A short time ago, my host Stewart, of the Denton Hotel, purchased a rock fish weighing about sixty pounds. Upon opening it he found in it a certificate of membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is as follows:
Member
Methodist E. Church,
Founded A. D. 1784.
Quarterly Ticket, 18
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
The paper was of course in a crumbled and wet condition, but upon exposing it to the sun, and ironing the kinks out of it, it became quite legible.
Denton [Md.] Journal.
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