Letter to Alexander Badlam, 23 August 1849

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Letter to Alexander Badlam, 23 August 1849
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    Copy Cambridgeport, Mass., August 23rd, 1849. Elder Badlam, Dear Brother: We have received two long interesting letters from you, one from Panama and one after you had been in San Francisco about six days; also one from Chagress, making three in all. I have written several to you, which I have sent by private conveyance, in shaips that go around Cape Horn, and sister Badlam has sent several by steamer; but I have not seen any she ...
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    that room no longer without doubling our rent; so we gave it up and have held no meeting in Boston since. I opened my own hired house for meet- ings on Sunday and one evening in the week, which I have kept up to this day, except part of the time on Sunday at brother Bird's. I had full houses and I baptized a dozen or so. One was Mr. Snow and wife, a Uni- versalist, and a keeper of one of the engines; another was Andrew Delin, from
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    time they had arrived at Jefferson City, all the gold diggers, 35, were dead but two; also the captain, mates, two clerks, one engineer, pilot, barkeeper, twelve boat hands, and fifteen of the Saints, including child- ren. The names of the Saints, as far as I can recollect, are as follows: From Philadelphia, Adams (tobacconist), his wife and two daughters, bro. Hand, Bro. Lamb, sister Hampton and part of family, sister Brown. From St. Louis, old mother ...
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    very fatal on the southern plantations; one man, out of forty blacks, lost thirty-nine. Many noted men have fallen this summer by the cholera, among whom are President Polk, General Gains, Worth, Col. Harding, Mrs. Madison. President Taylor has been attacked, but got better. The chol^-^ era is also raging at the present time, through England, Paris, and most of Europe. Many deaths are on most of the emigrant ships ...
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    broke away this spring, and New Orleans has been under water more than a month, and the loss of property been immense. Watertown, New York, is burned up. Also $60,000 worth of Milwa^u^kie is also burned, and large fires in almost every town; many fires in Cambridgeport since you left. I have just returned from a mission of two months in New Brunswick, Mir- amichi, Prince Edward's Island, Nova Scotia, &c ...
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    baptized one of them; the other will be baptized by his father, who is an Elder and presiding over a small branch of the Church, and has a chap- el in his own house. Brother Russell went with me to Prince Edward's Island. We called upon William and John Maxfield; both have large farms, but cannot sell them for anything. John Maxfield's mills have shared the fate of others in that country, been burned to the ground by the sweeping fires; they saved their dwellings. Property in the ...
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    dull. Brother Barnes lost his youngest child of late. Brother Cannon has had a good run of business this season; has moved to Cambridgeport near me. Brother Bird has been dangerously sick for few days, is now getting about again. The wars of Europe are still raging with great fury. The French troops have finally entered Rome. The Hungarian armies are defeating the united armies of Russia and Austria. Fifty-two thousand Jews ...
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    your house through the summer, which makes company for the family while they are alone. When I ask sister Badlam how she gets along, she says, "I have not lacked anything yet, but do not know how long [blank] I think if your circumstances would admit of your making some re[blank] [blank] this fall for their benefit through the winter, it would be well. If their varnish [blank] up and they could find sale for it, they would get along well, but they do [blank] find market for it. [blank] I should like ...
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    to remember you when I go before the Lord. I also wish an interest in your prayers. I have never seen a time in my day when there has been such a flood of prophecy and revelation fulfilling as at the present time. I hope and trust we may live in such a manner as to be prepared for the events which are rolling like a flood upon the earth, and are startling to the nations in very deed. I pray that this sheet may reach you in safety. And that the God of [illegible] ...
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    Aug. 23, 1849 Wilford Woodruff to Alexander Badlam.