Holly Springs gazette., 1841-09-02

SOMETHING NEW, OK Bl.OOD4 WON DERS.
There much talk the country aoout some astonishing
phenomena which have unoOkedor visited Wilson county,
Tennessee 1t an occurrence well calculated excite the
wonder of mankind; and to terrify many persons
There are someand hope they willing relin-
qush the claim the title of prophet ifthey made it
look upon this unusual display of the mysteries of the
natural world the dolefu precursor of and famine,
the red aing of battle unfred and sowing the seeds Of
death 1t true being such unexpected of blood
and fesh first asonshed and disposed 10 be stub
born, and ncreduou but after the testimony of men of
doubted TRUTH submitted in belief Notwithstanding
ncreduiy conquered yet disposed view
with the eye of supeson but about give some ra
ona view of the natter believing that reason has to do
with all the works of God
The in Tennessee said have been in this
wise There appeared small red cloud other clouds
being visible in the heavens the time From this cloud
shower of flesh and blood The space which it GOV
cred said have been half mile long, seventy
five yards in width The subtances which fell stated
have appeared to be animal matter with blood and the odor
that Of putrid flesh Now this something under the
or has occurred before various parts of the earth
Read the following from the pen of NJ semenni French
Traveller and Philosopher
having days the nabtran OF Gerace Saw
ahck cloud spreading itself from the
oyerhnng the neghboTng began intercept
rne fiery red Al O'clock in the afternoon sh ght was SO
& & a ] ae nhaOanls OF the town were obliged
color OF the cloud went 10 offer public the chuches The
sea- though the distance of six miles from the added its
some Supposed to h oos Of boa drops o o oGoq began began to S %
people recovered their usual tranquility.
There are many instances of substances falling from the
Clouds which have taken place in differ parts and ages
the world Chadi has collected some ofthe most striking
aud material In the year $50 (Chsan era) there
shower of red dust that fell Consantnople And in
the middle of the 9th century, at the place red dust
and red substance resembling coagulated blood In the
year 1857 Pomerania large plates of substance resemb
ling coaghated blood. In 1885, Sd, December at Verde
in Hanover, there fall of much red matter with thun
der and lightning In the year 1856 Ss JAM Raudon
n Courand and the time, in Norway and Pomera
MA great quantity of membranous substance fiable and
blackish resembling hafbunt paper In the year the
night the 9th and 2sh of October in the valley of Ong
ha near Genoa-red rain In 1876 18th April red snow
IN different parts of Northern Italy Red very
great curiosity many parts of Europe And in the year
1918, 18th August Amherst Massachusetts there was
ai oil geiatneus particles of substance an offensive smell
almost precisely the description oha of Tennessee
Philosophers have accounted for the preceding facts IN va
rous manners Some suppose that they have their origin
the same manner of stones i'd est that these substan
ces are formed in the atmosphere Now this position we
think absurd tho philosopher ourself But that sa
substances OF the and consistency of gravel or
might De formed in the atmosphere do conceive to be
altogether impossible but that subsance every sense re-
semong flesh and blood and possessing its composition all
the properties Of chrome ozyd sIe1 Ime carbon DC
coud De generated the atmosphere wholly unphiosoph
oa Other inqurng minds maintain and ration
ally that the wind has sufficient power sweep from
surface OF the earh large of substances lift
ing them to considerable height in the atmosphere
In support Of the latter position may cite the following
occurrence
IN Persia, in the province of Romei in the vicinity of Mt
there fell in April 1927 sao,esr Of grain which in