Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . to the Supreme Court of the United was necessary to state so much consecutively to make clearwhat must now be set forth more in detail. Chief-Justice Wil-son had already moved in the matter of divesting the ProbateCourts of their excessive jurisdiction, and had instructed theUnited States Marshal to issue his venire for a jury; but JudgeWilson was removed in the summer of 1870, and Hon. JamesB. McKean, of New York, appointed in his stead.
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . to the Supreme Court of the United was necessary to state so much consecutively to make clearwhat must now be set forth more in detail. Chief-Justice Wil-son had already moved in the matter of divesting the ProbateCourts of their excessive jurisdiction, and had instructed theUnited States Marshal to issue his venire for a jury; but JudgeWilson was removed in the summer of 1870, and Hon. JamesB. McKean, of New York, appointed in his stead. The di-vorce business of Utah had meanwhile fallen into horribleanarchy: anybody could procure a divorce for almost anycause, and a certain class of Gentiles had used this privilege toa scandalous extent. A citizen of Corinne, who had beenmarried several years, brought his wifes sister from the Statesto reside with them. A few months after we missed him fromhis usual haunts one fine morning, and found he had gone withwife and sister to Brigham City, the county seat. Judge Smithpromptly called his court and granted our citizen a divorce; he. CANNONS WIVES ON GtTABD. (419;^ 420 POLYGAMY ; OR, THE MYSTERIES took out licence for the sister at once, returned, and marriedher that night. Three months after the new wife became amother, and a few weeks later the brevet wife married the latehusbands partner. Everything was legal, the county financeswere $25 better, and it is presumed everything is lovely in thenew households. I had long been acquainted with a Gentile merchant whosename I one day saw in a legal notice in one of the papers,summoning his wife to appear and show cause why heshould not have a divorce, etc. Calling the same day I wasstill more amazed to see him in the bosom of his family withevery appearance of peace and comfort. On inquiry (for quite intimate), I learned that he left a wife in New Yorkwhen he set out for California in 1849, and. having married aMormo
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