Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — Brigham Young’s Old Age. [ARTICLE]

Brigham Young’s Old Age.

Age and persecution are gradually souring the mild and gentle temper of Brigham Young, of Salt Lake City.— Instead of mellowing it, they are ruining it. Adversity is not softening his views of life, nor reducing the asperity of his language. Perhaps itis Ann. Eliza who has done this; perhaps it is the ladies of the harem. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, a disagreeable scene occurred not long since. One of the prophet’s many sons, President of the order of Ensch, and a vagabond of spendthrift reputation, ran short of money and called on the old gentleman to give him some Brigham referred young hopeful to George A. Smith, trustee-in-trust of the church. Smith gave the younger Young a piece of his mind, called him a spendthrift, a squanderer, a vagabond, and wound up by telling him that the treasury of Jesus would never furnish him a penny. According to the Tribune, Brigham threw his hat in Smith’s face “Take that d—n you,” said the prophet“things have come to a pretty pass when my sons cannot get the money I earned.” The hat was r(stored to him, and the old gentleman’s ire was soothed with a check given to the young one. The same paper charges Brigham with confining his aged wife, his only lawful one, in an old school-house behind tho seraglio, and slowly starving her to death. Take it altogether, Mr. Young must be getting to be be a very disagreeable sort of a preph et.