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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ns, as well as menengaged in the liberal professions, among its members ;how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erectedthere at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and atown built at Kirkland ; how Smith became an enterprisingbanker, and received from a simple mummy showman apapyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famousEgyptians. The Elders story became somewhat wearisome, and hisaudience grew gradually less, until it was reduced to twentypassengers. But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, whoproceeded with the story of Joseph Smiths bankruptcy in1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tarand feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards,more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence,Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousanddisciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, andretirement into the far West. Ten hearers only were now left, among them honestPassepartout, who was listening with all his ears. Thus he
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A^D TOTJ, MT rAiinrn Tm^yn (Page 22 AROUND THE WORLD IX EIGHTY DAYS. 225 learned that, after loiifj persecutions, Smith reappeared inIllinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, onthe Mississippi, numbering twent)-five thousand souls, ofwhich he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief;that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for thePresidency of the United States ; and that finally, beingdrawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown intoprison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in masks. Passepartout was now the only person left in the car, andthe Elder, looking him full In the face, reminded him that,two years after the assassination of Joseph Smith, theinspired prophet, Brigham Young, his successor, left Nauvoofor the banks of the Great Salt Lake^ where, in the midstof that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrantswho crossed Utah on their way to California, the newcolony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the iNIormons,had flou

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