Trouble seems likely to arise between the United States revenue officers and the Mormons owing to the many efforts of the latter to evade paying taxes. A majority of the houses at Salt Lake have been consecrated for "religious purposes," and the theatre, though it has long been in use, has been purposely left "unfinished.*' It seems that.Brigham Young is becoming sarcastic. He proposes to limit himself to one woman if every member of Congress will do the same. The Mastership of the Mint, ifc is now said, will be conferred on Professor W. A. Millar, M.D., of King's College, the eminent chemist. Pere Hyacinthe arrived at New York on October 18, and quietly took up his abode at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Grant has denied the truth of the report that he had had an interview with an agent of Messrs Rothschild, relative to the contraction of a loan for. the redemption of the public debt ojf the United States.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 621, 11 January 1870, Page 2
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