FROM ELDER H 1 Follow lag ia a letter written witten by elderk eldr seph At standing anding our mar byred bother broth brothers ers which his last on oarth earth will bd ba read with interest iQ lerest lorest by his numerous fr friend friends lena lend sprino SPRING PLACE ga 03 july esth 1679 1879 jr yr Z M P backwoods ulah utah dear friend mose yours of the otti just came duly to haud baud was wag phrased to hear fruin you jou ou again 1 think do owe mu me an apology for not nut but ill you it ta in the future you yon are more prompt like you we havo have had a very dry spring anty anil slimmer blimmer the wheal wheat has been threshed thre thie sheu aheu J and averages some 7 8 9 and jo 10 bushe bushels Is per acre aure not many mady howego however r have raised auy mere lucre is not bum suM gurn guin ered to feed the people vye nyo V de depend en more wore on coin thun thuu vai val wheat leat leaf b but bud t it beang so dry but little of this till wili will ba be raised aud mud to me it that at there are hundreds and thou sandIs wao vao will for foo food just think of having tu to eat corn bread and borgum with or water to drine drink foz for a month or oi BO so on a IL stretch vegetables have been beautifully owing to the taik talfe about la Is simply awful yet we have considerable walking to do rudger clawson is my companion for he the prudent pru hent tent he ia Is a nine fine young maii mar lve we have done considerable preaching with sume success laba bight we abil hh da a real teal genuine trea twe visited a house where there Js a piano plano as well as those who play it tula was the first musio I 1 have heard for more than two months mont ilg lis and as such buch pieces aa as sweet hume auld lang byce S yno 11 mocking bird and and aud others equally familiar were played 1 1 tor or a limu limm was ouy to the sweet touts ol 01 the ibe instrument and the ca jong jung jung ago beene seene till that came areah to iny LOY lu emony emory as the familiar aira alra one orie after adother another were played nies dies mart intend to jive in bait salt i lake your ath i of ol july was as void of VI tamire aa as mine we walked four miles and aud the ahn n rested all day the fth h is libl nut much cared for in the i south bouth ve have a peculiar experience while preach ingate thrown among rh all classes of people of whom most moat all are prejudiced how would 3 ou lakeit like it after having preached to have two preachers gut got up and he ile about aboul you and shake their nat dat nearly in your face and that before an audience of peo pit pl I 1 tell i you on the people of today to day me are ketting getting them luem e ive lve a into a horrible state Ther there oare are ate but few tow bonest lonest men iu in the whole laud laiad and when you seak speak of virtuous men they harb hare barb hare fled from the country if our men arid and women were to take une one glance at the condition of laffaira here they ohey would ever after ward close their would the lord that they were baru of 9 blo murmon mormon fulon futon parentage p tren tuge tage 0 course you will giva my nay regards to your wide wife and to my friends when you meet meat them trus trum trusting ting this thia will find you prosper ing I 1 am art joura 3 IDUM as ever jus joa aT standing anding ANDiNo varnell StA whitfield county ga on