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Show IS SHE BEWITCHED? Tho good people among the hills of Morns county, N. J., have found excitement in the cae of a young girl said to be "grievously vexed of the devil," aud whose condition is as unaccountable as it is deplorable. The girl, is ft daughter ol Khjah Nichels, blacksmith of the G Leaden iron company at Uurdtewn. She predicted evil against her fifteenth birthday, which betel on the 13th of October last, and since that date she baa been bod-ridden and paralyzed. At times there- apucars under the couulerpaue of her bed a presence as of a rai, a rabbit or a cat Bwiltly moving Trom place to place and .1.,;..,, rl-turtiinn Tn vain IS the eludiug detection. In vain u the bed strioped, or the patient removed to another place; the "presence' it only poworless to act when the muLher sleeps with the child. The phvbiciauB, no leas than tho clorgy, anil the common folk ot all the country side are bullied. Crowds come daily to see the ruyulcry. On one recent occasion, Mr. Richards, mayor of Dover, held hid altfl bat above tho "presence," and the ht received re-ceived a blow that crushed it. Violent blows hate been given to the hand, te a cane, aud to olher objects held out over the place where the "presence was, and, needless to say, attempts to grab the presence have failed. All the while the tirl lies moaning as if in torror or pain, and hor position in the bed would be plainly bucu as to show that the mysterious movements were not caused by her. The girl has beeu known to abstain from all food for the space of filieeu days, and for some weeks past she has only received a little milk daily, yet her face is fair, and, when the visitation is not nigh her alecp is apparently healthful. Her parents are plain and , honest people, who view this aa an iifllic-tiou iifllic-tiou not to be turned to account for notoriety or money. The neighbors, unable to account for it in any other way, have solemnly decreed witchcraft witch-craft agaiuat an old woman living among them, and charms are iu active demand. New York World. |