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Identifier: pacifictourist1876will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library
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poison,upon the price of real estate, upon teething inchildren, upon the martyrs and persecutions ofthe Church, terrible denunciations of Gentilesand the enemies of the Mormons, upon olive oilas a cure for measles, upon the ordination of thepriesthood, upon the character of Melchisedec,upon worms in dried peaches, upon abstinencefrom plug tobacco, upon the crime of foeticide,upon chignons, twenty-five-yard dresses, uponplural marriages, etc. Portions of this are doubtless the extrava-gance of humor, yet it is true every possiblething, secular or spiritual, is discussed from thepulpit which the president thinks necessary forthe instruction of the flock. We attended per-sonally one Sunday a Sunday-school celebrationin the Tabernacle, where the exercises were en-livened with a spirited delivery of Marco Boz-arris, Gay Youfg Lochinvar, the singing of Home, Sweet Home, and the gallery frontswere decorated with gay mottoes, of which thereshone in great prominence, Utahs best crop,children.
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REPRESENTATIVE MORMONS. 1.-W. Woodruff. 2.-John Taylor 3-Mayor Daniel H. Wells. 4.-W. H. Hooper. 5.-President Brigham Young. (..-Orson Pratt. 7.-John Sharp. 8.-George Q. Cannon. 9.-Orson Hyde. The city Mormons are fond of the theater anddancing, and as their president is both the ownerof the theater and its largest patron, the Saintsconsider his example highly judicious and ex-emplary, so the theater is crowded on all occa-sions. We were present, on one occasion, in 1869,when we witnessed over thirty of the children ofone of the ^Mormons sitting in a row in thedress circle, and the private boxes filled with hiswives. The most striking event of the eveningwas when one of the theatrical performers sungthis ditty: If Jim Fisks rat-and-tan, should have a bull-dog pup.Do you think Louis Napoleon would try to bring him up ? This elicited tremendous applause, and the per-formers, much to their own laughter and aston-ishment, had to repeat it. A few years afterward, in witnessing a largebody