Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-04-02


T,y Dsy,L AND THE PRIEST About len days ago all
,hs population Of Bruhn, in the Austrian oales were
thrown into commotOn by The appearance OF The DeV ~
,roor;o psrsona, surrounded BY gendames with crawn
swords His Satanic Majesty was as he is always repre-
ssn,ed perfectly black, with two enormous HORNS g0at
ears body covered with hair horses legs and coven fee
A,t bs seemed decidedly out Of spirits, and it appeared
that he was undergoing the iudgnty OF being conveyed 10
duranee VILE The old and women OF the place feli
On their knees and prayed to all the saints 10 protect Them
asa,ns. The terrible Prince Of Darkness but the young
men had The impiey to laugh and scofi at him. on IN
ouiry the following facts stated A few days before
a. pessani woman named lent, was lying IN bed amer
heiar delivered of child, the Devil suddenly leaped
,hnonoh a window clanking chain, and demanded tAas
she ,bou either give him the child 10 be carried TO The re-
gons bsuw or make over 10 him SUN OF 100 forms IN
nav silver which he knew she had collected. The poor
woman greatly terrified produced The money aud
the Devil pOcketed il after which he went away The
next day the woman told the parish priest OF the visit she
had received and added that she had collected the lUO no.
rims penuy by penny to pay for religious services on her &C
oOuehemsnt. "Dd you tell any one that you hadthe mon
ey 2n asked the priest. "OnIy the MIDWIFE SAID she
.Well tell the midwife that the Devil mistaken in
surprising that you had only 100 FORMS Tor that you have
so forms more and say that yuu are glad that he did not
compel you give them up. The Devil will perhaps pay
YOU another visit after that but will be Mere 10 exercise
him.n The woman told the midwife what the priest had
said. The next night the Devil rsaPpeared and deman'
ded the fifty FORMS but at the moment The priest
rushed forth seized him by the neck and charged him with
being thief The Devil it turned out, was the husband
of The midwife He was fastened in room, and the next
morning was taken to prison.-Gahgna''s .aessenger'
Joxzs uros ScRIpruRE-It is very common with some
persons 10 raise laugh by Of some udcrous story
connected with text Of Scripture Sometimes 1t is play
on the words, pun at other times, blunder and not
seldom downright impiely Whatever be its form, even
when ghtest it is no venal offence, leading as does to
pufne conemp, of Gods word Those who practice this,
have never been celebrated for genuine wit The laugh
Ter which they call forth is provoked solely by the unex
peced contrast between the solemn words of Scripture and
some doll idea. There real wit in the case, and the
duest persons in society are most remarkable for these at
tempts.
The evils arising from this practice greater than APP
rear at first Il leads in general. to reverence for Scrip
ture No man would Jest with the dying words of his IA
the or his mother yet the words Of God are quite as SOL
smn. When We have heard comic or vulgar tale con-
neceG with Of Scripture, such is the power OF asso
citation that we never hear The afterwards without
thinking of the jest The effect of this is obvious fie
ho much engaged in this kind of false wit, will come
a, length to- have large portion ohoy Scripture spotted
over by his unclean fancy. N
Beware Of esting with sacred things. Shun the compa
ny of any one who practices this, you would shun
luathsome disease. Frown upon every attempt opovoke
your smiles by such means -.7merieal Messenger.
"Hoson TO WoMAN"-We have read with infinite
pleasure eulogiums on the sex, from Mungo Park Led
yard Schiller and every gallant writer of modern times
But the Macon (Ala) Republican beats them all. Here it
is:
Women and Newspapers Women are the best sub
scrbers in the world newspapers, magazines. ETC. We
have been editor going eight years. and we have
never yet lost single dollar by female subscribers They
seem to make point Of conscientious duty pay the
preacher and the priner-two classes of the community
that suffer BY bad pay (and pay at aDhen alt the
rest put together. Whenever we have woman's name
on orr book We know is just good FOR two dollars and
half picayune for ginger cake. Besides, what
ever they subscribe for they read whether it be good bad
indifferent lfihey subscribe for paper they are
read it, upon the principle suppose, that if they
did their money would 90 thrown awayas old la
Doctor had prescribed dose oil but as the girl would
not take the OIL she tuok herself rather than let it be
wasted. Hence We say, they the best readers. For
these reasons had any time in the world rather have
8 dozen our books than
A JueeIER AS WAS JUesLER--Evelyn's Dairy, re-
fsrng to Richardson. the famous Jusgler, who lived
some 200 years ago, says:
"He devoured birthstone On glowing Goals before u.s.
chewing and swallowing them he melted beer glass and
quite up then taking live coal his tongue he put
lei oyster, the coal was blown with the bellows
t il famed and sparked in his mouth, and remained
ed pitch and wax with suphur which he drank down as
II famed saw II flaming in his mouth gOod while; he
also took up thick piece Of iron such as aundress use
toput in their smoothing boxes when was 6ery hot
held il between his teeth then in his hand and threw it a
bout like stone but this observed he cared not to hold
very long, then he stood pot and bending his body took
glowing iron with his mouth from between his feet with
touching the ground pot with his hands, with divers
other prodigous feats''
O. The clearspring (NId) Sentinel, says that
these destructive birds Crows have been con-
gregated in immense numbers in the southeastern
part of Washington county Md and Berkley coun-
ty, Va. Tens OF thousands would congregate of
night in order to roost together and break down
considerable sized limbs from trees. Persons went
out of night and killed them with clubs. They
were destructive to the fields of corn that remain
ed out unhusked.
ELosuEscE or THE HANps-The hands are by the