Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Hew an English Clergyman Lost His Guests. [ARTICLE]

Hew an English Clergyman Lost His Guests.

[London World.] A reverend doctor, who preaches not a hundred miles from the Temple, lias a considerable weakness for clergymen of color, and on a recent occasion gave in honor of three or four of them a dinner, to which he invited some of his distinguished fellow-la borers in the vine-yard to meet him. The dinner hour came, and the white parsons along with it, but though host and guests waitad three quarters of au hour not a black one appeared. The host thereupon sent for the servant, and asked whether any one had called. “No one, sir, no one,” was the reply, with which the doctor being dissatisfied, proceeded to cross-examine, and it after some time occurred to the servant to say, “No one. sir—indeed no one has called ejrcept some Christy minxtrels, but I soon got rid of them."