Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-21

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From the Mem. York Commercial Advertiser
THE oLDEN TINE.
-" The shrieks of luckless owls,
We hear, land croaking night crows in the air;
Green beliied snakes, blue 6le. brakes in the
sky,
And giddy flitter-mice with leather wings,
And scaly beetles with their babergeons,
That make humming murmur as they fly.
There in the stocks of trees white tays do
dwell,
And spah-long elves that dance about the
pool
With each little changeling in their arms:
The airy spirits pla with falling stars,
And mount the sphere OF fire. %
We resume the subject commenced yes.
terday, and proceed at once to lay before Our
readers, part OF the testimony taken down
at the trial of Mercy Disborough, Goodwife
Clawson, Goody Miller, and Mrs. Staples,
(whose name we accidentally omitted yes
terday,) at the court held at Fayreaeld ye
18th OF Septr. 1892.
1.-The testimony OF Hester Groment, aged
thirty fore yers or ther-a- bouts, testi6eth.
that when she lay sick some time in May
last, she saw about midnight or past, the wi
dow Staples, that is the shape of her person,
and the shape of Mercy Disborough, sitting
upon the floor by the two chests, that stand
by The sid otthe hous, in the iner rune, and
Mr.. IS shape dancing upon the beds feet,
with white cup in her hand-and perform
ed some three times.
Sworn in Court, Sept. 10, 1922.
Attest, JOHN ALLYN. Secretary.
Catharine Branch, aged seventeen years,
or Whereabouts, testiGeth and saith, that some
time this last somer, she saw and felt Good
wife Clawson and Marcy Disbrough atiiict
her. not together, but apart, by scratching
and pinching and wringing her body; and
further saith that Goodwlie Clawson was the
first that did .fHict her, and afterwards Mar
cy Dsbrough, and after that sometimes one
of them, and sometimes the other of them;
and in her affection, though it was night. yet
it appeared as light as noone day.
Sworn IN Court. Sept. l9, 1899.
Attest. JOHN ALLYN, Secretary.
81, David Selleck, watching with Catha-
rine Branch, at the house of Daniel West
colt, in company with Abraham Finch, doth
testify. that in ye night when sd Katharine
was in her fit, she looking off the bed, sayed
Gooduy Miller. bold up your aim byer, that
the black dog may suck ye better Again
she sayed, Goody Miller never thought
so much before now am sure you are
witch, for you have got a long **sS under
your arm Then sd Katharine coming 10
herself, wee asked her what she saw she an
swered that she saw Gooddy Miller, succle
a black dog, and that she had long ****
under her arme Then | tuck took the
light in my hand. and went out into the other
rune [rooIn] upon some location, and pass
ing low or three times across rune, heard
We sd Katharine serene out. Then tuck
ye light, and went up into we rune, and
found Abraham Finch setting upon ye bed
and sd Katharine lying across his feet. And
seeing him locking very pale, asked what
was ye matter; and he sayed tina: lying upon
the bed he heard yesd Katharine serene out.
and looked up and saw a ball Of fire as big
as his tow hands pass Long ye Simmer to
ye hearth and then vannshth away. Then
after small space, the sd Katharine came to
herself,and We asked her what she saw when
she SCREENED out. She said that she saw
Gooddy Clawson come in with fiery eyes.
Againe leying upon the bed bye sd Aath-