Year: 1872

Certainly didn't, for if man is to be ex-
communicated because he has extensive faml-
ly connections, what would become of brother
in-law Dent and all his brothers.in.law


THE MORMON GIRLS.


A good many people from the cultivated
and refined East who come here to see Nor.
monism and look at it through eyeglasses
from the shady side of some hotel between
drinks, are of the solemn opinion that the
Mormon girls are not pretty; "nothing re-
fined and delicate about them," he says as he
put his eyeglasses in his pocket and adjourns
for another drink.


You can not judge of the Mormon girls by
what you see upon the streets, for they are moi
Of the sort that 60 often shopping, but you
must attend some ball or social gathering
After that you will acknowledge that nearly
all the Mormon girls are good.looking, and
some Of them very pretty. The young ladies
that saw last night will compare we'll with
the same number picked up at random any
where. They are not what you would cal
delicate, and for their own good it is we'll thai
they are not. On the contrary, stoutness il
the rule, and too much delicacy the exception
Their faces are fair but without surface indi
cations of chalk; their cheeks are painted
but it is with the rose tints Of nature; their
hands plump and pretty, but not exquisitely
white and small, like the city belle "who tolls
not, neither does she spin," for the Mormon
girls toll and spin both, and help their sever.
al mothers do the washing and cooking. They
never tight lace, and consequently their waists
are not of the delicate and wasp-like proper
tions of so many of our Eastern girls, who
lace themselves into early graves, but they
are full and rotund just as nature, who gen.
orally knows what she is about, creates them.
And not least important of all, they have the
freshest, fairest, clearest, most healthy COM
plexions I ever saw to the same number.
There is nothing of that muddy, yellow, bill:
lious, unhealthy hue that you see so much Of
in Eastern cities and towns, indicating that a
half dozen diseases are feeding upon the vi
tails. A clear, fresh skin is not an invariable
indication Of health, but it is so near 80, that
an occasional exception only proves the rule,


GOING HOME TO SUPPER.


Economy is an essential and worthy attri.
butte of Mormonism. Their balls are pleas
ant, without being expensive. Their music
costs them nothing. Some venerable elder Of
the church will bring his fiddle, somebody else
another stringed instruments or two, and thus
without expense, they have good music
Neither do they ever dress extravagantly.
doubt if there was young lady present last
night whose outfit cost over eight dollars
Not but what very many of them are able to
dress, but they do not choose to throw their
money away on gewgaws and folderols, in
which respect they are far behind the times
and no doubt need enlightment, so that they
will go shopping every twenty-four hours and
run their several fathers in debt to the verge
of bankruptcy. Now nearly every young lady
present last night belonged to some one of the
first families here (there are first families here
as we'll as numerous ones,) but there was moi
atrail in the house-no great long bolt Of dry
goods to trail around through the dirt and
get stepped on.


"Ball suppers" are different here from ball
suppers usually. There is no extensives spread
but about IL o'clock recess is taken, and the
crowd adjourn to supper, going home to gel
it. This may look like strange custom tc
our Eastern people, but it is adopted to pre-
vent the expense which always attends public
suppers. So a Mormon ball is enjoyable
without being expensive neither the prayers
the music nor the supper costs anything.


TIE MORMON PROBLEM.


By commencing prosecutions against the
Mormons, we have got medium.sized ele-
phant on our hands, and the animal is already
beginning to trouble US.


The course Of Judge Mexican has been that
of an intolerant bigot, so much so that no
Mormon can get justice in his court. To go
into it is to be condemned. Sometimes he
rules that his is Territorial Court, and then
that it is United States Court, and then a
Territorial Court again, jumping from one
Court to the other, and then back again, as it
may seem best to forward the prosecution.


He convicted Thomas Hawkins of commit
ting adultery with his own wife, upon the sole
and uncorroborated evidence of bis own wife,
which was clear violation of the law, as the
wife is never competent witness against the
husband. Thus illegally was Thomas Hawk
ins sentenced to three years. imprisonment and
a fine of five hundred dollars assessed against
him. He prayed an appeal to the Supreme
Court of the Territory, and the fanatical, one
idead Mexican fixed his bail at twenty thous-
and dollars, so as to keep him in prison and
prevent his making bond. It will take all
Of Hawkins property to pay his fine, 50 that
he cannot give such enormous bail. When
the Supreme Court met, Mexican peremptori.
ly adjourned it until June next, as is supposed
to keep his Associate Judges from reversing
the case, which they will be very apt to do, if
they can once get it before them,


But this is not all-indeed, it is but be.
ginning of the arbitrary acts of this unjust
Judge, and only the fact that he is away out
here in the wilds of Utah, and but little
known of his high-handed proceeding, keeps
him in office.


While Hawkins was being tried, Mexican
ruled that his was United States Court, and
upon such ruling Hawkins asked to be allow
ed the ten challenges given by act of Con-
gress. Mexican refused, and gave only the
six allowed by Utah laws, Topping over into
a Territorial Court. After he had resolved
himself into q Territorial Court, Hawkins
asked that the punishment, if any, might be
fixed according to territorial laws. At this
Mexican topped back again, and held that
tho penalty must be meted out under Uni
ted States statute.


In short, this champion topper pursued the
practice ofa Territorial Court when the act Of
Congress would have limited the prosecution /;
of United States Court when the jury was
being selected of a Territorial Court when
the jury was being challenged, and Of a Uni
ted States Court when the jury might, under
territorial law, have been more lenient in pre-
scribing punishment. He was first one kind
of Court, and then another, being anything
and everything to secure the conviction Of