Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — Growing in Brace. [ARTICLE]

Growing in Brace.

The Bishop presiding at the Conference was the victim of a heart disease. Over Ids head the sword of Damocles hung ever suspended by a hair, the dentil’s head was never absent from h‘s banquet, and the dread of sudden death had discolored all his ideas of life. He was the morbid and sworn foe to every thing like gaiety, and while not 6our or sullen, yet bis piety was weighty and lugubrious. It may well be imagined that such a chairman had trouble to keep in order such a man as Peter Cartwright, with whom humor and drollery are as natural as to breathe. Brother Cartwright had the lloor one day, and by his irresistible fun, set the Conference in a roar. “Stop, brother Cartwright,” said the Bishop, “I cannot allow such a sin to be Committed among Methodist preachers while I have the charge ’of them. 1 read in the Bible, ‘he angry and sin. r not,’ but I nowhere see, laugh and sin not. Let us bow down and confess our offense—brother Cartright lead in prayer.” The backwoods preacher kneeled and repeated the Lord’s Prayer, and then rising, said: “Look here, Mr. Bishojf, when I dig potatoes, I dig potatoes; when 1 hoe corn, I hoe corn; when I pray, I pray; and when I attend to business, I want to attend to business. —I wish you did too, and I don’t want you to take snap judgment on me again.” “Brother,” 6aid the Bishop in a monitory tone, “Do you think you are growing in grace!” “Yes, Bishop, I think I ain —in spots.” It is hardly necessary to add, that the Bishop gave him up as incorrigible. — 'l'he Rijle, Ajm and Saddle-bags. The last and most wonderful cure effected by patent medicine, is said to be the following: “A boy had swallowed a silver dollar. An hour afterward the boy threw up the dollar, all in small change, principally five cent pieces.” Long, a country postmaster a few miles from Pittsburgh, has been sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for stealing a letter from the mail-