Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
2Nov 25 [FIGURES] Thanks Giving Day I received 5 Letters from J G Bleak 2 Phebe
and Robert Scholes, G Teasdale ^I wrote to J G Bleak^ we have had quite a snow storm
Endowments Given to day & quite a number of young folkspeople Married
[FIGURE] My son James has his youngest child buried to day at 2 oclock
Bulah returns home in the evening I heard a Letter read from
James Blackburn a Missionary at Michigan giving an account
of the persecution He was Meeting with theirre, they were Driven from
place to place, He also related a most Horrible circumstance He
[FIGURES] had recieved a letter from B Palmer of Cleaveland
Ohio saying that the water Reservoir of that city had become
so foul they could not Drink it and they Dreaned [drained] it off
and found in the bottom of it 700 Dead Infants all probably
Begotten out of wedlock, How long can a Nation stand with
such corruption in one city, Not ownly evidence of 700 cases of
whoredom, but of 700 cases of Murder in one city and the inhabitants
drinking the water from their Dead Bodies. I went to the farm 6 M[iles]
