The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23
A Lightning Bolt Writing Gods
Name on a BIasphemer.
From the Lynchburg News.

| from LylC1ouEH NoWS
Some Of our contemporaries seem
| disposed tosquestion the truth Of our
la. .4ment that negro man who was
piIlo,s by lightning few days ago
~ Gom,,h,n county had the letters
"GOD - on his pos '.sX'-as -; oeaao uo'n@S Ia
f. Moorman, whose Poso 80
dress is Mt. Zion, Campbell CO..
has furnished the. Richmond Chris
tiafa AdVocdte an account of the cir
cumstances. from which we extract
the following:
'On the evening of the 9th inst.
Perry Jones and George Brown, COL
ored men. notoriously the most pro-
fame, wicked persons in the whole
community, with three other color
ed persons. took refuge, during the
rain accompanied by a good deal of
lightning and thunder, in tobacco
barn on the land of Mr.. Creasey.
"From their several positions one
would have thought that two of the
others were in more. and the third
in as much danger as Jones and
Brown were. They. as their Gus
tom was, were engaged in cursing
and swearing. Suddenly the light
ming descended upon them, and
while the other three were compare
lively uninjured. Jones was killed
and Brown was stricken down sense
less and almost lifeless for time.
He revived after few minutes, and
soon seemed to have regained all OF
his strength, but was dumb and be-
reft of his mind for several hours.
The lightning had set fire to his
clothing, and he was burned Oh his
chest and left side and arm before
the fire was extingniseed. In his
maniac efforts to free himself from
those who were restraining him the
skin was rubbed from the burned
flesh and presented the following
characters, GOD. Very close rep
resentation, to say the least Of them,
of the capital letters used in print
ing the name of Deity, while around
aud between them the skin was un-
removed, and apparently not burn-
ed. The above characters. occupied
the angles of an equilateral triangle,
which, as you are doubtless well
aware. was in ancient days the sym
boil of Deity. This man then APP
pears TO have been branded with Che
name of his Creator in the symbolic
languages. it may be. Of his forefath-
ers three thousand years ago, and in,
the printed language of the nation
TO which he belongs"
The Alabama election on Monday
last. the first State tiIection since Til
deus nomination, was carried by the
Democracy in a way that shows the
strength and popularity of the St.
Louis ticket. Up to 1874, the state
was Republican, but in that year It
turned to the Democratic party by
majority. OF Il, 900. The gain upon
that majority. in Mondays election.
was very great. and the full returns
will perhaps show that ii was doubled,
or even more than doubled. Nearly
MI the members OF Congress elected
are Democratic, and the Stale Leg
islature, I'm both branches. is almost
entirely Democratic Order and
quiet prevailed everywhere during
the election. and there was 90 dls-a
turbance LII any part Of the State.
/ jaw Gould qras foolish enough 90
think, up TO Monday last that his
party was likely to carry the State,
and this. he told lis stool p1geon 40
say, would be an "0minions event
/ for the Democracy. ~. 4. Sun.