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Show G,k i E A SOLEMN WARNING. Providential Escape of a Darky Urged Hir.i to Prophesy. Gen. John Palmer, formerly Commander Com-mander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, told this story at the Grand Union hotel: One Sunday, -while in camp near the Rapidan, we received word that a baptism under the auspices of the colored church would occur on the banks of the river at 11 o'clock, and nearly the whole regiment went down. The river was rushing like a mill-stream mill-stream and the outdoor baptism was a risky performance. The first one to wade out and reach tne minister, who had secured a good rooting, was a young buck about twenty twen-ty years of age. As the minister laid liim down and he fait the cold water covering him he struggled so hard that he got away from the minister and vc:it down out of sight in a second. sec-ond. The witnesses were shocked to stillness and wore wondering what to do when about 500 feet down the stream the negro's head was seen coming up. and as he had struck a sunken tree he kept climbing along, puttering out the river water right find left, seeking a perch where he could get his breath. The observers, expecting some expression ex-pression of thankfulness on his part after his narrow escape, were shocked a second time when he hollored out: "Go on, go on up there, but somebody's some-body's gwine to lose a niggah, sure, 'fore you git froo wid dis nonsense." New York Times. |