Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-29

Young Robertson received his acaa
emical education at the Argyle aoad
emy of this place, graduated at Union
college, in this state, and received hif
license to preach at Xenia, O., unde,
the tutelage of his reverend father in.
law and associates. He was never,
that We ever heard of, noted for any
great degree of scholarship, but, hav.
ing very retentive memory, and DOS
sessing good voice and y good nd.
dress, he always shone us declaimor,
and in this WY managed to glide
along through his various curriculums,
and to come out preacher of oonsid.
erable note. Throughout his whole
life he has been distinguished and
known as
HYPOCRITICAL PRETENDER
to Piety aud religion, particularly by
those most intimately acquainted with
him, we'll calculated, however, to de-
ceive old deacons and deaconesses, az.
suming in the pulpit the piety of q
saint, but conducting himself out oi 1t
with the license Of Don Juan. Frivol-
ity, jesting, drunkenness, if not licen-
tiousness, have been his prevailing and
besetting sins. His first ministerial
settlement was in this county and state,
and rumor has it TINT when installed in
his first charge, he was compelled to
steady himself by holding on to the
railing of the altar; and after remain
ing a year or two at this, his first charge.
was called to the city of Troy, in
this state; but before going,
a committee of gentlemen
from the Troy congregation.
not known to him, as they supposed,
took seats in his church ut some even.
ing service, with a view to test his
talents as a sermonjzer, and to report
to their congregation the result. But
they had not come unheralded, and
Robertson, it is said, surpassed him
self upon this occasion SO much that
the enthusiasm OF his OWN congregation
was heightened in the same propor-
tion as the Troy congregation was stimu-
lated by the committees report, and
the sequel of the matter was that Mr..
II. left his country congregation for
the city; but rumor says again that
the reverend gentleman, upon the oc.
casion of preaching before the said
committee, and when passing out of
the church, whispered to one of his
irreverent hearers "that he hoped
THE D-D FOOLS WE'RE NOW SATISFIED"
At Troy, Mr.. Il. managed to sustain
himself as a sermonizer and preacher
for year or two, when he was sent, or
permitted, to 60 south for time as
chaplain, where, rumor says, he enjoy.
ed good time among the boys card
playing, drinking, and carousinR to
sueh an extent that, when be returned
to his charge in Troy again, his habits
of drinking became permanent, and he
was compelled to leave tho congreQa.
tion under q thick cloud of obloouv
and disgrace. After this our clerey-
man doatod around loose for u year or
two, sometimes IN the east and then in
the west, and We hear of him supply.
ing pulpit in Sandwich, ILL.,, for o
year, and then going to Springfield, the
capital of the state, and while there
receiving pressing calls from st. Louis
and louisville, the latter of which he
accepts; leaving Springfield, however,
in disgrace, as stated by you. SO much
for the gentleman's antecedents. Now
for some facts subsequent to leaving
Louisville, as repeated in your columns.
WHERE HE WENT FROM LouBvILLE.
It was there stated that Mr.. r.,
when he left Louisville, "was going
east for pleasure. This intention Of
the gentleman was carried out, 30 far
AZ the fact Of looming east was con-
cerned. He did come east, and to his
friends in this town, where he remained
about q week, and having the impu-
dence of the devil and hypocrisy of the
pharisee, preached most splendidly to
one OF our United Presbyterian congre-
cations upon tho Sabbath before your
expose appeared in our local papers.
Upon the facts appearing in the pa
Pers, the poor man left for parts un-
known. Where gone, and what his
future may. he, God only knows.
His parents are dead and gone, and will
not, therefore, be affected by his dis
grace, but hie brothers and sisters, and
more remote relatives, who still reside
here, and who listened with pride and
Joy to his "splendid sermon" of the
Sabbath spoken Of, how has their pride
and joy been suddenly turned into
mourning and appalled, at the hypocri.
sy and disgrace of their kinsman. The
sympathy of the whole community will
rest upon the disgraced wife, who has
hitherto (wife-like) chung to her rotten
and diseased supporter "through good
and through i'll report" md who, like
the ivy vine, still hugs the fallen
trunk of the once mighty oak! But Il
may be asked
WHO WAS THE vEMED WOMAN
mentioned in the papers as having &C.
companied our gay Lothario from Chi
cago to Louisville, and with whom he
has been thus ignominiously and dis
gracefully associated and connected.
OF course your correspondent cannot
be supposed to know, the facts and
data given being SO meagre and few.
Madam Rumor, however, has it that it
is no other than a female we'll known
in these parts, and who was born and
reared in this vicinity, and one to
whom Mr.. r. was in his youthful days
not only very much attached, but
actually espousel to US his first love.
The lady's name is ---; she has never
married, and is now, and has always
been, rather more than ordinary
good-looking female, beautiful in form
and expression, u dark-eyed brunette,
and aged about IS years. It is we'll
known that this lady has been residing
at or near the city Of Chicago for some
time past, and as first impressions sre
most lasting, particularly those of
tender kind, it would not be strange
that in this case ";The scent of the rose
hangs round it still;' and that this
voiled lady was no less person than
OUR HEno's 1NAMoRArA.
OF course this ia mere conjecture,
founded simply OH the fact and data
stated above. We woull not do this
lady injustice, nntl therefore we cheer.
fully state we have nothing to urge
against her character NJ chastity, or
in any other respect save Que, and that
one failing was when she was much