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Show EVRYnow and again the eccentricities eccen-tricities of Texas religion are noted in the papers. Tbe latest novelty in this respect has come to hand. A abort time ago a minister named Mclntyre, in the course of one of his sermons, alleged that there was not only a hell, but that the father and mother of the Rev, Bylus, an Episaopalian minister, were roasting in that sulphurous abode of the damned, their offense consisting in belonging to the Episcopal church. On the Banie day some members of Bylus, congregation rode up to Mclntyre's house and fired several shots into it, but without effect upon the minister, who haB sworn out warrants for threatening his life againat Bylus and one of his friends. |