The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-05
Witchcraft In England.


A local paper reports the following case
of alleged witchcraft, which recently was
heard at the East Dereham Sessions: Will
liam Bulwer, of Etling- green, was charged
with assaulting Christiana Martins, a
young girl. who resides near the Etling-
green toll-bar. Complainant deposcd that
she was Is years of age, and on Wednes-
day, the 2d instant, the defendant came to
her and abused her. The complainant,
who looked scarce more than child, re-
peated, despite the efforts of the magistra-
tes' clerk to stop her, and without being
in the least abashed, some of the worst Ian
guage it was possible to conceive-conver-
| sation of the most gross description, al
legged To have taken place between herself
and the defendant. They appeared to
have got from words TO blows, and, while
trying 10 fasten the gate, the defendant hit
her across the hand with a stick. She al
legged that there was NJ cause for the
abuse and the assault, so far as she knew,
and in reply 10 rigid cross-exnmina.ion as
| to the origin of the quarrel, adhered TO this
| statement. Mrs Susannah Gathercole also
corroborated the statement as 10 the as
sault, adding that the. defendant said the
complainant's mother was a witch. Dc
fendant then blazed forth in righteous in
dignation, and, when the witness said she
knew no more about the origin of the quar-
|
witch. gentlemen. that is what she is, and
she charmed me, and I got no sleep for
her for three nights, and one night, at IL :
80 O'Clock, got up because could not
sleep, and went out and found a 'walkin q
toad under a clod that had been dug up
with three-pronged fork. That is why
could not rest; she is bad woman; She
put this toad under there to charm me,
and her daughter is just as bad, gentle
men. She would bewltch any one: she
charmed me, and got no rest day nor
night for her, till l found this walking
toad [laughter] under the tuif She dug
hole and put it there to charm me, gen
| tlemen, and that is the truth she is bad
old witch. I got the toad out, and put it
| in n cloth, and took il upstairs and Show
ed it to my mother, and 'throwed' it into
| the pit IN the garden. / can bring it and
show i To you, gentlemen" Mr.. Hyde
Qaughing)-What do you say, she be-
witched yous Defendant-Yes, sir. She
went round this here walking toad" after
she had buried it; and could not rest by
day or leep by night till found it. She
is bad old witch, and is not going to
come it over me, though. Her daughter is
and encouragesher in it. The Bench-Do
you 20 to church? Defendant-Some-
times / goes TO church and sometimes to
chapel, and sometimes don't 20 nowhere
Her mother is bad enough To do anything;
and to go and put the walking toad" in
the hole like that tor IA man which never
did nothing to her, she is Lot fit to live,
gentlemen to go and do such a thing, it
is not as if l had done anything to her.
She looks at lots Of people, and know she
will do some one harm. Laughter.l The
Chalrman-Do you know this man. Super.
intendent Symonds? Is he sane: Laugh
ter Superintendent Symonds-Yes, sir;
perfectly Laughter. lDefendant-Itisq quite
true, gentlemen, showed the toad to my
mother. and can bring it for you to see
The Chairman said he was very sorry the
defendant was so foolish as TO believe such
rubbish, and he would be fined shilling,
and l2 shillings pence costs.
An Old Fashioned Reaper.
One day Just before harvest an Ohio
farmer went to Cincinnati to buy a reaper
A delighted agent collared the granger
and dragged him into his warehouse. As
they walked down the well stocked room
the farmer. in meditativc mood, quoted
the line. There is reaper whose name is
Death" but before he could start the sec
ond line the agent broke in; "Ah, yes,
know it sir: ! know it like book. We
handled that reaper one season, sir, and
I'd take 5000 out of my pocket this
minute if it could undo the damage that
reaper did our business in that one year.
You don't want it sir. You don't want TO
look at it. The machinery is complicated;
it gets out of order easily; you have to
send clear to Akron for Il new piece of
gearing; il doesn't cut clean, and it nearly |
Kills the horses; jams their shoulders all |
10 pieces, sir. l know that reaper, sir. |
It's an old. old style, sir. and you don't |
want il. Now here. sir, | can show you |
reaper that" But the astonished farmer |
just interrupted him to say that he knew |
the reaper he mentioned was an old style, |
but he was certain it did its work well, |
though, all the same. 1t wasn't the kind |
he wanted, and he had no idea of buying |
il to work on his farm. He bought anoth-
er reaper, blood-thirsty as u Cossack, and |
red as an autumn sunset, and the agent |
told how nicely he sold reaper to an old |
fellow Just dead set for some old machine
that he had never heard of before-[West-
ern Farmers Almanac.
In digging a cellar at st. Paul, Mimi.
the workmen unearthed solid silver chal-
ice and salver of fine workmanship, and