The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-06

A London dispatch states tina
two young Russian engineer officer
attempted to reach a Turkish nnoni
tor on the Danube with torpedoes
They were discovered and driven of
by heavy fire, but returned at {
o'clock in the morning in two skiffs
carrying a chain of small torpedoet
filed with dynamite. They secured
the chain across the monitors bows
and fired it by means of electricity,
when the monitor disappeared,
The town of Maple Grove, Wis,
is excited over asrecent Sunday oc.
currence there The people were
mostly at church, and in one house q
IL year old boy was the only occu-
pant. During the absence of the
family, a man came to the house
completely enveloped in beef hide,
with horns, tail, aud all complete.
and so fitted that nothing else could
be seen. 1t was known in the neigh
borhood that the occupants of this
house had money, and there was
there at the time about two hundred
dollars. The object disguised in
the hide told the boy that he was
the devil, and that he had come af-
ter his money, and he must give it
to him. The boy answered he could
not have the money. The devil
then told the boy that he would have
him and kill him if he did not bring
out the money. The boy then step
ped into the house as if he was about
to comply, but instead of bringing
the money he brought a gun and
shot the man dead in his tracks.
The boy then ran to the nearest
neighbor, and, finding only woman
there, told her that he had shot the
devil at his house. The woman
went with the boy, aud found that
the devil whom the boy had shot
was her husband.
An old epitaph in the churehyard
at BedIington, Northumberland
reads,
Poems and epitaphs are but stuff
Here lies Rob't Brass, that's enough"
The old hymn. ''Rock of Ages
Cleft for Me- was written by Rev.
Montague Toplady about
one hundred years ago. During
these hundred years it has found its
way into almost every land and eY-
cry tongue. Some time ago an
American clergyman attended an
church in Constantinople,
and heard hymn which in a foreign
tongue seemed to produce a power
'ul impression upon the congrega-
ion. As he left the house what was
lis surprise to learn that this affect
ng hymn was none other than
Rock Of Ages Cleft for Me-
In 1453 a prophet wrote these
lines:
"In twice two hundred years the bear
The crescent shall assail,
But if the cock and bull unite,
The bear shall not prevail.
But look in twice ten years again,
Let Islam know and fear, .-.s- ..-
The cross shall wax-the crescent wane,
aGrow pale and disappear" U.rs -s=
The Burlington Hog0beye tells of |
solitary Ohio man who demanded, |
a husky voice, at the Office win
low in the railway station: "Tik't t."
Where top asked the unruffled |
nonopolist behind the window. |
'Nywhere Anywhere r was the
renzied response. Anywhere |
;lean through Clean acrost! To !
or Prooshy, or the Dan I
be, or Diffendorfer, or any place. I
out of an uGgrateful
ountry, that coldly turns its back
lpon its deserving children. Any
Ehere out of America !" And he
lowed his head and wept. He was
he only man in Ohio that didn't get |
n office. i
Russia did not prevail in the Cri-
mean war but this spring the twice
en- years came around There is
n old superstition among the Mos
ems that they are to lose their chief
ity some time. We shall begin to
ear now of eggs laid by prophetic
ems bearing mysterious inscrip-
ions, and of locusts with pressages
f the result of the war delicately
raced upon the network of their
rings. ~ 'lss Aaf @
The New York Herald is terribly
larmed about the Mormons in
act, the Norman question :"
J the question of The hour
18th the Herald. It pictures the ut
er wiping out of $4,000 Gentiles by
he 100000 Mormons of Utah, aud
ays: ave take the liberty to sug-
est to the President that he shou
eep his eye on Utah. Fhe Presi-
ent, however, seems just now to
ave his eye on Mexico. When the
rand jury presents Brigham Young
nd other pillars of the Mormon
hnrch for indictment 10 week or
wo, as they very properly should,
will be seen whether the Mormons
ill be foolish enough to endeayor
} thwart The process of the law by
n armed attempt to, rescue Brig
am. 1t is. very doubtful if they
ill do so.-Courier-JouRQl.
A French woman will love her
usband if he is either witty or chiv-
lrous; German woman, if he is
onstant and faithful a Dutch wo-
ian, if be does not disturb her ease
nd comfort too much a Spanish
oman, if he wreaks vengeance on /.
lose who incur his displeasure an
-alIan woman, if lie is dreamy and
oetical; a Danish woman, If he
links that her native untry is
le brightest and happtest on earth /;
Russian woman, if he despises all
LISTENERS as miserable barbarians
nd American woman, If he has
lenty of money.
According TO Mohammedan theol-
gy there is bridge over he'll no
ider than the edge of sword.
cross which every one that enters