Connecticut western news., 1874-04-24
A DIVORCED MORMON WIFE,
Her Description of Life ina Utah--A
 Sketch of the Prophet. -...f,

Her Description of Life ina Utah--A Sketch of the Prophet. -..f,
 Mrs. Ann Eliza, the nineteenth and rebellious wife of Brigham Young, is described as thirty years old, but looks younger; is rather tall, slender, straight, and graceful. A refined, comedy, sad face and tremulous, musi- cal voice. She has none of the prao- ticed archness or coquettish wriggles of the women of Eastern society. Her manner is subdued, ladylike, and very seldom not entirely self-possessed. In her lectures she delivers her words somewhat monotonously, without the enlivenment of infection or gesture, but in an entirely unaffected way. She wears black silk, cut in fashionable style, and her black hair is moderately puffed and frizzled. -n.o
 She told the story of her married life with the Mormon prophet. She was reared in the faith, and was baptized in accordance with its formula at the age of eight, and again at sixteen. The latter preceded the ceremony of initia- tion into the secret mysteries of Mor- monism, rite conducted in temple with grotesque mummeries. In that performance Brigham Young took the part of God, and others personated Christ, Satan, and the Apostles. Ger tain pledges were taken, with barbarous penalties attached if broken, and at the conclusion she was anointed with oil and consecrated. The ceremony ln- volved an oath of hostility to the United States Government, and to avenge the murder of Joseph Smith. When eighteen years old Brigham selected her with others to act as on the stage of his theatre, and they spent their time in study and performance without pay, even finding their own wardrobes. At nineteen she was married to a Nor mon, whose name she did not give, but was his only wife. He treated her lily, and she left him, with her two children, afterward getting divorce. While living with her parents again, Brigham began his courtship, first by securing the active cooperation of her father. The prophet said that he had intended to marry her long before, but Congress had been agitating the question of polygamy, and while delaying on that account she had been taught to revere him, and although the marriage itself was repugnant, she dared not question the magnitude of the proffered honor, nor tell to anybody her dislike of it. She delayed an answer, however, and was not married to Brigham, then over 70 years old, until 1868. The ceremony took place in the sealing room" '" where they were solemnly joined for time and eternity." Then she was sent back to her parents, and did not again see her husband, except for brief for nal call, during a month. After that she lived for year in a cheaply fur nished house, and received scanty ra- tions from Brigham's stores. Next she was sent to take care of one of his farms, four miles out of the city, where the butter and cheese were made fo1 his other wives and their children.
 She was neglected, humiliated, and insulted there for two years. She went to two balls with Brigham, but much to her chagrin another wife was taken along, and from that time she went no where with him.. All this time her faith in Mormonism and its prophet wained, and when he finally drove her mother away she began to hate him. Then she left him and sued for a divorce, which is still delayed. s,il -9 ; .5ai@'ss'E s
 She describes Young personally as tyrannical, parsimonious, and hypo. critical, but under the subjugation 'ot his favorite wife, Amelia, termagant who leads him by the nose at will.