The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-02-19
[From n. Y. Tribune.l
GEORGIA SKETCHES.
BY \ RESIDENT OF GEORGIA,

BY a RESIDENT OF GEORGIA.
The Latest Scare in Atlanta.
NAV! maww | heard hermann
say.
"What, honey?" Diana asked bland
ly Of her favorite child.
Nav, is de students out in de day
time?'
"Dey tells me SO, chile-dey's ou
all times"
NAV! What does de student.
want mid folkses?"
Il dunno, pig" C'pig" was a gentl,
name when Diana called Kernanny by
it, and a caressing), ''dey makes oil Of
'em, dey tells me-"
what for, maw?"
''To drink, coot; dey makes de oil
you drinks out O live folks's bodiesr
''Dianar' [ called, severely. "Di-
ana! come here to me. What are you
telling Kernanny?"
Miss Jasmin, it's bout desc here
medical studentses at the college.
You done heard what dey does to
folks
4 have heard some talk of it, and
that there was big scare among you
all, but | hardly can believe. What
do you really think the students do?"
Miss Jasmin," Diana said solemn
ly and slowly, leaning with one elbow
on the mantel-piece and one foot
(wearing mans old shoe) stuck out
toward the fire, while her serious face
was turned over her shoulder toward
me, Miss Jasmin, dey takes folks
wherever dey kin ketch 'em, an puts
stickin' plasters over deir mouf so dey
can't holler, an carries 'em to de col
lege, an cuts 'em up. Dey does do it,
Miss Jasmin. An de wors' Of it is,
dey amt 'fraid to take nobody. 'Taint
on'y niggers, but it's white folks, too.
Dere's rich mans son missin' off n
Marietta-st., an nobody never will fin
him twell de Judgment. An dere's
whole family O white folks-po'
white folks-is disappeared; a widow
oman and her three chillun-gone
clean out de way. An as to niggers
why, it's done broke up goin' to
church, an eve'ythin'. Law, Miss
Jasmin, it's gittin' time to be skeered!"
DIANA don't you know any better
than that?" [ queried.
''Who? Miss Jasmin, I done tole de
truf Don you b'lieve dey does it?"
DO what, Diana? Make oil Of
people?"
"Well, don dey, Miss Jasm;1? Dey
tells me dey does here castor oil
what you takes for med cine-ain' it
made out O live folkses?"
Diana! Why, don't you know
there is bean called the castor bean,
and the oil takes it's name from the
bean they get it from? That oil is
made out of beans, and nothing else.
Now, Diana, [ want to explain this
scare to you. I've heard all about how
it came up, and some people just laugh
at it and say it will do you all good
and keep you at home nights, and they
won't tell their servants any better.
Now, do you want to know the truth ?"
"Y es m, course [ does"
well, as | understand it, this is it.
You know there is a new medical col
lege here. Well, the students want
to be doctors. Now, doctor has to
know what people are like inside.
Sometimes sick person dies, and the
doctors don't know what killed him
and they cut him open and find ter
rlble sore here, or sign Of poison
there. They have to learn how peo-
pie are, so as to cure them. Now in
some countries, I believe, the doctors
and students are given the bodies of
all men who are hanged for certain
crimes; and in this country they get
them in different ways. Sometimes
they steal out of their graves persons
who have just been buried; and the
way all this scare came, a man up here
IN Chattanooga got to stealing dead
bodies and sending them to this col
lege, and he was found out, and peo-
pie were furious, and it was in the pa
pers and made a great talk. [ heard
OF a lady who was 50 afraid they had
stolen her little boys body that she
had his grave opened herself, to be
sure he was there, where she had lain
him."
"'Pears like I'd ha' had dat grave
dug deeper and put him whar dey was
safe not to git him, 'lessn dey worked
twell daylight" Diana said.
''Well, after all this was in the pa
per, there came another scare nearer
home at Marietta. Here's where the
name of a negro first comes in. They
say the negro porter of this college
helped man to steal some bodies
there"
Dead ones, Miss Jasmin?"
"Of course, dead. And that negro
is accused Of this, and some people be.
lieve he is guilty and some don't.
have talked with very clever lawyer
who is going to defend him before the
court, who says he is innocent. Well
the scare came from this. You dar
l1ies got it started that they took iy,
people,
Miss Jasmin" - eagerly Mis-
Jasmin, 1emme tell you. Dey say der,
was two men goin' down de street on,
dark night, an dey saw a man wild
bundle O sompin, an soon's he say
dem he commenced standin' it VI
ag'inst de fence, an sayin', %, com
now, stan up; don be so drunk; be
r man, ole feller; stan up, | tell you
an dey thought that it was drunkel
man shore nutf, an dey started to eros
de road to have a laugh at him, an d