The daily gazette., 1875-04-19
A Missouri Clergyman Accused.
His offence Proves mot to be OF u
Very Serious Nature.
From the Missouri B1'uns,Uit


From the Missouri Bquns,uicker.
An old lady came up to the office We'd
nesday. She was worn and tired from
climbing the winding stairs, and she
sank almost breathless into the waste
basket, putting the poems ana stories
it contained to the only press they Will
ever know. There was troubled, anx-
ious look on her face, pair OF green
spectaeles on her nose, and general AIR
of sorrow and exhaustion about her that
appealed Mt once to our tendersst ieei.
Jugs. The feelings answered the appeal
and stepped respectfully forward. AFTER
the aged female had sufficiently recover
ed her breath, she asked: -,
"Is there loryer's Office in this build
INF"
We answered in the Affirmative but
were sorry to say that the legal gentie-
man was out OF town. w,
"Out of town, ehs Well, spese IL
have to tnd some other loryer. kem
in town a purpose to have TINS tning
fixed up, an l amt going back ont,i l
know whether there Is any la" al eAe-
ity in this country.
lawing was losing business in the end,
and should be resorted to only IN the
| "Aggrr waited casesI" she screeched, as
| the manu script in the basket ratified VI
oleptly. Young man, it Is the most ag-
grayated case you ever heard OF. You
ken never know the anguish OF a moth
| er's heart when her only dorter goes
astray an follers after false idols.
"Your daughter has had trouble, then.
"No. it's me what's havin' the trouble;
but she's causing it-she an that tarnal
sheep-faced preacher,
"Ahl a minister in the caset think
| understand. Such things are becoming
too common; alas too frequent. Inc
cloth is being brought into dlsrepute py
| such scoundrels. who steal the livery OF
heaven to serve the devil In. Poor girl!
"Poor nothin' She's brazen huzzy to
go back on her mothers tfacnln Lord
knows I've allus tried to raise her rlght.
But you must consider, my gooo NO
man. that your daughter had peculiar
temntations. You IN i: 1T make allowance
for the fact that the tempter came to her
in holy garb, imposing upon her conn
dence in the assumed character OF a splrl-
tual adviser silencing the voice OF her
conscience with cunningly chosen scrip
tural quotations. You must not be Sc
| we're on her..
well, Hammer was 'bedient girl till
he kem feolin' around. He KEN to the
house purity often, but did t s'pose moth
IN was wrong till veek ago. VIXEN
Hammer tole me. Then gnv him 6
mighty big piece of my mind.
He denied it, of courser'
"No, he didn't. He said he had hi
dooty as Christian. An his congrega
ton are all tickled over it, an that's wha
makes me bile.
why, that is an aggravated case
That he should be guilty OF such thin
is bad enough; that he 6. ould call 1t tn
: perform rec of q duty is olje, and tina
e is congregation would uphold hlm Il
7 such vile practices is beyond belief.
"Well, it's so, an went to get loi
yer to issoo a conjunction or lnJectmen
or somethin' to stop it,"
81 fear there is no legal redress. unles
it is mater OF very recent occurrence
A bill las passed the Legislature govern
ing such cases, but it won't work bacl
ward"
n what is in that billY' asked the d
4. lady, her face lighting up with O ne
4 hope.
to either marry the oman or sappo
y the Chi"
y "Whst p shrieked the woman, sprin
ing up with o suddenness that sent u
If basket of unacknowledged genlous ha
8. way cross the room. You barrll.hea
9, ed idiyot! My girl amt NO such fool
SO that You editors think you're nigh
&c &c smart. an you're allus s'posen thin
IN wusser' they are. I've been a hfe-lol
&c Methodist, an I've tried to raise
dorter in the same faith, but that tarn
al 'Piscopalon preacher las got her to 'gr
e. to jine his church. Pm her natural 81
NV Nv jeen, an amt agoin' to allow her to
- 1t. Eff she can't get along with the sar
religion her mothers got, she shal
have any. That's the whole case, q
:. there amt no marryin', nur s'porti
rs ,s nur Beecherin' in it,
or From the way the old lady bump
IS along down the stairs We fear she "
unduly agitated.
We shall never jump to another &C
clusion-no, not if it should lie with
AN inch of our nose. and pointed pro-
- were resting against us on each side a
behind.