Connecticut western news., 1892-11-24

bis legs like Bramah hen. Nary . man packed gun, n when gent 'ud forgit n drop cuss word he'd beg parding. The parson was thick with all the boys. He writ letters for us, advised us about all our bixnus, n knew all about every body's affairs. Lots uv lem gave him their dust sack to keep fer lem, n he knowed where every man he'd n his cached.
 "Aong jest afors Chris'mas cum Pete called meetin uv the deacons n church wardens down to his place. n after the sexton (Ah Fool he'd brought in round | of drinks he said: Gents, ez chairman e1oficer in this yer layout move that we give tho parson little present fer | Chris'mus. Yer know he won't take . durn cent from us, n never has. Uv course he has taken few thousand | from time to time to send to orfngs.n | things uv that kind, but not red flor hisseh or pard, n move that we make him . little present on Chris'mus day, n it needn't be so -- little either. Gents in favor Il say so n gents wot ain't kin keep mum Carried, n that settles it. Five Ace n nell take in con tributions, n we won't take any less than fifty cases.'
 "That wuz two days afore Chrls'mus day, n when it cum Pete n FivsaAce he'd about five thousand in dust n mug gets fer the parsons present. Pete as- sessed An Foo a months pay! n he kicked hard accordin, but twer'n't no use.
 "The day was bright n clear, n at | 1even o'clock every man in camp wuz at | church. The little buildin looked mighty tasty-an fixed of with pine tassels n rod berries we'd got in the woods, 'n every man wuz dressed out in his best duds. At 1even exact the par son n the kid, who he'd bin standin at the door shakin hands n wishin every body what cum in Merry Chris'mus, cum in n took their ssats on the plat form. J Pete n Five Ace "a Bill Jones n | Alabam n me ,sot on c bench jest-in front O the platform. We wuz iall logged out in our best hxin's, h Pete n Five Acc they sported diamons1 till yer | couldn't rest. Waal, ez usual, the per ceedin's opened up with CT prayer from the parson, n then we he'd singin, "a 1t seemed ter me ez if 1 never he'd heerd sich singin in my life afore CT thet kid let out O him thet day.
 "Then the parson he started in ter | jaw. n must ellow he giv us great discourse. 1 never 4tsee him go. long winded afore, tho, "a Pete was begin min to get mighty restless n oneasy, | when all uv suddint we heerd the door open n shet quick n sharp, n every one turned around to find g great big black bearded cusa at the door a coverin the hull gang uv us with a double har'led shotgun, n jest . stand in thar cool An silent Face around hero, yer fools,, yelled some body, in a sharp, quick, biznus meanin 1 vice, h all hands faced around to find the parson holding 'em up WI another shotgun-own brother to the ono the other cuss he'd
 "'I don't want a word out CT yer,' he sed. Yer see my game now, don't yerl Thar ain't . gun in the house 'cept the ones you see. n if any gent makes any row in this yer meetin I'll fill his hide SC plum full O. holes t won't hold his bones Tho kid will now take up the collection n ez it's tho first one we ever hev taken up yer must make 1t hberl ono, seeG The hid started out with . gunnysack n went through the very last man ir tho crowd. He took everything, ever to the rings on our fngers The parsor he'd the drop, n we knew 1t h never kicked, but jest giv' up our stun bike lambs
 | After the hid he'd finished, he tool the sack outside, n that's the last we ever seed O him. Then, tho parson hs sez: IN now, gents, must say adoo, e1 must be travelin, for 1 hev another meetin to attend this eve. want te say tho afore 1 go thet you're the orner fest gang of - fools ever played for suckers. A few friends of mine hex taken the liberty, while yer've been tc meetin this blessed Chris'mus day. uy goin through yer cabins "a diggin up yel little caches uv dust n other val'ables Yer stock hez all been stampeded, 'n yel guns yeru find somewhar at the bottom of the crick. My friend at the door will hold yer level while 1 walk out, n WI will then keep yer quiet fer few min utes longer through ther winder jest SC
 6 we can git nice eumftable start T so they did. What. c'u'd we dor The parson walked out, grinning all ovel himself, n he n his pals they nailed uI the door n the winders {thar wuz only twol n very soon after they he'd finished we heerd the clattsr O huffs "a knowei they wuz gone.
 "I must draw . veil over the rest o that dat's proosedin's, stranger. Tn, langwidgs used by ther boys wuz tot awful to repeat, but twas jest ez thil parson sed, when we got out O the meetin house we found every animal or the location gone, n the only arms lef wuz knives n clubs, yet we'd hev gon, after 'em with nothin but our hands but we couldn't follow afoot., How much did they getf 1 don't rightl, know, but not fur from fifty thousand The hull camp wuz stone broke, all e1cep An Foo, n he wuz the only one uv us a
 he'd sense enun not to tell thet durnet parson whar he cached his stuff. Pet, n Five Ace wuz 90 everlast hurt at tn, hull biznus that they shut up the Birt O Prey, borrowed An Foo's sack n lief for the bay to try n find thst parson
 but they never did find him, n n, one eyer hoard nv him again. ."-Cali
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 i Remarkable Cures of an Evangelist.
 WILKEsBARRR, Pa, Nov. 2.-Remarka , ble cures by the laying on of hands hay
 apparently been made by an evangels IA -k,.-zzx L. Dar