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Show WASHINGTON.; CIII.UK of BELLS. My attention was called back from worldly topics this morning by an item in the morning paper saying that the chime of bells had been put in position at the Metropolitan (church), and would soon be ready for business, ("business" is (he right word to apply to this cliurcla), and to this circumstance circum-stance is duo this letler. The largest bell is inscribed: ; As Mrs, Newman personally col- . ; lected the money fur this chime, ; ; the following inscription was or- '. '. dered by ihe trustees of the church : ; to bo placed on this bell: ; A. Knsign Newman, wife of Rev. ; : J. J Newman, D. D., first pastor : ; of tho Metropolitan Memorial : ; Methodist Episcopal church. : ; "She hath done what ;.!te ; could." Mark siv, S. ; The one who contributed most to this chime of bells was a horse trainer named Pratt, who erected a tent and charged people so much a head to enter, and for the poor privilege of seeing 1 him torture tho noblest of ani-. ani-. mals by twisting their mouths, throw-: throw-: ing them violently by mean? of a rope, and whippiug them in an unnatural and cruel manner in order to break them. This cruel, ignorant, coarse, and vulgar monster was' taken up by , the, President and parson Newman and patronized by the nobility of the Metropolitan . most liberally. The risiilr nl' smrnral rxhihitinnq nf War. torture was contributed to the chime of bells. So one of the bells contains this inscription : I : Mrs. 6. S. Pratt, wife of the': ! : hortc trainer. ; ; "In that day shall there be upon . : the bells of the horses, Tloli- ; ; ncss unto the Lord." ; The nest bell in importance is inscribed as follows : juiia Pent Grant, wife of U. S. ; Grant, ; : President of the United States : ; of America. ; Hero is where tho "breaking" of the sore tailed colt comes in. The Vice-President Vice-President has also a niche in this belfry bel-fry of frame ihe bell being slightly cracked, ft has the following: : Nellie Wade Colfax, wife of : ; Schuyler Colfax, ; : Vice-President of the United : : Slates of America. : Another bell is inscribed in honor of . the ureal injunctionist Capt. A. Grant, j as follows: Misi Amanda L. Grant, : : Daughter of Capt A. Grant. : . "Remember now thy Creator in I : the days of thy Vouih." : But whether this was intended to apply to the bell, Miss Amanda, or Capt. A. Grant, it was difficult to tell. The latter, however, being the creator of the former, it is understood to apply ap-ply to the bell. One of the bells has: 1 : "I was glad when they said unio . ; me, : 1 : Let us go into the house of the . ; Lord." : Which is intended as a wretched ! sarcasm on the Metropolitan (church.) j "Let us make an awful noise unto the Lord," also one of the inscription?, : was undoubtedly sclecled by parson Newman, but by some mistake of the b.'ll founder, "awful" was changed to "joyful." 11(1.-7.. Cor. Cincinnati Commercial. |