The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-08-21
ENCOURAGING SUP ERs Triton.

TO one OF the rural districts, he found him
sell out OF funds, and had to use his wits 10
pay his expenses. Arriving at a village
inn, ne ordered his horse stabbed. and sun.
per and lodging himself. Having done this
ne stroiled into the kitchen, where he espl-
ed little girl shivering with the ague. On
inquiry OF the landlady he learned that the
sufferer was her only child. and that she
had been afflicted in that way for nearly
year in spite of various medicines. The
future judge grayely shook his head at the
doctors and bade the despairing mother and
the child TO be under no further concern
about the case, for he Could prevent return
ofthe chill without fail.
He at once wrote few unmeanino words.
in bold and showy hand-a" " court hand
the chronicler tells us--on scrap OF parch-
ment such as was in use then (i7O9l, aud
this ne directed to be rolled up and bound
TO the girls waist. Holt remained at the
tavern a week, during which time ,he.e
was no return whatever of the disease.
When he called for his bill the delight,
ed mother replied: "God bless you, Sir
you're nothing in my debt at all! To the
contrary, wish was able to pay you for
the cure Of my daughter. Oh! If / had had
the happiness to see you ten months ago, il
would have saved me e4O. at least. paid
for doctors bills and medicines -
Young Holt pretended. when he left, I,
accept his weeks board, as a compensation.
with great reluctance. although he had DOT
shilling in his pocket!
Many years had elasped since this event,
and the wild rover had become Judge.
Ii SO happened that the circuit to which be
was assigned embraced the county in which
The old landIady kept her tavern. Among
the prisoners brought before him for trial
was an old woman accused oil witchcr9li.
10 support Of this accusation several w.t.
nesses swore that the old woman had
spell, by which she could cure sick cattle
or make well ones sick-they had detected
her in doing this, and were ready to pro-
duce the SPELL"
The Judge required the "spel" to be
handed up 10 him. This having been CON-
piled with. he proceeded to unwrap dirty
ball. enyeloped in rags and bound with
pack thread. which resulted in his finding
his own parchment charm, rolled up pre-
clsely as when he handed il TO his relying
and grateful hostess, ia the long past days
Of his freakish boyhood
Thunderstruck, his lordship remained
silent for moment, as if making an effort
Of reinsurance, and then proceeded 10
charge the jury to the following effect
/" Gentlemen, must now relate an incident
of nv own life, which will seem TO i'll belit
nv present station TILL | have fully explain
ed all the circumstances. But to conce
the fact would be to aggrsva:e folly nf
my you'h, for which would tain atone, as
well as TO endanger innocence and encour-
are superstition. This bauble, which the
witnesses have testified of as having the
power of life aud death. is a senseless
scroll which | wrote with my own hand
and gave 10 this woman as cure for dis
case. and for no other reason than a sincere
belief in its virtue as such she is now ac-
cused Of the crime OF witchcralt |"
Ii is further related that the'Judge after
more particularly narrating the circum-
stances of his cure uf the sgue with this
I" charm" charged the jury 50 effectively in
favor Of acqultial. that not only was the
poor old supposed I" witch" discharged
without punishment, but an end put to
trials for witchcralt in his circuit, ii not
Throughout England.
The Fredericksburg Herald publishes
the most slowing accounts nf the Polish
colony planted last year in spottsylyania
county by Gen. Tochman.
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