Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-07-02


ripping up her bowels. Meantime Bill had
been looking on, quietly resting on his rife
When the beast was dead, and Joe had re-
covered breath somewhat, he noticed the calm
ness of Bill.
'sWhy, Bill! why the devil didn't you
shoot the varment, when you seed her doin'
me SOP" inquired he.
HumI" says Bill "Very good reason
whyl Didn't you tell me, t'other day, if I
ever mixed in a fight of yourn agin, when you
was getten the best of it that you'd lick me,
say? II I'd seed the panther have you
down, and putin it into you, I'd shot him !;
but long as 1 seed you was gitten the best Of
it, wouldn't touched him for half of Craw-
ford county, d-d if wouldr'
OF course Joe saw that Bill was right, so
he patched up his scratches and said no more
aboutit
A Great bunker Meeting
A MONSTER meeting of the sect called Dun
llers, or Tunlers, has just been held near the
village of BrooIville some ten miles from this
city. From all parts of tie United States, ex-
cept the rebellious ones, representatives are
present, making an assemblage of several
thousand persons. For weeks past they have
been gathering in from every direction by pri--
vate and public conveyanoes in such crowds
as to impress the loozer-on that the world
had been suddenly converted to Dunkerism.
Yesterday I visited the Conference'-as
they called their present meeting, which is
held septenniaIly-and was much interested
in what saw and heard. An immense tent,
capable OF seating two thousand Dunkers, but
not more than half that number Of persons
dressed in the prevailing style, is the princi-
pal preaching place The tent is divided by a
cloth partition in the middle, so that two ser
vices can be held at the same time. When
I reached the ground, two of the brethren
were holding forth in the tent one in a large
barn hard by, and another in an orchard. One
or two Of the preachers that listened to,
seemed to be intelligent men, and discoursed
as orthodoxy as need be-others were desti-
tute, apparently, ofevery qualification for the
ministry, except zeal and good lungs. They
all practice ;hat aboninabIe sing song which
was formerly in vogue among the hard-shell
Baptists; and in addition to that they have
the equally disagrecable
" Nasal twang,
That spoiled the Pszlms when CromweIrs army
sang"
was struck, however, with their great IA
miliarity with the Scriptures, which they
quote more than any preachers I ever heard,
and in that respect are worthy Of imitation.
In tloetrire5 the Dunllers are rather Arme-
man than Calvinistic, I inferred from their dis
courses, though some of them, it is said, reject
the doctrine of eternal punishment Upon
the whole, they seem to be a very earnest,
pious, and exemplary people, of exceedingly
strict morals and temperate habits-abstemi-
BUSINESS being, if mistake not, part of their
religion. I Judged so at least from the dinner
to which I saw twelve hundred of them sit
down together and which consisted Of boiled
beef. bread and butter, and cucumber pickles
At the dinner, by the way, the men and
women sit apart, being divided by the cloth
partition stretched across the middle of the
great tent, which answers the purpose of a
dining-hall as well as a chapeL-Dayton Cor.
Of ". C. AdUoeats.