Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-05-05

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machine, give him back his niggers.
| Make things Normal again. Like John the
/ Baptist, the Government shall hear the voice NV
one howlin in the wilderness until all these is
done. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Lait Pastor NV the Church of the Moo Dispen-
sashun.
| LuprcRous IScIDENT.-At a certain cross roads
in the State of Alabama stood small grocery
or I" whiskey shop" previous to the rebellion,
where "bust head" and chain-lightning y
were dealt out to the thirsty unwashed, at the
small sum of FIVE cents drink, or twenty cents
quart. The presiding genius of this delectable
place was one Bill Skies, who among various
pets had domesticated crow, black as the ace
of spades. This crow had learned, among other
things, to repeat quite plainly the words " damn
YOU, and which, of course, he had heard used
quite frequently in the groggery.
During the prevalence of knock-down and
drag-out fight one day, however, the crow was
frightened from his home, and few off into the
woods never to return.
About three miles from this grocery was
settlement meeting house-an old tumble-down,
diapidated affair, only used on certain occasions,
when a circuit rider happened to pass that way.
Into this building went the crow taking peacea-
BILE possession and two days thereafter the
church was thrown open for preaching, large
crowd assembled, among whom was very old
lduyj WuO tOOh ueI scat III tue wont ISW, anu
was deeply absorbed in the elogucnce of the
preacher. The reverend gent e,nan had scarcely
got underfull headway, and commenced thunder
ing his anathemas atall grades of sinners, when
a hoarse croaking voice from above uttered the
ominous words
q Damn you ~
This preacher and congregation looked aghast
at such profanity, and each peered into his
neighbor's face in vain to detect some sign of
,,uilt Ou;a or of
and the sermon proceeded, but ere ten minutes
had elapsed, the omnous '' damn you f." again
electrified the audience and just as the preacher
cast his eye upward to search for the delinquent,
the crow flew from his perch, and lighting on
the Bible, calmly surveyed the terrified crowd,
as he gave another doleful croak-
"Damn you ~
The effect was electrical Giving one startled
and terrified glance at the intruder the preacher
sprang through window, carrying sash, glass
and all with him, and set off at a breakneck
pace through the woods, closely followed by his
horror stricken congregation, who had piled out
of the building pell nell after him. In the
general scramble the old lady with the crutches
had been knocked down in the church, where
she lay, unable to rise and on observing her,
the crow (who was after something to eat) flew
down beside her, and cooking up his eye at her
very knowingly, again crooked
&C Damn you u
The old lady eyed him savagely for a few mo-
ments, and then burst forth in tone of reckless
defiance
'Yes-and damn you, too had nothing to
do with getting up this Methodist meeting, and
you know it. too -
The poor old soul had taken the crow for
embodiment of the devil, and concluded to pro-
ptiate, if possible, the wrath of his Satanic
majesty, by denying all completely in the affair.
The world is full of just such people