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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2396, 20 November 1880, Page 4

Religious Emotion—A negro girl in Irwinton, Ga., at a religious meeting, was so overcome by emotion that she fell into a trance and remained so all night. The next morning she la}' apparently lifeless, but a few healthy strokes from an enchanted wand “ four feet long and well seasoned,” brought her to, and in a few seconds she was as well as ever, and ready for work and grub, but especially grub. The father of Mrs Langtry, the ‘ professional beauty,” is said to be in serious financial difiiculties in the island of Jersey, of which he is Dean. Some of the local storekeepers and tobacconists (says the “ Warrnambool Standard”) eonjghin sadly of the diminution in the tobacco trade, owing to the large quantities of Eric the Red tobacco which have gone into consumption throughout the district. It is no secret that tons of the fragrant weed have been found on the coast betvcen this and Gellibrand, the wrecked ship having upwards of 1,000 packages on board, ranging from hogsheads to quarter tierces, There are smokers who are said to have supplied therewith enough to keep their pipes alight for years; the general opinion upon the article being that its quality conuot be excelled, some of it being the best that the Virginian factories can produce.