Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1873 — In an Uncomfortable Predicament. [ARTICLE]

In an Uncomfortable Predicament.

A rather amusing contretempt occurred at one of our evangelical churches last Sunday—amusing to the parties witnessing the affair, hut decidedly uncomfortable, to say the least of it, to the party more immediately concerned. A contribution was being taken up for missionaary purposes, and a well-known citizen was carrying around the contribution box. In a pew at the back end of the church sat an old colored lady, while in front of her, in another pew. sat a well known banker of this city. The old lady leaned over the pew and whispered in audible tones to the banker, “Look here, Massa, there is Massa , coming round with the cont’bution box; now he owes me a wash bill which he disputes and I can’t collect if. Now lam going to tell him, ’Massa, you put that ’ere wash bill in that gont’bu.tion box and you and I is square. ” The banker approved of ker doing so, and she religiously fulfilled her programme. It Is easy to imagine the feelings of the gentleman when the proposal was made to him in an audible voice. It is needless to say that he did not linger at this pew. Morn—Don’t employ a religions person of color to do your washing.—#. Foul Dispatch. —ln the spring of 1871 the Rev. Dr. C. J. Gibson, pastor of Grace Episcopal Church at Petersburg, Va., gave to each of'bis 250 Sunday School scholars six grains of corn, and directed them to plant it and send in the proceeds ..for foreign missions. The (Corn, on bong delivered, was found to amount to about five barrels, worth about twenty dollars. —The Pacific Mail Steamship Company came very near to a full stop in the search alter a name for their new steamer. They christened her the Colon. —A cat in Essex, Mass., stole a fire dol lar bill from a fish-monger and ran away withit.