Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — A Minister’s Lapse. [ARTICLE]

A Minister’s Lapse.

At a camp meeting recently held near Lakeland a minister at the beginning of his discourse said he hod forgotten his notes, and excused himself as follows: “I will have to depend upon the Lord for what I say this morning; this evening I will come better prepared.”— Lake City (Fla.) Reporter. Baltimore and Ohio engine No. 99, which has just been laid aside at Grafton, W. Va., and will be consigned to the scrap pile, has quite a history. It is one of the Ross Winans camel engines and was built in 1851. There are only four of this class of engines now remaining. During the late war this engine was one of several captured at Martinsburg by the Confederates, and hauled across the country by pike to Staunton, Va., under direction of Col. Thomas R. Sharp. President John W. Garrett, after the war was over, hunted up Col. Sharp and appointed him master of transportation, in recognition of the ability displayed in that unparalleled achievement.