This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...down in the-vestry room, th( session room, or the body of the church, and there with dice and cards and other paraphernalia of the gambling table, no more criminal than the wheel, if they donate a portion of their unholy gains to the benefit of the church? Yet, in some sections, moral men, professors of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...down in the-vestry room, th( session room, or the body of the church, and there with dice and cards and other paraphernalia of the gambling table, no more criminal than the wheel, if they donate a portion of their unholy gains to the benefit of the church? Yet, in some sections, moral men, professors of religion, ministers of the gospel, have interested themselves to popularize this vice by seeking aid through itr influence. The committee recommend the adoption of the follow' ing resolution: Resolved, That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be requested to revoke the permit heretofore given, ex empting the Gettysburg Asylum for Disabled Soldiers from the payment of special tax and license, said revocation to take effect from May 28, 1867, and that taxes and license be collected from said association the same as if no permit had ever been given." Love's Expeeiment. Pretty Governess.--" How often must I tell you how to weal your hats? You are provokingly slow to learn! This is the third time to-day within an hour that I have placed your hats properly upon your heads. There!" Children retire under their beavers, and the lovers improve the opportunity in practising certain labial mysteries known to the initiated. HODGE-PODGE. Did you ever go up to the printers, And see all those devils at work? I swagger, they beat all the flinters, What fellows they are for a joke! AN EGG DISASTER. A MINISTER OP THE GOSPEL ATTEMPTS TO SPREAD HIMSELF DEPLORABLE RESULT. Among the goods expressed from the West by the D. & S. C. Railroad were a number of baskets of hen-fruit. Two or three stations this side of that at which they were placed upon the car, an ex-minister of huge proportions and of the gospel stepped into the express car, and our...
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