corn blossoming, ripening and being mar
keted every month in the year;--where the
! Heh0trope and Fuscia climb upon the
houses, and continually display their beauti.
| ful blossoms, and where the Black Ham
burg grape ripens in the sun beside the
lucious Fig;-where crawfsh grow as big
as Holsters, and front TO the SIZE OF sea
| salmons.
But though | cannot properly describe all
these things. ] will relate an incident which
occurred on our journey from Salt Lake.
On the first day, after dusty stage ride OF
thirty five miles, we took the cars at U!ntsh,
and almost immediately noticed company
of rather ordinary looking people, consisting
of whom we supposed to be two young mar.
ried couples, an old lady, and her soma
pert youth just out of Theological Semi
nary. One Of the couples consisting Of a
heavy set man with coarse features, and a
young woman who looked in rather poor
health, particularly attracted our attention
| bv their demonstrative affection for each
other. We believe Webster countenances
such word as gHmsucking derived from
the Greek words TAI iygag ing. At oil
events, that's what this couple were doing,
the female sitting up to the man in the style
Of "sick kitten to a hot brick, and he
meeting all advances considerably more
than haf way, calling her Sweet one, and
soothing her rufled temper when whom we
supposed his old molher.in.law would occa'
sionelly unsuccessfUlIy try to stop the cOoing
of these doves. Some remarks were made
as to the propriety Of their restraining the
eIuberance Of their affections for more
appropriate occasion, supposing that they
had lifetime Of love before them. But VIC
should have been more lenient toward then
impotence, had we but known that the gen
teman was the Rev. Mr.. Myer, of Portland
Oregon, and the Sweet one" was the wife
of one Of his flock, travelling all the way
from virtuous Vermont TO meet her husband
in his far distant western home. The party
left the cars during the night for a thousand
miles Of stage riding, during which the Rev
gentleman will be able to interpose his bulky
form between many q bump and the fail
Dora with the badly fitting Dress. If this
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husband it may teach him better than to
trust his wife to the honor Of preacher
who has not delicacy enough to hide
his caresses from the public eye.
. should hardly have taken the pains to
= expose the Reverend hypocrite but for the
piece of malice which he perpetrated
upon Mr.. b and myself, as he left the
, sleeping car in which We rode at Promon
tory probably having heard our remarks
, about his bchavior). lie told Mrs. R..
, Of Los Angeles, that D. and | were
piCkpockets, and that the ladies would dc
well to hook to their valuables while we were
s around Imagine the effect IN car loaC
OF ladies and children in which we had oul
seats and berths. They examined u,
through the corners of their eyes the,
watched our every movement; they repealed
, the least advance to civility on our part with
all earnestness that eifectually prevented q
repetition. B. and /, shut out from a.
for amusement, and the sight of card. con
Grmed thoir worst suspicious We were
gamblers and pickpockets. BIS shor
hair was the very style of Jack Cade. Thai
night Mrs. l., the wife of the English
consul at Nigata, Japan, fastened the cur
tans carefully around her, and woke with a
scream, dreaming that her hand, with the
Solitaire diamond ring was hanging outside
of the berth. Mrs. VI, after keeping
nov great black eyes all day upon us, made
her husband put all his valao hlos in his
stockings, and then pinned him up in The
sheet, rolled him over to the back Of the
berth, and stood guard all night on the out
side, while Mrs. R. fastened the cur
tains closely around herself and child
and lay all night sweltering in the heat
praying that her darling boy (who raised
thunder all day crying for candy, might be
spared her By those terrible burglars, fully
confirmed in the belief that it was the boy
we intended to steal, because B., dur.
ing the day, changed her lunch basket from
one car to the other without sppropriating
it, when she had fully expected to see him
start with it on the full run across those al
kali plains. But the night passed quietly,
and in the morning the ladies took heart to
ask Miss D., Wills honest face pre-.
served him from suspicion who We were.
We should not have known of the reputa.
ton we had established so unwittingly, ex.
cept fer the confessions Of the black eyed
lady, whose conscience troubled her for the
wrong she had done us, and we were partly
repaid for our and their discomfort, by a
hearty laugh about BIS rueful counte.
nance, when he learned of the way the Rev.
Myer had revenged himself. I promised to
write a description of the joke, and send a
copy to each of the ladies and one to the
Rev. rascal, which he may furnish to the
Portland papers for publication if he de-.
sres. Yours,
PRnRARLY FArAL AEERAY1N DArrNpnpr