A Dark Deed.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 8, 29 December 1869, Page 7

A Dark Deed.

Under tho above heading an America u piper relates. Uiu following ;—,lu Virginia tho ollioi* day dulia Ann,"a dark woman,‘wife of a man named (.fills, became jealous of his attentions to another dark girl, mined 1011 1, ami dial longed her to light. They wore armed with heavy clubs, and a deep ravine was soloetod for the light. Arriving at a sufficient distance to oxeltido tlio possibility of being soon, they stopped as if by mutual consent, and then commenced one of tho most furious Amazonian encounters on record. At lirst they dealt in blows, which wore given and received by each on tho head and body, tho blood fl iwiug freely, and cadi club descended with all the weight ami force sav ig.i ferocity could give them, K ige, hate, ail l jodously were mingled in this terrible fight, and, as if tho dubs wore but a tedious way of bringing it to an cud, those two women flung them from them, and with teeth and nails continued the fearful struggle. The thick wool was torn from its roots, blood b wiueared tbeir faces and arms, nails wore sunk into the flesh of both, and they bit in a"manner that only wild beasts would bo supposed capable of. They had now come to the ground. Julia Ann, the wile, in tho struggle got her finger into the mouth of Ella, who, after biting it to the bone, endeavoured, if possible, to sever that with her sharp incisors. Witli a desperate effort Julia Aim got on top of her antagonist, ami succeeded in getting the hand still free upon her throat, which she clutched'tightly, and held until tho jaws relaxed their hold upon her other finger. Nor did she then let go, but with the gleo of a tigress she held tighter and tighter until the eyeballs of her victim turned up in their sockets, her limbs no longer offered reistauec, and in a few mo meats Ella was a corpse.