Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-08-03
From a late English Paper.
CONJUGAL COMFORTS.

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CONJUGAL COMFORTS.
Mr.. BEN5AMIN GREEN, a tailor by
trade, fast declining into the vale of
yeats, applied to the magistrate for
protection against his wife, aud faith
he seemed to have need al it for his
| cheeks were marked with fresh bleed
ing scratches, and his hair stuck out
in tufts as though it had been misera-
bly, tugged.
'Your worship said he, q have been
married JUST fifteen years, and rain
they have been TO me fifieen years of
dreadful misery He then went into
,edi"u' history of his woes, showing
that NTs. Green was so much addicted
to certain liquor, wei! known under
the denomination of mmx, "blue ruin -
and "the CRATER" tina, he verify belize
we'd that she wsuld pawn her soul for
Il dodger of it. She had, actually, he
said, carried every portable thins TO
the pawnhrok-r's, even 90 his very
night cap, and the shirts OF his appren-
tees; and il he ever ventnrad TO remon.
strate with her, che turned 10 aud bea,
him most unm areifuily 'About five
mr. ak mouths ago, yoar wOr-hip, said
he. she went OF, the LOrd Knows
where, leaving me TO conduct niy house
h"id how l could, and heard nothing
more other for more than tnree months;
when al las' her friends came begging
! and praying To me, and l., like u
fo"i as l was, took her to my bosom :
gain. Well your worship. would you
believe If. Notwithstanding this NY
great Kindness and overlooking, shr
went on as bad as ever again, and
Cd Monday, because was goiug to
expoatuiate with her foE making me
wear one shirt whole fortnight.
without washing, what might your
Worship think his wicked woman cal
led me .
i really don'i know, replied Ike G,a-
sistrute.
why, yoar worship, she calie; me
toolhl6ss old foot, and said She would
tear my melt gu, -
The magistrate told him that he
was very sorry far his troubles, bat
reminded him thai he had married his
wife for better for worse
True, your worship, did, aud worse
/ have had her, worse bg ten thousand
times. than had any notion OF, God
bel p me y
His worship observed, tha: unless he
could provs that she had assailed him,
or that she Intended 10 do some bodily
harm, he could do nothing.
why, your worship, she assaults me
every day Of her life; up or bed, it's
all one IT, her, and il was but This bles-
sed morning, when / told Der she ought
TO be ashamed OF saying she would sx.
tract my melt, that she Il wv at ME ike
tiger eat, AID clawcd my checks as
YOU see.'
To 'his assault, he swore distinctly.
and the magistrate issued bis warrant
for the apprehension Of the Indy. In
the course Of an hour she was brought
into custody, and WHEN every body *
pected to see her Swapping amazon,
she was nothing bat a dimiuulive old
woman; head and shoulder shorter
than her courageous husband, who,
glad TO fad her in duranee took an op-
Portunity Of teilisg her all.his mind.
The old woman, "a little BODY with q
mighty heart admitted that what her
hn'band alIedged against her was ali
rue, except mo gin, and sulkily jus.
tiled her eunduel on the ground that
ne deserved more bea!i0g than she
was able to give him
She was ordered to fnd securities to
keep the peace towards her husband.