Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-13

with Elder o. E. Cleveland, whose Couf-
teous hospitality we here acknowledge,
about Mormonism in this section He sad
| about SIX years ago a Mormon missionary
named Lewis, came along and stopped
while at New Hope He preached, but
with no immediate results. He was fol
lowed by Elder Peck, but none joined under
his ministry. Tuen Mrs Randall, Il lady
from this county, went West and while
out there Joined the M)rmons and went to
| Utah. When She came buck here she took
out with her a daughter of Mr.. Henry
Eakle, who afterwards married there. Ell
Hultz came along here in 1871. He (said
the elder, baptized me and two or three
Others Then came Elder White ana bap-
tiled young Bowman in Rocking CHAM. I
went out to Utah, and when I came back
| baptized my son and his wife. Isaac
Kaufman then went out there Six
months after | returned from Utah, wrote
letter withdrawing from the Brighamite
Church, but never got an answer. Six of
those from this section, who joined the
Brighamites there, have Withdrawn and
Jos. Flory and his wife, who went out
to Utah, have returned TO Missouri. When
Elder Hultz, Of the Brighamite sect, went,
III 1872, to Rockingham to baptize brother
| Bowman they mobbed him.
Young Mr.. Cleveland-They tarred him,
didn't they?
Elder Cleveand-They had something
in boJtle and put it on him. And they
got hold OF me AMI Shook me right smartly,
| but didn't mind it. The Commonwealth
Attorney sent for me to give information
Afterwards, but / didn't want to hurt them
and [ didn't take any notice of it. Here
the kind hearted old gentleman, WHO'S over
six feet high and looks as if he would g
hard to handle, laughed in kindly way
over the recollection Of it. You see they
wanted Hultz to say whether he was i'll
favor of Polygamy OF not, nut he knew
What WAS coming if he said he was, and he
wouldn't say ANYTHING, so they just hustled
| hin around anyhow.
| In the afternoon we took leave OF our
kind host and Of Elder Smith, who sa d lie
wanted q fair report of it, and that WAS
all he did want. About the fairest thing
we can say for him is that he seems to be
ldplttiy uiilplilS blG WOIh lOlt LII LIllS
county by the Brghamite missionaries.
He said that next Sunday memorial SER
vices would be held there in memory Of two
! of Elder Cleyelands sons who have died.
! AS we drove off we asked Il worldly young
| man in the buggy with us what he thought
( Of Norm ,nism, and which was best, Poly
gamy OF Monogamy. He stop ed lighting
t,,r
of your conundrums.' - 1t wasn't the right
answer, but it put an end TO the cow rsa-
ton. We are certainly orthodox and oily
gamy is assuredly heretical but the picture
OF two or three dozen wives combining to
feed and clothe an affectionate husband,
and Oh Sunday mornings scrambling for
who shall first put missing button on the
| loved ones shirt is beatific vision well
calculated to weaken the best of us. Lead
US not into temptation
| CHARGE OF THEFT.-On Tuesday morn
ing Taylor Jefferson, Il well known coored
man, was arraigned before Justice X err
upon the charge Of stealing from Wyatt
! Smith, another we'll k own colored man, a
| tin box containing about 81 s on Sat
urday last. Mrs. Serena Harris, the
sister Of Smith, testified to Jefferson
having come into the store where she is a
/ clerk, and romping with her with live
rabbit just after she locked the money-bo
She went up stairs and Jefferson also came
there, but she drove him off. He went
down, and when she came down the money
box was gone Ida Myers, another clerk,
| testified that she went down stairs, but not
into the store while the other girl was
up stairs, but was just outside of the store.
Jefferson Went in through the store search
ing for Susan When he left he bad some
thing under his coat. A servant girl also
! testified to Jefferson passing through the
store, aud When he came out having ''some-
thing under his coat" All the witnesses
agreed that Jefferson was in the habit of
coming there frequently in a playful way.
One witness for the defense proved that two
of the witnesses were mistaken in the d.
| rection which they said Jefferson took when
he left the store. Messrs. John w. Abby
and A. Lynn were sworn by the defense,
and testified that they had known Jeffer-
son for fifteen or twenty years, and had
never heard his character for honesty ques-
toned. The Commonwealth Attorney
appeared in the case, and the defence Was
represented by Mr.. Meade F. White. JUS
tlce Kerr sent the prisoner on, taking bail
in the sum of 5000, which was readily given,
and Jefferson was released. A very large
crowd OF coIored people, interested on ac-
count of the prominent standing of the
accused, gathered around the Police Office
awaiting the result.
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