| 199 and father, all of whom were present, at seeing one so dear to them so marvelously saved from the jaws of death; all can imagine it.
The following being Sunday, he was in the house of prayer, telling the Saints of the Spring Creek Branch how wondrously the Lord had wrought with him, which moved others to prayer and praise, by which they enjoyed a time long to be remembered.
About two hours passed from the time of the terrible accident to his being seated at the table. The gash over his eyes was drawn together and some sticking-plaster applied, and it healed without the least matteration; and, at this date, the scar is only visible by close inspection. He experienced weakness but for a few days, after which he turned his attention to his labor, and has been as healthy and robust as ever.
JAS. CAFFALL.
WM. CHAMBERS, }
LOUISA M. CHAMBERS, }
MARY N. CHAMBERS, } Witnesses.
JOHN CHAMBERS, }
DAVID CHAMBERS, SR., }
JONATHAN McKEE, }
UNIONBURG, Iowa, December 11, 1877.
-The Saints' Herald, vol. 25, p. 36.
The Herald for October 15 published the following items from Utah:
Jeter Clinton was held under ten thousand dollars bail to appear for trial on charge of participating in the massacre of the Morrisites; R. T. Burton for fifteen thousand dollars, and Jacob Hoffman for ten thousand dollars. . . .
Bro. Thomas Dobson has a challenge in the Freeman to the editor of the Ogden Junction, who, he says, proposes to discuss any points of difference now that he knows that the missionaries of the Reorganized Church are not there, such as he did not when those missionaries publicly challenged O. Pratt for a discussion on those points, or others who might be put to represent the Utah church on them.
The notorious Porter Rockwell was arrested at Salt Lake City, September 29, on a charge of murder in the first degree, name of one killed not given.
Four hundred and four divorces granted in the Salt Lake County probate court the past year, so says the Salt Lake Tribune, and it is charged that they were all illegally given.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 24, p. 315.
Commencing on October 15, 1877, there was a discussion which lasted several days held near New Jefferson, Greene County, Iowa, between Elder Joseph R. Lambert and an Advent Christian minister by the name of P. F. Willoughby. Of this debate Elder Lambert wrote on October 27:
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