The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-04-03

of them now sec is Il fatally compro-
missed position.
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An Enumeration of the Contestants OF
the Prophets Will.
Commenting upon proceedings late
~ instituted 10 contest the will Of
brigham Young, the New York Times
thus presents the difficulties III the
way of managing the case from tho
number Of persons interested and the
impossibilty Of discovering what
money was the Prophets and what
belonged to the Church. 1t says:
SO implicit was the confidence TO
posed in the Prophet that the revenues
Of the Church and community over
which he ruled were held by him rs if
they were his own. If there Wns any
check Oh his disposal of these revenues
it was only nominal. II there was
any separation of his personal income
from the income Of the Church and
community, no outsider ever knew it.
Practically, his income was whatever
ne chose to make it, inside ofthc amount
which could be collected in tithcs,
was no Board Of Audit over the
Prophet. When he died, he left by
will the bulk of his property TO the
Mormon Church. tie only exception
being in the provision made for q few
file of his vast family were left unpro-
provided for. Naturally they do not
like it. :.
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perceive how intricate and interesting
a lawsuit must arise from any attempt
Of the lawful heirs Of Brigham Young's
how many wiyes this man .had. The
fully married, according to Mormon
after all, SO large a company OF wives
credited him. These wives bore him
many children, some eight, some six,
and some only one or two. Allowing
all average of only five children to
each wife, Young would have been
the father Of 125 children. 1t is adj
mittcd that he could not have known
how many children had right to call
him father. AS his first children were
born before 1884, he had many grand
children, and for aught we know to
were born unto him. Then, again,
his sons contracted plural marriages,
and these plural marriages, and mar
marriages with women already having
NUMEROUS divorces and separations,
M 70 1,n Df ho;
ship beyond all possible unravcling.
band and a'tathcr before he was a Nor
ricd 10 Brigham in Ohio, in 1884, sur
The surviving children and grand
children of the first and original (but
dcccascd) Mrs. Young entered polyga-
N.Y.. and these add peculiar clement
to the legal contest which is said to
heirs is that made up Of the offspring
of the so-callcd spiritual" marriages
contracted by, the Prophet. 1t is said
that no record was ever kept Of these
contracts. The women were "sealcd"
to Young, that is, they were tigura-
lively marked as wives who were to
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future world. Whatever may be said
Of the legality Of Mormon plural mar
riages, children born Of these "scaled"
wives are clearly illcgitimate. Never
theless, they have rights as heirs. The
oldest Mrs. Young now living has q
lawful (Gentile) right to widows
third.
AN INTERESTING TRIAL.-Military
interest will bc directed to the Hazcn-
Stanley court-martial carly this
month. The. court will be COM
posed Of Generals Hancock, .Popc,
, Marcy, Augur; Coloncls Vogdes,
King, jeff. G. Davis" and Gricrson,
Both Hazcn and Stanley will be ar
raigncd upon charges presented
against each other. Hazen is charged
with cowardice and fa1sohood; Stanley
will have to answer for alleged false.
hood and conduct unbccoming a gen.
tlcman. No such,bitter army quarrel
has been known for many years.