The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-12-14
An Old Story.


pine in South Carolina, he announced
another appointment for preaching in the
same places on that day twelve months
The year passed, and as Lorenzo was
entering the neighborhood, he overlook
eolored boy who was blowing long
tin horn, and could send out blast
with rise and swell and cadence, which
walked the echoes of the distant hills
Calling aside the blower, Dow said to
him:
"What is your name, sir ?"
"My name? Gabriel, ,sir," replied the
brother in ebony
"Well, Gabriel, have you been to
Church Hill p
20 yes, massu, Use been dar a many
q time"
'Do you remember big spruce tree
on that hill?'
go yes, massa, | knows dat pine"
"Did you know that Lorenzo Dow had
an appointment to preach under that
tree tomorrow"
30 yes, massa, everybody knows dat." ;"
swell, Gabriel, l am Lorenzo Dow,
and if you'll take your horn and go to-
morrow morning and climb into that
pine tree and hide among the branches
before the people begin to gather, and
wait there until call YOU by your name,
and then blow such blast with your
horn as heard you blow a minute ago,
I'll give you dollar. Will you do it,
Gabriel"
"Yes, massa, takes dat dollar"
Gabriel, like Zaccheus, was hid away
In the tree top in fine time. An immense
concourse, of all sizes and colors, assem-
bled at the appointed hour, and Dow
preached on the judgment of the last
day. BY his power of description he
wrought the multitude up to the opening
scenes of the resurrection, of the grand
assize, at the call of the trumpet peals of
the nations. "Then," said he, suppose,
my friends, that we should hear at this
moment the sound of Gabriel's trumpet" !"
Sure enough, at that moment the trum-
pet of Gabriel sounded. The women
shriekcd, and many tainted; the men
sprung up and looked aghast; some ran,
others fell and called for mercy, and all
felt for time that the judgment was set
and the books were opened Dow stood
and watched the driving storm till the
flight abated, and some one discovered
the colorcd angel who had caused the
alarm quietly perched on the limb of the
spruce, and wanted to get him down and
whip him, and then resumed his theme,
saying: Il forbid all persons touching
that boy up there. If a colored boy with
tin horn can frighten you almost out
of your wits, what will you do when ye
shall hear the trumpet of the'arch angel
How will sc be able 10 stand in the great
day of the wrath of GodS" He made
avery affecting application.
Indiana DiyOl Ces.
The New Albany, (Ind. Commercial
says: Various and Internally mean are
the subterfuges often resorted to by The
parties desiring to be rid of matrimon
ial fetters. We have heard of a case il
Illustrative of this statement that occurrco
not many years ago in this county A
widow woman held property which sh'
might transfer while she renamed single
but which; according to her husbands
will, she could not dispose of it sh'
married again while in q state of cover
ture. Well, she did marry a secont
time, and in the course of time, she dc
sired to transfer The property left her b,
her first husband. Tins, of course, sll
could not do, the provision of her frs
husbands will prohibiting her. Her
was a quandary. a lawyer of this cit.
was consulted. He set things up" fo
the, wife and her husband. She wen
home, told her husband what advice tn
lawyer had given her, and he thought
'.just the very thing" And what, read
er, do you suppose that advice was 2
Simply this: The husband and wife wcr
to quarrel every day, and this was to b
done in the presence of the children
the wife, who were well grown, and the
were to be made believe that the quar-
reling and fighting was genuine, instea
of feigned. The programme was carrie
ont to the letter, and then the husban
applied for divorce He set forth sir
compatibility" in his complaint, the vii
admitted it, and the children swore to i
Judge Bickncll granted the divorce. Th
same day she transferred the propcrt
as she had desired to do, and the nc>
day the divorced couple were rcmarricc
Such is one of the phases of the divorc
practice.