PUBLIC PROFANITY AND BLACKS GUARDISM.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 230, 6 December 1878, Page 5

PUBLIC PROFANITY AND BLACKS GUARDISM.

A correspondent requests us to find room for the enclosed " as a warning to writers and publishers who seek to foist ' upon the community here the lowest specimen of -blackguardism, falsehood, and profanity ever seen in print, "—rather too strong language we think, but not without the element of truth. The following is " the warning " : — •• The Gtaelph Weekly Mercury., Ontario, Canada, of October 17, 1878, narrates the following : — " We are told quite confidentially,, and yriili great terror and treihbling, for we believe the', party relating the affair firmly believed what he Was saying as being true, that a farmer, being greatly annoyed by the constant, wet weather, elevated himself upon a stump in a field \ and called upon his Maker to come down -„ and he would rip Him open with a scythe. Instantly the man was transformed into stone, but still retained life, and efforts were made by the neighbours to get him down, but he stood as solid as the Rocky Mountains, four span of horses not being able to move him ; he drank water, but would eat nothing, . Failing to get him down they endeavoured to build a house over him, but, strange to say, the nails would not hold, and the building came tumbling down as fast as it was pub up ; ', then the heat in the vicinity became so intense tkat no one could go iiear hinV -and live. . Every other method of relieving' him having failed, they concluded to undermine the stump and bury him alive so as to end his misery. Accordingly .the • men went to work and dug from ■ morning till dark, when the. stump and man had been lowered into the earth until the head and shoulders were only above. In this position he was left for the night. When the labourers returned to their work in the morning they.were surprised. to find the stump and man in the position , fir st V ~\ found, not. a vestige of the, first day's labour visible. Life: remains; iti him .yet. '*)'■'.'. Anyone : possessing a critical "'ey^'-ixA:-knowing nothing of the. Gcourrence^would '.':} take tKe figure . io bea niagQificent work : of .art.. The ; : : features, in r V/pa^iicU]ai,'.;ara.'':---.'-^ ; terribly life-like/" ;;^^ „|P-,the "spot fipmalL jjai^^of v ;^e country ?;"-■' ■■:. '--';'■ iih^^i^eiKloisi^^ around "v^B^^iS^^m^^mdU^ rdence7:^.TK^a^i^:if^e%i^^^^B ■ woocp Vra^^idi|n|-^j^BOTl^^^^^^^^y