Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-21
Curious Will.
ST. o IL Republican,

" GNAAS ANRNShSeHs
A Farmer named Rothgele lately
died In Gallipolis, Ohio having left a
will containing the curious provisions
given below. These provisions The
circuit court Of Gallo county has for
hidden the executors to carry into eff
feet, and the case has been taken to
the Supreme Court of the State. Judge
j. 3. Slallo Of Cincinnati, Is attorney
for the executors and feels confident Of
success:
at is my will that a white marble
monument three feet square, without
taper, and elk feet high, with the top
dressed eighty conicaI, and the per.
pendicular angles bevelled with two
faces about an inch wide, forming
three equal angles, to be set upon a
granite base, If the same can be had
without too much trouble and expense ;
If so, q rock OF a durable kind In the
vicinity may be taken, which base
should be four and half or five feet
square and two feet thick, 10 be Get up
upon the Brison hill, near my shop, II
same car be purchased if not the most
suitable that can be had-not in a
graveyard and not far from the road
and III sight Of the river will do-and
the following inscription engraven
thereon in plain English letters, pro-
portioned 10 the space on the monu-
ment, and the length of the inscription
beginning on the side next to the road
and not come lower down than necces-
sary which is to say:
"The blue sky, with all things there
in, is termed the universe, which is
infinite In extent in all directions and
eternal In duration. No definite thing
in the universe is eternal Of duration,
all definite things being of a changea-
BILE nature, creation and destruction
being the constant result. Life is nat.
ural 10 certain arrangements of mat.
ter aud imponderable agents, and is a
phenomenon Of their peculiar chemical
action upon each other. The earth is OF
great age-probably o million of years
having been subject to both gradual
and revolutionary changes, the great
age being most certainly known from
approximate calculations OF the time
necessary for the streams 10 carry
away the rock which once filled theiI
deep channels and wide valleys. The
Bible is wholly OF human origin, 81
an impartial critical reading will prove
and contains nothing which human in,
vention could not produce.
"All the gods worshipped now aud ID
times past arc imaginary beings Of al
many forms and attributes as there arc
individuals to imagine. All the God
there Is in reality Is in the operation
of the laws of nature. Christ had
natural father az all other men, aud Il
Joseph was not bis father he wss mol
the Christ. lie did not really rise
from tho dead any more than did thou.
sands of other men whose ghosts have
been lmaginarily seen by the most
honest men. Strong faith and excite.
ment cause the conception to exceed
the senses IN brightness. When
imaginary objects are taken for real
ones, Of such IS believed only saw
them.
"'Death is the eternal dissolution Of
the soul and body of men and the in'
ferior animals, the soul as the fame OF
Of lamp blown out Is no more, and
the body decomposing never to be
composed again. The inscription ends
here. The monument / wish 10 be eel
up as Don as The proseeds of my farm
are sufficient 10 pay the cost"