, 1873-12-27
h MORMON ROMANCE.
mrs. .Fol,la yo.,ng,,s Visit TO tho t1ots,u
or Encr t;irilinotl--.rhe story os rrtr
NIftrrlfl.rt..

mrs. .fohn yo.,Mg,s Visit TO- tho t1on,u
0f Encr tsirihooti--Jrho story os frer
Mttrri,lyc.
From, the cect1 {,1a.) Win. 49,.
Last weok Mr.. John Yonng, youngest ron Of
Brigham Young, tl,o High Priest Of A1ormorism,
md wiio yiBifca Elktpn. Afrs.. Young, son,o
scvon years ago. whcn allo was Miss LizzIo Can
fold, lived IN. Elktol.. very pretty, cultivated
linory store Of Mrs Drown. Miss Lizzio Canilcld
wns d tecol,si cousin Of young Brigham, her
mothcr mud old Patriarch brigham fonng'a frst
WITHHOLDING first cousins. Miss Lizzie'B parenta
family Of Salt Laho and tho Canho!tls wo do not
know; but Mia Lizzie, after leaving Eis-
ton. started on trip accompanied only by
Mormon notorioty, md also for t!;o rr'sposo OF
marrying John. Ihis WAS n deliberate untor-
taking, which required no litslo neryo for .
young. wo}l-ejWcated. accomplished Phs'adel-
pliiali-6red Indy, bllt Miss Lizzie wns equal to
tho adventure. Now. this undertaking will MP
pear tho moro risky md formidable when wo
take into account tint john Young had Nlrcaly
two %iycs. What Immediate fn,nily arrangement
took place ITO nrc not advlgcd, but the two ilrst
wives ind to ho discarded to satisfy tho faatid
iuunneBs Of tic coming woman. Ono of lhe two,
tile 'irat, wo believe, was divorced. aHd the sec
o,d was discarded turned away with tho arrival,
or previous to it, Of thu young q,cen.
Some four years ngo or thoroabont, it will be
snulcd threatening napcct for tho Iattcr-Day
SAINTS and tho Salt Lalio Prophets eent dolo-
Cation Of their picked women to tho Capital to
make MI impression ut tho scat of Govornnleut
favorable to tho Institution Of Atorm0nis1n. Mis-.
John Young, the subject Of our narrative, COM
posed ono Of tho delegation. 1t WIS noticed TINT
when the Mormon ladlos hold n ccrtain reception
or audience at which Mira. Crcswoll waB present
tho handsome wife OF tho Youngest sun OF tho
Prophet fognod sickness. or at lenst did not ap-
pear. Mrs. c., however, CHANGED to meet her
aItorwnrd. and acomcd to havo m impression
thht sllo had mot her somewhere before. Whom
Mrs. Crcswell returned 10 Ellston aho WIS re-
mn.lod that tho wifo of JOHN Young wns tho
bonnets III Elkton, and tho young wiEo's rotnct-
auce 10 meet hos 1T the Capital was explained.
Some timo ago two Elkton 1alies werc going
to Philadelphia III the cars. and In tho scat III
wero talking about Salt Laho. One of thom
asked tho gcntlemen If thoy 1'now Mr.. Young
and his wife. Ihoy replied thcy did, and would
deliycr tho ladS'a card 70 alra. Young whom thcy
renched Salt 1ako. alr' John Youg was ately
Salt Lnko East viii, ller Three children to mcot
him OIL Ills nrriya STAYING at hcr mothers till
hc hndcd. Tho card which llor Elkton friend
had sont nll the way to Salt Lake to her ilad
been running III ilor m.nl all these months, and
it gayo her roa Joy to think TINT llos memory
hau not been buuianetl, anl that she was still
remembered by ono at least in tho little town
wlioro her young heart had woven tl,cBo DO
ligssfnl dreams Of romance which developed
in suoh fearful danger; 30 wilon hcr lord re-
turned to New York from across tho soa aho Ind
her leark fixed Oh coming to Elktun nlld bliug-
ing him nlong md OH Wednesday, evening Of
last week tho lady who Ind sent tue card to Afrd,
Young ut Salt Lnke received q 1nesBaso ut tho
Howard House tin! latly requested to SEQ her.
She Immediately repaired thitler, aud III tho pnr-
lor ll,e tHo ladies mot face to fnco. Ti1ao Ind
wrought grent changcs in both, and they .stool
regarding, bnt not recognizing, onch other. Tho
wife OF tho young prophet was tho first to speak.
"la tVs Mrs. .--,."' "ics. lam Mrs. Young
-I.izzio Cauiloli when We wore younger" AL
roservo ws ut III, end, and the two friends, whom
time and u,ltoward events had throatoned to
plaee an i1npussablo gulf between. ruslol into
ench others nrlnH.
Tho Mormon wife mud her husband Ind NIL
mcrouB calls whilo they remained nj the hotel,
a,,l she loalcd tllo chaptor Of hor llFo to those
who had thus Kindly remembered hor. Sho Ind
insisted, and carried her polut it ucc,ns, on being
tho solo wi[o uf the ilAr Fle had lravcd E1ch
danger for a,tt not aa.iB5ol with this sl,o i'll.
sisted OH q marriage in Clio Statos III tho old style
she hud been taught III her girlhood to honor.
ntll John lind to succumb before Hhc would
leayo Salt Lalo, teolnrinS TINT sl!e could never
faco Lnr former friends nulo5s tho WIS married
by tho ceremony acknowledged by tlom to 10
proper. Aud illus she had 1oroioatIy attempted
To ropnir tho rude shock she fot her moral char
actcr lad received by entertaining the COM
1ulnity Of tho Mormons mud giyir'g l,o,soif .
sacrifice to tho l,lonstro,lS gTiuc OF porganty.