The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-11-06
A Triple Wedding.
IN WHICH THERE Is BUT ONE MAN AND
THREE CONCUBINES.

IN WHICH THERE Is BUT ONE MAN AND
THREE CONCUBINEs.
Salt Lake TribuneI
Some years ago Mormonism picked up
a young man IN Australia named John
Miles. He was of pretty good family,
but had been cast off by his father for
his general bad character, and therefore
he found the Sanity doctrines of latter
days agreeable to his grovelling in
stincts. Before leaving Australia, how
ever, he made the acquaintance of a
Miss Owens, and was smitten by her
charms, but she returned to England
and he came to Zion. After reaching
here he wrote her proposing marriage
which proposal she accepted, but he says
he never got that answer. In the course
of few years he had grown far in the
spirit of his holy faith that he was
deemed worthy of bearing the gospel to
the nations of the earth, and was accord
ingly sent abroad some months ago. He
left his home in St. George and went to
England, where he looked up his old
love and renewed his proposal of mar
rtage, which was again accepted, and the
young lady. Miss Owens, returned with
him to Utah with the last batch of Nor
mon pilgrims that came over. On reach
ing this city the two put up with Brother
Angus NJ. Cannon, the brother of the
much married delegate to Congress from
this Territory, but in short time two
other young saintesses put in their APP
pearance from St. George, the home of
Elder Miles, both claiming to be engag-
ed to the gay young Lothario. These
two last named girls are Spencers, and
are sisters.
Miss Owens, it may be imagined, was
somewhat surprised at the turn affairs
had taken, and naturally enough made
inquiry into the matter. Well, 1t was to
be four-handed matrimonial alliance,
and as one of the Spencer sisters was
older than Miss Owens, the latter was to
be the second one named in the contract,
or, in other words, this particular Spen-
Ger girl was to be sealed to Elder Miles
as his queen or his wife. The affair is
set for to-day, and is to be solemnized in
the sink hole of iniquity, called in Latter
Day parlance the Endowment house, and
after the triple marriage is over, the
happy groom and his concubines, that
is, if Miss Owens concludes to go in
second, will repair to Elder CAnnon's
harem, where they will partake of a
marriage feast, to be followed by dance
in the evening. But up to recently
Miss Owens, who is a young lady that is
said to have been well raised, objected
to the nasty performance. The priests,
however, are not idle, in the meantime,
and are using all their power and infu
ence to force her into the harness. And
their power is potent, for Miss Owens is
in Zion" homeless and without friends,
though she has fine musical education,
and this helpless condition is held up to
her as the alternative for refusing to
enter the nasty relation which they are
trying to force upon her. Whether she
will give away before the pressure
brought to bear remains to be seen. But
in the meantime we suggest that the
joint Congressional committee now visit
ing Utah go to the reception of Elder
Cannon's this evening to see the true
inwardness of Zion.
The reception was to have been held
in the Fourteenth ward school house, but
they were afraid the Tribune would get
hold of the nasty affair and give it pub
licity.