Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — NO MORMONS NEED APPLY. [ARTICLE]

NO MORMONS NEED APPLY.

Two Proxetytei-R Tarred and Ifeatl»«red— Four Harried Women Induced to Start for Vtah, For'the past three months a party of six Mormon elders have been prosehing in the vicinity of Calera, Ala., and also at several small towns across the Georgia border. Several converts were made at the latter places, and the indignation and wrath of the people could hardly be suppessed, when, on last Sunday, four married women and two men left their homes and made public their intention of going to Utah. The people then rose up at once, and gave the elders notice to move on instantly. They refused at first, but on Monday night two of them were taken out and tarred and feathered, and the next night two others were chased into the woods by hounds, and kept in the trees all night."~ The elders left the next day, and the converts are now missing, also leaving six forsaken homes. If the elders ever return there they will be shot on sight. The Mormons then moved into Alabama and began*: heir work in the lower part of Shelby county among the ignorant country people. They were more successful there, and have already baptized a dozen or more. On Tuesday, while Elders Mower and Sea were conducting a meeting at a log school bouse, fifty armed men dragged them from the pulpit. They were car ried into the woods, the mob threatening to hang them at every step, but on the intercession of friends they were released on their written promise to leave the county in twenty-four hours. Death was the alternative if they returned. Both left that night, but without their converts, escorted a portion of the way by an armed band of nearly 100. Patrols are on guard, and publicly announce their intention of killing the fiist elder who returns there. A rumor was current that Elder Masters was killeit near the Georgia line by bloodhounds, but it cannot be substantiated.

Possible Betrayal of Stanley. News received by mail from the Congo says that Tippoo Tib failed to keep his promis-t to reinforce the explorer Sianley at Yambuya. Whether his failure was due to treachery, or to the opposition of the neighboring tribes is not known. It is unofficially rumered here that their has been fighting between natives and Stanley’s force, and that the rear guard of the latter has been cut off.

Heavy Verdict for Damages. In the circuit court, at Batavia, N; Y., the widow of John Mullen, late of Stafford, received a verdict of $35,000 against the Erie Railroad company for killing her husband at the Main street crossing inlß an 111 e excursion train. H df h Pope Leo; - • • • The pope, referring to the jubilee gift from tne house of Savoy, is reported to have said: ‘ King Humbert would please me most by restoring me to my city of Rome.