| 499 Resolved, That the editor of the Times and Seasons, printed at Nauvoo, be requested to publish the above, and that the High Council of Zarahemla disfellowship all persons in this church who now do, or may hereafter keep a tippling shop, or shops.
John Patten Clerk, pro tem.
The Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the city of New York, having convened at the usual place of meeting on the 15th day of April 1841, agreeably to previous appointment, for the purpose of being more perfectly organized as a branch, and for other purposes. Elder George W. Harris of Nauvoo being chairman and L. R. Foster secretary; unanimously made choice of L. R. Foster to be the president of the branch, Addison Everett and George Holmes to be councillors [councilors] of the president, John M. Bernhisel to be the bishop, and Richard Burgde and William Acker to be councillors [councilors] of the bishop.
These six having been thus chosen were ordained and set apart to these several offices under the direction of Elder Harris, he having been specially appointed and authorized by President Hyrum Smith, at the Philadelphia conference to organize more perfectly, the branch in New York.
After remarks by the chairman upon the duties of those who had been ordained and set apart as above stated, the revelation of January 19th, 1841, was read, which relates to the building of the temple at Nauvoo, and the "Nauvoo House," &c., after which, consecrations to aid in building the temple were received.
G. W. Harris, Chairman.
L. R. Foster, Secretary.
From the Age.
A Tale Founded On Fact.
Twas a dark and rainy night in the gloomy month of November; the clock had struck the dreary hour of midnight, the citizen had retired to his rest, and naught was heard save the solitary cry and heavy step of the watchman, as he paced his way around his accustomed beat; when Doctor D- was aroused from his slumbers, by a loud and continued knock at his door. Upon enquiring [inquiring] the cause, he was requested to hasten with all possible speed to a distant part of the city, to render professional aid. The doctor, always remarkable for his kind attendance on the poor or distressed, needed not a repetition of the request, but immediately prepared to obey the summons.
After following his guide through several streets, they arrived at a more thinly settled part. Proceeding with much difficulty on account of the mire, they came to a neat, one-story weather-boarded house, which the guide indicated to be the place where his services were required, by scraping off the mud which had clogged his feet, at a kind of scraper attached to the porch: the door being opened, they entered a small, though neat and pleasant room, better furnished than is generally the case with houses in the suburbs or our larger towns, and much better than the doctor could have expected from the appearance of the few straggling tenements situated at intervening distances around it, and the manner in which they are generally filled.
Near the centre [center] of the room, which was occupied by a few of the neighbours [neighbors] who had called to render any assistance in their power, or do any little turn that might be necessary, was a stove, through the small door of which might be seen a small fire burning within. After having laid aside his cloak, and somewhat dried himself, the doctor retired into the adjoining room, to ascertain what had been the cause of his disturbance at so late an hour of the night, or rather so early an hour in the morning: there stretched upon a bed, lay a young man, apparently about twenty-eight years of age, insensible to all surrounding objects, his face flushed and swollen, his breath difficult and stentorous [strenuous], the temporal and carotid arteries swollen, and beating with such force as though the crimson fluid contained within them, determined no longer to brook restraint, would burst the wounds of the thin vessels in which it was confined; the pulse was slow, but full and hard; through the half-closed eyelids, the white of his eyes were alone discernible, the eyeballs being rolled upwards and fixed, the pupil was dilated and immovable, unaffected even by the light of the candle, when permitted to shine with full force upon what is one of the most sensible structures in the whole human system.
Around the bed stood a few of his relations, whose countenances betokened sadness, and whose brows were heavy with sorrow; among them, were men
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