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A Scene in the Salt Lave Theater.—A correspondent ol *he New York Atlas, who writes dyer the signature of E. P. H., gives the following description of what.ho witnessed in the great Mormok theater at Salt Lake, on the occasion of a lecture by Artemus Ward:In a preoscenium box to the right of the stage, sat the great patriarch. Beside him was his newest wife—Miss Folsom, as her maiden name was, and as it must be now, so far as I can see, considering that Brigham Young has a few more wives, taken at an earlier period. The wife looked pale and sickly. Her and many women-else’s husbands appeared jovial and anything but saintly. To me he seemed to have more of the look of a Fulton market butcher than a modern Moses. His other wives were in the house, but they occupied a huge pen on one side of the parquet, under the dress circle.— They call it the “Corral.” I counted about one Iiondred and thirty-nine of them. Whether Brigham is married to them all I cannot say nor Avould any Mormon tell me. A qucerer-looking lot of ladies I have never seen collected in one group. Brigham has evidently a catholicity of taste in the matter of female-kind. Some of his ladies are, blondes, some brunettes, and some have Andalusian darkness of eyes and haii*. In the matter of noses, the Greek, Roman, snub and celestial are all represented in the features of the distinguished inmates of the prophet’s seraglio. None of the ladies wore expensive dresses, and most of them had “Nubias” wrapped around the head. In the parquet were the families of many of the prominent saints. Heber C. Kimball was there with his fifty or sixty wives, and Orson Hyde with his small family, occupying about seven rows of benches. Every good Mormon had his two or three wives affectionately clustering around him. It was not so in the dress circle, for that was occupied by the Gentile population, including Gen. Connor and the Officers from Camp Douglass. Higher, up, in the third tier, were the “roughs” and the boys. As every respectable Mor- mon has at least a dozen sons, boys were numerous.
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Bedford Independent
Bedford, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 22, 1864
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