Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-26
A BIG SCARE.
d"o Co'ofed People Of Georgia Fearful ofc
- ViUaSecti0N.

ooHo uayS ago IL was publicly stated in
this city that two policemen had mysterious
~ disappeared. It was further said that the
remnants of their uniforms, together with
their sticks, were found in the neighborhood
of the medical college, but the forms which
erst filled these clothes and the hands which
once handled those sticks were missing, and
although diiigent search had been made,
could nowhere be found, Somehow, or
somehow else, the impression got abroad
that this brace of policemen had been ether
ed by medical students, and having been
conveyed to the dissecting room Of the
Atlanta Medical college, there carved after
the most approved fashion, while under
the influence of the powerful drug.
The intelligent, thinking portion
of the community saw through the cruel
hoax at glance, for, argued they, while it
sometimes happens that the policemen take
medical students for 'cutting up,'' the his
tory Of body scratching furnishes but single
instance where medical students have hsd
the colossal cheek to tackle policeman with
view of carving. This happened in the
city OF Paris over hundred years ago. Two
students went out at midnight in quest of a
case for dissection. After long and unsuc-
cessful search, they were about to return to
their quarters, when they spied an aged po-
liceman sleeping TRANQUILITY upon the bosom
Of neighboring dry-goods box. They ep
preached him, and were upon the point of
administering ether, but suddenly reflected
that it might wake him, and discarded tbs
idea. They shouldered him and
started off, and began talking of
riot which they said was in progress
somewhere on his beat. This had the de-
sired effect. He commenced snoring, and
when they reached their quarters he was in
such deep sleep that they diesected him
without his giving the slightest sign Of
awaking. But the hoax above alluded to
took firm hold of the ignorant cclored PEG
pie of Atlanta. Hundreds of them reliei-
ouslY believe that those two policemen were
s'cut up" and during the past week this be
lief has completely unsettled them. They
believe that the three medical colleges OF
Atlanta have ordered their students to pur
ether to the nose of every colcred person
caught out after dark and cut that person op
inetanter. AS consequence
these superstitious creatures are
in the greatest state of trepida-
ton. There is perfect reign of terror
among them. Numerous instances of the
outcroppipgs of this remarkable fright
might be enumerated. We give several:
One cook in the southern portion of the city
has not left her kitchen for three days and
three nights. She says she will never 90
back home until she can go before dark. A
hackman drove gentleman to the surgical
institute about shutdown the other evening.
and was told to get the elevator with hiSsa
and go up STAIRS to receive his pay. Where
upon the hackman refused. and went off and
told policeman that he believed that the
man wished to take him up there and 'scut
him up.' A certain carriage driver has
taken refuge in the loft, and re-
fuses to come out for fear of being dis
sected. On Friday night temperance
meeting for the benefit of the coiored people
was to have come off at the Big Bethel
church. Gov. Co;quitt was to speak, and,
by Mr.. Drew, repaired, at the
appointed hour, to the church. There were
only six or seven negroes in the church.
the meeting was a dead failure-they were
afraid to come out. Gen. Anderson says that
fewer negroes have been up before the police
court in the last few days than ever before.
DR.. Willis Westmoreland says that It is al
most impossible to get clinics at the college
now. The patients are usually selected
among the negroes. He says that he did
manage to get two TO the college on yester-
day, but he had to take them in his buggy
and force them to 90. @