Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-24
yftstellaneous,
From Porter's Spirit of the Times.
DEACON JONES UP FOR CUsSIN'.
SHOWING HOW OPINIONS NAY CHANGE.
DY HAZEL GREEN, ESQ.

III HAZEL dRbhH, hSS'
Rap, rap, rap! =
"Coue in, Sister Shaw !"
"No, thank you, Sister Grimes, but
haint got time"
aHaint you? Then I'll go out in the gar
den and pick you bunch"
"Ha, ha, ha! I'll try and call in as l come
back. Was Jest passin,' and thought ia
stop at the door a minute, and sec how you
all come on. Say, Sister Grimes, have you
hear'n the news 2"
"News! no-rhat news 2"
"Why, Deacon Jones has been cussin'.'
"Deacon Jones cussin'! Can't be pos
sibler'
"True, every word ont. Pete French, hc
was comm home from Louisville this NOR
MIN, and Jest as he got to the ford OF the
crici, he seed Deacon Jones thar with bis
wagon stuck fas; in the mud, and nc learn
him cussin' like trooper!
"Sister Shaw, you shock me- Oh, mi
oh! what could got inter the Deacon. u
any one but you'd told me, wouldn't
blieved it. for alters thought Deacon Jones
was stitch dear good old soul"
$50 did l, Sister Grimes, but the old boy
is shure to show his cloyen foot sometimes
He's gone and cussed, certain; for Pete
French hear'n him; and what Pete sez, he'll
stick up to. Somethin' must be did about il
right away, or the Church is ruinated.
And without further parler, Sister Shaw
hurried on to the next door to break the news
to Sister Taylor. Sister Grimes doused
bucket of water into the cooking stove tc
lower the fire, and then tripped across to tel
Sister Elliott and Sister Elliott, and Sister
TAYLOR, and Sister Shaw, and Sister Grimes
they all, by different routes, bent their step
towards the parsonage" each resolved OF
being the first to ilnpart the shocking bit O
intelligence to the minister. They were, evl
IDENTITY, striving for the championship" IL
whom it should have been awarded, know
not, but certain it is, the minister soon re
ceiyed the report from one of them, and err
he had time to make up his mind as to it;
trut'.;nlness the others were at hand to sub
s:antiate it.
Here was an awful state of affairs Wig
eletogn in stir from centre to crcumfer
ence. church disgraced, and deacon who
had been "cussin'" Fortunately the regular
meeting i" in course" was but a few days oil
and at it the piously- disposed portion Of the
populace expected to wipe out the stigma.
For the short space intervening betwoer
the time above mentioned, and the next regu,
lar meeting day. Deacon Jones' "cussln' J
formed the principle topic of conversation II
Wiggletown. The good brothers, after dis,
cussing the matter at length, generally came
to the conclusion. that the morning on which
the great event took place was slightly COO
for the season, in consequence of which th'
Deacon had, probably, taken nip too mucl
whiskey. If that turned out to be the true
state of the case, and Deacon Jones woulc
make due acknowledgements, they telt some
what inclined to forgive HIM, even were i
the ninety and ninth time" The good sis
ters were less charitable, however They
believed it to be a show of the Evil One
cloven foot, and they believed the Evil on'
had always been there. Most of them hao
been noticing the Deacon for long time, an'
though they we're too charitable to expos
him, they had repeatedly seen, to their owl
satisfaction, that something was wrong: Ihej
had withheld any remarks on the subject, il
hopes he would reform; or, at least, they
preferred the Church should find it out through
some other channel.
At length the day of "general meeting
rolled around, and the old church was ram
med and jamned full of spectators, all wait