<​Frida[y] April 14​> rode out to my & to the Prairie, with some of the Emigants: & sold 20 acres of land & returned. & when I was again riding out in the evening, broke the Carriage on the side hill, when we all returned home on foot.

The Natchez Free Trader I give the following speech entire, as copied from the National Intelligencer, as a specimen of the way the seed of Joseph are being “wasted before the Gentiles.” Speech of Col Cobb (T&S. 205 <​copy​>) your side—

<​15​> Attended Court Martial which was held at my house

In the evening rode out in my carriage with .

<​A is (held at Vinalhaven, Maine <​Fox Islands, Maine,​> when 4 consisting of 128 members, 4 , 5 , 6 & 3 are represented quite a number have been recently .​>

<​Sunday 16​> Meeting at the at 10 a m I read s letter to the of the Times & Seasons concerning the death of <​who died in 20 Decr. 1842—​> & remarked that I read it, because it was so appropriate to all who had died in the faith.

Almost all (copy it (pages 22 & 23)

I received a letter from the Post Office, of which the following is a copy

(see Journal 82) [blank]

I insert this letter in the history to shew <​a specimen of​> the many despisable falsehoods; resorted to by the enemies of truth to disturb me & my friends.

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<​17​> Rain last night, green grass begins to appear.

Walked out in the with , visited , & gave him some instructions about the letter purporting to come from the Attorney General [Hugh] Legare;— also called on in relation to the house he lived in, above the old buryng ground— returned home & conversed with <​Elder​> . Received from 50 Gold Sovereigns from for the & ; also received £87 from the English Brethren, for Land— at 5½ p.m. called at the for a short time, when I returned home & listened to the reading of a synopsis of my sermon of last Sabbath—

Advices from Guadaloupe, state, that up to the 25 March, 4500 bodies had been dug out of the ruins of Pointe-a-Pitne & 2,200 of the wounded <​by the late, Earthquake​> were in the hospital at Basseterre; & that five other shocks have been subsequently felt.

Elder E[dward] M. Webb he writes, that he has been laboring with success in several counties in , & when he came to comstock in Kalamazoo Co., Dr. was there lecturing, <​in Kalamazoo, the Shire town; who​> & when he <​who​> was told that there was a Mormon Elder in the Town, <​neighborhood,​> he <​​> said, “that is one of Jo. Smith’s 500 destroying angels, who is come to kill me ”& he left in such haste, that he forgot to pay his tavern bill, & as also the poor Presbyterians for lighting & warming the house for him— Elder Webb commenced preaching there, 24, & organized a at <​in​> Kalamazoo there

100 barrels or 10,000 lbs of Gunpowder, are deposited in 15 separate chambers, & simultaneously fired, with complete success in the Abbotts Cliff, Dover, England. [p. 21]