Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-27
BARTLETT.
The Crops. the Weather, and the ChiIls
-SaIOOn-ke ePers In GIOOm-Ne-
gro Doctors and their
Cures.
From an Occasional Correspondent

BARTLETT, October 25 1t may not
be that this place is too near home for a letter
TO be interesting from 1t, considering the d.
Versity between the scenes and incidents of
city life and those of country life For in
stance, out here you will see more OF the scar
anu yellow leaf to tell once year OF death,
and you Will see the brown fields ripe for the
sickle of the husbandman, whose arm, unfor-
tunately, is now TOO much like the withered
leaf for he is sick and cannot work. On
through the hot Suns of June, July and Au-
gust he labOred cheerfully, and Dame Nature
gave him a most encouraging response; but
as he is about to reach the reward,
she mocks his efforts and paralyzes hope. Not
half the cotton is gathered that ought 10 be,
and little corn, II any. There has seldom been
sucn a time for sickness among the farming
population. They look yellow, feeble and dis
cou' aged. They can't get qulntne enough;
the doctors have all been broken down, and
are sick themselves Even whisky has ceased
to have good effect, and only nauseates.
Lager beer just fills up, and does no good.
The result is, the humane and generous saloon
keepers at Bartlett, Shelby, Wythe, Fisher
Vile, Cuba, Raleigh and Lucy, and, in fact, as
far as l can hear from in the country towns,
are diving OF ennui and starvation. They
couldn't now get up fight on election day,
for We had an election here last week for con-
stable, and tried it. 1.-THE thing couldn't be
did" EveryDody's liver, stomach and kid
neys were wrong, and nobody would eight
in" know of only one man, outside of Mem
phis, in Shelby county who has lie enough to
get respectfully drunk, and he has been an
elder in his church Tor thirty years. l have
reason to believe that 1t Is only the spirit that
sustatns him. What a noble example of faith
in the midst Of such a deplOrable state of
things! But speaking of these things, recalls
what the poet says:
Lives Of great men all remind us
That we can make our own sublime,
And departing, leave behind us ~
have forgotten the rest, but we certainly
have some great men in this community. II
l should lake them seridtll l would first be-
gin with old Br. Hancy. l wish could send
but that makes no difference. Color is no dis
tinctien. He is of the genuine African type,
and brings the practice OF his profession
wonderful mysteries from the interior of the
country he comes from. at this time he is
doing great good among his own race. He IS
busy riding about on an animal the fac sin1iIe
of departed but Immortal Rozenante, carry
ing his saddlebagE, and visiting the sick OF his
own people. 1t is understood that he goes
only TO diff1cult and abandoned hopeless cases.
Here he applies the mysteries of bis art. And
what do you think he can do? Cure them?
No, not always; bu ne can take bugs, snakes,
Lizards, frogs, Dads, taTaplns, grOuDd-hOgS,
and various insects out OF his patients, and
effectuGlly undo the devices of tn wicked
conjurer that placed them there. He FREE
Quenty finds about the bed or corners of
The fireplace, the identical blue bottles with
which they were cOnlured. He took from one
colOred man worm four feet long. He fire.
quently finds colored man aft cted with
worm from tour inches to still greater
length. He extracted from another patient
q great number OF black bugs, such
as you see under shocks of corn or wheat
he took from a lady patient of his own color
= grouL hog that weighed seven pounds, and
patients are more frequently afflicted with
bugs, snakes, toads aud such smell things,
while the lady patients, poor creatures, as is
the fate of their sex, are frequently conjured
with more weighty Things. The old doctor is
really accomplishing much good, and will
leave a grest name behind him. His race, in
the midst of all their affiictlous, may con-
gsatulate themselves on having men of science
and lea a. who Will alneltorate their con-
ditiOn. DR.. Hancy is a self ma1e man, and
probably has but one equal in his profession,
and that is old Dr. Lsngstreet, who came from
Africa al an early day and spent much Of his
su bsequent life in the family OF General Long
streets father. he. too, has his home near
Bartlett, but spends most OF his time in Mem
phis. He claims 10 be intimately connected
with the said General LOL gstreet, and was
great rebel when his Young master COM
msnded his famous battalioDs on the COnfed-
crate side, but is tnOW rather "shsky" on
that question. He has understood that his
young master acknowledged We were wrong,
and he is incliUed TO think so, too, and votes
that way, "Cress God" What else l have to
tell you NAV serve Tor hash some frosty
mo ming for breakfast. Z. {.