St. Landry democrat., 1882-06-17
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Columbus, Ga, was recently excited
by the strange conduct Of Il negress named
Katie Morrison, who claimed to have been
conjured. The woman was suffering i'll
tensely from commissions, and in the inter-
walls Of quietude gave the following account
of her trouble: A few days ago she had a
fight with II woman namn,t Jane Petty. in
which the latter came out second best. Jane,
to avenge herself, had employed an Inaian
doctor named Charlie to conjure her. To
accomplish his deyi'ish work Charlie called
Oh her and, by some mystic mumblings, put
spell on her. He then gave her a charm,
which he bade her bold in her hand Il few
minutes and then made her smell Of it. A>
soon us she put it to her nose she dropped
into a trance, and for a 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 Il po-
liceman, though fifty negroes had assembled
all of whom gave the charm a wide berth.
At the instigation of one OF the negroes, oiit-
GERS arrested Charlie, the conjurer, and
carried him to the victim Of his black art.
He denied conjurng her and claimed that
he had only given her luck charm. he
took the charm, which consisted Of three
folds of red flannel, in which was neatly
wrapped piece OF green root of some kinds
and in the presence of the sufferer unfOlded
it and, biting off a piece OF the root, cheWed
1t 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
If Walter Rountree, student ut the Geor-
gia University, now in progress at Athens,
by the testimony of D. D. 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 We're drawn, and that Barlow
Rountree, and not johnson, fired the shot
which killed his brother, saying as he did
so, "My God, have killed my brother..'
Twiggs is corroborated by several white
witnesses, and Johnson, in view OF this evl-
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.
A few nights ago a Dooley County,
Georgia, farmer, whose place is on the river,
was walking around near his stock yard,
when he heard sluealing 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 its 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 o.
a boat could be distinctly heard.
Mississippi has something over So,'
100000 acres of land-much OF them the
| richest known to man. Less than 5,0OO,OOO
acres are cultivated. This is, however, an
increase of several hundred thousand acres
over the number in 1870, and nearly equal to
that under cultivation in 1860. There are
now Is, 200 farms, as compared with 6s,e0o
ten wears ago, and 1000 twenty years ago.
The number of acres comprised in the plan
tations is nearly three times that actually
far,ned-i e., there are 100000 owned,
and but 5000, 200 cultivated.
A revenue posse in Georgia captured
A large still near Eiberton the other day, ano
while lying in wait for the owners to come
up an immense black wolf approached one
of the beer stands and 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
Trees in East Tennessee are bending
with apples, peaches, and cherries, ant
grapes promise an extraordinary success.
The best and largest peach crop eve1
grown in Georgia will be ready for the mar
ket in about month, but growers are com
planning that they have not adequate facili
ties for getting it to market. In conseqenc
they anticipate that thousands OF bushel
of the fruit will rot on the trees, and 10
what is sold comparatively small prize
will be obtained.
Sewer County, Arkansas, boasts OF
negress 125 years of age, named Edna GOOD
man. Tamah Brooks. colored woman
living near Atlanta, Ca, is 1913 years old
and has given birth to seventeen children.
The spring meeting of the Louisville
(Ky.) Jockey Club opened with $4,000 peo
pie in attendance.
The Methodist bishops elected at th'
Nashville Conference are Rev. Alpheus
Wilson. of Baltimore; DR.. c. Cranberry,
Vanderbilt University; DR.. A. G. Haygood
of Georgia; Rev. II. X. HargroVe. OF len
nessee, and Rev. Linus Parker, o1 Loulsl
ana.
Corn in lower East Tennessee ha
been plowed second time, and throushou
this division the prospect is encouraging.
The solitary Confederate soldier
grave in Abbeyille, S. c., was decorated Of
Memorial Day. A lone cedar marks tn
spot. A poor Confederate soldier landed
| AhbevilIe na,r the close of the war, Graz