Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-03
SOUTHERN hGLEANINGS.

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Columbus, Ca, was recently excited
i by the strange conduct of a. negress named
Katie Morrison, who claimed to have been
.con1ured. The woman, was suffering in-
tensely from commissions, and in the inter-
walls OF quietude gaYesthe following account
Of hertrouble: A few days ago she had;a
4 light with woman named Jane Petty, in
Whiehthe latter came out second best. james
to avenge herself, had employed an Indian
doctor named Charlie to conjure her. To
acconlplishihis devilish work Charlie called
lon her and, by some mystic mumblings,. put
asfseii on her. He then gave her a charnf,
which he bade her hold in her hand a few
minutes and then made her smell of it. As
soon as she put it to her nose she dropped
into trance, and for long time she was
powerless to loosen her grip on the charm,
but after Charlie left she threw it. into the
yard, where it laid till picked up by po-
liceman, though fifty negroes had assembled,
all of whom gave the charm a wide berth.
At the instigation of one of the negroes, off :
GERS arrested Charlie, the conjurer, and
carried him to the victim Of his Black art.
He denied conjuring her. and claimed that
he had only given her luck charm. He
took the charm, which consisted ofEthree
folds of red flannel, in which was neatly
wrapped piece Of green root of some kind
and in the presence Of the sufferer unfolded
it and, biting off piece Of the root, chewed
it up, which action at once removed the
spell.
A decided turn has been given to the
trial Of the negro boy johnson for the killing
of Walter Rountree, student at the Geor-
gia University. now in progress at Athens,
by the testimony of d. ID. Twiggs,a student,
and friend of the dead man, who says that
he saw the whole encounter, and that Roun-
tree cursed and kicked johnson before
weapons were drawn, and that Barlow
Rountree, and not johnson, fired the shot
which killed his brother, saying as he did
50, s.My God, have killed my brother!"
Twiggs is corroborated by several white
witnesses, and johnson, in view of this eyi-
dence, is in no danger of losing his neck,,
but may be sent to the Penitentiary for as
sault with intent'to murder, the only count
in the Indictment which the prosecution can
now press. & Aa Ds
A few nights ago a..Doeley a County,
Georgia, farmer, whose place is on the river,
was walking around near his stock yard,
when he heard squealing among his hogs.
He looked over the fence to learn the cause,
when he found that large alligator. had a
hog, which it had killed, and was trying to
make off with it's prey. toward the
river. He ran to the house for his gun and
called to several of his hands to go with him
to kill the alligator. On arriving at the lot,
the hogs had disappeared and so had the
water monster. The party followed to the
river bank, and, instead Of: alligator tracks,
discovered those OF two persons, who had
used the skin of an alligator to accomplish
the purpse of stealing hogs. The rowing OF
a boat could be distinctly heagaAts ..sr.,4 N,
/ Mississippi has something oyer So
100000 acres OF land-much Of them the
| richest known to man. Less than 5,000,000
acres are cultivated. This is, however, an
increase Of several hundred thousand acres
oyer the number in 1870, and nearly equal to
that under cultivation in 1860. There are
now 75, 900 farms, as compared with 6S,O00
ten years ago, and 42, 900 twenty years ago.
| The number of acres comprised in the PLAN
tations is nearly three times that actually
farmed-i. e., there are 100000 owned,
and but 5, 900, 200 cultivated. ,s,
A revenue posse in Georgia captured
/ a large still near Eberton4the other day, and
while living in wait for the owners to come
lp an immense black wolf approached one
of the beer stands ana commenced helping
! himself. The wolf could have been shot,
but the officers were too intent on capturing.
the owners of the still to molest the animal.
Tanpaccaa GRO bopdipu
with apples, peaches, and cherries, and
grapes promise an extraordinary success. ~.
The best and largest peach crop evei
grown in Georgia will beready for the mar--
/ ket IN about month, but growers are COM
Iplaining that they have not adequate facili-
ties for getting it to market. 1iEconseqence
they anticipate that thousands Of bushels
| of the fruit will rot on the trees, and Tor
what is sold comparatively small. price.
will be obtained.
Sewer, County, Arkansas, boasts of
negress 125 years of age, named Edna Good
man. Tamah Brooks, a colored woman
4 living near Atlanta, Ca, is 123 years old,
and has given birth to seventeen children.
The spring meeting of the Louisville
| (Ky.) Jockey Club opened with $1,000 peo-
pie in attendance.
The Methodist bishops elected at the
Nashville Conference are Rev. Aipheus W.
! Wilson, of Baltimore DR.. G. Cranberry, OF
Vanderbilt University; DIR, "A. @. Haygood,
of Georgia; Rev. r. X. Hafgrove, of Ten-
nessee, and Rev. Linus Parker, Of Louisi-
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Corn in lower East Tennessee has
been plowed second time, and throughout
this division the prospect is encouraging.
The solitary Confederate soldiers 4
grave in Abbeyille. S. C., was. decorated on
Memorial Day. A lone cedar marks the
spot. "a poor Confederate soldier landed at
Abbeville near the close of the war. crazy
with small -pox, and died in a pest-house.
He could not tell his name and did not even
know where be was. .4-7. s...s-
The plantation of f.. Az Ludng, abolt
four miles below HahnviIle, La, has bean
sold for So, 900, one-haif cash and the-oth-
er on time. The purchaser is Mr.. Niter-.I
bo, learned chemist OF Paris,fwho intends 4
to make it a grand central place for the
orindiug sof cane. The owner is said.to be |