Mormon Elders Tarred and Feathered

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 31 January 1888, Page 3

Mormon Elders Tarred and Feathered

The Calera (Albania) correspondent 1 <e>f the Chicago Times, writing on the 17th November, says : — ." For the r -past three months six Mbrinbri 1 elders have been proselytising in this section, and also at several small towns across the Georgia border. Several converts were made at the, letter placets, aud the indignation and wrath -of the people could hardly be suppressed i yphen on last Sunday four ■, married women and two men left their homes • and made public their intention of going' to Utah. The people then gave : :the elders notice to move on instautly. They refused at first; but on Monday night two of them were taken out and jarred 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 missing also, leaving six forsaken homes. If : the .elders ever retura they will be ! shot at sight. The Mormons began their work in the lower part of this country among the ignorant country people. They were successful there, and baptised a dozen more. On Tuesday, while Elders Mower and Sea were conducting a meeting at a log school-house, fifty armed men dragged them from the pulpit. They were carried into tbe woods, the mob threatening to hang them at evey step; but on the intercession of their friends they were released, on their written promise to leave tbe country in 24 hours. Death was the alternative if they returned. Both left that night, tut without their converts, escorted a portion of the way by an armed band of 100 men. Armed patrols are on guard, and publicly announce their intention of killing the, first elder who returns there." j