Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-12-14
Voutiauism iu louisiana.

lhe It0?Hc7' thinner says he
..oninIing mania secms 20 Be on the
ncrca>c among ile negroes o 81
larry and along the Teche in Lonsi-
ana. Though one Of the most foolish
hings On earth, the negroes have
IN 'unsFraEeifs coIIfFieser-iH 1t: =ssF1rpy
id rough! looking negro. with an old
bag containing bones, hair, lizard
leads, and other ends Of traps and
trash, in keeping with wild African
Imagination. can pass himself Oft as
conjurer and the negroes are all
.Iaid of him. He pretcnds to have
lie power to put spells upon othcl
eg. oes, sickness, insanity, deluslons
nd death at his will Ii any negro
sick, and the disease is little odd
its symton,s, The wild fancy of the
egro immediately attributes the
;lness to voudouism.
1t is astonishing to notice the
.iarm which these negro impostor$
.eate among their own race. The
.unning of some Of these conjurers
often remarkable. Last season one
/; them collected some live lizards
nd. attending a voudoued patient
rete' ded to take one Of the reptiles
rom her arm. He would allow nc
ne to see him do it, but as soon us il
was done he sent to the field, and
the hands rushed to the quarters tc
zee the remarkable lizard which mad
lust been extracted from the arm oI
he woman. who for weeks had moi
zen able todo anything on account ot
he horrid inlirmfty inflicted UPON llel
y II conjurer.
Tie same crafty conjurer made
practice Of collecting the youngest
.iiga,ors he could find in the
.wanps, using them for the same
;,uirose rs lc used the lizards. $
far as We can learn, all tie genuine
pure. blooded Africans beIivc in You
,louism to a greater or less extent
1t is a part OF their nature, inherlte'
from their African ancestors, and il
will go down to their posterity
hrough thousand generations, if the
race does not become extinct.
gs.- The highest luxury of which the
human mind is sensible is to call smiles
upon the face Of misery.
Ms" a couple IN newport, Il. T., re:
Gently celebrated their pearl wedding
having been married seventy years.
ass- An item in lawyers bill to his
client ran thus: "To lying awake Al
night thinking over your case, forty-tive
dollars"
@- Atarecent Wedding i'll ithinebeck
as tho clergyman reached that part of the
ceremony, 81 pronounce you"-a fish
peddler III the street shouted "bull
hcads bull heads ~ to the amusement
u some and the CONSERVATION Of others
present on the occasion.
~ A man was once relating {, story
Of being on locomotive that struck 4
COW Standing On the track, and threw hel
several yards into tho field where sht
lit squurely upon her feet, with hcr head
toward the train, and, strange to say, she
wasn't hurt a mite. " But didn't she
look scared p inquiIed Il listener. "Well
I don't know whether she was scared OF
not, but she looked good deal discour.
aged"
go A man who seems TO be losing
his faith in womankind has posted thu
following "notis" in the Berlin (Ft
Postotiice;
"My wife, Mary Miller, having dc
ceived me in regard to her age, before
marriage, claiming to be 26 only, wher
she was 80, with teeth badly decayed
while am not %, with perfectly sonp;
teeth; therefore, ! viii pay no debts o
her contracting. His
ia, II. n CHURCH.