The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-09
TUE NEW MINISTER'S FIRST CALL.
The BaslTfiil Young Man WOrSted ia an
Encounter With a Show Chair,
darlington Hawkeye.

Huntington Hawkeye]
Rev. jerome II. Benson Is a Young
man, a minister of great promise, and
Is greatly beloved by the members Of
his flock. But he Is a very bashful
young man, and it Is quite a cross for
him to make pastoral calls and get
acquainted with the people Of the con
gregation. He has lived IN Burling-
tom only about eight weeks. 4 few
days ago he fixed himself up and went
to call at the residence Of Mrs. Jasper
L. Blasingby, on West Hill, who Is
very stylish, and has four lovely
daughters, and young Benson was ac-
cordingly more than usually nervous
and embarrassed, and when he got to
the house and entered the parlor door
and saw company, two young gentle
men visiting two of the Misses Bias
ingby, his wits Immediately went wool
gathering.
Mrs. BIasingby bowed him into the
parlor, grandly introduced him to the
young men. and waved him toward an
easy chair. As he moved toward it
she made a second effort to catch his
hat, and after some feeble resistance
bv. the young minister she succeeded
And then that man, thoroughly de-
moralized by the loss Of his hat, made
a wavering advance toward the easy
chair, and then, impelled by the
thought that he was very selfish in
taking the most comfortable chair III
the room, he swerved aside and headed
for an inviting-looking straight-back
chair that stood against the wall.
Mrs. Blasingby, returned from the hat-
rack in the hall, OWNED his intention,
and bore down upon him for the pur-
pose Of getting him anchored in the
easy chair. But the young minister
had the weather-gauge, and the more
she bowed and foWished and said,
ooh, do take this easy chair, Mr.
Benson" the more steam he put on
and the nearer he worked to the
straight-back chair. He reached it.
He caught hold of the back to lift It
from the wall, and the back came out
in his had like a loose tooth. For 4
brief second he stood there, very
gracefully holding the chair-back in
his hand, listening to Mrs. Blasingby's
| hurried explanations about the chill
dren, and then he attempted to put the
chair-back where it belonged. He
didn't succeed very well, for the back
weakened on itself as he fumbled with
it, and two or three pieces fell out Of
it. Mrs. Blasingby was now begging
him to leave it alone and sit down In
the easy chair. His face was 50 hot
and red he couldn't hear a word she
said, and in desperation he set the
back on the chair, leaned it against
the wall, and picked up the chair
bodily and started across the room
with it without any particular inten-
ton, and followed by Il trail Of chair
back, legs, and stray springs that dot
ted the carpet like the track Of a tor
nado. He doesn't know to this day
how Mrs. BIasingby got the chair away
from him. He can only remember
/ that when he was about two blocks
away from the house he discovered
that he was carrying a switch cane
with an ivory head, carved in a very
Black Crook design, evidently the
property OF one Of the young men,
and that his head was covered by
a jaunty little hat Of dove-colored silk
and rough straw, turned up at one
side, and decorated with a pearl buckle
and 4 long dropping plume, all of
which he had often admired on the
head Of the youngest Miss Blasingby.
His peculiar appearance and evident
mental distress when he was mot ~,
this guise by his senior deacon gave
rise to the rumors that he was intoxi-
Gated, which were, however, so well
explained at the church meeting last
evening that Mr.. Benson was unani-
mously requested to withdraw his
resignation. This, We are sorry to
learn, he steadfastIy refused to do, and
it is understood that he has accepted q
chapIaincy at the Black Hills.