MORMON FLDKRS TARRED AND FEATHERED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1753, 30 January 1888, Page 4

MORMON FLDKRS TARRED AND FEATHERED.

The Oalera (4l«b«m») correspondent of the "Ohlcapo Times'' writing on the j lfth November, lays :— v Fur the past three months six Mormon eldtra have been proselytising m this, section, and alio at several small towns screes the Georgia border; Several convert* were made at the latter place, an 3 the indigna tion and wrath of the people conid hard y be suppressed when on last BaraNy four married wottei and two men left their homes and made pablio their intention of going <o Utah. The peop'a then gave th elders notice to move on instantly. 'Ah y refased at first ; bnt on Monday 1 ight two of them were taken out and tarred and feathered, and the next night two Otheri were chased into the woods by hounds aud kept m the trees all nigh . The elderß left the noxt day, and tne con- ! Terts are now mission »'«o, leavlDg cix forsaken homes If the elders ever roturn they will be shot at sight, Tho Mormons began their work m the lower patt of thil country among the igncrant country Kople. They were successful there, and ptised a dtzji or more. On Tuesday, while Elders Mower and Sea were condnotiag a meeting at a log lohoolhonse, fifty armed men dragged them from the pulpit. They were oarried into the woods, tba mob threatening to hang them at •very atep : bat on the intercession of frlendi they were released on their written promise to leave the ooomry m twentyfour hours Death was the alternative if they relarnod. Both left that night, bat without their converts, escorted a portion of the way by an armed bund of nearly 100 men. Armed patrols are on gaara, and publ'cly announce their intention of killing the first elder who returns there."