The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-02

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! sroRY oF'rnEs NoRrn'or GERMANY.
T" i.e$s q .be{ol2.saS ~ yezs be.g7ea
Before the castle of Gruu;ngen, upon
4 the, Bcde, one clear summer evening
the bishop Henry Of Halberstadt was
seated with foreign prcl,te who had
been his guest for month. he possct
drink stood before them iu two mighty
hagons. They had been, discoursius
from ten O'Clock in the morning, VIII en-
they set down to dinner, about the huge
wine tun which bishop on the Rhine
had just got constructed, and were
agreed in the opinion that it became
every ecclesiastical prince, who would
confer becoming spendor on his court
to possess similar tua. The affair was
quite settled by both of them, cxccpt,as
to its execution; and their cnnvcrsati III
began now to be interrupted by yawns,
! and to fias on in mono >yllablcs.
1t CHANGED, rs good tnrtune would
have it that the shepard Conrad passed
by, driving his well washed flock acros 5
the castle yard wherr hi, hop Henry u e |
to review them every evening. Il
salute you, my lord bishop! Good
evening, Conrad; but where is Harm p
Conrad whistled, and abeautifal large
ram bounded up irst'to' the shepherd
aud then to the bishop, who carressed
the animal aud 9. fed him with some
crumbs which he had kept for him
The bishop exchanged few words with
the shepherd md inquired IF his wed
ding day was at harttR harttRi,. Gonrad shrYg,,
ged his shoulders aud passed on with
his flock. .,,..... ..,
Bishop Henry now extolled the beau
tiful ram which he. declared he would
not part with for anything in the world,
aud then returned his seulogiun on the
good Conrad, who he said, was honesty
itself. The foreign bishop lauyhed
aloud, Tor travel into distant countr cS
aud Il frequent stay at foreign courts
had filed him with universal dist rust
Of man. He aycrrcd th,t it W rs inp,s
>iblc to tnI thoroughly honest scrv.n
and lca.t ofallnt the court oil bishop
They wero all - ho ,.sail, II conbin .l t >
cheat heir masters, and all more orilss,
rogues Bishop Henry easerl;' di~pur ed
| his asseltjcn; aud extolled the virtues
| Hf the @ood people over whom he sway
Cd the cr'sicr, and pboye all, his shep,
| dere Courad, who, as he s,id, had never
told lie or deceived any, p.rsun in his
whole ditetime. 4asoR Rada .a7syh a ,oIu,a
'Nev,r told a lie -ssNeveri deceived
bis master? repeated the 'srranyer.bishop
ia tone Of irany. No y answefed
| Bishop Henry; 'he never has; and never
Yill!' Never! reechoed the foreign
ecolesiastic, ,.whatawilhyou bst2 After
| several propositions, the twoo bishops
agreed upon these conditions: first, that
| the stake should be dn immense tun,
capable Of containing one Hundred an i
fifty barrels Of wine sand, secondly, that
Conrad Cs21n d1,ywlitIh without being made aware Of
the wager, should be put 10 the trial
within three days. al The two .dgnitaries
then partedaforlthe mght,sright ,glad,to
have found somethingH to usemuse usthom
ior two or three days toFcome9d ss1sA
The foreign bbIisIhloP, bbefore, be went v 60
bedi ilhelds sias his custom, was, 2 asconsplea-
tion with his confidant, Peter,v who was
noniinaily his servent. and occasionally
his fool but in TACT POSSESSED truer
claim to thetitls ofIhis'priyyA ,uncilor,
than many others enj"yhglkiglrcr9 titles
and places Peter hadR always sanJe
shrewd advice to give in every emIa2rs ZEN
cy, whether tenroral or Spiritual. S1Tc
was accustomed, to hear, to sc", and
sometimes nt even to tllipk ,foI lis s,9a$ G.
wi heut any one knowinyis Hesssh q
done so onathis occasions butlhe, scennl
i'tle9Aspdssdstoatalsa tlrissseyenihg, for
the word r49hr, %hfeR hadAescap ID ahi
masters Iils d"rih$ ho'7dvtrsatfoR Just
narrated, had PAD him id"baaahitnn
and it was .4Jpls bSi'hes esRfppiife IF 4 dew
scarlet cap, in lhe 4 e,s eyept eHHsnt of the wa
ger being won, tlat his master got him
to opsp hIfl Aitsr ssFrI sS@o sore, satrica
Ee"arks epO!hs eaNgafn4ql'ls4 ca9st Iof1a Ywic
tun which should contain one hundred
fafada fifty ,baaftlssl,ft stooexhaust amore
than halfthe revenues of IA ,bislroprio >
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