A ROAMING MEETING-HOUSE.

Evening Star, Issue 3969, 13 November 1875, Page 3

A ROAMING MEETING-HOUSE.

Max deler writ*;?; as follows :- " Some of our Meth' dist brethren down here are a good deal bothered. They sold the site on which they had their meeting-house and bought a better one up the street. The bui'ding was a large frame edifice, and they determined to move it. So they put rolers under it and worked it out into the Btreet, and a< noon as it was off the ground tho purchaser of the lot began to build a dwelling-house on the site. It was slow work pushing the church along the Btre-t, and before they got far somebody dincovered that the title of the bargain wa3 annul l.d. The next day the brethren went plunging around town trying to buy another site, bu' no one would sell them one, and < n thd following morning the supervisors got an from the Court requiring from the public street within twentyfour hours The I rethren were nearly wild abowt it, and they begged old Brindley to let them run the concern in on his vaccnt lot temporarily until th'-y could look around. B'at 8.-indley ia a . aptist, and he said he f«lt it would be wrong for him to do anything to promote a church that believed in sprinkling Tbey then ran the meetinghouse out on the turnpike beyond the town, whereupon the turnpike company notified them tbuvt its charges would be L 8 a day for toll. So they hurled it back again, and while fjoing down the hill it broke loose, pluDged through tie fence of Dr Mackey's garden, and brought up on top of his asparagus bed. He is an )■ piscopalian, and he 8-aed the meeting for damages, and the sheriff levied upo:i the meeting house. Tho brethren paid the bill and dragged thes building out aga n. They wanted to put it in the curt-house yard, bcit the judge, who ia a Presbyterian, fifiid that, after examining the statutes careful!y, he could find no Jaw allowing a Methodist mee'.ing-house to be locattd in that plnce In despa'r the brethren ran the building down to ihe river shore, and fitted it on a hute raft of logs, concluding to tie it to the wharf until they could buy a lot. But as the owner of tho wharf handed them, on the third day, a bill of 25d015. for wharfarge, they ran the building out and anchored it in the stream. That night, a tug-boat, coming up tbe river in the dark, ran half Way through the unday-school room, and a Dutch brig came into collision with it, and was drawr. out with he pulpit and three of the front pews da.idling from tbe bowsprit. The owners t.f both vessels sued for damans; the United State* :u.tborities talked of confiscating the meeting-house as an obstruction to navigation. Bui; a few days afterwards the ice-gorge sent a Hood down the riv-jr and broke the bui ding loos.* from its anchor. It was subsequently washed ashore oa Keyser's farm, and he said he was willing to let it stay there at four dollars a day rent until he was ready to plough for corn. And there it is yet. The bretbrea are very uncertain what they will do iu the future. There is some talk of hitching the meeting-house to several large balioons and floating it above the town, but the plan has not been decided on positively. It occurs to the brethren, however, that the g' spel is having pretty hard times of it in Newcastle cudfcy, and nothing but a de -ii« to reform tbe ino'als of such an immoral communi'y prevents thtm from taking that meeting-house apart in sections and shipping It to the heathen of Tena del Fuego, or s>nßi place wherr- they are not ao ridiculously particular about a few square feot of laud when religious interuste are at stake. A WONDERFUL MEDIUM." Mrs Blair, a w#man of FrenchAmerican descent, is one of the wonders of the Lake Pleasant camp-meet-in?;. Her specialty is painting very natural flowers when closely blindfolded, in the glare the sun and in presence of an audience. A committee tied up her face in no less than twentyfive thicknesses of cloth, and yet she proceeded with the utmost nonchalance to tv.ice roses, lilies, and tulips. The medium's chair and garments were carefully guarded from- touch "during her work, " beetuse," said the speaker, "if the thoughtless, rough, gross, or rude man or woman should touch the medium it would produce intense nausea and vomiting. The first bouquet was made in eleven minutes and a half; the second, eight and a half; the third in six and a half, and the fourth in live minutes.—' New York Times.' ——^——<■— We are told that snakes cannot abide the smell of geranium*. But we hope the gardeueis will keep right on, and not stop raising geraoiuma on that, account.— A ruerican paper.