The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-03
Tho Dime Witch.

The New Lealandcr was leaning on
his war club with the air of q man tired
OF civilization and the refinements Of q
public museum. The Zulu prince, nine
years old, was driving the leopard boy
across the room a9 Il pieDald horse.
The tat girl was casting sleeps eyes ut
the skeleton, whose sllauOwy affections
seemed to bo fixed upon the Circassian
beauty, who sat cOmbing her hair in
dreamy recollection of the citron or
chards and oriental gardens of the East
SIDE. The man without any arms was
acting as private secretary to the Zulu
Queen, and was busy writing with his
toes at her dictation Il letter to her low
er in Thompson street. n number of
visitors were gathered in an Interested
group IN one end of the room, where a
number Of people from the East Side
were having their minds read by Mrs,
Grace Courtland, the 'Witch Of Wall
Street. D." She is il lady with the silvery
hair of fifty years and the pink cheeks
and blight eyes Of girl Of eighteen.
Her manner is vivacious, and she is a
rapid and brilliant conversationalist.
"Oh, you are il reporter" she said.
81 suppose the papers and the public are
wondering why came here. Well, it
is because get $500 Il week, and il tho
people don't like it all have to say is,
with William IL. Vanderbilt, The pub
lie be harged.' You 500, Wall street is
at standstill. l am holding losing
stocks. AIN 9 bull on bear market.
l am holding wheat, too, in Chicago.
The Chicago market has been terrible.
My stocks have shrunken to a mere
nothing. | received IN offer to come
hnra ~, finn I -
long time, and finally made up my mind
that RATHER than to sit iii tie Astor
house doing nothing had better be in
Il Bowery museum. So came.
".Jay Gould, Jim Kcene and Russell
Sage are coming here to have their
minds read and their fortunes told.
JAY is very superstitious. He sees his
clarvoyant on the sly. have been
the making of James Keene in the
market. saw how shrewd an operator
he was before anybody else perceived
it.
"There, the fat girl is coming in to
have her mind read. She is eating her
dinner, and she has been i'm such u hur
ry to see me That she il nearly chOkcd,
She wants me to tell her fortune, for
she wants to find out her lover. She is
to bo married some time this week.
suppose they will want mo to be brides
maid. The living skeleton will be best
man. Standing up with him would be
quite funny experience. There have
beon crowds here to SCENE. You must
tell Sims to beware Of me. 1 horse
whipped Il slim in milwaukee,.
81 lost fortune in Wall street,
WAS there eight years. and am tho only
woman they never bounced. They
couldn't bounce me. | was too much
for them. The managers Of the mus
cum are rather proud to get Wall St.
into the Bowory. Ah, WE'LL expect
they'll have jay Gould here before
long. Never mind, perhaps Russell
Sage will have to come down to it after
awhile. Really, how would this sound:
New York Museum. For one week
| only, Jim keene, Jay Gould and Rus
sell Sage. Next week the orang ou-
tang
"My mother WAS a Spanish gypsy.
\ on see | am fortune-teller by birth
right. 1t was easy for me to be taken
for a witch. have predicted the mar
ket for the last five years. predicted
the death of President Garfield. When
FoXhall was in the height Of his reputa
ton l predicted that he had seen his
best days. Six months later he was
unit for the turf. Two years ago |
predicted that Jay Gould would try to
sell out Western Union to the Govern
ment at $lOO, 900, 900. No one dreamed
Of amy such thing then.