DEATH OF THE DEVIL.
♦ {From the Pall Mall Gazette.') We should be sorry to raise hopes which, after all, may not be realised, but there seems to be just a possibility that the Devil is dead. A New York paper says that Borne workmen at Mooresville, Indiana, in making an excavation, have dug up a skeleton, well preserved, corresponding to the human skeleton in all respects except that, the forehead is villanously low, with two horns curving backwards. The arms are of unusual length, and the spinal bone terminates in a tail, of which about a foot in length still remains. If the Devil is no more, and this is his skeleton, be has been treated with some, injustice. His death has certainly not put an end to crime on this side of the Atlantic; and either we have attributed too much. evil to the instigation of the deceased, or, perhaps, only the American Devil is dead. For, unless all the views of the Devil which are popularly entertained are devoid of foundation, he is not only alive in England at the present moment, but, if possible, rather more active than usual.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 716, 8 September 1870, Page 4
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