Confession of a Clergyman — 258
A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply-interested audience the alarming increase of intemperance, when he astonished his hearers by exclaiming: “A young woman in my neighbourhood died very suddenly last Sabbath, while I was preaching the gospel in a state of beastly intoxication!”
A contemporary having published a long leader on “hogs,” a rival paper in the same village upbraids him for obtruding his family matters upon the public.