The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-24
"CONJU Red"
A Queer Case OF COIOred Supersti
ltO0,

A Queer Gaze OF COIOred Supersti.
ton.
From the Memphis Appeal, August 20
There is great turmoil among all the
colored denizens Of the country about
Germantown. Two or three months
ago, a negro named Rams Darden was
bitten by dog supposed to be rabid.
There were those who thought the dog
would die; but Rams was not little
alarmed. The dog died rather hyster-
icslly, and raved and went on, Rams
said, like the whisky guzzlers. Rams
went to Colliersville and applied So
called mad stone to the wound Inflicted
by the crazy dog, and such was the
effect of this and medicines admins
tered that Rams thought himself sale
He has recognized in nothing the
tact that the dogs fsngs in
jected subtle poison into his
veins, which would finally dethrone
his intellect. In fact, Rams WAS perfectly
we'll, and had been 20 TOR q month or
more, when, last Thursday, extraordi-
nary symptoms and sensations were
developed in Rams bowels. He couldn't
drink. In fact, Rams found on Thursday
last that he could force no fluid down
his throat. The bare sight of cup Of
water turned Rams stomach bottom
upward and Rams himself inside out.
He tasted no food for two whole days or
nights, and constantly raved more
violently. Two excellent physicians
visited Rams, but could by no possibility
induce him to take any medicine, and
of course their skill availed Rams
nothing. 1t never occurred to the doc
tors, az nothing was said of the dog bite,
that Rams was mad--thst his aversion
to water was more violent than that Of
patent repeater in a primary election.
Rams then had recourse To q
negro doctor, man OF parts
His hoots, 1T least, are parts Of the
first magnitude, and his learning, thus
we'll founded, is most ponderous. He
investigated Rams condition, looked
at his toe-nails, bored an artesian well
down through the wool, and on down
through the clay, down through the
skin, and found that the blood that
drifted around Rams skull was not
wholly dried, and he at once pro-
nounced the deliberate professional
opinion that Rams was "conjured."
When Rams heard that awful word he
leaped out OF bed and raved and roared
terri6cally. He knew that be was
gone up" The people Of the neigh>
borhood and all the colored population
of the country gathered for miles
around. The cabin occupied by Rams
became the most attractive place in the
vicinity, and negroes from all quar-
tiers flocked thither. There were
endless prayers uttered; feathers from
the lett wing OF the Oldest hen in the
country were burned. and every known
means Of exercising devils was resorted
10 in vain. Rams still ranted and howl
ed, and was last losing bis hold on lite
The prayers we're louder aad the crowd
grew grester and the excitement more
intense. At length Rams was told by
Pigee, the E.cnlapius, that Rufe Har-
rison was The conjurer. Ruie cultivated
q Little patch" adjoining that OF Rams
and the two had quarreled. In fact
the learned Doctor Pigee-eo called
because Of his skill in collecting stray
swine-had learned that Rate and Rams
had quarreled. and Rule had told Rams
that he would kill him il he did not
keep his hogs ut home. The conse-
auence Of this revelation Of the
skllliul doctor was frShttul.