This made me think that they meant mischief, and on the 12th instant when I'saw the procession put props to all the doors on the street side, About 50 yards in front of the procession was a big boy who kept throwing clods of wth over the wall at our hou: evidently trying to break the windows. The schoolboys leading the procession tried to force the entrance doors, but failing to get in they passed on and I thought the danger was over.
However, when the labour section of the procession came opposite the chapel door they halted, first tried to force the door, but failing, they broke out the frame work of one guest room windows which out six fect from the ground, man through, who opened the doors and let the crowd in, Of this T was soon aware by the noise of breaking glass and chapel seats, Partitions separating the guest rooms from the chapel both up and downstairs wore torn down and smashed. Even the church bell was carried down over the iron roof and thrown to the ground, Fortunately, however, it was not broken beyond the wheel that the rope goes. round, Every window frame, door and seat along with the pulpit and platform was smashed,
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