The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-11-28
NEWS Faoa mo~mowoon.
From an occasional Correspondent
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 26, 1877.

To the Editor Of The Leader:
The Latter Day Saints predict Il ter
rible famine in this country, and that
very shortly. To provide against this
visitation, the sisters throughout Zion
are storing grain with great assiduity
in every settlement. Why such a work
is left to the women, if the people really
believe in the prophecy of their proph-
cts, is not SO easy a conundrum, and
mi rather inclines to the idea that this
storing of grain against a day Of pre-
dicted famine, is simply q ruse of the
priesthood to fill the church Golfers and
their own pockets. However this may
be, the work of purchasing and storing
grain goes on. Societies of ome are
organized in every part of Utah, and
their reports come up to this date of
Zion showing twenty-five thousand
bushels already stored. The SOOTHING
of the Gentle world has no effect upon
the Saints, who are as Jealous in their
beliefs as their brother churchmen the
Turks.
One of the doctrines which has Il
strong hold upon the Mormon popula-
ton, is by going through the ordinance
of baptism for unregenerate dead. The
unregenerate, though long dead, and
having died in sin, are restored to hap
pines, and will take part in the new
kingdom which is shortly to come upon
the earth. In consequence Of this be-
lief, baptisms are constantly going on,
and families are baptized again and
again, in order to relieve from eternal
misery the generations of the dead and
gone.
Measures have also been taken to
render the acquisition of wives more
easy. President Taylor has done away,
by Il special revelation from heaven,
with the necessity of a journey to the
temple at st. George whenever a new
wife is desired by the brethren, and
now there is no expense attending
this agreeable pastime. There is n gen.
eral rush among the elders and priests
lOI ulOIo CulCuDllcS, anu oS'iihB 6ocS
on with a satisfaction and boldness that
would be the envy of Brigham were he
permitted to see it. 1t looks n little to
an outsider as though the head men of
the church see that there is an end
coming to the monstrosities they are
preaching, and are determined to make
as much hay as possible while the sun
shines. They are mostly well fixed
financially, and if they are not well
fixed matrimonially they do not propose
to let that fault go long unremedied.
Altogether 4 more thoroughly priest
ridden people | have never seen in my
travels, and 1 have seen some parts of
the world where priests were mighty
plenty, too. Missionaries Tor tramps,
as the Tribune of this city calls them)
are sent out almost weekly to every
part of the world, and small bands OF
converts are constantly arriving here, SC
that the church is spreading itself out
northward into Idaho, eastward into
Western Wyoming, and south into Arr.
IONA and New Mexico. Mormonism is
not, therefore, at present in anything
like decaying circumstances, whatever
fate may be in store for it. They fear
nothing but the strong arm of the Gov
eminent. Even that would hardly in
terfere with marriages that have been
already contracted. 1t would almost
do no more than make polygamous
marriages punishable by Imprisonment
in the penitentiory, after the passage OF
the law. And if Congress would pass
such a law, the bottom would fall ont of
the worst feature Of Mormonism. For
no matter how peculiar and seemingly
silly many of their religious views are,
no n would care to interfere with the
holders of such opinions simply on that
account. NERITAs.
After January l the Kansas Pacific
Express company will cease to operate
on the Colorado Central lines, as ex-
press matter from west of Denver, &C.
cording to President Loveland's calcu-
lation, can be placed in Chicago thirty
hours quicker by the proposed combina-
ton, than by the Kansas Pacific and
connections. The gain will be greater
for points between Golden and
Cheyenne.
One of the most wonderful inventions
of the age is Dooley's Yeast Powder.