The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-09-08
How Gipsy Woman Cnayrd f.izartIs {, ON
II Mans sst mach.
Correspondence of The Halifa q. S. Sun1

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fore the public through the medium of
your Journals:
A farmer in this county, James Mul-
ock OF the fiat lands, has been for some
three years confined to his bed through
weakness proceeding from cmuciatlon
the cause of his sickness was unknown,
aud the symptoms bore no semblance
to any other diseases that has appear
cd IN this community All the doctors
have pr scrlbed for him, and all with the
same result-compotc failure. A few
weeks ago, however, gipsy woman, who
4 has been telling fortunes for some time
past, offered to cure him for 500, the
sum to be left in the hands Of Mr.. Fer
guson, who wa to be the Judge Of the
cnre; Mulock Was 10 put himsrlI COM
petely in her hands, and leave his home
Tor one week H. did 50, although his
wife demurrcd to the arrangement, and
tried to persuade him from it; he, how
ever, persisted, and went with her, ac-
companicd by his youogcr brotI rr,
Charles, aud BOW We may as well take the
story of the latter:
We went with her to her camp; i'm
broad ana ham, I;n, a%l t..t o,.,na
bo,r.;,r 49, ,l;,.. = ';5
! sha uiSL.d t,'sn...,L ,aSnaa aa.
into ~, ,,oaat L,.,. r.,,, 49, .
,~l,,,, H., !,
ling that Jim should be haod cuffrd and
I be bound, aud to submit altogether to
! "t'. >a'd L was hot' linen Satd Hh"'
II. 10 use was ',n& "oFoS atoUt me
matter II you oon 90 - ne II never De
! cuF'o' l asked nef 20 rEp!aIh h'rSef !;
s'e sh'c Sne ""u'o not at last con
! se"'cu' '"'"A'"S 10 ''yS"ii 'h'fe can De
! ""'"in% wrong "n''e am mere AZ tea
we ,'u s''"o Sa'' PORK it!eu, ana good
! o'''u NeAt hlofHihS, on waxing at'er a
very ""''"Iu' "'2h'' ior never cIo7ed
! my eyes, '"uhd Jim 'ieo up. ne
seemed rather pn out ou, the gypsy told
mum al once nn'f she h"a done 50 because
ro - ~u" -,0 oea' ol pam o"-
,I'' ''',@ cured assent u 20 thi"'-
ne sara nc was WI lns to 20 ,hrou@h
WI" - S''c8 "' "a" d" gun W" h'd
rt'"N'"S,' ~" pork ara pread la
"'''' az" W. ''G -''a al 'h' t"fc' ~ w.
I""S''I' Z" Al. h"o no 'a''h al All N
"I' A'''' o''1N'"S' '''hvd VITA the
2'P,,I anu ">"N" htr Wn' 81" meant :;
,''O 'I' vas Il" G''''o' anu ''Io'' ''',i T
n''9" n,,9 ~. nor pans ., "ou' un'''"Se ''"n
~. ln.,s H., a,I s,D I,,,;'' 'V" 'o'D ~,
Kim .,4 ,L,, Ia ,,l,, ,n', h,n
was ,o .o3 lin, v,,,L Sal, - t,r -. I,y
,r two and rho, s+o, him Tram lr,,.L;,g
,Itorsther when ,hr ,,;n,.l w,n.d CANA
ont to sack water
She had cprea ,,bcrs h,, n,rs, ~
noc, n soo hin, .nfrar .,rfuI n,;n ana
t,r,,ro rr,o,, III, ,,,,,or ,, ,,
!, u,nll onIr -" t,r ,,n,.',n 49,.
=, I,rr, ,n,,. >, 1;, ,.ll IN
,skoA lin, r. La ,r,~ ,.;;I;,,. -, ,,I .,.o
it Saws 10 ..Cbarlor ,,a, ,ron,an 49,,
j., ri stor9 :, F." W,rI tha, A.. ,,aa
q l-..lt ,ork and l,.aI aol En, r
Gn;t, 4 sn,nI,, - n,,,,r. 'n,r,1,., ,t5
same ,iu af,sr a;,n.r vhao .bo n..,ar
was comnlcte,v stonnrd NV cou,n.n
'ff - O''''" "
ceu the work, lie begged and prayed
tor water; he howled TIL h" was hoarse;
the woman gave hlm djlEE Of what |
considered water, but which she told me
after was salt pork fat, melted, with wa
ter on the top; he drank i'll few mouth
fuIs, aud IN few minutes more he was
worse than ever lie begged me to shoot
HIM, to drown blm, 10 do anything with
hln, only not leav him in that state
toward evening he became quite ont of
his mind: water aud springs was all he
raved about lie lay that way for some
time, almost until morning, when he got
into high fever | got alarmed, aud
rold the gypsy | thought it had gone far
enough that jim was too weak to stand
It, She told me | could do as | liked,
built | would leave ham two hours lon
ger | wou d see whether She or the doe
tors were right She likewise told me
that if !oosed he would kill himself
drinking at the first water we met |
tried her La about an hour after she
asked me to drag him to the spring, a
few rods away from the calnp. We got
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