Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — Jim Brown of Lawrenceburg. [ARTICLE]

Jim Brown of Lawrenceburg.

Probably no Indiana lawyer "was ever more eccentric and more waggish than was old Jim Brown, of Lawrencebnrg. His birth was a joke, and at the deathbed the ruling passion caused smiles when there would otherwise have been tears, lone one of the clergy of the city who had offended him was sent for. As tfye man of Ood entered the rick room, Brown 'said: “I’m dying, and I want you to pray for me.” The minister complied, knelt by the bedside, and, when in the midst of the most fervent Invocation, Brown suddenly reached for his trousers, which were lying hard by, thrust his hand in a > pocket, extracted his wallet, drew forth a $lO hill, and held it before the face of the kneeling man. The minister, hearing the rustling, naturally opened his eves, and seeing the proffered wealth, ceased praying, solemnly shook his head, and said: “We never accept any remuneration for offering spiritual consolation.” “Don’tyou?" gasped the dying man, “don’t yon? Well, I’ll be damned if I’d make snob a plea as yonVe made f6r lees tbanslo.”— Cincinnati Enquirer.